The overwhelming public sentiment reflects significant criticism of the US government’s stance on Russia, with many commenters advocating for India to prioritize its own economic interests and strengthen its ties with Russia. There is a pronounced sense of nationalism, skepticism towards US policies, and frustration over perceived hypocrisy, indicating a collective desire for India to maintain sovereignty in foreign relations.

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Shouldn't Greenland and the Faroe Islands be included? They do have home rule sort of like Scotland within the UK, but they're not sovereign states. When it comes to foreign policy they are just a part of Denmark.

Delicious-Gap1744

It's a bit always the same map isn't it lol

[deleted]

It is very strange to see Switzerland in blue on the map

Rodrigo_cae

This is basically the "West" + its Asian allies Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. So it makes sense that all these countries act more or less in unison.

Morgainfly

,,The whole World is Sanctioning Russia"

The whole world:

PhilosTheGreat

Most blue countries still buy from Russia 🙃

ApplicationOk6762

[https://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=152027998&amp;Country=Russia&amp;topic=Economy&amp;subtopic=Forecast&amp;subsubtopic=External+sector](https://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleid=152027998&amp;Country=Russia&amp;topic=Economy&amp;subtopic=Forecast&amp;subsubtopic=External+sector)

This includes sanctions on products, services, individuals, and entities from Russia alike.

OkConference6555

“The international community stands against Russia!” *the international community is just the US and it’s allies*

damaged-inc

j4980667

crowkraken

1/3 of the world coloured.
1/3 cannot afford it or else they face total collapse
1/3 just keeps looking and not caring about anything.

TeaBoy24

just-courious

Kosovo has sanctioned Russia too for what it's worth...

a_saddler

So, only European union + nato
Only USA friends (satellites)

Visual_Adeptness6328

MBT_TT

curialbellic

The US has fought so many wars, but I don't see the "international community" sanctioning the US.

Barbasto

Is that tiny part in Europe part of Russia? Excuse my naivety

jrcske67

Ah yes, the so called international community that has united to fight against the evil Russia

"The World" has sanctioned Russia my arse

DrDustCell

So this is basically everyone deep in the ''West'', would have expected a few more close to them though but Russia will be alright.

--BRLN--

What’s the one country in South America. And does Japan alway do what the us tells them to. Cause I don’t think they really benefit from sanctioning them

bag-man315

I have seen these maps so many times on this subreddit that I can literally name ever county sanctioning Russia, every country send arms to Ukraine, every country supporting Russia and all the "neutral countries"

Dhyeya4675

For some of the Grey countries (Richer Central/South America), I'm kinda shocked why they wouldn't sanction Russia as they mostly support US and don't do much with Russia.

For some others, it is probably in self Interests economically or Militarily (Turkey, India, Caucasus, Moldova)

Finally, some of these (Africa) need Russian wheat to survive

Curious about inflation in Europe this winter

B-Revenge

Kind of funny when the media tried to portray Russia as getting the North Korea treatment when in reality the only countries that care are countries that already disliked Russia.

Scvboy1

"Countries that have Sanctions on themselves."

Putin cash machine meanwhile going brrrrrr

paciokino

Admirable-Hospital67

Less go Western hypocrisy 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

Litteraly the west and their Korean-Japanese allies

Shedar12

joolean77

stevethebandit

All Russia has to do is shut the gas off and Europe will be looking significantly less blue

exionstr

Based Gray

Both Russian and US allies suck

Would like to see how inflation is going in countries with the heaviest sanctions. Brandon doesn’t seem to realize that sanctions hurt the US more then Russia.  They never work out for us, Thomas Jefferson proved that

The US and her western bitches, plus her two Asian stooges

6907474

stalinsdaddy

Countries where people want to live vs countries people want to get out of.

Romain86

So it's just west + allies  huh? Shows that no one else is buying into the anti-Russian crap.

Taiwan is not a country and provincial-level governments in China do not have the right to sanction anyone. The whole thing is a separatist propaganda stirred by Taiwanese separatists. The idea of Taiwan sanctioning any country is as ridiculous as DNR and LNR announcing sanctions against America.

patamoose87

A slight correction: Kosovo should be shaded blue, as [the government of Kosovo has sanctioned Russia](https://seenews.com/news/kosovo-imposes-further-sanctions-against-russia-belarus-784875).

Next door in Serbia, though, Aleksandar Vučić is a bit more pro-Russia. Ethnic cleansing buddies gotta support each other!

Useless_or_inept

&gt;So why did they decide to change their policy towards the Soviets?

Because the Whites never really cohered into an alternative, and were resoundingly defeated. With the Tsar dead and the majority of 'opposition' in exile, there was no chance of the government being replaced. The UK never *really* put a lot of import into supporting the Whites as it was, it was very much a sideshow to some other important goings-on at the time. After WWI was complete, and the lack of other options, it was either resume relations or essentially sulk.

flyliceplick

They wanted to establish trade with resource rich Russia. The only other concession received in the trade agreement was that the Soviets would stop supporting groups within Britain, the Empire, and Afghanistan seeking overthrow of the government or working against its interests. The trade agreement would be cancelled after the raid on the All-Russian Co-operative Society (ARCOS) office in Hampstead, London finding documents stolen from the War Ministry. Despite that, they would establish embassy relations in 1929.

The Soviet Union was a resource rich nation seeking electrification and to build an industry. Western nations, largely Britain, the US, and Germany, sought to take advantage of that. Germany had signed the treaty of Rapallo in 1922 and was secretly rebuilding its military and war industry in the Soviet Union. Hugh L. Cooper oversaw the construction of the dam and hydroelectric station on the Dnieper. Germany found a great market for machine tools. Averell Harriman, who would later become US Ambassador to the Soviet Union obtained concessions to extract manganese. Albert Kahn &amp; Associates designed over 1000 factories during the First Five Year Plan and helped oversee their construction. US corporations made millions in the Soviet Union while there was a depression back home. 

While the British did eventually support a spin-off from the old-tsarist regime, the Russian Civil War at times had two dozen different factions. At times, interventionist troops fought alongside Red Russians against White Finns and Germans; White Russians and national Balts against Red Russians and Red Balts; with Armenian Socialists against Turks and Azeris; with White Russians against nationalist Ukrainians; and with Poles against national Ukrainians and Red Russians.

2rascallydogs

I believe the British supported the independence of the Baltic States, so normalizing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union might have been part of encouraging the Soviet Union to let the Baltic States go (temporarily, of course).

Previous_Yard5795

Normalisation of relations and realpolitik, basically.

Snoo_85887

Britain's foreign policy for about 200 years was keep Europe at each other's throats and this required diplomatic contact with them all.

dracojohn

Realpolitik is a German word meaning, "a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or [ideological](https://www.google.com/search?num=10&amp;sca_esv=7031b7dbb708f9b4&amp;rlz=1CAOTWH_enUS1089&amp;sxsrf=ADLYWILd29OsDg3TKvx-23s0xztn9ODgTQ:1735397822403&amp;q=ideological&amp;si=ACC90nwZrNcJVJVL0KSmGGq5Ka2YtoZ1WACs10ZCKSCkS4Lc9QNHPD0GuU3bSkakK1Id46ycmxWT0xgN8pY0xW-fpxBl4qeBelfKQkLHjRMev52xO1W52K4%3D&amp;expnd=1&amp;sa=X&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiX_P3V3MqKAxXXIDQIHRDAKdsQyecJegQIHBAO) considerations."

There were plenty of people who hated Socialism/Communism and were plenty fearful of a large and powerful Soviet state promoting it around the world. At the same time however they had real world concerns which demanded engagement with the Russians. They had to put aside their emotional fear and hatred in order to ensure that debts Russia incurred during the War were somehow repaid (in part or in whole), to open a new market for the expansion of British trade, and in recognition that there was a functional government in Moscow that did not appear to be going away. The realpolitik decision was to open diplomatic channels to the Soviets and to work a deal, despite their fears.

edit: oh, poor OP isn't getting the answer they want

Fofolito

adofthekirk

Penguins on a uninhabited island i guess was more worthy of tariffs than Russia!

Ok_Philosopher_7239

John Bolton:

&gt;Trump has said many times publicly that he believes if he has good relations with a foreign head of state, then the U.S. has good relations with that country. And the opposite is also true. If he has bad relations with a foreign head of state, U.S. relations with that country are bad. **Trump thinks Putin is his friend. He trusts Putin.** He has said in just the past few weeks, “Putin says he wants peace, and I trust him. I think if he didn't want peace, he would tell me.” So that gives you a pretty good idea of how he sees Putin.

&gt;Now, *I don't think Putin thinks he's Trump's friend at all. I think Putin thinks Trump is an easy mark. And as a former KGB agent, Putin knows exactly how to manipulate him, and I think that's what he's been doing since the inauguration, if not before.*

&gt;[https://kyivindependent.com/putin-thinks-trump-is-an-easy-mark-john-bolton-says-in-interview/](https://kyivindependent.com/putin-thinks-trump-is-an-easy-mark-john-bolton-says-in-interview/)

To add some nuance to this, Trump genuinely admires Putin.  It's not so much kompromat as it is hero worship.  Trump wants to be like Putin when he grows up.

I405CA

Simply because Russia has something he wants. Which is ending the war (or more). Stupid that Ukraine wasn’t excluded. I understand excluding both sides of the conflict but this just further showcases us screwing our allies. (More than we already have.)

Its was strange seeing Cuba on the exclusion list, especially since we have been tariffing them since their inception, which significantly stunted their economy.

Ill_Pride5820

IronChariots

Or north Korea

Or Cuba

Or Belarus 

You know: Russia's allies 

Looks like we're at least a loose ally of that bloc, now.

JadeoftheGlade

Oh, somebody's dumb AF, but it isn't you.

drdpr8rbrts

Because Trump is owned lock stock and failed casino by Putin.

BigNorseWolf

Schoseff

duganaokthe5th

This is the question of the months.  Why do YOU think he’s not going after Russia on tariffs?  

I think it’s because Vladimir holds the cards.  Trump wants a ceasefire in Ukraine and for Russia to decouple from China.

128-NotePolyVA

Because trump has been a Russian asset since the mid 1980s.

DrCyrusRex

If Trump did it, Putin wouldn’t allow him to suck his cock, and Trump couldn’t tolerate that.

ShinyRobotVerse

Trump is corrupt, and too dumb to hide it.

NewMidwest

Probably because we’re in the middle of negotiating an end to a war with them and are trying to remain neutral

toomuchhp

GTIguy2

Because Vlad still has the pee tape. And like a million other blackmail assets.

Putin would probably have him assassinated if he did that.

LegitimateBeing2

Russia is already under heavy tariffs that Biden placed over the Ukraine War.  Can they get any heavier?  Note that Trump hasn't lifted any of the sanctions on Russia, so it's still doubtful that Trump is a Russian stooge.

Particular_Dot_4041

Fourwors

Some-Perception-4576

Opening-Idea-3228

He wouldn't do that to his lover good grief. But we have all hopefully seen what this trade war is about. For those going huh? It's about insider trading deals. Buy low sell high the stock market mantra.

jacktownann

ParfaitMajestic5339

gozer87

Maybe because they're trying to end the war in Ukraine?

Deveggoper

Donald won't be happy until McDonald's is back in Moscow.

HistorianSignal945

In 2024, Russia did $3 billion worth of exports to the United States in the long game in the if you look from abroad, view 3 billion is nothing. Even that 3 billion is going to be reduced even further, so is it really worth putting tariffs on $3 billion worth of goods, which most likely are just radioactive material and diamonds.

FatherVANSH

Lawineer

FGTRTDtrades

Because they are already sanctioned up the wazoo

Melvin_2323

It’s not about political allegiances, otherwise he would not have slapped a tariff on Israel.

The obvious answer is that the stupid chatgpt formula he used to calculate the tariffs was based on countries’ trade deficits with us.  Since Russia is globally sanctioned we do not have a trade deficit with them.

Sanctions are a much stronger stance than a tariff.

13beano13

Because it’s no more room for tariffs, Russia has already banned. Many sanctions still are there

The-Utimate-Vietlish

The USTR answered this question today at a hearing

Russia, NK, Cuba, did not receive any additional tariffs because existing sanctions, security risks, and embargos already amounts to significant trade restrictions on those countries


Jk he's obviously a commie owned puppet according to the Reddit politicos 🤡

Given NK, Iran, and Cuba were exempted as well, it probably has to do with already established Sanctions.

Sageblue32

Doesn’t Russia have sanctions placed upon them ?  Wouldn’t placing tariffs on top of sanctions imply we are trading with them ?  

I mean call me crazy but if we aren’t trading with you because of sanctions why would we place tarrifs. 

That essentially would be the childhood equivalent of your momma fat and ugly too

Aaarrrgghh1

I suspect it might be because we already don't trade with them. Of course, that doesn't explain the penguins . . .

GregHullender

711woobie

dewlitz

This has been explained at length.  Basically due to sanctions tariffs are obsolete.  Same reason why there’s no tariffs on Cuba, North Korea, Belarus and Iran etc.

The simple answer is we do not have a trade deficit with Russia because we do not trade with Russia. So when the interns asked chatGPT to make a list of countries where the US has a negative trade deficit, Russia did not appear on the list.

Ok-Tax2930

Because Russia is not an actual economic threat.

Fab_dangle

Because we don’t trade with them! Sanctions in place…you guys need to do research…

Interesting_Case_977

&gt;why did russia not get any tariffs when other sanctioned countries did?

Because they already have some tariffs on them, we do not meaningfully trade with Russia because of the sanctions and the tariffs, and we are trying to get Putin to the negotiating table.

Politi-Corveau

With regards to Georgia, a lot of people forget this happened as the 2007/2008 crisis was unfolding. You had US deep into an occupation in two countries, most of the world in a recession and you want to impose sanctions on Russia? Maybe could’ve worked but the politicians then had bigger problems to deal with.

lan69

In the early 1990s South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia, leading to two de facto states on what most internationally considered to be sovereign territory of Georgia.

The Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 was in part a reaction on Saakashvili's attempt to reintegrate these territories by force. Due to passportization efforts, many locals in these de facto states also had Russian nationality, so Russia made a claim of responsibility to protect/parallel with Kosovo. In a sense, it adopted the language that Westerns had previously used as to why state sovereignty should not be fully sacrosanct. 

In short, Western countries were against the Russian invasion, but also felt that Georgia had needlessly inflamed tensions. Convenient for Western leaders was that it was a very short war (5 days) and Russia did not advance all the way to Tblisi or attempt to occupy Georgia as a whole. After the war, Russia did recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but it did not annex them. Which leaves them in a weird limbo where they are fully dependent on Russia for everything, but also deemed 'independent' by Russia itself.

A change of government in the USA also meant that they desired a 'reset' with Russia more than an obscure long term conflict in the Caucasus. 

Western response to the annexation of Crimea was harsher, but it was a great advantage for Russia that it happened with little blood loss and under the smoke screen of 'independent' little green men. The fiction of Russophone separatists in Ukraine first going for self-government in Crimea and the people's republics in the Donbas and only then seeking integration with Russia created at least a veneer of legality. This made it different than a full scale invasion ('special military operation') into the rest of Ukraine.

PoliticalAnimalIsOwl

IIRC, sanctions were placed against Russia in the wake of its annexation of Crimea

Aliprice14

Ready for downvotes, but the situation in 2008 was not as black and white as the invasion of Ukraine. I can talk specifically about Abkhazia. They definitely do not want to be part of Georgia. There was a war in Abkhazia (1992-1993) and both sides hold grudges against each other. Not that they want to be part of Russia either. Technically they are independent, but not recognised by most of the international community. Nobody cares because these two republics are small and geopolitically irrelevant. Putin keeps them as border states and both are economically dependent on Russian supplies. 

Saakashvili miscalculated in 2008, probably thinking that the West would support him in his "special military operation". The US didn't care and Europe (especially France) thought it was better to appease Putin than to escalate because the situation on the ground is not so simple. Besides, it was almost 16 years ago. Technically, a young "liberal" "president" Medvedev was in charge and Putin himself had a reasonable reputation.

I personally had the experience of discussing this issue with both Georgians and Abkhazians. Both had very compelling and passionate arguments, so I don't think I have a horse in this race. Just like the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Both sides have their arguments.

pass_it_around

Because the potential loss of land mass did not outweigh Western business interest. Who gives a damn to whom these small patches of land belong, really, especially since nobody is willing to fight for it?  

Crimea was a little closer "home", but still the sanctions imposed were laughable, prioritizing preservation of business interests, and basically have signalled Russia it can go ahead with its campaign in Ukraine.

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