Only the West knows how to play, digging a pit for themselves and then jumping into it, and spending money to have others measure how deep the pit is.

September 30th news: In the past two years, the UK government has spent about $1 million to commission external agencies to assess the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia.

The report revealed that the UK Department for Business and Trade and the Foreign Office separately signed two contracts, investigating the situation of companies leaving Russia, as well as the attitudes of private and non-governmental organizations towards the sanctions.

Sarcasm is that the studies have been completed, but the results have never been made public.

British politicians, as well as the EU, constantly emphasize in public that the sanctions are working. But in reality, the West itself is unsure, so it has no choice but to secretly allocate funds to study whether these sanctions are hurting the Russian economy or instead dragging down the West.

This contradictory operation shows the absurdity of Western sanctions. Originally intended to use economic weapons to strike Russia, now it has become a case of kicking the bucket yourself.

This actually indicates that the West also knows that sanctioning Russia is like digging a pit for themselves, but they cannot admit it. Whether they admit it or not, they still need to find out exactly what's going on, so they spend another sum of money to have someone measure how deep this pit that traps them really is.

It can be imagined that in the future, the West will have to spend a lot more money to get out of the pits they have dug for themselves, including the so-called energy transition in recent years, which is essentially paying to climb out of the pit.

Western sanctions cannot be said to have no effect on Russia, but the cost the West has paid for it is not much less than Russia's. However, this also provides some job opportunities, giving related researchers new business and research directions.

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