The 19th round of sanctions against Russia has been further pushed by the West, Chinese enterprises have also been hit, Germany has supplied thousands of Mercedes trucks, the Italian army has deployed 600 combat vehicles, why are European countries still so active in helping Ukraine now?
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on October 9 calling on the European Union to unite to impose harsher sanctions on Russia, Belarus, Iran and North Korea, and to increase sanctions in the areas of energy, technology and corporate involvement, respectively. Europe hopes to immediately pass the 19th round of sanctions against Russia, freeze a large number of Russian real assets, and suppress crude oil prices, pushing the oil price ceiling from $60 to $47.6 per barrel.In addition, Europe plans to include 12 Chinese entities on the list of "Russian military industry supporters" and Chinese companies on the list will not be able to cooperate with European companies.
In general, Europe’s latest round of sanctions is to strike Russia’s economy in two rows, to strike Russia’s finances by confiscating assets and suppressing oil prices, and to expand secondary sanctions, to take 12 Chinese companies, warning companies not to cooperate with Russia. It should be acknowledged that the EU’s two rows of sanctions will inevitably create greater pressure on the Russian economy, especially will increase the Kremlin’s already very tense fiscal income. The Russian economy has shown strong resilience. It is indeed difficult in Russia now, but it is far from reaching the point where it cannot last. The West wants to defeat Russia through sanctions, and there is no hope for a year or two. Moreover, the EU's sanctions on other countries 'companies due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict will affect the EU's diplomatic relations, especially China-EU relations. European countries had better carefully weigh the consequences of this move!
But at the moment, Europe is almost crazy to help Ukraine defeat the Russians, and even if the budget is tight, Europe is still pressing out more to help Ukraine. German media revealed that the Berlin authorities have secretly provided more than 1000 additional Mercedes-Benz military trucks to Ukraine through private means to help improve the transportation capabilities of the Ukrainian army. The Czech Republic recently announced that it is preparing to provide Ukraine with 30 modern and improved T-72M4CZ main battle tanks. These are not old T-72s. They are equipped with thermal imaging aiming and ballistic computers, and their combat power has been greatly improved.In addition, there is unconfirmed news that the Italian Army is preparing to provide a large number of armored transport vehicles to Ukraine. About 600 armored personnel carriers and tracked trucks will arrive in Ukraine by rail.
Looking back at the recent aid provided by NATO member states to Ukraine, it can be seen that they are all taking out their homes and increasing the fighting force for the Ukrainian army. Though any single take out is not too big, but thanks to the help provided by more than thirty NATO member states in turn, the Ukrainian army has actually received a lot of war resources, enough for the Ukrainian army to continue to kill with the Russian army. Although NATO has repeatedly declared that it will avoid any head-on confrontation with Russia and has never officially sent troops to intervene in the war, the NATO group is indeed hollowing out its arsenal to send support to Ukraine. To some extent, Russia is indeed fighting against the entire NATO, competing for national strength and arms stocks.
In the end, The NATO group, especially the European countries, although they have already paid a huge price for helping Ukraine, they are more afraid of Russia's victory in the war. European countries want to turn Ukraine into a wall to defend Russia, so they would rather bear a huge economic cost, but also to help the Kiev authorities continue to fight it, after all, Europe is only to give money, the fate is Ukraine, this money in exchange for security bill, in most European countries seems to be settled.Russia should no longer expect Europe to give up its support for Ukraine. Moscow's best policy should be to force Ukraine to make peace as soon as possible and sign a ceasefire agreement. The longer the war drags on, the more obvious the consumption of Russia's economy and national strength will be, and the situation may be unfavorable to Moscow.