Biden explained what was guided by imposing sanctions against Russia

US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 17US President Joe Biden said he made the decision to impose anti-Russian sanctions that provoked a crisis in global fuel and food markets as a commander in chief, and not as a politician thinking about elections. Biden told the AP news agency that he «made calculations more like a commander in chief than a politician who cares about the elections» coming up this fall. «What will happen if the strongest NATO power….evades response to Russian aggression?» — he said, answering a question about the reasons for the imposition of financial sanctions, despite their costs to the global and American economies. The US President claims that, without meeting a rebuff, Russia would allegedly continue to move deep into Europe, China would strengthen its plans to conquer Taiwan, and North Korea would be more aggressive in pursuing its nuclear ambitions. Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated 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. Putin also said that the United States and the European Union had effectively defaulted on their obligations to Russia, freezing its foreign exchange reserves. He added that current events draw a line under the global dominance of the West in both politics and economics.Peskov said that US attempts to strangle Russia with sanctions are not workingAccording to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, the economic war against Russia did not go according to the plan of those who unleashed it. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of sanctions against the Russian Federation, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of starvation in certain countries. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. Inflation in the US and EU is on the rise