En radikal vinkel av konflikten:
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The war isn’t against Russia. The war isn’t against Ukraine. The war is against Europe and Germany. The purpose of the sanctions is to prevent Europe and other allies from increasing their trade and investment with Russia and China, because the United States saw that the centre of world growth is not in America now that it’s deindustrializing. Following neoliberal policies since the 1980s has ended up hollowing out the US economy. And how on earth can the United States maintain prosperity if it’s lost the ability to do wealth creation?
The only way of maintaining prosperity if you can’t create it at home is to get it from abroad. And the attempt, beginning a year ago, by President Biden and by the US neocons, was to block Nord Stream 2, and failing that, to block all energy trade and other trade with Russia. So that the United States could monopolize it itself. One of the main tools for the last hundred years of US control of the world economy has been by the oil industry. Controlling world energy trade. Energy is the key to the GDP, the productivity of every country, and the thought of energy trade passing out of US control into that of other countries threatened the United States’ ability to turn off other countries.
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/03/accidental-crisis/
Men vad sa EU innan invasionen?
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Businesses involved in Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline have been sanctioned by the United States, which has been seeking to sell more of its own liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European states,[75] with the passing of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 on December 20, 2019.[76]
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz called the sanctions "a severe intervention in German and European internal affairs", while the European Union spokesman criticized "the imposition of sanctions against EU companies conducting legitimate business.
Vad sa Ryssland?
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also criticized sanctions, saying that U.S. Congress "is literally overwhelmed with the desire to do everything to destroy" the U.S.–Russia relations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_America's_Adversaries_Through_Sanctions _Act
USA hade redan tvingat EU att sluta handla gas från Ryssland, det var bara en fråga om ett datum då USA inte ännu löst frågan om hur den skulle ersättas.
Ryssland går nu i förväg och blockerar EU från deras gasexport vilket ändå skulle hänt om ett par år genom våra sanktioner som USA tvingar oss till.
Ryssland synar nu EU och USA då vi låtsas att vi kan stänga dem utanför världshandeln, men att vi samtidigt inte klarar av det i praktiken.
