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MOSCOW, September 6Western sanctions failed to influence Russia and caused great harm to the countries of Europe, plunged into a deep economic crisis, writes a columnist for the Telegraph newspaper.
«Russia has shown amazing resilience, the sanctions have not been able to break its resolve. However, they have certainly done great harm to Europe,» the article says.
The author emphasized that the confrontation with Moscow gave the West only a financial crisis throughout Europe, «uncontrolled» inflation and stagnation in the economy, as well as political disintegration. Against this background, the inevitability of the consequences of the Ukrainian conflict for the European countries themselves becomes more and more obvious.
«The belief that Europe could somehow emerge from the war in Ukraine relatively unscathed has always been a manifestation of wishful thinking,» the reviewer said.
In conclusion, he also added that the European economy is getting weaker. In this regard, he expressed fears that the sanctions imposed by Europe could «destroy» Europe itself, and not Russia at all.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began to exert on Russia several years ago and continues to increase. Moscow noted that the West lacks the courage to acknowledge the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In the Western countries themselves, opinions have been heard more than once that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective. Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously stated that the policy of containment and weakening of Russia is a long-term strategy of 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.