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Europe 'shot itself in the lungs' with sanctions on Russia, Orban says
Reuters ^ | 21 April 23 | Reuters

Posted on 04/22/2023 7:10:53 AM PDT by delta7

BUDAPEST, July 15 (Reuters) - The European Union has "shot itself in the lungs" with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia,….

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: sanctions
Good to see some “ reality”, truth. Why is the collective West and the EU so intent on committing suicide?

Carry on war cheerleaders, your road is leading to destruction.

1 posted on 04/22/2023 7:10:53 AM PDT by delta7
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To: delta7

Orban is great. So refreshing to hear someone speak the truth.


2 posted on 04/22/2023 7:15:40 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: delta7

I would say in the nuts


3 posted on 04/22/2023 7:17:52 AM PDT by mylife (I was a sort of country boy, a cockeyed optimist, wrapped in international intrigue and espionage)
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To: gibsonguy

Beyond the sanctions is the stupidity of Germany shutting down their nuke power.


4 posted on 04/22/2023 7:17:52 AM PDT by oldasrocks (quew)
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To: delta7

The cost of sanctions to national economies is impossible to hide. As are the number of war dead. Soon, people will have had enough.


5 posted on 04/22/2023 7:18:25 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: mylife

Germany closing nuclear plants just to be sure. Dummscheissen.


6 posted on 04/22/2023 7:20:45 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: oldasrocks

Yeah that one is up there with attacking Russia and opening a second front when you have your hands full with the first one.


7 posted on 04/22/2023 7:24:40 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: delta7
--- "Why is the collective West and the EU so intent on committing suicide?"

From "The West's sweeping sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are shaping up to be the West's most monumental miscalculation in modern history. ...it's the Western economies that are reeling, their economic growth all but stopped. Many of them are suffering simultaneously from both high inflation and energy shortages." In "Russia's Rise," by Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon, American Thinker, 12 April 2023.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/04/russias_rise.html

The "collective West" is the phrase which tells a glaring truth. The "collectivists" -- are easily found in such as not only the DSA -- Socialists in the Democrat Party -- but in the mainstream Democrats and RINOs as well, as we often lump these corrupt individuals. They are a "collective" and seek the collectivists' solution to politics, economics and even culture. They are supported by the "Collective West" found in academia and the mainstream media. Any disruption in their aims is greeted with "collective" howls, as the many rounds of sanctions are hobbling the West economically.

For what purposes? Corruption (money for the few and elite and well-cionnected_ and power (to pervert and control those who would recoil at perversions such as those being presented non-stop in the Biden regime.

8 posted on 04/22/2023 7:25:33 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: delta7

Why? Because the elites need to destroy Russia because Russia is building churches, banning homosexuality, and doing everything anti-liberal that they can.

Rule #1: The elites want you dead.

Liberalism is how the elites are killing you.


9 posted on 04/22/2023 7:27:23 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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Orban does not want Hungary to fall to US immorality and political correctness, nor does he want it to lose its own culture.

Putin is a Russian nationalist - he’s authoritarian, but that’s how they do it in Russia and always have done it - but he doesn’t run slave camps, create famines, etc. as did his Communist predecessors. And he understands the importance of the Orthodox Faith, just as Orban understands the importance of the (traditional, not Bergoglio or Biden-style) Catholic Faith. The Catholic and Orthodox churches are traditionally the same in terms of the Faith, morality and world view.

Thus, Russia must be destroyed, and probably Hungary is on the US “must be destroyed” list now too.

I am so disgusted by what we have become thanks to 60 years of steady infiltration and now open take-over by the left.

Who ever thought people would be fired or even sent to jail for denying that men are women? We are in an upside down world of madness. But everybody has to agree to the madness to keep it going, and obviously neither the Russians nor the Hungarians do.


10 posted on 04/22/2023 7:45:07 AM PDT by livius
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To: delta7

Was it with a 9mm?


11 posted on 04/22/2023 8:46:17 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: delta7

These woke pervo globalists would gladly start a world wide nuclear war. They certainly don’t care about anything as trivial as this if stands in the way of their crusade. Their FR operatives seem to want WWIII as a means of dealing with their Hillary induced Russia, Russia, Russia deliriums.


12 posted on 04/22/2023 9:00:14 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: delta7

This is not quite accurate. Europe shot itself in the lungs by allowing itself to become dependent on Russia for energy.

If the problem were just sanctions, then Europe could solve it’s problem by ceding all of the Soviet territory back to Russia. But that’s no solution at all — hence, it’s not the problem.


13 posted on 04/22/2023 9:28:07 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: delta7

Running kinda late on posting this

July 15, 2022 2:52 AM EDT Last Updated 9 months ago article
in breaking news...


14 posted on 04/22/2023 9:30:45 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Some things need to be repeated for the benefit of the war cheerleaders. So many ( All?) need to realize battle lines drawn on a map are just one indicator in war. Money funds war, and the EU and West is clearly losing the economic war, and the EU natives are getting restless, very restless ( pull up all the rioting in the EU nations- the Western MSM fails to report).

Vlad is on record stating Russia is prepared for a 30 month war with NATO and the collective West. Russia is filling its pockets with cash, the West? Tapped out at the least, bankrupt at the most. Ukraine is a 100 percent welfare nation, fully dependent on the West just to survive. How long do the EU citizens suffer through historic inflation and shortages? The EU is fracturing, signaling an end to the US pet Nazis, Ukraine.


15 posted on 04/22/2023 10:20:34 AM PDT by delta7
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To: CodeToad

Why? Because the elites need to destroy Russia because Russia is building churches, banning homosexuality, and doing everything anti-liberal that they can.
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Amen brother, pray harder for the gift of “ discernment “. The West is under “ delusion”, they bought into the Democrats “ Russian Derangement Syndrome” peddled since Trump’s time.

Gay marriage, boys in girls bathrooms, men in woman’s sports, Trans XYZ’s in every .gov office, widespread lawlessness, approval of children’s sex changes, the list is long….and loud cries of war, war, war instead of Peace.

The good news? The West will be brought to its knees, hopefully sparking Revival…….and Restoration.


16 posted on 04/22/2023 10:32:10 AM PDT by delta7
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To: livius

And he understands the importance of the Orthodox Faith
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When living there training Ivans, it struck me the Russian government spent lots of money building, restoring Churches……the West? Spending a lot of money abroad spreading immoral, filthy doctrine. I have seen my share of US Embassies and Consulates flying the gay flag, made me sick.

It’s one thing to wallow in filth and immorality, another to rejoice in it, codify law for it, and then SPREAD it. It doesn’t take a Biblical scholar to project what is awaiting for us.


17 posted on 04/22/2023 10:45:28 AM PDT by delta7
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To: ModelBreaker

Europe shot itself in the lungs by allowing itself to become dependent on Russia for energy.
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It is not just cheap energy, food, grain, commodities, metals, etc….you really need to see what the huge 12 time zone country has surplus of and exports.

Senile Joes sanctions boomeranged, hard……destroyed World Trade, and the collective West is suffering for it. Go war cheerleaders, your road ends in destruction.


18 posted on 04/22/2023 10:50:48 AM PDT by delta7
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To: gibsonguy

Eastern Europe should leave NATO and form a EETO.


19 posted on 04/22/2023 2:55:30 PM PDT by cowboyusa (IT'S TIME TO PLAY COWBOYS AND MARXISTS!)
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To: delta7

“The good news? The West will be brought to its knees, hopefully sparking Revival…….and Restoration.”

Preach it, Reverend Delta! Damned straight! Not until the drunk hits bottom will revival become the objective.


20 posted on 04/22/2023 5:12:03 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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