Even The New York Times Admits the Sanctions On Russia Don’t Work

Almost everything the New York Times has written about the War in Ukraine over the past year has consisted of lies orchestrated in conjunction with the U.S. State Department.

Reports that Ukrainians are defending democracy are lies because Ukraine outlaws opposition parties and jails political opponents. Ukraine is run by neo-Nazi mercenaries and oligarchs who have attacked Russian-speaking citizens in their own country since gaining independence in 1991.

Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe and one of the most corrupt in the world – something you won’t hear from the New York Times. The Times has supported a narrative that Russian troops suffer poor morale and are deserting or being killed by the hundreds of thousands. Those are also lies.

In fact, the Ukrainian army has been almost annihilated. Ukraine is dragging 16-year-old boys from their homes and sending them to the front lines in the Donbas as cannon fodder for Russian artillery barrages. With that said, sometimes the news in Ukraine is so bad that even the New York Times has to inject a bit of honesty into its reporting if only to goad the U.S. into providing more weapons and money for the Ukrainian lost cause.

This article is an example of that desperation reporting. The article states that Russia’s economy was supposed to collapse by 15% in 2022. In fact, the actual decline was only about 3%.

The IMF projects the Russian economy will grow by 3% in 2023 compared to only 0.7% growth in the EU and a 0.6% decline in the UK. The Russian ruble was supposed to be crushed by Biden’s sanctions. In fact, the ruble is stronger today than it was before the war began.

In the end, the Times states that, “Sanctions have failed to cause crippling and insurmountable problems of the kind that will cause the collapse of either the Russian economy or Mr. Putin’s war effort.”

Of course, none of this comes as a surprise to our readers. We wrote in March and April of 2022, at the beginning of the war that U.S. sanctions would fail and that Russia would weather the economic storm without much difficulty.

It’s nice to see that the New York Times has caught up with our reporting from last year. It’s too bad that Times readers had to suffer through a year of lies and false narratives before reality finally caught up to their propaganda.

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