Comments on: More Sanctions from EU? http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/more-sanctions-from-eu/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:32:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: blog.neweurasia.net http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/more-sanctions-from-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-68 blog.neweurasia.net Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:06:20 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/?p=20#comment-68 <strong>Weekend Roundup</strong> First of all, check the preliminary neweurasia site. Ollie has now installed a new CMS for the site that will go online in November. Quite a lot of things remain to do. Quite a few things happening in the neweurasia blogosphere over the second half o... Weekend Roundup

First of all, check the preliminary neweurasia site. Ollie has now installed a new CMS for the site that will go online in November. Quite a lot of things remain to do.
Quite a few things happening in the neweurasia blogosphere over the second half o…

]]> By: Nathan Hamm http://www.neweurasia.net/politics-and-society/more-sanctions-from-eu/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Nathan Hamm Sat, 29 Oct 2005 03:42:39 +0000 http://uzbekistan.neweurasia.net/?p=20#comment-67 Well, to defend my country, I think we're being genuine in saying we aren't playing a new Great Game in the region. We want access and to be involved, but I've not seen a thing to suggest that we wish to do so at Russia's expense. (China might be a different story, but that's not strictly confined to CA.) I think that the long deliberations have to do with the debate as to whether or not the sanctions would do anything. They probably won't do much to make things better unless they managed to spark a coup. All things considered, I think some form of very limited sanctions should be in place to go along with denunciations. The latter shouldn't be sold short. Russia has foolishly let Karimov become its responsibility now. Making him into a total pariah on the level of Lukashenko will hurt Russia as well and perhaps get them a little more amenable to the idea of change. Well, to defend my country, I think we’re being genuine in saying we aren’t playing a new Great Game in the region. We want access and to be involved, but I’ve not seen a thing to suggest that we wish to do so at Russia’s expense. (China might be a different story, but that’s not strictly confined to CA.)

I think that the long deliberations have to do with the debate as to whether or not the sanctions would do anything. They probably won’t do much to make things better unless they managed to spark a coup. All things considered, I think some form of very limited sanctions should be in place to go along with denunciations. The latter shouldn’t be sold short. Russia has foolishly let Karimov become its responsibility now. Making him into a total pariah on the level of Lukashenko will hurt Russia as well and perhaps get them a little more amenable to the idea of change.

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