Posted on 07/19/2022 4:55:44 AM PDT by JonPreston
BRUSSELS — The European Union will amend its sanctions on Moscow on Wednesday by allowing the unfreezing of some funds of top Russian banks that may be required to ease bottlenecks in the global trade of food and fertilizers, a draft document showed.
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I wonder what European nations think of the Biden Administration and the State Department’s constant push for sanctions. That’s in general, not just Ukraine. Have Europeans discovered that sanctions don’t work? I’m open to hearing examples where sanctions alone have worked without military intervention.
Seems the EU just folded their sanctions cards and put their citizens first. This is the beginning of the fracturing of NATO
Is that Europeanese for "to be able to buy Russian natural gas in the coming cold, cold winter and to keep German industry running"?
Rubles for food.
Goodbye EU
Will there soon be pallets of cash flying into Moscow in the middle of the night? It’s winning the Obama way.
“If it was a snake it would have bit you”
😂
“Inch by inch, slowly I turned.”
“EU to soften sanctions on Russian banks to allow food trade”
Mighty big of the Europeans. It must a real feeling of power to be able to snap their fingers and instantly keep nearly 1 billion people from dying.
“Seems the EU just folded their sanctions cards and put their citizens first. This is the beginning of the fracturing of NATO”
Actually, I think the Europeans didn’t want to have to explain the mass famines in the Third World that they were about to cause. Europe itself can simply out-bid the Third World for whatever food is on the world market - they’ll be fine regarding food. Fuel is a different can of worms though.
Boy, they’ve really brought Russia to its knees, huh?
Lets go brandon
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