Foreign Secretary James Cleverly recently announced 22 new sanctions on individuals and businesses outside Russia, another brilliant proof of the U.K. leadership’s impotence. According to the U.K. government press office, the goal is to cut Russia’s access to military equipment.
Unfortunately for the King and his minions, the sanctions are mainly aimed at people and countries that don’t give a damn what the U.K. does. As evidence that Great Britain can do nothing on the world stage anymore, the press release says the U.K. will continue to “tackle” Belarus and Iran to weaken Putin and Russia.
Secretary Cleverly seems especially unclever in trying to stop Iran from manufacturing and delivering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Russians. You read that correctly. The most sanctioned nation other than Russia and North Korea will now be forced by King Charles’ geopolicy geniuses to halt all UAV production. Furthermore, Cleverly insists that Russia must still mobilize Soviet-era tanks and harvest kitchen freezers for low-grade chips to power advanced weapons systems.
The U.K. is months and months behind the United States in its temper-tantrum-induced sanctioning of individuals and countries. My American government sanctioned Slovakian national Ashot Mkrtychev (Mkrtychev) for allegedly attempting to facilitate arms deals between Russia and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in March. The U.K. is now targeting an exporter who says he wanted to ship Russian flour, wheat, chocolate, and some canned goods to North Korea. This is no surprise.
The West has been trying to morph Mkrtychev into an arms dealer since the early 2000s. Whether or not he’s dealing in missiles instead of watermelons, it seems clear the Slovakian businessman could care less what the U.K.’s foreign secretary throws at him now. The same holds for Swiss asset management guru Anselm Oskar Schmucki, who the U.S. sanctioned some months back. All those efforts only forced the financial guru to step down from the boards of several companies. The whole process of Western sanctions presupposes that only the Western alliance has any money.
As usual, the public relations spinners for Western governments do all they can to ensure the corporate-controlled media boosts their failing efforts to drive Russia to her knees. TVP World regurgitated the Reuters news release, adding the headline, “Britain slams sanctions on foreign suppliers to Russian military.” But then, TVP is owned by the Polish government. As for the clever British foreign minister, James Cleverly puffed a lot of wind, including this:
“Alongside our G7 partners, the U.K. has repeatedly called on third parties to immediately cease providing material support to Russia’s aggression or face severe costs.”
However, it seems funny that the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, and the rest are reticent to sanction people and places they need. Take India, for instance. Russia makes enough money from oil exports to that country to fund a war with aliens from Mars. Back in May, Russia delivered a record 8.6 million tonnes (62.8 million barrels) worth $4.41 billion at the discounted price of $70.17. That’s about $53 billion annually if the rate stays constant. China bought another 49.2 million barrels in the same month, worth about $3.5 billion. If demand remains constant, that adds another $42 billion to Russia’s coffers. And the U.K. government’s next dramatic fizzle will be to sabotage all the Atlant (Russia’s most popular brand) kitchen freezer manufacturing facilities.
Funny, looking at the map of the company’s sales outlets, there are more in Ukraine than anywhere. This may be the main reason for Vladimir Putin’s special operation. The objective may be to capture all those freezer chips for high-tech weapons to use in the coming invasion of NATO! Why not? Judging from the limp-minded strategies Western nations seem dead set on, the entire world’s population will soon be targeted as enemies of NATO for breathing the same air as Russians. And no, this is not a stretch.
I am getting this vision of the head of Iran’s Paravar Pars Company, which makes kamikaze drones, immediately calling a halt to production. And finally, what is the EU planning to do when the bloc has to sanction itself for being the biggest importer (still) of Russian fossil fuels? Something clever, I guess.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.