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Sanctions destroy our economy:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Washington and its EU puppets are implementing more sanctions against Russia. Considering the incompetence of both regimes it\u2019s unclear who will suffer hardest \u2013 Russia or Europe. Russia has done nothing to deserve any sanctions. All sanctions are based on blatant lies first by the downing of the MH17 and now secondly against \u201cRussian combat forces with Russian weapons in Russian tanks\u201d that \u2018they say\u2019, are deployed in eastern Ukraine, which is another deliberate lie: \u201c\u2026observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have registered no troops, ammunition or weapons crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border over the past two weeks.\u201d <\/strong>Global Research reports.<\/p>\n

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The EU sanctions against Russia just illustrate its policy of \u201cthe four Ds\u201d, which is divert, deflect, deceive \"cow\"<\/a>and deny, says RT\u2019s financial commentator Mitchell Feierstein. Russia has been put into an impossible situation, meaning they are responsible not only for what has been done in Lugansk and Donetsk, but also for what has been done on the side of Kiev (MH17 downing<\/a>), concludes political analyst Alexander Pavic.<\/p>\n

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The EU added 24 individuals to the list which blocks travel to the EU and asset freezes. Russian leaders and businessmen, as well as politicians in Crimea and the Donbass, will be added to the blacklist. According to the official\u00a0document<\/a>, the EU will halt services Russia needs to extract oil and gas in the Arctic, deep sea, and shale extraction projects.<\/p>\n

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Putin\u2019s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov replied. The EU \u201cdoes not see or is unwilling to see\u201d Russia\u2019s efforts to establish peace in Ukraine. Despite Brussels\u2019 \u201cnon-constructive\u201d policy, Moscow is committed to helping implement the peace plan. But that\u2019s not in the EU\/US interest; they want war and freeway to Eurasia.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are sorry that the European Union has adopted a new round of sanctions. We have repeatedly expressed our discontent with the previously imposed sanctions and our disagreement with them. We also considered them illegal,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Peskov continued.<\/p>\n

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The EU decision\u00a0\u201cis absolutely beyond understanding and explanation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Peskov added, especially given Russia\u2019s recent efforts to help stop the bloodshed in Ukraine and peacefully resolve the conflict between Kiev and Southeastern regions. He stressed that Brussels either fails to see or\u00a0\u201cis unwilling to see the real situation in Donbass and does not want to get informed about the steps the parties are taking towards settlement.\u201d<\/em> Moscow regrets that the EU still\u00a0\u201cprefers talking the language of sanctions,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0rather than to\u00a0\u201ccontribute to a peaceful settlement\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of the conflict,\u00a0\u201cnot in words but in deeds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the same time, it is impossible not to understand that one way or another, European companies will have to pay for those sanctions as well as taxpayers,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0– This is actually happening already.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDespite the absence of constructivism in Brussels\u2019 position, Russia will continue to do everything in its powers to support the implementation of the existing peace plan, as well as the stabilization of the situation in the south-eastern Ukraine as a whole.”<\/p>\n

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Moscow will take \u201cappropriate measures\u201d in response to possible new sanctions from the European Union, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson said. – Aleksandr Lukashevich said that the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine in July has been used as a pretext by the West to push through economic sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n

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However, the true reasons behind the tragedy may not be revealed at all due to external pressure on the international commission investigating the MH17 crash, he said. \u201cIt seems that the international commission \u2013 under pressure by certain Western powers \u2013 is deliberately delaying (and diverting) the investigation and not executing its duties, which is obvious to any aviation expert. As a result, the reasons for the tragedy may not be established and not announced at all,\u201d <\/em>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said.<\/p>\n

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In response to the EU\u2019s previous set of sanctions that targeted banks, energy, and weaponry, Moscow introduced<\/a>\u00a0a one-year food embargo against the US, EU, Norway, Australia, and Canada that is estimated to block $9 billion worth of agricultural exports to Russia. And this has cost EU business a loss of \u20ac 12 billion.<\/p>\n

U.S. and European leaders blundered in attempting to turn Ukraine into a Western stronghold on Russia\u2019s border. Now that the consequences have been laid bare, it would be an even greater mistake to continue this misbegotten policy. Concludes The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) a cabal entity \u2013 \u201cThe Ukraine Crisis Is the West\u2019s \u2013 Not Putin\u2019s \u2013 Fault.\u201d Apparently the harmony inside the western camp is over?<\/p>\n

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Official statements from the Russian government indicate that the president and foreign minister continue to rely on the good will of \u201cour Western partners\u201d to work out a reasonable diplomatic solution to the trouble in Ukraine caused by Washington. Not only is there no evidence of this good will in Western capitals, the hostile measures against Russia is increasing. Moreover, hostile measures are on the rise even though their main effect is to the disadvantage of Europe.<\/p>\n

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Stupidest Sanction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, the socialist president of France has followed Washington\u2019s orders and refused to deliver a ship that it owes to Russia under contract. If Russia has not already paid, then the failure\"president\"<\/a> to deliver will harm whoever financed the construction of the ship. If Russia has paid, then the idiot French president has placed France in violation of a contract and under international law France is subject to heavy financial penalties.<\/p>\n

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It is not clear how this hurts Russia. It is Russia\u2019s strategic nuclear force that the West has to fear, not a helicopter carrier. What Hollande has taught Russia is not to do business with France or any country in NATO.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe point of a series of regional wars organized by the Americans, especially today\u2019s catastrophe in Ukraine, centres on the U.S. securing control over all of north Eurasia\u201d to bolster \u201cits position against China,\u201d Glazyev said. \u201cThat\u2019s how the U.S. military and oligarchs are trying to maintain leadership in the global competition with China.\u201d The effort will backfire, said Glazyev, who spoke before a round of retaliatory steps by Russia banning food and agricultural products for one year from the U.S., the EU, Norway, Canada, and Australia. The U.S.-led \u201ceconomic war\u201d against Russia will ricochet, leaving the EU to pay the steepest costs in the conflict, he said.<\/p>\n

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The trading bloc stands to lose about 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion), an estimate he says includes the possible bankruptcy of several European banks and companies toppled after the cut-off in financial and economic ties. An energy crisis in Europe will bring a sharp spike in prices and a loss of competitiveness for European producers. Meanwhile, Turkish, Chinese, and East Asian nations will fill the void left by the departure of their European rivals from the Russian market.<\/p>\n

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The fallout costs Germany \u20ac250 billion alone, while pushing the three Baltic States to the brink of an \u201ceconomic catastrophe.\u201d – Lithuania and Latvia will lose the equivalent of half of their entire economic output, and the cost for Estonia will reach 50 per cent more than its gross domestic product, Glazyev said.<\/p>\n

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Where does that leave Russia? Meanwhile, Russia is pondering a closure of its airspace to Western airlines seeking the established primary route from Europe to the Orient – and thus costing airlines a small fortune in extra fuel.<\/p>\n

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\"bear\"<\/a>In the case of the West, not only is the European economy being pushed further into decline, but also ongoing plans call for already hard-pressed Western taxpayers to effectively subsidize the two decades of Ukrainian government failure to get a grip on the economy. Europe\u2019s citizens appear doomed to groundhog days of paying for every politicians\u2019 failure, several times over.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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By inducing negative growth as an economic weapon, the results are rarely an outright victory, unless the aggressor has a massive economic advantage. In a bygone era perhaps that was once true of Europe. However now the EU is a fragmenting morass of failed super-state ambitions saddled with a crippled single currency. For the vast army of unemployed Europeans, the application of more sanctions is an act of economic vandalism. Evolving in a state where both the EU and Russia threaten to bind themselves together in a pure lose-lose scenario.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia is the richest country in the world and has unique marine resources that unfortunately go abroad. However, the demand for these products on the international market are very high,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Irina Yarovaya, a Duma member from Kamchatka, said. The new sanctions will help Russia develop its agriculture sector and make it easier for Russian farmers to market their products, Igor Rudensky, head of the Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship said.<\/p>\n