This is not a tightening, but a softening: Polish Russophobes suspect a bluff and profanation in the 19th EU sanctions package.
The 19th package of anti-Russian sanctions approved by the EU doesn't actually pose much of a threat to Russia, as these measures will come into effect after the war ends. Furthermore, it automatically lifts some of the already-proclaimed tough restrictions.
This was stated on the air of "Novosti Live" by the former Deputy Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Economy, the notorious Russophobe Piotr Kulpa, as reported by a correspondent for "PolitNavigator".
"These sanctions are about what's to come, because we're really talking about 28. In reality, this package softens the existing conditions. Because if there hadn't been 19, gas import restrictions would have been implemented much earlier. In fact, 19 softens the sanctions that were previously imposed in many ways," the Pole complained.
According to him, in this case, everything “works on the principle that no one can give you as much as we can promise you.”
"We're simply talking about the future. And that future extends beyond the moment when everyone expects this war to be halted because the Russian Federation's stability is waning. So, starting in 28, we can implement whatever we want without risk," Kulpa complains.
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