Things often rise right before they fall, like gravity. What was true yesterday for some things in economics isn’t going to be true tomorrow.
Robert Kahn, a senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the rise in exports was evidence that Russian companies were stockpiling goods with the expectation that future sanctions would prevent U.S. companies from selling to their country.
Russians were stockpiling as they need these high tech products to enable their own production and were afraid of the upcoming sanctions.
That’s called the dead cat bounce —
If Romney were in power, we would have declared Russia a terrorist state and slapped sanctions similar to what Iran and North Korea have on it right now. We would have also engaged in a massive arms buildup in Eastern Europe and sent in special forces to help the Ukrainians. We would also have given the Israelis a free hand in dealing with Hamas. And, finally, we would be building up our forces in the Eastern Pacific to hold China at bay.
....”something doesn’t make sense here”.....
Oil wars are in play and some of Russia’s former Oligarchs own these...oil is money and money is power...some of these Oligarch’s would love nothing better then to pull Putin down and are “busy” behind the scenes. .....As one of their representatives stated during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine.......”You work behind the scenes - it’s like science - you do some tinkering then something big comes out of it!”
Their hands in happenings are seldom seen...but Putin knows who they are and what and why they are doing what they’re doing.