Hey guys. Long-time lurker here. I've been watching both the culture war and world news, and recently there's been something that I haven't seen anyone really talk about. So here I am giving my thoughts.
Many companies have left the Russian market after their invasion of Ukraine. Aviation companies, tech companies, sports organizations, now even the big boys like Visa, Mastercard and PayPal are pulling out.
I think that what we're witnessing is the cancellation of an entire nation, which is the next step in cancel culture. And it will set a terrible precedent.
People can argue that Russia's cancellation is justified because of the Ukraine war, but that's not relevant at all.
This genie is out of the bottle now. If it's happened before it can happen again, and for less and less serious offenses.
What's that? Your country refuses to cave in to the wokists and implement Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity policies? We're going to cancel you until you change your mind, then maybe we'll demand more and more concessions because nothing you ever do will be enough.
No nation in the world is going to be safe, except Daddy China, because the wokists will never go after China even though they're actually genociding minorities. The only way to save your nation from this would be to become self-sufficient, and that would be extremely difficult in this financialized, globalist economy.
We seem to live in very dark times. Nation-states are becoming irrelevant in favor of a globalist woke order.
What do you guys think? Am I right on the money with this or am I over-reacting to recent events?
Funnily enough, Russia has a plan in place for disconnecting their internet from the rest of the world. Won't help them any if their nation collapses though.
People talk about Russia collapsing like it isn’t a country full of hard people who are perfectly capable of subsisting on “hard bread”.
The soft western nations are far more vulnerable to true collapse. Especially when you realize that the only lasting collapse is demographic collapse.
Collapse doesn't mean extinction. Most of them will survive just fine, but their economy and infrastructure could fall into disarray enough to completely change their daily lives.
I mean, the Apple Pay thing alone was enough to fuck up the Metro bad for a day. Which could push people into missing work and massively withdrawing money from the banks, which we all know what happens then.
We'll have to see how things go. Maybe they'll tighten their belts, maybe they'll collapse.
We cannot deny that the West has been hitting them really hard though, what with shutting down payment infrastrcture in Russia, as well as sanctioning them really hard.