Report on Russia
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/eu-greenlights-11th-russia-sanctions-package-mostly-targeting-third-countries/?fbclid=IwAR1RSbeUtVqaW9ueduTQ97Ogqqzph9tST_4TWmywYjb088GohsPft5TmT6E
The biggest novelty in the hard-fought-for package, according to EU diplomats, was enabling restrictions on the sale of sensitive dual-use goods and technology to third countries that might sell it to Russia.
Names of such countries can now be added…
…to a list. Tell me again how capitalism enhances people’s dignity. They each get the right to sell free market goods. It is so wonderful.
The reason it is called a “Free market” is that nobody, no one can interfere with your market activities. Until now, that is to say.
For to offend one member of the group is to offend all. If you cut off one specific country from this free market, this wonderful liberation that persons experience, this thing that is praised by all, then you have offended the laws of Nature herself.
The market will extract a price. So, capitalism is not to be offered to Russia. They are not being directly told to try some opposed system, but only being told, “you will not capitalist. Not if we the free market countries can help it.”
The one thing we had to offer them - free market economics as a social basis - is now being rescinded.
The we must be happy — whatever Russian makes of their situation.