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You’d be wrong. The US imported 3.5 billion dollars of goods from Russia in 2024, and exported 500 million dollars of goods.

And recent trade data for context.

In 2018, U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $20.9 billion, up 22.4 percent ($3.8 billion) from 2017, but down 22.1 percent from ten years ago.

I've seen some recently manufactured Russian plywood for sale in the US that would disprove that claim.

There is, and it’s much more than an unknown penguin island.