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I am talking about the West's sanctions fever, its blatant, aggressive attempts to impose behavioral models on other countries, to deprive them of their sovereignty and subordinate them to its will.

This is nothing unusual; it is a policy that the collective West has been pursuing for decades. The trigger for these processes has been the elusive dominance of the United States in the world economy and politics and the stubborn unwillingness or even inability of Western elites to see and acknowledge objective facts.

More recently, irreversible, tectonic changes have taken place in the entire system of international relations.