Thursday, June 23, 2022

"West to reap main ‘harvest’ from anti-Russian sanctions in autumn, Medvedev says"

From TASS [Russian state mouthpiece], June 14:

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council noted problems in the economy of Western countries

MOSCOW, June 14. /TASS/. The authors of anti-Russian sanctions are coming up with ways to circumvent them but the West will gather its "harvest" from the sanctions in the fall, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev asserted.

"We are eagerly expecting yet another package of European sanctions and great sanctions solutions by Grandfather Joe [US President Joe Biden] over which the authors of these very sanctions immediately begin to come up with schemes to circumvent them," he wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.

According to the politician, "particularly gifted characters" in the West "realized that they cannot survive without our country." "Since otherwise they won’t get: food for their citizens, fertilizers to produce food for their citizens, energy sources for food production and heat for their citizens, metals and other products to produce machines and mechanisms for their citizens, fuel for European and American NPPs which produce 20-40% of electric power for their citizens," the official listed. He asserted that "the list can go on."....

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'Ol Dmitry seems to have morphed from something of a moderate into a hardliner right before our eyes. 

I wonder what the plan is that makes him sound so cocky?