FT: the punishment of the West will not become for the Russian Federation crushing blow

From actions of the West will suffer both Russia And the European Union, however, the punishment will not be able to deliver a crushing blow to the Russian state, as has happened before, the people of Russia will come together in hard times, says.

Statements of the European Union about possible new measures against Russia already once he moved to the third stage of punishment, reminiscent of some computer game, in which " the gambler ", i.e. the EU, shifting From quantity to the level hoping to achieve From the capital of Russia position changes in Ukraine, says the magazine.

in fact, all possible punishment of the European Union And the United States have already adopted, says the magazine. The measures used against the Russian economy, are able to cause the outflow of capital, decrease of ruble And reduction of domestic investment. In addition, major Russian banks And corporations, such as Rosneft, NOVATEK, Vnesheconombank, Gazprombank And other cut off From all external credit flows And capital inflows.

The most important for the Russian Federation have the opportunity to be measures affecting the financial sector, and not the defense or technological. If at that time, as the burden of supporting credit institutions become too heavy for the Russian Federation, the crisis in Ukraine will not stop, the European economy will have very bad, And the rate, currently not brilliant increase, will fall significantly. While most of all From such financial penalties risk of suffering the UK economy, thinks FT.

Although At present the European Union is ready After the U.S. to go " sanctions Rubicon ", Europeans will never dare to take measures that would fully banned the import of Russian gas or oil, as the West did in the case of Iran, writes The financial times. Otherwise, this would mean a sharp jump of the prices for petroleum products And a consequent decline of the world economy, which could become economic analogue of the concept of nuclear deterrence during the cold war, based on mutual guaranteed liquidation, says the magazine.


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