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Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles (www.scmp.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So far sanctioning Russia and China has mainly just sped up the Global South's economic integration and China's becoming self-sufficient. I can see this happening with Iran too since its economy is already somewhat Global South-oriented.

Though of course, sanctioning less developed countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK, and Afganistan does successfully greatly harm their working-class population, and it has.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Sanctions on Russia have crippled their ability to get modern chips for their war machine, so they have to rely on Soviet tech. They hurt Putin personally so much that he went and bought an entire Presidential campaign.

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

so they have to rely on Soviet tech

Well that part is true enough at least. Capitalist Russia naturally can't innovate as much as Socialist/Soviet Russia could. Even its highly sophisticated public transport like in Moscow are stuff that the USSR built; they'd probably be filled with high-speed rail by now, like China is, if it wasn't overthrown.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

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[-] Mobilityfuture@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago

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[-] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

Russia's economic integration has undoubtedly been with the Global South in recent years. What, exactly, are you disputing from OP's comment?

[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

historically

Lmfao the USSR directly funded and supported emancipatory movements all over the world, like Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Bangladesh, Palestinian resistance organizations like the PFLP, etc; even directly supplied wars against "israel" for that last one. Afganistan is about the only one where the US and USSR funding opposite sides turned it into a warzone instead.

Russia's interests are still broadly aligned with most of the world against Imperial core countries. While they're not socialist anymore and have thus stopped funding Vietnam, PFLP etc because it's not profitable for the capitalists that are now in power since the USSR's overthrow, they continue to support the sovereignty of Global South countries like Syria, Venezuela, etc, and are a core part of BRICS. There's a reason sentiment like this is common in third world countries.

And if "Global South" sounds too academic for you... I'm not sure what to say.