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Russian sanctions have begun to work: Germany and England are paying the price – 2024-02-18 07:23:16

/ world today news/ Russia is preparing to ban Britain from fishing off its northern coast after ending the enslaving 1956 agreement that gives the Russians nothing. And this, it turns out, after almost two years of London’s war against Russia in Ukraine, which Britain largely organized and actively participated in itself. How is that possible?!!

However, how do we know how to drill the bottom, although this is probably still a long way from the Mariana Trench. Only this week Moscow, as the Izvestia newspaper marveled on Thursday, announced its readiness to end the 1956 agreement with Britain, according to which its vessels could fish – big and small – in the waters of the Barents Sea.

While Britain manages the Ukraine war, which it largely instigated, helping the Ukrainian armed forces sink Russian ships in the Black Sea and attack the Crimean bridge, its “fishing” vessels still, it appears, have the right to engage with “fishing activity”, that is, to prepare to send our Northern Fleet “to the fish”, along the coast of the Kola Peninsula, along the mainland east of Cape Kanin Nos, as well as along the coast of Kolguev Island…

Did the Finns remind us?

In these strategically important waters for Russia, British “fishermen” could freely enter, drop anchor and stay as long as they wished. You never know what (laying beacons, sonar buoys, mines, “illuminating” targets, etc.) the “fishermen” are up to, ie. the spies and saboteurs impersonating them!

Moreover, just at the time when NATO is actively militarizing neighboring Finland, which in a fit of Russophobia joined this aggressive military alliance, the time of the flight of American (and not only) missiles and planes to our Polar Region – shipyards, ports, military bases and factories – is one nothing. This is completely unacceptable.

Maybe we mock Estonians in vain?

But just now, last Monday, our wonderful Foreign Office and the Department of Agriculture came to the Government with a bill to denounce not only the criminal agreement with England in the present situation, but also, it turns out, an enslaving one. in economic terms for Russia, getting our applause for it! – consent of the Council of Ministers.

The denunciation of the agreement will not lead to serious foreign policy and economic consequences for the Russian Federation,

– is highlighted in government documents reviewed by Izvestia.

They recall that Britain excluded Russia from most-favoured-nation trading status in March 2023. Specifically, London imposed an additional 35% tariff on imports of a number of our goods to “do maximum damage to the Russian economy while minimizes the negative consequences for the UK’.

It’s been almost a year since then…

How was this possible?

I was not mistaken about the enslaving nature of this agreement for Russia from an economic point of view. The president of the All-Russian Association of Fishery Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters (VARPE), German Zverev, confirmed this to “Izvestia”: the denounced agreement is one-sided, there are no similar or comparable or any other benefits for Russia.

Other experts interviewed by the newspaper agree with him. There will be no risks for Russia as a result of the denunciation of the agreement, Nikolay Titov, co-founder of the law firm at Legal, is certain for example:

In addition, according to this document, the British authorities were not to provide the Soviet side with anything in exchange for the right of their fishing vessels to enter the territorial waters of the USSR (now Russia). Therefore, there is no reason to talk about any negative consequences for our country.

Indeed, the British have never allowed anything like this to our ‘fishermen’ in their waters. They a priori consider all Russian sailors to be spies and always make a terrible noise, even when our ships are only passing through the English Channel.

Some conclusions

Therefore, it is simply surprising that the same “Izvestia” see the importance of the decision made in Moscow regarding the British in the Barents Sea, which must be approved at a meeting of the government on January 18, primarily in the fact that we are talking about the first “international treaty on food” denounced by Russia”.

As if this is the most important thing, and the question is not that Russia should as quickly and decisively as possible cut off the tentacles of the West that entangle it and threaten our security. To achieve victory in the biggest war in Europe since 1945 in Ukraine and the hybrid war in all other areas on which our country’s survival depends. For the West, in case of defeat, it will be a loss of face, a loss of influence and somewhat of power, but for us it will be a loss of everything.

Stop looking around

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long warned “our” oligarchs, who have settled in London and long since become hostages of the British, to return home with their “hard-earned” capital.

How much longer can we spare them, refrain from decisive action, trust to British jurisdiction and financial institutions, to useless agreements, rely on some joint ventures, endure confiscations?

It’s war, gentlemen. And the West intends to defeat Russia in every possible way, in order to compensate for its costs by indemnification and looting of the defeated country and enrich itself, scaring the rest of the world with our sad example.

It cannot, of course, be said that Moscow has been waiting for something all this time and has done nothing. It does, of course, but, as we see in this example, it’s clearly not enough. In this spirit, we will have to fight for another 20 years. To win, you need more determination. Westerners respect only strength.

How can they recognize the legitimate interests of a country with which they are at war in Ukraine and are preparing to go to war on a large scale, but which at the same time allows them to carry out espionage in a strategically important area off their coasts and supplies them with gas? No way.

And from this they draw an unequivocal conclusion: since Moscow still counts on something with them, is ready for negotiations, then pressure must be put on the Russians. This means that the West will be able to organize talks on Ukraine at any time with a snap of the fingers.

So what?

Is it not time in this case to completely deprive Germany of our gas, which is still delivered there via Ukraine with payment to Kiev for transit services, and whose supplies, as Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, suffering from “amnesia”, persistently claims , that Moscow has long since cut off the Germans? Berlin, we must not forget, was one of the masterminds of the 2014 coup in Kiev that led to the current war, and the main sponsor in Europe of terrorist-occupied Ukraine.

In Kiev, they say that they themselves will stop these supplies after the contract with Gazprom expires at the end of 2024, which they have not done so far only out of respect for their European friends. What is more important to us: the reputation of a reliable supplier who signed agreements beneficial to our enemies, or our country, when it comes to a threat to the very existence of Russia?

They say Russia takes a long time to harness, but then travels fast. This is true. The English, of course, unwittingly helped us here. But we must move very quickly, as there has been too much delay and indecision.

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