Damn, sanctions really hitting them hard. Utterly devastated.
When ur sanctioned so McDonald’s “leaves” but the McDonald’s means of production are still in Russia so you can reopen McDonald’s without most of the money going to America
seized the means of burger production?
Sounds like the worst communist porno ever.
There is also one thing those who were forced to leave the Russian market had to sell their companies at a very low price or government just seized it with backhand . Means first it went to some shady private players and then it to the close confidants of Putin who are just state puppets.
So Russia is technically in the G5 ;)
It feels so good to see the west wane and by its own accord. No one invaded or bombed or colonized the west, they are destroying themselves by themselves.
btw Russia is not in Europe. Europe is a term for the EU. Russia is now Asia.
Russia is as much a part of Europe as Pakistan is India. don’t give me the geography excuse because it’s the Indian subcontinent too
What is a “Europe” anyway? On what basis do we decide that Europe is its own continent separate from Asia while India is just a subcontinent?
On what basis do we decide that Europe is its own continent
It’s not a continent, or even a subcontinent, it’s just a place
And Russia is not part of that place
btw Russia is not in Europe. Europe is a term for the EU. Russia is now Asia.
TIL Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK are Asia cause they are not in the EU!
Not to mention Ukraine… Right?
Pakistan or Bangladesh is not part of India either, there’s no contradiction here
West forgor that Russia had been sanctioned for decades during Soviet era.
This is why I’m voting Biden. A vote for Biden is a vote for de facto global wealth distribution where India, Africa, MENA, etc benefit from being pushed into the same bloc with Russia
Perhaps so, but now Russia no longer has McDonald’s or Pizza Hut.
hmmm, the russian economy grew after the fast food chains responsible for the downfall of the ussr left
HMMMM 🤔 🤔
Incoherence of the union center and its parts falling into civil war with each other were somewhat more important than fast food chains IMVHO.
But if not for GKChP coup, it could be preserved as a single state.
These guys turned on jammers over half of USSR’s territory, sent troops to take control of TV and radio broadcasting stations, put tanks to Moscow streets and then just went “oops, we surrender”.
This may not seem important for many people, but they also participated on Azeri side in NK, guaranteeing Armenia breaking away, and tried to use force in Baltics leading to them breaking away.
I guess the reason they surrendered was they saw what their actions in such a short period of time caused, so wanted someone else to take the blame.
It’s not all black and white, of course. If not for 1993 coup (because Yeltsin did just that), Russia itself would still be technically very Soviet (weird enough, more so than under USSR where party organs would bear power which on paper belonged to Soviets ; so - somewhere in 1989-1993 what was on paper almost became the reality), which would make its foreign and domestic policy different from what happened IRL.
