Sadly they did not kick his ass. They sort of settled in the end, but they lost their special status and self governance stuff to a board controlled by DeSantis but he put a few pro Disney faces on that board to get it all to settle. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._DeSantis
Convert it to rubles, cut the price of materiel to cost, and the end result is a bit more than that. However, Russia started this SMO with rewards and bonuses given out like the country was a tech stock at an IPO. Now they have to pay out those bonuses since it’s been 2 years and they haven’t managed to kill off every single enlisted schmuck. They are also continuing to entice more from other countries with strong currencies, requiring more signing bonus money.
Oh, and Wagner suffered some big losses this year and that will need to be patched up with whatever talent and vehicles are available. Frankly, Putin has a lot of big bills and every bit of other people’s money counts.
Google makes little money in Russia and they pulled the overwhelming majority of their equipment and people out of the country. Russia doesn’t care to offer external websites. Update chrome to offer Tor out of the box while you can and ignore the fine entirely.
I mean… I am also all for degoogling. But considering they are dealing with illegal attacks by russia because they stood up to war criminals… maybe this is not the best time to campaign against them?
I think we can do both. Google is trying to keep from repatriating profits so they don’t need to pay taxes. Russia took it. Fuck Russia, but I can’t feel too bad for Google.
That’s a funny way of spelling “didn’t go out of their way to accommodate a second tier world power and its population that is barely half of the US’s and doesn’t spend a fraction of what other nations do on their enterprise services.”
Oh I don’t think nestle would give Putin shit. I just want Putin to try, and by doing so burn that particular bridge. Nestle isn’t gonna stop doing business in Russia any other way.
Ruling class does it all the time. Keep citizens enraged on issues of race, gender, religion, sports, and so on so they are distracted from realising the one true war of ruling class vs everybody else.
/s in a sense that shit flung at the ruling class tends to role downhill. If nestle loses a bunch of money, they will raise prices to keep the infinite growth machine running. If Russia steals a bunch of money, they have more capital for weapons.
Putin doesn’t care, he’s old enough he’s facing his own mortality and his “capstone achievement” is regaining as much ex Soviet territory as possible.
He thought he’d steamroll Ukraine and move on to the next, for someone like Putin he’d consider his entire life a failure if he doesn’t get it.
And he’s not trump, he’s evil as fuck but he’s not an idiot. He knows he won’t live forever and this is the last push.
Doesn’t matter if the whole country dissolves the day after he dies, he wants Russia to cover as much land as possible the day before.
It’s an insanely dangerous geopolitical position even before factoring in Israel attacking Russia’s allies, like I’m legit surprised no ones declared war today.
I know people are optimistic because Kamala’s almost definitely going to win, but trump isn’t the only shit show on the schedule.
To be fair, the seizure happened back in 2020 when companies were still in the process of removing themselves from Russia. And it happened in retaliation for google complying with international sanctions against Russia.
They’re important details. And you would have seen them in the article if you’d read it.
Aaaand… we’re upvoting comments of people that obviously have not read the article.
New court documents filed in the US shows that Russian authorities “seized” Google’s money from their bank account in Moscow in 2022 around the time Putin invaded Ukraine.
This happened at the time of the initial invasion and this article is just talking about the lawsuit over it.
So, unless your trying to imply that Google should have been able to see the future, your comment is inappropriate. I only point this out because you’re so highly voted up and are clearly spreading misinformation.
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Fun. When the news came first time, the comments were all mansplaining to a guy that said “hope they will be okay” that the athletes definitely are not going to get in trouble for this. I don’t understand where people think their educated guesses are worth spreading like gospel when they aren’t experts at all on the question
Their line that they would stop if there was a ceasefire in Gaza convinced only a few.
I love how this is completely unsubstantiated and there’s no alternative explanation for what the supposed “truth” is. And this is just thrown in there completely unattributed to anyone. Who didn’t believe it? Who are the “few” whom it convinced? And libs just eat this up.
You gotta love how western media keeps pretending the blockade is about anything other than genocide. The west can easily prove their theory by stopping support for the genocide.
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