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>More Mindless Sanctions? Merkel a Liar or a Fool? - Mish - Global Economic Analysis
Not only is the EU and the USA engaging in economic idiocy over Ukraine, but they are supporting Poroshenko in his declaration of war against his own people.
This is the equivalent of central governments authorizing and sanctioning the establishment of a master-slave relationship between central government and its citizenry(?).

What rational reasoning individual will believe that peace will ever come to a united Ukraine at gunpoint ?
Look to the USA where there is still generational hard feelings in the south against the north after 150 years.
More evidence? What happened in the former Yugoslavia after a few hundred years of festering anger?

When central government decides "consent of the governed" is no longer required, needed or sought, trust fails.
When a party lacks the trust of another party, that is the definition of potential enemy.
All actions after that either proves they are enemy or slowly turn them into allies.
But central governments aren't known for wisdom, intelligence or economic sanity.
Just look at the employees (nee overseers), both hired and elected.


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Beginning of the headline :As the tide in the Ukraine civil war turns, the EU threatens Russia with more mindless sanctions. Bloomberg reports EU Vows More Russia Sanctions If War in Ukraine Worsens. European Union leaders agreed to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, possibly targeting energy and finance, if the war in Ukraine worsens. Leaders early today gave the European Commission a week to deliver proposals for the penalties. The EU left open the precise trigger for further sanctions, contrasting with a four-point... Read More
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