Friday, April 4, 2014

Ron Paul: The Problem with US Sanctions Against Russia

Introducing sanctions against Russia is a faulty idea by the United States because it will encourage further backbiting between the two nations, Ron Paul told RT.
If two countries get in war, one of the most important things they do is put on blockades, they prevent trade so the various countries can’t get their raw products,” he said. “What I keep thinking is why don’t we try to see it from the other perspective: How would we react if we couldn’t import something? What if China or Russia or somebody came in and said you cannot import certain things or we’re going to prohibit you from trading? And yet we too casually do that with others.”
Any type of sanctions or retaliation is detrimental to both sides. I’ve often thought that if people understood what was going on they’d express objections to these kinds of bickering back and forth,” the former congressman continued.
Dr.Paul said the geopolitical drama does not account for individual Ukrainians.
Governments get involved and they do dumb things and the people in the middle are always suffering so if they suspend anything it’s the little guy who usually gets punished,” he said. “If we’re talking about the average person, people who have jobs, they suffer the consequences and that’s very bad.”
Dr. Paul said that de-escalation should be the current priority for all parties involved.
I advocate not picking sides, so I see two sides going back and forth and my political position as an American is for our American government [to stop] picking sides and picking governments and interfering with elections,” he said.
De-escalation in my view would involve us minding our own business…in particular the Ukrainian people should be the ones who decide which way they want to go rather than the governments of Europe or even the Russian government for that matter.”
You can watch the full interview with Ron Paul in next Monday’s edition of SophieCo.

2 comments:

  1. -- "Any type of sanctions or retaliation is detrimental to both sides. I've often thought that if people understood what was going on they’d express objections to these kinds of bickering back and forth," the former congressman continued. --

    Another thing to add is that economic sanctions which normally include a combination of private-property violations like bank account freezing, trade boycotts and blockades, are all acts of war and provide justification to an opponent to retaliate in kind or, worse, with military force. If the intention of the US government is to start a hot war, then sanctions would be the way to start a conflict.

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  2. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

    ----Marx....Groucho Marx

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