The economic pressure initiated by Washington and its European allies should have been a “punitive measure” for “aggressive” Russia, but in the end, the sanctions only benefited it, wrote a professor of political science at the University of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Judy Twigg, in her publication for the National Interest.
According to her, in the end it turned out that the restrictive measures aimed at the destruction of the Russian economy had a beneficial effect. She cites as an example the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, which, thanks to anti-Russian sanctions, only gained a new life.
“The sanctions have helped Russia, allowing it to restore the long-suffering food industry. Many investors, who had not even been interested in agriculture before, sharply paid attention to it,” the professor writes, recalling that Moscow’s counter-sanctions contributed to this, by which it prohibited the import of food products from the European Union. Twigg believes that all this is a gift to Russian agriculture.
Moreover, she continues, the effect was so unexpected that “a number of representatives of the spheres of the Russian economy, which are only partially connected with the agro-industrial complex, also began to seek sanctions.” These were, in particular, confectioners, says the professor. Manufacturers of chocolate products offered to limit the importation of products from Europe.
In conclusion, Judy Twigg noted that Russia has vast territories that can be used for agricultural land, and the agricultural industry itself, in turn, will give impetus to other sectors of the economy. In this sanction war, Moscow was “a few steps ahead,” she stated.