powder shortage
Concerned Guy Fawkes is concerned
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
Hrm, maybe billionaires buying up all of the sources of media MIGHT have some sort of… what was that word again?
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.
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Are we talking about Uyghurs? The OHCHR report was pretty damning.
Because UN institutions have been so effective in the context of Gaza.
Western institutions aren’t worth the shit they’re printed on.
Yeah shock that something that needs countries to vote on resolutions has a hard time making change.
brain_in_a_box said that the UN believed nothing happened I prooved that was incorrect.
Besides I get the impression I cannot post any source without someone saying the source is unreliable.
Have you ever been to Xinjiang?
No? Oh.
Ah, Ohkay. One of those. Thanks for the clarification.
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?
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.
