What the commentators failed to mention is that Europe is still buying oil and gas from Russia indirectly. For example, India buys Russian crude oil, refines it and resell it to Europe at a substantial profit. China gets more gas piped in from Russia, thereby reducing its need for LNG form the U.S. and reassigns those contracts to Europe at a higher price. Seems everyone is winning except Europe.
Good point, and that is exactly why they didn't mention it. You expect a European channel to admit Europe is being hypocritical by sanctioning Russia overtly, but buying their oil covertly?
You think These clowns would admit that ??? India's import of Russian Oil jumped from 1%to 20% At the same Germany 🇩🇪, UK 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 imports from India jumped equally 😂😂😂 You don't have to be rocket scientist to figure out that ..
Thats not entirely accurate. The point is not a total boycott of all russian oil and gas. That would be too challenging. The point is to increase the costs on Russia. To make it more expensive for Russia and make this war have costly consequences for Russia. Which the sanctions achieve perfectly.
very perspicacious analysis. If you ask me this is by design.. the one getting screwed is the US/Russia is the EU... They have started to become a pain not only for Russia but for the US as well
Not to mention that the Russian manufacturing industry is now booming. Many parts for planes and cars for example, were produced in the EU and imported into Russia for the sake of convenience. Russian industry has now been forced to build at home and now has awaken a sleeping industrial power. Aeroflot had finished testing their all Russian plane, all parts down to the nuts, bolts, rivets, and foundation, is made in Russia. The only thing they import are the electrical systems which they import from friendly country China. Big fail for the west.
It's not just oil. Russia is not only an energy giant, but also the worlds 2nd largest arms exporter, the top supplier of nuclear reactors, and a rare earths and enriched uraniam producer. The world will always buy these things no matter what the geopolitical climate, and no matter what the cost.
The US removes the invaded country's government in the first few weeks after invading . They do not take almost 2 years getting that first part done like Russia .
@@nejnej4676 These countries started ethical cleansing and the Russians sent peacekeepers through the UN and they were attacked by criminal regimes paid from the West, so they had to react.
May be the case for some European countries, however they have been slowly building shipping process terminals so that they can move away from their old system. For the aforementioned, their oil comes from Canada, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, a smaller amount from Iraq and Colombia.
@@prabhakararaoaravapalli9050 Unfortunately..... German politicians and its people, are too blind to see that. They are owned by the US. Wrong or right, they'd rather follow after them regardless - which explains why they got into this mess in the first place. Sad but true. Germany doesn't have an identity and will forever be a lapdog of the US.
Hey Europe always had a good life together WITH Americans Don’t blame America for own failures Why Europe welcomed so many not educated immigrants??? Americas fault??? Why Europe created so many social programs???? Americas fault? Everyone likes to blame America What did 👉you👈 do for safety of your country???
You are forgetting one small fact. Russian government debt for 2023 is about $330 billion US dollars. The total US government debt is 34 trillion US dollars and climbing. Russia paid down the previous years debt by over 50 billion. On the other hand, the US has done nothing but increase its debt. This is a big issue. that will eventually haunt us all.
@@eliotness4029 At some point you're going to have to grow up and accept the fact that the real world isn't like a fairytale where the bad guys all look the same and speak menacingly in Russian and the good guys are diverse strong female Americans.
I remember a year ago, many in the west said, price cap will work. One DW News journalist, Konstantine Eggert disagreed by saying "There's so many ways to bypass such sanctions". He was right.
If he was proven correct, he wasn't trolling. EU leaders were trolling us by promising us that paying 4* our usual prices was going to hurt Russia more than it hurt us.@@eliotness4029
and unfortunately they are teaching us how to endure pain by being a living example..... and we have not signed up for this class by our own free will ! ....... and by the way this is what dictators are doing, they teach you how to live in pain and they force you to say: "thank you" for that ..... N. Koreans have to sing a praise song for Kim Jung every day at 5 pm. If you don't sing you know what will happen with you !!!!
@PraneshSacher 😂 While in the " free world " they teach you new pronouns and how to feel offended when your feelings get hurt when you're misgendered and other micro-aggressions
Sanctions proved a blessing to Russia. Russia was like that 20 something living in his parent’s basement. Getting by with no ambition. Parents kick him out and 2 years later it was the best thing that could have happened to him. He has become more resourceful and self reliant with a new circle of friends.
The sad truth is that there are no real benefits of having Ukraine in the eu or nato, maybe just to have more cheap Labour. But they have Romania and Poland for that already.
The way these sanctions have been done over the last 10 years... it's almost as if they're intentionally trying to fix and boost Russia's Dutch Diseased economy. If sanctions dont exists, Russia probably would have naturally succumbed to Dutch Disease like Venezuela did.
You don't think a nuclear power annexing it's neighbour's territory under the protection of their nuclear umbrella is a precendent that endangeres the whole world? Good thing you don't make the decisions then.
There are 8 billion people on earth and limited resources.....Not hard to figure it out. You can't cancel the world biggest country with largest resources.
One needs to understand that Humans primarily need food , fuel , clothing and shelter to survive and Russia has got an abundance of these, so sanctions on Russia is ineffective at best. The Russian people will not revolt against the system as long as these 4 necessities are available.
How do you expect to break Russian will? Slavic people are different breed we do not need you to survive. In 1993 the whole world sanctioned Yugoslavia, yes we had some problems but our life was ordinary, there were shortages of fuel , but our will was strong and our pride made us stronger in heathered against west.
We ended up embargoing ourselves while Russia switched to become a major Asian power. The balance of power has flipped and any new deals will be on Russia’s terms. GREAT work EU! 👏👏👏
Russia 🇷🇺👏👏👏 Kia Kaha from a Kiwi in Aotearoa/New Zealand? Western leaders treat non aligned nations with such contempt and disrespect even when those countries genuinely want good relations. People want to trade, grow relationship. The EU thinks it’s a mafia big boss 😂 but people a finding out it’s bark is worse thane it’s toothless bite.
Talking about shooting yourselves in the foot, hope they do not come looking towards south america now, poor us so far from God yet too close to the USA😢
Well….. the peak of Russias economy was in 2014. Even at that stage the russian economy had the size of let’s say ….. London and Paris combined. So 2 European cities with 20 million people outperform Russias economy with all 145 mio Russians and all gas and oil exports at the stage, when the Russian economy was the biggest in history. Russia is a developing country with not even 1 top 100 company. Germany would need have to collapse like 80%+ to go to the level of Russias GRP per capita now…… So relax 😅😅
@@Nope_1567 Real economy vs GDP economy no matter.We in East Europe, just like Russia had own homes and not add to our GDP 1000euro rent every month.Many things is cheap or free here and not add to GDP like in west.
I have lost count of the number of instances where NATO has tried to "hurt" Russia in some way the past two years, and each has resulted in COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE.
Slowly Russia needs to completely decouple it's economy from west and trade with friendly and reliable countries. In the long-run Russia should focus on domestic industry and self sufficiency.
@@eliotness4029 ...You know, the trolls are the one's running around on RUclips adding nothing intelligent to the discussion calling people trolls...grow up...!!!
Increasing sanctions against more countries will drive those countries to trading with alternatives to the EU and USA. Sanctions work against those imposing them.
If India (and China) are funding Russia's war, Europe and US are doing the same as well. The largest EU importers of Russian fossil fuels in July 2023 were Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Spain. In July, these countries predominantly imported crude oil via pipeline, LNG and pipeline gas from Russia. Reliance (Indian company) and one other big company refined Russian oil and sold it as significant markup to some Western European nations. Cheap Russian oil did not really benefit the average Indian. One positive impact it did have on the global economy was to prevent oil prices/inflation from shooting even further which would have happened if these India & China did not buy this oil. As for LNG, US remains EU's leading supplier in the second quarter of 2023, with a share of 46.4% in total EU imports, followed by Russia (12.4%), Qatar (10.9%), Algeria (9.9%) and Nigeria (5.1%). 18% of US's energy needs are met by nuclear fuel and 24% of this comes from Russia. The energy specific part of this report is highly disingenuous. They don't want to accept that Russia, whatever it's foreign policy may be, is an integral part of the global energy trade and they cannot really be 'kicked out' of the market.
A random number printed on a piece of paper doesn't determine how rich you are, especially if you print a lot of it. What did you think? Will the rest of the world stop running their trucks?
Governments produce whatever metric they can to make themselves look good. You should go by PPP and see if the population can afford to live. The US has high GDP, but everything is expensive.
Russia is biggest oil and gas reserve , they also have large uranium and diamond mines. They are largest country in the world by area and they have different natural resources.
What is important here is that strategically, EU had cheap energy from Russia, now they don't and instead India and China have it. And they have been growing for decades now, the effect will be visible after 10 years several decades in the future. And as a bonus now India is earning money from oil selling as well.
The saudis buying oil from Russia should tell you something about the extremely low price of that oil and how Russia is greatly losing in the matter. The EU isn't buying that oil for a higher price than it would any other barrel of oil from any other country, so as far as the EU is concerned, that arrangement isn't costing anything. The saudis are making a lot of profit of course, but good for them ;p.
@@SAapproves So your genius theory is: -> the saudis cut their own oil production to raise the prices -> the saudis chose to buy expensive oil from Russia at those higher prices instead of producing it themselves -> the saudis then sold that oil that cost them a fortune at market price to the europeans, making little to no profit, because why wouldn't they ;p ? You don't seem to understand that the saudis are human beings capable of counting and interested in looking out for themselves ;p. All to avoid the simple truth : Russia was desperate enough to sell oil at a price lower than the production cost for saudi's oil, so it was profitable for the saudi to buy the russian oil instead of producing it themselves. And then they sold it to the EU, making a bigger profit from which Russia didn't even the the shadow of a coin ;p.
both Russia and the Saudis are making money on the deal. You are suggesting i think that the Russians are making less of a profit i presume, right ?@@lepetitroquet9410
@@lepetitroquet9410 😂😂😂 clowns 🤡 .. yes but now Even india gets only 5$ discount per barrel.. just Googel it 😂😂 Yes there's a discount but it's Tiny compared to 2022
@alexz75515, absolutely. But, do you know why EU is giving that money just like that, in a blink of an eye?! That's because it's not their money! That money comes from resources looted in Africa and other 3rd world countries! Ask France, UK and other countries! That's why they don't mind giving it to Zelensky so that Russians will burn it just like that! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Как интересно. Людям создают худшие условия, чтобы они свергли своё правительство, ради запада. Это так мило. Вы такие хорошие! Спасибо, что пытаетесь ухудшить нашу жизнь, а мы за это должны разрушить свою страну, для того, чтобы угодить вам. Надеюсь, вы также столкнётесь с таким же, за все преступления, что совершили по всему миру.
The Russian economy has proved to be more durable than that of the EU, even with sanctions. So much for Russia just being a gas station. The EU still buys Russian oil and gas, just via a third party. Sanctions are just like an own goal!
What rarely talked about is that Russia had very low government debt to gdp ratio for a large modern economy. It's result of a long term budget policy. As a result, Russian government itself had very low dependance on foreign investors and now has a lot of room to run at a deficit.
haha, and who is going to loan money to Russia? nobody. The Ruble has dropped by half in a year and is now worth about 1 US penny. China has their own debt problem and isn't going to break sanctions to give a high risk loan to Russia.
@@PeterSedesse Government debt is mostly internal product (unless you are US). Also it doesn't matter how much currency is worth, it's about interest against inflation (or currency evalution against $ for foreign investors). Russia currently has pretty high interest rates - because central bank tries to cool down real estate market and to fight overborrowing.
@@smitias_8474 87% of US debt is internal, and the majority of the rest is EU with China at about 5%. Our current bond yields are at 3.9%. Russian current rates are at 18% which means that if Russia does borrow money to build military equipment it will be paying very high interest for it. But again, nobody is going to buy Russian debt, neither external or internal. If Russia was able to sell debt that easily, they wouldn't have shut down all govt projects for the past two years. Also Russians high interest rates have nothing to do with Russian real estate and everything to do with their inflation rate which has everything to do with the fall of the ruble. Diesel fuel was 300% more expensive for the October harvest than it was in 2022, which means all good prices are up substantially. Compare to the USA where fuel prices are down about 40% compared to last year and inflation was down to 3% last quarter. Putin is juggling the economy right now, wrecking the future of Russia just to buy himself a few months to get through his election without a crash. Interest rates at 18% means no businesses are expanding and none are starting up, but it does keep the ruble from going to 200:1 for a few months. As I said, the USA is building factories, roads, ports and schools, while Russia can build nothing.
Since the European economy is still breathing a bit and there are some manufacturers left in Europe, you can still impose more sanctions, guys. Let that last remaining business move to the US. I should not be the only US patriot, guys.
Yes, this is very good idea to move all rest manufacturing sites from EU to US. This action will safe EU producers from the dependent on Russian raw materials. All EU citizens will be happy finally.
The commentators ignored the fact that the sanctions initiated by the US and the acquiescence of the Western allies ( vassal states), such as, Germany and France in these policies also hurt themselves as much as they hurt Russia. It is a lose lose proposition.
😂 The funniest thing that Viktor Orban said from the beginning that the sanctions are useless he was right. Everything, he said in the past it is becoming true for instance immigration, he built a fence on the border, now other countries do the same and change their immigration policy.
He built his fence and they laughed at him for being a conspiracy theorist… but then complained when they were bussing the immigrants over to the north and helping them cross borders.
The world? Hint: 8 of the 10 largest countries in the orld are not part of sanctions. This includes India and China. Also the largest economies on their continent: South Africa and Brazil.
All while Azerbaijan is redirecting and reselling Russian oil and gas without any issues or limitations. EU even signed an agreement to triple thier imports.
India / China said stick with Minsk2.0, Global South said push for peace (Turkey and Israel even mediated) but hey west had diff ideas expecting whole world will follow their demands
Мы никогда не забудем и не простим тем, кто пытался наказать наш русский народ. Даже лекарства у инвалидов и мультфильмы у детей решили отнять. Мы этой мелочной подлости не забудем. Мы все можем делать сами.
The Soviet Union has been destroyed. Russia is a failed state. Russia went from the second most powerful military in the world to the second most powerful army in Ukraine.
Yup@@mrx1744 ... Dumb EU politicians think they are the last cookie of the bag, and don't consider that if EU don't buy Russian gas and oil, a lot of other countries are happy to buy it... And the funnier part is that certain countries like India buy Russian gas, refine it and sell it to Europe... EU leaders are clowns... And that is an insult to clowns, at least they work honestly
The US and its EU allies are used to impose sanctions for weaks countries like Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Uganda, etc., and you guys succeed with those. Definitely not with Russia and China, 😂😂😂😂😂😂! Your sanction-mania is failing, Russia is a POWERFUL country, more than all Western countries combined, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
People thinking broke Russia under sanctions and fighting a stalemate war is doing good ? Before the war Russia had a GDP just above Spain and below Canada . Fighting a war is not improving that .
@@Crashed131963 Cope harde 😂😂😂 dude .. DW tells That Russian are running out of Eggs 🥚 😂😂 and you buy it is the same DW that Told that Russia Run out of ammunition 😂😂
@@abdirahmanahmadalifarah926 Putin declared "Kherson" as a Russian city before retreating out of it 15 months ago . What superpower loses one of its cities for even 15 min let alone 15 months without doing anything about it?
DW authors should worry about the German economy. Russia created it's own insurance company 😅 also the Russian banks have developed the mir payment system analogus to Swift payment system is being used countries like India Cuba many south eastern countries 😅
@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage Look into your fridge first.... here we have all the food we want, and it is actually tasty. Do you even remember what tomatoes taste like or do you associate tomato taste with the plastic that you have been consuming?
@genericdude5017 Who says Russia is a bad place to live? I know a guy who moved to Canada from Ukraine, now he wants to move to Russia (he lived in Russia some time). Reasons: bad availability and quality of healthcare, big rent, poor job market, car-based infrastructure (you need a car to move anywhere), high price of maintaining a car. According to him Russia is a better place to live than Canada. "Hundreds of thousands left" And most of the have already returned because they were running from mobilization.
I’m not even an economist or a military analyst, but knew that this would not end well for the collective west. Russia is a commodity based economy, while most of western economies are soft technology based economies.
My understanding is that EU wants to buy the oil but doesn’t want to pay for it 😂. If you want to ban Russian oil, why does EU still buy oil and gas from Russia.
Sanctions directly benefits the US with the exponential sales of oil, gas, weapons, and other commodities to Europe since the war started. It also indirectly benefits China and India. I would say in the long term it also benefits Russia because the sanctions took out all the US and EU brands out of the country and were replaced with Russian brands or brands from allies. These US and EU companies even left their equipment, know-how, and were bought off at bargain cost if not free. McDonald's and other food chains were replaced by Russian brands that offer similar options. Factories were replaced with Russian or Chinese manufacturers. Russia is one of the few countries that had a trade surplus due to this. More products made in Russia and investments from allies, and less imports or investments from the US and EU. The main loser was Nato countries or most of Europe. Europe are followers nowadays lead by the US. Nobody wants to be lead by European countries anymore. They had their chance a few centuries ago but they messed up destroying everything in their path, and now they want to lecture the world in human rights. 🤣
you only have to look at a map, to realize that these sanctions will fail and backfire but the western hubris doesn't seem to have any limit...they still live in the 90's
Western sanctions measures harm those who impose them against Russia. Sanctions have eliminated competition in the Russian domestic market, which is good for domestic producers and the Russian economy as a whole. Even though Russia does not have everything in the country that is required, for example, to produce chips or other equipment, it is supported by the majority of the world’s population. For example, China, which is an unusually technologically advanced state and is constantly developing, supplies Russia with the goods that it needs. But in the modern world, it is also not a problem to simply bypass sanctions.
That's not really true. In a dictatorship you cannot have free market anyway. Any company will be restricted to match the ideology and agenda of the status quo. So this is really a poor argument.
A physical blockade of the Danish strait in the face of Russian oil tankers is a dangerous move that could entail a Russian militaristic action against it in order to unblock the strait, or at least entail some kind of Russian physical retaliation.. if a Danish physical water blockade was in any way, shape, or form a feasible thing, it would have been implemented already.. I don’t think the Danes will be eager to put themselves in harm’s way!
And not a word about how the higher energy prices in the EU are affecting both companies and private citizens. The sanctions cut both ways and for the time being they are badly backfiring against the EU. I can attest to that as a EU citizen and currently residing there. Stop the war, sue for peace and normalise trade and other relations. That is the best course to follow.
How in the world could the West impose a price cap on Russia's oil? The West has no leverage to enforce a price cap. The seller (Russia) and the buyer (India, the West, China, etc) dictate the price based on supply and demand.
Since the imposition of EU, US and UK sanctions on Russia their economy has been doing quite well. Can the same be said for Germany, Netherlands, England and a host of other EU countries? EU vindictiveness it appears this time has not paid any dividend. I feel sorry for Germany.
What about the Russian economy is going well? Even before the full scale war, Russian GDP per capita was far below even their poorest EU neighbours, like Bulgaria. In the last year, Russia has had to ration diesel, food prices are soaring, and people are literally freezing to death even in wealthy cities like St. Petersburg. Russia can't even supply their people with the commodities they're supposed to have an abundance of. This is not comparable to western countries by any measure.
@@Sigismundism yes that is according to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WAPO and BBC. You’re absolutely correct. Ukraine is winning the war as well. They’ve got the Russians on the run.
Меня всё ещё триггерит факт что все эти эксперты которых выпускают в эфир не могут купить себе нормальной камеры и микрофона. Ей богу, я на конф-колах выгляжу приличнее 😅
What Germany should realize and be fearful of is that while oil is indispensable, luxury cars are not. If Russia organizes the global south which supports Russia in the Ukraine war to boycott automobile imports from Germany, Japan, South Kotea and the USA it would have a more devastating effect on NATO and western allies economies that boycotting Russian oil.
What happened to the sanction's on Venezuela!! The US has forgot all the drama they made with a different presidential candidate for convince. Learn from them Europe
I think you guys need to stop focusing on Russia and worry about your self, it seems your obsessed with Russia and you need to concentrate on your own collapsing economy. And im from New Zealand and can see this.
The price cap was meant just so West can buy cheaper oil and sell it for far more expensive price and actually make them the ones to profit from Russia-Ukraine war. It was never to help Ukraine, but themselves.
What the commentators failed to mention is that Europe is still buying oil and gas from Russia indirectly. For example, India buys Russian crude oil, refines it and resell it to Europe at a substantial profit. China gets more gas piped in from Russia, thereby reducing its need for LNG form the U.S. and reassigns those contracts to Europe at a higher price.
Seems everyone is winning except Europe.
Good point, and that is exactly why they didn't mention it. You expect a European channel to admit Europe is being hypocritical by sanctioning Russia overtly, but buying their oil covertly?
You think These clowns would admit that ???
India's import of Russian Oil jumped from 1%to 20%
At the same Germany 🇩🇪, UK 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 imports from India jumped equally 😂😂😂
You don't have to be rocket scientist to figure out that ..
Thats not entirely accurate. The point is not a total boycott of all russian oil and gas. That would be too challenging.
The point is to increase the costs on Russia. To make it more expensive for Russia and make this war have costly consequences for Russia.
Which the sanctions achieve perfectly.
very perspicacious analysis. If you ask me this is by design.. the one getting screwed is the US/Russia is the EU... They have started to become a pain not only for Russia but for the US as well
Not to mention that the Russian manufacturing industry is now booming. Many parts for planes and cars for example, were produced in the EU and imported into Russia for the sake of convenience. Russian industry has now been forced to build at home and now has awaken a sleeping industrial power. Aeroflot had finished testing their all Russian plane, all parts down to the nuts, bolts, rivets, and foundation, is made in Russia. The only thing they import are the electrical systems which they import from friendly country China.
Big fail for the west.
It's not just oil. Russia is not only an energy giant, but also the worlds 2nd largest arms exporter, the top supplier of nuclear reactors, and a rare earths and enriched uraniam producer. The world will always buy these things no matter what the geopolitical climate, and no matter what the cost.
major compared to whom?
Europe? The US nuclear power plants are feed with Russian produced nuclear fuel.
And fertiliser, grain , diamonds
Ruzzian arms aren’t working too well are they if they have to import tinpot Kim.
Well most of those rare earths are used by the EV industry, but maybe not as the Sodium batteries are now being installed in EV,s
Imagine if the world did this to the US whenever it invaded other countries..
ukraine isnt the first country russia invades.
Might makes Right.
Sad, but evidently true.
The US removes the invaded country's government in the first few weeks after invading . They do not take almost 2 years getting that first part done like Russia .
USA isn’t the good guy
@@nejnej4676 These countries started ethical cleansing and the Russians sent peacekeepers through the UN and they were attacked by criminal regimes paid from the West, so they had to react.
Hypocrisy at its peak. Europe and US buying Russian gas, petroleum products and Uranium not funding the war but India buying Oil funding the war😂
May be the case for some European countries, however they have been slowly building shipping process terminals so that they can move away from their old system. For the aforementioned, their oil comes from Canada, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, a smaller amount from Iraq and Colombia.
US buys uranium from Russia but this doesn’t count as funding the war
@@hgf334 yeah they emailed you from where they are buying
If you want to deflect blame from India for their spineless friendship with Russia, you're going to have to try harder
Why should India sanction Russia…? Why taking part in foreign conflicts ?
Look how well Germany is doing... lost all the industrial edge... for what? for americans!
Germany should gather courage and act for their own people ....
Just obeying US commands may not help Germany and EU countries ..
ha ha ...Germany is funny ..DW news is funny ...we all like Germany and DW news ..ha ha
Not for Americans, for American corporate profits.
@@prabhakararaoaravapalli9050 Unfortunately..... German politicians and its people, are too blind to see that. They are owned by the US. Wrong or right, they'd rather follow after them regardless - which explains why they got into this mess in the first place. Sad but true. Germany doesn't have an identity and will forever be a lapdog of the US.
Hey
Europe always had a good life together WITH Americans
Don’t blame America for own failures
Why Europe welcomed so many not educated immigrants??? Americas fault???
Why Europe created so many social programs???? Americas fault?
Everyone likes to blame America
What did 👉you👈 do for safety of your country???
You are forgetting one small fact. Russian government debt for 2023 is about $330 billion US dollars. The total US government debt is 34 trillion US dollars and climbing. Russia paid down the previous years debt by over 50 billion. On the other hand, the US has done nothing but increase its debt. This is a big issue. that will eventually haunt us all.
@@MickJonesHogSmacks Got Rubles?
@@MickJonesHogSmacks Slava GORILKA! 🤣
Well said!
Russian trol
@@eliotness4029 At some point you're going to have to grow up and accept the fact that the real world isn't like a fairytale where the bad guys all look the same and speak menacingly in Russian and the good guys are diverse strong female Americans.
I remember a year ago, many in the west said, price cap will work. One DW News journalist, Konstantine Eggert disagreed by saying "There's so many ways to bypass such sanctions". He was right.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
If he was proven correct, he wasn't trolling. EU leaders were trolling us by promising us that paying 4* our usual prices was going to hurt Russia more than it hurt us.@@eliotness4029
@@eliotness4029 Troll or not troll , the mater that maters are that "There's so many ways to bypass such sanctions".
@@eliotness4029 you are showing the caliber of the EU management.
@@eliotness4029 85 IQ response, don't talk about the point just regurgitate. because thinking is hard, thinking is evil, thinking is treason.
Now we buy Russian oil via India/KSA with a tariff, awesome 4D move by European "leaders"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
not mentioned many companies lost profit from shipping and insurance services. but fear not, ursula doesn't care, she is not elected figure.
😂😂😂😂😂
You buy oil for world market prices. India pays with rupies for oil. Not a big business for Russia...Sanctions helped to keep oil prices in bay
I love Europe but it always get entangled in unnecessary wars that reduces its world power and influence.
Now Europe buys Russian Oil from India. At higher price 😂
European leaders - we are winning
What happened to the amurikan freedom demokratik liquified gas that’s overflowing their ports 😂
Russian trol
@@eliotness4029 realist troll.
Who doesn't live in lala wonderland
@@eliotness4029haha 😂 you only one still believe Europe still top of the world
they are winning, but at what cost?
One thing I know for sure is that the Russians can endure suffering a lot longer than most other people.
and unfortunately they are teaching us how to endure pain by being a living example..... and we have not signed up for this class by our own free will ! ....... and by the way this is what dictators are doing, they teach you how to live in pain and they force you to say: "thank you" for that ..... N. Koreans have to sing a praise song for Kim Jung every day at 5 pm. If you don't sing you know what will happen with you !!!!
@PraneshSacher 😂 While in the " free world " they teach you new pronouns and how to feel offended when your feelings get hurt when you're misgendered and other micro-aggressions
Russian trol
@@eliotness4029 nope, just a man that has read and studied Russian history and literature.
@@paulattaboyatreides6414Молодец,ты все понял правильно!Мы будем есть снег,но врага уничтожим!!!
Sanctions proved a blessing to Russia. Russia was like that 20 something living in his parent’s basement. Getting by with no ambition. Parents kick him out and 2 years later it was the best thing that could have happened to him. He has become more resourceful and self reliant with a new circle of friends.
Yeah Russia definitely still in the basement. If a country could be a neck beard nicely keyboard warrior... Pathetic
@@rangegod98Cope lol
Thanks US ..Thanks Germany !!
why does DW always accuse China and India of buying Russian oil and gas? The EU is currently one of the largest exporters of gas and oil from Russia.
According to the Indian Foreign Ministry, EU is being Russian gas at a rate that is ten times that of India.
如果北约可以把石油，煤炭和天然气送到青岛或者大连。中国政府也会乐意制裁俄罗斯，这就是现实，中国人不会多花钱去买其他国家的资源
The sad truth is that there are no real benefits of having Ukraine in the eu or nato, maybe just to have more cheap Labour. But they have Romania and Poland for that already.
Instead of writing In conclusion: why Russia is winning they should write down How Russia is winning the Economic war against the west.
…initiated by the West, founded by the West, and propagated by the West. Arms, intel and other personnel supplied by NATO. What a circus!
They did not win; it was the other side that suffered a self-inflicted loss.
Who lost because of US politics? Europe.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
Repair Nordstream please
@@eliotness4029how much biden paying you
Who lost because of EU politics? Europe.
The way these sanctions have been done over the last 10 years... it's almost as if they're intentionally trying to fix and boost Russia's Dutch Diseased economy.
If sanctions dont exists, Russia probably would have naturally succumbed to Dutch Disease like Venezuela did.
The war in Ukraine is Europes problem not the worlds problems.
A war a conquest from a tirant colonial state with nuclear weapons is everyone's problem. That's why the UN exists.
Ah! Dr. Jaishankar. He is a blunt tough and smart man
We can make it your problem
@@rthj6446 Those days are long gone😂 Learn to cope
You don't think a nuclear power annexing it's neighbour's territory under the protection of their nuclear umbrella is a precendent that endangeres the whole world? Good thing you don't make the decisions then.
There are 8 billion people on earth and limited resources.....Not hard to figure it out. You can't cancel the world biggest country with largest resources.
One needs to understand that Humans primarily need food , fuel , clothing and shelter to survive and Russia has got an abundance of these, so sanctions on Russia is ineffective at best. The Russian people will not revolt against the system as long as these 4 necessities are available.
Мы не сдадимся, даже если мышами придется питаться...
@@15425rfggdfc за всех не говори, пару десятилетий ядерной зимы много кого сломают
This war is about who will broke and revolt first Russia or Europe, but DW will not say you. :)
@@suportbghelp4938😂😂😂😂
It looks like Germany got crushed
How do you expect to break Russian will? Slavic people are different breed we do not need you to survive. In 1993 the whole world sanctioned Yugoslavia, yes we had some problems but our life was ordinary, there were shortages of fuel , but our will was strong and our pride made us stronger in heathered against west.
We ended up embargoing ourselves while Russia switched to become a major Asian power.
The balance of power has flipped and any new deals will be on Russia’s terms.
GREAT work EU! 👏👏👏
Exactly 😂
Nice)
Thay do not represent the people , represent itselfs.
No wonder Russia's coat of arms is a double-headed eagle, it looks both to the west and to the east, this coat of arms was borrowed from Byzantium.
More than 6000 sanctions on Russia with no result ?! Strong 🇷🇺 🇷🇺 🇷🇺
Around 13000 now
Russia 🇷🇺👏👏👏 Kia Kaha from a Kiwi in Aotearoa/New Zealand? Western leaders treat non aligned nations with such contempt and disrespect even when those countries genuinely want good relations. People want to trade, grow relationship. The EU thinks it’s a mafia big boss 😂 but people a finding out it’s bark is worse thane it’s toothless bite.
if there is no result you wouldn't feel the need to come on to RUclips to say it.
@@williamplayfair364 isn't the west asking the question first in this video?
Russian trol
Boomerang sanctions not only weakened the EU economy, but strengthened the competing economies of China and India. 😂
Africa also is awakening, 😂😂😂😂. EU will pay a heavy price!!
Talking about shooting yourselves in the foot, hope they do not come looking towards south america now, poor us so far from God yet too close to the USA😢
Well….. the peak of Russias economy was in 2014. Even at that stage the russian economy had the size of let’s say ….. London and Paris combined.
So 2 European cities with 20 million people outperform Russias economy with all 145 mio Russians and all gas and oil exports at the stage, when the Russian economy was the biggest in history.
Russia is a developing country with not even 1 top 100 company.
Germany would need have to collapse like 80%+ to go to the level of Russias GRP per capita now……
So relax 😅😅
Until now I see 0 of the weakened EU economy. And China has other problems.
@@Nope_1567 Real economy vs GDP economy no matter.We in East Europe, just like Russia had own homes and not add to our GDP 1000euro rent every month.Many things is cheap or free here and not add to GDP like in west.
DW shifting the narrative again? 😂
You changed narrative but not changed reality
Don't bother thinking about that too much.
More like reporting things close to the truth
Lmfao😂😂
they received directive from above ;)
Russia has to make its economy absolutely sanction proof. Trade with Asia, Africa, and latin America.
Russian trol
Yes decouple from EU and US
Control 🇷🇺
@@eliotness4029Get on boys😂
@@eliotness4029 The truth is hard pill to swallow.
DW didn't talk about their own economy as industries r going out of Germany🇩🇪
without industries , Germany will be a GREEN country !!! we all support GREEN party!!!
I have lost count of the number of instances where NATO has tried to "hurt" Russia in some way the past two years, and each has resulted in COMPLETE AND UTTER FAILURE.
in the eyes of russian bots, sure.
A lack of success
@@ffffuchsLol even DW is admitting it. Cope.
ha ha ..
It's time for Russia to leave this narcissistic relationship
I like how DW news is coming into terms with Russian win and not calling the rest of us as Russian bots ..you are welcome by the way😂😂😂
Why so happy?
@@iAnasazi "Why so happy?"
-> Validation always feels good. Is this new for you?
@@advancedomega Why so condescending?
@@iAnasazi Sorry if you feel that way. I am just curious if "Validation always feels good" is new for you.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳❤🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺 love from India to all Russian people
yes all Russians except Putin, the Siloviki and the Oligarchs.
Stay in India and sweat..
@@marky1974
In my state its currently snowing and I'm from India 😋
I had to buy heater today it's so cold here
God bless Russia, we are with you all the way! 🇮🇳❤🇷🇺
Love you, dear India!
Slowly Russia needs to completely decouple it's economy from west and trade with friendly and reliable countries. In the long-run Russia should focus on domestic industry and self sufficiency.
They have and are doing these things very successfully.
Russian trol
@@eliotness4029...Blow away troll...!!!
@@colindavis1496 troll
@@eliotness4029 ...You know, the trolls are the one's running around on RUclips adding nothing intelligent to the discussion calling people trolls...grow up...!!!
Increasing sanctions against more countries will drive those countries to trading with alternatives to the EU and USA. Sanctions work against those imposing them.
Yeah, it's insane that Russia supply their own chips to Malaysia because Malaysia under sanctions and have no choice where buy microelectronics
This is true. But also now with the Houthis actions in the Red Sea they’re likely going to be dictating the price of oil to the west.
@@antonsinitsyn6420 They don't have to "supply their chips to Malaysia". China has a ready supply of those.
Yeah, if you sanction everyone in your village, then you basically is on exile.
If India (and China) are funding Russia's war, Europe and US are doing the same as well.
The largest EU importers of Russian fossil fuels in July 2023 were Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and Spain. In July, these countries predominantly imported crude oil via pipeline, LNG and pipeline gas from Russia. Reliance (Indian company) and one other big company refined Russian oil and sold it as significant markup to some Western European nations. Cheap Russian oil did not really benefit the average Indian. One positive impact it did have on the global economy was to prevent oil prices/inflation from shooting even further which would have happened if these India & China did not buy this oil.
As for LNG, US remains EU's leading supplier in the second quarter of 2023, with a share of 46.4% in total EU imports, followed by Russia (12.4%), Qatar (10.9%), Algeria (9.9%) and Nigeria (5.1%).
18% of US's energy needs are met by nuclear fuel and 24% of this comes from Russia.
The energy specific part of this report is highly disingenuous. They don't want to accept that Russia, whatever it's foreign policy may be, is an integral part of the global energy trade and they cannot really be 'kicked out' of the market.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
Whatever you mentioned in your first para is even said by Dr. Jaishankar in UN meeting. But still these countries won't accept that.
Bro, you don't have to give justifications to these hypocrites.
Rock n' Roll control 🇷🇺
@@mathanraj9389 So india are to acept what this countries won't ??NO if you whant the 1.4bilion market,,,,,😁
A random number printed on a piece of paper doesn't determine how rich you are, especially if you print a lot of it. What did you think? Will the rest of the world stop running their trucks?
You right. Is the raw materials of a country who dictate the money value except USD which is a global currency
Governments produce whatever metric they can to make themselves look good. You should go by PPP and see if the population can afford to live. The US has high GDP, but everything is expensive.
There is other places with oil …..
And no Russia is not rich… because it has oil. The minimum wage in Russia is not even 200$ at the moment 😂
Comparing GDP is just absurd, anyway and possibly the most asininely and obliviously Anglo-centric metric anyone has ever come up with.
But everything cost cheaper too! Remember the guy with gas stove on 24/7 streaming on yt
Russia is biggest oil and gas reserve , they also have large uranium and diamond mines. They are largest country in the world by area and they have different natural resources.
Russian trol
Thats all you can tell, no facts as usual for west@@eliotness4029
@@eliotness4029in what way the comment is wrong?
THEY ARE BLESSED
@@eliotness4029aren't you tired of trolling....NATO BOT,
You are in every comment ,smh
The entire EU-strategy rearding Ukraine and the war proved to be completely wrong. Still, the EU Comission is not ready to admit it. Fatal mistake.
They listened to Uncle Sam
Because they have no choice but to accept it
The truth is the EU Comission works for the benefit of USA. they have done good job. what is wrong with them?
Russia made the mistake, and will lose.
@@liuantony638 ITS ok with them because they get very high payments for serving usa !they are not suffering
What is important here is that strategically, EU had cheap energy from Russia, now they don't and instead India and China have it. And they have been growing for decades now, the effect will be visible after 10 years several decades in the future. And as a bonus now India is earning money from oil selling as well.
Saudis buy oil from Russia and selling that same oil at a higher price for the EU, ,actually EU get sanctioned atm
The saudis buying oil from Russia should tell you something about the extremely low price of that oil and how Russia is greatly losing in the matter.
The EU isn't buying that oil for a higher price than it would any other barrel of oil from any other country, so as far as the EU is concerned, that arrangement isn't costing anything.
The saudis are making a lot of profit of course, but good for them ;p.
@@lepetitroquet9410 a lot of oil production cuts in order to increase demand and with demand comes high prices so yes they were buying it expensive
@@SAapproves So your genius theory is:
-> the saudis cut their own oil production to raise the prices
-> the saudis chose to buy expensive oil from Russia at those higher prices instead of producing it themselves
-> the saudis then sold that oil that cost them a fortune at market price to the europeans, making little to no profit, because why wouldn't they ;p ?
You don't seem to understand that the saudis are human beings capable of counting and interested in looking out for themselves ;p.
All to avoid the simple truth : Russia was desperate enough to sell oil at a price lower than the production cost for saudi's oil, so it was profitable for the saudi to buy the russian oil instead of producing it themselves.
And then they sold it to the EU, making a bigger profit from which Russia didn't even the the shadow of a coin ;p.
both Russia and the Saudis are making money on the deal. You are suggesting i think that the Russians are making less of a profit i presume, right ?@@lepetitroquet9410
@@lepetitroquet9410 😂😂😂 clowns 🤡 .. yes but now Even india gets only 5$ discount per barrel.. just Googel it 😂😂
Yes there's a discount but it's Tiny compared to 2022
Imagine all this money is going for the good of the people, like healthcare, education institutions etc and not to wars, weapons or few individuals.
Tell Putin, the ruler of an agressive and expansionist invasive nation.
Not to wars? That’s never gonna happen. There’s been wars since cavemen started Swinging Sticks. It’s a universal truth for people.
No one wants to invest in the Russian war of annexations & certainly not the EU. 🤓
@alexz75515, absolutely. But, do you know why EU is giving that money just like that, in a blink of an eye?! That's because it's not their money! That money comes from resources looted in Africa and other 3rd world countries! Ask France, UK and other countries! That's why they don't mind giving it to Zelensky so that Russians will burn it just like that! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Yes. I wished russia would have never started their war.
Как интересно. Людям создают худшие условия, чтобы они свергли своё правительство, ради запада. Это так мило. Вы такие хорошие! Спасибо, что пытаетесь ухудшить нашу жизнь, а мы за это должны разрушить свою страну, для того, чтобы угодить вам. Надеюсь, вы также столкнётесь с таким же, за все преступления, что совершили по всему миру.
The west is like a babe that always want his way forgeting that they are no model for no one. You right. I hope Russia keeps strong
как же ты прав братан
Спасибо, что помогаете менять нашу страну к лучшему, а заодно и мир. А ваша участь-быть удобрением этому новому миру.
Согласен
надеюсь у них появится возможность получить и пережить наши "90-е" , челы просто не шарят, что это такое 🙂
The Russian economy has proved to be more durable than that of the EU, even with sanctions. So much for Russia just being a gas station. The EU still buys Russian oil and gas, just via a third party. Sanctions are just like an own goal!
Yup
Z 💪
Russian trol
@@eliotness4029 Cope.
@@eliotness4029 where is your facts? 😂😂
What rarely talked about is that Russia had very low government debt to gdp ratio for a large modern economy. It's result of a long term budget policy.
As a result, Russian government itself had very low dependance on foreign investors and now has a lot of room to run at a deficit.
haha, and who is going to loan money to Russia? nobody. The Ruble has dropped by half in a year and is now worth about 1 US penny. China has their own debt problem and isn't going to break sanctions to give a high risk loan to Russia.
Large modern? Russia’s gdp per capita is still no where near to developed world
@@SdpptmK Still 11th largest economy in the world even by nominal GDP, not PPP. So it is a large modern economy.
@@PeterSedesse Government debt is mostly internal product (unless you are US). Also it doesn't matter how much currency is worth, it's about interest against inflation (or currency evalution against $ for foreign investors).
Russia currently has pretty high interest rates - because central bank tries to cool down real estate market and to fight overborrowing.
@@smitias_8474 87% of US debt is internal, and the majority of the rest is EU with China at about 5%. Our current bond yields are at 3.9%. Russian current rates are at 18% which means that if Russia does borrow money to build military equipment it will be paying very high interest for it. But again, nobody is going to buy Russian debt, neither external or internal. If Russia was able to sell debt that easily, they wouldn't have shut down all govt projects for the past two years. Also Russians high interest rates have nothing to do with Russian real estate and everything to do with their inflation rate which has everything to do with the fall of the ruble. Diesel fuel was 300% more expensive for the October harvest than it was in 2022, which means all good prices are up substantially. Compare to the USA where fuel prices are down about 40% compared to last year and inflation was down to 3% last quarter. Putin is juggling the economy right now, wrecking the future of Russia just to buy himself a few months to get through his election without a crash. Interest rates at 18% means no businesses are expanding and none are starting up, but it does keep the ruble from going to 200:1 for a few months. As I said, the USA is building factories, roads, ports and schools, while Russia can build nothing.
Since the European economy is still breathing a bit and there are some manufacturers left in Europe, you can still impose more sanctions, guys. Let that last remaining business move to the US. I should not be the only US patriot, guys.
Yes, this is very good idea to move all rest manufacturing sites from EU to US. This action will safe EU producers from the dependent on Russian raw materials. All EU citizens will be happy finally.
@@miri4768 Yes, it’s better that these companies pay taxes in the US than in the EU, but they do not depend on Russian raw materials🤣
Europe was the biggest loser of this war.
@@j.k.1239On the contrary: the real loser is Russia. A nation that lost and keeps losing people abroad. There is NO FUTURE for Russia at all.
The commentators ignored the fact that the sanctions initiated by the US and the acquiescence of the Western allies ( vassal states), such as, Germany and France in these policies also hurt themselves as much as they hurt Russia. It is a lose lose proposition.
Only US isnt losing.
Really as much? Germany is official recession, Russian economy is growing
@@ЮлияЛ-щ9ш Yes, because Russia is rapidly increasing both its self-reliance and its trade with Iran, China and India.
😂 The funniest thing that Viktor Orban said from the beginning that the sanctions are useless he was right. Everything, he said in the past it is becoming true for instance immigration, he built a fence on the border, now other countries do the same and change their immigration policy.
They actually caused more problems for some businesses and countries in Eastern Europe and the west than they caused for Russia
He built his fence and they laughed at him for being a conspiracy theorist… but then complained when they were bussing the immigrants over to the north and helping them cross borders.
The world?
Hint: 8 of the 10 largest countries in the orld are not part of sanctions. This includes India and China. Also the largest economies on their continent: South Africa and Brazil.
All while Azerbaijan is redirecting and reselling Russian oil and gas without any issues or limitations. EU even signed an agreement to triple thier imports.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
What sanctions? Europe has dramatically increased imports of Russian LNG.
but russia has to rename all stuff its rly anoying!!!
India / China said stick with Minsk2.0, Global South said push for peace (Turkey and Israel even mediated) but hey west had diff ideas expecting whole world will follow their demands
World will not follow western demands. Won't happen. World has to look at its own interests.
Мы никогда не забудем и не простим тем, кто пытался наказать наш русский народ. Даже лекарства у инвалидов и мультфильмы у детей решили отнять. Мы этой мелочной подлости не забудем. Мы все можем делать сами.
Verdade! Queria que tivessemos um presidente igual Putin no Brasil, vocês tem muita sorte, vocês são abencoados por deus😊
Indians will always be there by your side we never leave our friends more than Putin we love the normal russians
The Soviet Union has been destroyed. Russia is a failed state. Russia went from the second most powerful military in the world to the second most powerful army in Ukraine.
@saoham659Окей приятель,это твое будущее
Yup@@mrx1744 ... Dumb EU politicians think they are the last cookie of the bag, and don't consider that if EU don't buy Russian gas and oil, a lot of other countries are happy to buy it... And the funnier part is that certain countries like India buy Russian gas, refine it and sell it to Europe... EU leaders are clowns... And that is an insult to clowns, at least they work honestly
Bravo Mr Putin. You are a great strategic. 😎👍💯🌎
This reveals how little is the western experts and politicians' understanding in economy.
Yet you can't put it into words.
Russian trol Konstantine Eggert
Tie your hands and feet by yourself. It's full of lies, but you can't be caught sanctioning anyone. Rather, it's ruined by its own contradictions.
The US and its EU allies are used to impose sanctions for weaks countries like Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Uganda, etc., and you guys succeed with those. Definitely not with Russia and China, 😂😂😂😂😂😂! Your sanction-mania is failing, Russia is a POWERFUL country, more than all Western countries combined, 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It seems like europe suffering also from the sanctions and gas embargo
Only Europe is suffering from their own sanctions not Russians
Part of America grand plans
People thinking broke Russia under sanctions and fighting a stalemate war is doing good ?
Before the war Russia had a GDP just above Spain and below Canada .
Fighting a war is not improving that .
@@Crashed131963 Cope harde 😂😂😂 dude .. DW tells That Russian are running out of Eggs 🥚 😂😂 and you buy it is the same DW that Told that Russia Run out of ammunition 😂😂
@@abdirahmanahmadalifarah926 Putin declared "Kherson" as a Russian city before retreating out of it 15 months ago .
What superpower loses one of its cities for even 15 min let alone 15 months without doing anything about it?
DW authors should worry about the German economy. Russia created it's own insurance company 😅 also the Russian banks have developed the mir payment system analogus to Swift payment system is being used countries like India Cuba many south eastern countries 😅
Cuba - YES
India - NO
Look into your frigde, not state television, if you want reality, Ivan.
@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage Look into your fridge first.... here we have all the food we want, and it is actually tasty. Do you even remember what tomatoes taste like or do you associate tomato taste with the plastic that you have been consuming?
@genericdude5017 It seems that DW did a good job to your small brain!!
@genericdude5017 Who says Russia is a bad place to live?
I know a guy who moved to Canada from Ukraine, now he wants to move to Russia (he lived in Russia some time).
Reasons: bad availability and quality of healthcare, big rent, poor job market, car-based infrastructure (you need a car to move anywhere), high price of maintaining a car.
According to him Russia is a better place to live than Canada.
"Hundreds of thousands left"
And most of the have already returned because they were running from mobilization.
Full Support for Russia from Serbia 🇷🇸❤️🇷🇺💪
Don't worry, you will eventually remain isolated in Europe.
Always that person laughs, who laughs in the end.🇷🇸🦅💪
@@aronkracsun you need to learn some more English. But yeah, let's wait and see who's the last one to be laughing.
@@chipishor I don't need to learn more English 🙂 You completely understand me and what I have just written is correct.
He who laughs last, laughs longest
This war is a business at the cost of human lives at its ultimate core
Nordsteam pipeline: Ecological Issue what is that😂😂😂
Putin is the most intelligent leader in this world , keep doing good work Mr president 👏 👍
He isn’t.
@@daya820your sanctions against him went kaboom.
Without a doubt. The man is intelligent
Seems like DW is shifting side 😂
How's the weather Vlad ? Toilets all running at capacity?
@@MarincaGheorghelol Russia has so much source energy.. I recall EU are begging now for cheap energy... Good luck for your winter.. 😂
@@markosmataasii2000 as long as you are happy living under tirany no problem for me. Just don't step on other countries toes.
@@MarincaGheorghedo you know other countries support Russia🇷🇺 too other than Russians.
@@MarincaGheorghe How's Germany doing 😂😂???
I’m not even an economist or a military analyst, but knew that this would not end well for the collective west.
Russia is a commodity based economy, while most of western economies are soft technology based economies.
Soft technology? The west is a service based economy mostly based on debt, financial derivatives, real estate, and other funny money mumbo jumbo.
There are 8 billion people on planet and limited resources.
My understanding is that EU wants to buy the oil but doesn’t want to pay for it 😂. If you want to ban Russian oil, why does EU still buy oil and gas from Russia.
DW is too boring, too predictable…….low quality media channel
If anything has proved to be true is that no matter Guriev says, the opposite happens (but since the msm likes what he says, he’s always welcome).
Looks like dreamjob!)
Sanctions directly benefits the US with the exponential sales of oil, gas, weapons, and other commodities to Europe since the war started. It also indirectly benefits China and India. I would say in the long term it also benefits Russia because the sanctions took out all the US and EU brands out of the country and were replaced with Russian brands or brands from allies. These US and EU companies even left their equipment, know-how, and were bought off at bargain cost if not free. McDonald's and other food chains were replaced by Russian brands that offer similar options. Factories were replaced with Russian or Chinese manufacturers. Russia is one of the few countries that had a trade surplus due to this. More products made in Russia and investments from allies, and less imports or investments from the US and EU. The main loser was Nato countries or most of Europe. Europe are followers nowadays lead by the US. Nobody wants to be lead by European countries anymore. They had their chance a few centuries ago but they messed up destroying everything in their path, and now they want to lecture the world in human rights. 🤣
Why are there no sanctions on the UK for occupying northern Ireland? There should be consistent standards or no standards.
Europe again overstating their importance.
you only have to look at a map, to realize that these sanctions will fail and backfire but the western hubris doesn't seem to have any limit...they still live in the 90's
Western sanctions measures harm those who impose them against Russia. Sanctions have eliminated competition in the Russian domestic market, which is good for domestic producers and the Russian economy as a whole. Even though Russia does not have everything in the country that is required, for example, to produce chips or other equipment, it is supported by the majority of the world’s population. For example, China, which is an unusually technologically advanced state and is constantly developing, supplies Russia with the goods that it needs. But in the modern world, it is also not a problem to simply bypass sanctions.
Yeah except they don’t have connections or good deals with the new sellers I’ve seen the profit margin it’s not good
if that is the case why do so many bots come on hear screaming about it.
@@williamplayfair364 If this is true, why don't bots shout about it?
That's not really true. In a dictatorship you cannot have free market anyway. Any company will be restricted to match the ideology and agenda of the status quo. So this is really a poor argument.
Yes yes super simple except it’ll cost you 40% more nooo problem I’m sure
A physical blockade of the Danish strait in the face of Russian oil tankers is a dangerous move that could entail a Russian militaristic action against it in order to unblock the strait, or at least entail some kind of Russian physical retaliation.. if a Danish physical water blockade was in any way, shape, or form a feasible thing, it would have been implemented already.. I don’t think the Danes will be eager to put themselves in harm’s way!
this is actually considered an act of war and would enable Russia to attack daenemark without them being able to claim article 5
And not a word about how the higher energy prices in the EU are affecting both companies and private citizens. The sanctions cut both ways and for the time being they are badly backfiring against the EU. I can attest to that as a EU citizen and currently residing there.
Stop the war, sue for peace and normalise trade and other relations. That is the best course to follow.
I like how the weasels say “Putin suffered”.
Russia has the right to defend itself.
Good to see the fear on Western aggressors.
They have to come up with a peace agreement For the sake of Ukraine
Fantastically insightful, (would be, if you had made this a year ago when sanctions were implemented.)
EU suffered for the USA cold war with Russia.
Now Germany buying US gas x4 the price.
Woe to be an emeny of the US, even worse a frenemy
Ukraine is a prize for Russia. It costs more than any sanctions.
10 clips on the embargo efficiency, then we kick-in one of these. Love it...gogo the Shadow Fleet..
Shadow Fleet is rusting to bits - go go going gone...
How in the world could the West impose a price cap on Russia's oil? The West has no leverage to enforce a price cap. The seller (Russia) and the buyer (India, the West, China, etc) dictate the price based on supply and demand.
EU should think twice Russian is Russian. Russia is not North Korea
Love you Putin❤
I watch RUclips in Russia without ads, thanks to the sanctions, put VPN Russia and also watch RUclips without ads
Devoid of any logic and reality is how one can summarize the West' approach to Russia
Them EU looks like shooting themselves in their toes. How ironic! 😂
Since the imposition of EU, US and UK sanctions on Russia their economy has been doing quite well. Can the same be said for Germany, Netherlands, England and a host of other EU countries? EU vindictiveness it appears this time has not paid any dividend. I feel sorry for Germany.
What about the Russian economy is going well? Even before the full scale war, Russian GDP per capita was far below even their poorest EU neighbours, like Bulgaria. In the last year, Russia has had to ration diesel, food prices are soaring, and people are literally freezing to death even in wealthy cities like St. Petersburg. Russia can't even supply their people with the commodities they're supposed to have an abundance of. This is not comparable to western countries by any measure.
@@Sigismundism yes that is according to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WAPO and BBC. You’re absolutely correct. Ukraine is winning the war as well. They’ve got the Russians on the run.
Germany is pressing ahead in renewable energy, will need far less gas and oil as time goes on.
Меня всё ещё триггерит факт что все эти эксперты которых выпускают в эфир не могут купить себе нормальной камеры и микрофона. Ей богу, я на конф-колах выгляжу приличнее 😅
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What Germany should realize and be fearful of is that while oil is indispensable, luxury cars are not. If Russia organizes the global south which supports Russia in the Ukraine war to boycott automobile imports from Germany, Japan, South Kotea and the USA it would have a more devastating effect on NATO and western allies economies that boycotting Russian oil.
i like how trhey say "russian aging fleet" and they show ships built in 2017 , 2015, 2010. so much for aging.
😂😂The west overestimates itself, and they underestimate the strength of Russia and other countries in the world.
Big mistake for 🇪🇺
What happened to the sanction's on Venezuela!! The US has forgot all the drama they made with a different presidential candidate for convince. Learn from them Europe
The problem with US and west is that, they don't have a high caliber leader like Putin.
I think you guys need to stop focusing on Russia and worry about your self, it seems your obsessed with Russia and you need to concentrate on your own collapsing economy. And im from New Zealand and can see this.
They can't stop Russia
What I’m seeing in Ireland is that we are struggling more than the Russians🤥
Gazprom CEO had said to the west 'Energy is more valuable than your paper currency'. That is what it boils down to.
Russia has become stronger and has more respect around the world.
putin is guiding russia to a disaster.
Yes
The price cap was meant just so West can buy cheaper oil and sell it for far more expensive price and actually make them the ones to profit from Russia-Ukraine war. It was never to help Ukraine, but themselves.
I have never doubted for a bit that Russia would win. My confidence was in the highest degree and is still is
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They don’t want to let the people know the truth
Germany has started feeling the heat of sanctions imposed & as a result many companies are closing down.
Since the Hunter has learnt to shoot without missing, the birb has learnt to fly without perching.