Telling Putin regime state media that they “don’t see any bright future in the economic sphere,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday seemed pretty lukecold to convicted felon President Trump’s moronic insistence on increasing trade between the US and the vast, frozen, polluted wasteland on the other side of the globe, Reuters reports on a “no shit” kind of conclusion.
Russia’s economy is half the size of California’s and in 2016 trade between the two countries amounted to $5.8 billion in US exports to Russia and $14.5 billion in Russian exports to the US. If that sounds like a lot then compare it to the US-China trade relationship that same year, which was 29 times larger at $115.6 billion US-to-China exports and $481.3 billion in China-US exports.
Thus unless there’s a monster viral marketing campaign in the works to increase American reliance on cheap, shitty vodka with just a hint of anti-freeze flavor then Lavrov’s got the right idea.