ahh those sanctions ..
Volkswagen considers historic German plant closures in cost drivehttps://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagen-warns-possible-plant-closures-germany-2024-09-02/guess that happens when a company loses cheap, reliable, russian gas .. and allows the nordstream pipelines to be blown up ..
naturally with sanctions .. german car manufacturers cannot sell into the russian market - so russians are now buying chinese cars ..
Prior to the February 2022 invasion, Chinese cars accounted for less than 10% of the Russian market. In August this year, Chinese brands' share of sales peaked at almost 56%, data from analytical agency Autostat and its partner consulting company PPK showed.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/chinese-car-sales-boom-russia-levels-off-amid-shaky-local-recovery-2023-11-24/note .. story was from nov last year
lol lol guess the russians do not impose 100% tariffs on chinese electric vehicles (
like the americans)
also no surprise that the russians love st poots who got about 80% of the vote in recent prez elections ..
german sergeant (
i know nothing) schulz .. popularity down in the gutter ..
how come the russians are so blessed to have such a great leader like st poots ...
watso has heard rumours that st petersberg is to be renamed st pootsberg ...
another rumour doing the rounds is that st poots is really the second coming of christ .. all will be revealed on st poots 80th birthday ..
(
and americans voted for biden .. ; australians voted for albo ; germans for schulze; english for boris etc etc)
