
Lambos or Food Stamps
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Sanctions Keep Getting Harsher and Harse, Right?
'Once the sartionts start rolling, you can't just roll them back,' says John Defterios. 'Even if the us. Undue sanct un, undoes sanctions, i don't know if these companies go back', he adds. The russian economy has been running a massive trade surplus for years now - it doesn't need a lot of foreign investment. But what it does need is imports, because its trade surplus is all in the form of energy and wheat and stuff. And then if you put sanctions on exporters to russia, ah, if people are ting food and clothes too, russians,. so like er, you know, if those
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