As if 2 years of lockdowns, forced business closures, movement restrictions, vaccine mandates, and simultaneous money printing by the central banks wasn't enough. Europe has been moving to kill the farming sector using some green bullshit.
But really the next biggest government caused crisis is in the energy market. Russia basically supplies the whole of Europe with gas. There is no substitute for this. Some liquefied natural gas can be shipped in from abroad, but the infrastructure or capacity doesn't exist to completely fill the void. Prices are already sky absolutely rocketing. Many business will be simply forced to close, maybe entire industries, and users are going to be hit with astronomical bills. This could really break many countries.
All this feels like deliberate economic warfare against the middle / lower class. It turns out Boris Johnson and other western leaders may have deliberately sabotaged peace talks -> https://www.gulf-insider.com/western-allies-led-by-uks-johnson-sabotaged-tentative-ukraine-russia-peace-deal/ ie the war could have been over by now.
It seems politicians are so eager and willing to 'harm' Russia the are willing to kill their own countries to do it. Maybe this is all part of the great reset, since the covid narrative imploded.
How about US nearly total dependence on Russian and China titanium, nickel, vanadium, rare earth metals and other highly critical and even strategic stuff? Did any US leader insisted on getting rid of that dependence?
From the other side, who pushed Germany to cancelling NordStream2 (meanwhile, it does not use any critical western parts, it's runs on russian made turbines) and all that stupid sanctions and green garbage? Wasn't that same US?
It's just another obvious elites hypocrisy.
Every business will prefer most profitable option for sellers to buy from and buyers to sell to. If state began to interfere with business decisions, then things could go very wrong, up to complete destruction of whole industries.
From the third side, AFAIK, there is laws in some of US states that directly prohibit boycotting of Israel. :)
Obviously, business prefer to trade with orcs more than with elves in little hats, so the state even have to forcefully prohibit trade with orcs, and punish business for not trading with elves.
Freedom of trade in Clown World in all its glory.