According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, a senior U.S. official said that the sanctions imposed on Russia because of the situation in Ukraine are not permanent, and the United States does not intend to impose these sanctions permanently.
At present, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has entered its fourth week. Judging from the us statement, the United States, which has not directly intervened in the conflict, can no longer bear it.
Previously, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Newland had sent the same signal. At that time, Newland said that as long as Russia withdraws its troops, the United States can withdraw sanctions.
Originally, the United States has been provoking Russia to fight Ukraine in an attempt to create panic in Europe and force European capital to flee the United States to avoid danger. Now the United States has found that after more than 20 days of fighting, its own situation is very bad, and the economic situation is particularly grim! It is not enough for European capital to flee the United States, but inflation rates, as well as commodity prices such as oil prices, remain high and almost uncontrollable. Due to the Western sanctions against Russia, layer by layer, the United States has lifted a stone and dropped it on its own feet!
The main reason is that Russia is a big energy exporter.
Russia's energy supply was missing on the international market, and oil and gas prices immediately soared.
Since Biden banned the United States from importing oil and gas from Russia, there is no need for European capital to go to the United States. Because European countries continue to use Russian natural gas, if they go to the United States, it is useless, and the cost will be higher. Therefore, Biden's purpose of harvesting wealth has not been achieved much.
What bothers Biden the most now is the problem of oil prices. Oil prices in the United States, linked to the support rate, this year is the year of the midterm elections, Biden himself is very passive. If oil prices are not pulled down, the Democrats have no chance of winning. Once the midterm elections are lost, Biden's next two-year term will be very difficult.
So it can be seen that Biden has been looking for oil all over the world recently. First, high-level officials were sent to Venezuela for negotiations.
You know, the United States does not recognize Maduro as the legitimate president of Venezuela. But even so, he went to Maduro to talk about the oil supply.
After that, the United States again played the Iranian idea, the Iranian nuclear negotiations soon made significant progress, in order to be able to fight a blow, the United States considered removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the list of terrorist organizations.
This operation may seem trivial, but it is actually very important. This means that the previous assassination of Iranian General Suleimani by the United States has no grandiose excuse. It is equivalent to the United States admitting that it is wrong in this matter.
From these details, it can be seen that the United States is really anxious, and it cannot care about facelessness, nor does it care whether the other party is an enemy or an enemy, and slaps people next to each other, just to be able to obtain oil and lower oil prices.
Before Biden took office, U.S. oil production was very high. Because Biden's predecessor retired many groups, ignored environmental protection, and continued to increase production.
After Biden took office, many heavy polluting companies were shut down, resulting in a decline in U.S. oil production.
Now the Republican Party has blamed Biden entirely on the oil price problem, which is not well resolved by Biden, and the approval rating will be further reduced.
So Biden blamed Putin while looking around the world for oil.
But these practices do not solve the problem at its root. The most immediate way to get oil prices down is to act as if nothing had happened – to get Russia back to what it was before the conflict broke out.
This highlights the complex mentality of the United States, on the one hand, it wants Russia to end the conflict as soon as possible, so that the United States can justify lifting sanctions against Russia; but on the other hand, the United States continues to provide military assistance to Ukraine, trying to consume Russia through Ukraine.
It has been four weeks, and the United States has not yet had a clear strategic direction, which shows how serious the division within the United States is.