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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Now Armenia joins the Eurasian Economic Union


From left: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a signing ceremony during the Summit of Supreme Eurasian Economic Council on May 29 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

The U.S. Needs To Grow Up

  • Russia first began to form in 862 AD.  Their nation existed long before European colonists landed in North America.  But American politicians basically treat the Russians like trash that has no right to exist. Never mind that we Americans cannot even get our astronauts into space without Russian space ships. We should be allies with Russia against Islam and on other issues, but American politicians need an "enemy" to flog to distract voters from their domestic problems.
  • Now Russia has finalized the large Eurasian Economic Union free trade zone.  Like the EU, over time this new union will massively grow the economies of eastern Europe and Asia.


Russia and four other ex-Soviet nations on Tuesday completed the creation of a new economic alliance intended to bolster their integration, but the ambitious grouping immediately showed signs of fracture as the leader of Belarus sharply criticized Moscow.
The Eurasian Economic Union, which includes Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, comes to existence on Jan. 1. In addition to free trade, it's to coordinate the members' financial systems and regulate their industrial and agricultural policies along with labor markets and transportation networks.
Russia had tried to encourage Ukraine to join, but its former pro-Moscow president was ousted in February following months of protests. Russia then annexed Ukraine's Black Sea Crimean Peninsula, and a pro-Russia mutiny has engulfed eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the new union will have a combined economic output of $4.5 trillion and bring together 170 million people.
"The Eurasian integration is based on mutual benefit and taking into account mutual interests," he said after the talks reports the Associated Press.
But Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko cracked the ceremonial veneer of the meeting by launching a harsh attack on Moscow for damaging Belarus' economic interests with moves to restrict its exports to Russia.
Belarus, sandwiched between Russia and European Union members Poland and Lithuania, has profited handsomely from Moscow's ban on imports of EU food in retaliation to Western sanctions against Russia by boosting imports of food from the EU nations and reselling it to Russia.
The Russian authorities have retaliated by halting imports of Belarus' own milk and meat, citing alleged sanitary reasons, and banning transit of Belarusian food bound for Kazakhstan through its territory on suspicion that much of it ended up in Russia.
"In violation of all international norms, we have faced a ban on transit," Lukashenko said. "It was done in a unilateral way and without any consultations."

Eurasian Economic Union a huge wake-up call for US









Supreme Eurasian Economic Council summit.
(RIA Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin)

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