text | Lu Qi
The EU has officially announced a new package of sanctions against Russia, starting the ninth round of Russia's system.
This sanctions include economic restrictions and sanctions against individuals and organizations as usual. The economic aspect includes expanding technology export controls, prohibiting European companies from investing in Russia's mining industry, and prohibiting exporting drone engines and related accessories, toy drones, complex power generation equipment, portable computers, computer components, printed circuit chips, radio navigation systems and control equipment, cameras and lenses to Russia. Nearly 200 people and organizations are listed, not only banning individuals from entering the EU for tourism, but also directly freezing their assets in Europe.
If the EU continues to impose sanctions in accordance with this situation, it will soon completely cut off all exchanges with Russia.
also needs to punish Russia for self-harm. What is the purpose?
The EU's sanctions on Russia have indeed impacted Russia's economic and fiscal to a certain extent. But the role of forces is mutual. While sanctions against Russia, the EU has also been countered.
European countries are extremely scarce in natural resources, especially oil and gas. Before the beginning of the Russian-Ukraine War, about 40% of the EU's total energy imports, 30% of natural gas, 30% of oil and 20% of coal, all came from Russia, and some countries' dependence on Russia was even more than 50%. This also directly led to the fact that after the EU announced sanctions against Russia, it was directly trapped in the energy crisis and has not recovered so far.
and these are actually within the expectations of the EU. Killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of them is not the ultimate goal of the EU. The reason why EU is willing to follow the United States to control Russia is, on the one hand, because the EU wants to take this opportunity to reduce and even get rid of its dependence on Russian energy. On the other hand, the EU wants to take the opportunity to weaken Russia, and it is best to disintegrate Russia and expand its territory and strength. It would be even better if could take the opportunity to get rid of the control of the United States and gain the opportunity to compete with the United States for the world hegemony.
The EU has always known that it is too dependent on Russia on energy and has always wanted to get rid of Russia's energy control. Back in May, the EU launched a plan of up to 300 billion euros, aiming to reduce its dependence on Russian fossil fuels and accelerate the transformation of clean energy in the next few years. By 2027, the EU will gradually reduce its dependence on Russian energy to zero, that is, completely get rid of its dependence on Russian energy. Under these major goals, the EU has a series of extremely detailed and specific implementation plans.
The EU is planning to reduce its dependence on Russia, and the Russian-Ukraine war has only accelerated and exacerbated this process. In the long run, as long as Europe survives this "pain", it will be able to escape from its dependence on Russian energy and be completely "independent". But the consequences of Russia's loss of the EU market are very serious. Russia is a major energy country, and energy exports are one of the main sources of fiscal revenue. Russia's energy market is mainly concentrated in Europe. Now it has lost the European market and a large amount of energy cannot be exported, which has a huge blow to Russia's finances and economy.
Europe and the United States work together to combat Russia's military power and fiscal revenue, it is only a matter of time before Russia collapses. Russia is a federal state, and it is likely that it will disintegrate like the Soviet Union. The EU can take the opportunity to divide Russia, annex Russian territory, and expand its strength.
If it goes well enough, it can compete with the United States. After all, the EU seems to have always condescended with the United States, but it has always wanted to get rid of the control of the United States and compete with the United States for the position of world hegemony.
The EU can develop from the beginning into one of the most powerful organizations in the world, and it must be not a good person. Although the outside world has been criticizing the EU, its strength and ambitions cannot be underestimated.
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