OREANDA-NEWS. The West will make significant economic sacrifices in order to preserve its "advantages", refusing, among other things, Russian gas, Konstantin Kosachev, vice speaker of the Federation Council, told RIA Novosti. According to him, anti-Russian sanctions should not be expected in the current confrontation.

The West has to make big economic sacrifices today in order not to make gigantic and irreparable ones tomorrow. The loss of financial, technological, institutional and other forms of dominance, the reign of a fair world order in the global economy will mean the leveling of the current differences in the life of different world regions, which underlies Western attractiveness, traditionally explained by more “correct” values ​​and democracy,” the vice speaker said .

According to Kosachev, the logic in this situation is simple: it’s better to defiantly refuse Russian gas today, so that tomorrow, after the victory over Russia and the change of power there to a pro-Western one, you will receive the same gas almost free of charge, in exchange for various "beads" in the form of humanitarian aid , old technologies and investments in speculative instruments. Therefore, the lifting of sanctions “in the logic of the current confrontation” should not be expected, he concluded.

Earlier, economic observer Anthony Rowley said that the West's sanctions war against Russia, China and other countries could provoke a global economic catastrophe. The restrictions will lead not only to shortages of energy and food, but also to the collapse of industries, as countless supply chains on all continents will suffer, he said.