Russia's economy is going strong despite sanctions from the U.S. and its allies

NPR ^ | 12/17/23 | Ayesha Rascoe

[JonPreston]

Despite sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy has not suffered.

Russia has been hit with huge economic sanctions since it invaded Ukraine nearly two years ago. But the Russian economy has remained strong, defying many economists' expectations.

[JonPreston]

It's almost as if every foreign policy effort put forward by Neocons ends up having a deleterious effect.

[Yo-Yo]

And yet:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4206294/posts

Russian Plane Forced to Land on Frozen River as Malfunctions Soar

"Russia's aviation industry has been hard hit by Western sanctions imposed over President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian-operated planes have been sanctioned by the U.S. government, and aircraft manufacturers have stopped delivering spare parts and new planes to the country."

[wildcard_redneck]

I’m starting to believe that the “sanctions” are intended to punish us and not the Russians.

[Trump20162020]

Well it’s almost like their biggest trading partners (China and India) are some of the top GDP nations in the world. I don’t think Latvia sanctioning them is going to do much.

[PIF]

Got eggs?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Russia's economy is going strong despite sanctions from the U.S. and its allies

Keep in mind, that Hunter and Traitor Joe received a BIG payoff from a Moscow socialite about 18 months ago, so he's most likely enforcing the sanctions as much as he's enforcing the border laws.

[bobbo666]

My suspicion is that Russia, like many other countries that have their heads screwed on straight, maintains access to vital supplies by generating them from within. Unlike countries run by Aholes like BeijingBiden who insist on offshoring — ‘cause that gives him the opportunity to skim his 10%.

[Apparatchik]

Russia's economy is paralyzed, and Putin's war machine survives on cannibalizing state-owned firms, Yale researchers say

[JonPreston]

Please remind the Forum of the last, successful Neocon foreign policy effort.

[JonPreston]

There are very sick secrets buried by the West in the Ukraine.

[JonPreston]

use more words next time.

[Apparatchik]

Just stick to posting your rah-rah Russia articles and then lying about how you don’t support Putin and his disgusting invasion.

[JonPreston]

I repeat, please remind the Forum of the last, successful Neocon foreign policy effort.

[laplata]

The source is a biased joke.

[hardspunned]

If the West continues to hammer its own citizens with the sanctions, eventually the Russians and their BRIChinaS allies will wean themselves completely away from the West’s aircraft. The sanctions will result in the loss of a tremendous amount industry in the WEST. It’s part of the same dedollarification process most of the world seems to be implementing today.

[Apparatchik]

The childish and ill-informed formulation of your question does not dignify an answer.

Try more debating, and less baiting, fool.

[Apparatchik]

Yeah, and NPR is a totally legit and unbiased source. 😂

[JonPreston]

your question does not dignify an answer

And here we have another sterling example of Neocon Wind. I'll help you with the answer to my question: there has never been a Neocon foreign policy success and this Biden/NATO Blunder is one more example.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "...there has never been a Neocon foreign policy success and this Biden/NATO Blunder is one more example."

One notes, when pressed, the Freeper neocons -- who seem to align as much with the Obama-Biden foreign policy stance as anything these days -- refuse to detail "foreign policy successes."

As an old guy drafted through the kind "foreign policy success" of Johnson and McNamara, I know full well the "success" of Vietnam, which ended rather like the "success" of Afghanistan, which "Peace Prize" Obama claimed was the war we could win. We are watching "foreign policy successes" in Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and more along with the Nulamd-Pyatt assistance and "foreign policy" success of Ukraine in the moment. Why, even Serbia is enjoying some recent "success," which of course began years ago with the Clinton/NATO bombing some remember.

Now, if we don't have some more "foreign policy success" in Ukraine soon....

Austin Warns Congress Failing to Pass Ukraine Aid ‘Very Likely’ Leads to US Troops on the Ground In Europe Messenger, 5 December 2023

Lloyd Austin Threatens to Deploy Troops if Ukraine Aid is Shut Down American Greatness, 6 December 2023

The subject was and remains "foreign policy success." We've had about three decades of foreign policy success since the Clintons. And now we have also about $34 trillion in national debt, because foreign policy success is just plain expensive.

[laplata]

Yes./s