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> and soon will be standing in line for bread No. Sure, they won't have access to Western technological miracle products like Netflix, Facebook, and PornHub, b
by caeril 5y ago
> and soon will be standing in line for bread
No. Sure, they won't have access to Western technological miracle products like Netflix, Facebook, and PornHub, but they have plenty of grain production, processing, transportation, and baking capacity for as much bread as they want, particularly since they'll be exporting less of their own wheat.
Your examples are very telling. Wow, Russians are being excluded from sportsball, motor racing, sex tourism, and extravagant yachting excursions! Nothing of value was lost.
Their actual concerns will be the German, Italian, and Japanese precision machine tools, optics, and PLC/robotics/automation components that their own industry relies on. These are the real worries, not a goddamned soccer club.
- avgDev 5y agoPutin meets with oligarchs, the richest people in the country have access and communicate with governments and have the ability to affect policy making. Placing sanctions on people close to Putin and freezing their soccer team worth billions of dollars definitely has an impact. Many car manufacturers are pulling out and not selling parts. We live in a globalized society and Russia was a part of it. Putin was betting on oil/natural gas money but that soon will be gone.
- tablespoon 5y ago> Their actual concerns will be the German, Italian, and Japanese precision machine tools, optics, and PLC/robotics/automation components that their own industry relies on. These are the real worries, not a goddamned soccer club. And for stuff like that, there's always front companies and smuggling (if they can't find what they need on the market in China). IIRC, that's what they used to do during Soviet times.