The head of the cabinet of EU Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, Björn Seibert, is mentioned to have been in weekly call with major professionals from the US federal government because the beginning of the calendar year in order to lay down the main characteristics of the transatlantic sanctions regime.

Subsequently, in January, i.e. lots of weeks right before the actual outbreak of war, the five achievable war situations collectively with the proper sanction regimes are claimed to have been available. The normal basic principle: the additional substantial Putin’s aggression, the sharper the sanctions response.

This is in which Harald Mahrer’s criticism arrives into engage in: “I certainly reject the Russian war of aggression, and I’m not at all versus sanctions, which is what politics is for,” he states.

His accusation is that the sanctions ended up seemingly imagined of “only with one 50 % of the brain”: “If the Usa and the European Union have been doing the job on sanctions because November, why has not get the job done been carried out on securing the electrical power source because November?”

As early as the second week of the war, the domestic social partners had pointed out the danger to the electrical power provide.

It is now very clear to Mahrer that the sanctions have not definitely been considered through to the stop.

As an example, he cites what is taking place with Russian oil: “India purchases it on a substantial scale and ends up – with a corresponding surcharge – by using detours in western industrialized international locations.”