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[–] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything is just so unnecessary. Everyone is worse of, no one wins. So stupid.

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How?

If he plans to buy a golden card to flee Russia, he would prefer hist destination to be a stable country. If he plans on using the US as military support, he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich, as long as it doesn't also help his enemies... And Canada and Mexico are not on the Russian list of enemies (or at least not until recently, Canada probably is now).

[–] customcombos@lemm.ee 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The gold cards arent for Putin, they’re for all of the other Russian oligarchs that have destroyed Russia and need a new place to set up shop.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich

I think he'd much rather eliminate one of the top economies and make more room for the Russian economy to recover. I'd imagine the simplified version of the plan goes something like this:

  1. Make the US destroy all its current trade relationships
  2. In manufactured desperation, the US drops sanctions and tries to lean on Russia as a new partner
  3. ?????
  4. Profit