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I'm Adrian Ma.

And I'm Patty Hirsch.

Last week, Russia's Prime Minister announced that Russia will spend $9 billion to rebuild

its supply chains.

And we probably all know about supply chains by this point, right?

And we know how the pandemic has showed us how countries really rely on each other to

get stuff made.

Well, Russia is a huge importer of parts for the things that it makes, which means its

supply chains are highly dependent on good trading relations with other countries.

And as you might expect, a lot of those relationships are fraying right now.

And rebuilding the supply chain for a product is not a small thing.

It means making huge changes to where the component parts of products are made.

And that's especially true if you want to basically replicate the entire supply chain

for a product made in one country and bring it to another.

For example, imagine if we decided to make that Irish classic beer Guinness stout entirely

here in the US.

That is a nice standing example Adrian.

I approve.

I don't know what that says about me, but you know, cheers.

Anyway, you might not approve if you actually had to make this beer because you'd have to

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