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The World for Sale, with Javier Blas and Jack Farchy

Intelligence Squared

The Commodity Traders Provide That Channel Through Which to Sell Natural Resources

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Russia and the servia union before it, are huge producers of natural resources. What is more important than having a channel through which to sell those natural resources in a way? And commodity traders provide that channel, which makesthem usualy important. The last round of sanctions were narrower compared to compared to the ones we see this time,. I mean, they did target the energy sector in so far as new investments in energy project that the us felt required western technology. But where they were most notable was going off to several of the oligarchs who we seen as being close to putin soy.

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