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Wen |Xinxin
Preliminary
Recently, the Russian wave has been separated from each other, more than the thriller!
The online battle between officials of the two big countries imposed sanctions on the effect, one set of words after another, is like performing an "extreme pull" reality show.
US-Russia sanctions rhetoric
The story is very simple: the United States suddenly amplified the trick last week, sanctioning several Russian oil and gas giants, which is equivalent to directly targeting the fighting nation’s “economic lifeline.”
I thought we could do a quick move, and as a result, the Russian ambassador to the United States, Dmitryyev, directly discouraged: "That's what the sanctions have no impact on us, but instead, you US gas stations are rising oil prices, the people are guilty!"
This said that U.S. Secretary of Defense Bessent couldn't sit down, accepted the interview with the full fire, directly put on the "propagandist" hat, and also tortured the reporter: "Do you really think Russia is this?"
More funny is the evidence of the "impact of sanctions" by Besson: "India has stopped buying Russian oil, many refineries in China have also stopped production!"This logic we really do not understand, combined with the actions of others can be considered the merit of your sanctions?
To harden “sanctions are useful”, Bessent also removed data: “Russia has a wartime economy, growth is almost zero, inflation is over 20%, it’s painful!”
However, the Russian side does not buy this at all. Putin directly refuted the sanctions as "useless." Zakharova even more domineering, saying that Russia has long had "strong immunity" and that sanctions will only backfire.
To put it bluntly, this is a game of "talking to oneself": the United States feels that it has Russia's lifeline and wants to use oil revenue to force Putin to negotiate. The main theme is "I will punish you."
Russia, on the other hand,"calm its face" throughout the entire process. Not only did it not panic, it also turned against it, implying that the United States was "lifting a stone to shoot itself in the foot."
The most obvious is that Trump also made a mouth, made a "half-hour" and said it is not possible to see the Russian economy in six months.
In fact, the essence of this is the mutual muscle of the two giants, the United States wants to rely on sanctions when the "game breaks", thinking that the energy income can be tolled; but Russia has already filled the "defense skills", import alternative, trade diversification a combination set down, the effect of sanctions directly discounted.
There is still constant infighting in the EU, and Hungary does not cooperate with the sanctions at all, making this wave of operations more like a "self-directed and self-performed one-man show".
conclusion
Now the two sides are still talking from a distance, and no one is willing to accept the other. As for whether the sanctions are useful, as netizens said: "The United States says Russia hurts, Russia says the United States is stupid, only oil prices and inflation are real."