1. Most countries in the block use the Euro or peg their currencies to it.
2. All of the external restrictions and block level regulations serve to increase intra-EU trade.
3. Energy and food are the base of the entire economic structure.
4. This spergout caused the EU to force everyone to follow the same idiotic playbook of sanctions.
5. In 2021, the total trade in goods between the EU and Russia amounted to €257.5 billion.
I have no idea if you are playing dumb here, or if you are just that clueless as to how inter-dependent the EU economies have grown.
So? The same goes for the nearby small non-EU countries. Or for Mexico and USA. That's how modern global trade works by default, EU takes it further, and adds a lot of bureaucratic overhead like mentioned agricultural subsidy games with their political background.
Again, you geniuses tried to color revolution Lukashenko, you are responsible for him becoming Putin-senpai's biggest fan.
That's just a petty pro-Kremlin puppet point. Why do you think anyone tried to color revolution Lukashenko? Sure, he was willing to take western money, but whatever, anyone can do that, why not. In terms of political deals, military deals etc he was getting closer with Russia anyway, and it was always clear that the question of whether they will become closer allies is when, not if. The attempt to break Belarus out of that course probably sped it up, but it didn't fundamentally change where it was going.
Thus far, your shenanigans have:
Solidified public support behind Putin.
Well if true, won't be for long with the sanctions, that was one of Putin's motivations behind the war.
Made Russia and China even closer.
By necessity, not by choice, might sour their relation badly once they realize the implications.
Probably irrevocably damaged the petro-dollar.
Made sure that 53% of the planet aligns behind the China-Russia block.
Lol, that's a surprisingly precise and probably wrong figure.
And the petro-dollar damage surprisingly coincides with democrats trying to push a new, even stupider deal with Iran, news of which came out a few months earlier, which pissess off the Sunni Gulf States to no end. They probably mind that much more than a competitor in oil production getting sanctioned.
The last thing the world needs is another nuclear-armed dictatorship flush with cash and attacking its neighbors. But that’s what President Biden and his Iran envoy Robert Malley are creating in the deal they are about to close in Vienna, according to career State Department sources.
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Bigotry didn't cease to exist as a result of the establishment figuring out that accusing people of bigotry was an easy way to discredit their opposition, and distract from their own acts of bigotry. On this forum alone, we have examples in the form of Whitestrake Pelinal and FriedCFour; users who have argued positions that most everyone here would agree are extremely bigoted. Like that we should reinstitute slavery, and take away women's right to vote. In the same vein, the Azov Battalion aren't trying to hide what they're all about; their ideology is a matter of public record, in spite of your attempts to obfuscate the facts. Which is why the establishment isn't taking the same boneheaded tactic you are; they're just claiming that the Azov Battalion don't have a great deal of support.
What ideology? Did you read it? Can you even read it in the original? Do they even have something resembling a single, coherent ideology? No, the best you have is some questionable translations and soyfaces pointing at combatants with muh hate symbols.
Something that was not even that unusual for US military a few decades ago.
Obsessing about stuff like that is not a reasonable thing to do. Its a modern western establishment political sport to obsessively hunt about political incorrectness and let the result decide any further interaction with those found to be questionable, and its doubly ridiculous for people who sometimes end up on the business end of this activity to repeat it regarding to people to the right of them, or just weird movements from far away.
Don't care, doesn't matter, not as bad or important as those outraged imply, and yes, they aren't a huge movement either.
What you're trying to do here is equal parts blatantly obvious and utterly ridiculous, not to mention rather pathetic in light of how far you've proven willing to take it. Calling people "leftists" (with is doubly ironic in my case, seeing as I am a self-avowed leftist; though one who opposes the mainstream regressive left) for not supporting Ukraine and war with Russia, is stupid on its face because the entire establishment (including and especially the regressive left) has been arguing heavily in favor of those things for the past eight years, with only a few blips such as that one letter in 2019 you keep bringing up that never went anywhere.
Excellent, so now we have everything cleared up. It is a leftist thing to pick at such ideological points, and what you take offense at is being compared to establishment leftists who are not being as staunchly and consistently leftist in their policy towards Ukraine as other leftists would expect them to be, just to stick it to Russia.
For those who aren't leftists though, there is less controversy in this choice - its hypocritical for leftists to make such exceptions from their leftist principles, but for people who don't share those, that's just the norm.
