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Sanctions can have no meaningful effect on Russia. Not selling somebody your tomatoes primarily affects your tomato growers who will go bust, not those buying
by neilwilson 5y ago
Sanctions can have no meaningful effect on Russia.
Not selling somebody your tomatoes primarily affects your tomato growers who will go bust, not those buying the tomatoes - particularly if they have plenty of tomatoes internally, can easily produce them or can get them from those lovely tomato growers in China in return for oil and gas.
There's rather too much faith in the power of the mighty US dollar. Quite a few people are going to find out the hard way that electronic impulses on a computer don't mean as much in reality as gas and oil supplies.
- alimov 5y agoNot to mention that Russia is a major producer of fertilizer, which they just stopped exporting.
- scotty79 5y agoI wish all property of Russian companies outside of Russia were just nationalized by respective countries and all trade with Russia stopped.
- machiaweliczny 5y agoYou know that arab spring went viral due to lack of wheat imports from Ukraine and Russia due to draught? Economy is important because it’s felt by ordinary people. In Moscow there were already pretty big protests. I think Putin made a mistake, he could just install fake democratic government and retire in peace.