https://www.ft.com/content/33008ab7-301e-4ed0-aa12-98c2b9866192
“The west’s treachery isn’t a reason to slam the windows and doors shut. We will go [our] separate ways with the proponents of sanctions, but we have partners in other regions of the world who are behaving in a consistent and principled manner.”
“Western businesses and countries are suffering from rising energy prices,” he said. “And Russian businesses are winning because they’re taking over market niches they never could have dreamed of,” he added. “The only shame is [officials] waited for the west to cut them off instead of doing it themselves first.”
However, not all foreign delegates shared Russia’s confidence, with one senior western businessman saying: “How convincing is it when you replaced the biggest global corporates with a delegation from the Taliban?”
eah, road to best-korea!