Sure, the products quality might be as shit as China's but at least they won't have to rely on foreign companies that much.
/schizo theory
Do any of the foreign companies even have factories in russia? I remember mcdicks had to get one going in the soviet days because of import restrictions but did they keep that going after 1991 or just imported everything? because seems all these companies did was just import shit, their only assets are stores and offices to sell that shit
As for chinese quality they are getting their shit together, flagship chinese phones are as good if not better than a galaxy for almost half the price, not cheap-ass like before but still a better deal than the koreans. Also we get some chinese cars over here and the quality has also gone up a lot these years, from total shitbox deathtraps to almost euro-quality. Tho tbh euro cars have gone to shit lately, for example peugeot was known to make cars that were practically indestructible, but now they make the most disposable shit I've seen in my life, and the electronics are limey-tier
Back to my point, just how many assets did these companies have in russia?
Have you seen Moscow? It looks (or looked, I haven't been to the center recently) like an occupied city. The streets of central Moscow don't belong to Russians. Its core is fucking rotten, it's unlivable and hostile.
Go on, sounds interesting
From what I saw it was a bunch of "oh our satellites show Russians moving blood to the front. They'll attack within a week". And similar things. People were getting tired of all the imminent attack warnings. They got it wrong more than they got it right.
Said it before and I'll say it again: had I been a ukie living in ukraine I would've run the moment the russians had troops in the bielorrusian frontier
Worse case scenario I lose my job for not going to work for weeks, but that beats being cheeki-breekied by a russkie cruise missile or being forcibly conscripted as one of zelensky's suicide battyboys
Russians are paying upwards of $400 in Rubles for McDonalds.
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This is even more retarded than palestinians paying for smuggled KFC from egypt
Re: The Russian Revolution
A critical missing piece in what
@Protistology said (can't quote) is the involvement of the Wilson administration. Wilson was committed to WW1 and "making Europe safe for democracy," and his absolute brainlet idea with the battered, bleeding Russia that had just deposed the Tsar due to the war's unpopularity was to make continued involvement in the war a condition of receiving loans from the USA. So Kerensky was faced with either immediately going bankrupt and having another revolution, or keep the war going and maybe not have another revolution, but anyway, there was another revolution.
Wilson is arguably the worst President in US history.
I think he was a top-tier troll: create the league of nations but refuse to join it, talk about democracy and anti-imperialism but say "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." and turn nicaragua into a defacto colony, then sending troops all over the caribbean and half-invading mexico. Muh rights and freedom but he hangs around with the KKK, even letting them parade thru DC, say blacks are inferior because science. Opposes women vote then does a 180 and allows it
