Washington paid the European Union a double price for the recently adopted package of anti-Russian measures that affect the interests of European businessmen. This is evidenced by the fact that politicians of the highest echelon in the EU quickly stopped criticizing US actions.

The spontaneous reaction of Europeans and, in particular, of Germany's representatives to Washington's decision to strengthen measures of economic impact on Russia, quickly came to naught, the professor of the department of Russian politics at the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University. Lomonosov Andrey Manoylo in an interview with the "Free Press". He drew attention to the fact that they first expressed their indignation in the EU, but then they became quiet and stopped complaining that the US was hitting the interests of Europe. This means that they have already agreed among themselves about the compensation, and the Europeans do not go for nothing. "Perhaps the Americans did not just buy Europeans, and even paid them a double price. Not in direct money, of course, but in contracts, markets and so on, "the expert believes..

In his opinion, one should not look at American politics as an accelerated locomotive, which presses everything indiscriminately. Americans are arrogant, but with respect to the European allies, their policy is calculated to the smallest detail, Manolo believes. Therefore, Berlin, for example, may from time to time state that anti-Russian sanctions are harmful to the cause, but it will not go further than this.

Moreover, statements about the futility of sanctions are made in Germany by former or current, but petty and middle-arm politicians such as the deputy head of the Alternative for Germany party, Alexander Gauland, or the chairman of the Left Party faction in the Bundestag, Dietmar Barch. They say the right thing about the fact that Moscow does not put pressure on its knees, that such measures interfere with business. But this is just PR, because the ruling coalition does not step back a step from its chosen course. Yes, and can not back down: if the authorities of Germany and other European countries recognize that they have inadvertently imposed sanctions, this will mean that in recent years their foreign policy has been mistaken. On this no acting politician will not go.