What is this?! Nuanced thoughts that recognise that everyone is an arsehole? On my internet?!

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“Treasure”?

Your Russian terminology gives you away comrade.

Off you fuck.

The current country is a highly corrupt oligarchy that keeps it’s citizens ignorant, imprisons those that dare speak out, and ensures there is zero internal political resistance to the regime continuing it’s brutal and bloody status quo.

The US is rapidly heading the same way, the wannabe Oligarchs in the US seeing Russia as an example to follow.

Get your head out of your arse.

See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia’s economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.

It would appear that he’s just a brat who’s never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It’s all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he’s right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.

Oh no. Anyway…

Someone needs to create plugins not to block data being sent, but to send inordinate amounts of trash data.

Make the whole system pointless.

“I’m too smart to deal with the likes of you.”

Riding that dunning-krueger curve like a pro fucking surfer.

The only thing the US exports is tax avoiding, minimum viable product supplying, data collection companies.

Not only does the rest of the world not need that shit, they’re better off without it.

Fuck the US and everything it has come to stand for.

Who do you think is pulling his strings? The people who will be left in charge when the useful idiot isn’t useful anymore, the fascists. Trump is just the mouthpiece, the current face, he’s not the one in charge, he just thinks he is.

Riiiiiigght.

Be conscripted and die, or fight conscription and die.

Cowards to the last man.

Trolls do it to be “edgy”, Hungary does it because Orban sucks Putin’s microcock at every opportunity.

He fancies his chances as part of the Union of Soviet Suckers and Rubes, Putin’s redo of the grand old “Soviet Empire”. Fucking LOL.

That would be the Russians sent there to cause trouble as “separatists” right?

About as long as is possible with the doors welded shut from outside, I guess.

The point was, that isn’t possible. If everyone is too poor to consume, their system stops, and they aren’t rich anymore.

Long term, the snake is eating it’s own tail. What happens when it gets to it’s own head? It chokes to death (and scavengers pick over the corpse).

Either they’re too stupid to know what happens at the end, or they’re stupid enough to think they can jump off the ride with the loot before it crashes.

In neither scenario would I want to be living that close to the coming chaos.

Selling to who?

If the masses are penniless serfs, who is going to buy the services provided? One of the other 8 billionaires who own the country?

They really haven’t considered the longer term here. Ultimately, they’ll be kings of a worthless backward shitheap, despised and shunned by the international community, their best and most promising exfiltrated to the rest of the world then fenced off to rot into obscurity.

Like North Korea, more or less.

His point, I think, is the line of whataboutist thinking that got the conversation to this point, from the OP.