Punishing Russia With Sanctions
POSTED BY: THG
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 04:52
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I'm glad that the Ukraine will be fine and the Biden* family will always have a place to give jobs to their cracked out relatives.
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Me: "Remember Covid?"
Useless Idiots: "What's Covid, durr? Russia, Ukraine, Putin, NATO *drool*. DURRRR!!!!"
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Key U.S. provider of Internet to Russia is cutting service there, citing ‘unprovoked invasion of Ukraine,’ sources say
A leading American Internet service provider, Cogent Communications, is preparing to sever relations with Russian customers on Friday, according to people familiar with the company’s decision, a move that would give Ukrainian officials another victory in their campaign to isolate Russia online.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/key-u-s-provider-of-internet
-to-russia-plans-to-cut-service-there-citing-unprovoked-invasion-of-ukraine-sources-say/ar-AAUCeIA?ocid=msedgntp
I'm going to say it again. China is watching what happens when the world comes after you. I'm betting they want no part of it. This may be what saves Taiwan and prevents them from helping Russia.
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Russia's second-largest internet provider cuts off Russian websites
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-second-largest-internet-
provider-cuts-off-russian-websites/ar-AAUFfwE?ocid=msedgntp
All this keeps happening at lightning speed. I've realized I can't keep up with all the business cutting their Russian ties. I can say I'm heartened by it all.
T
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There's a whole lot of normal people like you and me that live in Russia who are having their entire way of life upended.
And you're cheering it all on, you fucking goon.
You are a disgusting human being.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The war footage is horrifying. It's extreme violence porn 24 hours a day. It's mind-numbing, unimaginable, and unbearable.
If you keep watching it, they'll keep creating more for you.
Really, just for me? But how will "they" even know I'm watching? We're not a Nielsen family. Wow.
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South Korea to hit Belarus with export controls
South Korea said Sunday it will implement export controls against close Moscow ally Belarus for "effectively supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine".
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korea-to-hit-belarus-with-e
xport-controls/ar-AAUGalt?ocid=msedgntp
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Expel Russia from the WTO
To have maximum impact, the rapidly emerging separate and individual actions by NATO countries to add trade sanctions to the accumulation of other economic sanctions punishing the government of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine must be broadened. They must include multilateral action to kick Russian President Vladimir Putin and his kleptocratic government out of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/expel-russia-from-the-wto/ar-AAUE
ZdO?ocid=msedgntp
Watching all this unfold one can't help wonder. How many decades will it take Russia to recover? The world is going to put Ukraine back on its feet rather quickly. But Russia, I believe business will not want to risk reinvesting in Russia.
Think about it. Why would people want to invest in a third world country? A country where no one has two nickels to rub together. We already know they don't so I'd say Russia is really really fucked.
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Russian 'brain drain' of academic, finance, and tech workers 'might be the most important problem' for its economy, experts say
Economists say more educated, middle-class Russians are likely to leave over Western sanctions.
They've been leaving for years, and their exodus will likely hurt the country's economy.
One economist says Russia may resemble Iran, whose economy has been crippled by sanctions.
It's not a question of whether people want to leave Russia, Oleg Itskhoki, an economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Insider. It's a matter of when they will — and whether they can.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/russian-brain-drain-of-academi
c-finance-and-tech-workers-might-be-the-most-important-problem-for-its-economy-experts-say/ar-AAUGoiw?ocid=msedgntp
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Angry dock workers in the UK are refusing to unload Russian oil due to Ukraine invasion
Tough sanctions mean that Russian ships can't dock at British ports, but a loophole means goods can still be transported via foreign ships.
Dock workers are taking a stand against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with ports in the country refusing to unload Russian oil and gas.
There is currently no blockade on oil and gas from Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/angry-dock-workers-in-the-uk-a
re-refusing-to-unload-russian-oil-due-to-ukraine-invasion/ar-AAUGmKO?ocid=msedgntp
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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
The war footage is horrifying. It's extreme violence porn 24 hours a day. It's mind-numbing, unimaginable, and unbearable.
If you keep watching it, they'll keep creating more for you.
Really, just for me? But how will "they" even know I'm watching? We're not a Nielsen family. Wow.
They know everything you watch. Once people had coaxial cable in their homes, they always did.
You didn't think that it was Magic when they were somehow able to use that same cable they laid out to homes in the early 80's to allow for broadband internet with download AS WELL AS upload speeds that have continued to increase into the 2020's and will continue to increase, did you?
If I'm able to upload at 1mbps right now on the cheapest tier internet speed using nothing more than coaxial cable that was put into this house in the early 80's, how difficult do you think it would have been for them to pull the tiny amount of data from your cable box as to what was being watched in your house all month?
Neilson ratings haven't actually meant anything for nearly 4 decades. They just served two purposes.
1. It's a nice sounding name that everybody in America has heard of.
2. It camouflaged the fact that our TV viewing habits were already being spied on back when people seemed to care about their privacy.
This is a story that nobody ever talks about. But I'm sure some day they'll tell us about it, and at this point nobody would even care.
And if people are watching on their internet or phones, forget about it. Google and Microsoft know every fucking keystroke I make on my computer.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's a whole lot of normal people like you and me that live in Russia who are having their entire way of life upended.
And you're cheering it all on, you fucking goon.
You are a disgusting human being.
Visa, Mastercard suspend all operations in Russia, 'effective immediately'
The company says it felt 'compelled' to act
This isn't hurting Putin. This is hurting the people of Russia who were already living tougher lives than we have here before they were hit with 40+% inflation.
Fuck Visa and Mastercard.
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Quote:Now you suddenly care about poor people? You never cared before, except for people exactly like yourself, by which I mean you cared only for you. I will let you in on a little secret that Americans seem to not understand when heaping praise on the brave troops: killing Russian soldiers is not hurting Putin and firebombing German citizens did not hurt Hitler and nuking Nagasaki did not hurt the Japanese Emperor. Just in case you missed the point, 6ix, a war is not possible that aims all the violence at only the enemy leader. The troops aren't as precise as James Bond, 007, when on attack. And when the attackers fight from their keyboards, things are much less precise compared to when aiming a sniper rifle at someone's head.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Visa, Mastercard suspend all operations in Russia, 'effective immediately'
The company says it felt 'compelled' to act
This isn't hurting Putin. This is hurting the people of Russia who were already living tougher lives than we have here before they were hit with 40+% inflation.
Fuck Visa and Mastercard.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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