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  • What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can’t do everything he wishes.

    Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of “undesirables” before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can’t use conscripts in Ukraine.

    It shouldn’t be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.



  • Vikthor@lemmy.worldtoEurope@feddit.org*Permanently Deleted*
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    In ideal world EU should agree on a handful of red state exports on which we’d apply say 10%, let the US exporters explain their president why that’s wrong and only then enter the negotiations with the US and whatever then the outcome is GET IT IN THE WRITING with his signature.

    Yes, he would then try to blame the “evil EU”, but having a written and signed agreement is the only way to prevent this monthly “it’s on - and now it’s off” charade.

    Now unfortunately even if anybody had the balls to actually propose it there is too many actors who would shoot any such proposal down. Be it because of fear for their exports or just to be contrarian.