Conversations That Matter: Russia Collapsing
Author: mgp
Published: August 12, 2022
The EU just announced its’ seventh sanctions package which is set to put an embargo on Russian gold. Gold is Russia’s largest non-energy export. The Russian government’s response was to shrug it off and downplay the impact of sanctions. A position the Union of Gold Producers in Russia disagrees with, noting, “the country’s gold industry may suffer irreparable damage.”
Author, National Post Editor-at-Large and Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council” Diane Francis says, “Russia is in trouble economically, demographically, financially and militarily.” Francis goes on to say, “Punitive Western sanctions, as well as brain and capital drains are shredding the country’s future.”
In an article titled, “To Russia With Malice” Francis states, “Sanctions against the import of technology such as microchips have caused factories to stop making many consumer products as well as weapons of war. Automobile production is down by 96.7 per cent, Aeroflot is using spare parts from outdated aircraft to keep its fleet operating” Francis warns, “ don’t ever fly Aeroflot, and, worst of all, hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of energy, nuclear, and infrastructure projects have been canceled.”
I invited Diane Francis to join me for a Conversation That Matters about the devastating consequences of Russia’s irredentism toward Ukraine and throughout the remainder of the former Soviet Union.
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