yeah that’s a weird way to strike isn’t it

I love how the net effect of their brilliant sanctions strategy is that EU is still buying a ton of energy from Russia, but now it’s going through third parties that take their own cut that EU now pays. All so that the clowns in charge can tell their citizens they’re now independent of Russia.

This could be an ad for why you shouldn’t do coke

The funniest part to me is that all megacorps are run as planned economies, and western economists are still pretending that markets are superior to central planning. It’s just complete brain rot. One of my fav stories on the subject is how Sears ended up imploding by drinking the free market koolaid and trying to run the company on that principle https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ayn-rand-destroyed-sears

lol it’s really heart warming to know I live rent free in their heads

there are also alternatives to lithium https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3211430/chinese-ev-maker-jac-unveils-worlds-first-car-powered-cheaper-sodium-ion-battery

oops my bad, fixed

There’s so much to ridicule about this story, but my fav part is that these aliens have supposedly recovered from a crashed space craft where they were fossilized. And they just happened to be fossilized in that position? 😂

Exactly, all these stories coincide with project Ukraine collapsing and BRICS growing.

I don’t think Europe is in any position to go to war with China. However, US is certainly trying to goad China into a some sort of a conflict over Taiwan.

Right, and this is why dedollarization is taking off like wildfire. Nobody wants to use US financial system, but until recently it’s been the only game in town. Now that people see it’s possible to bypass it, there’s a lot of momentum to create an alternative trading system. I imagine the fact that members can’t sanction one another is what makes BRICS in particular so appealing.

I would even go as far as to say this was the only major remaining tech advantage the west had. China’s been outpacing the west in most areas of science and technology for a few years now. Chips were the one big piece of the puzzle and now China can make their own.

I think so as well, the problem was that US saw USSR as an ideological threat from the very start so there was no possibility of this sort of cooperation. The main reason US decided to normalize relations with China was to try and prevent China from having good relations with the Soviets. So, perhaps this is the only way things could’ve worked out.

In the end, US made a huge miscalculation in underestimating China, and completely missed China outpacing them in every regard while being drunk on having defeated USSR which they saw as the only serious threat to their global hegemony.

In classic liberal fashion, they’re trying to vote us off the internet. 😂

These people are seeing their whole world unravel in front of their eyes and it’s driving them increasingly bonkers.

I have 5~6 libs follow me around and downvote my every post on lemmy.ml, I find it absolutely hilarious. Can you imagine anything sadder than people spending their whole day following my account just to rage.

Thing is that this only works when you sanction a few isolated countries. Once you reach a critical mass, then it’s just an alternate global economy. And that’s precisely what we’re seeing now happening with BRICS.

I think we may be at a point where there are more countries under US sanctions than not. 😂

Just buy yourself a slave camp… err prison.

I think another big aspect here is that countries outside the west will increasingly prefer Chinese tech since it doesn’t come with strings attached. So, it’s not just Chinese market western companies are losing, but majority of the world.