Esmeralda
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If Putin is so wonderful, why are the US and the EU so much against him?
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
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If Putin is so wonderful, why are the US and the EU so much against him?
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
If Putin is so wonderful, why are the US and the EU so much against him?
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
Money.
WASHINGTON — In the months since the United States imposed sanctions on Russian businesses and close associates of President Vladimir Putin’s, an odd thing has happened: U.S. exports to Russia have risen.
U.S. Census Bureau foreign trade data show that exports rose 17 percent from March through May _ the most recent months for which the data is available _ compared with the previous three months, before sanctions were imposed.
Yeah, that's brilliant. Throw sanctions at Russia without a scintilla of evidence that they or their drunken lackeys shot the plane down!
Yeah, that's brilliant. Throw sanctions at Russia without a scintilla of evidence that they or their drunken lackeys shot the plane down!
Yeah, that's brilliant. Throw sanctions at Russia without a scintilla of evidence that they or their drunken lackeys shot the plane down!
If Putin is so wonderful, why are the US and the EU so much against him?
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
Outta stay out of this. Sanctions started WWII with Japan afterall. Start strangling a country's oil or energy supplies and they have to attack. Unlike Japan, Russsia would wipe the floor with the US. We can't even beat goat herders with AKs and scounged weapons. Nevermind a modern military. And unlike Iraq and Afganistan America tolerated mostly because it was "over there" Russia could easily bring a fight to our shores. Even a strictly conventional war would devastate the US.
Ukraine IS Russia or near enough no one outside Russia and Ukraine would be able to tell you the difference. Ask yourselves how trying to get Arabs to stop killing each other's been working out for us. Time the US gave up trying to be Officer Krumke all over the place.
It's not like Ukrain and Crimea are France or something. They're been part of the former USSR and seems they're gonna be again. This isn't outrage over who Russia invaded so much as resistance to a new USSR.
If Putin is so wonderful, why are the US and the EU so much against him?
White House: EU, US to impose new Russia sanctions
Money.
Could you elucidate?
Yeah, that's brilliant. Throw sanctions at Russia without a scintilla of evidence that they or their drunken lackeys shot the plane down!
Looking at those that had the most to gain, in terms of publicity, points to Ukraine, actually. And if it was separatists, where did the launch knowledge originate? As time goes on, the picture becomes cloudy. No source states the area from which the missile was fired was under control of solely the rebels.
Money.
Could you elucidate?
If the EU is so wonderful, why did they wait until they determined that the sanctions wouldn't hurt them too before standing on alleged principles?
It is always about money.
The EU and US finally decided Putin had gone to far when he broke long standing international laws, treaties and norms by invading Crimea with poorly disguised Russian mercenary troops and flooded the both Crimea and the eastern regions of Ukraine with bags of money along with weapons and organized so called "separatist groups". To this day the groups are led by not Ukrainian Russian speaking people, but by "former" Russian military officers with Russian citizenship and Russian citizens who happen to be veterans of specific Russian military units (Cossak Dons, Vostok Battalion).
Russia invaded Ukraine. They are still occupying a portion of it and each time the Ukrainians make progress in pushing them out, the Russian send in more troops and more deadly weapons. They escalated the weapons to the point where they were and are supplying anti aircraft weapons whose sales are outlawed to non government forces and making them in violation of numerous agreements treaties and international laws