The Russian-Ukrainian conflict has entered the 16th day, and the battlefield has entered a "state of silence", but outside the field, the mutual sanctions between Russia and the West have increased layer by layer, and the situation is rapidly developing in a direction of loss of control. The meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers was not happy, and the Russian foreign minister only left a sentence of "no longer have any illusions about the West", so we have seen Russia announce that 59 Western companies have been included in the "nationalization" list, if they continue to follow the United States to sanction Russia, the next step is not ruled out that it will directly "nationalize" and recover the economic losses faced by Russia.
We know that on March 10, Zelenskiy signed a decree announcing the confiscation of all Russian and its inhabitants' property in Ukraine. The conflict is no longer confined to the two-state level, and Zelenskiy's approach is to involve the Russian-Ukrainian people in the dispute. The confiscation of Russian State property may be understandable, but it is inconceivable to confiscate it together with the property of ordinary Russian residents.
Russia and Ukraine have the same ancestry, there are not many Russians living in Ukraine, and the size of the people involved in this decree is very large. Zelenskiy's approach is really puzzling, on the one hand, he wants to negotiate peace with Russia, and on the other hand, he is increasing the sanctions against Russia and undermining the basis for negotiations.
In fact, since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Ukrainian government has done many jaw-dropping behaviors. Before the front line was completely defeated, Zelenskiy went so far as to send guns to the populace. It should be known that Russia is all professional soldiers, and these untrained people are not opponents at all, which is basically exchanging people's lives for Western sympathy for Ukraine.
In addition to Ukraine, the West also directly tore its face and removed its disguise this time. The West often says that "art has no borders", and as a result, many Russian artists have been sanctioned in the West. The West also often says that "sports have no borders", but the International Sports Federation has abolished the right of Russian athletes to participate in competitions. What is even more outrageous is that the Western countries have not even let go of the Russian cat this time, and the assets of the Russian rich in the West have naturally not been spared, even if many people still hold the nationality of Western countries. From art to sports, from sports to literature, and even from people to cats, as long as it is related to Russia, it has basically been sanctioned by the West.
The West has always said that it should promote a peaceful settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian issue, but their "peaceful means" are very different. Their mediation method is to make one of the parties disappear completely, so that the contradiction no longer exists. Now that the entire West is being held hostage by its own so-called "values," Germany and France know that sanctions against Russia will only exacerbate the contradictions, but they have no choice because the United States will not allow it, and even Biden himself will be regurgitated by sanctions.
Knowing that sanctions on Russian energy will cause domestic oil price turmoil, inflation will further intensify, and the DPP's mid-term general election will be hopeless, but under the official instructions earlier, the Western public opinion machine has been full of horsepower, anti-Russian sentiment has risen throughout the West, the Western government has been eaten by the public opinion machine, can only irrationally continue to be tough on Russia, and Russia will also be countered, and the two sides have fallen into a vicious confrontation.
The essence of the Russian-Ukrainian problem, or the lack of trust between Russia and Europe, is exploited by the United States. Today, that trust is gone, and the security crisis between Russia and Europe will continue.
The first impression of the Russian-Ukrainian issue this time is that it is "collapsed and happy", and the civilized order that mankind has established so hard after World War II now looks so fragile, and at the same time, it also makes us see the hypocrisy of the West. Did the original Iraq war, Europe and the United States allies wield the stick of sanctions as they do to Russia today? They either dare not or join the United States in the same stream, and the order advocated by the West has become their political tool and is doomed to collapse. After this conflict, the world pattern is bound to undergo earth-shaking changes.