The US seems set to impose more sanctions on Russia, as the House of Representatives has sent a bill on the matter to the White House. US-Russian trade being so small, the move is likely a non-factor.
Pushes for ever-more sanctions against Russia have proven extremely controversial in Europe, where Western nations have embraced the idea, but many eastern nations see serious economic harm coming from tit-for-tat sanctions.
Russia insists it doesn’t want a sanctions war either, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev saying that his government doesn’t see any reason trade should “be a victim of political prejudices.”
Medvedev, who made the comments at an investment conference, went on to say that Russia hopes to continue to have good economic relations with both the US and the EU.
Clearly, Putin is backing off very fast. The oligarchs are probably leaning on him. He's hurting their business dealings and that's all they care about. Russia and the EU have always been the best of friends and I doubt if that will suffer. The Russians are the most numerous of the European peoples and young Russians, up to and including people of Medvedev's age, see themselves as modern Europeans. Old fogey Putin and his elderly supporters are dinosaurs whom the world has left high and dry in their cold war past and their Eurasian pipedreams..
Putin is doing anything BUT backing off. And about 80% of the Russian people back him 100%. He just needs to sit back patiently as he is being doing and watch the US/EU/NATO implode of it's own hubris and stupidity. Russia plays chess, the US plays checkers at retard level.
There IS a New World Order bud, but it's not your daddy's NWO. It's China/Russia, the Yuan and the Ruble. China will eclipse US in 3-4 years, Russia about 5-6 years after that. PPP GDP will move to China/Russia/Germany in a very big way and the USD will go the way of Zimbabwe.
China Russia Germany will be the new standard and the US UK Japan will be the new Indias. Thanks for playing.
Russia is a very practical and business friendly country, like China. Kinda like the US was in the 50's.
All these moronic sanctions and NATO mouthing off, and Warsaw pretending to be a 'player', and the EU echoing whatever the overlords in DC/MIC say will only result in Russia and China dropping the USD and, in the process wrecking your OWN economy.
For every $1 of sanctions against Russia it will cost you $1000. So my advice is: please, carry on!