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elektranine on 27 March 2016
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nanarchy said:
elektranine said:

"It's sad" that there are people who don't blindly follow propaganda spoon fed to them from the media. LOL

And the "sanctions" Putin placed on Turkey are a complete joke. "We don't want your cabbage" "we are no longer gonna pay for the buildings you are building in our country because we lack the necessary infrastructure to do construction on our own". Putin needs Turkey. The Russian ruble has been massively devalued to the point that they can no longer easily pay for imports. The lack the infrastructure to even do their own construction. Putan needs all the money they can get so a few restrictions that is akin to a dictator throwing a temper tantrum won't do much.

Higly amusing given what you spewed out is almost entirely propaganda.

PS: if you have evidence that the U.K. is part of Putin's propaganda engine you should post it, the world will be interested. Also Russia was Turkey's most ciritical trade partner, their food and Tourism industry has taken a hit in the billions of dollars.

None of that was propaganda as you claim. Russia is in the midst of a deep financial crisis where the value of their ruble fell off a cliff and has even devalued more than 20% in a single day. They are having infrastructure problems. Investors pulled out of the country. There have been runs on Russian banks. Heck even the governmental offices Putin meets in were built by Turkish companies.

His pretend sanctions amounted to: we will no longer import produce that fails to meet food standards & Turkish companies can no longer sign contracts for construction inside Russia (existing contracts are still allowed). How are these major sanctions at all. Russia as a whole only represents a few % to Turkey anyway. So I think turkey is not sweeting about losing 0.05% in revenue.