The West imposes sanctions on Russia, Putin "annicchia " and throws himself into the arms of Xi jinping. It is the same Chinese president who remotely at the top of the countries of the Brics publicly spoke of the injustice of the sanctions applied to Russia: "it has been proven that I am a boomerang, they transform economic relations into years ". Xi continues: "this crisis demonstrates how the enlargement of military alliances, the obsessive search for security for one party at the expense of another, lead only to a dilemma, because security is indivisible ”.
Putin at the forum of emerging countries has not only collected the support and collaboration "without limits" of Xi but also found the full endorsement of the other three: Brazil, India and South Africa. Putin went down hard during his speech: "Westerners repudiate the basic principles of the market economy, free trade and the inviolability of private property".
Countries, those that make up the BRICS, which do not apply sanctions to Russia and who want their own single currency, countries that together constitute 40% of the population and hold 24% of world GDP. Turning the other way and turning to Brics is excellent exit strategy economy of Russia bogged down, according to Westerners, by the sanctions imposed on it. What is certain is that China gains most of all, as Corsera writes that Russian oil is sold to it at discounted prices, thus pushing Chinese refining companies to fill up, + 55% per cent of imports in May, which they channeled 7,4 , 10,2 billion dollars in the Moscow coffers and represent the bulk of Chinese purchases of Russian products, valued at XNUMX billion dollars a month.
Nonetheless, Chinese state-owned companies have not fully and openly sided in support of the Russians in order not to suffer indirect US and EU sanctions.
On the war front, in the meantime, Moscow is evaluating the suspension of electricity supplies to Lithuania, as a retaliation for the blocking of the transit of some goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad. Decision taken by Vilnius in compliance with Western sanctions. However, Brussels wished to specify that essential products continue their transit.
The US reminded Moscow that Lithuania is in NATO and that American support is armored.
The problem of the food crisis still remains due to the blockade of Ukrainian wheat by the Russians, contacts between Turkey and the UN in vain. Finland, sensing the winds of war from Ukraine on its territory, said it was ready to fight the Russians. We recall that Finland recently asked, following the Ukrainian invasion by Moscow, to join NATO.