It’s easier than that. We’re helping Ukraine every day, and all Russia can do to retaliate against countries helping Ukraine is carry out acts of sabotage.
You don't know anything about how the Chinese treat Uyghurs other than what you're told through western propaganda that you then repeat like you're pavlovs dog whenever the word gets brought up.
Yes, its quite similar. Norway forces people to attend cultural schooling, where theyre provided housing in the interim. Its quite similar. However, the migrants in Norway are there because the Norwegian state through its participation in NATO murdered millions of people in the middle east. Which China has not done.
Go take a trip to Xinjiang.
Then go take a trip to parts of Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan or Palestine and tell me which nations are treating muslims worse.
I reiterate, more people go to church in China on Sunday than the USA. There are 10x more musjids in China than in the USA.
Please go live in China for a couple years and you'll realize everything you're told about China is a complete lie.
That’s not exactly right. You are eligible, you just need to do something to get it. Ie if you register as unemployed, you will get insurance. Same with university students.
I once had to go through the process of buying a compiled encryption library from a US company, which involved filling in a multi page form basically pinky swearing I wasn't a terrorist and wasn't going to sell it to North Korea.
On the bright side I got to add "successfully managed the purchase of controlled munitions" to my CV.
Russian unemployment of 2.2% is a bad sign, not a good sign.
For practical purposes, unemployment around 4% means full employment, because there's always a portion of the population not working for some reason: taking time off, too dumb, don't want to work, unable to for reasons of temperment or psychological health, etc. At 4% (as the US has often been in the last few decades) it's really difficult to fill menial roles or unskilled factory jobs with people who know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Russia at 2.2% means many needed positions are going unfulfilled, crippling productivity and planning. It's a sign that the manpower needs of the war are draining productive workers, slowing their own economy at a time when they need more productivity to overcome sanctions and other economic effects.
This number doesn’t take into account immigration. Russian economy is supported by several millions of immigrants from Central Asia (the number much bigger than number of mobilized people). There was low unemployment before the war.
correct. they've mostly shifted to a militarized economy and all available labor is now gobbled up.
salaries are pretty good, relatively speaking, if you're in engineering or other STEM fields.
excess labor is being drained off to die horribly to drones in eastern Ukraine.
it's kind of like a fat guy starving to death -- for a minute all that weight loss will bring improvements to blood pressure, insulin, etc., but in a couple weeks he's not gonna feel so great
Indeed, but cost of life is different as well. People usually compare US Bay area net salaries to Western EU salaries - but there are so many different things to consider as well(rent, insurances, taxes, etc) which imo spoils any constructive comparasion.
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