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Posted on 07/30/2025 6:50:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it continues to monitor statements by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding sanctions against Moscow, but that Russia had acquired immunity to such measures thanks to long experience.
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"We have been living under a huge number of sanctions for quite a long time, our economy operates under a huge number of restrictions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"Therefore, of course, we have already developed a certain immunity in this regard, and we continue to note all statements that come from President Trump, from other international representatives on this matter."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the threat of new sanctions "routine" and said it was odd that the U.S. and the West had not yet understood that imposing such measures did not work and only served to hurt Western economies.
"We see that the West simply cannot let go of the issue of sanctions. It seems as if they are constantly stuck in a rut," Zakharova told a news briefing in Moscow.
"Apparently, there are no other options left - they have been exhausted. We are responding and taking measures to counteract all of this or even turn it to our own advantage."
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Ruzzians have lived on very little of everything for decades.
They are used to hardships.
They will survive as they always have.
I’m wondering if this actually has anything to do with Russia.
Trump has already written Ukraine off. He knows it’s a lost cause and he’s taken the write-off on his taxes.
But he will never admit that, because “Ukraine” as a playing card, still has some residual value. He can’t still use it for other goals.
For example, perhaps he sees an opportunity to sanction/lever India, who must have Russian oil, to attempt to reverse their growing trade surplus with the USA - all while placating the likes of Lindsey Graham for now.
Just a thought.
The real problem they have is that Trump will want to keep upping the pressure to get a result.
Of course they don’t want sanctions, and eventually military support will increase.
Trump wants peace, he doesn’t want this war, however he also has shown a willingness to apply decisive military pressure.
“Russia has developed immunity to sanctions”
In 1982, it was quite easy to limit my purchases of manufactured consumer products to those made in the USA.
Why are some Russian officials making threats against the US if they impose sanctions while other Russian officials say the sanctions will have no effect on them and only hurt the West?
Bessent:
Last month, the White House announced its maximum pressure campaign on Iran designed to collapse its already buckling economy. The Iranian economy is in disarray; 35% official inflation, has a currency that has depreciated 60% in the last 12 months, and an ongoing energy crisis. I know a few things about currency devaluations, and if I were an Iranian, I would get all of my money out of the Rial now.
This precarious state exists before our Maximum Pressure campaign, designed to collapse Iranian oil exports from the current 1.5-1.6, million barrels per day, back to the trickle they were when President Trump left office.
Iran has developed a complex shadow network of financial facilitators and black-market oil shippers via a ghost fleet to sell oil, petrochemical and other commodities to finance its exports and generate hard currency.
As such, we have elevated a sanctions campaign against this export infrastructure, targeting all stages of Iran’s oil supply chain. We have coupled this with vigorous government engagement and private sector outreach.
We will close off Iran’s access to the international financial system by targeting regional parties that facilitate the transfer of its revenues. Treasury is prepared to engage in frank discussions with these countries. We are going to shut down Iran’s oil sector and drone manufacturing capabilities.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0045
March 6, 2025
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The opposite side of that is interesting too
Russia continues to supply enriched U3O8 to the USA. They have never threatened to stop selling it. And quite ironically, American nuclear plants NEED Russian enriched uranium. It’s not merely commodity “uranium” but Russia’s Rosatom manufactures the fuel rods or pellets to match the exact specs needed by each American reactor. The USA itself is short of enrichment capacity (and is now slowly rebuilding it) so Russia really could have caused at least a short-term crisis by stopping the shipment
If the likes of Lindsey Graham were in charge in Russia, it would have happened 10 years ago.
But they did not do it - why?
“Why are some Russian officials making threats against the US if they impose sanctions while other Russian officials say the sanctions will have no effect on them and only hurt the West?”
The oil price sanctions and EU refusals to buy deprive Russia about $15 billion in lost oil revenue annually.
Russian is getting more domestic tax revenue as domestic production replaces imports no longer available, but the Russians feel deprived out of $15 billion annually because they are.
“But they did not do it - why?”
Because the Russians are buying production equipment from China (which has the world’s broadest industrial production economy) to meet current needs and to hold in reserve in case Ukrainian drones strike more Russian factories.
I think Trump is just jerking neocon jerks like Linda around.
Brazil is one of the few countries that we had a trade surplus with, too. Well, that's what temper tantrums gets ya when we didn't get OUR man in power down there.
I personally think those are good things. Also, anything that helps wean the Euros off dependence on Russia fossil fuels is a bonus.
” ... he doesn’t want this war, however he also has show a willingness to apply decisive military pressure.”
Your usual, Idiotic.
I think Trump’s talks with Putin on lessening sanctions and the West’s reentry into the Russian markets did not go as planned.
Putin told him that when Western companies left, Russian companies stood up their places... after much hard work... and that Putin will not allow the West to compete inside Russia against home grown companies.
China has helped Russia to an economic miracle in the face of Western Sanctions. In the Russian Far East, everything changed in 2022; China assisted Russia and the trust has grown replacing the Russian fear that once preoccupied the Kremlin.
The Year 2022 for historical purposes is when both Russia and China were forced to join together in the face of the US Pivot to Asia to have the 2026-2027 planned war with China America had been talking about since the Clinton Admin’s last two years. American policy was to draw down EUropean military footprint and relocate to Asia. We have been relocation Depot level maintenance and warehousing since 2002.
Brics is a economical entity that is not a military alliance. Brics is predicated upon several core declarations, the first of which is no member can participate in sanctions against another member state (NOW TRUMP’S ANTI-BRICS TRADE COMES INTO FOCUS FOR THE UNINITIATED). Also, trade can be conducted in any manner agreeable and can be a combination of barter, trade, currencies, etc., as long as both parties are happy.
The reason Trump is having difficuities with his personal trade policy is that American and Western Investment is going to be kept at a distance in the future by Brics nations who see in real time the weaponization of the USD, SWIFT, Sanctions, and seizure of foreign assets by the West. Those joining Brics have seen the Coup Regime Change operations from afar or at home and will keep the West’s NGOs out. Market pentration by the West may well be over for the forseeable future.
The failures of diplomacy, or the actual lack thereof, by the rouge Obama who illegally seized Russian Diplomatic Missions over false pretenses, followed by both Trump and Biden buildups in Ukraine have not gone un-noticed by the rest of the world.
Obama’s actions against Trump/associates had internation consequences as he and Hildabeast blammed Russia.
Russia is doing just fine. They have thousands of shell companies to get what the West refuses to openly trade. They economic allies in Brics who will provide acceptable replacements.
Russian auto and aircraft industries are now functioning after several years of sanction pain; in fact every sector of the economy has recovered by replacement of Western trade.
It BEARS repeating that the Russian Bear is recovering and further sanctions will do little more damage other than to to the West thru it’s self-imposed isloation via sanctions.
Trump is setting the conditons for the US that Japan faced prior to WWII; only we are doing it to ourselves.
US Forces are being told down to battalion level that US Forces will be engaged in active operations against Russia in the near term. God help our troops. The battlefield of today is nothing like that in my day.
There is no diplomacy that can pull the US back from the brink of world war that we are forcing upon the globe.
See post 36
The last round of repatriation of bodies was nearly identical to that of previous few months. Ukriane got back 900-1000 bodies... and Russia got back a dozen or two.
Yup. The Russians alternate between claiming that sanctions have no effect on them and denouncing sanctions as a hostile act. Meanwhile, the Russian civilian economy continues to deteriorate and decline, with Russian state finances badly depleted by war costs and sanctions. Putin’s madcap fantasy of a cheap and quick war with Ukraine and an easy territorial expansion is exposed as colossal blunder.
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