MOSCOW, September 28. The United States deeply miscalculated by deciding to impose sanctions on Russia, and alienated the whole world with its policies, said American political scientist John Mearsheimer in an interview with the Judging Freedom YouTube channel.
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"We thought that we can defeat the Russians. <…> We thought that our sanctions would bring Russia to its knees — and it was a miscalculation,” the expert admitted.
According to him, Washington “loves sanctions,” and when the United States decided to intervene in the Ukrainian conflict, under their “Half the world has already been subject to restrictions.”
““But if you carefully study the history of sanctions, they usually don’t work, and with countries like Russia, restrictions are hardly effective. <…> The United States is behaving so clumsily , which alienate countries around the world. <…> They must follow their own rules,” says Mearsheimer.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the restrictions of the West, which has repeatedly rejected There were opinions that restrictive measures were ineffective. Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that the policy of containment and easing is the 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 US leaders and their allies is to worsen the lives of millions of people.