Many multinational companies in Russia and Europe and the United States appear in the "nationalization list" proposed by Russia, including Volkswagen, Apple, IKEA, Microsoft, IBM, Shell, McDonald's, Porsche, Toyota, H&M and so on. They are considered "unreasonable to leave Russia". Many large Western companies have had to leave Russia in response to Western sanctions, causing varying degrees of panic to Russia's economy, society and jobs.
The above problems show that the various power groups are sliding step by step to no bottom line. Fighting to such a fierce level has never been seen since World War II. This clearly means that both sides are fighting the key, inviting fatalities, and both want to kill each other and live later.
Fighting and fighting, when it comes to killing red eyes, NATO may really "beat up" Russia in groups, and Russia may also simply show up the guy style and completely destroy the TABLE where NATO "eats people" without stopping.
This war is moving in an unpredictable direction. NATO and the European Union are reluctant to watch Ukraine lose the buffer, and Russia may accept defeat to a small and weak country like Ukraine. So the attitude of the United States, the attitude of Russia, the attitude of the United Kingdom and the European Union, ukraine are all crucial. Of course, the attitude of the international community is also very important, and the emergency meeting of the United Nations has concluded that Russia belongs to the "strategist" in this war, while Ukraine belongs to "self-defense". The public says that the public is reasonable, the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and the chatter cannot solve the problem, so let the "fist" decide whether to win the king or lose the Kou.
First, European and American cheese has been confiscated, and the United States and Western countries will never give up, and may really resort to force.
The United States said that if U.S. companies in Russia were "nationalized" by Russia, the United States would have to take action. This action, of course, includes "economic and military" operations.
Before and after the war, NATO's military aid and military aid to Ukraine were open, and Russia temporarily endured it considering that NATO was not a good stubble. This is probably the main reason why the West was able to continuously transfuse blood (weapons and materials) to the Ukrainian army even after Russia claimed that it had defeated the Ukrainian Navy and air force in blitzkrieg and controlled the Ukrainian air power.
Secretary-General Stockenberg said in an interview on March 8: "The supply line of WEAPONS and ammunition supplied to Ukraine by NATO allies is to defend Ukraine's right to self-defense, which is written into the UN Charter. Russia is the aggressor and Ukraine is self-defense, which was the overwhelming majority consensus of the recent United Nations General Assembly. Any attack on NATO countries and NATO operations will automatically trigger Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which will be regarded as Russia's declaration of war on all NATO members and will invite a devastating counterattack from the entire NATO. We believe Russian President Vladimir Putin understands this. ”
When Ukraine was beaten, the United States and NATO were actually on the string, and if Putin had not warned the West that it might face strategic nuclear forces if it participated, it is estimated that they would have gone up long ago.
After all, this is a matter for Ukraine, and the United States, that is, NATO, of course, has to get burned, after all, their cheese is not damaged. Putin's warning seems to give them a step down.
To tell the truth, since the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, most of the Western powers have expressed their support for Ukraine only in words. There are no heavy weapons, and the sum of the financial aid does not exceed two billion US dollars, and there are no sanctions on Russia's key exports such as oil and gas and wheat.
NATO and the European Union have also resorted to coaxing children to discuss what might allow Ukraine to join the line of fire, thus inciting resistance from the Ukrainian government.
The duplicitous, duplicitous, and selfish behavior of the Western powers has made Ukraine feel cold.
For this reason, Zelinsky scolded Western politicians as a bunch of cowards and liars.
But on both sides, the main reason why the Western powers have adopted this trick is to preserve their cheese. If Russia really "nationalizes (confiscates)" the Western assets in Russia, it is estimated that the Western powers will really turn their faces, you know, these properties are the inheritance accumulated by Western countries after hundreds of years of colonization and many generations of cutting the world's wool, and its relationship with Westerners is the relationship between "money and money and life", and the personality of Westerners who see money is bigger than life is also well known to the world. Besides, behind these big companies stands a bunch of big Western conglomerates, and they have a large number of agents in the Western congress and government, how can they be willing to be fat sheep and "let others slaughter"? In the eyes of these Western capitals, no matter what world war or nuclear war you have, his money is the most important.
So they will certainly lobby Congress with all their might and press the government to use force to get their property back. If Russia really nationalizes Western assets in Russia, the above inferences will most likely become a reality. If the West and Russia use force, the world will inevitably fall into turmoil, and mankind will face unprecedented catastrophe. This is not a fantasy, but what is happening. Before the United States "predicted" that Russia would attack Ukraine, a few people took it seriously. I am not saying that my speculation is accurate, I am saying that the thinking of our ordinary people and the changes in the international situation are usually not in the same dimension. History has proven this dimensional view correct countless times.
Second, Russia was scarred by the "financial nuclear bomb", and it was inevitable that it would be angry and try its best to recover huge losses (there is such a possibility: Russia will kill a bloody road to save itself, clean up and conquer the entire West with one blow, and never suffer any trouble).
If he is forced to be anxious, he will also bite people, life and death are at stake, and everyone will fight to the death. If Russia is "encircled" by the Western economy and faces a huge risk of complete economic collapse, a large number of people losing their jobs, the country not functioning normally, and returning to primitive society overnight, then Russia will naturally consider whether it is time to eliminate the "source" of the threat.
Since the outbreak of the War in Ukraine, Russia has been severely sanctioned by Western countries, not only kicked out of the international payment system by the West, the ruble has also depreciated sharply, and Russia has lost trillions of dollars of wealth overnight; in addition, Europe and the United States have also frozen the accounts of Russia and Russian high-level figures in the West (there is a risk of confiscation). This can be described as a new hatred and an old hatred, adding fuel to the fire, which can be tolerated and which cannot be tolerated.
Of course, the assets of these large companies in Russia, Europe and the United States should also be enough to offset the assets of high-ranking Russian officials who have been frozen, and there may even be savings. If you are not kind, you will blame others for being unjust.
At present, the Russian people are worried that the ruble will depreciate too quickly, and they have exchanged rubles for the United States or snapped up goods. At present, Russia has set up a line to prohibit private holders of more than 10,000 US dollars in cash to go abroad, and resident legal persons can generally only withdraw US dollars, yen, pounds and euros of the equivalent of 5,000 US dollars, and can only be used for foreign business travel expenses. In addition, Russia has restricted the sale of some socially important goods. This follows the announcement by the United States to freeze Russia's foreign exchange reserves of more than $600 billion.
The dollar, the euro, the pound, the yen, etc. cannot be settled, so no one dares to do business with Russia, and Russia's bulk imports are also in trouble. This is the main reason why Russia restricts the major currencies from the Russian market.
Russia, the major currency, has announced "counter-sanctions" against unfriendly countries, including the "nationalization" of their property in Russia to offset damage. This followed the order of the ukrainian president the confiscation of Russian property in Ukraine. President Ukraine's work has also been criticized by the outside world as a "faint move".
A few comments:
First, Europe and the United States need to take a step back and lift sanctions against Russia.
The war has been raging for twenty days and is now in a state of stalemate, with heavy losses. It can be seen from the diplomatic situation of the two sides in the past few days that although the goal has not yet been achieved, Russia does not want to continue to consume it in this way. According to this situation, even if Russia occupies Kiev, the Russian army will probably only be able to control the city of Kiev, which is of little significance.
So Europe and the United States should seize this point, compliment the emperor and throw back sanctions, find a step for Russia to go down.
Second, the victims of war are ordinary people, and peace is the main theme. Since the Ukrainian government is virtually powerless to dominate the separatist forces in Crimea and the Donbass region and its external powers, involve the international community so as not to suffer as a result of the war.
The international community, such as the United Nations, prepares a vote for all member states (except Russia and Ukraine) to vote on whether to agree to the status of an "independent republic" in Crimea and the Donbass region of Oudong; before the vote, Russia withdraws its troops and the two sides sign a strike treaty. In this way, the expansion of the war can be prevented, and Ukraine will be spared the pain of war, and Russia will not have to worry about unnecessary burdens and recover losses.
Third, NATO promised Russia to stop its eastward expansion, and the EU would promise not to co-opt Ukraine again.
Wooing Ukraine to anger Russia will not do any good for NATO, the European Union, or Ukraine. Europe is inseparable from Russia's energy, Russia is inseparable from its compatriots in Crimea and Donbass, and it is inseparable from Ukraine, a buffer land. And ukraine, because it is poor, wants to remain uncontrolled by its neighbors and tries to join the Western camp, and there is nothing wrong with its interests. But obviously the Western powers are not taking these things seriously, and only want to rudely fake the Ukrainian knife to make Russia stubborn, how is this possible? Russia anyway, is such a big hunk vegetarian there? At least we must maintain the dignity of our status as a great power, otherwise how will we mix in the future?
So the West and NATO must make concessions and not just consider their own interests.
For now, if none of the above forces can calm down and lack enough wisdom, then this war will certainly be difficult to stop.
For the West, if Ukraine is rudely discarded now, it means that Ukraine is put back into russia's arms, and the West wants to use Ukraine as a base to prevent Russia's powerful strategy from bankruptcy. If the West agrees to Russia's terms, then the authority of the international order established by the West will be wiped out.
Human civilization is changing with each passing day, and things that fool people's intelligence cannot be done, and everything must be done to talk about wisdom and morality. The Chinese art of war has a plan: retreat and retreat. The West has also seen through this war that Russia is not so easy to mess with, the strength is there, and it is not so easy to trap this giant under the pretext of a war.
If the West continues to want to crush the Russian economy, what will happen to the West in the next step when Russia declares that it will treat serious sanctions as acts of war and resolutely impose them by force? What about the world? Do you have to create a new world war? Therefore, the West, Russia, Ukraine, and the entire international community must take the initiative to propose the best reconciliation plan, make mutual concessions and mutual love, treat each other frankly, take a step back, turn the war into a jade vessel, end the Ukrainian-Russian war as soon as possible, and return to peace.