The European Union agreed on Monday to slap Russia with a fresh round of sanctions that includes the long-awaited ban on diamonds, a valuable revenue stream for the Kremlin that has until now remained untouched. #EuropeNews
Wow, so harsh. How will Russia survive such extreme constraints on an industry that has historically exemplified “artificial scarcity”? /s
If the EU really believed Russia were an existential threat, they’d do far more than the piss weak economic restrictions they’ve put in place, including these. The tolerance of most trade demonstrates that they’re happy to let Ukraine rot as a longterm warzone, now that it’s clear the loss of the “bread basket of Europe” hasn’t had an overwhelming effect on staple food supplies or problematic amounts of mass EU immigration. In fact, it probably helps both the Russian and the EU ruling class out that there are millions fewer mouths to feed from the death and carnage taking place. If you keep most people poor, they’re less able to take your position on the rich list. Governments and private enterprise are both guilty of exploitation.
99% of us are just expendible pawns in geopolitical chess to these people. We (collectively as a species) need to refuse to participate in their attempts to expand their empires. Preventing the carbon output of just the military-industrial complex is probably enough to delay the impending climate catastrophe for the entire world by a few decades…
Wow, so harsh. How will Russia survive such extreme constraints on an industry that has historically exemplified “artificial scarcity”? /s
If the EU really believed Russia were an existential threat, they’d do far more than the piss weak economic restrictions they’ve put in place, including these. The tolerance of most trade demonstrates that they’re happy to let Ukraine rot as a longterm warzone, now that it’s clear the loss of the “bread basket of Europe” hasn’t had an overwhelming effect on staple food supplies or problematic amounts of mass EU immigration. In fact, it probably helps both the Russian and the EU ruling class out that there are millions fewer mouths to feed from the death and carnage taking place. If you keep most people poor, they’re less able to take your position on the rich list. Governments and private enterprise are both guilty of exploitation.
99% of us are just expendible pawns in geopolitical chess to these people. We (collectively as a species) need to refuse to participate in their attempts to expand their empires. Preventing the carbon output of just the military-industrial complex is probably enough to delay the impending climate catastrophe for the entire world by a few decades…