

How?
If he plans to buy a golden card to flee Russia, he would prefer hist destination to be a stable country. If he plans on using the US as military support, he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich, as long as it doesn’t also help his enemies… And Canada and Mexico are not on the Russian list of enemies (or at least not until recently, Canada probably is now).
That’s some serious retaliatory action there on China.
Their government has always been very wary of getting between their population and pork.