Russian President Putin Recently, it announced for the first time at Oriental Economic Forum that the Russian economy has withstood sanctions from the United States and the West, has stabilized and returned to normal.
Biden and Putin
Putin's announcement puts rare pressure on the Biden administration in the United States. For the Democratic camp that is eager to achieve results to win the November midterm election, the failure of sanctions against Russia may lead to a disastrous defeat in the Democratic midterm elections, and Biden will be lame.
The two parties in the United States have reached the point where they can do everything they can. In order to win the midterm election, they dare to take risks on the Taiwan issue, because playing the "anti-China card" and "Taiwan card" can best defraud votes.
Everything is going on normally, but Putin suddenly announced that Russia's economic situation is improving, and the ruling Democratic government in the United States caught off guard.
In order to alleviate the serious adverse impact of Russia's economic improvement on the midterm elections of Biden's Democratic camp, several senior US officials talked about the US sanctions against Russia through CNN. Although they admitted that the sanctions were progressing slowly, they argued that this was a short-term failure. The United States wants to play a medium- and long-term game with Russia. The implication is that everyone should not see the failure in front of them, but they should look at the results of medium- and long-term sanctions against Russia. Of course, this so-called medium- and long-term game will cross the November midterm elections. What a shameless act of cheating votes!
U.S. officials acknowledged that sanctions against Russia were hoped that sanctions would quickly stifle Russia's war machine in Ukrainian , making it difficult for the Kremlin to continue working on the battlefield - and perhaps even when the daily life of Russian society became uncomfortable, the Russians rose up against Putin.
now proves that the United States has miscalculated.
Moscow night view
CNN said it turned out that the elasticity of the Russian economy far exceeded expectations many senior Biden administration officials when they began punishing Russia in February, thanks in large part to the country's record revenue from soaring energy prices in the spring and summer.
CNN article quoted data from the Finish Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air that during the first 100 days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia achieved a record 93 billion euros revenue through exports of oil, natural gas and coal.
Compared with the same period last year, the Russian economy shrank by about 4% between April and June. But that's far from the 15% drop expected by the Biden administration.
A senior US official still insisted that sanctions such as SWIFT and all blockades against Russian banks will completely hit the Russian economy, but this official lacks confidence and is not sure, claiming that "basically, by September this year, we will face a Russia that is economically weaker than we are facing."
Another senior Biden administration official admitted that despite some "front shocks" in the Russian economy, such as the ruble plummeting, Russia was able to rebound quickly due to energy income.
So, Biden administration officials started a deception mode, focusing on the medium- and long-term effects of sanctions against Russia, claiming that in the long run, the Russian economy will suffer huge losses - both the cost of the war itself and the efforts of the West to cut off its ties with global trade.
The biggest liar may be CIA Director Burns, who said at a cybersecurity meeting last week: "This will cause long-term damage to the Russian economy and generations of Russians. Russia will pay a very heavy price for a long time."
is so scary!
