I guess “hurting their economy to accelerate their downfall” is a frequent goal of sanctions (cf. the sanctions on Cuba by the USA), but in the case of the EU there’s probably another: “let’s cut economic ties so that they cannot use our reliance on them to influence us”.
Russian gas still reaches Europe for example. Just through middle men, making it much more expensive than it has to be. Our party set up an emergency line for people that couldn’t afford their energy bills anymore. I spend months helping people, crying that they just couldn’t do it. CO poisoning deaths tripled since the beginning of the sanctions over here due to people looking for alternative ways to heat their house, leading them to suffocate. Energy companies made billions of profit abusing the crisis. Inflation is skyrocketing all throughout Europe.
This mythical Russian influence never materialised anywhere. Hell, Russia still sells them eveything they want, just through middlemen, even though they are really in state of war. In the meantime, USA have so much influence over EU that it commits economical seppuku without any reason other than lining the pockets of US oligarchs.
I guess “hurting their economy to accelerate their downfall” is a frequent goal of sanctions (cf. the sanctions on Cuba by the USA), but in the case of the EU there’s probably another: “let’s cut economic ties so that they cannot use our reliance on them to influence us”.
Russian gas still reaches Europe for example. Just through middle men, making it much more expensive than it has to be. Our party set up an emergency line for people that couldn’t afford their energy bills anymore. I spend months helping people, crying that they just couldn’t do it. CO poisoning deaths tripled since the beginning of the sanctions over here due to people looking for alternative ways to heat their house, leading them to suffocate. Energy companies made billions of profit abusing the crisis. Inflation is skyrocketing all throughout Europe.
Meanwhile Russia is stable.
This mythical Russian influence never materialised anywhere. Hell, Russia still sells them eveything they want, just through middlemen, even though they are really in state of war. In the meantime, USA have so much influence over EU that it commits economical seppuku without any reason other than lining the pockets of US oligarchs.