Posted on 08/07/2014 8:57:23 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Looks like you answered your own question.
Given that all Finnish food exports combined only make up in the ballpark of 2% of their total exports, and Russia only buying 10% of those (0.2% of all exports), and given that exports are only a quarter of Finland’s GDP... yeah, this claim is complete nonsense.
“since this scenario has been predicted in almost every article written in the last several months. Use some common sense.”
Always with the caveat the Russia wouldn’t REALLY do this, because sanctions would hurt them too.
With an approval rate in the mid-80’s, Putin can do lots of things that the Euros thought he wouldn’t do.
They have advertisements for gold and silver. It is a conspiracy site anyway. Especially bad when it comes to Russia as the Bulgarian guy behind it has a soft spot for their “Slavic Brotherhood”.
So your logic is that a country that wants to send their troops against Russian forces is suddenly going to go, “Oh dear lord... we want to fight them, but then they might not buy our apples! Everyone, stop, stop, we can’t do anything against Russia!”
Oh, by the way, this was Poland’s response to Putin’s threat to cut off their apple exports:
There’s a meme that’s been circulating around Poland where people post pictures of themselves eating apples with sayings like “An apple a day keeps Putin away”.
My logic? Troops?
What on earth are you talking about?
You asked a question about why food sanctions, and not Gas export sanctions. I answered it.
You then gave your own excellent reason why food sanctions might be used first - which is that they may tend to exert pressure against those who are most militant against Russia.
Now - I don’t know what you’re doing. You seem to be putting words into my mouth. It may be a good time to have a break, FRiend.
Thanks, I suspected as much. The OP touts himself as a some sort of disinterested and serious analyst of events but his posts are absurdly one-sided and increasingly hysterical. It’s pitiful to watch.
I am trying to provide balance, to what I have found to be wild, over-the-top, and exaggerated claims by Kiev, and it’s propagandists.
For that I have been called names, cajoled, and even threatened.
Like it or not, it’s that very bashing that has made me dig deeper into what is really going on, much to the Kiev propagandists ire.18 posted on 8/5/2014 17:17:24 by tcrlaf (Q)
“I am trying to provide balance, to what I have found to be wild, over-the-top, and exaggerated claims by Kiev, and it’s propagandiists”
And he does so by making the entirely sane, balanced and unexaggerated claim that 10% of Finnish GDP is going to be whacked by Putin. Hysterical. You couldn’t make it up.
I’m looking for FACTS, and some truth, in a blizzard of propaganda. That happens to run counter to the Currently approved Obama/Kiev truth, which we have some enforcers of here, the respondent being one of them.
We are just supposed to blindly believe everything Obama is saying about this, given all of the lies he has told before? On this one issue, and just this one issue alone??
Sorry, I just won’t swallow that load, given everything that has happened.
I equate this with what happened in Libya, and it is following almost the same lines, especially in propaganda.
PS- It looks like Ukrainian Civil War 3.0 is starting to develop, with barricades reportedly being reassembled on the Maidan, despite Poro sending in the tanks today to clear them.
That definitely won’t fit in with the current Kiev-approved PR, since they are blaming “Russian-caused unrest” (Klitchko, today) for why they had to clear the Maidan.
Was anybody hurt?
I don’t remember which econ blog I saw this comment on, so I cannot attribute it properly, but the subject of discussion was the posting of false claims: the response was, by the time that one actually goes and looks-up the data and posts a correction, the original poster has gone and posted the false information on ten more threads.
So, perhaps ya’ll can tell me what the latest Kiev-approved Maidan Propaganda is?
Maidan then: Peaceful protesters resisting the Yanukovych regime
Maidan now: Legitimate government going after FSB agents
Which is it, folks?
And in order to do so, you throw away everything on one side away as "propaganda," and post propaganda from the other side. In order to find balance, facts, and truth. /s
Help me out, first. What has Russia Today been tweeting about it?
You are doing none of this. You are the most annoying Kremlin propagandist on this site. You are reproducing Russian propaganda on FreeRepublic while trying to make it about Obama to catch the uninformed people. Everything you post is with the purpose to mislead people.
“I have a bridge to sell you, that Obama does not want you to have.”
— tcrlaf (2014)
Cute. I am assuming your don't receive 50% of your earnings by exporting cheeses to St. Petersburg? It's so easy to be light-hearted when you and your employees go unaffected. Fun for you.
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