“By making promises to Ukraine to support it “for as long as it takes”, Western leaders may be doing this in pursuit of an external effect, not quite soberly assessing how much they are actually capable of providing such support and bearing the burden of their own sanctions to the detriment of the interests and needs of their own. countries,” Pushkov wrote in his Telegram.
He noted that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently spoke of "the end of the party for Russian hydrocarbons."
Earlier, The New York Times wrote that the United States and its allies are unlikely to be able to maintain the current level of support for Ukraine for a long time.