Yea, well my cousins friend also died in the protests and a bunch of his friends too and you know what his body was tagged? -2672, this means that not only is the Iranian government not killing people, they are actively resurrecting them, my cousins friend and all the other guys just got up and walked out of that morgue, good as new.

This is obviously sarcasm, it is very easy for anyone on an anonymous forum to claim whatever they want. It sounds to me like you are going out of your way to shut down conversation on this matter by unconvincingly claiming “your friends cousin” died. I bet you also had a supermodel girlfriend from two towns over.

Seriously buddy, do you actually have a point or just not understand what is happening?

If all sanctions are leveled at once there is no room for escalation, you have already played all of your cards. Maximum sanctions initially would have caused far more damage to the EU economy and pain to EU citizens.

If you have been paying attention to the cat and mouse nature of the sanctions and Russian evasion of the sanctions you would understand that the additional packages of sanctions were designed to block routes that Russia uses to evade sanctions that weren’t initially obvious. Russia has been quite creative in its complex systems of evasion that required additional sanctions to be levied.

Remember it was Russia who invaded Ukraine and not the other way around. Imagine being so weak to start a war and then start crying when you realise that you don’t have the ability to win the war.

Russia won’t use nukes here anyway because China will not understand any circumstances let them. If Russia uses nukes in Ukraine, Taiwan will have nukes in 2 weeks time. China does not want this. Russia is now completely dependent on China to keep their economy going they will not defy their masters and risk economic ruin.

The only people who expected the sanctions to work instantly are people with shit for brains or pro Russian shills.

The rest of us understand that these things take time to work, especially when the sanctioned country is sitting on a cash pile of 300 or so billion. This money has now run out and we are starting to see the effects, the Russian economy has been contracting in the latest official reports from Russia. If the official Russian reports are admitting something is wrong it is likely far worse in reality.

Or like how he forgot the name of the woman who gave him her Nobel peace prize the very next day.

China has filled its oil reserves over the last few years by buying cheap Russian oil, funding Russian aggression in Ukraine.

But with over 1,100GW of solar capacity and with strong electric motor industry driving EVs, last-mile transportation, and now all-electric shipping container vessels I don’t think theyre sweating over oil anymore.

This reads like promotional propaganda that in no way discounts the fact that China is by some way the worlds largest oil importer. The two things are not mutually exclusive, China is the world’s factory and requires huge quantities of energy, renewable and fossil to sustain its manufacturing economy. In 2024, 62% of electricity generation was fossil fuels. As of 2025, 10% of the cars on Chinas roads are EVs.

China, while it is travelling in the right direction it still has a long way to go to eliminate their reliance on oil and fossil fuels.

You look great! Like someone left a wax sculpture too close to a radiator.

China, the world’s largest oil importer doesn’t give a fuck about oil anymore?