Well NOW Russia is absolutely going to crumble without the lucrative Estonian market. They do have more people than uh…Monaco or Luxembourg?

…wait, they are only just now doing this? So while raging about how evil Russia was for the past twoish years, they were happily buying their stuff still?

US speedrunning driving their economy into the ground. I would be curious to see if this is just a momentary blip or actually some kind of long running sanction.

There are so many things I get from China that I would be missing out on if I were in the US. Nevermind the most simple things like care packages for people living overseas.

I think the difference there is the distinction as to when the war began.

People say “special military operation” not to try to reframe it as something less than a war, but because it is a part of a war that was already ongoing. It’s a way of referring to specific military actions that took place as part of the larger conflict. The war didn’t start in 2022, if OP had written “DDG admitted shortly after the start of the Ukraine war that they deprioritize…” their statement wouldn’t be true anymore.

Saying SMO isn’t trying to be cheeky or downplay the war, it is just providing a specific point of reference.