I have pondered for a week about how I'm going to cover world events and especially this war in the long term, without losing my mind (and a significant amount of time on my behalf) staring into the abyss that is modern-day journalism.
My solution, so far, is what you can see. The update itself and the summary have performed a fusion dance, becoming a single entity (who even reads thousands of words almost every day just for news?). Only the headlines will be posted, except when a short excerpt from the article is particularly good at summarizing the article's contents (or when the article has a clickbaity headline). To save character space, all links to media will be archived, except for a few special cases like blogs (e.g. Michael Roberts, Naked Capitalism), instead of just the more MSM-y sites.
To the loyal people with attention spans of steel who have been here since the beginning, back when the war looked like it would be over before the first leaves started falling off the trees - yes, I agree, it does look frighteningly similar to what I initially did before the bulletins site was a thing. Just with a different categorization system. Time is a flat circle, after all.
Anyway:
November 21st's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 22nd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 23rd's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 25th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
November 26th's update is here on the website and here in the comment section!
Links and Stuff
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. I recommend their map more than the channel at this point, as an increasing subscriber count has greatly diminished their quality.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources. Beware of chuddery.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are fairly brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. The Duran, of which he co-hosts, is where the chuddery really begins to spill out.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ Gleb Bazov, banned from Twitter, referenced pretty heavily in what remains of pro-Russian Twitter.
https://t.me/asbmil ~ Now rebranded as Battlefield Insights, they do infrequent posts on the conflict.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/riafan_everywhere ~ Think it's a government news org or Federal News Agency? Russian language.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ Front news coverage. Russian langauge.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of the really big pro-Russian (except when they're being pessismistic, which is often) telegram channels focussing on the war. Russian language.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Any Western media outlet that is even vaguely liberal (and quite a few conservative ones too).
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week's discussion post.
Love reading your updates about Portugal comrade– thanks for this
IDK if there have been any posts on this site regarding Ghana & Cote d'Ivoire standing up against European chocolate companies, so I am going to post about it here.
These two countries produce a huge portion of the world's cocoa - about 60% altogether - but the overwhelming majority of this is sold to companies mostly in Europe that process it into chocolate. Most of the value in chocolate comes from the processing. The result is your typical neocolonial situation - wealth gets siphoned to the imperialist core, farmers in the exploited countries remain poor, and industrial development of these countries is slow or stagnant. You also end up with a perverse reality where many cocoa farmers have never eaten chocolate.
In order to improve the conditions of cocoa farmers, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire introduced the Living Income Differential (LID) in 2019. This was a $400/tonne surcharge on cocoa exports that would go towards farmers. In October this year, Ghanaian cocoa farmers were enrolled into a pension plan as a result. Unsurprisingly, cocoa trade journals and bourgeois newspapers like Bloomberg have called it a failure. In reality, it is having trouble because there is another premium based on bean quality called the origin differential. This premium has fallen a lot in recent years, which lowers the price of cocoa and negates the LID. In fact this premium has gone negative in these two countries and some Europeans want it to be -$236 per tonne. So on July 29 the producer countries stated they won't sell cocoa at negative origin differentials (specifically, no less than $0 in Cote d'Ivoire and no less than $23 in Ghana). I'm not exactly sure why the premium has gone down so much, but Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire say that quality hasn't diminished and European companies are fibbing. That's not hard to believe.
Also in October, Nigeria and Cameroon expressed interest in joining a cocoa trade alliance with Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana. I don't think there's been any further development since then but it's only been a month. There was also a World Cocoa Foundation at the end of the month that Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire boycotted, telling buyers to get their act together by November 20 or else they would prevent European companies from visiting cocoa farms and suspend programs that these chocolate companies use to paint themselves as sustainable. So it's now the 21st and there is a communique by Ghanaian and Ivorian cocoa organizations stating that progress is being made and there will be a report in Q1 of next year. Yeah, not the most exciting conclusion but this stuff happens pretty slowly!
It's important to keep in mind that this struggle over cocoa prices is only part of a larger neocolonial struggle. First, relating to cocoa exports - the EU threatened to ban cocoa from the two countries in 2021 due to land degradation, showcasing how the west exploits sustainability concerns to further their imperialist ambitions. Of course this would have screwed over European chocolate companies too, which is maybe why it never happened. Second, although the LID is a good development for cocoa farmers and national sovereignty, it does not challenge the extractivist nature of neocolonialism. Ghana is working on this as well and has had a state-owned (I think) manufacturer of chocolate for a while, but they are trying to ramp up that industry. The Deputy CEO of Ghana's export promotion authority has stated his desire for every Ghanaian to taste chocolate and for the country to export chocolate to the world. Ghana is one of the states trying to establish a west African currency, so France definitely has an interest in the obliteration of Ghana's and Cote d'Ivoire's ambitions. Third, Ghana used to be a major gold ore exporter but in recent years built refineries to process their own gold and improve their position in the gold trade. The Bank of Ghana is also increasing their gold reserves. Recently, Ghana has been hit hard by inflation, the IMF wants to do its thing cause Ghana keeps borrowing from them, and has had its credit rating decreased.
Also, mostly unrelated to the Europe-West Africa cocoa conflict, but worth mentioning: In 2021, China sold its first batch of cocoa grown in Hainan. Suitable land for cocoa is more limited in China than Africa, but it's still a concerning development for cocoa farmers in Africa and another reason why agriculture and industry needs to modernize there.
Wait, Europe wants the ivory coast to pay THEM for the export of cocoa?
Not quite. That (negative) premium is added on top of the sale price. So if cocoa beans are $3,000 per tonne on the market, Cote d'Ivoire would have to sell for $2800 ish. Don't want to bother with math sorry lol.
I think that one about the EU threatening to ban cocoa from the two countries only to back down because that would hurt their own chocolate industry (and piss off the public by raising prices for consumers) is an interesting development that kind of sort of looks a little like the sanctions on Russia backfiring. It's not the 1990's anymore and the imperial core can't do economic terrorism to the periphery the way it used to, as the rise of BRICS means the emergence of a viable alternative to taking orders from the west. You can't really sanction anyone but yourself in a multipolar world.
I watch CGTN Chinese news and these African countries are totally good with the Chinese form of neocolonialism because it's a better deal for the Africans than 20th century European colonialism
There has been at least 8 cop vehicles parked spread out around my house the past 4-5 hours. I stopped and asked them on my walk what they were up to. Pigs wouldn't say shit but a neighbour ended up telling me some kids ripped off a can of gas out of a work truck at the hotel.
About 10 minutes of being home and the cops stop by and ask me if I seen anything. Like what the fuck pig fuck ... 5 teenagers borrowing $20 worth of gas from some giant oil and gas company to go joy riding a few hours is not theft . 8-14 cops playing detective over 20 dollars worth of gas (that the company or their employees do not give a shit about) for 6+ fucking hours is the real crime here.
:lenin-rage: Of course I know who took the gas. As soon as any one around here heard someone stole a can of gas anyone in the area could tell you who it was. No one is going to tell you shit pigfuck. Go home get a real job.
He's definately somewhat based. Whether he can actually be based in his tenuous position in office...
Oh god with this in addition to Bolzo contesting the election, the CIA are gonna do a coup, aren't they?
Possibly, but Bolsonaro was quite friendly with Russia too and they're a member of BRICS. They'd either have to force Bolsonaro to do their bidding or install a new guy...
:guaido:
Not just a member of BRICKS they are the Titular "B".
(I just got to say "Titular B" :) )
Jesus. This is based and all but he's not in a good position to openly say stuff like this while Bolsonaro is still challenging him.
It's the summer of 2023. Russia has broken the Donbass front's strongholds (though Bakhmut still hasn't been taken somehow) and are approaching Zaporozhye City, and are cleaning up Kramatorsk and Slovyansk. The West has... replaced... Zelensky with Zaluzhny. Poland has taken Lviv after Ukraine fires another missile at Poland, hitting the same tractor that had since been repaired.
But all this time, Juan Guaido hired his own mercenary group to try and carve out some territory in Ukraine. For months on end, his forces have been firing artillery at the nuclear power plant. Soon, he will storm the plant on horseback, and then be crowned the President of the Republic of ZNPP. For decades on, his country will be a trivia quiz oddity in having the highest electricity generation per capita in the world.
I got snail mail about jury duty. I dutifully went to the government site and filled everything out. In the first 255 character max input field - I said I believed in jury nullification. In another field - I said I was afraid of catching long covid by being a member of a jury.
Both of which are true. I figured that was that. I was wrong.
First, I got more snail mail that said due to a "computer error" - they lost my data and they wanted me to fill everything out again. Well, fuck that.
Second, on Friday I got an email that I had been selected. How? They said they lost my data!
I wondered how in god's green acre they chose me. Then I realized it's probably the timing. November and December are surely the worst months for them to get people due to holidays and holiday travel.
I assume they'll take pretty much anybody with a heart beat who doesn't say something crazy in those tiny input field like...
IM A SOVEREIGN CITIZEN I HEREBY INVOKE COMMON LAW. NOW THAT I HAVE DONE THAT IM NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY GOVERNMENT STATUTES OR PROCEEDINGS, UNLESS I CONSENT TO THEM AND I DO NOT CONSENT. THE "AMERICAN COURTS" HAVE NO ACTUAL JURISDICTION OVER PEOPLE AND THE
Maybe an unpopular opinion here but you should always do jury duty. I know it sucks, but better you than some chud sending somebody to jail over something harmless
I’d love to do jury duty and make someone’s day. Anything except those you know what crimes and I’m your golden ticket.
Agreed. Always do jury duty cos there's a chance you can make an actual concrete difference. Ive done it 3 times now. 2 coroners, v depressing and straightforward. 3rd was crown court bullshit drug smuggling charge.
The police either lost the only actual piece of evidence that maybe implicated the guy or flat out lied about its existence in the first place. The rest was purely conjecture and I was still one of 3 that went into deliberation arguing to find not guilty. Eventually 'there isn't any actual evidence though' won against basically thinking he looked like a wrongun.
Plus watching the police officer getting a massive bollocking from the judge for fucking up so badly was entertaining.
I think it would be a shitty position to be in to have 11 people urging to convict just so they all don't have to stay sequestered at the Best Western, given coupons for free subway sandwiches and a continental breakfast. If that happens you face the same 11 dicks who don't want you to happen for a second night. I wish our system was better.
Always opt for a bench trial if you don't plead out. Judges might be stuffed shirts but they're better st less emotional judgments and paying attention to the rules of jurisprudence
If everyone sabotaged jury duties it might put the system under pressure and destroy it's ability to maintain the pretense of justice but if only a few marginalized leftists do it it won't even register. All you accomplish by getting yourself vetoed as a leftist is to have someone else who is likely to be a lot shittier than you take the place.
I was sure that just "I believe in jury nullification" was enough. Maybe I need to hit every topic possible in that 255. For starters...
ACAB. I love crime. I love criminals. Death to America. I believe in jury nullification. I am a sovereign citizen. I hereby invoke admiralty law.
Just walk through the court metal detector with the largest legal knife you can find.
"What do you mean I can't bring my utility cleaver in here?"
This is why I've been eligible to vote for over a decade but have never registered to vote. Fuck Jury Duty. I would've registered to vote for Bernie in either general election though
You might have an opportunity to do some material good here. Go to the jury thing and pretend to be a sensible middle of the road law and order conservative. Then refuse to convict .
Yeah... ACAB and prison abolition and all that but some people have it coming.
"OK then, I hereby try you under British common law as a landed subject of the Crown, traitor." is something I've always wanted to say to a Sovereign Citizen type
You also have to invoke admiralty law and talk about the fringes of navel ensigns. Also saying something like "ACAB I know cops are liars and the justice system is corrupt, I will never vote to convict, etc etc" basically be vocally biased against the prosecution. At least in Canada the defence and prosecution work together on selecting the jury and can veto biased jurors
When I was empaneled, the prosecution had used up their vetos before they got to me. I was telling all my comrades on the jury about prosecution conviction rates and the leverage they’d have over a witness that’s on probation. It was a good experience.
I would always say that I don't respect the moral authority of our criminal justice system. Also that I could never convict someone in court. Due to corruption and abuses within the system. It's basically the justice based version of the SovCit diatribe.
I mean, it's not really surprising. The free market true believers have never had a national allegiance, that's kind of the point. And the US economy, while still being massive and important, is a dumpster fire in terms of actual practicality for everyone except arms companies.
Producing a little for a lot of profit is really good for the MIC though
i think it depends what you mean by big collapse. i think we're currently going through the beginnings of the US attempting to transition its allies into more heavily exploited colonies akin to the global south as with the rise of the chinese alternative western imperialism is collapsing there - and these places may not even remain livable in the future climate hellscape. if the bourgoisie can manage to pull this off then i imagine capitalism will continue for a time; i wouldn't be surprised if general quality of life for the average american even improves a little at the expense of everyone else in the world. i think they realize they're crossing the threshold of how shitty things can get on the domestic front before their rule is at risk.
if they can't pull this off then i think this is 100% the big collapse. it's not unlikely that in the process of tearing down the rest of the west they unleash more chaos than they can handle and america ends up with no colonies at all. at that point i would expect rapid descent into internal turmoil and eventual balkanization.
either way i think it is clear we're in a vastly transformative moment of history.
i imagine a rat caught in a trap would be rethinking their cheese preferences as well
I missed that article. What did it say? I thought that Europe was being loyal beyond all sense to the US.
There's definitely legislators in Europe finally waking up, albiet too little too late possibly, to just how tight the US grip is on their throats and just how hard it'll squeeze them in the coming years. We'll see if they have the spine and latitude to actually slip out of that grip in the coming years though.
The head of the world economic forum is a big fan of eating bugs actually, it's where the whole "you will eat the bugs, you will live in a pod, you will own nothing and be happy" memes come from. BMF is merely a student of his. Klaus has been advocating for eating ze bugs since 2018 or even earlier
You know, this is the first time I've ever seen someone mention what "BMF" actually stands for lol
I know that Europe has a long and storied tradition of talking about finance people who knows no nation and have no national allegiance, but it does feel like Klaus Schwab should maybe read the room ever so slightly, and not start talking like that during a time of continental-wide crises for ordinary people.
Is the Collective West Going Soon to Be Hoist on the Zelensky Petard? by Naked Capitalism:
It's a longish piece that does a great job of describing the current state of affairs. I'll take a few important pieces from it:
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Some of the close watchers of the Russia-Ukraine conflict have been talking up the prospects of peace talks. As we’ll discuss shortly, your humble blogger thinks this view is not currently well aligned with reality. Yes, things look to have thawed to the point that the US has backed off of worst-than-the-darkest-days-of-cold-war non-communication with Russia. But while thawing from close to absolute zero to a mere deep freeze is technically warming, it’s still awfully frigid. The two sides have zero bargaining overlap in their positions, which means no basis for discussions. And one of the biggest impediments to any settlement, other than Russia eventually dictating terms, is the leader the collective West has put on a pedestal: Zelensky, with the additional baggage of his Banderite inner circle.
The other big impediment to a cessation of hostilities any time soon is NATO. The US and NATO knows NATO manhood is at stake and that it can’t be seen to lose to Russia. They may be pinning their hopes on Russia leaving a rump Ukraine as a success, when Russia never intended to occupy the entire country.
But the US and NATO seem unable to process that Russia is destroying Ukraine by attacking its energy grid and could do the same to other European countries. It’s going to be hard to depict Western-Ukraine-as-failed-state, and a flood of refugees to Europe, as some sort of US/NATO win. But that’s the likely outcome on current trajectories.
A fair number of Russia-sympathetic, or at least “not buying what Ukraine is selling” commentators appear to have misread some noise in Western press. This may be due to cognitive bias. Anyone other than hardcore hawks in Russia would likely see the war end sooner rather than later. The partial mobilization has brought the war home.
Second, the Ukraine skeptics have a much better view of how the war is going than consumers of Ukraine PR via the Western press, pundits, and policy-makers. To them, it is clear things are not going well for Ukraine and the odds of Ukraine prevailing (pushing Russia out of Ukraine) are zilch, and even regaining much territory, are extremely slim. Surely the people in the West with the inside skinny understand this, and should therefore want to talk terms before things get worse.
Discussion of why people may have thought negotiations were going to occur continues for several paragraphs, then:
Another important crack in the party line was a New York Times story that tried to ‘splain why Russia had not run out of missiles, despite repeated claims for many months to the reverse. Late in the piece, someone admitted no one really knew how many missiles Russia had. Ooopsie!
And more recently, there was also the surprisingly open criticism of Zelensky for sticking to the well-disproven story that Russia, rather than Ukraine has shot the missile that landed in Poland and killed two farmers. Even though most commentators accept the notion that a Ukraine air defense missile went astray, Scott Ritter, who says he has direct knowledge of how these systems work, argues the reverse, that it would have needed a radar signal to sent it there and it could have been arranged by someone not very high level in Ukraine (or Poland in cahoots). Corriere della Serra based on an account from Poland also claims the landing was no accident.
In other words, the intensity and unanimity of support for Ukraine is getting a bit threadbare. But that’s still a long way away from the West being willing or able to turn this supertanker around. It’s invested enormous amounts of hard dollars, economic costs in the form of sanctions blowback, and information space artillery on this project. Most of the great unwashed public hasn’t changed its mind as much as is preoccupied with other matters, ranging from the struggle to pay the bills to preparing for the holidays. And for the most part, there’s still plenty of drumbeating that those evil Rooskies are on the verge of failure. From the Washington Post last week:
With its ground forces battered and losing territory, Russia has resorted to long-range bombing, while it struggles to train and equip tens of thousands of new conscripts, many of whom may have no desire to fight in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s failing war.
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... some interpreted UK Prime Minister running to Kiev with yet another (but only 50 million pound) support package but not noising it up as a sign that Sunak was quietly trying to muscle Zelensky. The UK has been the most fierce supporter of Ukraine and I don’t see a brand new Prime Minister as quickly making a big shift. I agree with Alex Christaforu’s assessment, that Sunak was low-key press-wise because spending more on Ukraine when UK households are hurting is not a great look.
But regardless, events are moving against Ukraine. Russia will continue to take out its electrical grid. It’s very close to the point where large numbers of Ukrainians will have to leave the cities…either to the countryside or elsewhere in Europe. I don’t see how Europe can handle the influx.
But most observers in the West seem unable to grasp that this outcome is possible, even likely. Does Russia turn screws up gradually in the next round, as in whack the power totally in Lvov, triggering flight to Poland, to drive the point home?
The point is that Russia can, relatively quickly, make conditions untenable for Ukraine’s neighbors. Even so, I doubt the West could swallow the terms Russia would want. But even if they did, Zelensky would not agree. He can’t because he is surrounded by Banderite goons and Russia is determined to capture and try them.
One sign of the power of these neo-Nazis (again hat tip Alex Christaforu) is the continued rise of unrepentant Andrij Melnyk, former Ukraine ambassador to Germany. He was shockingly rude and unprofessional in his public statements about Germany. But what forced his resignation was an interview where he praised Stephen Bandera
However, after a short time in the doghouse, Melnyk has been promoted to deputy foreign minister. That’s not a plus for dealing with Russia, evah.
But recall that Zelensky has apparently long been hostage to the Banderite goons, who have beaten up and even killed Ukraine politicians seen as too friendly to Russia. Zelensky campaigned on normalizing relations with Russia and won 73% of the vote. He quickly changed his stance after he took office.
Moreover, the US has helped keep these Nazis a force in Ukraine long after what would have been their likely sell-by date. Scott Ritter recounted how the US funded them after World War II to weaken the Soviets through the fall of the USSR. The US again supported neo-Nazi groups such as Right Sector as part of the Maidan coup. And of late, he US has seen far too many Azov types being feted in the US or having their political stance airbrushed out of press accounts.
Vice Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, in a recent Telegram comment summarized in TASS, correctly depicted how Zelensky is boxed in:
Nevertheless, “Zelensky does not want any negotiations for quite obvious selfish reasons. Moreover, they [negotiations] are very dangerous for him,” Medvedev continued.
“After all, unless he acknowledges the realities of Ukraine’s break-up, it makes no sense to sit down at the [negotiating] table. Once he admits it, he will be bumped off by his own nationalists who are connected with the army top brass, and of whom he is scared out of his wits,” Medvedev said, describing the situation by the chess term ‘Zugzwang’ (in which each move of a player will worsen his/her position).
This scenario also underscores the mess the West is in if it were actually to get serious about wanting to negotiate (per above, my read on the rash of news is they amount to a combination of optics management plus some personal jockeying; there’s no sign Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, or Austin have changed position), they can’t maneuver around the neo-Nazi infestation the US bred. Zelensky will have to resist any peace overtures. If he were killed, the neo-Nazis would blame it on Russia and use it as a pretext for even more radical positions. After all, how much would it cost the US to provide intel and other support for terrorism?
So I don’t see any alternative other than for Russia to continue on its current path of prostrating Ukraine. And I’m sure the Russians had worked that out a while back and see nothing that suggests it would make sense to change course.
Anti lockdown protest are cool and good when they happen in bad country, the lib mind is truly fascinating
Redditors threw a fit over that. They'll cry about human rights violations in other countries while rushing to buy their treats made from slave labor in Central Africa.
Swedish twitter fascists no longer even pretend to want to help Ukrainian refugees, reading the replies to a tweet about how many of them are forced into prostitution because of lacking monetary aid and rising food costs are just filled with these ghouls outright calling them economic immigrants and denying that they are even fleeing anything.
Really scary vibe going on, kurds are being all but told that literally nothing that happens to them could be bad enough that it should morally compromise the NATO bid, and then the fascists dont even bother pretending to engage in some song and dance about the west or europe working together.
My update from Belarus is that nothing much is happening. The price caps seem to be actually working, the inflation went down 2% year on year this month, no shortages. Oh, and McDonald's is rebranding into "Vkusno i tochka" too, like in Russia. The dollar is getting cheaper. I sold my $$$ a year ago for 2.49 BYN per 1 USD to make a bank deposit with the crazy interest rate of 22%. Today, even without the interest, I can buy more dollars for the initial amount I used as the deposit (2.44 BYN per USD). This is unheard of in Belarus, where year on year the inflation of 6-10% is just normal (15% as of this month y/o/y) and the USD was heavily used as a reserve currency by households and to sell exports.
edit: oh, and unlike in Russia, :lukashenko-tired: is just not letting foreign companies of any significance sell their stakes in companies they own here. there's a rolling list of companies whose fin assets will be frozen if they try doing that. he also said that those companies that really want to leave will be nationalized. idk how these two things may work together but here we go
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