Posted on 07/29/2014 4:52:52 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been branded a ‘thug’ and a ‘liar’ by one of Britain’s top diplomats as the European Union prepares to tighten the stranglehold on the Kremlin’s cronies.
Sir Peter Westmacott, the UK ambassador to the US, said Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine was starting to look like ‘the wrong call’ and the West’s firm response to the downing of Malaysian Airlines plane was starting to have an impact.
David Cameron will meet families of British victims of the atrocity today, as he warns Russia has failed to stem the flow of weapons across the border to Ukraine since a surface-to-air missile was used to destroy flight MH17, killing all 298 people on board.
EU diplomats will meet in Brussels today to agree a fresh round of sanctions designed to cripple the Russian economy and target allies of Vladimir Putin.
They are expected to include an outright ban on EU cash being invested in Russian banks, forcing some into state bailouts to avoid bankruptcy.
In an extraordinary public attack on the Russian President, Sir Peter said Mr Putin’s behaviour in Ukraine had been ‘thuggish, dishonest and reckless’. He added: ‘He thought he’d done pretty well after he stole Crimea. It doesn’t look so good now.’
'We have to change the cost/benefit analysis for Putin, for the Russian people, for the government that they have elected here.’...
Britain is pushing for sanctions where there is ‘broad consensus’ with other EU countries, including ‘the financial sector, the defence sector and the hi-tech energy sector’....
It will be the first time that entire sectors of the Russian economy, rather than individuals or firms, have been targeted by the West.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The problem is that your chosen authoritarian is not securing his own banks, he’s robbing both his and yours, and the banks of others.
Putin is a thug and a liar, and he is a danger to the United States of America. Obama is a sissy version of a thug and a bigger liar than Putin, and he is a much graver danger to the United States of America.
Well at least you are an honest Fascist.
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