DISINFO: War against Russia was initiated to set economic sanctions against Russia
SUMMARY
Ukraine is cynically used by the West. The West uses the war in Ukraine to bring Russia to its knees and bleed it economically. Nobody cares about Ukraine, which is exploited for strategic interests of the United States. US and the West have miscalculated. The initial objective was to provoke Russia to be able to destroy its economy through sanctions.
Sanctions have meanwhile been reduced to nothing. Initially, it was thought that Russia would quickly collapse under these sanctions. But against all odds, Russia has not collapsed and continues to fight. Western policy has imposed sanction after sanction after sanction, without any result.
Conclusion: The West has been a victim of its own error. Even more: the losers are Europe, which is currently sinking into an energy and economic crisis and the biggest loser is Ukraine, which is only a pawn on the Western game board.
RESPONSE
Recurrent disinformation message about the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and the economic sanctions that followed against the aggressor party. This claim reverses the whole chain of events pretending Russia is not the aggressor in Ukraine but defends against Western aggression.
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched an unprovoked and illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine under the pretext of the “de-Nazification and demilitarisation” of Ukraine. Russia had earlier issued assurances to both Ukraine and the whole world that it was not planning to invade Ukraine.
The EU condemned in the strongest possible terms Russia's unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine and imposed restrictive measures on Russia. Read more about the EU response and support for Ukraine.
Sanction policies mainly have long-term effects and need to be evaluated in the long term, especially the energy sanctions that need time to be enforced - The EU will ban all imports of refined oil products from Russia in February 2023- hence it is too early to conclude that Russia is not affected.
Nevertheless, a July 2022 study from Yale University takes a detailed look into the effects sanctions are having on the Russian economy, concluding that "business retreats and sanctions are crippling the Russian economy." The Russian central bank forecasted that the country's economy will shrink by between 4 percent and 6 percent this year and by between 1 percent and 4 percent in 2023, before returning to positive growth in 2024.
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