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Originally Posted by Itse
IMF is using statistics given to them by Russian official sources, and at least last year they weren't doing anything to confirm them. So it's basically just circulating Russian propaganda.
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Did you miss the part about enormous increases in trade with China, and through third-party countries like Serbia and Singapore?
It’s funny calling the Economist a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda. They’ve been staunchly pro-Ukraine from the get-go. But they’re also an empirically-driven organization that doesn’t let wishful thinking shape their reporting.
One sobering lesson from this conflict is that the West does not dominate the globe the way it did 30 years ago. Most of the world is not onboard with the sanctions against Russia, and for all the levers at our disposal, the West no longer has the means to bring everyone else into line.