Bush left office, the expansion of NATO has been inextricably intertwined with the desire of Washington’s globalist elites to exploit Ukraine for its potential use as a dagger to be held at Moscow’s throat,” he argues.
should offer concessions on Ukraine and America’s presence in Eastern Europe.
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World food prices would rocket if Ukraine’s fields were full of tanks rather than tractors.Īnd Ukraine is an important transit route for Europe’s energy: when Russia’s Gazprom fills the pipelines connecting Russia to Europe via Ukraine (rather than artificially reducing the flow), they can carry about half Russia’s gas exports to Europe.ĭouglas Macgregor writes in The American Conservative that to avert war the U.S. Globally, it is a crucial exporter of maize and seventh for wheat, and a key supplier of agricultural produce to the EU. Many of its population of more than 44 million would become refugees if war broke out. It is Europe’s largest country after Russia. Ukraine in 2022 is more important strategically and economically than Czechoslovakia was in 1938. Glenn Greenwald fretted that the alleged criminality of those involved and the freezing of their assets “was not adjudicated through judicial proceedings-with all the accompanying protections of judges, juries, rules of evidence and requirements of due process-but simply by decree.” As he sees it, the same pattern has played out repeatedly in efforts to punish dissenters: It incentivizes them to err on the side of aggression, and leaves no legal recourse for, say, a John Smith from Toronto who had his accounts frozen after being mistaken for another donor with the same name. That the institutions compelled to identify these accounts on the government’s behalf are shielded from liability only makes the problem worse. And since fundraising for the protest had raised millions of dollars before the order issued on February 14, the language of the order is ambiguous about whether the order also applies retroactively, thereby affecting those who donated to a legal protest in good faith. No minimum financial threshold is outlined, meaning that individuals whose sole connection to the protest is sending, say, $50 to an online fundraiser, could be swept up in this unprecedented crackdown. The government has ordered banks to freeze assets and report personal information on the vaguest of criteria: any “designated person” for whom there are “reasonable grounds to suspect” of an offense. The particulars are so alarming as to warrant the label “draconian,” Aaron Wudrick argued at the National Review: “This is the latest escalation in what some call ‘financial censorship,’ or governments colluding with or pressuring financial institutions to squash dissenters and disfavored speech,” Brad Polumbo of the Foundation for Economic Education wrote at the Washington Examiner. Many critics of the move focused on the decision to freeze the financial assets of people involved with the protests. Conversations of Noteĭid Canada set a worrisome precedent when it used the Emergencies Act to end the trucker protests that clogged the nation’s capital and disrupted its trade with the United States? The Financial Times editorialized that invoking those emergency powers was “a step too far,” noting that they “are designed to respond to insurrection, espionage and genuine threats to the Canadian constitution rather than peaceful protest, no matter how irritating and inconvenient.” How are increases in the cost of living affecting you (or your friends, family, co-workers, business, or community)?Įmail your answers to I’ll publish a selection of correspondence in Friday’s newsletter.
Every Friday, he publishes some thoughtful replies. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf.
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