Economic sanctions aren't only on materials(, e.g., sanctions on Russia's central bank), but even when they are, they don't only concern the exportation of raw material, but also their importation, as well as the importation and exportation of manufactured products, which means that out of these 4 cases there's 3 that impact industries. Correct me if i'm wrong.

The opposite seems more truthful : the n.a.t.o. and e.u. were given every chances to welcome Russia, but they immediately took steps to establish their hegemony(, including the bombing of Yugoslavia, and the whole Middle-East), before "protecting protesters" in Lybia V.Putin already knew that we were the biggest liars on Earth, he saw what was hidden behind our lies and opposed Dmitry Medvedev(, almost every article from 2011 says that it was rare for him), who was ready to believe us one more time(, and quickly regretted his trust).
We(sterners) had more than one chance to be united in diversity, we still have this possibility now, instead we're opposing everyone who doesn't conform to our "values". If we(sterners)'re not stopped then neo-colonialism won't end and any country judged too diverse will be forced to conform. Also, Russia is considered too large/powerful and hence too difficult to control, thus a potential threat to western hegemony/"enforced peace", allowing western hegemony may imply a smaller and/or less powerful Russia.
There's more details on everything that Russia(, and even the u.s.s.r. before,) did in order to unite with the west, but we're so certain of our moral&economic&military&.. superiority that we won't agree to any concession.
It's a badly written comment, there's only two arguments and i'd have to search in my computer folders for any sources i may have(, i remember that in the first years after Yeltsin resigned, V.Putin took many measures to unite with the west, and obtained such things as the NATO-Russia Council). I still think that there's a lot of truth in writing that Russia had&'will have' to abandon its diversity in order to have a hope of uniting with the west(, in the sense of not being unfairly attacked by our politicians&medias since they're probably too big to be integrated into the e.u. anyway, they could join n.a.t.o. but they would have to agree with our goal for hegemony and apparently prefer to suffer than being immoral).

Yeah, i took his comment way too literally since its false sense of security made me feel uneasy, he obviously meant that it's (a bit )harder, not impossible. We should be sanctioned ourselves to feel/understand them, the economic destructions they cause are also responsible for an unrest attributed to the leaders(, it'd be much harder to lead China if its economy wasn't doing so well), the only way out if autarcy isn't a valid option(, autarcy ≠ protectionnism, only the first one is nocive). Interesting to note that China was one of the few countries who didn't follow the recommendations of market freedoms, i've read from some authors that it's not a coincidence if free markets are only successful for the already wealthy countries, and not the global South, your article from the awesome Moon of Alabama(, leftist "disinformation" that ought to be banned at some point, fortunately not read enough to worry the powerful,) remind me of this approach to speak about neocolonialism(, there're others but this one may be the most known). I've looked at it in the beginning of this year, and made this tl;dr of a chapter from the pro-capitalist(,yet anti-free markets,) Ha-Joon Chang in his book "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", have a look if you're interested :)

Also, i never tire to cite what's quite probably my ~favorite tweet :

If Saudi Arabia was that much allied with the u.s. it'd have accepted Israel and wouldn't be criticized that much, and would also play its expected role against Iran. Don't forget that S.Hussein was also our ally in the past, things change. As long as it's good news for them and not bad news for the others then it's a reason to rejoice i.m.h.o.

I'm christian and i'm a leftist, clearly in favor of liberation theology, and it hurts that you're right.

It ends a 56-years long uninterrupted rule by the Bongo family.
And they suspended french medias.

First album, from a pulsar emission :)

Source : « The coup regime has also destroyed Khan's party PTI, imprisoning and exiling its leaders; while also killing protesters; banning the media from broadcasting Khan's speeches; and even trying civilians in military courts for the "crime" of criticizing it on social media. »

Hordes of drones flying over the city in order to find any possible infraction, don't you want to feel safe ? (/s obv.)

In any case, we don't get to decide, it's our so-called representatives who'll take the decision, with or without campaigns of communication.
At least in a real democracy, if the whole population agree to it, then i'd conform more readily to our choice even if i personally disagreed, but we're not in a democracy, in which the demos has the cratos.
We're in a constitutional republic, and our representatives are democratically elected, once they take the power from the people to decide in their stake it's not a democracy, such as the one that once existed in Athens(, only for citizens, but the logic is the same).
Having the possibility to cancel any decision with a strong enough popular petition would be a first step, yet it'd be unimaginable for our "democratic" leaders, because the population needs to be directed, and shouldn't be listened to. We're ignorant while they know(, whose fault is it since we follow ? we obtain the population we deserve), people are stupid(, but we never include ourselves, we all have the same potential), we have to trust our leaders, etc.
In truth, we know what's desirable, and anyone is apt to debate on whether or not this aim is indeed desirable. We only need to have experts and do experiments to test their predictions, because we don't know anything about the technical details, almost as much as our leaders who trust these experts without obtaining the promised results sometimes(, preliminary experiments won't prevent all mistakes, but at least it'd be our mistake, not theirs, we rarely can't go back on our decisions).
Well, whatever, just to say that the decision isn't up to us(, and consent is manufactured).

A problem is also that we don't know about some instances, lemmit.online has the content you seek. And check c/[email protected] if you'd like to discover more new stuff.

And i don't understand why 'we should feel generous to have given'/'they should feel grateful to have received' help in the form of loans(, to buy military stuff that has one of the highest surplus value from our own enterprises), there's probably a reason to feel grateful for getting more loans and interests to pay, but i don't get it.

That's probably the most instructive article i've read since the beginning of the year !

I couldn't think of any more names to add, Steven Donziger isn't a corporate political prisoner since April if i understood correctly, but if you don't know his story it's worth taking a look for 5mn.
And it happens almost every day, in total indifference.

If that list wasn't enough, i'd also like to remind everyone that many more whistleblowers were persecuted without judiciary actions, because... what ? Because we have an image to maintain ? We're here to be/do good, whistleblowers should be hailed as the heroes they are, (i'm thinking about a recent interview featuring Julia Cagé, and )we know what is good and wrong, we just pretend not to be able to improve things, f*cking hate this world sometimes, nothing will change, even when we have the solutions.

Red says that 160 palestinians were killed today when israelis simply bombed civilians in Gaza.
As usual, it's hard to find the same numbers across a simple Google Images search, but :

They didn't gave up though :

Could be better, could be worse, here's something else that didn't pass our(western) world news headlines :

Nah, they sanctioned companies who didn't align with their interests, not the government, i should have been more clear in the title

I double-checked and you're entirely right, i didn't know that, i've heard many years ago that a single big lightning strike could power a large city for months(, while it's indeed more a matter of minutes, if not less), and thought that it was a technological problem(, and that, e.g., flying devices anchored on the ground to either a portable infrastructure or a nationwide-extended network, could potentially make up for the unreliability and follow the storms, or even perhaps cause them one day).
Now i understand even better why solar power is preferred, thanks !

B.t.w., a new candidate to succeed to Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 2024 presidential elections has been chosen today, her name is Claudia Sheinbaum, best of luck to her.

Didn’t adjust for ppp.

Good point, and possibly not taxes as well. Here's what i found for the median salary adjusted for p.p.p. :

Since the estimation of the purchasing power takes into account the cost of living, i don't think that i've truly realized until now how much it's beneficial to work in the west, everyone know that western salaries are higher, but we somehow assume that it's compensated by the price of living, unseeing the obvious injustice here(, the kind of inequality we wouldn't understand/tolerate for two workers living in the same street). That's neo-colonialism(, if it was the success of capitalism, as we often hear, and we're just jealous of the west, then it's manifestedly not enough for countries from the global South to have been capitalist for many decades).
And it's amplified by the fact that the gap, being even higher not adjusted by p.p.p., enables our capitalists to pay less for their (non-)human ressources.
Africa is a whole continent, yet don't have a single successful multinational like Samsung, or Huawei, or Nintendo, same for South America, the Middle-East, India, etc., the common thought is that it's only a matter of a few decades before their apparition, but i wonder if they didn't already thought that in the 60s with Japan's arrival, yet only South Korea appeared on our markets since, so i.d.k. if optimism is realistic, but i sure hope so.

rip Mexico

Indeed.

Well, this support comes from ignorance/manipulation, i disagree. Furthermore, the so-called "brakes upon lybian civil liberties" should never be discussed without the attacks from the west that Lybia was suffering for decades before the invasion, they famously even renounced to nuclear weapons, but to no avail.
It took 41 years for Muammar Gaddafi to retrieve Gamal Abdel Nasser, it's a sad story. We sanctioned Lybia during the 90s under the guise of protecting the population, it makes no sense, please don't claim that our population knows and support our actions, i've discussed with other people and they don't know much about all this.
I've watched our news and they can talk for weeks about a random murder, or will give a summary that misses things, and it's not really their fault(, more of their capitalist owners who selected them), but i'm regretting this lack of diversity in our medias, we have in France a very narrow expression of opinions(, except on the Internet fortunately), and our citizens believe that it's encompassing every possible&acceptable opinions, and that some of them are even extreme, that's far from the case as this community exemplifies. Imagine a 24/7 anti-imperialist channel news, most of our citizens would be surprised by the existence of that point of view. And our lack of diversity goes beyond that i.m.o.

Probably not worth making a post for this(, yet ?), so i'm dumping these pictures here :

And as others have already said :

Although "commonly accepted" may be pushing it, i can't imagine a finite universe(, i.e., 'with a positive curvature'/spherical), with the old question : what happens at the edge if i push it with a stick ?
(I.i.r.c., the answer is that the edge is expanding faster than the speed of light or sthg)

(And, kinda unrelated, fractal universes piling upon each other may make sense)