As the war in Ukraine enters its 15th day, attention has come beyond the battlefield itself. Nor is Russia in a hurry to complete a quick attack, but sometimes attacks and sometimes is silent. The continuous news on the battlefield that Russian warplanes were shot down and Russian tanks were destroyed shows that Russia did pay a considerable price for the war. Russia has destroyed more than 2,000 military targets and is steadily achieving its own goals, Europe is beginning to reflect, Ukraine is taking the initiative to compromise, and U.S. attitudes are subtly changing. However, the cost of Russian military operations is not small, a large number of soldier casualties, daily continuous attrition, coupled with the serious losses caused by sanctions by Western countries such as the United States and Europe, which make Russia very uncomfortable.
International oil prices soared, even soaring to a high of $130. The price of natural gas soared as high as $3900/thousand cubic meters. The skyrocketing energy prices have made Russia a beneficiary, because Europe has not stopped buying Russian oil and gas. As the conflict continues, the United States continues to arch its fire, hoping that the war will burn forever. The U.S. government is no longer concerned with long-term interests, because the U.S. military-industrial complex wants short-term interests. The United States used the Conflict in Ukraine to make a windfall, but it was poor Europe that paid the bill. Chaos has begun to emerge within Europe, and an uncontrolled situation could spread at any time. The United States has harvested a great deal of wealth, but it has also overdrawn the dollar hegemony and the credit of the United States, especially the values flaunted by the United States, which the United States relies on to harvest the dollar hegemony of all countries in the world.
More and more countries have begun to say no to the United States, and more and more countries have begun to bravely stand up and expose the truth of the United States, indicating that the United States has begun to fall into the predicament of everyone shouting and fighting. The United States is also trying to expand the impact of the Ukraine crisis, trying to plunge both Russia and Europe into the quagmire of war. Experts, investigative journalists and scholars from most countries and regions in the world, including the United States, have pointed out that the United States is the culprit, but the United States does not care about this at all. Under continued pressure from the United States, Russia began to fight back. On March 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree banning the sale of certain commodities and raw materials to unfriendly countries.
President Putin's decree made it clear that the relevant agencies should come up with a specific list of commodities and raw materials within 2 days. The United States began to ban Russian energy, and Russia also began to respond, ready not to sell. Energy is a necessity, nothing will be out of power, there will be no heating, no production, who lacks who knows the pain. Russia's commodities and raw materials are necessities, are in short supply, and Europe really can't do without it. The continued sanctions imposed by the United States triggered a counterattack from Russia, and in the end it was Europe that was unlucky. It can be said that today's Europe has become the target of US sanctions, and the United States sanctions Russia in name, but in fact sanctions Europe. Russia has also included Europe, Britain, Japan and South Korea, which have followed the United States in sanctions, on the list of unfriendly countries, and have adopted corresponding sanctions and countermeasures.
Judging from the current situation, Russia, which has become accustomed to sanctions, can hold out, but Europe, which follows the United States, is gradually becoming difficult to support. The Russian counter-attack worked, as did the tactics adopted on the battlefield in Ukraine, and the overall situation was in Russia's favor. Of course, the U.S. troublemaking in Ukraine is not over, because Ukraine continues to be mired in war, and the United States can only gain the greatest benefits. At the instigation of the United States, Ukraine began to announce the formation of foreign mercenaries and implemented visa-free access for personnel from abroad. Ukrainian intelligence revealed that Russian Army Major General Vitali Gerasimov was "killed" in the battle in Kharkov, and the snipers were mercenaries from the West.
The Ukrainian Embassy in the United States confirmed to the outside world that as of March 8, local time, 20,000 people had applied to join the Ukrainian foreign mercenaries, of which the United States was the country with the most applications. Mercenaries from Sweden, Portugal, the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Korea, Angola, Poland, Germany, Spain, Nigeria, France, the Netherlands and other countries are fighting for the Ukrainian army, and South Korean Internet celebrities have also come to Ukraine. Thousands of Americans, many of them retired U.S. soldiers, applied to fight in Ukraine. Major mercenary companies in the United States are recruiting mercenaries at high salaries, with a focus on recruiting retired soldiers who have been on the battlefield. The United States announced a $13 billion grant to support the Ukrainian fight, with mercenaries being the main spending item.
The United States is also carefully calculated, and the funds of the United States must be earned by the Americans, nominally to support Ukraine, but in fact, the Americans themselves make money. It is reported that the us-led foreign mercenary special squad has a strong anti-terrorism and individual combat capabilities, and everyone can lead a commando team and is good at using missiles such as stingers. It can be said that the sudden continuous shooting down of Russian warplanes was also caused by the arrival of foreign mercenary legions. Although these foreign mercenaries are not regular soldiers, they are also strictly trained by the United States and NATO, and most of them have experienced actual combat and are very skilled in operating anti-aircraft missiles. Thousands of Americans entered Ukraine, not to help Ukraine win the war, but to prolong the war in Ukraine a little longer.
Under pressure from the United States, the Ukrainian government began to distribute weapons to the population, basically everyone can get a gun. On March 9, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy signed an order authorizing ordinary people to have the same right to use firearms and other weapons as Ukrainian soldiers, and all kinds of weapons, including sports shooting guns, shotguns, pistols, etc., are authorized to be used legally. The Azov battalion supported by the United States in Ukraine also began to directly kidnap ordinary Ukrainian people, even at the expense of firing on Ukrainian residential buildings, creating tension through suicide and accusing Russia of killing civilians. As the Russian media pointed out, the Ukrainian Azov battalion is supported by the United States and is learning from the White Helmets organization, creating some massacres of civilians and planting stolen Russia.
Of course, the United States is also using the incident of civilian deaths and injuries to create a momentum and condemn so-called war crimes. In fact, the United States has killed countless civilians in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq, but the United States has always refused to accept the investigation of the International Criminal Court. The Ukrainian Government's authorization of ordinary people to take up guns and use weapons is in fact a very dangerous practice of kidnapping people. This in Ukraine not only led to the beginning of chaos in Ukrainian social order, frequent robberies and shootings, but also put the Ukrainian people in a very dangerous situation. The Situation in Ukraine has also become more complicated by the Factual Azov Battalion and other soldiers preventing civilians from being evacuated from safe passages and even abducting ordinary people outright. Overall, the United States is threatening to destroy Ukraine by spreading the danger of war in Ukraine and trapping Russia and Europe once and for all.