Yeah, another one of these.
Ok, let’s talk about the Russia stuff, again.
I still don’t get it. The sanctions, I mean.
What are they doing?
Ugh.
Ok, here.
The last batch of sanctions didn’t work, of course. Honestly, from where I sit, I legitimately don’t think they did anything. I mean, if the news about the trillion-dollar Russia/China led “New Silk Road” are anything to go by, Russia is doing fine these days.
So, more sanctions? Do we really need this? Is this batch going to be any more successful than the last one?
See, here’s the thing. Sanctions aren’t going to work against Russia. They can’t, owing to Russia’s sheer size. Sanctions are a way to isolate a country from the rest of the world. To cut it off, so that it can’t do anything, with anyone else.
So….. HOW are we going to do this to Russia? Russia has seven time zones. We are going to isolate them…. how, exactly? They have more neighbors than anyone else in the world. Russia is next door to the US, Mongolia, Finland, and the Ukraine, for example. We’re going to isolate them HOW exactly?
Not to mention that the whole idea of putting sanctions on Russia pre-supposes A LOT of untrue things about the US economy, such as the fact that we’re even strong enough to impose sanctions on ANYONE at this point.
The United States lacks jobs, and most especially businesses. Something like 95% of new businesses here fail. Our generational economic depression has caused a catastrophic loss of job skills amongst young Americans. All across the US, enormous swaths of people have struggled to even enter the workforce, owing to a lack of credentials and money even get them. To say nothing of a lack of opportunities.
Where is our economic strength, to force other nations to do our will economically? We have no businesses. Who are we to tell others that we even know what we’re doing?
Every economic advantage that this country had thirty years ago was given to the Chinese. The United States has no legitimate economic base, besides perhaps in the entertainment world. Where is our clout?
Any sanctions we put on Russia’s natural resources industries are going to have no effect. China has more then enough demand to meet any slack in sales caused by the sanctions, since they are the world’s industrial powerhouse. The US has no industry, no manufacturing. So we don’t even use resources, anyways. Why would we think that US led sanctions against Russia will impact the Russian oil industry? They’ll just sell more to the Chinese. Why would Russia even care? It’s not like we can stop them from selling to China, of course. I mean, they’re next door neighbors! What are we going to do?
Ok, look, I could just keep going on and on about this, but I’m just saying this stuff to make the point that we REALLY need to start focusing on actually fixing the problems in the US economy. I mean, making a real effort, here. Like, as soon as possible, because this… whatever this is, isn’t going to make much of a difference, in anything.
I’m not going to get into allegations of Russia hacking in our elections or anything. Maybe later, but not now. It’s just that this whole sanctions thing right now is so dumb that I couldn’t pass it by without saying something.
*sigh*……