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Prohibiting importation means your farmers are at a disadvantage compared to the farmers in the country next door. Will you now outlaw food imports from countr

Prohibiting importation means your farmers are at a disadvantage compared to the farmers in the country next door. Will you now outlaw food imports from countries that accept Russian fertilizer? If you do so, will you outlaw food imports from countries that ban direct importation of Russian fertilizer, but are lax on enforcement when ships registries are faked and when fertilizer goes through other nations?

protomolecule 2y ago
Yes to all the questions. The US and the EU have weaponized global trade and financial systems in their hybrid war against Russia and much of the trust in global trade that existed in the world is gone. Now everyone is wary of their partners abusing the system. Russia made the mistake of embracing globalization and now is paying heavy price for that when supplies of many critical Western goods are cut by sanctions.
- mopsi 2y ago
  Russia never embraced globalization. Right from the start in 1991, it tried to use energy deliveries and punitive trade tariffs as tools to manipulate former USSR countries into submission or punish them in revenge, regularly causing crises as Russian dignitaries made statements in the style of "you'll crawl back to use once your 'independence' fails". This continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Needless to say, this strategy spectacularly failed because it severed economic ties, alienated everyone from Russia, and made the EU a more attractive partner due to its reliability and political stability, ultimately leading to most of Eastern Europe joining the EU. The war in Ukraine is a chapter in that story. A pathetic attempt by Russia to stop one of the last countries in Europe from joining the EU, out of delusion that with a population and GDP of Mexico, it deserves an empire and global influence, and has a right to bully neighbors - resulting in total isolation, with only international pariahs like Iran and North Korea left as allies. The mistake that Russia made was not embracing globalization, but embracing a sad little dictator from the depths of KGB, who has failed to use the system of global trade to ensure prosperity for its citizens and an equal say in global affairs because he is too dumb for that. If you do not own a superyacht, then you're just another dummy who has fallen under his spell and given away everything for nothing in return. You can't even go out and complain, because his cronies will rape you in a police van. How did it all go so wrong?
- chiefalchemist 2y ago
  > The US and the EU have weaponized global trade and financial systems in their hybrid war against Russia Yes, perhaps Russia is the primary target. But there is A LOT of collateral damage. When the USD is effectively the world's currency, the US Fed often makes decisions that are ideal for the USA (and the West) but then screws everyone else. There are countries that can't climb up because the Fed keeps knocking them down.
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protomolecule 2y ago

Yes to all the questions. The US and the EU have weaponized global trade and financial systems in their hybrid war against Russia and much of the trust in global trade that existed in the world is gone. Now everyone is wary of their partners abusing the system. Russia made the mistake of embracing globalization and now is paying heavy price for that when supplies of many critical Western goods are cut by sanctions.

mopsi 2y ago
Russia never embraced globalization. Right from the start in 1991, it tried to use energy deliveries and punitive trade tariffs as tools to manipulate former USSR countries into submission or punish them in revenge, regularly causing crises as Russian dignitaries made statements in the style of "you'll crawl back to use once your 'independence' fails". This continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Needless to say, this strategy spectacularly failed because it severed economic ties, alienated everyone from Russia, and made the EU a more attractive partner due to its reliability and political stability, ultimately leading to most of Eastern Europe joining the EU. The war in Ukraine is a chapter in that story. A pathetic attempt by Russia to stop one of the last countries in Europe from joining the EU, out of delusion that with a population and GDP of Mexico, it deserves an empire and global influence, and has a right to bully neighbors - resulting in total isolation, with only international pariahs like Iran and North Korea left as allies. The mistake that Russia made was not embracing globalization, but embracing a sad little dictator from the depths of KGB, who has failed to use the system of global trade to ensure prosperity for its citizens and an equal say in global affairs because he is too dumb for that. If you do not own a superyacht, then you're just another dummy who has fallen under his spell and given away everything for nothing in return. You can't even go out and complain, because his cronies will rape you in a police van. How did it all go so wrong?
chiefalchemist 2y ago
> The US and the EU have weaponized global trade and financial systems in their hybrid war against Russia Yes, perhaps Russia is the primary target. But there is A LOT of collateral damage. When the USD is effectively the world's currency, the US Fed often makes decisions that are ideal for the USA (and the West) but then screws everyone else. There are countries that can't climb up because the Fed keeps knocking them down.
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