News Story Sponsored by Mícheál Walsh: The American Conservative said the West had fallen into an economic trap that it had set for Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the senior editor of the publication Rod Dreher, the economic war unleashed by Western countries against Russia could result in the collapse of the West itself.

‘The West has launched a full-scale economic war and proxy war against Russia. And lost. Russia’s retaliation now threatens to paralyze Europe and only fools can be surprised by this.

According to the author of the article, Western countries have the illusion that Russia should sit idly by, allowing the West to destroy its economy without retaliation.

At the same time, Dreher added that he himself watched how Russians and everything connected with Russian culture were mercilessly humiliated in Europe.

‘When I arrived in Vienna in early June, you could see leaflets all over the city saying that you can’t love Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky without loving Putin, that is, they called for a total boycott of all Russian, even Russian culture,’ he noted.

Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said that in the event of an escalation of sanctions pressure from the West, Russia is ready to tighten retaliatory measures.