Tyler Durden’s picture European Union Joins Obama, Sanctions 21 Russian, Crimean Officials
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
03/17/2014
Just a few short hours after Obama issued an executive order declaring sanctions against a select group of Russians and Ukrainians, here comes the EU, whose unelected leaders have just slammed not only those Crimeans and pro-Russian Ukrainians who dared to organize and execute the Crimean referendum vote in which the population overwhelmingly voted to support becoming part of Russia, but in keeping with the US, also launched a salvo making it quite clear that neither Russian politicians nor various Russian military commanders are welcome to park their assets, or buy houses in the EU as of this moment. Needless to say, one person, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel, is already dreading what the Russian response to this latest escalation will be, and grudgingly stated that “RUSSIA FORCED EU’S HAND WITH CRIMEA BALLOT.” Perhaps, and perhaps Russia will be “forced” to if not freeze German gas exports as a result of this diplomatic move, then just happen to pull an Amazon Prime, and hike prices by a few dozen percent. We will find out shortly.
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