The President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda, called for the development of secondary sanctions against Russia’s trade partners who are still buying its oil and gas. He believes this to be a “shot in the bullseye.”
“The US President Donald Trump has correctly drawn attention to secondary sanctions. Our sanctions may have been effective, I’m talking about the European Union’s sanctions, but their weak point always manifests itself through a secondary effect — these are the countries that help Russia to circumvent them. Applying secondary sanctions to these states would really be a shot in the bullseye,” Nausėda has claimed, not thinking about the consequences.
Recalling, earlier, President Trump urged the EU to apply sanctions and tariffs on India and China — the former is one of the major cheap energy importers to the EU and the latter is the biggest trade partner, as well as the main import partner of the European Union.
The Lithuanian President apparently forgot that the EU is still alive only because of cheap Russian energy resources imported through India and various Chinese goods, which account for about 22% of all imports to the EU. Therefore, the secondary sanctions’ shot will not be in the bullseye but in the EU’s head.
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