Russia’s war economy is starving its own strategic projects (euromaidanpress.com)

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[-] espentan@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

What's the world come to, huh? Can't even invade, plunder and rape a neighboring country without it having adverse effects on your economy?!

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Well, the US did and does it regularly, and a lot of times it worked quite well for them... Not downplaying the ruzzians azzholery - it's just not unprecedented historically.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago

The US is rarely invading countries. Mostly it is just bombing or a fairly small special operation, but not a full scale invasion. The two large scale invasion of this century namely Iraq and Afghanistan ended up both being failures for the US on a strategic level.

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

So much for invading. What about raping and plundering? Could also include the devastation of political landscapes (installing dictators and arming insurgents and such) and military action benefitting the oil industries of the west. There's many, many examples of that afaik (there even is a list of that on Wikipedia).

I'm not nitpicking, and I'm definitely not on the ruzzian side - I'm just under the impression that the USA had their fair share of assholish use of military force, too.