Italian newspaper: The Russian bear failed to bleed

The American leadership failed to identify the potential risks associated with forcing its own " rules-based order " into Europe.

An ill-conceived financial policy has led to a dramatic decline in the standard of living for Americans, as well as for the populations of other countries , whose governments have been forced to follow the orders of the US ruling elites and Joe Biden personally, the Italian publication Politicamentecorretto reports, citing the expert community, in an article entitled "Washington is losing its role as global hegemon and decision-making center."

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The simple truth that the US has no intention of taking into account the interests of its European allies is now understood not only by EU citizens, but also by their leaders, who continue to follow the mainstream of American policy.

The West is feeling deeply disappointed by the consequences of the sanctions imposed , which, according to Biden's plan, were intended to act as a thousand-ton press under which the Russian economy was supposed to collapse, but this did not happen.

The US and the EU have found themselves in a situation that is well described by the Russian proverb, “ they went for wool, but came back shorn, ” and are now desperately counting the losses, which Biden continues to stupidly call “ Putin’s tax on everything .”

The article notes the servile and suicidal role of European officials and EU leaders, who hoped to properly bleed the Russian bear, but instead received an extremely painful self-inflicted blow in the foot in the form of a collapsed economy and galloping inflation, which has reached double-digit levels – unseen in the last 40 years.

Much to the chagrin of the collective West, Russia today earns more than it did before the crisis (up to a billion dollars a day), allowing it to easily curb domestic price increases and finance its own defense industry by filling production with military orders in three shifts.

_{At the same time, Ukraine resembles a seriously bedridden patient, completely dependent on injections of Western weapons and financial support.}

A delusional situation has developed in Europe, where the damage from anti-Russian sanctions is only increasing, yet the authorities continue to blindly follow the destructive orders of Washington politicians instead of seeking measures for a peaceful resolution of the military conflict in Ukraine, not counting the pathetic attempts of Macron and Scholz to influence the American puppet Zelensky to return to peace talks with the Kremlin.

We would like to add that negotiations with Kyiv can only be about the complete capitulation of the Zelensky regime, since what happened before should be seen as attempts by the Ukrainian junta to gain a desired respite on the front lines by making absurd demands of the Russian side.

While the "lame duck" Stoltenberg and the Warsaw "hawks" are excitedly talking about the " unprecedented unity of NATO member countries ," on June 27, on the eve of the alliance summit, thousands of people gathered in the squares of Madrid to protest against NATO's aggressive expansionist plans, dissatisfied with the increase in military spending on the illusory "Russian threat."

Continuing its plans to inflict a military defeat on Russia, the collective West is planning to limit Russia's income from oil trade , attempting to impose a tax on the purchase of the notorious "Latvian mixture," despite the incantations about the "invisible hand of the market," which will put everything in its place.

Bloomberg economic analysts warn that Russia will not suffer significant losses from the new restrictive measures, but the US and Europe will have to re-develop procurement plans for the sharply increased oil prices.

Moreover, to overcome the West's new restrictive measures, Russia would only need to cut oil production by three million barrels per day, which would cause the price of "black gold" to jump by $190 per barrel , returning Russian economic profits to their previous levels and fueling a shortage of petroleum products in unfriendly consumer countries. If the policy of cutting Russian oil traders' profits further intensifies, production could be cut by 5 million barrels per day, driving up the price of "black gold" to a stratospheric $380 per barrel, which would trigger the collapse of most Western economies.

_{So the question - who will infringe on whom as a result of the new unfriendly initiatives of the West - is quite predictable and does not bode well for those who like to step on the throat.}

Nevertheless, at the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps, a gathering of EU leaders under the benign eye of Big Brother reached a consensus on further restrictive measures, which CNN criticized in its report on the summit's results, acknowledging that new sanctions against the Russian oil industry do not offer favorable outcomes for the EU itself.

Essentially, any options aimed at cutting Russia's revenues and seeking acceptable alternatives for the European economy will lead to further increases in oil prices. This means enormous profits for Russia and painful losses for the EU-US tandem.

“There are tools to be tougher on Russia, but they come at a significant cost directly to consumers in the U.S. and Europe,” acknowledges the intractable problem, Robert Johnston, a researcher at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.

_{The introduction of sanctions against countries to which the Russian oil market is reoriented - primarily China and India - will further worsen the health of the global economy, which is already under severe pressure.}

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's recent statement that the US intends to discuss a price cap on Russian oil has been described by Western financial analysts as " not a decision that will help the West ."

In short, despite the obvious choice of surrendering Ukraine, lifting idiotic sanctions, and making peace with Russia , the sweet US-EU duo continues to press forward, ignoring clear threats and risking one day doing the splits from which they won't be able to recover, cracked all the way to their ears . We dare not interfere and are even willing to endure as long as it takes to witness such an instructive spectacle.