More importantly, however, Russia has the power to effectively cripple the European economy by shutting off access to its gas pipelines (many of which flow through Ukraine), a blow that could be delivered virtually overnight. It wouldn’t be the first time this has happened, and whether or not we reach this level of hostility, the mere possibility should strike a chord with Europeans and serve as a wake-up call that their position of energy dependence is a massive liability.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the final pieces were in place for the 2015 launch of an economic union with Belarus and Kazakhstan that Moscow hopes can also be joined by Ukraine.
I warned several years ago that Europe would collapse (Communism) and the Russians would be there to pick up the pieces instead of the Americans. Putin will control Europe without even firing a shot.
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“We have gone full circle back to a Soviet Union model,” Jakobsen writes. “It will be the final move toward a totalitarian European state and the low point for individual and property rights.”
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President Putin wants to create a Eurasian Union from the Pacific Ocean to the borders of the European Union. Leaders of the two rival trade unions say that Ukraine cannot belong to both groups.