Mercedes opens car plant in Russia.
businesslive.co.za
Meanwhile, Volkswagen refuses to open one in Ukraine.
kyivpost.com
And of course that gas pipeline... Why are you so insidious???
Mercedes opens car plant in Russia.
businesslive.co.za
Meanwhile, Volkswagen refuses to open one in Ukraine.
kyivpost.com
And of course that gas pipeline... Why are you so insidious???
maybe because ukraine is still a fucking battlefield
>nooooooooooooooo stop making deals with countries I don't like!
We singed association agreement with EU, where are the investments?
Those are independent corporations? Can't do anything to stop them producin in russia instead of ukraine as a regular citizen, so what do you want?
Jow Forums has taught me to never trust a G*rman
this but unironically
Jow Forums has taught me to always suck on big americans cocks!
Poland took a gorillion of your rapefugees.
So many promises to Ukrainians, so many harsh statements against Russia. And yet it's business as usual. I'm really sorry for my ancestors who laid their lives for you in WW1 and WW2.
Volkswagen is cancer, be glad you can keep these monopolist hacks mass producing mobile gas chambers away from your cunt for a few years longer
Is opening a new car factory really such a big deal in russia?
Considering they have economy of similar size as Italy and they all drive old Ladas, then probably yes
Don't distort. They are not refugees, but migrant workers. They don't get no gibs, no nothing. They work minimum wage jobs, because they are forces too, since Ukrainian economy is in a shitter. And it doesn't help Ukraine all that much. In the longterm it actually can backfire massively, if they all those people start getting residency and citizenships and leave Ukraine for good. The country will be literally drained of young generation and left with a bunch of pensioners.
No offense man but to many western nations there is literally no difference between russia and ukraine. Also while russia doesn't have the best economy right now its still much better than ukraine. If you ask me we should just keep all of our companies in germany and only expand into other countries briefly.
Well and we did help out ukraine a lot too so I don't know what you're talking about and we sanctioned russia to hell and back once.
I think it's not about the factory itself, but more of a political statement about cooperation with Germany.
>Oh noooo! Why does a company only focus on profit?!
>we did help out ukraine a lot too
You literally didn't. Some puny aid and mostly loans - that's not help. We'll have to give it back, plus percentage. But no substantial investments whatsoever.
>we sanctioned russia to hell and back
Get out of here. To hell and back... I mean, who are you kidding? Not only your sanctions are a joke. There are German companies, which ignore them completely and operate in Crimea.
In case you haven't noticed this has been a thing for almost 20 years. I don't blame you. Even here most millenials and zoomers think the EU is some epic anti-Russian alliance like some sort of parody of the Cold War and "The West" is just one big blob. If you criticize Germany in any way the will say you are "with the Russians" despite Germans having multibillion euro deals with them.
Our sanctions crippled russia for quite some time so I have no idea what you're talking about.
This
Our media say that Americans are interfering in our relations with Germany, Italy and other countries.
What's there to explain? Russia and Germany are bros. The only reason we have sanctions against Russia is because of pressure from the US.
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>They are not refugees, but migrant workers.
You are not a part of single market. You were not entitled to have easy access to single market under any agreement, especially not the unskilled laborers. Poland kindly agreed to remove/lower regulatory migration barriers considering your precarious economic situation and war. They may not be in fact refugees, but de facto they got the refugee treatment. More than that even, considering actual refugees have their freedoms much more severely limited.
>And it doesn‘t help Ukraine all that much
Of course it does, it‘s access to a large labor market with substantially higher pay. It‘s a much needed source of income. How you use it is up to you. Nothing stops those migrant workers from sending money back to Ukraine and accumulating wealth, in much the same way Polish workers do in Western Europe. Crying that Poland also literally doesn‘t fix your country for you is beyond pathetic.
>Considering they have economy of similar size as Italy
Italy has one of the largest economies in the world though. It's 4x the size of Poland's. And shitloads of cars are made in Italy.