Experience talking here, Russia lacks a rule of law. Any contract made with Russian companies is not worth spit, If you buy a tanker of their oil at a certain price, you may get one or two shipments delivered to Rotterdam, After that, despite what a contract says, Russian managers will do what they like.
The long and short is don’t worry about Russia. No one likes doing business with them except for a one-off transaction here and there and even then, they will come up with one lie after another in making excuses why they took your money but didn’t deliver.
Oh, and they will tell you they are a relative of Putin, doncha know?”
Russia is not in the top ten in terms of GDP but makes the bottom of the top ten in PPP alongside such countries as Indonesia.
Yeah, don’t lose any sleep over Russia and don’t worry about the future of a rising Russia, When they aren’t busy backstabbing a new trading partner, they backstab themselves. It’s their culture.
There are three families that rule Russia, all tied to oil. Historically, they fight each other. Currently Putin has been holding them together in a truce. That’s why he’s there. But there historical feuds are not political, they are regional and any Russia expert will tell you those regional differences will still be there after our lifetimes.
Exactly, and the idiot writing the article thinks Trump is not aware of this...
Obama, Bush and probably Clinton too, were the clueless ones.