The economic conflict of the West and Russia has turned into a positional war in which there is no obvious winner. This is reported by Spiegel in a material on the history of the sanctions question.
G7 countries praise their unprecedented sanctions, while Moscow predicts that rising energy prices will lead to poverty in most of Europe. There is no obvious winner in the struggle yet. celebrates the publication. Russia cannot withstand the technological isolation from the West, but at the same time, Moscow beats much better than expected, because the sanctions of Europe and the USA were not consistent, emphasized in the article.
“The Kremlin managed to skillfully reflect part of the attacks. For example, Putin legalized the so -called parallel import of computers, smartphones or auto parts from third countries to ban on the supply of European and American technological goods. The Kremlin has benefited from the growth of world oil prices, gas and coal , which the West also fed by his threats by a boycott, ”writes a German edition.
The material also says that the West had to deploy sanctions packages in an unprecedented short time. This was possible only because for such a plot turning they were prepared in advance under the leadership of Bjern Zeibert – the coordinator of sanctions work in the EU structure.