“The West will not like the outcome”
To the Expositor:
It is hard to understand just what the US and its western partners, including Canada, hoped to achieve by orchestrating the illegal Ukrainian coup and pursuing their efforts to isolate and economically damage Russia. Having achieved a tentative cease fire in the Ukraine civil war, largely resulting from the Ukrainian rebel’s battlefield success and negotiations with Putin, the West still goes ahead and announces new sanctions against Russia. Russia will likely reply in kind. While we apply financial and travel ban sanctions against Russian companies and individuals, Russia imposes import restrictions on food, textiles and automobiles and could critically shut off energy exports. European farmers and workers will pay the price with lost jobs and income. Politically, European leaders will face an increasingly hostile electorate. Without Russian natural gas, EU member states and Ukraine may face a cold winter. While Russia, with a small debt to GDP and a supportive relationship with China and the other BRICS countries, can avert any dependency on US controlled financial restrictions. Furthermore both Russia and China, always in the US line of fire, have been given even greater impetus to move ahead with the Asian shift and distance themselves from the US dollar and financial imperialism which underpins the US Empire. The West will not like the outcome.
Ron Brydges
Stanley Park and St. Catharines
