Look at all the destruction their 2014 coup in Ukraine has brought. And that war is only making Russia stronger and more economically independent. Once again stupid policy out of the CIA.
But MSNBC loves the CIA and thus all the left regurgitates happy chants about them like chinese school children… …
economically independent of what?
The NATO sanctions were supposed to destroy the Russian economy. Instead the Russian economy continues to grow while Europe drifts into recession.
Western Europe depends far more on trade with Russia than Russia depends on western trade and financial systems. Somehow McDonald’s meals and Visa cards are not nearly as important as Russian natural gas and oil.
We should be sanctioning and using proxies to attack the UK if we were really concerned about foreign election interference. The CIA is not supposed to be involved in domestic US surveillance or politics so they frequently get British intel to do their dirty work.
LOl…like Chinese school children. Quite accurate.
They are our Red Guards.
Their economy is propped by government military spending.
Somehow government using tax dollars to prop the economy is only a bad thing when it’s here.
The vast majority of weapons purchases come from the US. Increased military spending will not help the European economy.
The basic issue is that Russia’s economy is based on necessities like commodities and products of factories, while the economies of western Europe are based on services and finance.
A cutoff of trade means that Russians have to give up Big Macs and Visa Cards, while Europeans give up heating fuel and fertilizer from Russia. Europeans are dependent on Russia for basic necessities, but the loss of trade with Europe is merely an inconvenience for Russians.
What factory products is Russia exporting en masse?
It’s mostly a natural resource economy.
You are not wrong about the rest. Obviously Europe is dependent on the natural resources
The point is not that Russia is large exporter of manufactured goods. The point is that Russia is not dependent on Europe for manufactured goods. It produces for its own needs and is free to import other countries for the rest.
Russia exports mainly commodities, but they frequently require industrial processing. Oil refining, metal production, fertilizer production, are all industrial processes.
Ah ok i misunderstood what you meant.
