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It might look not great at first look, but when you think about it, the same sanctions prevent them from using USD. So they are forced to trade in other currencies, which negates all the harm. Like trade with China in yuan or India in yuan (they used to use rupees, but it's also a weak currency).
They are not exchanging yuan into rubles. They are using their yuan reserves to buy from China/India and China/India is paying them in yuans for oil and gas, so they are getting restocked without need for exchange. Which has double benefit for China, since it's strengthening their currency and giving them very cheap below market value goods. They are theoretically losing cash since if they were able to sell at full market price they would get 4 times that, but it's not significant enough to hurt them too much. But that might change soon, since Russia is trying to make China pay full price without having any leverage.
The sanctions would have worked if they had nobody to trade with, but China/India won't pass an opportunity for cheap oil/gas, which they desperately require for their growth. Russia also have the 4th largest currency reserves in the world just for such occasion. Putin might be a war criminal, but he's not stupid.
It did have an impact on every day Russians, but even that Russia tried to minimize by keeping interest rates low at the start of the war/sanctions and strictly controlling the exchange of rubles into any other currency. Only now they increased them to stop bleeding cash, even if they can sustain it for longer.
But all of that can change on a dime, geopolitics is a hot mess. US trying to make friends with India now, so they maybe decide to pressure them to stop buying from Russia or China might get offended by recent Russia's demands for higher price and tries to put them in their place. Who the fuck knows.
I's not as bad as some western media reported, but it's not great.
They aggressively used their cash reserves and low interest rates to combat the sanctions, so it looked that they were immune, but it's catching up to them now with interest rates at 16%. And while they were able to circumvent the sanctions with aid of India and China, they were forced to sell their oil & gas for cheap, while OPEC cartel raised the global price. Now Russia wants to make China make them pay full price, but they have no way to demand it if they want any revenue at all.
Forcing people back to work sounds like coercion. How the fuck does a union have a no strike clause in their contract? What power does that leave them? Very little.
Well that's terrifying. I'm starting to think you can't have a real democracy without strong recall abilities on politicians. The fact that these people are untouchable in office no matter what we find on them is insane.
Except the US constitution does not include that language. The "a wall of separation between church and state" phrase most notably comes from an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. Not a legally binding document by any means.
I imagine you're thinking of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution which forbids the US government restricting the free exercise of religion.
I believe, iirc, the Supreme Court over several decades has affirmed and reaffirmed the overall position that the US government must remain secular and not favor a particular religion. Which is effectively what you're getting at.
You are correct. Though the meaning behind the phrase remains true and biding precedent. If only precedents meant anything in today's court system. They reinterpret the Constitution on a daily basis to suite the billionaire needs, whose paying them that day.
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