Patriot,

For over six months, the U.S. and Western Europe have tried to
wage war on Russia without actually going directly to war.

Much of this has been in the form of military aid and assistance
to Ukraine (at least $54 BILLION from the United States already -
which makes the $7.4 BILLION spent in the first five years
fighting the Taliban seem like a drop in the bucket), but another
major component of this war has been economic sanctions on
Russia, which the Biden administration described as "crippling."

Six months on, the effects have become clear: not only have the
sanctions failed to "cripple" Russia, they've crippled the West.

As I explain in my latest column below, the effect of sanctions
on Russia has been truly catastrophic on the rest of Europe. They
face energy shortages and economic collapse.

This is plainly unsustainable, but in the face of this failure,
our leaders only seem more determined to keep doubling down.

The cause of Ukraine, it appears, matters more to them than their
own countries' best interests.

And unless we hold our globalist leaders accountable, the
situation will worsen, and what we're seeing happen in Europe
today may become the situation in America tomorrow.

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Europe Commits Suicide-by-Sanctions

A Swiss billboard is making the rounds on social media depicting
a young woman on the telephone. The caption reads, "Does the
neighbor heat the apartment to over 19 degrees (66F)? Please
inform us." While the Swiss government has dismissed the poster
as a fake, the penalties Swiss citizens face for daring to warm
their homes are very real. According to the Swiss newspaper
Blick, those who violate the 66 degree heating limit could face
as many as three years in prison!

Prison time for heating your home? In the "free" world? How is it
possible in 2022, when Switzerland and the rest of the political
west have achieved the greatest economic success in history, that
the European continent faces a winter like something out of the
dark ages?

Sanctions.

While long promoted - often by those opposed to war - as a less
destructive alternative to war, sanctions are in reality acts of
war. And as we know with interventionism and war, the result is
often unintended consequences and even blowback.

European sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
earlier this year will likely go down in history as a prime
example of how sanctions can result in unintended consequences.
While seeking to punish Russia by cutting off gas and oil
imports, European Union politicians forgot that Europe is
completely dependent on Russian energy supplies and that the only
people to suffer if those imports are shut down are the Europeans
themselves.

The Russians simply pivoted to the south and east and found
plenty of new buyers in China, India, and elsewhere. In fact,
Russia's state-run Gazprom energy company has reported that its
profits have increased by 100 percent in the first half of this
year.

Russia is getting rich while Europeans are facing a freezing
winter and economic collapse. All because of the false belief
that sanctions are a cost-free way to force other countries to do
what you want them to do.

What happens when the people see dumb government policies making
energy bills skyrocket as the economy grounds to a halt? They
become desperate and take to the streets in protest.

This weekend thousands of Austrians took to the streets in a
"Freedom Rally" to demand an end to sanctions and the opening of
Nord Stream II, the gas pipeline on the verge of opening earlier
this year. Last week an estimated 100,000 Czechs took to the
streets of Prague to protest NATO and EU policy. In France, the
"Yellow Vests" are back in the streets protesting the destruction
of their economy in the name of "defeating" Russia in Ukraine. In
Germany, Serbia, and elsewhere, protests are gearing up.

Even the Washington Post was forced to admit that sanctions on
Russia are not having the intended effect. In an article
yesterday, the paper worries that sanctions are inflicting
"collateral damage in Russia and beyond, potentially even hurting
the very countries that impose them. Some even worried that the
sanctions intended to deter and weaken Putin could end up
emboldening and strengthening him."

This is all predictable. Sanctions kill. Sometimes they kill
innocents in the country targeted for destruction and sometimes
they kill innocents in the country imposing them. The solution,
as always, is non-intervention. No sanctions, no "color
revolutions," no meddling. It's really that simple.



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