Posted on 07/16/2014 1:17:54 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
President Obama escalated sanctions against Russia on Wednesday by targeting a series of large banks and energy and defense firms in what officials described as the most punishing measures to date for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.
While the latest moves do not cut off entire sectors of the Russian economy, as threatened in the past, the administration’s actions go significantly further than the financial and travel limits imposed so far on several dozen individuals and their businesses. The new measures will severely restrict access to American debt markets for the targeted companies.
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Big fat hairy deal.
Like anyone thinks anything done by this single-celled specimin could influence a country that has a real leader.
Putin f*rts in your general direction, Obamadork.
Oops, misspelling again. I get so darned angry when referring to the most idiotic cretin in the multiverse that I perform a “libtard”.
That’s specimen, not specimin.
I guarantee you this: if Putin were on board with the queer agenda, barky would not be lifting a finger against him.
He may as well. Brasil, Russia, India and China have already been making deals to trade with their own currencies instead of the dollar.
Big frigging deal. Obama is afraid of Putin and with good reason. Putin is a pure power communist/thug; Obama is a pure power mini-marxist wimp.
I’ll take the thug over the wimp any day. Putin is teaching Obama how to be a good commie in the old style. Obama is telling Putin that he is a good commie in the Alinsky way.
Two watermelons trying to outdo each other.
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