Ron Paul Tells Russian Propaganda Network RT That Sanctions Are Acts of War

Ron Paul on Kremlin Propaganda Channel: Sanctions Are Acts of War (Washington Free Beacon)

Former U.S. Congressman and neo-isolationist Ron Paul told the Kremlin back propaganda outlet RT that economic sanctions are acts of “war” Monday in an interview with Sophie Shevardnadze.

Paul made a logically perplexing argument that because sanctions are used in the form of a blockade during a “shooting war,” sanctions should be construed as an act of war irrespective of whether two states are fighting one another.

“In principle, it’s not quite like a shooting war, but it is a war. I mean it is something that’s used in an active war, in the ultimate for blockade – but sanctions is the form of blockade,” he said.