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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

I love how all the chuds from nazi adjacent instances come out of the woodwork to downvote anybody pointing out the basic facts of the situation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

The World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025

Meanwhile, the IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html

I'm really not sure what it is you think Russia lost access to exactly given that they're part of BRICS which is a bigger economic bloc than the G7 at this point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's important to understand that the US is not omnipotent. Russia has defeated NATO in Ukraine, and the US can do nothing to change that. The US also sees China as their primary adversary, and they're not stuck supporting Israel against Iran. They simply do not have the resources to contest Russia now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

That's highly dependent on the instance I find.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

funny you should mention that (I know you're being sarcastic :)

Overall, our results suggest that the rise in remote work and TFP growth are positively correlated. From 2019 to 2021, the (weighted) average percentage-point increase in remote workers across industries was 14.9. This suggests that the rise in remote work was associated with an average 1.2 percentage-points increase in industry-level TFP.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-13/remote-work-productivity.htm

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I'm also fine with the US regime collapsing as a result of a 20 year war.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I don't think either the US or Israel have the industrial capacity to run a protracted conflict for the next 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, does look like it's fake looking closer.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The problem, until recently, was that SWIFT was basically the only game in town for doing international settlements. On top of it, the US having been central to the global economy, most countries did not want to risk secondary sanctions by trading with Cuba. Today, that's finally changing with the rise of BRICS as a bigger economic bloc, and new trade options becoming popular as a result of the trade war between Russia and the west.

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