The US geopolitical strategy of trying to sanction Russia while starting a trade war with China and saber-rattling over Taiwan and then being shocked when China doesn't participate in the sanctions is genuinely bizarre. It really leads me to believe that the powers that be just have absolutely no idea what they're doing.

I mean, I guess if you want to understand the mentality, you can just talk to the average lib, they'd absolutely do the same because they aren't capable of thinking beyond, "country bad." And saying it might be a bad strategy to push rivals towards each other by giving them a common enemy is surely enough to brand me a "tankie" and dismiss everything I say. When I put it that way, it's not really surprising that the people in the halls of power are on the same brainrot.

That's how sanctions generally work, is mostly impossible to cut off trade entirely, but it imposes costs of around 20% or more, which does impact the balance sheets of the sanctioned country and improves competitiveness of other sources

Better this way, than attacking an oil-rich country on the grounds that it has weapons of mass destruction

This also happens the other way around. It is now prohibited to sell lot of industrial goods to russia, so the goods are sold to indian companies who then will sell them to russia.

I'm grabbing my popcorn for the comments.

Think of all the extra capitalism that is happening by adding additional layers of transport and management.

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this meme is exaggerating for comedic effect; there are much shorter routes which can also make it good gas. (eg)

Good non-gas from not-Russia: