Sanctions hurt ordinary people not governments.
With the price of "everything rising daily," to see this I only have to go past any petrol station/filling station (USA), sanctions are partly to blame.
We have had here a couple of months now of 0% VAT or value added tax on most food, but still the food costs more.
I tend to shop daily too, I/we do not do a weekly shop, I like fresh bread so buy it daily so I tend to see the prices rise in supermarkets/malls also.
Everyone has possibly heard about the Russian government being sanctioned by a lot of the west but who does it hurt the most? People - not governments.
For years now - more years than I have been in Poland; and I am in my eighth year here - the EU has had trade restrictions against Russia.
The people that hurts the most are farmers. Belarus also has had many sanctions against it from the EU and that is also nothing recent as it has been happening for years. And you may note they have helped Russia invade the Ukraine, now ask yourself why.
If you do historical searches not just new ones you will see how long this has been going on for.
Russia once famously tipped lorry loads of imported food onto the floor and drove over it, I am failing to find a source for that event as it is a few years ago now, but it was in response to these endless sanctions, who suffers? the people that is who.
If we are to understand what is going through Putin's mind and his banker backers we have to understand what pushed him and them over the edge.
I get it, I truly do, most people just want to cheer on a side, but knowledge is king.
As I am rural I know farmers that get around export bans by shipping their goods via the Ukraine, via Belarus too so it can be sold on again in Russia, apple farmers at that, hence them being once tipped on the floor and driven over as a petulant act by border forces, a bit like self harming is it not?
Let me make this clear, I am not pro-Russia or pro-west governments.
I am watching comments like that above being said by Putin, I am also watching what the west says, who is right and who is in the wrong is not for me to decide, I can only read between the lines the same as you.
Someone sent this to me yesterday, how true it is will take hours of research, hours I do not have today, but I will offer up their thoughts all the same.
"Russia was the first to exit the Matrix.
Russia is now financially almost completely free from the United States.
When Sadam Hussein in Iraq announced that he would no longer accept the US dollar for oil, two months later the war broke out in Iraq and Sadam Hussein was killed.
Many wars were initiated to protect the American dollar. When Moamer Gaddafi created an estimated currency for Africa, western military power went to Libya and killed Gaddafi.
Now Russia has finally broke the Petrol-Dollar (Fiat money). The US is now in an existential crisis and Europe will follow it.
The dollar has (almost) gone bankrupt and vaping for cryptocurrency regulation by corrupt governments shows corruption and uprising within organized financial system organs like the SEC revealing how Bitcoin and Ethereum are protected.
Russia has laundry that is completely covered in gold. India, China and Russia have long had a different monetary system besides SWIFT.
Ripple is slowly revealing that the new QFS promised and hoped for by many KSRP and KSLM believers.
Looks like the time to turn the switch is very close.
For so long we speculated and predicted scenarios that would include the event.
And it seems that Russia knows how to lead the way out of the Matrix, leaving behind the corrupt financial system, media, internet.
Disclosure of NO, EU, USA, NATO, UN, CERN, SO, CIA, MOSSAD.
It's all one big snake pit, full of darkness, connected to each other with the evil pyramid of Elite.
Soon they will be completely defeated
Russia is on its way to implement a free world outside the Kabala matrix in which we have been captivated for centuries."
Sanctions.
I watched a documentary about sanctions when Trump was in power, he had and was sanctioning China at the time, minerals, metals and the like.
In said documentary there was a CEO of a company that made tinned goods; he explained how the sanctions against China made it more expensive for him to produce and maintain a cheap price for his tinned goods, and how he/they were having to raise the price of these goods to pass on the rising cost to Americans - he also stated (not me) that those that buy tinned goods are the poorest families so it was them getting hit in the pocket in the USA by sanctions against China!
The sanctions for a decade plus against Russia like I said have hit ordinary people in the EU in the pocket, farmers, producers of anything on the sanctions lists.
Governments will just keep thinking up a new tax so it matters not to them. Taxing even pets here, seriously you are supposed to pay a tax regarding owning a dog or a cat here, weekly tax at that.
I have been taxed for breathing here 3 years ago, we stayed at a log cabin in a wooded area & before we could get the keys to it even though I had paid in advance I had to pay a "carbon tax" to the EU, yes folks, a tax for breathing.
They say it like they are doing us all a favour./favor "we sanctioned Russia, we sanctioned China" but them sanctions cost us ordinary folk not governments.
So before you cheer on sanctions, think long and hard about what is it costing you and I?
War is always a last resort look at what caused it, why, who lost out in the long run. Root cause equals corrective action, it is an engineering saying from my automotive engineering days.
By no means is this the only reason there is a war in the Ukraine as there are many reasons and it is a very complex matter.
I have been speaking to new arrivals, Ukrainians and not all of them are angry with Putin or Russia, some are filled with glee at this prospect of ousting what they call not me "the puppet president" that they say is "corrupt to the core"'
Some are from Dombas and they say the government have been using snipers and bombs in that region for 7 or 8 years.
I have found some documentaries about there but do not just trust me or my word, research it yourself.
I found a Ross Kemp video on bitchute when he visited the area, youtube have removed it as they do not want you knowing both sides of the story, only 1.
May I reiterate my point all the same - I have no dog in this fight, I am stuck in the middle with you, as stealers wheel eloquently sang.
If we want a balanced approach to any subject we need to understand both sides of the argument.
Have a superb day and spread some love, peace and out.