They are 80% self sufficient with outside help with machinery and the like.....imagine when they can't get that stuff or fix that stuff.

So day 1: Cant buy foods so 20% go into starvation right off the bat
5 years: Lots of production decline so god knows the death rate now
10 years: Lost a lot of poverty level people(farmers) because they didn't feel like starving while producing food for others.
15 years: Oh yeah won't exist because no one fights to defend a country starving them to death

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I guess you forgot you told me earlier today you wouldn't respond to me. You have opinions not facts. The BRICS tried to make a competitor to the world Bank years ago and their economies couldn't handle the stress. China would dominate the financial institution if the ones your proposed joined. I dont see why thats a good thing for Russia or your Belarusian Brothers:P

Go read some TASS or RT, the Russian population isn't aware what is going on. If their standard of living continues to fall for every day Russians they may lose faith in the state and demand actions that will improve their standards of living. The world if so financial iced now and along with the clearly demonstrated benefits of trade an isolationist state would fall backwards...North Korea for instance

I was simply expanding on how Russia cannot hold it's own if they are isolated as Djunior eluded they could.

Biden was sending Billions of U.S Tax dollars as aid to Ukraine, to line his pockets, stealing money from the ukranian people
then has the nerve in his state of the union to act like he gives a crap abour Ukraine, he's just said the gravy train is over
Then biden yells 'we have to keep childrens schools open' after they kept them closed for 2-3 years , and the morons standing behind him clap
they want us to forget all the insanity they caused for years, only people who believe democrats are brainwashed sheep
Now Dems want to fund Police after years or destroying them

This post was edited by darkhead69 on Mar 3 2022 10:04pm

My bad your quote was from another post.

Yeah i see how we got here. I did quote the wrong thing lol.

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Too many countries have refused to back NATO to hurt Russia anything like enough to turn it into another North Korea. Almost half the population of Earth has stopped short of ending trade relations. Brazil 211M, India 1.4B, China 1.4B, Mexico 130M, Israel 10M, Iraq 40M, Iran 84M, Venezuela 29M, Cuba 11M, North Korea 26M. That is not an exhaustive list and covers 3.4 billion people out of 8 billion. Russia is not as isolated as the West claims, not by a long shot.