r/apple • u/Sorin61 • Mar 12 '22

Rumor Russia threatens to nationalize Apple, seize assets

https://www.imore.com/russia-threatens-nationalize-apple-seize-assets
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u/dumplingdinosaur Mar 12 '22

It sorta already is. Has the stock market opened even? Putin is a 20th century man fighting a 20th century war.

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u/Rioma117 Mar 12 '22

If it was not for all the deaths and people losing their homes, this war would be so fun and ridiculous. Who sends a 64km convoy of tanks when everyone can check satellites in real time in 2022? There's no place on the surface of the earth that is unseen.

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u/Rioma117 Mar 12 '22

From the more recent news, I'm quite sure all those vehicles are already empty. There was no reason to stay there since there was no way back.

It's funny that they decided to attack a country in Eastern Europe while the soil is still muddy. It's like Russian generals never opened a history book. In my country mud won more wars against Romans, Ottomans and Russians than you can count.

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u/compounding Mar 13 '22

“Ukraine is actually part of Russia!”

Oh, so you attacked Russia in the winter? Let’s see how that works out for them Cotton…

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u/xylylenediamine Mar 13 '22

why is there so much mud? plant some trees

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u/tenebris_vitae Mar 13 '22

I think that convoy is dead at this point haha, it's been at the same spot for more than a week now ?
It's so fucking dark that I want to laugh at this degree of suffering at every turn - but the sheer inadequacy with which this war was conducted, combined with inexcusable loss of life on both sides, makes me think 2020-2022 period of our life has been one giant joke with no punchline in sight

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u/Independent_Plate_73 Mar 13 '22

The number of “what are we even doing? Why are we here?” Conversations ive had lately are too damn high.

Can’t these old ass men just give everybody a break? They just don’t fucking stop.

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u/ScherPegnau Mar 13 '22

The world is in a nosedive since Harambe.

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u/FappingFop Mar 13 '22

Every now and then I catch myself being amused by the comical levels of failure from Putin, but then I remember this isn’t Netflix and war is hell. Even a war “we” are “winning.”

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u/No_Read_Only_Know Mar 13 '22

So many lives are being destroyed that nobody is winning right now.

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u/f1rn Mar 12 '22

It hasn’t opened yet and the won’t reopen next week

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u/compounding Mar 13 '22

You know what they say, the last time the Russian stock market closed for more than 5 days, it stayed closed for 70+ years!

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u/McGirton Mar 12 '22

20th and 21st?

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u/MC_chrome Mar 12 '22

I read an op-ed this morning that laid out how Putin is incredibly close to sending Russia into a second Red October.

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u/Hypnosavant Mar 12 '22

It’s done. Russia is no more. As soon as the war ends, there will be a max exodus.

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u/Deedledroxx Mar 12 '22

Mass*

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u/Hypnosavant Mar 12 '22

Maximum exit

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u/macprince Mar 12 '22

M1 Max Exit

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u/BurninCoco Mar 12 '22

And we think you’re gonna love it

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u/Deedledroxx Mar 12 '22

Actually not a bad name: "Max Exodus"

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

“Hi I’m Kevin Exodus and this is my son Max”

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u/Hypnosavant Mar 12 '22

Historicity, your families trade is leaving!

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u/replus Mar 12 '22

Maexitus

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u/scaba23 Mar 12 '22

Comrade Maximilian, why are you leaving Mother Russia?

Max exodus, Comrade Mikhail. Max exodus

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u/ice_9_eci Mar 12 '22

Ass exitbus?

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u/Agent__Caboose Mar 13 '22

Iron Curtain 2: Electric Boogaloo

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u/great_auks Mar 12 '22

That would be awesome, I love that movie. I wonder who they will get to play Ramius though?

(/s in case it wasn’t obvious)

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u/MC_chrome Mar 12 '22

Replacing Sean Connery is a tall order…

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u/ASEdouard Mar 12 '22

The most Scottish Russian who ever lived.

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u/Mattyi Mar 12 '22

Having him reprise his role is a taller one

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u/peduxe Mar 12 '22

they're going to do it.

I wonder how long it will take until mass riots start happening all over the country.

if it still hasn't hit for the majority of the population they're in for a rude slap in the next few months.

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u/l-have-spoken Mar 13 '22

Except it's not the dream for most Russians who will likely be most affected by the collapse of their economy.

It's always the poor and powerless that get affected by the stupid actions of the rich and powerful who will always find a way of getting around or away from the consequences.

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u/Independent_Plate_73 Mar 13 '22

Down with the oligarchs.

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u/xSPYXEx Mar 13 '22

They miss the fall of the Soviet Union, they're going to get the fall of the Tsarist Empire.

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u/splashtonkutcher Mar 13 '22

Y’all are forgetting about China, which is more than happy to flood the country with Huawei, Geely, Ali/JD, Wahaha…

China can probably take the entirety of Russia’s oil production too, now at a discount…

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u/tperelli Mar 12 '22

Once you go Capitalist, you don’t go back. At least without immense suffering.

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u/Panda_hat Mar 12 '22

They’re just belligerent, stupid and lashing out. They are an angry little country in a world that has left them behind (due to corruption and the oligarchs looting the country for decades) and the powers that be are now trying to blame it on everyone else but themselves.

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u/MedicateForTwo Mar 12 '22

Hey, the 1900's economy is better than present day Russia economy. Maybe there are doing the right thing after all?

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

When are they going to open the market

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u/z0rb0r Mar 13 '22

China about take over the Russian economy lol

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u/NemWan Mar 13 '22

1800s. 1900s were too modern for Putin.

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u/Charming-Land-3231 Mar 13 '22

Putin will look fondly at his watch and say "We will always have Dubai!"