{"id":8017,"date":"2022-03-31T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2022-03-31T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:31:46","slug":"us-eu-domestic-public-opinion-forcing-them-to-take-different-positions-on-sanctions-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=8017","title":{"rendered":"US &#038; EU: Domestic Public Opinion, Forcing Them to Take Different Positions on Sanctions in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An additional package of sanctions involving President Putin and about 300 Russian lawmakers was announced by the United States at the same time as the European Union summit with US President Joe Biden, without a decision on additional sanctions against of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attitude of President Biden, who is in Brussels for the second time since taking office fifteen months ago, does not cause excitement in the US, where the majority of citizens &#8211; 56% according to a poll &#8211; believe that the sanctions should be harder and only 6% express the opinion that they are harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The most important thing for us is to stay united in the face of the &#8216;beast,'&#8221; said President Biden, who is facing a public outcry within his own country that is shaped by the horror of the invasion and is far from negative. of the invasion of Iraq that George W. Bush had to face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, the impact of three decisions of the three Brussels Summits, the EU, NATO and the G7, has not been assessed, namely:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NATO&#8217;s choice to deploy four combat units in Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. According to the Bulgarian website Sofiaglobe, the Bulgarian unit will consist mainly of 900 people, mostly Bulgarian military personnel and 150 from the United Kingdom.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The confirmation of the decision for the independence of Europe from the Russian energy, in the framework of which the USA will export to the EU. about 15 billion more tonnes of liquefied natural gas for 2022 and an additional 2023 tonnes unknown at this time.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The decision to strengthen the resilience of member societies and infrastructures to deal with malicious Russian influence.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another issue that has not been clarified but its consequences will remain open is the international search for evidence of atrocities and war crimes, which also concerns President Putin himself, as Biden has described him as a &#8220;war criminal&#8221;. .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Russian side, Dmitry Medvedev, former chairman and deputy head of Russia&#8217;s Security Council, responded to all this, probably addressing an internal audience, predicting that the sanctions would &#8220;unite Russian society and not cause popular discontent with the authorities &#8220;, while he warned the big businessmen, the so-called&#8221; oligarchs &#8220;who were hit by the sanctions, that they have no influence on the political leadership of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I tell you frankly: No, there is no way,&#8221; said Medvedev, when asked if &#8220;any of them can have even the slightest influence on the leadership of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Mr Medvedev did not comment on Germany&#8217;s decision to reject Russia&#8217;s demand for Russia&#8217;s friendly supplies to unfriendly countries, nor on President Biden&#8217;s proposal to expel Russia from the group of 20 largest economies. of the world, which had already been done by the Australian Prime Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, however, the international community&#8217;s moves did not seem to excite President Zelensky, who was probably expecting more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can not even guess how many such urgent summits will have to be held to resolve the problems that Russia is creating,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An additional package of sanctions involving President Putin and about 300 Russian lawmakers was announced by the United States at the same time as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,390,819],"tags":[25,3408,58,2405,215],"class_list":["post-8017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-politics","category-usa","tag-eu","tag-public-opinion","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}