The United States has rarely admitted defeat, and the situation in Russia and Ukraine has been reversed 180 degrees! Russia's three major killers are finished, the West is close to soft, and at the critical moment, Putin will accept it when he sees it.
This Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the entire West is large-scale sanctions against Russia, so that the Russian economy suffered a lot of trauma, until the middle of March, the situation is almost one-sided favorable to the West, Russia on the one hand is difficult to carry out a favorable countermeasure to the West, on the other hand, because of the war and sanctions continue to lose blood, according to this trend, the West just need to quietly watch how Russia disintegrated internally due to economic collapse.
However, since the end of March, the situation has suddenly changed, and Russian President Putin has thrown out three major killer skills in a row, making it difficult for the West to overwhelm and directly reversing the situation 180 degrees. The first trick is natural gas, forcing the West to have to accept Russia's conditions, when settling gas bills, obediently hand over the euro to Gazprom, and then converted into rubles by Gazprom, this move alone, let the ruble that was previously plummeted by the value of Western sanctions rise back to the level before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States sanctioned for a month, the effect is equal to 0.
The second trick is grain, Russia and Ukraine are one of the world's largest food exporters, the two countries are in the war, most of the world has to worry about food, not only that, as retaliation for the large-scale unreasonable sanctions of the West, Putin also detained hundreds of ships full of grain originally sent to Europe in the Black Sea, forcing European Commission President von der Leyen to "ask for food" to Putin on March 23, calling on Russia to release the ship, but Putin ignored it, so that according to the latest data, since the Russian military launched an operation against Ukraine, Europe's grain imports to Russia have actually increased by 60%, which has indirectly led to Russia's economic development and Russia's position in the global grain and oil market.
The third trick, and finally the most powerful one, is fertilizer. I believe that friends who know about agriculture are not aware of the importance of chemical fertilizers, it can be said that today can limit the problem of hunger to local areas, fertilizer credit even if not first, can also rank in the top three, and Russia is unfortunate, is the world's most important fertilizer exporter. At the end of March, US President Biden announced sanctions against Russian fertilizers, which immediately triggered global public opposition, and the opposition was even more serious than the announcement of sanctions on Russia's energy problems in early March, because the world is far from being able to completely solve the problem of hunger, and when the conflict broke out between the two major grain exporters in Russia and Ukraine, russia's fertilizers were also sanctioned, and next year the world is likely to enter a large-scale famine, except for a few countries such as China, few countries can avoid this disaster, especially brazil, India, a small but populous country, immediately and firmly opposed the sanctions imposed on Biden.
More seriously, even the United States cannot stand alone in Russia's fertilizer countermeasures, which is the world's largest food exporter but also needs fertilizer. Therefore, according to relevant media sources, the price of fertilizers in the United States has now tripled, which has directly led to a large number of American farmers who have decided to abandon planting corn and plant soybeans with low dependence on fertilizers. Corn is the main source of feed for the aquaculture industry, the lack of corn, the breeding industry will also suffer heavy losses, Western people's demand for meat and dairy products is very high, so Russia's third move is likely to plunge the entire West into a huge economic and livelihood chaos, even the United States can not be an exception.
So now the West is the really passive side, and even the United States, which has always held itself in high esteem, has rarely admitted defeat. According to the Global Times, on March 30, the commander of the US European Command, Todd Walters, confessed to Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher that a series of us deterrent operations against Russia had failed.
Fortunately, however, this Russian-Ukrainian conflict may not be far from ending. At the end of March, Russia had suspended or slowed military operations in the Kiev and Mariupol regions of Ukraine, instead concentrating large forces in the Donbass region. At the same time, Russia has also listed the terms of the armistice against Ukraine, which has agreed to demands that include remaining neutral.
This is the essence of this Russian military operation, Putin does not intend to fight to the end, but let Ukraine appreciate the strength of the Russian army, and realize that if it does not accept the conditions, it will pay a more painful price. As long as the conditions are accepted, Russia will appropriately reduce the pressure on Ukraine. In this case, Ukraine will naturally slowly accept Putin's conditions, and Putin will not cause greater losses to the people of Ukraine and even the world.