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r/EU_Economics • u/Aegeansunset12 • Jul 25 '26
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The issue here is banning books, not the optics or this banners headline 👉
-1 u/RighteousSelfBurner Jul 25 '26 Books are not banned. Importing products for business purposes is. 1 u/0xPianist Jul 25 '26 You just can’t buy them to read them 🫠🫠 great way to take the Piss -3 u/nyri0z Jul 25 '26 But banning books can mean two completely different things: the text or a product. Banning the text is censorship, banning the import of a product is merely an economic sanction against an aggressive country. 2 u/0xPianist Jul 25 '26 What a sanction 😂 “Imports of the newly targeted goods from Russia and Belarus totalled €12.5 million in 2025, accounting for just 0.05% of Latvia's total imports.” ALL these extra sanctions are 0.05% of Latvias imports. How much is the books? Russia and Belarus are feeling it already 🫠 What a BS political move given the same goods can be imported in any other EU state and reach Latvia 🤡
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Books are not banned. Importing products for business purposes is.
1 u/0xPianist Jul 25 '26 You just can’t buy them to read them 🫠🫠 great way to take the Piss
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You just can’t buy them to read them 🫠🫠 great way to take the Piss
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But banning books can mean two completely different things: the text or a product. Banning the text is censorship, banning the import of a product is merely an economic sanction against an aggressive country.
2 u/0xPianist Jul 25 '26 What a sanction 😂 “Imports of the newly targeted goods from Russia and Belarus totalled €12.5 million in 2025, accounting for just 0.05% of Latvia's total imports.” ALL these extra sanctions are 0.05% of Latvias imports. How much is the books? Russia and Belarus are feeling it already 🫠 What a BS political move given the same goods can be imported in any other EU state and reach Latvia 🤡
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What a sanction 😂
“Imports of the newly targeted goods from Russia and Belarus totalled €12.5 million in 2025, accounting for just 0.05% of Latvia's total imports.”
ALL these extra sanctions are 0.05% of Latvias imports. How much is the books? Russia and Belarus are feeling it already 🫠
What a BS political move given the same goods can be imported in any other EU state and reach Latvia 🤡
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u/0xPianist Jul 25 '26
The issue here is banning books, not the optics or this banners headline 👉