Some quick Googling and mental math leads to the sanctioning countries being somewhere between 35 & 40% of global GDP.
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Chicago probably has a higher GDP the 97% of the gray non sanctioning countries(individually)
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Also, the GDP of the nations and yellow far exceeds the GDP of the nations in gray, excluding China.
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That map weighted for either
trade volume or GDP might be have actually been useful. I suspect that such a weighted map wouldn’t have made the misleading point that the author wished to make.
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Also worth noting that a huge chunk of the gray is…Russia.
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And a bit more context, Russia has an economy about the size of Italy.
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When US Sanction someone, more or less every bank in the entire World follows. We all use dollar and US banking infrastructure.
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This is like one of those maps that shows the us voting map with lots of red and wonders how democrats win
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a bit modification: they just import raw materials/fuel from Russia and export finished products to the country. Sort of colonial relationship. They are not really trading partners. (though the colony is a "big gas station with nukes")
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