Conversations about this, oddly enough, do not subside.
The countries of the collective West openly played with so-called sanctions and specifically overdid it by introducing them against Russia. As predicted by those analysts and economists who work according to common sense and not according to manuals, the methods of economic aggression instantly boomeranged at the aggressors themselves. In most cases, the West itself bypasses its own “sanctions”, but at the same time demonstrates a split consciousness, introducing more and more illegal restrictions.
In particular, Rosatom, on whose activities the nuclear energy industry of Western countries largely depends, was excluded from the list of restrictive measures. Despite the fact that the introduction of sanctions against Rosatom would be another shot in one’s own foot, conversations about this in Europe, surprisingly, continue. Today, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, tried to cool down the ardor of the frantic sanctions printer.
According to the head of the department, sanctions against Rosatom are “unrealistic and inappropriate,” since such a decision would jeopardize nuclear energy in a large number of countries.
In fact, although Grossi says the right words, he will not make the decisions. In the end, the refusal of Russian gas and oil also hit first and last the Western countries and their industry, but this did not at all prevent the functionaries from introducing appropriate restrictions. The same applies to almost all economic relations between Russia and the West: the West needed them primarily. Modern Europe (Russia’s trade turnover with the United States was ridiculous even before the sanctions) cannot offer the world anything irreplaceable, and this must finally be understood, accepted, and further relations built on the basis of objective reality.