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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Continued G-7 Sanctions Against Russia, But Does Russia Have a Perspective?

Posted: 06/08/2015

Recently making the news was the successful attempt by President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the G-7 summit in Germany, to get all seven industrialized nations to continue economic sanctions on Russia in response to its annexation of Crimea and military meddling in eastern Ukraine, as did the recent U.S.-led allied boycott of Russia's celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in May of 1945. Yet the seventy-first anniversary of the allied D-Day landings in Normandy in June of 1944 went off as planned.
Russia was iniquitous to have violated international law and snatched Ukraine and is also wrong to be militarily stirring up an insurgency in eastern Ukraine. However, the Western media, in their usual self-righteous manner, avoid any discussion of the Russian perspective or motives for Russia's actions. Although despite my first name, I have no Russian blood and do not favor Vladimir Putin's autocracy; however I think some exploration of the Russian side of things is in order. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-eland/continued-g-7-sanctions-a_b_7536236.html