bendog
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Sanctions will not dissuade Putin from arming the Taliban. And we don't have a president with the stones to do what it would take.Sanctions are relatively ineffective because as Russia is foreclosed from accessing other markets because it cannot afford goods produced, it subsitutes local products, which can be produced cheaper because there is no currency exchange. While the products available to consumers are not as good as W. European products, the population is satisfied because of nationalism and xenophobia.
It is probably not a coincidence Putin preferred Trump to Clinton
Not only sanctions, I think. Using $ to compare Russian economics is very approximate tool, especially in closed areas, like defence industry It's a real source of legends about "Putin got money from nothing" or "Putin stole money of all Russian people to raise an army" ))