According to reference information, citing US media reports, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, and the United States, together with NATO and European countries, imposed nearly comprehensive sanctions on Russia in terms of diplomacy, economy, trade, science and politics. However, even so, the Russian economy has not experienced a systematic collapse. According to American media analysis, one of the important reasons is that the United States and Europe are both self-interested in stealing and making small moves. Sanctions are fake, and profits are real. Undoubtedly, the reports of US media have completely revealed the old foundation of Western sanctions against Russia, allowing the international community to see the acts of Western countries' custody and theft.
After Russia launched a special military operation, Western countries responded to the call of the Americans and launched comprehensive sanctions on Russia. Compared with the conflict, Western countries' data on imports from Russia, the United Kingdom decreased by 79%, the United States decreased by 35%, and Germany decreased by 3%. On the contrary, Türkiye, Belgium, Spain, , Netherlands and even Japan have increased imports of Russian goods. Türkiye's growth rate was as high as 198%. While this data surprised the international community, Japan, which has always been actively on the anti-Russia front, has also increased its imports of Russian goods. Judging from the import data, the UK is undoubtedly the country that implements the sanctions agreement the most thoroughly, and of course, the price it pays is also the largest. At present, the UK is experiencing the worst economic situation in decades, and the Bank of England has issued pessimistic expectations that the UK's recession cycle will last until at least the end of 2023.
An important reason why the UK economy is almost collapsed is that sanctions have brought about a shortage of natural gas in Russia, which has triggered an inflation caused by the energy crisis. Seeing the bleak business of the UK, any country with a slightly clear mind is unwilling to completely break up with Russia. In fact, they do the same. In addition to import data, the export embargo of Western countries to Russia seems to be more successful. The United States reduced its exports to Russia by 84%, the United Kingdom by 71%, and even the Netherlands and Germany have reduced their exports by at least 50%. However, a "serious" consequence of this is that Russia's exports more and imports less have brought it a significant trade surplus. Russia exchanged bulk commodity for a steady stream of US dollars, thus enriching Russia's finances. This is one of the main reasons why the Russian economy has not experienced a systematic collapse.
From this perspective, the so-called sanctions behavior in Western countries are undoubtedly a combination of appearance and hidden tricks, and they are making small moves behind their backs. Even Americans secretly bought Russian crude oil refined from Italy when facing an energy crisis. In fact, conflict is essentially a money-burning business, which is the so-called "A cannon fires, ten thousand taels of gold." According to Forbes, Russia's military expenditure reached at least $82 billion in the nine-month conflict, which means it spent nearly $10 billion each month. You should know that before the conflict broke out, Russia's budget revenue in 2021 was only US$340 billion. Therefore, it is certain that after the conflict breaks out, if Russia does not have additional fiscal revenue , the 82 billion US dollars of expenditure will be difficult to obtain.
Among them, Western countries that have made outstanding contributions to Russia's fiscal revenue are clamoring for the comprehensive sanctions on Russia, which is undoubtedly an extremely ironic thing. Of course, it is understandable that in the interests of , the Western world . After all, in the face of interests, the so-called political morality is worthless at all.
