The Senate bill envisions 500% tariffs on countries that buy Russian fossil fuels. If applied as intended, it would target several EU countries. #EuropeNews
I’m trying to say when a country invades another and you, as a country, can determine that it is 100% not okay, you immediately seize all trade with them and start imposing every possible sanction on them and those who are still trading with them.
I’m talking about days after the attack, not years.
You absolutely do not supply both sides, which everyone did.
True, they didn’t immediately seize all trade, but within a month already imposed sanctions like bans on imports and exports (particularly related to weapons and energy), restricted Russia’s access to the EU financial markets, SWIFT bans on several Russian banks (I don’t understand why not all of them) and a lot more.
Since the start they’ve imposed 17 sanction packages.
Should they have done more in the 1st month though? Absolutely.
I read your comment as if you were saying they did nothing at all, hence my response being what it was. If I read that wrong, I apologize.
Thanks for apologizing. I just treated your comment as a misunderstanding, which it ultimately was.
I still think it’s not enough what they’re doing. Zero trade is binary. It is either true or not. After that, one starts to impose draconian measures on others who are not doing the same. All within the first month. That would have ground it to a halt easily.
Instead over a million people are dead now and it is still going.
I’m trying to say when a country invades another and you, as a country, can determine that it is 100% not okay, you immediately seize all trade with them and start imposing every possible sanction on them and those who are still trading with them.
I’m talking about days after the attack, not years.
You absolutely do not supply both sides, which everyone did.
True, they didn’t immediately seize all trade, but within a month already imposed sanctions like bans on imports and exports (particularly related to weapons and energy), restricted Russia’s access to the EU financial markets, SWIFT bans on several Russian banks (I don’t understand why not all of them) and a lot more.
Since the start they’ve imposed 17 sanction packages. Should they have done more in the 1st month though? Absolutely. I read your comment as if you were saying they did nothing at all, hence my response being what it was. If I read that wrong, I apologize.
Thanks for apologizing. I just treated your comment as a misunderstanding, which it ultimately was.
I still think it’s not enough what they’re doing. Zero trade is binary. It is either true or not. After that, one starts to impose draconian measures on others who are not doing the same. All within the first month. That would have ground it to a halt easily.
Instead over a million people are dead now and it is still going.
Given some of the Putin bootlickers in the EU parliament though, like Hungary, I wonder if that would’ve even been possible.
It would have been great if that at least would have been done in some countries but at least where I live, life has a pricetag.