Looking back at Russia's history, it is not only difficult for Russia to be crushed from the outside, but the more difficult it is, the more tenacious it is.
Today's Russia, although its economic ranking is not high, is after all a relatively strong military and resource-rich power, not to mention that Russia has been preparing for the Ukraine issue for many years. The crazy suppression of Russia by the United States and the West may not achieve the desired goal, but Russia has quickly responded.
Not long ago, the Russian government approved a list of unfriendly countries and regions, including the United States, the United Kingdom, member states of the European Union, and Japan. In the Russian style, the above list is a "blacklist" of Retaliation by Russia.
With the exception of Ukraine, the most nervous countries at the moment are the EU member states. In this round of fanatical sanctions, the EU has performed exceptionally well, however, the EU has forgotten that the EU is heavily dependent on Russia, whether for food or energy.
Compared to last spring, the price of natural gas in Europe has soared 10 times and has risen to 3500 euros per thousand cubic meters. In response, Medvedev, vice chairman of the Russian Federation Security Council, sneered, claiming that against the backdrop of record-breaking gas prices, he congratulated European officials for making the "far-sighted" decision to suspend the use of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.
The energy market has always been a seller's market, and Russia, as a major supplier of natural gas, has no worries about sales, although this round of price increases may not bring new profits to Russia. In contrast, the EU is afraid that it will be difficult to ride the tiger.
According to the Russian news agency, pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, said that the US House of Representatives is studying the possibility of strict legislation to ban the United States from importing Russian oil and other energy. Now that the United States is taking the lead, it will only be harder for the EU to give the green light to Russian energy.
In fact, the EU's actions seem to leave no room for itself. On March 7, local time, European Commission President von der Leyen said that the EU has imposed three rounds of sanctions on Russia, and the next step will be to ensure that the sanctions are strictly implemented to avoid loopholes. Seeing that there is still room for natural gas prices to rise, the EU is afraid that it will tighten its pants and belt to live.
The EU is not unaware of the impact that the surge in energy prices will have on the economy, but it is already a bit involuntary on the issue of economic sanctions. In contrast, EU member states are temporarily not coerced militarily, as long as they do not take the initiative to send troops, they will not set themselves on fire for the time being, except for Poland.
Poland is geographically unique, and because it is sandwiched between the two great powers of Germany and Russia, Poland has been in danger many times in its history. Today, Germany has basically lost its offensive power, and does not want Poland to be caught between the two powers again, but the pressure on Poland this time is not from Germany, but from the United States.
A few days ago, US Secretary of State Blinken said that the United States gave NATO members a green light to provide fighter jets to Ukraine as part of its military assistance. To this end, Blinken began to agitate Poland, claiming that if the Polish government supplied Ukraine with MiG-29 fighter jets, the United States would consider compensating Poland for F-16 fighters.
Blinken's remarks were clearly ill-intentioned, as if they were setting a trap for Poland.
The Russian Ministry of Defense warned yesterday that the Russian military has basically disarmed the Ukrainian Air Force, and that once neighboring countries provide airports for Ukrainian warplanes as bases, it will be regarded as a declaration of war on Russia. How will Poland hand over its warplanes to Ukraine? To put it bluntly, you still need to use Poland's airports.
It can be seen that the United States has ulterior motives and is clearly trying to drag Poland into the war. Although the Ukrainian government has repeatedly publicized its own "water injection" results, it is obvious that the Ukrainian army has fallen behind. The United States wants to drag Russia down with war, Ukraine alone may not be enough, and once Poland enters the war, Russia will face more pressure.
However, Poland has received more than a million refugees and does not want to turn its homeland into a battlefield and its own citizens into refugees. Since Russia dares to take a shot at Ukraine, Poland is not willing to gamble to see if Russia really dares to strike Poland.
On March 7, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on Poland that if Poland deprived the Russian Federation of real estate in its territory, the Russian side would fully respond. Poland should note that in the case that the Property of Russia's rich and wealthy has been confiscated by countries such as Britain and France, Russia's special name of Poland may not be regarded as a warning to Poland.
In the face of the arch fire of the United States, Poland did not pander to the United States for the time being, claiming that Poland had not decided to send warplanes to Ukraine. Whether the United States will continue to pressure Poland next is also difficult to predict. However, it can be seen from this that the United States has paid lip service to calling for a ceasefire, but in fact it is constantly adding fuel to the fire.