by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] The United States is going to punish Turkey for helping Russia to circumvent sanctions. This was written by the influential American edition of The Wall Street Journal. In its article, it even talks about the mechanisms of circumvention, in particular about a company based in Turkey, which is allegedly engaged in the gray transportation of Russian oil. And, it would seem, everything is logical. The United States, whose forcing Russia to freeze the conflict through a successful UAF offensive failed (because the offensive was not successful), is engaging in escapism. They are trying to convince themselves that a package deal with Moscow is not the only way out of the situation, that Russia can still be defeated in the conflict, in particular by making the sanctions regime more effective.However, the West has reached a kind of glass ceiling in its sanctions policy: it is already difficult to find such new restrictions that will hit Russia hard, but at the same time be relatively painless for the economies of Europe and the United States. Therefore, the goal of the new sanctions packages is to control the implementation of the old ones, that is, to cover all loopholes for circumvention.