The Western countries have lost hope of pacifying Russia's aggressive foreign policy and have shifted to the tactic of using increasingly powerful economic sanctions.

This was told by military analyst Alexei Arestovich, the newspaper "Obozrevatel".

"It seeks to return to the world by the results of the Yalta, Potsdam, Helsinki agreements with well-defined zones of influence, when no one is going anywhere, with observance of interests, etc., to all these stories about a multipolar world and so on," said the expert on Putin.

"The West endured this for a long time, tried to make all kinds of proposals to Putin, tried to introduce Russia into the family of civilized peoples and force them to work together as part of the West for great goals: to pacify China, balance the forces in East Asia, solve the problem of Africa, the Middle East and so on Further. They tried to lead to a common denominator, but Russia embarked on the path of confrontation, repeatedly brutally violated the rules adopted in the international hostel. They tolerated, persuaded, were even ready to sacrifice the national interests of Ukraine, and then realized that Putin was not at all persuaded. And then it was decided to beat in response, "- said the expert.

According to Aleksei Arestovich, economic sanctions are "the most powerful weapon, comparable in strength to the nuclear one, if not more, it's just financial and economic".

"The crisis in Southeast Asia in 1978, when Soros was losing currency, the crisis in Japan in 1998, from which it still can not get out - when Soros again poured out the currencies. This is how the American tectonic financial weapon works. They tried it, and they decided that they would beat Russia, "the expert said..