The EU flag in the main building of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. File photoMOSCOW, June 3The Western coalition against Russia is becoming increasingly unreliable as its members face practical losses due to sanctions and the economic war it unleashed fails, according to an article in the Chinese newspaper Global Times. EU, which includes an embargo on Russian oil, some European countries are expected to face serious energy difficulties in the coming winter.The Guardian: Russia wins «economic war» unleashed by the West At the same time, the «pathos bubble of Western solidarity» was pierced even before the announcement of new restrictions, when German Economy Minister Robert Habek said that EU unity «is starting to crumble» as some countries resist the embargo. “There are growing signs that the Western coalition against Moscow is very fragile and is becoming increasingly unreliable as its members have to face practical losses,” points out the Global Times. Lu Xiang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the publication, Europe is unlikely to be able to act as a united front in the sanctions against Russia, since the unity of the West is a «half-empty» concept. He noted that for some time the European Union, especially Germany, developed good ties with Russia, which displeased Washington, and subsequently the United States, by provoking a crisis in Ukraine, successfully took advantage of the West's prejudice against Russia. «The West can continue to assert that his sanctions are working, but more and more evidence suggests otherwise — the US and Europe are failing in the economic war with Russia,» Lu Xiang said. At the same time, quite a few Europeans, who have had a high standard of living for a long time, are now facing inflation. «Europeans are not so stupid as to hurt themselves just to keep the US company in this game. When the interests of several Western countries are affected, shaky unity will begin to crack at the seams,» he sums up. Western countries have faced severe economic problems — rising energy prices and a surge in inflation — due to the imposition of sanctions against Russia after the start of a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The measures mainly affected the financial sector and the supply of high-tech products, but calls in Europe to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources have become louder. On Tuesday night, EU leaders reached a political agreement on the sixth package of anti-Russian sanctions, which provides, among other things, import of oil from Russia. The ban will affect only deliveries by sea, and the oil coming through the Druzhba pipeline is not limited. According to the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, by the end of the year, the EU expects to abandon almost 90% of Russian oil imports. President Vladimir Putin said that the policy of containing and weakening Russia is a long-term strategy for the West, and sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the entire global economy. According to him, the main goal of the West is to worsen the lives of millions of people.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
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