by Scott Humor
On Monday April 16, a well-oiled machine of anti-Russian sanctions experienced a major hiccup. This day the US Treasury promised to announce new sanctions against Russia’s companies and persons, if the US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley to be believed. Why would the US Ambassador to the UN do such things as announcing the US Treasury’s plans is everyone’s guess, especially since this Monday, when it was still earlier morning in the US, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview to the BBC, during which he said the following words : “obsession with Russophobia which looks like, you know, genocide by sanctions.”
As far as I can tell no one in media paid attention to his words, concentrating, instead, on things that don’t matter, like Deripaska.
However, someone paid attention, because a few hours latter…
First it was National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow who suggested that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley was “confused” when she announced Sunday the Trump administration would unveil new sanctions against Russia. Then White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to Haley’s comments in a press briefing Monday, saying the administration is “considering additional sanctions on Russia” but has not made a final decision.
While the blaming game of who got confused issued, no one could say why administration’s plans to “strangle” Russia economically by means of a torrent of sanctions got muddled.
The key here was Lavrov’s remark on the nature of anti-Russian sanctions as being a genocide. This indicated a complete reversal of Russia’s government attitude to sanctions that for the last four years have been mostly positive as in “sanctions help Russia’s economy to develop.” These sanctions are not anything new for this century, since the US started sanctioning Russia in 2001 more than 70 announced and countless hidden sanctions were imposed on Russia’s industries, companies, capital, education, culture, science and people. Multiple misnamed sanctions against Russia include the STAND for Ukraine Act H.R. 5094 and The US Bill H.R. 1644 H.R. 1644, the Korea Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act.
After organized by the Western governments and treasonous Soviet leaders breaking the country apart and sale of one third of its territories and people into the Western slavery, the US government and institutions organized ten years of Liberal Terror also known as The Rape of Russia. As a result, Russia had 10 million excessive deaths, which comparable to the genocide by the Bolsheviks terror and the fascist European invasion of the Soviet Russia in 1941-1945.
From Russians’ perspective, the Western nations have never for a day stopped their wars against them. Maybe that’s why everyone ignored Lavrov’s new definition of the Western sanctions as genocide. Also, the matter wasn’t that the US Treasury sanctioned a few Jewish families who were placed by the “Russia liquidation team” to hold strategic economic assets and to transfer billions from Russia to British and American banks, while using these assets for creating socially explosive atmosphere inside the country. They had done it many times, once in Spring 2009, before the presidential elections by not paying to the workers in northern town of Pikalevo causing dramatic protests for weeks. The government ended up paying 63 million rubles in wage arrears to the workers.
Vladimir Putin, who was a Prime Minister at the time, had to personally interfere to make owners to pay debts to outraged workers in the town of Pikalevo, 246 kilometers east of St. Petersburg, with a population of 22,200. Early this year all three crucial industrial facilities were closed down in the town. As a result local people have thrice taken to the streets to demand the restoration of heat and water supplies at least to hospitals and child-care centers. Before Putin interfered, demonstrators blocked the Novaya Ladoga-Vologda federal highway.
“You have made thousands of people hostage of your incompetence, ambitions and, probably, greed. That is absolutely impermissible,” Putin told then to Oleg Deripaska, as well as local authorities. “Nobody will ever be able to persuade me that regional authorities have done everything in their powers to help the people.” See, Wage arrears arrive to protesting Pikalevo after Putin interferes. This was when the famous video of Putin forcing Deripaska to sign a new contract and saying “Give me my pen back” was taken and leaked.
Anyone with half a brain understands that the state can always take its “pen” back from placeholders like Deripaska and others “oligarchs.” It helps that population in general sees as unfair and unjust that these people grabbed and hold assets developed and built in the Soviet Union. So, it’s hardly unlikely that Lavrov referred as “genocidal” push to strip assets from Deripaska, the Rothenbergs, and the Vekselbergs. Since in the most sanctioned companies the other major shareholder is the state, and the sanctions are not allowing the foreigners to buy the sanctioned individuals out, the state will get their shares one way or another.
Russia’s government’s dramatic turn in its attitude to sanctions continued with Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions following a meeting of the SCO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Beijing, April 24, 2018.
“As far as the results of the foreign ministers’ meeting in Toronto are concerned, its anti-Russian underpinnings are clear. Regrettably, this anti-Russian and very slippery line has been followed even by those G7 countries which assure us that they do not share the attempts to isolate Russia.
We will uphold our positions and wait patiently for our partners to realize that these actions are an absolute dead end and lack any prospects.”
Again, Lavrov emphasizes that the US sanctions are genocidal, racist, that they are targeting Russian nation and that they will bring those who impose them to “an absolute dead end.”
The main reason could be the sanctions against Rosoboronexport, the sole state intermediary agency for Russia’s exports/imports of defense-related and dual use products, technologies and services, and Russia’s ability to protect itself and its allies.
Lavrov never exaggerates and always states plainly and clearly of what it is. If the US continues on the path of sanctions it will meet its absolute dead end, because at this point as April sanctions are concerned, the US Treasury moved into territory described in Russia’s new military doctrine as a threat to existence of the nation.
The panic that took place on April 16th indicates that Trump’s administration and someone inside the US government got the message.
Scott Humor
Director of Research and Development
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Thanks for the erudition, Scott.
The US understands this much: Russia can be poked fun of, but the Bear can’t be poked without consequence. A surprise slash of the huge clawed arm or a terrifying bite with penetrating teeth awaits the foolish.
This reality permeates the consciousness of the men in the Pentagon first. They are experiencing the Russian EW technologies and SAM efficiency, over and over.
The few rational Americans within the decision-making huddles know that Putin and his national security team will wage a devastating strike somewhere in the vastness of American Hegemonic presence.
Such a return on American aggressions will be impossible to explain to the American and Western publics other than the US poked the Bear and got ripped apart as warned by history, the Russian Generals and Putin.
It is coming.
Russia is not ready to confront the U.S. until Putin gets Russian economy to competitive level with the west. Thus the sanctions. What you write is wishful thinking.
Wishful thinking indeed. The truth is that China’s dynamics are creating an geopolitical alternative to West, which is showing all signs of civilizational exhaustion.
But Russia is quite irrelevant. Yes, it has nukes, it has hydrocarbons. But that’s not enough. While in 2013 Russia looked like revitalised country with ambitions, West’s offensive since then has put an end to it.
Russians,Persians,Chinese all very old,very experienced peoples/civilizations, I don’t think Anglo divide and conquer tactics are going to work on them.
A small hitch is not an “end”. Watching the developments still being enacted in Russia, there is no evidence I can see of any “end”. Russia is now the worlds leading exporter, not only of wheat, but of other agricultural. The trade with China has increased, the sale of ABM S-series has increased. Russia is set to be a major constructor in the new Syria, and to benefit from this. Germany is struggling to continue and expand trade with Russia, behind the back of the Sanctions monitors.
I suspect that it is you who has a case of “wishful thinking”.
If you read some history, you’ll find out that Russia ‘ended’ many times over in the last 1000 years.
While Russia has made great strides economically, she has yet reached a level that would allow it both militarily and politically to challenge the status quo. Russia should avoid at all cost any confrontation with NATO at this time. The main focus should be internal economy. Create a business environment that avoids bureaucracy and red tape, protect small business contractually, and promote entrepreneurship.
Today, China is untouchable due to her economic stature. Russia still has many steps to get to the same level. Once Russia develops its economy to where it produces goods the rest of the world wants to buy, then the military becomes less of a geo political tool.
Russian people are smart and can achieve this status with the right leadership. The current government has focused too much on geo politics and not enough on the economy. The new initiative is a welcome change. Hopefully, we will see the governing team change to younger and more motivated to carry out what has been announced.
Cheers
Crazyczar
Cazyczar, you are very wrong. If you believe NYT that US/Canadian economies are firing on all cylinders, than there is no point explaining why you are wrong.
“Create a business environment that avoids bureaucracy and red tape, protect small business contractually, and promote entrepreneurship.” This is typical NGO speech. As for China and her economic stature, perhaps you are forgetting that it is not China which took over the US production of everything, it is US business that outsorced everything to lower costs and keep local population in check. Plundering China stopped somewhere around 1949. and then at some point, it was all more or less given to China – factories at al. Good thing is that Chinese made something of it, good for people, with capital from teh west flowing in. A bit different story with Russia, you know.
Plundering Russia never stoped, since 1917. Even under Soviets, it was Russia who paid the bills of entire USSR and eastern block. people in Poland, Eastern Germany, Chezskoslovakia, even Hungary always lived better than Russians. So did Armenians and everybody from “stans”. And mother Russia was supporting dozens of other countries, in the name of cominnist’ broderhood and solidarity.
We can say that it is bad for a country if the President has to solve local issues, it should be left to enterprenuership. Well, it was that famous privete enterprenuership that caused the issues, by deliberately closung factories, to punish either people, or the president himself. Besides, check with people from US rustbelt how they feel about a president coming down and making enterprenuers re-open factories. If you don’t want to check, I can open your eyes – those deplorables recently elected a guy who vaguely promissed to do just that – bring the factories back.
I hope you are paid for writing comments like that. That at least somehow justifies the act. Otherwise, if you reaslly believe what you are talking, then, God Save America. Something is telling me it is too lat for that, though.
Bricklayer,
Please don’t get defensive. First, the discussion is about Russia, not the U.S. and Canada. Secondly, China created the environment that attracted foreign companies to set up shop and prosper there. Russia, on the other hand, in the late 90s and all of 2000s created an oligarchy that suffocated competition, created barriers to entry, and flat out embezzled and raidered medium and small businesses. Yes, under Putin, Russia is full of red tape.
I agree that Russia has been a victim of geo politics for hundreds of years. However, at some point she will need to pull up her britches and begin to move in the right direction economically. Putin squandered time By not moving with economic reforms in the 2000s. Instead of building a true economic team that understood the steps to move the economy in the right direction, he surrounded himself with a bunch of corrupt yes men. Had he dbegan doing what he presented this year earlier, Russia would be in a much stronger position and none of the mess Russia is in today would’ve happened – not Ukraine, not Syria, and maybe not Libya.
The bottom line is Russia has enormous natural and human resources, its time she began using them for the benefit of all of Russia, not select few cities and men. It’s time for Russians to make things that the rest of the world wants to buy, not just grain, raw materials, and military hardware. It’s time to build all of Russia. Only then can Russia defend the free world.
I am not an apologist for what America is doing. It will, in not so distant future, will have to atone for her sins. The world needs a strong and prosperous Russia not Russia that will be a victim of outside machinations. I hope that true reforms are on the way.
Cheers,
Crazyczar
Hear that, Putin? You could have done more! More! More!
But no. While you were in power, here’s what happened instead:
1999: GDP 195 bil. USD ————— 2013: 2,113 bil USD
1999: GDP/person: 1,320 USD —— 2013: 14,800 USD
1999: Inflation: 36,5% —————— 2013: 6,5%
1999: National Debt: 78% of GDP — 2013: 8% of GDP
1999: Pensions: 499 RUB ———— 2013: 10,000 RUB
1999: Income: 1,522 RUB ———— 2013: 29,940 RUB
Now these figures might be a bit optimistic. Still.
So now that the country is not hemorrhaging anymore, time to focus on the rest. And if my memory serves right, that’s exactly what Putin said he will do when addressing the nation on March 1 (look around 58:00 or so): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDGvrdqQZVY
Cheers
If Mother Russia is so ‘irrelevant’, then why the ever increasing sanctions accompanied by bloodcurdling screams of rage and frustration when the sanctions don’t work?
Auslander
“bloodcurdling screams of rage and frustration when the sanctions don’t work? ”
-The sanctions do work, why do you think Lavrov called them a genocide? And these new sanctions are very brutal, and they will likely never get removed if you look at USA history of sanctions once they are on, they are on. Russia is still under many sanctions from even soviet times.. And there is likely man more sanctions to come as Russia is more successful in Syria or the Ukrainian conflict heats up.
I live in the West, and when I look at our economy, our jobs, or just how the street I live in looks, I think the sanctions have hit ourselves.
Living here in the West too I have to agree,inflation is eating us alive and wages fail to even become even with that rise, not to mention the low wages to begin with, as you travel thru the country all you see are the rusting hulks of what use to be very productive plants which employed thousands,the once prosperous neighorhood surrounding these rusting hulks, now look like the slums of inner cities, and we won’t even go there with the thousands of homeless.No this country is little more than a showcase a false front while behind it the rot keeps seeping out,as a man once told me we have a champagne appetite on a beer income, and even that stretching the truth for we no longer even have a beer income…
How to explain it to you in delicate terms…
The United States Congress and US military have been heavily zionized. Does this sound patriotic to you?
Next, the US has been suffering the opioid epidemics, in addition, to a decrease in a lifespan of the white males. Next, the US nationals security has been outsourced; see the incredible Awan Affair and the open theft of the US intellectual property by Israelis (in addition to ziocons’ diktat of the US policies).
Next, the QE (the lavish lifesaver for banksters) has irreparably damaged the US financial system.
Next, the triumph of opportunists in the zionized US government and military also means the triumph of the incompetent and ignoramuses. The country is drowning in the hypocrisy and lies and incompetence.
In summary: Who is going to fight for the United State? — Israelis? No. They are good only at shooting unarmed populace (of all ages, including kids) on the Israel-occupied territories. And, of course, at MOSSADing.
The US and her numerous vassals have forfeited the international law (by supporting the black sites, torture, wars of aggression, financing the terrorists, developing bio and chemical WMD, protecting the US/UK war criminals like Blair, Cheney, Bush, Clintons and the warmongers like Kristol, Wolfowitz, and Kagans’ clan; ignoring habeas corpus, and so forth…)
Now tell me, for how long a society could function when the system of laws is weakened and the society is bankrupt both morally and financially?
The US/UK banksters want Russian, Chinese, and Iranian wealth. And the banksters would not hesitate to kill billions of people to get a nice gesheft. The US empire is holding on for now, but the cracks are everywhere. This is the real danger for the world.
I’m here, you’re not. No, they don’t work. We lack for nothing, most towns and cities are begging for workers, and, at least in our AO, constant infrastructure upgrade and modernization going on along with new houses, new flats buildings, new plants large and small and modernization of existing plants, private and State owned.
Auslander
Wrong. The West’s sanctions since 2013 has done quite the opposite of their intended purposes as you describe it. The Russian economy is becoming more diversified each year the sanctions are in place. Yes, they have hydrocarbons. They have nukes. But they also have a thriving military weapons industry. They are exporting wheat in record numbers. They are developing domestic agriculture and other industries to replace what they have lost through sanctions. A weak ruble and strong oil prices have strongly favoured their state budget, bringing it slowly into the black. Their foreign debts have been minimised, thanks to the sanctions. Their debt to gdp ratio is the envy of the world now – would that America and Europe had such numbers.
Meanwhile the Western countries are completely drowning in government and private debt, thus accounting for their past and present levels of living standards they are so fond of bragging about. However, that system is on the verge of imploding under the weight of such debt. Western infrastructure investment is at a low point and their people are seeing a vast transfer of wealth into the hands of international bankers and huge multinationals, and thus, their jobs and living standards are at serious risk in coming years. It is already happening as homelessness increases and automation takes over jobs. Young people in the West no longer have a viable future as it has been mortgaged off by prior generations.
It seems you are the one guilty of wishful thinking.
fake news,fake statistics,fake numbers,fake national accounting,fake currency,fake ideology,fake republic,fake ballots,FAKE DEMOCRACY,USA.
I agree, and add that Russian main problem is its own citizens, just look at the numbers how many of them works against own motherland. ( incl. army of traitors on exile )
You two are either embarrassingly naive or very ignorant about Russian history and the Russian’s iron will to survive. Ever heard about the 900 day siege of Leningrad by the Germans? Read here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2032706/BEYOND-HORROR-They-ate-cats-sawdust-wallpaper-paste–babies-Leningrads-agony-Nazis-tried-starve-submission-LENINGRAD-TRAGEDY-OF-A-CITY-UNDER-SIEGE-1941-44-BY-ANNA-REID.html
Can Americans survive a week without hamburgers and coke?
I agree with you in the sense that Russia is irrelevant as a new axis of the coming not so unipolar world order. Russia does not have what it takes to become a super power ever again and nuclear weapons and hydrocarbons alone does not make a country a super power. On contrary China has it. The basic factors of becoming a super power, or an axis for the new world order in the aftermath of the obvious decline of the current super power US are: 1- A global scale economy, 2- A global military power and projection 3-population and land mass. 4- Cultural projection. China has the potential for all of them and Russia simply does not. Also the belief that both China and Russia + some other countries like India together will be the new axis is in my belief just a fairy tale. China is alone in this game of world geopolitics. Russia is useful for both the Chinese project (SCO, OBOR) or for the challenging US ambitions as long as she plays along (which she does). We already start seeing the real power of Russia. Sanctions worked wonderfully to push back Russia and hurt her dearly. Russia has a quite tiny economy (thinking in global terms) and western sanctions so far worked quite efficiently to put Russia back in her seat. This can be observed plainly in the weak responses that emanates from Russia in each and every current major global event. Russia today wants to mend the bridges with the west desperately, in order to stop the punishment and to get some piece of cake within the coming new world order. Even offering and selling S400 missile system to traditional western satellites like Turkey and Saudi Arabia (India next) shows her state of weakness. Russia is not selling those weapons to neither Iran nor Syria which is quite telling. In short, I expect to see more or less a bi-polar world order for the future, which will be the Eastern hemisphere run by Chinese elites and the West run by the US elitist counterparts. Countries like Russia, France, England etc. will fall in between those two poles possibly as intermediate regional powers , getting involved in economic and military deals with both power centers but never becoming a global power thus a true global game changer.
Trust me any country that can wipe you off from the map of the world is a super power, and Russia has that capability,even the deluded neo-cons understands this and when this empire crashes and burns we will become like all the rest of the empires that ended up in the dust-bin of history,for you see once the financial system crashes we will loose our hold on the countries of the EU, and Russia will be there to pick up the pieces….
That’s a lot of nonsense you just wrote down there mate. Russia is neither irrelevant nor will she ever be cast into such a role.
If Russia was so irrelevant, why all those sanctions under false pretexts? Which continue to ramp up to this day somehow, against an apparently irrelevant country. Why this insane information war against Russia and Putin? There are more lies being told about Russia on a daily basis, than leave the lips of whores telling their clients they were the best they ever had. Why this hysteria surrounding Russia in every corner of the western world? Why has any meaningful global agreement in the past decade involved irrelevant Russia? Were the “relevant” countries just trying to be nice is it?
The war on Syria is a direct attack on “irrelevant” Russia. Syria is merely in the way. They tried to bring down Russia by laying pipes into Europe to cut Russia off from western energy markets, “animal Assad” got in the way of that, thus the war.
You are completely misreading the geopolitical situation. Russia is rising, not declining, which is the reason for all this hysteria. China on her own is nothing without Russia (and vice versa) as she would crumble under western pressure without Russia softening the blow. The US is one financial crisis away from crumbling to dust, the entire west is for that matter. And one is already around the corner, not a question of if, but when. Soon, very soon and when that happens it’s lights out for the hegemon and the last western empire.
The Americans themselves will be begging for these sanctions to be lifted in a not so distant future. What they are doing currently is trying to prevent all that from happening, pissing off everybody in the process. When they are on their knees, there will be noone left to pity them and instead a whole lot of smiling faces who can’t wait to sink their teeth into the carcass to get their pound of retribution.
My only fear is that WWIII could break out over this.
”But Russia is quite irrelevant. Yes, it has nukes, it has hydrocarbons. But that’s not enough. While in 2013 Russia looked like revitalised country with ambitions, West’s offensive since then has put an end to it.”
Sounds interesting in view of Putin’s March 1st speech and his landslide victory in Russia’s Presidential Elections. The West’s offensive brought about this spectacular revitalisation and the accompanying rising ambitions of Russia, at home and abroad.
Western doom and gloom hasbara is for lesser beings.
Russians fought and defeated the Germans in WW2 in spite of all the internal chaos occurring inside the country, what makes you think a few economic shortcomings will stop them today?And how competitive would the West’s economy be if all the fraud and ponzi schemes are removed from it?On the other hand Russia also has the support of China,Iran and other nations that wants to see the end of the American hegemony.I don’t think Larchmonter445 is the one engaging in wishful thinking.
“Russians fought and defeated the Germans in WW2 in spite of all the internal chaos occurring inside the country, what makes you think a few economic shortcomings will stop them today?”
-The sanctions are actually quite brutal as Lavrov statement underpin, they very serious. And they will only get worse.
@anon that insists sanctions works.
Look mate sanctions did little to nothing to the country internal economy that’s already self sufficient in most things. Russia have their own hydrocarbons, have their own foods, have their own inventions, inventors, and technology to relying on, finally have sufficient rare materials and minerals to continue their own R&D going. Sanctions only affected foreign sales and exchanges between country which is unnecessary if they have their own units of supplies to uses.
What’s the Russian people need from these foreign exchange ?
Why do you talk when you clearly know nothing? Do you think you are helping Russia by spreading lies about Russia?
The sanctions are catastrophic, not only do they ban US corporations to deal with Russian corporations, but they ban everyone else from making deals with Russia, even Chinese corporations will avoid Russian corporations if there is risk of sanction.. Russia is very weak economically, while she is a large country, with a medium large population, economically she is far behind where she should be. What is worse is that is depending on other countries, western countries for many things. Putin did not start with “import substitution” until after the sanctions started.. When in truth he should have been preparing from 2000s.
Russia does have her own hydrocarbons, but she does not have her own food, and no she does not have her own inventors and technology she uses much technology from the west both in military and also in hydrocarbons. Russia has a huge economic connection to the west, but these sanctions will also effect Russia dealing with the rest of the world.
“What’s the Russian people need from these foreign exchange ?”
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Look who’s spreading lies about Russia. No, the sanctions are not catastrophic, actually they are increasing the country’s sovereignty and strength. Unemployment is very low, as low as before the sanctions, the economy growing again after minor recession, extremely low debt and rising gold and currency reserves, massive trade surplus etc., looks quite healthy to me. But of course the high debts, unemployment, trade deficit, budget deficit and crumbling infrastructure in the US are a sign of “competitive level”?
Russia-US trade relations are negligible. Why should Russia want to do business with US corporations? The aim should be to not depend on the export market and on any product of the main geopolitical enemy. And which western products does Russia really need anyway? Starbucks, Coca-Cola, McDonalds? Apart from Navalny and his clown troop: You guessed it, nobody. Mercedes, BMW, nice cars, but Russia can build its own cars like it has its own software industry (Kaspersky, Yandex), smartphones (Yotaphone), medical equipment, nuclear industry, aviation industry etc. and so on.
In the 2000s there were other priorities, cf. the recently on this site published interview with F William Engdahl. If you knew a little about that period of time you wouldn’t bring up such accusations, but I suppose that you are just a provocateur anyway.
Russia has her own food, of course, as she is the biggest wheat exporter in the world and no, Russia does not have a huge economic connection with the West and surely doesn’t need western military technology.
To say that you are wrong seems like an understatement to me.
Yeah, I’m wondering the same thing.
OTOH, I see no evidence presented that the sanctions have been “brutal” or “genocide”. I’m also wondering if this is a crude attempt at propaganda by the Russians.
I have criticized Russia for being grossly deficient and/or incompetent at propaganda. A good propaganda would be an educational one, resulting in Westerners getting a firmer grasp of reality.
In the present context, would it not make more sense for Russia to educate the Western publics that many Western powers, aided by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel, effected ‘genocide’ in Syria? Or, would it not make sense to educate Western publics as to the “Rape of Russia”?
It seems to me that current Western sanctions are basically inconveniences to Russia, while recent crimes against her go unmentioned.
I don’t understand their thinking, at all. Maybe it’s being distorted by the impending World Cup, so they don’t want to appear unfriendly (unlike the West), but have decided to use cultural Marxism memes which have been internalized by the Western publics, perhaps to gain some sympathy by those same publics??
“grossly deficient and/or incompetent at propaganda” is, in my book, a positive trait: it means they are not good at lying and manipulating.
“A good propaganda would be an educational one, resulting in Westerners getting a firmer grasp of reality”:
And why don’t the West educate themselves? No one else is responsible for their education.
Since they are so comfortable in their crass ignorance, let them wallow in it to their heart’s content.
One could easily ask why the West doesn’t do a lot of things. Why don’t Westerners lost weight, eat less meat and fried food, and floss their teeth more?
Whether or not Westeners floss their teeth more will make no difference as to whether or not war breaks out between Russia and America.
The same cannot be said about the American public’s level of awareness of what Russia is doing in the Middle East. In a worse case scenario, such ignorance can lead to nuclear war.
That’s a rather high price to pay, a large chance to take, simply to self-righteously wallow in the attitude “And why don’t the West educate themselves? No one else is responsible for their education.”
Such a smug attitude will not prevail in Russia if it gets nuked by the US, cheered on by an ignorant American public.
“The sanctions are actually quite brutal as Lavrov statement underpin, they very serious. And they will only get worse.”
Economic sanctions and embargo are weapons of mass destruction if target country has not prepared to it with own counter operation and economic shelter. Only China and Russia can secure them, but not countries like Iraq, Syria and even Iran.
the coming war will be very short one,hence the economic considerations will not count.even better: at the sinking of the first USS Wall Street will loose 95% of its capitalisation & the greenbuck will convert to german mark of the 1920-1925.
Exactly, I said it before. My be I moved the date up by 10 years. Those were the days when the German people needed the famous “suitcase” to get their pay-cheque. American people, find it hard to comprehend the idea that similar thing can happen to them (us?).
Russia should avoid conflict until it can choose the battleground and the strategy.
Zhukhov could go to Stalingrad because Japan chose to attack Pearl Harbour
I hope I live to see the day (that is, I hope I am not collateral damage . . .)
Katherine
Wow, I just watched the BBC interview with Lavrov.
I am horrified at teh BBC. I didn’t realize they had gotten *that* bad.
I am amazed that Lavrov maintained his composure and parried the endless, disrespectful, snide, petty, hostile, underhanded, and also openly illogical snaps and bites by the lapdog “Stephen” very effectively.
Talk about “pariah.” To my mind, the Brits are becoming pariahs with May and Johnson at the head of the class.
As for this Stephen pipsqueak he deserves to be boiled slowly in a pot of Russian Bear Piss.
Katherine
I loved it when Lavrov said “for a Brit you are very rude”.
along with the withering look Sergei gave him it has to be the best thing I’ve seen on the
BBC in a long time.
Katherine … Stephen John Sackur of Hard Talk is a nasty piece of work and part of ‘The System’ vetted by MI5 since 1933. His job is to ‘roast’ opponents of le projet mondialiste. Like Sergueï Viktorovitch Lavrov, Gilad Atzmon gave a good account of himself on an earlier edition of Hard Talk, but with a different, less abrasive, interviewer. The Russian foreign minister of Armenian descent has done us all proud. Relayed by Russian Insight and the former Israeli jazz musician, his interview has gone viral. (Cf. links below). I would not even compare the BBC to a nest of cockroaches who have a long and distinguished family history, with an elaborate social structure involving common shelter, social dependence, information transfer and kin recognition. and are an ancient group, dating back at least as far as the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago. No, in my book, Stephen John Sackur and his like are carrion. And I wouldn’t waste the time and energy required to boil them slowly in a pot of Russian Bear Piss.
MI5 vetted thousands of BBC staff to keep ‘evil’ and ‘subversive’ lefties out Published time: 23 Apr, 2018 09:26Edited time: 24 Apr, 2018 07:48
https://www.rt.com/uk/424849-mi5-bbc-vetting-files/
Corbyn accuses the BBC of “fake news” https://youtu.be/7ttA5ShrlWc. Published on Feb 9, 2017 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn went on a BBC show to discuss last night’s #Brexit vote and accused the corporation of reporting “fake news” on his alleged stepdown as lead RT UK.
“We must wonder, how is it possible that the West is led by a bunch of democratically elected imbeciles yet, Russia is led by prime intellects such as Lavrov and Putin. Is it a coincidence ? Or may be there is a reason behind this strange phenomenon …”.
Easy Talk with Lavrov April 25, 2018 / Gilad Atzmon http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2018/4/25/easy-talk-with-lavrov.
EXCLUSIVE, FULL & UNEDITED Interview Of Lavrov To BBC https://youtu.be/EFhORWVFBUw Published on Apr 16, 2018 Credit to Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVo… The footage is made by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not BBC. Russian Minister Of Foreign Affairs Gave An Interview To BBC host Stephen Sackur.https://www.youtube.com/c/RussiaInsig… ; Russia Insight
16.04.1822:30 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with BBC HardTalk 720-16-04-2018
http://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3172318?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=en_GB
16.04.1822:30 Interview du Ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov
pour l’émission “Hard talk” sur la chaîne BBC, Moscou, 16 avril 2018 720-16-04-2018
http://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3172318?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=fr_FR.
“As for this Stephen pipsqueak he deserves to be boiled slowly in a pot of Russian Bear Piss.
Katherine”
That’s my girl. Couldn’t have come up with something remotely as good in one sentence myself.
And no. I am not going to depict the scenario however tempting that would be (moderator would have a hard time considering deleting the post )..
I did do something similar on another forum once (depiction in a bathtub of a character in Kiev during the Donbas fighting, and was banned for life. (Still am, or maybe twenty out out several thousands ISP’s are.)
I have refrained from publishing VERY graphic commentary depictions on this forum out of respect for the rules, and in my opinion the very “sensitive” old school academic commentators here whereof many IMO seem to not have much actual contact/experience with the REAL world, REAL people etc. etc.
Regards
Kent
It might be a little bit more accurate to describe, at the end of the day, the US actions more as “suicide by sanctions” than anything else.
The West never payes attention to anything it doesn’t want to, outside of it’s own projected wishful thinking.
President Putin said, from an experience that taught him a great deal as a child “you should never corner anything or anyone” The assumption is, that he learned he should not corner a country. Probably very true, although I suspect “cornering’ is not in his make up.
What I’m sure he also learned was what to do if someone corners you.
If Russia truly does believe that American is trying to destroy Russia by sanctions rather than the missiles which Russia has rendered obsolete, and Russia starts believing she is in the process of being “cornered”, maybe America and vassals should go read Putin’s account of his experience and try to learn something.
Couple that with “never again will Russia fight to defend herself on her own soil” and “if a strike is inevitable” etc:, then should Russia come to the conclusion that the only way to save her life is to hit first, fast and hard, America could be in for a nasty surprise.
I doubt Russia would do anything unless she truly felt her back was to the wall, and she had no other choice. The problem is, what is it going to take to make Russia feel that that moment has arrived?. Because I’m not so sure she will wait for the America to launch the first missile to realise that her life as a nation is under lethal threat. Not at all.
“The problem is, what is it going to take to make Russia feel that that moment has arrived?” – see what I see, you are on the same opinion as Uncle Bob 1. That’s good, in fact we are in the same boat, with some different nuances. When a spade is a spade, you have to deal with that. Maybe the days of patience will have an abrupt end and we shall witness another kind of Russia in the near future.
Actually ioan, I’m very happy with the kind of Russia we see now. I would not have it any other way.
My point is, that Russia is subtle [if I had to pick one word to describe her and the people, it would be that one]. She is also complex, and apprehends complexity. She knows that the response you give today, which depends on all the complexities of today, and where tomorrow might be, is appropriate for today – but maybe you’ll need a different response day after tomorrow, because the contributing factors have now changed.
I, too, do get frustrated sometimes with the “slowly slowly catchee monkee” immense self discipline of Vladimir Vladimirovic, and his trusty lieutenants – but I know in my logical mind, away from my emotions, that his is a long term strategy, taking many factors into account, including vast amounts of Intel we have no access to.
So — I bit my tongue.
I am certainly not about to go slinging crap on him with no good reason.
But I do believe that there is a point at which Russia will decide – “Now”. – and the world – certainly the American one – wont know what the hell has hit it.
The sanctions are an act of naked aggression against Russia, pure and simple. It is my understanding that based on international and UN ‘law’, they are illegal, and in my opinion they are a defacto declaration of war on Russia. Russia knows this and Russia is doing her damnedest to avoid war. However, there is only so far one can push The Bear. USA has apparently not quite crossed that thin line….yet.
The sanctions themselves are a blatantly obvious ploy to goad the Russian populace to turn against President Putin and demand his removal, thus turning the clock back to the happy times of the early ’90’s and allowing US to continue to loot Russia of everything including the very ground we walk on. Ain’t gonna happen. However, the sanctions do create some inconvenience to segments of the Russian populace. That being said, the populace are quite resourceful and always find a way to make do with what they have and the Russian People will always unite against an external threat and resist to the max.
Case in point. We had to go to Moskau in early ’16 to address some bureaucratic problems. VCO is terrified of flying so by train we went, catching the Moskau Express in a city across the straights on the mainland. Some of what was needed to accomplish can be time consuming and can quite possibly get caught up in the Byzantine labyrinth of Russian Bureaucracy, taking weeks to address and rectify. However, the moment my and VCO’s propeeska of Sevastopol was seen in every office, both State and business, we had to visit, everything was swept aside, sometimes extensive conversations of ‘what happened’ took place, she and I got a pat on the head and a ‘damned well done’, and whatever she and I needed was produced on the spot….with big smiles, and often a sincere ‘welcome home’. And the clowns in The West think they can sanction Russia and the Russian People in to subservience? To coin a phrase, NIYWFD.
As a somewhat charming aside, seems one Anthony Thomas, rumored to be a four star in the US special operations command in Syria, IOW a war criminal of the first magnitude, has complained that the electronic environment in and around the area of his troop’s illegal actions in Syria of assisting the head choppers to destroy the Sovereign State of Syria has become increasingly difficult of late with for instance the electronic targeting and location systems on his AC130 gunships and other air assets being to all intents and purposes negated in their quest for on target locations and aiming. So, what we have is a war criminal acting on illegal orders from Five Points and commanding his equally participant war criminals on the ground and in the air to commit more war crimes daily and some being increasingly unable to accomplish their criminal activities. It’s akin to bank robbers complaining about the money in the banks being under lock a key. I just hope I live long enough to see the lot of them walking in chains and under guard in a Victory Day Parade in Damascus, Moskau and Sevastopol.
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Sevastopol, The Third Defense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4 Book 1, A Premonition, The Move South
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A Deep Look In To Russia, Her Culture And Her Armed Forces
Sebastopol back in Russia is merely one Russian repairing the damage done by another Russian. It is not bad, but someone who fell asleep in 1954 and woke up today would say: nothing happened. What is needed is progress; slow and steady progress.
‘merely one Russian repairing the damage done by another Russian‘
Crimea was given to Ukraine by Khrushchev. He was a Soviet leader not a Russian leader. He was Ukrainian not Russian.
Actually, the fate of Deripaska matters quite a lot. He is an Atlanticist collaborator with the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Crime Family and via Glencore, has dumped untold billions of stolen Russian wealth into Western (Rothschild) banks.
If you believe what John Helmer has to say, Putin is about to “retire Deripaska from command of anything of state importance.”
Unalloyed Reform — Six-Point Plan for Russian Aluminum to Prper, Without Oleg Deripaska
There are many Russian reasons why no Russian, man or woman, has trusted Oleg Deripaska (lead picture, on the wall), control shareholder and chief executive of the state aluminium monopoly Rusal (Russian Aluminium), for more than a few months at a time. The reasons have varied from business to business, contract to contract, individual to individual. But now that the US Treasury has put Deripaska and Rusal out of business, one week before the Russian General Staff demonstrated that it can put the air forces of the US out of the attack business, the plan for the future of Rusal is simple.
There are six points under discussion in the Kremlin. President Vladimir Putin must decide and announce his running orders; appoint a Russian military officer with at least one tour under fire in Syria to implement the orders; and retire Deripaska from command of anything of state importance.
http://johnhelmer.net/unalloyed-reform-six-point-plan-for-russian-aluminium-to-prosper-without-oleg-deripaska/
Scott wrote:
Why would the US Ambassador to the UN (Nimratta Haley) do such things as announcing the US Treasury’s plans…?
Answer:
Because Nimratta Haley belongs to Sheldon Adelson, who has sponsered her entire political career, and who purchased her seat at the United Nations representing the United States on behalf of the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Crime Family, a group which also controls the Treasury, Justice Department and FBI.
That’s quite a lineup if you are attempting to control the United States, and of course they also control almost all mainstream media.
Larry Kudlow, unlike Haley, is a media representitive of the US-centric Rockeffeller-Kochs, and stands behind Donald Trump, who himself sits astride Pentagon Generals Mattis and Kelly, and who are all together deeply troubled by the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Crime Family’s plan to destroy the US dollar and replace it with a Chinese Yuan global fiat, because in doing so they will destroy the ability of the US government to spend over 1 trillion dollars annually on defense.
This is why Kudlow suggested Haley was “confused,” because they are on opposite sides of the war for control of the destiny of the world.
In order to destroy the US dollar the UK-Rothschild Cabal needs the US and Russia to go to war with each other, and they don’t care who wins or how many people die. Such a war will most likely put the nail into the coffin of the United States as a country, which some seem to believe will be good, but will also result in the victory of the UK-Rothschilds ‘Octopus’ in their project for an oligarch controlled unipolar Zionist New World Order.
When the documentary above was filmed by the BBC, including the sequence where Putin tells Deripaska to give him back his pen, Tony Blair was literally Putin’s most vocal supporter in the West. It begins with the words “Vladimir Putin strode into town…” and makes the Russian President look downright heroic, as was intended by the British producers in what was an entirely staged event.
Did Vladimir Putin become the character he only represented as an actor-politician back in 2000? Or was he always working on behalf of Russia and personally conducted the most effective infiltration and takeover of a large country in human history?
Or is it still possible Putin, as with perhaps Lavrov in his interview on the BBC, remains an actor and continues to do the bidding of a unified globalist oligarchy which pretends to be at war with itself when in fact all of the important players are following a script?
Russia has now theoretically formed an alliance with the US-centric Rockefeller-Kochs, including their supporters in the Pentagon and top leaders of the CIA, based on perceived common interests with respect to national sovereignty, and to avoid detroying the world, and in which both Russia and the White House fight the Rothschild Zionist Hordes attempting to start World War III and thus bringing to fruition the long promised End of Days scenario.
On May 7th Putin will announce his new government and if what I have read is correct, Russo-Atlanticist Zionist collaborators with the UK-Rothchild ‘Octopus’ are about to have their arses kicked out of the Russian government, including, it is my sincere hope, Dmitry Peskov, who will be removed from his current position presiding over English language and supposedly pro Russian alt-media, in what he himself has described as a “brainwash system” in an interview with Sophie Shevrednadze on RT. Google it. If and when this occurrs, it is again my sincere hope, this site will stop innundating readers with UK-Rothschild and Russo-Atlanticist propaganda for how the world of tomorrow will be.
yes ,’evil’ putin realised ,long long ago that russia has to confront the ‘west’ cause the ‘west’ just won’t let russia sit at the table like an equal ever., wanna hear a war cry, how about this one,”what is the world without Russia”.there you have it ….the fight is on..in various dimension…the geolocation is from ukrine to Syria…stock up on pop corn cause it looks like curtains for the ‘west’s follies.
Absolutely, mr. Allmighty. But what if Trump and Putin come to the conclusion that it´s better to get rid of good olde Albion? Not a bad idea. Nukes raining from both sides. Well, they don´t even need nukes for that. Try to imagine that, Trump and Putin, brothers in arms.
What´s happening for this site?
Maybe Where-Wolf is trying to spread disinfo along the lines of Chruchill’s quote; “Our lies are so precious, we accompany them with a bodyguard of truth.” [i.e. translated from British Empire Newspeak]
(as for Where-Wolf’s comment about actors; Trotsky, Churchill, Hitler, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, and so forth, yes)
(Churchill fan) Trump has proven himself to be a complete fraud by now.
Maybe, maybe. But there´s something in this story: https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201804261063925115-trump-jcpoa-oil-prices-opec/
I believe this version of yours is more accurate and more logical compared to the myth that Putin is the Savior of humanity or China and Russia will together change the world kind hype. The fact of the matter is that Russia has deep economic interests with the west and will never (can never) quit this relationship. And why should she? As I stated before Russia has a tiny economy thinking in global terms and really struggles to meet both ends economically. That is why the sanctions were disastrous for Russia though highly effective on the part of the west. Putin has always been close to the Rockefeller clan (so was USSR). Kissinger’s periodic meetings with Putin explains all IMO. Russia needs to survive and not be partitioned, thus Russia has to play the game. Rothschild clan wants to partition Russia, whereas Rockefeller seems OK with the current Russian map as long as Russia collaborates (geopolitically playing along in tune and economically like opening Russian gas-oil fields to Rockefeller interests etc.). This also explains why Russia is never getting close to Iran, Syria and some other states which are labeled as a firm enemy by the west. Russia has also extremely good and productive relationship with the State of Israel (read: http://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/04/25/the-resumption-of-russian-israeli-free-trade-talks-proves-ties-are-fantastic/). Russia also deals with China but I don’t know how long this will last, as Rothschild seems to be getting more cozy with Chinese elites. Will see. Interesting times indeed.
“If you believe what John Helmer has to say, Putin is about to “retire Deripaska from command of anything of state importance.”
I might “believe” John Helmer if he can tell us where he got his information.
I wasn’t aware that he sat in on the Security Council and other meetings with President Putin, to learn what VP is about to do!!
Do you know how he knows this?
Russian Federation President Putin delivered his message to the whole nation when he forced a dissenting oligarch to sign a legal agreement to save a town from the deadly Oligarch starvation tactics holding every one hostage. A unifying force of action denied US President Donald Trump, who is an oligarch himself, even though a mutinous one.
The FUKUS are not governments you should trust with your life, your loved ones, your livelihood or your freedoms. They are the face of evil, disguised as democracies.
The whole confusion among western elite is based on misunderstanding that complex picture of nominal GDP based wrong conclusions of “weak Russia” and the fact that Russians with only “$60 billion ” military budget. The picture is very ridiculous: at the same time ridiculing Russia, at the same time horrified. But why?
First. Don’t make mistakes of that foolish nominal GDP figure. Russians are producing Russian material, things and service using rubles not dollars. Even simple check of IMF of GDP-nominal and GDP-PPP can open some facts. GDP of Russia (2017) 1,527,469, 000,000 .GDP-PPP of Russia (2017) 4,000,096,000,000. The rate in 2017 was still 1:2.62.
Then there are quite complex issues of dollar and real economy. In fact most of western nations (with Germany some of very few exceptions) don’t produce much real economy things. Russia does produce more. If taking construction, industry, mining and agriculture and service supporting them – the real economy strongholds – Russia has now bigger real economy than even Germany. And much much bigger than France and Britain. The history of Germany and Japan do give respect to their craftsman industry ability. They are very good on it. However both countries are lacking things and will never become any kind of real big power (WW2 proved it clearly) . Only USA, China and Russia have these tools for that status.
I recommend using the factor of at least 3 when estimating anything about Russian real economy. That’s the number i use when estimating Russian military budget. Russian military capacity is even much more stronger because as we all should know they have focused at least 2 last decades mostly future of warfare not some outdated ideas of WW2 and Cold War. Russian military strategies are very very far from those of stagnated Soviet era. It’s much more flexible, faster, streamlined and innovative from space to land surface. Men in Pentagon (i think so) are not so stupid as they are playing. They do understand it. Politicians might believe in those jokes of “weak Russia” but not men in heart of Empire.
“Western countries have found a way to bypass the Russian veto right in the UN Security Council.
The British newspaper The Guardian notes that Russia has already used the right of veto 11 times to stop Western actions against Syria. In this regard, the West intends to use the UNGA resolution of 1950, which allows the transfer of the issue from the Security Council to the General Assembly.”
And what happens then…for example Russia moved away from the” irrelevant” G8…from Russophobic PACE too…could G20 make it plain Russia is not wanted.. how about membership of IMF…could it come down to a big showdown at UNSC and general assembly?
Russia promises “harsh answer” to US sanctions
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/russia-promises-harsh-answer-to-us-sanctions
Russia 1 – Live
Urgently:. Russia prepares the answer to new sanctions of the USA – Video
You can change the languahe of the subtitles from Russian to English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkrpyzTW3F4
Corraction: language
“Russian leadership are not a bunch of fools, nor will they back down. After last night, they know for certain the U.S. empire is determined to castrate them globally at all costs in order to impede an inevitable emergence of a multi-polar world.
I don’t think Russia or Iran will respond with a shock and awe attack any time soon, nor will this likely spiral out of control in the near-term. It’s more likely we’ll see this all play out over the course of the next 5 years or so.
I also don’t expect this to go nuclear, but I think the chances the U.S. experiences an imperial collapse similar to that of the USSR (or like any historically unmanageable and corrupt empire) has become increasingly likely. My view at this point is the U.S. and its global power position will be so dramatically altered in the years ahead, it’ll be almost unrecognizable by 2025, as a result of both economic decline and major geopolitical mistakes. This will cause the public to justifiably lose faith in all leadership and institutions.
The more I reflect on what’s going on, the more I’m convinced the U.S. is trying to goad Russia into a response with these provocations. I think the Russians know this, which is precisely why they’re responding with cool heads to a blatantly illegal and unconstitutional strike likely based on a fake narrative. “https://russia-insider.com/en/russia-and-china-have-had-enough-road-2025-part-2/ri23252
Scott, yet another excellent comment. Picture portraying Prince “Rus” over the Khazar grave is so telling. Anyway, I agree with what Lavrov said. Contrary to what someone said, this is not “Crude Russian Propaganda”. Lavrov is stating the fact. All those sanctions have one intent: “strangling the perceived opponent”. This strangulation is none other but intended genocide. USofA is taking advantage of its gained financial position, which happened during and after ~1949. Unfortunately for the USofA, those are frantic attempts at preserving this position, even though it disappears daily.
Interestingly enough, US idiot at UN just parroted what her deep state bosses shoved under her A$$, while the tables were turned on them thanks to the Trumps missile attack on Syria. Why, you ask. Simply because the results were devastating for the Hegemon. As it turns out only 22 of them actually were allowed to explode over useless targets. Suddenly, Hegemon realized it hast no power but to hysterically scream and wave it’s arms.
So, Lavrov is now warning them: stop genociding people or you will find your real end and they get the message.
BTW, whatever someone said about Russians, I suggest reading it correctly: “those are the double or triple citizens” you are talking about, and there are many of them in most Western countries.
Well, I am not sure one should attach that much importance to the comment by Lavrov about sanctions leading to a “dead end” (unless the epxression he used in Russian has more ominous tones). In English, this just means something that leads nowhere, that offers no prospects of any progress in relations, but that we all know very well.
Last summer he was quoted as referring to the US strategy in Afthanistan as a “dead end”:
https://www.rt.com/news/400756-us-afghanistan-dead-end-lavrov/
Earler this year he was also quoted as saying: “I am convinced that the dead-end in the Palestinian-Israeli settlement process, in moving towards creating a Palestinian state, has a part to play in radicalisation of the “Arab street””
https://twitter.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/953256506044149760
The phrase also appeared in comments about the closure of the Russian consulate in San Francisco last September.
It all depends what words he used in Russian, but in English a “dead end” doesn’t necessarily imply a tragic end. Just indefinite lack of progress for as long as the US attitude remains what it is.
In 2008 Western banks like HSBC survived because of cash deposits from Narco Barons in Colombia and Mexico in their Florida operations. The London-NYC Financial World like the Debt empire of Donald Trump would have imploded without the Capital Outflows from Russia under Yeltsin and from China.
The Western Debt Model was sustained by Russian (Jewish) Mafia Money and Chinese funds laundered through Macau. Capital Outflow may have been reinvested in Russia (through Cyprus etc) as “foreign money” after going through Laundromat over London.
The truth is inflated values for Pseudo-Businesses like Facebook depend on laundering money from Kleptocrats and Oligarchs to inflate their collateral supporting loans
The truth is that Russia is getting owned by the sanctions and lost many billions of dollars just after the last sanction salvo. One of the biggest russian companies Rusal was destroyed by America, in a warning shot.
This is why Russia is crying about sanctions “genocide” now. Because it is getting owned.
And what happened to Rusal can happen to many other russian companies. If Russia does not concede, more will follow. The latest issue with Haley its simply a preparation for negotiations and a warning to Russia that there is more to follow if negotiations fail.
Russia is projected to have 1,5 annual gdp growth for the next 5 years, one of the lowest in the world, compared to 2 for the EU and 2,5 for the US and 3,5 for the world. In other words, with every year Russia is getting weaker compared to the EU and the US and its share of the world economy is dropping fast.
Putin failed massively because he did not detach the russian economy from the western economies and did not plan for such sanctions. The economy was reliant on oil and gas for too long, without anything done to diversify it until he was forced by the sanctions. Even now, he is begging for a meeting with Trump. And is waiving the white flag.
Putin Reportedly “Ready For Deep Concessions”, Seeks Deal With Trump
He understands Russia can’t compete with the West economically and he doesn’t plan to go to war with the West.
Kremlin has ordered officials to curb their anti-U.S. rhetoric.
Putin’s decision explains why lawmakers Monday suddenly pulled a draft law that would’ve imposed sweeping counter-sanctions on U.S. companies, two of the people said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-18/putin-reportedly-ready-deep-concessions-seeks-deal-trump
Followed by:
Russian Senators to soften sanctions
RBC: Russian senators to water down Moscow’s response to US sanctions. Two Federation Council members told the newspaper that the final version of the amendments to the ‘anti-sanctions’ bill initiated by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and leaders of all parliamentary factions, will be “quite mild.”
More:
http://tass.com/pressreview/1001647
Passer by
Bloomberg’s “according to four people familiar with the matter.” That’s a source we should trust unconditionally.
Lolz!
Russia interested in meeting between Putin, Trump — senior diplomat
Moscow will work hard so that the US administration comes to the same conclusion, Sergei Ryabkov said
http://tass.com/politics/997761
Keep begging.
Passer by:
Your linked report is just over 3 weeks old, IOW most anyone here knows of it.
Keep begging.
Russia purchased 300,000 ounces of gold in March 2018 alone. They now have more gold reserves than China (going on official figures). Virtually no debt to speak of, massive agricultural and natural resources and the advantage in strategic weapons.
The US is a basket-case economy. Crippled by debts, reliant on threatening people and its dollar hegemony. The Empire is collapsing – it’s just a matter of time.
Russia is trying to avoid the obvious provocations from the US as these are the thrashings of a dying Empire.
Quote from the Zerohedge article: “We noted earlier that a Foreign Ministry official told Bloomberg that a US official had notified the Russian embassy that no sanctions would be forthcoming, contradicting Haley’s comments from Sunday but affirming a Washington Post report the following day.”
So? Russias response is balanced, as always. You know why? Because all they have to do is to wait and see.
The US was 220 trillion dollars in debt last time I attended a Mitch Feierstein talk (author of “Planet Ponzi”). That debt must even bigger by now. So which country is in trouble?
Thank you for the article Scott.
I nod to the usual suspects, Aus, Larch, and Where-.
I find the ongoing elaborations of ‘The Octopus‘ very interesting http://thesaker.is/on-sanctions/#comment-516369
I see a simplified version of the argument in tracing the activities and behaviours in perfect alignment to psychotic sociopathic directives to ‘negatively sum gain gaming‘ of the planetary system as clearly described in the Talmud.
The more concentrated the power/control at the top is, the easier it is for the infection to exert adequate suasion on the control lattice.
I am of course, deeply concerned that VVP could be under the control of one of the primary power/control factions, since most, if not all, have been infected by the empathy-destroying hatred-obsessed ideology of the Torah-Pharisees-Talmudian collective.
Why?
Specifically, why has it spread so badly, like an infection which could destroy the entire biosphere?
The negatively sum gain gaming‘ of the system is reifying.
In other words, it is so successful, that it must be emulated to compete with, otherwise, it will always undermine the competition, which is in fact, what it is designed to do, game noble values/traits like human compassion, and ultimately, the natural human trait of empathy.
That is why it needs to be completely and utterly stamped out.
Unfortunately, there must be intolerance, but only for intolerance, this is the critical paradox upon which the evil rests!
If VVP is NOT infected, I am hoping that he realizes this.
Thanks for all the chuckles.
note to all: please read Douglas Reed’s The Controversy…, everybody needs to be equipped to deal with this, the biosphere’s greatest threat
guys, Look at Cuba. A small country that has been sanctioned by the Mighty USA for what? 60-70 years?
The shame of it!
and what are the results? A wonderful country, prestene beaches, healthy coral reef, exporting doctors to the world and creating one of the fairest societies on our planet.
Sanctions on Russia are an immoral cowardly attack on a people whose only crime is patriotism and a fierce desire to be free. It is more a sign of weakness of the Hegemon . They know they lost the military game after their recent disaster in Syria…sanctions is all they have left.
I love my country. It saddens me to see her behave in such a manner
Sanctions, interrupted gas pipelines and threats of war are the menu items for each “daily bread” served toward Russia.
Today, more threats from their dear brotherly neighbors, the Ukies.
If Ukraine is shut out of the gas going to Europe, well, they’ll wage war against Russia.
And they have a stout military, eighth greatest according to Porky, Field Marshall and War Criminal killer of children and women, citizens of his own country.
The global economic war is energy and investment constriction. Choke energy revenues and scare away foreign direct investment.
It’s as real as tomahawks and drone attacks.
The Hegemon won’t let up, ever. It’s the nature of the beast.
No Detente. Not even a bowed head and kneeling to Washington will stop the Hegemon.
This is for Domination, Victory.
Read Putin’s words of warnings about the need for Russia students and scientists to invent the weapons and means to be first and best. AI, digital economy, big data, nano and Space sciences are the fields of battle. But only the first and the best will hold their sovereignty.
Syria is part of it.
So are gas, markets, revenues.
So are all the financial sanctions that keep foreigners from investing in Russian development.
And so is the never-Trump movement. He was not supposed to win.
It was shocking to see the sudden turn of the “news media” after the election in November 2016. It was like a light switch had been flipped. All at once, the Russians had stolen the election from Hillary. (and nothing at all to do with the fact that Hillary had run possibly the lamest political campaign in the last ten thousand years)
So they combined the “they voted rong” attempt to reverse the election, with the “Russians are coming” warmed-over cold war rhetoric. I could hardly beleive that otherwise-intelligent people, or so I thought, actually bought the propaganda line, which made less than no sense at all.