[credit_guy]

> Oil and gas are the only reliable Russian exports.

Just to corroborate this, I found this interesting website [1].

"The top exports of Russia are Crude Petroleum ($75.7B), Refined Petroleum ($43.1B), Petroleum Gas ($16B), Coal Briquettes ($10.4B) and Raw Aluminium ($6.08B)"

[1] https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/rus/

[doombolt]

It is also an eye-opener that food is so cheap these days you can make more from selling Diamonds mined at 2-3 locations than from selling Wheat grown all over the map.