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Russia: adapting to sanctions leaves economy in robust health
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I'm sure plenty of heads are exploding in Washington and Brussels knowing that sanctions only made Russia restructure its economy to become more self reliant. Sanctions against Russia? They've been out maneuvered by Putin yet again.
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American Golems like Donald Trump are salty that Russia is still selling oil to the EU in spite of these "Sanctions".
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Toothless and ineffective sanctions against Russia is basically all they got in their deck. Doing much more, would require an actual military conflict.
Or the Scales approach: So even General Scales admits that unless the USA is willing to commit to killing Russians in a military conflict, that they don't really have any effective options here. I'd argue it's similar with regards to China, except the USA has a little more economic leverage with China. A lot of whining about "Human rights" violations, and some imposing some sanctions and tariffs, but that's really as far as they're going to go with China. The USA is great at bullying smaller countries, or countries who can't turn US cities into glass, thereby taking direct military options completely off the table. I think it's funny how powerless they are to do anything about Russia and China.
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From the article
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That´s surprising, always thought Russia´s arms exports are larger.
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It's ironic the usa's arms exports are bigger than the USSR's or Russia's ever were. We may have to buy food from Russia.
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