Vladimir Putin will visit Mongolia next week. And guess what? The Western leaders are planning to detain the Russian President there. As we know, western stooge ICC or the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Putin. And Mongolia is a member country of the ICC. So, when Putin visits Mongolia on September 3 to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the joint victory of Soviet and Mongolian forces over Japanese militarists, the East Asian country may face pressure from the West to arrest Putin and hand him over to them.
Obviously, it’s not going to happen as Mongolia is no Japan, Australia or UK; who are nothing but unofficial vassal state of the US. Mongolia follows its independent foreign policy, which means it’s not going to ruffle Putin’s feathers just to appease Uncle Sam and the NATO.
But can you sense the West’s desperateness here? Despite imposing literally thousands of sanctions on Russia, the Russian economy is still booming. As of now, it’s facing more than 16,000 sanctions from US, Canada, EU and company. But in a huge embarrassment, these sanctions backfired and devastated the European economies.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Russia’s economy is expected to grow three times faster than the EU economy this year after expanding six times more last year. The country’s manufacturing sector has also experienced a significant boom since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, while Europe’s industrial sector remains mired in stagnation or decline.
Simply put: Putinomics has trumped Macronomics and Olafonomics by a huge margin! The West knows Russia can’t be defeated until Putin is dethroned from Moscow. Putin’s special ties with nations like India, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan have helped his nation circumvent EU’s sanctions.
For example, EU on its part imposed sanctions on Russian oil. But it bought Russian oil via India last year.
India, maintaining its diplomatic balance, continued to purchase Russian oil amid the Ukraine conflict, refined it and then sold it to European nations . Thanks to the new trade flow, India became the top importer of Russian crude oil in 2023, with an average of 1.75 million barrels per day, marking a 140% increase from 2022.
Similarly, EU imposed sanctions on exporting goods to Russia but Putin circumvented those by increasing trade with Central Asian nations.
Let’s look at data.
From 2021 to 2023, EU exports to Uzbekistan almost doubled from €2.30 billion to €4.35 billion), sales of goods to Armenia nearly tripled from €757 million to €2.16 billion, and exports to Kyrgyzstan rose more than tenfold from €263 million to €2.73 billion. Why do you think this trade between EU and Central Asian nations boomed suddenly? Well, it has Russia written all over it.
Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are also great friends. That’s why India and Russia are also mulling a “dynamic reference rate” for their respective currencies to end the dominance of US dollar.
This proposed system aims to streamline financial transactions between the two countries and mitigate the impact of US sanctions on Russia.
You see, a nation becomes like its leader. It’s evident in the cases of both Russia and US. Putin’s strong and value-driven personal relationships with leaders across the world have helped him stay afloat even during worst of the times. That’s why his popularity in Russia has only grown over the last years.
News agency Reuters reported in March that the 71-year-old leader’s approval ratings stood at 86%, up from 71% shortly before the invasion of Ukraine.
It’s clear that Russia will remain an invincible fortress as long as Putin controls the reins. And that’s why the West is now hell bent to get rid of him by any means possible. Earlier, it was South Africa, now it’s Mongolia who is facing pressure from West to detain Putin.
