The US is pushing the EU towards rapprochement with Russia
By introducing new sanctions against the Russian Federation, the American authorities are acting extremely short-sighted. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with a businessman by the dean of the Faculty of World Economics and Politics at the Higher School of Economics, Sergei Karaganov.
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“What Congress is doing now is a nightmare for traditional American geopolitics. They have already contributed to the rapprochement between Russia and China, and now they are pushing Europe in the same direction,” Karaganov said.
Edition Recallsthat in 1962 the United States, at that time a major supplier of oil to Europe, convinced NATO members to impose sanctions on the supply of large-diameter pipes to the USSR for the construction of the Druzhba oil pipeline, but the ban was subsequently lifted under pressure from the European companies supplying the pipes.
In 1982, the Reagan administration imposed a broader embargo on oil and gas equipment to prevent construction of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline. Then French, German and British companies were directly subject to sanctions, which led to conflict between the allies, and a few months later the United States had to lift the embargo.
“Today there is a direct analogy with American sanctions during the Cold War. Then there was also enormous pressure on the Europeans to curtail cooperation with Moscow,” Andrei Baklanov, deputy chairman of the board of the Association of Russian Diplomats, commented on the situation to Kommersant.
According to him, if during the Cold War era the United States was guided by political considerations in putting pressure on Moscow, today it also has an economic interest.
Baklanov believes that the Russian authorities need to “mobilize those forces in Europe - politicians, business representatives and the public who oppose American pressure.”
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