I’m well aware the Poles and several other Eastern European countries were inoculated against the global socialism and Gaia worship of the Western European elites.
When you’ve had socialism imposed on you for 40 years, you don’t romanticize it. When you’ve had to fight and scratch and claw to get your national sovereignty back, you don’t give it up lightly. When the socialism imposed on you for 40 years has left you behind economically, you don’t tend to indulge in wasteful Gaia worship. I told my Hungarian friends back in the mid 90s that in some ways, they were better off/further ahead than Western Europe. They didn’t know what I meant. I’m pretty sure they understand what I meant now.
Putin puts West on notice: Moscow can terminate exports and deals
Putin begins Russia’s bite-back over Ukraine sanctions
Gives wide powers to cut raw material, produce exports
Forbids transactions with sanctioned entities
Retaliatory moves could wreak chaos across markets
Who will be on sanctions lists will now be key
Putin, Russia’s paramount leader since 1999, signed a broad decree on Tuesday which forbade the export of products and raw materials to people and entities on a sanctions list that he instructed the government to draw up within 10 days.
The decree, which came into force with its publication, gives Moscow the power to sow chaos across markets as it could at any moment halt exports or tear up contracts with an entity or individual it has sanctioned.