Again anti-Russian sanctions, again Europe and the United States at once, this time because of Navalny.
The "author" of the European package was the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell.
These are the diplomats of Europe now - instead of mending relations, they are engaged in unraveling them.
Well, okay, as our chief diplomat Sergei Lavrov noted, Russia does not insist on breaking off relations with the EU, but it will not cry out loud either.
American sanctions are simply the height of duplicity and hypocrisy.
The sanctions affect areas where we have never had cooperation - for example, the supply of American weapons.
The last time something like this was in 1945, if I'm not mistaken.
The United States also refused to help us.
I remember when I was a child there were "Bush's legs" and some other little edible American food, but as far as I know, these were commercial supplies, not help.
But if there is help, then according to the principle "take, God, what is useless for us."
Russia gave up on American rubber food in the first place, and now it is extremely difficult to find foreign chicken in the store.
Of course, there are no sanctions in the space sphere - despite Elon Musk's loud PR, the Americans have flown and continue to fly into space with our rocket engines.
And, mind you, no one shouts there "space is lost", "everything is lost."
They just use ours on the sly and slowly develop their engines.
I never understood why we are helping them in this - do we really need money so much?
Well, okay, let him use it, he won't lose it.
I don’t know about you, but I have to admit that I’m tired of this tedious chopping off of a cat’s tail in parts for a long time.
Of course, the volume of the US and EU economies is incomparable with ours, and this situation cannot be changed in the coming years.
But we may well create an economy completely independent of them, given that everything is produced in China, and there are more and more wealthy consumers in Southeast Asia.
And Africa is also moving forward, they need important infrastructure projects that Russia could implement on a mutually beneficial basis.
This is some kind of psychotrauma of the Soviet era, it seems to me.
Like, we need parity with the West, and we must help the South and East, because we are kind internationalists.
The West has gone mad and is actively engaged in self-destruction.
Why do we need parity with the doomed?
And even if the European civilization once again turns around, they will again try to do it at our expense, as it happened three times in the twentieth century!
Therefore, it is enough petty to consider who they imposed sanctions against, and how we responded, and to what extent our anti-sanctions counterbalance their sanctions, and so on.
Now, in the era of closed borders, none of our citizens who are accustomed to vacationing in Europe will even notice if Russia confronts the West with a very simple choice.
Or all the sanctions are lifted and we trade normally, as it should be according to the laws of the free market.
Either Russia stops trading with the West in anything other than what is profitable for US to sell and it is profitable for us to buy.
The same "Nord Stream" that the first, that the second - Europe needs them more than us, there will always be buyers for our gas, especially if we start building LNG plants a little faster.
And this applies to all our energy resources - there will always be buyers for them outside the EU and the USA.
We are interested in mechanical engineering, but many capacities have been created in Southeast Asia, we have to buy from them, and not from the Americans and Europeans.
I believe that it will not be difficult to come to an agreement with South Korea.
Stop answering all the time!
It is necessary to set strict conditions, and if they are not fulfilled, financially punish.
Yes, there are no unilateral economic measures, but the world is big, it is not limited to two partners.
It's time to reject prejudices, find new partners and agree on the resumption of cooperation with the old ones whom we abandoned after the collapse of the USSR.
The main thing is to clearly indicate that we will not help anyone else for free, and compromises are possible only on a mutual basis.
I believe that both Europeans and Americans will either very quickly realize that they are in the minority and change the tone of the conversation, or they will continue to plunge into the abyss of self-destruction, but definitely without us.
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