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Economic damage is not necessarily bad if it’ll hurt your political opponents. Suddenly, the guy who doesn’t have a good grip like Putin has a pretty decent one. In a very short amount of time.

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It hurts everyone when 70-75% of all trade happens with NATO+ members - countries that Serbia would directly be in a state of war with if they enter Kosovo and break the Kumanova Agreement.

Even Russia never had that level of dependency on NATO+ trade partners before 2022 or before 2014.

Russian trade volume was 57% NATO members before the war, and close to 80 if you count Western allies.

I'm just counting NATO, EU, and Montenegro. 70-75% of all trade in Serbia was from NATO, EU, and Montenegro, which is still significant.

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