powder shortage
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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EU bans China cotton imports for "human rights"
EU shocked when China ends cotton exports to the EU and the EU can't produce gunpowder (which needs cotton)
I know this may seem unusual, but actions have consequences
This is normal. Upscaling any production will show you where the bottlenecks in your supply chain are.
It is shitty in the current context, but still banning products due to human rights abuses is a good thing.
Now the aim is to resolve the bottleneck post haste.
Your entire post reads as an accusation, the quotes around human rights makes it seem you think it's nonsense.
Because it is. Regardless of if there are actual abuses or not is completely missing the point, this is a pattern of abuse from the right where they'll bullshit up a reason for them to do the things they wanted to do anyway. 99.99% of the time the "abuses" are just outright fabrications. Just look at the Uighur narrative; at first the US literally pulled it out of their ass to distract from the very real fascist radicalizing they were doing in the area, and it's been slowly crumbling as more and more of the "evidence" they provided turned out to be complete and utter bullshit. It was never about the Uighurs, these same people are celebrating the decimation of Muslims in Gaza to this day.
but still banning products due to human rights abuses is a good thing.
Maybe for genuine human rights abuses (though even then they can easily do more harm than good), but not in cases like this where bad faith claims of abuse were manufactured to justify the ban in the first place.
Have you ever been to Xinjiang?
No? Oh.
Not OP, but my uncle went there a while back.
Ah, Ohkay. One of those. Thanks for the clarification.
Hrm, maybe billionaires buying up all of the sources of media MIGHT have some sort of... what was that word again?
Gunpowder still needs cotton? I thought that was an old-timey thing.
lefties at the beginning of the Special Operation
"Hey, uh, this seems like an unsustainable thing. Maybe somebody should put effort into getting a cease fire pretty quick?"
liberals at the beginning of the Special Operation
"Fuck you Putin-bot, Viva Ukrania!"
liberals now
"Its time for Ukrainians to face the fact that they can't sustain this level of military operation and to start working on cease fire/peace deal."
Absolutely hilarious how western strategy of trying to fuel extremism in Xinjiang by undermining the economy is now backfiring in a spectacular fashion. Really goes to show how complex modern world is, and that seemingly unrelated events can come together resulting in dramatic consequences.
This is making me reassess Russia's prospects in an all out war with NATO. If they can't supply Ukraine alone as it is, how will they supply a war machine for an entire continent when trade is even more limited?
NATO's strength has been that the USA is in it. European countries have generally let their militaries atrophy since they could usually rely on the USA providing higher level military functions and general deterrence.
Russia would get crushed quickly in a conventional war versus an American led NATO. Russia has a decent shot at winning a war against an Americaless NATO.
Powder shortage
Ukraine might be able to go on a bit longer but it’s over for Zelenskiyy 
Global warming messing up the cocaine supply causing all sorts of unintended consequences...