What lunacy you spew. Where did you get the notion Russia is self-sufficient? It’s OK in food and fuel, but it has no other meaningful abilities. It’s industries have largely shut down due to lack of critical technology imports. They can’t even seem to make ball bearings. (These closures have been publicly announced on Russian TV.)
Russia possesses no high-tech or service industries and exports almost nothing in either.
As for agriculture, Russia, prior to 2014, imported a significant amount from the EU. It banned them all after the annexation of Crimea and is self-sufficient in everything except fruit, nuts, and berries. (Russia is far from tropical.)
The EU and US are self-sufficient in food production. We do not “need” Russia’s food.
As for fuels and minerals, The US is pretty much self-sufficient in most, but most of our imports of either do not come from Russia. The US is the largest producer of oil and natural gas. (At least it was prior to the installation of Biden.) The US has large deposits of rare earths (which is a misnomer since they are not that “rare.”) and minerals.
The EU has cut Russian imports of fuel oil and natural gas significantly in only a couple of months. They have many options other than Russia to satisfy any “need” that arises.
The US needs almost nothing from Russia. (Russians like to brag that the US needs their rocket engines but SpaceX can now supply that.)
The US needs almost nothing from Russia.
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QSorry not buying into your stuff. I will not say what occupation I am in in ( you could guess)- ALL of western aircraft, engine, defense companies received 99 percent of their titanium from Russia, huge amounts of other metals, and forge manufactured titanium and exotic items.
Slow Joe had no idea what his sanctions did to the west, and us.
I find it ironic Vlad’s reverse sanctions has slowed, and in some cases destroyed a huge slice of our defense industry, and commercial , engine industries.
Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Rolls Royce, Boeing Defense, Pratt, GE, …the list is long.
And Vlad says, again, Checkmate.