Putin starts sanctions against EU/USA

[mai]

Mr Khan said:

mai said:

Mr Khan said:
Cutting off your nose to spite your face. The Soviet Union struggled with attempts at Autarky, Russia now heading in that direction would be suicide

The whole idea of all actions taken within last few years is not to follow the same route as its losing strategy longterm. That should be rather obvious without any in-depth analysis, said sactions doesn't change much here.

The only things they should be sanctioning, then, are products that they can get easily from sources other than the West. To do otherwise for the moment would be bad: focus on building competitiveness in Russian business and you wouldn't have to worry about needing western goods in most cases.

a) food imports is the product that could be easily get from the sources other than the West, see my first post over here; b) sanctions would follow regardless what we did or did not, thus retaliation was inevitable and food imports is among the most forgetable things that could done here; c) it's only 1 year restrictions.