Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: stuartcr; kellynla; ninenot; sittnick; steve50; Hegemony Cricket; Willie Green; Wolfie; ex-snook; ..
Of course we still trade with them...$$$ trumps all else.

Not with the Russians. With the Chinese yes.

During the whole time of Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin Russia was and is under Soviet era sanctions by USA and still is being prevented from joining WTO. So Russia is FORCED to trade with the countries on the periphery or outside of US influence and this means often weapons.

Yeltsin said several times, that his country does not need help from USA but it needs removal of sanctions and closer economic ties.

That is why asking Russia to join some sanctions when Russia is under sanctions herself does not make much political sense.

5 posted on 11/02/2006 6:25:11 AM PST by A. Pole (Saint Augustine: "The truth speaks from the bottom of the heart without the noise of words")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: A. Pole

I beg to differ. Many know about the vast reliance on the PRC for outsourcing of manufacturing operations and low cost material sourcing. However, less well known is the extensive outsourcing of software development to Russia. Let's just say, I have been intimately involved in this.


12 posted on 11/02/2006 1:19:17 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson