Russia is self sufficient in food, energy, and all the essential manufacturing. There’s literally nothing Russia imports from the west that can’t and isn’t already being replaced. Chinese exports to Russia have exploded already. Whether Russia wants to be dependent on China and India or not is beside the point, which is that they are doing it.
Meanwhile, Europe has no readily available alternative to cheap energy, fertilizer, and food that was imported from Russia. The only energy solution for Europe is to create alternative energy infrastructure such as mass nuclear, this will take years to do and require massive amounts of energy to implement. How fertilizer and food will be replaced remains unclear as well.
Massive strikes and protests are already happening in many countries such as UK, Czech republic, France, Italy, and Germany. Public discontent is growing rapidly, and will only get worse come winter. Turns out putting Ukrainian flags in your social media bio is different level of commitment from freezing and starving in the winter.
The reason Europe is in the crisis it’s in is precisely because European political class is owned by US and acts in the interest of US instead of its own people. US used Europe like a sacrificial pawn in its geopolitical games against Russia and now people in Europe get to pay the price. Europe could’ve had a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with Russia after USSR collapsed in the 90s. Instead, Europe chose to act as a foot soldier for US.
People are protesting because their standard of living was predicated on having access to cheap energy from Russia. Propaganda is what you’re doing by claiming it’s anything other than this.
At the end of all this, Europe will have no choice but to bend the knee. Your demagogy is going to fall on deaf ears when people can’t heat their homes or get enough food to eat.
Umm… nope. The Europe is in crisis because many countries made poor decisions, relying in cheap energy when knowing the possible risks.
Relying on cheap energy from Russia is what allowed Europe to become economically successful. This was recognized even back during USSR times. The stupid decision was to create an enemy out of USSR and then Russia instead of seeking peaceful coexistence.
It has nothing to do with being “pawn” for US or some other propaganda you claim.
It has everything to do with being a pawn of the US, and volumes of literature have been written on the subject. US has dominated European policy since WW2. The fact that you think this is propaganda shows just how ignorant and intellectually impoverished you are.
The people are protesting because goverments made decisions to rely on Russia and didn’t left any other doors open.
People are protesting because their standard of living is collapsing due to Europe starting an economic war with Russia. That’s a simple fact that propagandists like you continue to deny. You can keep on screeching all you like, but that won’t change reality of the situation.
People surely are not protesting to get cheap Russian energy back. I
They literally are protesting to get cheap Russian energy back.
Europe has a lot of other choices. Someone are just wishing that bending the knee is the only option. It’s easy to see who those people are.
It does not. over 60% of Russian energy imports have no replacement. Anybody with even bare minimum understanding of how energy markets work knows this. You can keep spewing your nonsense here all you like, but by the time winter rolls around you’ll have hard time convincing anyone with your bending the knee speeches. Might even get your ass kicked.
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Russia is self sufficient in food, energy, and all the essential manufacturing. There’s literally nothing Russia imports from the west that can’t and isn’t already being replaced. Chinese exports to Russia have exploded already. Whether Russia wants to be dependent on China and India or not is beside the point, which is that they are doing it.
Meanwhile, Europe has no readily available alternative to cheap energy, fertilizer, and food that was imported from Russia. The only energy solution for Europe is to create alternative energy infrastructure such as mass nuclear, this will take years to do and require massive amounts of energy to implement. How fertilizer and food will be replaced remains unclear as well.
Massive strikes and protests are already happening in many countries such as UK, Czech republic, France, Italy, and Germany. Public discontent is growing rapidly, and will only get worse come winter. Turns out putting Ukrainian flags in your social media bio is different level of commitment from freezing and starving in the winter.
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Seems like that’s rapidly becoming a minority opinion. And of course, Europe is already bending the knee to US quite willingly.
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The reason Europe is in the crisis it’s in is precisely because European political class is owned by US and acts in the interest of US instead of its own people. US used Europe like a sacrificial pawn in its geopolitical games against Russia and now people in Europe get to pay the price. Europe could’ve had a friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with Russia after USSR collapsed in the 90s. Instead, Europe chose to act as a foot soldier for US.
People are protesting because their standard of living was predicated on having access to cheap energy from Russia. Propaganda is what you’re doing by claiming it’s anything other than this.
At the end of all this, Europe will have no choice but to bend the knee. Your demagogy is going to fall on deaf ears when people can’t heat their homes or get enough food to eat.
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Relying on cheap energy from Russia is what allowed Europe to become economically successful. This was recognized even back during USSR times. The stupid decision was to create an enemy out of USSR and then Russia instead of seeking peaceful coexistence.
It has everything to do with being a pawn of the US, and volumes of literature have been written on the subject. US has dominated European policy since WW2. The fact that you think this is propaganda shows just how ignorant and intellectually impoverished you are.
People are protesting because their standard of living is collapsing due to Europe starting an economic war with Russia. That’s a simple fact that propagandists like you continue to deny. You can keep on screeching all you like, but that won’t change reality of the situation.
They literally are protesting to get cheap Russian energy back.
It does not. over 60% of Russian energy imports have no replacement. Anybody with even bare minimum understanding of how energy markets work knows this. You can keep spewing your nonsense here all you like, but by the time winter rolls around you’ll have hard time convincing anyone with your bending the knee speeches. Might even get your ass kicked.
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