- Freedom of Enterprise and Industry,
- Development and Advancement,
- Association.
Americans’ Acquiescence to Washington & Co’s Lethal Brew of Sanctions-Blockade-Defamation-Destabilization Wars on the World, on Nations' Sovereignty Ensures Permanence of the Unacceptable.
Case in Point Sanctions
A Limited Chronology of USA’s anti-Russian Madness View from Beyond the BeltwayRussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2010s
December 24, 2016, US sanctions against Russia … (extension) the second in the past three days… will not force us to change our views….”
August 4, 2017 (Russia) … deeply regret[s] the decision by Brussels to include a number of Russian officials and companies in the EU sanctions.”
September 30, 2019 “We are puzzled by the latest sanctions adopted … arbitrarily … by the US administration …. [W]e urge American politicians to stop the useless and self-defeating sanctions game.”
2020s
February 23, 2022, “Make no mistake, we will respond strongly to these sanctions, not necessarily in a symmetrical manner”
June 9, 2022, those imposing sanctions fail to mention that “anti-Russian unilateral sanctions are still distinctly detrimental (to many countries) ….”
July 21, 2022, question: “Why do the EU countries adopt sanctions that backfire on them?”
September 5, 2022, response to the constantly expanding list of personal sanctions against Russian nationals…, Russia imposed “personal sanctions against US citizens.”
June 9, 2022, those imposing sanctions fail to mention that “anti-Russian unilateral sanctions are still distinctly detrimental (to many countries) ….”
July 21, 2022, question: “Why do the EU countries adopt sanctions that backfire on them?”
September 5, 2022, response to the constantly expanding list of personal sanctions against Russian nationals…, Russia imposed “personal sanctions against US citizens.”
Last Year
April 19, 2023, … (into 2024) “… about 1,500 Russians and over 1,000 Russian businesses and companies were put on the sanctions (lists)….”
May 19, 2023 (The United States Government) … regularly imposes personal anti-Russia sanctions on Russian officials…. In response to the toughening of sanctions…, “Russia is denying entry to 500 Americans… consistently apply[ing] the principle of inevitable punishment….”
June 15, 2023 “Let me remind you that the Westerners have been churning out sanctions against our country throughout… (and) they were introducing (anti-Russia) sanctions as Russia was out to ensure a peaceful future….”
June 17, 2023 “In our case, the issue is about 15,000 sanctions, which is a one-of-a-kind scenario…. The sanctions are far from anything new in the toolset the West uses to punish the disobedient…. Statistics show that one in every four countries in the world is under sanctions….”
September 5, 2023 “anti-Russia position” threatens “participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the 2024 … Olympic and Paralympic Games … among other things… years of illegitimate sanctions against Russia and its people; … also long-term sanctions against our country and people, and companies.”
November 8, 2023 “We would like to talk about the sanctions issue in a general form....The number of anti-Russia sanctions is over an unprecedented 17,000…. The Western sanctions against Russia have exacerbated the crisis in the global economy….”
This year
January 26, 2024 (blackmail) “Western countries themselves destroyed all the liberal foundations of the economy by imposing sanctions….”
February 14, 2024 “It was not from the East that sanctions and trade wars came…. This happened with anti-Russia sanctions that caused … unprecedented inflation ….” Yet “it is multiplying packages of unlawful sanctions, fueling Russophobic (and) militaristic attitudes….”
March 2024, “restrictive anti-Russia measures were extended once again.”
March 20, 2024, “The weaponization of science as a sanctions mechanism to escalate geopolitical confrontation is monstrous….”
April 25, 2024, asks “How do sanctions— illegal methods of market competition such as protectionism, unilateral restrictions, illegal sanctions…,” attempts “to hold back the growing cooperation between China and Russia—how do these impositions “against states correlate with human rights and freedoms?”
May 1, 2024, the “US announced sanctions against nearly 300 companies and individuals”
June 26, 2024, US imposes sanctions against Kaspersky Lab ….”
June 26, 2024, Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in St Petersburg
Negative consequences of
anti-Russia sanctions for
socioeconomic situation in
Countries that imposed these restrictions
Not every country gave its approval; “but the collective West pressed on. … Despite the apparently exorbitant cost of the sanctions for those who have adopted them, the West continues with its suicidal anti-Russia policy.”
“I do not mean the West as an association of people but as the regimes that have joined hands to line their pockets while pushing their people towards the abyss. The so-called leaders of the ‘free world’ are ruling in a world that is free from conscience and, now, money. While prioritizing political considerations to the detriment of common logic and economic expedience, not to mention liberalism and economic freedoms, they are eroding the foundations of their own socioeconomic stability and the prosperity of their citizens.…
“In the past, the EU countries’ future was linked to the price of Russian energy and pricing trends, stable deliveries and Russia’s reliability as an oil and gas supplier. That link has been destroyed. What does the EU have now? It is being blackmailed by Washington’s decision or refusal to supply LNG, which may depend on weather. If the weather is colder than usual, the United States may send more LNG. But if the weather is fine, people might be recommended to move more briskly so as to warm up.…”
- “Anti-Russia sanctions have seriously affected the automotive industries in Germany, Great Britain and Japan.”
- “Anti-Russia sanctions have driven inflation way above the planned figures in many EU countries and in the United States and Canada.”
- “The growth of food prices in Europe has been compounded by the problems the EU authorities created for the Russian producers of agricultural products and fertilizers.” Yet the West continues to talk “about its concern for the future of the Global Majority and needy countries and ways to help deliver food products to them.”
- Inflation pressure has increased the burden on state budgets because of compensation subsidies to producers, which has further aggravated the debt problem in Western countries. … “The US debt has become ridiculously large, $34 trillion dollars, or over 130 percent of GDP. Yet these people claim that they are exceptional, dominant, civilized and highly developed leaders of the world.”
March 2024 Response Sanctions against citizens of the United States of America
“This list designates specific persons from the executive branch, as well as the business community, the media industry and academia who have regularly made hostile statements or spread far-fetched allegations and outright slander about Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.”
“This list supplements the designation of several American non-profit organizations specializing in humanitarian affairs as undesirable in the Russian Federation for using the United States Embassy in Moscow to recruit agents of influence. It is designed, among other things, to make sure that Washington understands the simple truth that any aggressive move will not go unpunished and will face a resolute response.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at UN July 2024
“The Americans, having called the entire collective West to arms, are expanding the trade and economic war with the unwanted actors, having unleashed an unprecedented campaign of unilateral coercive measures that are backfiring, primarily, on Europe and further fragment[ing] the global economy.”
“The countries of the Global South in Asia, Africa and Latin America are suffering from the neo-colonial practices of Western countries. Illegal sanctions, numerous protectionist measures, restrictions on access to technology directly contradict genuine multilateralism and create serious obstacles to achieving the goals of the UN development agenda.”
Who Defines “Openness,” “Freedom” “Transparency”?
The “Washington strategy” consistently consolidates “US-centric bloc initiatives of anti-Russia and anti-China orientation in Asia under the banner of a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ concept— how can an entrenched fortress of “military-political blocs” armed to the teeth “with command and administrative systems … be ‘free’ or ‘open’?” Underlying concepts enshrined in the doctrinal documents of US-centric bloc rule out (or preclude) any notion or actualization of “Freedom, openness and transparency.”
Sources
Russian Foreign Ministry June 26, 2024 “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, St Petersburg” 1219-26-06-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1959673/
Russian Federation Foreign Ministry March 14, 2024, “Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions against US citizens.” 482-14-03-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1938555/
Lavrov, Sergey Russian Foreign Minister July 16, 2024 “Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” New York, July 16, 20241342-16-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962040/
Russian Foreign Ministry “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” July 24, 20241400-24-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1963220/#Q07
Russian Federation “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” “Personal sanctions against representatives of UK think tanks.” August 21, 20241562-21-08-2024
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1966295/
RT News August 23, 2024, “Moscow charges CNN journalist with illegal border crossing:
Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the Russian city of Sudzha while embedded with Ukrainian troops.”
https://www.rt.com/news/602967-cnn-reporter-charged-russia/
Tereschenko, Mikhail August 28, 2024, TASS News “Russia permanently bans entry to 92 US nationals including reporters — MFA: The ban applies to some reporters from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times, according to the statement” https://tass.com/politics/1835355
RT News August 28, 2024 “High-profile US media names on Russia’s latest sanctions list
Purveyors of “fake news” were among the almost 100 blacklisted Americans.” https://www.rt.com/news/603222-russia-sanctions-american-journalists/
Russian Federation Foreign Ministry March 14, 2024, “Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions against US citizens.” 482-14-03-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1938555/
Lavrov, Sergey Russian Foreign Minister July 16, 2024 “Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order,” New York, July 16, 20241342-16-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962040/
Russian Foreign Ministry “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” July 24, 20241400-24-07-2024 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1963220/#Q07
Russian Federation “Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow” “Personal sanctions against representatives of UK think tanks.” August 21, 20241562-21-08-2024
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1966295/
“These organizations disseminate misinformation discrediting Russia in the world information space via publicly available media and the Internet thereby trying in vain over many years to create conditions for destabilizing the internal political situation within Russia and the countries friendly to the Russian Federation ….”
RT News August 23, 2024, “Moscow charges CNN journalist with illegal border crossing:
Nick Paton Walsh traveled to the Russian city of Sudzha while embedded with Ukrainian troops.”
https://www.rt.com/news/602967-cnn-reporter-charged-russia/
Tereschenko, Mikhail August 28, 2024, TASS News “Russia permanently bans entry to 92 US nationals including reporters — MFA: The ban applies to some reporters from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times, according to the statement” https://tass.com/politics/1835355
RT News August 28, 2024 “High-profile US media names on Russia’s latest sanctions list
Purveyors of “fake news” were among the almost 100 blacklisted Americans.” https://www.rt.com/news/603222-russia-sanctions-american-journalists/
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