Turkey cuts trade ties with Russia, Hungary to "rethink" relationship as Western pressure to end san

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sanctions-busting mounts

Turkey has abruptly stopped exporting goods to Russia and one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strongest advocates in Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has said that he might “rethink” his relations with Russia in the future, as Western diplomats pile the pressure on countries “friendly” to Russia to end aiding Moscow in dodging sanctions.

Ten packages of sanctions have been imposed on Russia, but most of them are not working well. Russia has managed to almost entirely dodge those on oil exports, import of technology and has earned more money from trade last year than it has done in its entire post-Soviet history. At the same time as bne IntelliNews reported, efforts to seize oligarch money in the West are going poorly.

At the same time, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell admitted on March 10 that the West is running out of sanctions options. The latest tenth package of sanctions contained little more than the addition of 122 names to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list, many of them insignificant media personalities.

A second issue is that further sanctions increasingly hurt Western commercial interests and their economies more than they harm Russia’s, which has to a large extent sanction-proofed its economy thanks to the strength of Putin’s Fiscal Fortress.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/turkey-cuts-trade-ties-with-russia-hungary-to-rethink-relationship-as-western-pressure-to-end-sanctions-busting-mounts/ar-AA18wABs

[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Lovie777]

2. Vote on Hungary ......

oust them for Finland and Sweden.

That asswipe Orban came to the USA to help destroy democracy.

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3. Heheh. Hay ruzzzz....