So tell me again, how can sanctions work against Russia?
Russia has a long border with literally both east and west and as we know China makes pretty much everything for the whole world. Yes, it would be better if Russia made its own stuff completely. But not everything can be that way. So while Russia has supplied for itself very well, there are things that come from areas that cannot easily be produced in Russia due to climate and such…
So now as in the past when people in the villages in Russia need something from the rest of the world, they get together and rent a bus, take a train, drive their LADA, or Gaz Gazelle truck, and or walk across with a two wheeler or a cart, regardless, they cross the border to China, fill it anything of value to the villages, so you can hardly see out of the windows and go back home to their Russian village. With their booty…
This use to be what was done with the Baltic States up north (now the NSA – Nazi States of America) and it is was a very lucrative business for all of Russia and the Baltic’s. Now those little very poor countries have lost that true income in cash from sales of goods to Russia. Finland was a wonderful place to cross the boarder om foot, for a babushka and she came home loaded with goodies…
I have talked many times on this website about how the trains running to Europe are not just carrying people, but also tons of goods being carried by those people. I know, I have traveled trains a bunch in Russia. Very big business and now China gets ‘all’ that business…
So tell me again, how can sanctions work against Russia?
WtR