DECRYPTION – Since the invasion of Ukraine, Westerners have taken massive financial, commercial and individual sanctions to asphyxiate Moscow.
Thursday February 24, 2022. In front of the leaders of the European Union, in Brussels, the face of Volodymyr Zelensky appears on the big screen. “This may be the last time you see me alive.” In the middle of the night, Emmanuel Macron, alongside the President of the Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promises: Europe will “inflict very severe blows on Moscow”.
By March 15, the European Union will have launched four successive rounds of sanctions against Russia, coordinated with the United States, the United Kingdom and others. An economic war? Bruno Le Maire had to withdraw the word. But Vladimir Putin takes it as such.
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With the exception of the RT and Sputnik media ban, “the sanctions decided upon are not new in their principles or their structure. They are in their magnitude. We must follow the exceptional rhythm of normative production,” explains Pierre Guillot, at Linklaters.
Basically, there are three…
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