• zephyreksOPM
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    9 months ago

    Looks like Russia gets to experience what the US has been experiencing for decades lol

  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    To add some context, Russia still surprisingly has trade surplus with China. From the CNN article about this:

    That included a surge of exports from China to Russia, which jumped 63.2% from a year ago to reach $71.8 billion. Imports into China rose at a more modest 13.3% to $83.3 billion.

    Probably because of fuel sales.

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      9 months ago

      China is getting fucktons of cheap gas, oil, rare earths and other resources out of Russia. As Russia has no actual products to sell.

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    9 months ago

    Reminds me of an old West German joke:

    Two guys stand at a railyard, watching the trains departing to the Soviet union.

    Guy 1: “What are we shipping out?”

    Guy 2: “Cars, steel, machine parts.”

    Guy 1: “And what are they sending back?”

    Guy 2: “If we are lucky the train.”