[Nervous Tick]

You are an amazingly short-sighted ass.

There will be nasty repercussions from this folly throughout the monetary systems of the western world.

[canuck_conservative]

I thought you said stealing was OK?

Russia is stealing land that it doesn’t own in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, and you not only DON’T complain about it or condemn Russia, you even cheer on Russia to take more!

So, the EU is just copying Russia’s move, right?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Hence the acceleration of BRICs.

[icclearly]

There will be nasty repercussions from this folly throughout the monetary systems of the western world.

Let me fix that...

There will be are nasty repercussions from this folly throughout the monetary systems of the western world.

Yes, already! BRICS, BRICS, BRICS, and other countries selling of US bonds -- on steroids (who wants to hold them?).

There goes our "printed money" scam.

[Cronos]

Nervous Tack - there will be no repercussions for freezing an aggressor state’s central bank assets and then using the profits to help the victim of the aggressor state