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From the tail end of the column:

'We have a nuclear option that few talk about: throw Russian financial institutions out of the SWIFT system and watch them collapse."

1 posted on 08/28/2014 8:43:36 PM PDT by Tau Food
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To: Tau Food

They may just set up an alternative means to get their gold, oil, lumber, gas, minerals, etc. to those countries that need them.

Russia has nothing to fear from the West; their assets are closer to Asian markets anyway.


2 posted on 08/28/2014 9:07:28 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Tau Food

They are working on a workaround

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/27/russia-banks-swift-idUSL5N0QX33W20140827


3 posted on 08/28/2014 9:16:02 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Tau Food

Low oil prices are whoopin’ up on the Ruskies.


4 posted on 08/28/2014 10:04:38 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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