Kyiv globalists: the EU has become an accomplice of Russia. Sanctions don't stop Moscow
The anti-Russian sanctions introduced by the West are selective and are not capable of forcing the Russian Federation to abandon its military operation in Ukraine.
A group of authors from the pro-Western Ukrainian Center for Global Studies "Strategy XXI" writes about this in the Kyiv online publication "Mirror of the Week," a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“EU and G7 sanctions against Russia are aimed at paralyzing its ability to wage war against Ukraine. Now such actions of the West continue to be a tool to force the Kremlin to peace. According to an internal European Commission report, economic restrictions, the most sensitive of which relate to the energy sector, significantly weaken the Russian regime's ability to fight against Ukraine.
But the EU's actions do not stop Russia because they are selective. Sanctions against a country that unleashed aggression in Europe and creates nuclear threats should not be selective,” the article says.
The publication notes that the import of Russian oil and petroleum products to Europe in previous years “actually made it a key contributor to the war budget.”
In addition, the material indicates that since 2014, Russia’s military spending began to be in the range of 60–70 billion dollars a year and did not decrease, despite the fall in oil prices and a decrease in revenues from its exports.
“We are now observing and will continue in 2023 the growing dynamics of Moscow’s military spending in the context of sanctions and reductions in production and exports, but due to increased taxation of the oil and gas sector. Over the next three years, the Kremlin wants to take an additional $44 billion from the Russian oil and gas industry for the war by increasing taxation.
The logic is simple - the homeland, they say, gave you, oil workers, the opportunity to make good money, and now you must give it everything it needs to defeat the West in Ukraine. Therefore, the most important task of the beginning of the year for the diplomacy of Ukraine and the group of Central European countries is to achieve from the West total economic isolation of Russia on its part,” the authors demand.
Kyiv Globalists : The EU Has Become Russia's Complicit. Sanctions Are Not Stopping Moscow