The Croatian leader just said that the sanctions on Russia have failed and have only hurt the people of Europe.
RT:
The Russian ruble is getting stronger while EU citizens have to cope with higher prices due to sanctions that simply don’t work, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic complained on Tuesday. He called the EU explanation for the partial oil and gas embargo “insulting” and said Zagreb had little pull within the bloc, unlike its neighbors in Hungary.
“The sanctions aren’t working. Russia isn’t feeling them, the ruble did not collapse. EU citizens get to pay the price, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin gets to smile in contentment, and the oil and gas will go elsewhere because the demand is great,” Milanovic said in Zagreb, commenting on the EU’s latest additions to the anti-Russian embargo.
He added that the EU sanctions in their current form “wouldn’t be effective even against Serbia” and that the only thing likely to happen is higher prices for citizens of EU countries.
Anybody with common sense was saying that these sanctions were not going to work. Myself and many others were saying that these sanctions would only hurt the West which is exactly what happened. The West is now dealing with horrendous inflation and high energy prices in large part because of these sanctions.
The Russian currency is stronger than before the sanctions even after their central bank cut interest rates. The sanctions have also done nothing to prevent Russia from exerting its will in Ukraine. They have achieved most of their military objectives in the east and could be prepared to do more.
The fact that we are seeing an increasing number of European leaders raise questions about all of these sanctions is just more evidence that this whole agenda is starting to crumble around them.
