https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/2135509

this is practically a child’s view of the world. good guy vs bad guy. Russia = bad, NATO = good. plus, someone should tell her she has it completely backwards: ending russia is kinda natos entire thing

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Have they recovered though? Germany especially is stupid because their greens pushed to turn off nuclear plants and won, after they already started sanctioning Russia. Consumer inflation is high in the Nato-sphere because cost of transport and energy went way up.

    I guess we’ll see if EU pushes for a ceasefire after another winter of expensive natural gas. I’m surprised the nordstream bombing didn’t piss off more Germans.

    Global south countries seem to be working around how expensive war made some things by trading with Russia directly for stuff instead of paying market rate, which is why all those African countries don’t feel like condemning the invasion.

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      Consumer inflation…

      Yeah, very much the case. I feel this every day. It’s caused some grumbling, but not many people are linking this with NATO. The tendency seems to be blaming Russia. Again, anecdotally, but still.

      EU ceasefire

      No chance. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Poland and Bulgaria would riot. All of the Bucharest Nine are firmly against giving Russia time to rearm, replenish and come back for round two, which is what they expect Russia would use the ceasefire for.

      Global south…

      Unfortunately very true. Russia blowing up the grain shipment deal didn’t help. Hopefully Turkey can bring them back to the negotiating table.

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        Important to note that Russia didn’t wantonly scrap the grain deal, they just didn’t renew it when it expired - for the simple reason that the other side didn’t uphold even one single part of their end of the bargain.