Unfortunately we are an American and french/german colony, with the various masters something playing with different italian puppets (politician and fake entrepreneurs) that always act against Italian interests.
That is very unfortunate for you guys... perhaps when you man up and can control your own country then Russia can have honest and open business ties with you... until then why trade there and risk being kidnapped?
But this move will result to Russia losing business partners in the region.
In the short term it might, but Italy doesn't do business with Russia for charity, they do it to make money, so this will cost them some money.
The question is, will the US compensate them for money lost and if they don't will Italy put up with losing business and contracts with Russia and presumably China and any other country the US does not like at the time, or will they man up and tell the US to fuck off and mind their own business.
just recently both Russia and Italy are in good terms, what is horrifying is how fast the US managed to cripple pro-Russian voices in the Italian government and replace them with pro NATO/ pro EU/ pro US ones.
So what you are actually saying is that Russia and Italy used to be on good terms and Italy is now basically hostile to Russia... that is OK... there are lots of other countries around the world that are keen to trade with Russia who want to do honest business and earn money.
Same thing happened in Austria. If Russia did the same, US would bitch about Russian meddling/ expansion in Europe, but if the US did it there is hardly any noise.
Why are you blaming the US? Europe allows itself to be used by the Americans... Europe is to blame for this cowardice.
Either way it is not Russias problem, they are not the world police, they don't have to right wrongs and fix injustices... they will find other partners to do business with, they have plenty of options.
Russia should task its TV networks to mirror the same dirty tactics used by American propaganda tv channels and run damaging investigative documentaries of Italian politicians conniving with American agents to advance imperial American interests at the expense of Italy etc.
Russia will remain a good country to trade with as long as it doesn't start to replicate the bullshit the US and the British and the French and the west in general tends to pull on the countries it trades with.
The west constitutes only a tiny portion of the worlds population and only a small part of the countries in the world... Russia can do better than to waste their time with those conniving losers.
Recently, Salvini has been booted out of the government, he is a well known Russia friendly politician, and for months US media has launched propaganda materials to assassinate his political reputation. His recent political misfortune can only be the result of a concerted effort by the US to bring down Russia friendly politicians across the world.
Indeed, in the short term they can appear to win, but look at Syria and Iraq and even Yemen... in the short term it looked like the US had destroyed some long term enemies and helped its allies take control of situations, but the results are that Assad is still in power and stronger than ever before... never before has Syria had an air defence network able to stop Israeli aircraft flying all over its airspace at will, and Iran is in there now right on Israeli borders. Saddam is gone but the majority are shia muslims like Iran... another gain for Iran and democracy in the region (ironic that isn't it?), and Yemen is probably costing Saudi Arabia a small fortune... they can afford it.... but with current oil prices... actually no they can't afford it... and Iran is helping out there too... the Americans have done more in the Middle East in the last decade or so to massively improve the position of Russia and Iran than they have done to help themselves... it has cost them billions of dollars too, with pretty much nothing to show for it.
And Russia is NOT doing enough to counter these moves by the US. Russia needs to work even harder to collapse the American economy, as this is the main enabler of unrestricted American interference across the world.
The problem there is that a US collapse could result in WWIII and is not really in anyones interests.
It would be better for the US to pull its head in and realise it is no longer top dog, and shares the table with other countries that it needs to start treating with respect or it might end up like North Korea or Cuba itself...
I am not like America... I don't like them but I really don't want to see them fail and collapse... I don't want to see any country collapse.
I want to see a lot of countries progress and succeed, including Russia and China and Brazil and Venezuela and Vietnam and Korea, but that does not require any other country to fail for them to succeed.
We all win if everyone wins. The mindset for so long has been not only do I need to win, but I need to make everyone else fail to make my win look more spectacular... what sort of ass hole thinks that?