>>218>other countries were hurt more by Russia with cutting off food imports and travel1. The Russian government is much more stupid than its people. Food is still flowing East.
2. Russia's trade balance is highly un-resilient and defined by increasingly diversified raw exports and Russia's pipelines to alternative markets are years from use.
3. Russia doesn't make or export anything that can't be found elsewhere and their share of the market on all things will not have a detrimental impact on prices more widely. (also, see 1. exports will still happen and keep the global price from moving much at all)
>Support for the IS GroupNone of the places you mentioned support the group as much as Assad:
1. He gives them electricity
2. He released them from his prisons in a cynical attempt to kill of his revolutionaries
3. He and Russia are not conducting significant offensive operations against the group.
4. He buys their oil
5. He kills their enemies
6. He drives recruits to their cause through indiscriminate and disproportionate unjust, warfare
The US-led coalition against IS, on the other hand, just cut IS Group territory in two.