The Chinese newspaper Global Times notes that “the Western alliance against Russia is becoming increasingly unreliable, as its members suffer practical losses due to sanctions and the failure of the economic war it unleashed against Russia.”

And after the publication of the sixth package of EU sanctions, including an embargo on Russian oil, some European countries may face serious difficulties with energy resources in the coming winter, the newspaper writes.

The miserable bubble of Western solidarity burst even before new restrictions were announced, when German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that the unity of the European Union was beginning to crumble.

“There is growing evidence that the Western alliance against Moscow is so fragile and increasingly unreliable that its members are having to suffer practical losses,” she said.

For his part, Lu Xiang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said: “It is unlikely that Europe will be able to act as a united front in sanctions against Russia, because the unity of the West is a half-empty concept.”

He noted that “for some time the EU, especially Germany, had a good relationship with Russia, which caused discontent in Washington, especially after it took advantage of the West’s anti-Russian bias regarding the Ukrainian crisis.”

He added that “The West may continue to claim that its sanctions are paying off, but more and more evidence suggests otherwise, and that the US and Europe are failing in the economic war with Russia.”

Western countries are reportedly facing serious economic problems due to rising energy prices and rising inflation in connection with the imposition of sanctions against Russia after the start of a special military operation to disarm Ukraine, and the measures affected mainly the financial sector and the supply of high-tech products , but calls in Europe to reduce dependence on Russian energy resources are becoming louder.