HR/VP Blog – Russian authorities regularly claim that the Russian economy would not really suffer from Western sanctions and that time would be on Russia's side in its war of aggression against Ukraine. However, these ideas do not stand up to scrutiny. Our sanctions have already significantly weakened the Russian economy, and the future of the country becomes bleaker each day as Russia continues its war of aggression against Ukraine.
It’s not that NATO is weak, it’s more a combination of Ukraine being in some sort of a political heritage gray zone and of the insidious way in which amoral corporations became bloated monsters with an insatiable appetite, got its’ tentacles in every corner of the world with no oversight, a process that began during the reagan and thatcher era.