Germany has an unprecedented export boom to Kyrgyzstan, with exports up 1400% in the first 8 months of 2023 versus the same period in 2019 (blue). But lots of these goods never make it to Kyrgyzstan, which shows far lower imports from Germany (black). This stuff goes to Russia…

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  1. The last two German governments spent a lot of money, political capital and time to get German industry into Russia at the very highest levels it’s utterly naive to think they’re going to fully decouple even if the German government wants them to

  2. So sanction Kyrgyzstan and the companies from Germany avoiding sanctions.

  4. The poor German worker has got to eat. They only want this thing to be over.

  5. German companies and sanction violations just seem to naturally go together.

    It always amazes me that North Korea has a fleet of MD500 helicopters. It was a German company that facilitated that transaction.

  6. This is a very good example of shaping up the “Germany bad” narrative.

    This story was first [majorly pushed](https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1704806960569180287) by Visegrad24, which is a twitter account pretending to be a news outlet [that has ties to the polish PiS party](https://visegradinsight.eu/polish-misinformation-using-a-hungarian-recipe-the-curious-case-of-visegrad-24/), which has been shitting on Germany nonstop since inception.

    [Originally, the graph included a bunch of other countries](https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1688631557781692416), like Poland and Czechia, who had similar (for Czechia) or **even much larger** **(for Poland) relative increases in exports to Kyrgyztan.**

    Not to mention that the trade volumes relative to the economic size of those countries absolutely **dwarf** Germany’s exports.

    But of course, only the variant pushed by Visegrad24, which excludes all the other central and eastern european countries and **only depicts Germany,** gets circulated everywhere.

    **EDIT**: Full graph [HERE](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F284HVsXgAA89af?format=png&name=small). Note that it is in **absolute** values, and not relative increase – which is a weird choice for that kind of data presentation to start with:

  7. Yeah, we all know trade is going through the stans, but I don’t think the graph shows what mr Brooks suggests it does.

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