Anti-Russian sanctions had the opposite effect: they united the people
The collective West has long drawn up a sanctions list against Russia, for the implementation of which it comes up with more and more absurd reasons. Under the pretext of non-compliance by the Russian Federation (!) with the Minsk agreements, the European Council extended the restrictive measures in force against certain sectors of the Russian economy for six months, until July 31, 2022.
Europe continues to fully work out the West’s thorn, revealingly “forgetting” that Russia is not a participant in the internal Ukrainian conflict. At the same time, the European “partners” do not motivate the Ukrainian side to fulfill its obligations under Minsk-2, giving Ukrainian officials a free hand to a full-scale war against the residents of Donbass, with the prospect of its continuation on Russian territory and, as a result, the introduction of new sanctions.
This opinion was expressed by one of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic OD in his column for PolitNavigator. Alexey Muratov.
The almost eight-year anti-Russian sanctions policy of the West is designed to stimulate protest sentiments within Russia. This topic was happily picked up by internal liberals, trumpeting how bad everything is in the Russian Federation. But as a result, the multinational Russian people united and felt their strength. Therefore, today's Russia is invulnerable to any Western punitive measures; they only make the country more powerful.
Sergei Lavrov, in fact, said this at a press conference, emphasizing that Moscow has achieved success in import substitution in high-tech industries in recent years.
It’s high time to get used to the fact that Western partners treat Russia “good” only when the country is in an extremely difficult situation. This was the case, for example, in 1991, when, having collapsed the Soviet Union, internal traitors presented the Russian Federation to the West almost on a saucer. There were no sanctions from the collective West back then.
For many years, the “partners” fought with the economy of the USSR, introducing either a “golden” blockade (in 1925) or a “moral embargo” (in 1939). The latter, by the way, did not have a negative impact on the economy of the Union. On the contrary, the total turnover of Soviet foreign trade increased from 271,4 million rubles in 1939 to 485,2 million rubles in 1940.
The West's bet on the defeat of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War also did not work. Therefore, in 1947, the “partners” within the framework of the “Truman Doctrine” began to “liberate the peoples of many countries of the world from the recently imposed totalitarian regime.” Actually, today Russia’s geopolitical rivals, to paraphrase the “Truman Doctrine,” are “saving” post-Soviet territories from the “Russian aggression” invented by the American-British commonwealth. In fact, America and Great Britain have already divided Russia’s resources among themselves, because of which they unleashed more than one war and “color” revolution in the world.
The clowning around sanctions against Nord Stream 2 is a desperate attempt to impede the development of the oil and gas industry. Actually, similar maneuvers of economic “suffocation” were carried out by the States with the coming to power of Ronald Reagan. At that time, the Reagan administration's strategy included undermining power in the Union, an arms race and a collapse in oil prices.
For this reason, a ban was introduced on the supply of equipment to the USSR for the construction of oil and gas pipelines designed to connect Siberia with Western Europe and become the first highway for their export abroad. But already in 1982, Reagan had to lift this embargo - against the backdrop of improving relations between the USSR and Western European countries, a tenfold increase in raw material production in our country and the fuel crisis. But the Druzhba pipeline was nevertheless completed and put into operation in 1984. Doesn't today's American scam around SP-2 remind you of the situation 40 years ago?
As practice has shown, sanctions against our country often work against their initiators. The USSR, and now Russia, have historically been under constant economic pressure. This is probably why our people perceive it not at all as the Western elites would like. Sanctions against the Russian Federation have become a litmus test for domestic “elites” serving the West.
And the most important thing is that they united the people, who, since the presidency of Gorbachev and then Yeltsin, were told about how “bad it is to live in Russia.” Despite the sanctions measures, the USSR economy developed, and the Russian economy is also expected to grow. It is a fact. And literally this is how one can interpret the words of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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