Posted on 03/24/2014 5:19:01 PM PDT by lbryce
The world's leading industrial powers threatened further sanctions to deter the Kremlin from invading other parts of Ukraine and boycotted what was to be a Group of Eight summit hosted by President Vladimir Putin.
Meeting for the first time since last week's annexation of Crimea by Russia, Group of Seven leaders said they won't attend the planned G-8 meeting which was to have to been held in Sochi, site of the Winter Olympics, and will instead hold their own summit in June in Brussels.
"We remain ready to intensify actions including coordinated sectoral sanctions that will have an increasingly significant impact on the Russian economy, if Russia continues to escalate this situation," the G-7 said in a statement e- mailed after a meeting in The Hague today.
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UN security council vote trumps all.
Back in the early 60s, my father, a Marine officer with firsthand experience and considerable understanding of the eastern cultures, told me that the west would always get taken in negotiating with them because we refuse to understand how they think. That we would always act as if they reasoned as we do and expect them to react as we do. 50 years later the western leaders are still doing the same things and expecting different results. Reagan being the exception.
We are again doomed to lose. Being led down the rabbit hole by a black Jimmy Carter.
All Putin needs to do is cut off Europe’s gas and oil. Game set match.
UN security council vote trumps all.
I am sure Putin is crying about this. /S
He probably is saying, “It was always a waste of my time anyway.”
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