Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the weekly report. Europe commits suicide

by sanctions. A Swiss billboard is making the rounds on social media depicting a young

woman on the telephone. The caption reads, does the neighbor heat the apartment to over

66 degrees? Please inform us. While the Swiss government has dismissed the poster as a fake,

the penalty Swiss citizens face for daring to warm their homes are very real. According

to the Swiss newspaper, Blick, those who violate the 66 degree heating limit could face as

many as three years in prison. Prison time for heating your home. In the free world, how

is it possible in 2022 when Switzerland and the rest of the political west have achieved

the greatest economic success in history that the European continental faces a winter

like something out of the dark ages? While long promoted, often by those opposed to war,

as a less destructive alternative to war, sanctions are in reality acts of war. And as we know,

with interventionism and war, the result is often unintended consequences and even blowback.

European sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year will likely

go down in history as a prime example of how sanctions can result in unintended consequences.

While seeking to punish Russia by cutting off gas and oil imports, European Union politicians

forgot that Europe is completely dependent on Russian energy supplies and that the only

people to suffer if those imports are shut down are the Europeans themselves. The Russians

simply pivoted to the South and eased and found plenty of new buyers in China, India and

elsewhere. In fact, Russia's state run gas-pron energy company has reported that its profits

have increased by 100 percent in the first half of this year.

Russia is getting rich while Europeans are facing a freezing winter in economic collapse,

all because of the false belief that sanctions are a cost-free way to force other countries

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