What entertaining rhetoric has begun.
As you know, from illegal anti-Russian sanctions, first of all, no matter how paradoxical it may seem to some, the damage is suffered by those who, without thinking about the consequences, imposed these sanctions and continue to engage in this self-harm. The fact that restrictions do not achieve the result expected from them by the West – total discontent in Russia and a change of power to one “preferred” by the West – is already recognized by everyone, including such a by no means pro-Russian organization as the International Monetary Fund, which confirms the growth of the Russian economy. At the same time, the European Central Bank is ending the financial year with its first loss in 20 years, and a number of European economies, whose prosperity was based on interaction with Russia, are now in a “technical” recession, experiencing accelerated deindustrialization and a crisis with energy prices.
Journalists see this, therefore, taking into account today’s next large-scale package of illegal anti-Russian sanctions, they are worried that the United States may expect a similar situation. It is clear that the position of the United States is obviously more favorable than the European one, and trade turnover with Russia was meager even before any sanctions, which is why they allow themselves to be pushed around by their “allies”, and now, about the same thing, only, naturally, in other words, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo said today.
According to Mr. Adeyemo, the position of the Ministry of Finance is simple: the American economy is strong enough to withstand the opposite effect (boomerang effect) from its own anti-Russian restrictions. Adeyemo is confident that the strength of the US economy will determine the position of the dollar in the world system. We, of course, would not want to spoil the mood of the US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, but an economy based on the service sector and banking operations does not have any real influence, and the position of the dollar after 2022 began to rapidly weaken, which, in fact, is due to the fact that It has already become difficult to export American inflation through the dollar, as a result of which the Fed is keeping the key rate at an unusually high level for the United States.
As for the economic situation of the United States, it should be understood that Uncle Sam is provided with its own resources and can easily exist, if necessary, even in complete isolation. The same cannot be said about the European Union, which critically depended first on Russia and now on the mercy of Washington. In general, future US administrations have a colossal job to do to recognize that the world has changed, hegemony has ended, and we must come to terms with this, integrating into a multipolar world and ending with imposing our will on everyone – through sanctions, threats, military operations, bribery, cultivation of “tame » elites, and other methods that have nothing to do with diplomacy.