THE CHEKING PROCESS – Rising energy prices have worked in favor of Russian finances. But can this situation be attributed to the economic retaliation measures taken by Western countries, as certain voices in France claim?
The argument is increasingly frequent in public debate: Western sanctions against Russia, far from weakening the country’s economy, would on the contrary have strengthened it. “The sanctions have enriched Russia, and above all they punish the French more», affirmed the deputy of the National Rally Marine Le Pen in July. MEP Gilbert Collard does not say anything else: this week, he estimated on Twitter that “Russia is getting richer thanks to the EU: the people who govern us are protected by the idea that we have that the people who govern us are necessarily, because they govern, intelligent: no, they are c ***!»
Recently again, François Lenglet, economic columnist for TF1/LCI, asserted that “Russia does not need funding, it is literally drowned in cash since the invasion of Ukraine“. A situation to be attributed according to him to the sanctions decided by the Western countries.
Cause-consequence reversal
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