Comments by "E Dennis" (@edennis8578) on "Russian TYPICAL Food Court Full Tour" video.

  1. @Heather The exchange rate only affects imports. Goods produced within Russia aren't affected by exchange rates. Russia is a net exporter of food; they are self-sufficient. They don't have to import meat, wheat, potatoes, etc. for fast food. It's like the two times I visited England, with wildly different exchange rates. It didn't affect the English at all except for goods imported from America and it affected me, as an American tourist, because I had to pay a lot more for everything when the exchange rate rose for the pound.
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  2. I agree. I think it's schadenfreude. They are riddled with jealousy that Russia is doing so well and they don't want to admit that Russia will be very little affected by the sanctions, but Europe and North America will suffer. Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient (unlike us), highly industrialized (unlike us), and quite prosperous. That surprises the ignorant and they are in deep denial of reality. Russia supplies the west with food, crop fertilizer, steel, oil, natural gas, and many other things, and the nasty people will soon realize that we've shot ourselves in the foot.
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  3.  Eric  I doubt that Europeans would be happy to pay 3 times more for wood and wheat than they were paying Russia. Russian prices are much lower than North American prices.
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  4. I don't expect there to be much difference, if sanctions last that long. Russia is almost entirely self-sufficient. They are a net exporter of food and crop fertilizer, so they'll have a surplus of those things since the west is no longer buying. We're the ones who will suffer from the sanctions.
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  5.  @Lljallja  You realize that if the countries hadn't sanctioned Russia, meaning that they stopped importing Russian products, then they would still be getting those supplies? Russia hasn't stopped trading with countries who haven't sanctioned them.
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  6. @Ev The average wage in Russia is about 1/3 that of the average wage in the United States, so the cost of everything tends to be proportionally lower.
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