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Russian pilot who defected found dead in Spain, says Ukraine security agency
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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You don't have to take anyone out. Completely cut them off from the rest of the world. Nothing in, nothing out. No financial transactions. Seize all Russian owned assets outside of Russia.
Squeeze the body hard enough and the head will pop.
That's working so well with the DPRK, though.
And Russia has a lot more resources and infrastructure to dig in with.
The moment that the oligarchs and their precious babies can't winter in Cancun because their passports are worthless is the moment things start to change. Rapidly.
There is no such structure in the DPRK. It's an enforced religious cult masquerading as a country.
Yeah, we’ve seen how well that worked out for us.. we’re still buying up their oil, but this time through middle men. If you really want to cut Russia off then you should first have a talk with our capitalist overlords.
It has literally been tried. You don't control the world. China, North Korea, Iran and India get to do what they want. They have their own interests too look out for and could care less about a European country being invaded by another European country.
Ah yes, that well-known financial bastion of... North Korea... where all oligarchs go to hide their money.
I don't think you know how financial transactions work.
I like to play a game with comments like yours. I call it "Bad Faith or Stupid". OP also mentioned China, right? So did you ONLY pick the weakest example on his list to build a strawman in bad faith, or..
congratulations, now there's a 1/10-of-the-earth-landmass sized north korea with nukes
If you don't understand the difference between an enforced national religious cult (DPRK) and a tenuous "democracy" that's only allowed to exist for as long as the oligarchs are able to maintain their income...
...learn.