THW sanction Russia for their actions in Georgia

Government Speech

1. Principle




1. Sanctions




• What for?




• punishments to prevent future indiscretions and assert principles of sanctioned body


• political stability


• Russia backing down from its violent undiplomatic stance





• Achieve what?


• Standards for achievement?





2. Contextualize




• What happened in Russia?


• clearly against principles and threatened security of EU and neighbors


• tie back to principle




3. Parallels




• How EU treats others


• Security





4. Consistency with EU Principles




2. Practicality




• Russia's economic power has declined, market of West


• Russia can't afford to piss the EU


• Russia will back down, economic stability is still its number 1 priority


• EU can afford to lose Russia, parallel to other situations where sanctions have worked