New York Press News: Not everyone wants to make Putin an economic pariah over the Ukraine war
Soon after Russia’s army pushed in to try to seize control of Ukraine, Maria Zakharova, the bellicose Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Moscow, insisted that her country still had plenty of friends in the world.
She mostly meant China, but others too. “Look at the reaction of world giants — those who are not seeking to present themselves as giants, but who really are giants,” Zakharova said in a prime-time state television interview on Feb. 28, four days after Russian troops commenced a bloody onslaught targeting cities and towns across Ukraine.
Zakharova and her Kremlin associates have spun plenty of false conspiracy theories to justify Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor. But she was not wrong to suggest that much of the world, at least as measured by population, is unwilling to fully spurn Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
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Update #1: Russia Isn't Nearly as Isolated as Washington Wants You to Believe (Mises Institute)
Update #2: Swiss commodities traders help fill Putin's war coffers (DW)
WNU editor: It is always about the money.
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U.S. Dependent on Russian Uranium, Prices Up 40%
"We get about a fifth of our uranium from Canada, and about half from Russia and countries in its sphere of influence like Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan."
Thanks Grandpa Joe
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