US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “Our unity as NATO nations is essential to achieving our common goals of supporting Ukraine and maintaining pressure on Russia, and Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that our resolve to impose sanctions on Russia will weaken over time.” but he was wrong.

Blinken noted that “it is necessary to work to ensure that Ukraine is strong when the time comes for negotiations, and Putin thought that the war would be an opportunity to show his military capabilities, but now the opposite is happening.” .”

He believed that “sanctions against Russia have proven effective in a variety of areas and will inevitably lead to the failure of Putin, and Putin used energy as a weapon against Europe and made a bet to break the will of the Europeans, but lost the bet.”

Blinken believed that “Putin is betting on breaking the will of the Europeans by exploiting the gas market, and we will not abandon the Europeans and will cooperate with them to reduce dependence on Russian energy”, stressing that “there is a high price that the Europeans pay , but it is less than the price of not confronting Putin.”