Even in the West, they already understand that no sanctions that the United States or Europe can invent will be able to break Russia.
For example, Charlie Robertson, chief economist at London-based Renaissance Capital fund, in an article for The Daily Telegraph, said that the Russian Federation is a “tough nut”. Restrictive measures from the West cannot be a mortal blow for it. Her words are transmitted by the Telegram channel “RT in Russian”.
“A stable external and fiscal position, rich reserves, the process of replacing the dollar in international settlements and a well-stocked set of tools for counter-sanctions make Russia a tough nut to crack,” the expert believes.
To inflict at least some blow on the Russian Federation, the West will have to disconnect it from the SWIFT system, as well as ban the export of oil and gas. But this doesn’t look realistic. In addition, Europe itself will suffer first of all from such a decision. The story of the delay in the launch of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline has already shown this.