Napoleon learnt it in 1812, and Hitler likewise in 1941. Will the European Union oligarchy learn the same harsh lesson in 2014? The lesson being that belligerence toward the Russian bear comes with a devastating price, especially when the belligerents appear to be marching ever-so blindly ahead of sound reason and judgment… Last week the EU leadership in Brussels decided against lifting trade sanctions it had previously imposed on Russia… Vladimir Putin described the EU sanctions as «utter folly»… Utter folly indeed. European sanctions have been met with counter-sanctions from Russia, which have in turn banned a wide range of agricultural produce. Already, Brussels is having to find hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of compensation for fruit, vegetable, meat and dairy farmers who have been locked out of Russia’s import market, valued at nearly $16 billion in 2013… - strategic-culture.org/news/2014/10/06/europe-awaits-a-bitter-winter-tale.html
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