Two authoritarian assholes spoon on international stage.
It's amazing that Putin has managed to transform Russia from one of the worlds most powerful countries into a vassal state to China in such a short time.
Remember this when buying
RIP iPhones…
Tbh china did a pretty good job in incentivizing moving out the supply chain during covid, with a complete travel ban to everyone for so many years. Western companies were practically banned for almost 3 years to visit Chinese factories for production, and doing this remotely is expensive and leads to bad QC. Many set factories in neighboring countries. For example I was surprised to get an ASRock motherboard made in Vietnam in 2022. Some iPhones are also made in India (and to catch a bird with two stones, get tax breaks from the Indian government)
Once a factory and its supply chain has left the country is very difficult that it will come back
Pooh and Eeyore.
These clowns say this crap all the time and nothing ever comes of it. Go look at the world news community on lemmygrad.ml and you'll see pages of tankie cope with as much basis in reality as the sonic movie.
I can't wait for Cold War 2: Thermonuclear Boogaloo.
Dictators be dictating
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