/ world today news/ The war against Russia is being fought not only on the Ukrainian battlefield. The West is trying to destroy the Russian economy. His weapon is the notorious sanctions. Why do they hardly work and why has Russia put up with them for so long? Some hidden meanings of this are in the material of Tsarigrad.
The rag economy? Why not?
In February 2014, the Russian Spring began – the return of Crimea and Sevastopol to their home port. At the same time began a period of large, deadly, fatal, whatever you call it, sanctions that the US and its allies applied against Russia. Their goal was to stop the country’s expansion and restore historical justice.
Their goal was to return Russia to a unipolar world in which the United States (or rather the forces that actually control the United States, let’s call them “globalists” for simplicity) alone, without regard to anyone else, decide how to develops humanity..
Back in January 2015, then US President Barack Obama announced that “the Russian economy has been torn to pieces.”
As it turned out, Comrade Obama somewhat exaggerated the effectiveness of the sanctions. The Russian economy was not torn to pieces neither in 2015, nor in Covid 2020, nor in 2022.
However, it cannot be said that the Americans did not try. After the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, until March 7, 2022, Russia became the world record holder for the number of sanctions imposed on it (until then, this honorable place in the world community was occupied by Iran). In March, the number of Russian individuals and legal entities under sanctions reached 7,116.
Around the same time, the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, made a funny but very characteristic mistake. In one of his speeches, he said that the dollar in Russia had risen to 200 rubles.
It was a statement made, as seven years earlier by Obama, relying on the enormous effectiveness of the West’s measures against Russia. The mistake was not in a specific figure, but in the approach itself. It was assumed that once cut off from the Western economy, Russia would immediately collapse. It turned out that nothing of the sort happened.
An order based on foreign rules
Later, the number of sanctions continued to grow – and there is no doubt that it will continue to grow. But once the record is set, no one in the world will be able to beat it anyway, so the third, fifth, tenth, etc. EU sanctions packages, the new US sanctions decisions no longer caused such interest in the world.
Sanctions were imposed, Russia retaliated, the situation in the Russian economy turned out to be better than in the economies of all European countries, the war continued.
It is now quite clear that the infamous sanctions will never be lifted. The New World Order will be built on the mutual “erasure” of the West and Russia and the isolation of the West, that is, the Anglo-Saxons and their satellites, from the rest of humanity.
But here the question arises, which today does not seem empty at all: why did the situation of the “sanctions war” become possible at all? Why did the idea of their deadly effectiveness arise? And is it possible to imagine a world in which Russia is the first to impose sanctions on the US? And for what, for example?
Anglo-Saxons like to talk about a “rules-based world order” lately. Violators of the rules are subject to sanctions. The Hegemon sets the rules at his discretion. Why is he a hegemon? Because it is he who issues practically the only world reserve currency.
In this regard, its GDP, together with its satellites, makes up about half of the entire world economy (and Russia’s GDP in this calculation system is from 2% of the world economy in nominal dollars to 4% when converted to purchasing power parity ).
The richest of all commands all the poorer. In fact, this is the only rule that should guide the world in the views of the West. If, of course, we leave aside the chatter about “values” and “democracy”.
Why have the “rules” been ineffective against Russia, and the sanctions for breaking those rules have worked, but not quite as well as they should? Because money backed by nothing is of course good if everyone agrees to pay with it.
But, as is typical, an English economist a few centuries earlier wrote, “he needs no gold when he simply has a product.” From a “mere product” perspective, Russia controls not 2% or 4% of world GDP, but about a quarter of the planet’s energy resources.
In a “rules-based world”, sanctions should limit the movement of these energy carriers – but everyone suffers from sanctions, and consumers even more than those who supply oil and gas.
Sanctions were needed before
Russia’s ideas about how the world should work are not like America’s. Russia does not want world hegemony. But what if it behaves as the United States is now trying to behave, limiting the sovereignty and independence of other countries. Why would we unilaterally impose sanctions on the United States?
It is not difficult to say: it is quite obvious that the United States is the most aggressive country on the planet. They literally do nothing but start wars.
It is generally accepted that in the 21st century, the United States has initiated many wars in various countries around the world. Here are some of them.
– The US started the war in Afghanistan in 2001. In 2014, Obama announced that everything would soon be over and US troops would leave Afghanistan, but Joe Biden actually played the retreat – in August 2021. It was an ignominious escape. The war lasted 20 years and claimed the lives of 21,000 civilians, according to the most conservative UN estimates.
– In 2003, the war in Iraq began. To unleash it, the US had to lie to the UN about the Iraqi leader possessing weapons of mass destruction and chemical weapons. Iraq was included by US President Bush in the “axis of evil” – along with Iran and North Korea.
The Iraq war is believed to have lasted until 2011. In fact, it is more correct to consider it as continuing to this day. It is estimated that about 300,000 Iraqis have become direct victims of the war – but these are figures of the United States itself, in Iraq they name completely different numbers.
– In 2011, the US and its allies invaded Libya and destroyed the Libyan state. (It should be noted that this is indirectly the fault of Russia, which together with China abstained from voting in the UN Security Council instead of vetoing a Western resolution.)
The war in Libya continues to this day – now without the direct involvement of the USA and NATO. The death toll is difficult to count, but far exceeds the 4,000 direct casualties of NATO bombing.
– In 2011, the war in Syria began. It is generally accepted that the United States intervened directly in the war in 2014, although Obama allowed his intelligence agencies and military to assist the Syrian rebels as early as 2012.
After the US intervention in Syria, at least 220,000 people died – this is again UN data. It was possible to stabilize the situation in Syria only thanks to the direct intervention of Russia.
– In addition to these wars, which are relatively well-known in our country, during these 20 years the USA fought in Africa – in Liberia and Cameroon, as well as in Yemen – on the Arabian Peninsula. Everywhere – for their hegemony.
Everywhere, with the exception of Syria, Russia limited itself to actually mild reprimands to the aggressor. And what would happen if sanctions were imposed and what might they be?
It is not at all difficult to answer this question in retrospect: if the US hit us by restricting our trade, then Russia could have started doing the same much earlier than 2022: that is, stopping or restricting oil and gas supplies, and also stop following international copyright law.
The curtailment of Russian energy supplies has already caused prices to rise several times in Europe – and this is only the beginning.
Why hasn’t Russia done this before? Perhaps, in fact, our financial system was not ready for this. Or maybe the illusion of the possibility of reaching an agreement remained – after all, they tried to negotiate until January 2022 …
But there will be no more attempts. The “rules-based world” dictated by the US has ceased to exist.
What follows from this?
Russia is an incredible power. In the international arena, it (unlike its Western “partners”) operates according to the rules. According to the rules prescribed after World War II in the United Nations Charter. according to the rules of international relations.
It is our great misfortune that we adhered to these rules to the last and even longer. And we wanted the same from the West. Moreover, we understood very well: for the West, rules are something that it can only be forced to follow by force. The SVO in Ukraine and the beginning of a direct confrontation with the West was a great boon – Russia finally found itself in a situation where you can no longer try to verbally object to a thug with a gun in his hands. At war as at war.
Translation: SM
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