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Lots of chatter on Twitter today that one of the sanctions Russia is considering is closing the "Silk Road" from Europe to China.

It wouldn't directly harm us, but it would cause a major problem for Europe, especially the smaller nations, forcing sea transport of the large quantity of goods that now go from Asia to Europe across Russia.

There is plenty of sea lift sitting empty and available, but that takes TIME, costs a lot more, and requires already tight dockage space.

1 posted on 08/05/2014 4:47:34 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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Lots of chatter on Twitter today that one of the sanctions Russia is considering is closing the "Silk Road" from Europe to China.

FIFA should threaten the loss of the next world cup in Russia. It would cost them millions.

2 posted on 08/05/2014 4:52:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Why isn’t anyone concentrating on oil prices? Cheaper crude oil would hurt Russia. Getting oil out of the ground is more expensive in Russia than anywhere else.


4 posted on 08/05/2014 5:14:20 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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International rules and norms?

Pretty funny coming from the biggest thief, gangster, and international thug in the world.

Putin should be tried and executed for his unprovoked wars of aggression against Georgia and Ukraine. The blood of thousands upon thousands of innocent people is on the hands of the terrorist KGB Putin.

Putin has disgraced Russia and made them an international pariah. No nation in the world wants anything to do with the Russian rouge state except Putin's genocidal Communist comrades around the world from Pyongyang to Havana.

6 posted on 08/05/2014 5:46:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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Oh, one of Putin's advisers has another big idea:


26 posted on 08/05/2014 8:40:02 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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