Well, don't expect a popular uprising any time soon. The KGB have totally depoliticised the Russian people. They believe they have no control over the fate of their country. If Russia fails, it will be because of economic failure at a basic level, where the country's food, transportation, and energy systems all just stop working. And nobody in Russia will care, or do anything to stop it.
It's interesting that the KGB has engineered a country uniquely capable of letting itself die.
They can't print usdies or yuan. And they sure as hell can't make a microchip.
That was the most surprising thing I read in this article, though:
Even The People’s Republic of China (PRC), which was seen as a potential lender at one time, has turned down Russian requests for government loans.
I was thinking the same thing, so I looked them up:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-security-journal-bias-and-credibility/
I guess it's real. Just not popular.
It would be, if there were no market externalities.
I think I'd rather just make fewer, more durable things. One computer per year per person is way way too many. And cars barely need to exist at all, compared to the number of cars actually in existence. Vans, trucks, trains, and buses are of course a different story.
Are you saying you would write the headline differently?
How can we trust MEE while its owner is undisclosed?
When I read the title, I thought the OP had editorialised it. Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
I eventually figured it out. I was searching in world@lemmy.ml—not world@lemmy.world. And the first time, I was looking in world@lemmy.world under 'Top Week', but didn't quite scroll down far enough lol. It was just out of range of the first page. If I had hit 'More Results' or whatever, it would have been the very first one. Whoopsiedoodle lol
Anyway, it would be better if the ml vs. world mistake were more difficult to make, but yeah, human error.
Oh, good, then it's just lemmy's search function that is broken. Honestly, I am relieved. How did you find these?
The real genocide isn't Israel killing all of the Gazans, though that would work. Not that many people have actually died in Gaza, as a percentage of the total population. For that to work as a means of genocide, the number of dead Gazans would be in the millions. It is not.
The real genocide is Israel destroying their homes, then relocating the people, thus emptying the Gaza strip. That is the real plan. That is what is underway right now. The first step is already complete.
Incidentally, this is how Stalin stole Crimea from the Tatars. No, Crimea was not always ethnically Russian, as Putin claims.