Bonus: More sanctions. We are going to reach a point where the countries and people sanctioned by the US is larger than those not. It will actually be an economic boon to be sanctioned.
In part it is already like this. Russia has grown since the sanctions and so did a few country that never applied them.
On the contrary a country like mine (italy) that applied the sanctions against Russia and Iran less than half heartedly (we historically have good relations with both) due to let’s call neighbourhood pressure has suffered from it.
Now, one could argue that our economy was problematic since the 80s, and I hear u, but shooting ourselves in the foot is not helping.
P.s. I hope that what I wrote is not a mess writing in a second language before morning coffee is tough. :)
My country (Japan) is in the same boat. Russia is obviously very close to us and was a huge exporter for: parts that keeps our auto industry going, seafood, and natural gas. Not only did we follow along in sanctions because our masters told us to, we did it right after shutting down almost all our nuclear power plants. Meaning our only domestic sources of power are…old coal plants.
The only person really losing out in that exchange is us, Russia didn’t need us as much as needed them.
In part it is already like this. Russia has grown since the sanctions and so did a few country that never applied them.
On the contrary a country like mine (italy) that applied the sanctions against Russia and Iran less than half heartedly (we historically have good relations with both) due to let’s call neighbourhood pressure has suffered from it.
Now, one could argue that our economy was problematic since the 80s, and I hear u, but shooting ourselves in the foot is not helping.
P.s. I hope that what I wrote is not a mess writing in a second language before morning coffee is tough. :)
My country (Japan) is in the same boat. Russia is obviously very close to us and was a huge exporter for: parts that keeps our auto industry going, seafood, and natural gas. Not only did we follow along in sanctions because our masters told us to, we did it right after shutting down almost all our nuclear power plants. Meaning our only domestic sources of power are…old coal plants.
The only person really losing out in that exchange is us, Russia didn’t need us as much as needed them.