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| | *[[Simplicius]]: [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-oligarchs-true-warning-hidden Russian Oligarch's True Warning Hidden in Plain Sight]. | | *[[Simplicius]]: [https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-oligarchs-true-warning-hidden Russian Oligarch's True Warning Hidden in Plain Sight]. |
| | :"After spelling out how the new Russia was built by [[internationalist]]s, he admits that [[globalization]] was a failure because it was nothing more than a ruse to take away [[Russia]]’s [[sovereignty]]: | | :"After spelling out how the new Russia was built by [[internationalist]]s, he admits that [[globalization]] was a failure because it was nothing more than a ruse to take away [[Russia]]’s [[sovereignty]]: |
| − | {{Cquote|The advocates of global integration viewed this as a remnant of Soviet thinking. Time has proved them wrong, not because [[globalisation]] did not exist but because it was never neutral. | + | {{Cquote|'''The advocates of global integration viewed this as a remnant of Soviet thinking. Time has proved them wrong, not because [[globalisation]] did not exist but because it was never neutral.''' |
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| | [[Economic sanctions|Sanctions]] showed this plainly. They were written by some, in the interests of some, and can be revised for others by [[political]] decision. My own experience of [[Western]] [[sanctions]] matters here not as a personal grievance, but as evidence that the infrastructure of [[globalisation]] is [[political]]ly conditional. [[Asset]]s can be frozen; [[rights]] once considered [[inviolable]] dissolve the moment a political decision is taken. | | [[Economic sanctions|Sanctions]] showed this plainly. They were written by some, in the interests of some, and can be revised for others by [[political]] decision. My own experience of [[Western]] [[sanctions]] matters here not as a personal grievance, but as evidence that the infrastructure of [[globalisation]] is [[political]]ly conditional. [[Asset]]s can be frozen; [[rights]] once considered [[inviolable]] dissolve the moment a political decision is taken. |
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| − | The systemic effect of sanctions proved broader than their original intent. Disconnection from global systems—financial, technological, legal, educational—confronted Russia’s creative class with a choice it had not anticipated: either full emigration with the severing of all ties, or a return to the question it had been avoiding for three decades: how to build its own world inside Russia, by its own rules, to its own standards.|||Andrey Melnichenko}} | + | The systemic effect of sanctions proved broader than their original intent. '''Disconnection from global systems—financial, technological, legal, educational—confronted Russia’s creative class with a choice it had not anticipated: either full emigration with the severing of all ties, or a return to the question it had been avoiding for three decades: how to build its own world inside Russia, by its own rules, to its own standards.'''|||Andrey Melnichenko}} |
| − | :Comment: I had asked [[User:Conservative]] 3 years to begin the [[SWIFT network]] article and contribute constructively; instead, he has spent the time [[Googling]] his favorite gay bars and drag queens in Moscow. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs Googling the locations of gay bathhouses?]]</sup> 22:35, July 10, 2026 (EDT) | + | :Comment: I had asked [[User:Conservative]] 3 years ago to begin the [[SWIFT network]] article and contribute constructively; instead, he has spent the time [[Googling]] his favorite gay bars and drag queens in Moscow. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs Googling the locations of gay bathhouses?]]</sup> 22:35, July 10, 2026 (EDT) |
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