Russia Surrounded

[hmg]

We're 90% self sufficient in oil. Not just any oil either, sweet Brent crude.

 

[luka]

Greatest Country On God's Earth.

 

[Corpsey]

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[vimothy]

As someone who's both too ignorant and too fragile to follow this whole situation, should i be more worried about rising gas prices or nuclear war?

nuclear war is clearly much worse, but the rising gas prices, and rising commodity prices more generally, are likely to be pretty apocalyptic the longer they go on for, potentially leading to commodity shortages (obviously), price controls, rationing, financial crisis, nationalisation of important industries including the financial sector, high levels of inflation and a deep global recession - in short, everything you associate with a war time economy, minus the war.

 

[Leo]

even if Russia ended the invasion and returned home tomorrow, it's not like the rest of the world is going to say "great, ok, that's over, everything back to the way it was before." the world is pretty fucked for awhile, regardless of how long the war drags out.

 

[version]

"McDonald's, icon of post-Soviet era, to close all restaurants in Russia."

 

[shakahislop]

think we are moving towards the west being involved in a long proxy war, which currently has a lot of public support. think the part of UK politics and the public which would normally be dead against foreign intervention have been caught on the hop by putin being vaguely associated with the right, and by this one happening in a part of the world we're not used to thinking about (ie not the middle east or south America).

probably repeating myself from earlier in the thread

 

[shakahislop]

mass public support for something that really could be quite horrible in the long run. definite sense of a conflict with clearly defined goodies and baddies.

 

[wg-]

let me know if you find a good replacement tracker. rutracker is great for vst and other music software and i cant find any non-russian ones

Torlook is a decent aggregator, reckon most of the rutracker magnet links probably still work off that

 

[version]

This is interesting re: sanctions,

 

[Mr. Tea]

"McDonald's, icon of post-Soviet era, to close all restaurants in Russia."

So "no two countries that both have McDonald's have made war on each other" has become true again!

 

[IdleRich]

Once it's happened the rule has been broken and failed though. It can't become true again

 

[Mr. Tea]

Once it's happened the rule has been broken and failed though. It can't become true again

I'm sure Putin can have all photographs of McDonald's in Russia edited or simply erased, just like Stalin did with photos of people he'd had 'liquidated'.

 

[Leo]

hard for people to pretend a mickey d's is open when it's not.

 

[Murphy]

But, ivermectin!

groan

 

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[sufi]

nuclear war is clearly much worse, but the rising gas prices, and rising commodity prices more generally, are likely to be pretty apocalyptic the longer they go on for, potentially leading to commodity shortages (obviously), price controls, rationing, financial crisis, nationalisation of important industries including the financial sector, high levels of inflation and a deep global recession - in short, everything you associate with a war time economy, minus the war.

no more internets 🤞

 

[Mr. Tea]

It's getting pretty grim in Mariupol.

Children buried in maternity ward rubble after Russian shelling in Mariupol traps 400,000

It is the third time in less than a week that a ceasefire to let Mariupol residents evacuate has been allegedly violated by Russia

inews.co.uk

 

[yyaldrin]

why did they bomb a maternity ward?

 

[Leo]

because it's a war?