Time to mend fences with Russian Federation say European leaders.

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106. Well

I didn't say a word about ownership. I said they're all biased toward power. It really doesn't matter who owns it if it just sings the song of the powerful.

Merkel and Draghi forced two changes in nominally democratic countries. They overrode elected governments in Greece and Italy and forced a change in those governments to their liking. What is the difference between them and Putin?

The "lesson of Munich" is that you don't deal with aggressive dictators without an army at your back. Tut-tutting about appeasement sounds great until you reflect Britain didn't start rearming until immediately AFTER Munich. Would starting a war he had no chance of winning really have been the better move?

The main country making noise about the sanctions is the one that matters: Germany. The fact the linchpin itself is feeling the strain should cause a serious rethinking of this policy. Europe is circling the drain. Spain and Greece have over 20% unemployment. Italy is over 10% and France is about to join the club. As we saw earlier this year, the far right is the primary beneficiary of an economically depressed Europe. Does it make sense to lose an entire continent to unabashed racists just to prove a point?