Why would Russia react differently knowing that the majority of Europeans are brain-washed idiots easily manipulated by bots.
Russia sells <10% of their (already deminished, too) exports to Europe, yet an idiotic article without any actual references makes you believe that Europe is failing and has to be blamed. Sanctions totally demolished Russian imports, yet for years we get articles hallucinating how the import increases in neighbouring countries obviously circumvent those sanctions - even when in reality those increases make up less than 1% in total of what Russia lost, so the actual story should have been that they are 99%+ effective.
It’s always the same pattern: “Look, big number! Be angry!! Europe bad!!!” And it works -as can be seen by all the comments here- every single time. Or did you actually stop one second to check those numbers in relation to former imports? Or in relation to Russia’s output? Or did you even notice that the article very much avoids to give any reference for their numbers in the first place?
Being obviously unable to annex Ukraine, not even in the planned few days but at all, did not stop them from continuing. But losing about 5% of their already failing economy that is now basically tailored to producing weapons for the war exclusively would totally have made them stop. Sure…
You seem to be putting words in my mouth, ie I don’t think sanctions failed, so I’m going to ignore the conclusions you make from that.
A breakdown of my comment :
The war would have played differently if dedaces ago, ie BEFORE the start of the war, european countries had reduced their reliance on fossiel fuel.
In 2020, the EU was Russia’s biggest trading partners, and fossil fuels were a large chunk of EU import. It took years of sanctions, of setting up alternative energy import deals, and of electrification efforts, to get a points where Russia-EU trades are a small parts of today’s total trades.
During those 4 years, Ukraine severely suffered from Russian’s invasion, and Russia was cashing in on energy export to the EU. Less export and less revenue from exports would have it more difficult for Russia to finance war, and easier for the EU to quickly sanctions Russia.
So yes, the EU’s energy policy was bad for some time, because of its members’ reliance on fossil fuel, and overreliance on Russia as energy provider. It’s definitely improving, better late than never. It’s clearly not as simple as “EU bad”, the union is doing a great deal to sanction Russia and support Ukraine.
Why would Russia react differently knowing that the majority of Europeans are brain-washed idiots easily manipulated by bots.
Russia sells <10% of their (already deminished, too) exports to Europe, yet an idiotic article without any actual references makes you believe that Europe is failing and has to be blamed. Sanctions totally demolished Russian imports, yet for years we get articles hallucinating how the import increases in neighbouring countries obviously circumvent those sanctions - even when in reality those increases make up less than 1% in total of what Russia lost, so the actual story should have been that they are 99%+ effective.
It’s always the same pattern: “Look, big number! Be angry!! Europe bad!!!” And it works -as can be seen by all the comments here- every single time. Or did you actually stop one second to check those numbers in relation to former imports? Or in relation to Russia’s output? Or did you even notice that the article very much avoids to give any reference for their numbers in the first place?
Being obviously unable to annex Ukraine, not even in the planned few days but at all, did not stop them from continuing. But losing about 5% of their already failing economy that is now basically tailored to producing weapons for the war exclusively would totally have made them stop. Sure…
You seem to be putting words in my mouth, ie I don’t think sanctions failed, so I’m going to ignore the conclusions you make from that.
A breakdown of my comment :
The war would have played differently if dedaces ago, ie BEFORE the start of the war, european countries had reduced their reliance on fossiel fuel.
In 2020, the EU was Russia’s biggest trading partners, and fossil fuels were a large chunk of EU import. It took years of sanctions, of setting up alternative energy import deals, and of electrification efforts, to get a points where Russia-EU trades are a small parts of today’s total trades.
During those 4 years, Ukraine severely suffered from Russian’s invasion, and Russia was cashing in on energy export to the EU. Less export and less revenue from exports would have it more difficult for Russia to finance war, and easier for the EU to quickly sanctions Russia.
So yes, the EU’s energy policy was bad for some time, because of its members’ reliance on fossil fuel, and overreliance on Russia as energy provider. It’s definitely improving, better late than never. It’s clearly not as simple as “EU bad”, the union is doing a great deal to sanction Russia and support Ukraine.