Friday, August 8, 2014

The wave pain for the EU is now slowly turning into a tsunami of mutually reinforcing problems

This is great stuff!  RT reports:
Ukraine ready to impose sanctions against any transit via its territory, including air flights and gas supplies to Europe, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Friday.  Ukraine's Parliament will vote on the sanctions on Tuesday.  Kiev has also prepared a list of 172 Russian citizens and 65 legal enitites to put under sanctions for “sponsoring terrorism, supporting the annexation of Crimea, and violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Yatsenyuk said at a briefing on Friday.  Proposed sanctions include asset freezes, bans on certain enterprises, bans on privatizing state property, refusing to issue licenses, and a complete or partial ban on transit- both aviation and gas.
Let me see if I got this right: the US/EU impose sanctions on Russia because Russia does not stop the Novorussian Resistance.  In retaliation, Russia imposes sanctions on the EU and a ban on Ukie overflights over Russia.  And in response to that, the Ukies prevent gas which the EU badly needs and which it paid for from reaching the EU.  Who will get hurt by that?  The EU, of course.  So, in fact, these idiots in Kiev, no doubt under US orders again, are now strengthening the Russian sanctions against the EU!  We can think of it as "Russia cutting off gas supplies to the EU in a way for which it cannot be blamed".

Beautiful, no?

The wave pain for the EU is now slowly turning into a tsunami of mutually reinforcing problems.

Well, the sure deserve it.  As I said yesterday: you wanna be Uncle Sam's bitch?  Pay the price!

The Saker