[PeterPrinciple]

The problem with that theory is most unfriendly countries don’t have or don’t have enough rubles to pay Russia, they will have to acquire them.

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and to acquire rubles is another way for bartering.

money makes business very liquid but impersonal.

Bartering is a relationship. we should all be improving our bartering skills.

[srmanuel]

Maybe it happens somewhere but I don’t any country that doesn’t trade goods and services for currency, no one I know trades goods for goods