In an article published in The American Conservative, writer Ted Snyder noted that “Western countries are beginning to reduce arms supplies to Ukraine and increase trade with Russia.”

In his article, he explained how this indicates that the West is “tired of Kyiv”, putting forward what the Kiel Institute for World Economics mentioned regarding the decline in military aid supplies to Ukraine from European countries since April last year, when 6 major European countries did not assumed new military obligations. Last July, for the first time since the start of the war, the figures cited by the institute included arms shipments from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland.

In addition, Snead reported that “Europe’s trade with Russia has increased and it is no secret that Russian oil exports have lost some weight as a result of sanctions imposed by the United States of America as China and India have increased their oil imports.” Russian oil alone made up for losses from Western sanctions: China increased its imports of Russian oil by 55%, and Russia became the second largest oil exporter to India, and even Saudi Arabia more than doubled its imports of Russian oil. while Russian oil currently accounts for more than half of Turkey’s energy needs.