• Valmond@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      The russian economy is not only tied to but dependent on the wests import of natural resources.

      How in the world did you figure russias economy is not tied to “our” (I’m european, but the us and eu economies are all intertwined) economy? “Famously” so too?

      If USA says don’t buy russian oil or you’ll get secondary sanctions (e.g. you can’t trade with the US) then india, china will (and are) stop buying russian oil. This is what is actually happening by the way.

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        9 hours ago

        I didn’t mean we can’t impact their economy. I meant the US economic success is not tied to theirs. If our economy collapses, theirs will actually improve, not get worse.

        The person I was replying to implied that our coming recession would also be bad for Russia. I think it’s the opposite.

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          1 hour ago

          It was me I guess.

          If the USA goes into recession, then the world economy will slow down, this is indisputable (if there is no other really never before seen boon happening, which is extremely unlikely).

          When the world economy slows down, oil and gas demands lowers, which creates less demand, making oil & gas prices go lower.

          Russias economy is in dire straits today, anything could plunge it into a spiral of augmenting inflation and augmenting stagnation. These two feeds on each other.

          The biggest part of russias economy is based on oil & gas revenue.

          Make your conclusions!