whilst the Black Sea burns, Larry Fink is drawing up the reconstruction contracts.
      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        That all depends on whether the US manages to come up with a deal that’s acceptable to Russia. There is a very real scenario where Russia simply decides to take over all of Ukraine once the AFU fighting capacity collapses. It’s also worth noting that eastern regions are the ones where most of the industry, farm land, and resources are. So, the west isn’t going to be much of a prize to begin with.

        • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          7·
          10 hours ago

          Also hypothetically US/western attempts to start a contra style insurgency maybe be harder to start in east where there are more Russian first language people(not that that necessarily means tendency to support russia over the west, the original Azov(before the mass recruitment since the start of the hot war for example were primarily russian-first language speakers) and a higher % of people for voted for the more pro-russian parties over the pro-EU/west ones(at least before the last freeish election before the coup), making the west less desirable if russia was concerned with dealing with said attempts

          • demerit@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            8·
            1 day ago

            before the mass recruitment since the start of the hot war for example were primarily russian-first language speakers

            Before the war barely anyone outside the very far west of Ukraine spoke Ukrainian as a first language, even nowadays most rapid ukrainian refugees still speak russian as their first language and actually have to learn ukrainian. Using language/reported ethnicity will not give you a clear picture of how people in eastern and southern ukraine feel (like Bad Empanada claiming that because 60% something of Donbass called itself ukrainian in 2001, that means evul ruzzia is doing colonialism, mind you there is the legacy of the Ukrainian SSR and opposed to that is the NAFO SS Galicia based Ukraine and both sides use “Ukrainian” as identifier).

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      15·
      1 day ago

      A big chunk of it was sold off to them by the regime, and I’m guessing that’s one of the reasons the US is now scrambling to make some sort of a deal. Once Russia takes over these regions, then BlackRock is going to lose out on their investment.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    49·
    2 days ago

    Because he’s one of the primary stakeholders in this war. It was never about Ukraine, the real benefactors of this war are the ones that will sit at the table

      • demerit@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        Ever since Kurzgesagt did that whack video about SK is dying11!!!1 they actual do now - of course its more pogging at the “literally cyperpunk 2077” vibes. Most libs have evolved into pro-antitrust laws and bringing back mom & pop shops, while venerating the neo-yeoman imagery of the humble bussiness owner making his coin in the “land of opportunity”.

        Ironically this is a very old ideological tendency present in america and which national imagery bernhard sanders evoked.

  • sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    The Black Sea is burning. The breadbasket of the world is becoming a battlefield.

    This will only increase the rate of revolutions, wars and counter-revolutions throughout the world. It is another aspect to the present revolutionary junction that humanity has found itself in.