Ron Paul to RT: U.S. Sanctions Against Russia Something That Happens in Wartime

Appearing on the Kremlin-funded news network RT, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) asserted that the sanctions imposed on Russia individuals and institutions following Moscows invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea were acts of war. He said that sanctions, like any other form of trade blockade, is a war.

If two countries get in war, one of the most important things that they do is that they put down blockade, Paul told RT host Sophie Shevardnadze. So, in that sense, the economic sanctions is doing something that happens in wartime, and that is preventing a government from getting certain things that are needed for the war.

Paul said he is opposed to sanctions against Russia because he believes they are wrong but also because the West, and the United States in particular, is unaccustomed to having sanctions levied against them.

How would we react if we couldnt import something? Paul asked. The American people wouldnt like that very much, and yet we too causally do that with others.

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But, in principle, its not quite like a shooting war, but it is a war, Paul continued. I mean it is something thats used in an active war, in the ultimate for blockade but sanctions is the form of blockade.

Paul has previously said that Russian President Vladimir Putins decision to invade Crimea was legally justified because Moscow was safeguarding their lease of the Ukrainian territory containing a Soviet-era naval base in the city of Sevastopol.

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