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What does slightly more access to the Mediterranean get you when no European country will buy your goods? All of those things you mentioned are worthless withou
by labster 5y ago
What does slightly more access to the Mediterranean get you when no European country will buy your goods? All of those things you mentioned are worthless without buyers.
Except the farm land. But it’s not 1444 — trade is vastly more profitable than agriculture nowadays.
- ethbr0 5y agoIMHO, Putin is looking at this from a century perspective. I.e. in a hundred years, the sanctions will be gone, Europe will be trading with Russia again, and Russia will still have the land.