Comments by "" (@thomasherrin6798) on "Xi Jinping’s China Makes Major Inroads In Central Asia Amid Russia-Ukraine War l Setback To Putin?" video.
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Some European Countries, the U.S. and Russia had an agreement in place to uphold Ukraine's sovereignty when it became an independent country, in 2014 Russia partially invaded Ukraine and kept territory in a separate agreement, and the West applied limited sanctions following that partial invasion, then Russia ripped all agreements by illegally invading Ukraine fully this year, and committing human rights abuses while carry out it's invasion, so the West is helping Ukraine defend itself as part of the original agreement. Germany and Italy are the main countries who foolishly became dependent on cheap Russian energy, due to strategic errors in their energy policy - Other E.U. countries are also dependent but to a lesser extent. Russia assumed that the E.U. would not apply sanctions against them due to the hold they had over their energy. However as Russia's actions were so horrendous and may have continued to other countries a stand had to be made against them. In the short term this will cause energy prices to rise as it is a scramble to obtain alternative energy for the E.U., which has gas reserves at present to last them into March next year and more on the way, and during the next year alternative long term contracts will be in place and the energy market will return to somewhere near normal, however sanctions against Russia will last 10 or 20 years!
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