What is even more impressive is the growth of trade between Germany and Russia. Business trumps politics. Economic reality eventually dictates policy. Those poor people in Ukraine are dying for nothing. Ukraine sits on the German-Russian axis and will also prosper. Those borders won’t mean much in twenty years.
One of the best mutual fund managers in America invested heavily in Russia after the Obozites had their temper tantrum:
This Value Guru Just Made A Huge Investment In Russia.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/value-guru-just-made-huge-180000418.html
When you add little to almost nothing it will still be almost nothing, but at record height. USA just isn’t exporting much to Russia. $1.2B sounds like a large sum, but it is still only 0.6% of US exports of May.