Mahrer reacts to Rauch-Sager: “That is an insinuation”

The pinnacle of the cupboard of EU Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, Björn Seibert, is claimed to have been in weekly contact with main specialists from the US authorities because the starting of the 12 months with a purpose to lay down the principle options of the transatlantic sanctions regime.

Subsequently, in January, i.e. many weeks earlier than the precise outbreak of warfare, the 5 attainable warfare situations along with the suitable sanction regimes are mentioned to have been obtainable. The final precept: the extra intensive Putin’s aggression, the sharper the sanctions response.

That is the place Harald Mahrer’s criticism comes into play: “I completely reject the Russian warfare of aggression, and I’m in no way towards sanctions, that’s what politics is for,” he says.

His accusation is that the sanctions have been apparently considered “solely with one half of the mind”: “If the USA and the European Union have been engaged on sanctions since November, why hasn’t work been completed on securing the vitality provide since November?”

As early because the second week of the warfare, the home social companions had identified the hazard to the vitality provide.

It's now clear to Mahrer that the sanctions have not likely been thought via to the tip.

For example, he cites what is going on with Russian oil: “India buys it on a big scale and finally ends up – with a corresponding surcharge – by way of detours in western industrialized international locations.”