Previously: Putin Gives Historic Speech, Calls Sanctions Stupid, Says Russia a Thousand-Year-Old Empire That Won’t Crack
These sanctions against Russia are all self-inflicted wounds, and at this point, there isn’t any debate about the issue. The whole point of the sanctions was to try to collapse Russia’s economy by devaluing their currency, and it didn’t work. That’s just a fact – they said they were going to collapse the ruble and they failed and the only people hurt by these sanctions are the citizens of Europe, who are now paying five times or more to heat their homes, and have the same general inflation problems as the US.
If it was hurting the Europeans but also hurting Russia, you could understand continuing it – but it’s not hurting Russia, and it is arguably helping them.
I can’t even believe the insane oil blockade is still on the table, but there it is – this is total economic suicide, and everyone involved knows it, which is why Germany is kind of trying to quietly say, “hey, maybe we need to chill for a second here…”
Several European Union countries are pushing to start work on a new package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus for the invasion of Ukraine and also want to grant more military support to Kyiv, according to diplomats and a draft document.
About one-third of the 27 EU governments, mostly Nordic and eastern states, want the EU Commission to begin work on a seventh round of sanctions, diplomats said.
The latest version of the draft conclusions of a summit of EU leaders to be held later this week does not include a reference to new sanctions but diplomats said the text, dated June 15 and seen by Reuters, was likely to be tweaked after a meeting of EU envoys late on Monday.
Germany and a few other states prefer to focus now on applying existing sanctions and closing loopholes, rather than embark on the complex process of agreeing fresh measures, diplomats said.
The “other states” are all German-derived states (yes, I consider Holland a “German-derived state”).
This goes far beyond Germans being uncomfortable funding a neo-Nazi army, which is how it was framed in the first place. We’re talking about basic practical issues now.
But Germans are frankly too timid to stand up to the unhinged Poles and Baltic freaks who are siding with the lunatic US agenda, and have made it clear they will burn Europe to the ground if there is a one in six million chance it will hurt Russia in any way at all.
The Eastern Europeans, excluding Hungary, are like sluts with daddy issues. Putin might as well be Stalin to them.
For those countries, it’s not about “democracy” or any other vague abstraction, but an actual real hatred of Russian people. That makes them the perfect battering ram for the US to hit not only Russia, but also Germany and others who question this nonsense agenda.
After weeks of wrangling, the EU last month agreed to its sixth round of restrictive measures against Russia and Belarus since the start of the war in Ukraine, which included an oil ban and sanctions on shipping and banks.
Limiting or reducing import of gas from Russia is considered too sensitive at the moment, given EU’s high reliance on this source of energy from Moscow, officials said.
Ambassadors have also discussed new military support to Ukraine, although they remain divided on the matter.
According to the draft conclusions for the June 23-24 summit, the EU “remains strongly committed to providing further military support to help Ukraine exercise its inherent right of self-defence against Russian aggression”.
Yeah, okay.
Good luck, faggots.
Russia Stronk. And you are all gay.