The former Republican congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul has launched a scathing attack on what he calls a US-backed coup in Ukraine, insisting the Crimean people have the right to align their territory with Moscow and characterising sanctions against Russia as “an act of war”. “The evidence is pretty clear that the NGOs [non-governmental organisations] financed by our government have been agitating with billions of dollars, trying to get that government changed,” “Now we’re getting involved with the Europeans in trying to change the government of Ukraine,” he said. “It is based on a moral principle of theft. They want to target sanctions against 20 or 30 bad Russians who they claim have committed a crime against humanity, and therefore we’re going to freeze their assets and steal them from them.” theguardian/world/2014/mar/15/ron-paul-crimea-russia-sanctions-act-of-war?CMP=twt_gu
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:24:41 +0000
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