[marcusmaximus]

Cough up the dollars, Putin you deadbeat.

[Thunder90]

They shouldn’t accept the payment, even if made in dollars or gold.

[EEGator]

Keep pushing retards.

[rfp1234]

How the heck are Russians supposed to pay in non-rubles, when their USD reserves have been frozen seized?

[kiryandil]

Western nations have banded together to impose stringent sanctions on the country, including freezing stealing roughly half of its $640 billion in foreign reserves.

fixed it

[Karl Spooner]

The people who own the bonds are going to sue the government. Barnes thinks they can win if they don’t get crooked judges, and that’s a big IF.

[NorseViking]

Israel adds China’s yuan for the first time ever while cutting its dollar holdings in biggest currency reshuffle in a decade
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/israel-adds-chinas-yuan-first-133259326.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
U.S Treasure market is plagued with illiquidity
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-treasurys-market-continues-to-be-plagued-with-illiquidity-as-feds-rate-hike-cycle-begins-11648226371?siteid=yhoof2

Don’t you think it is connected and what are the long-term consequences?

[Thunder90]

Basically Russia should be forced to default, even if they appeared with 1,000x the debt payment in Dollars. Any money collected should go to help pay for higher energy costs, and to help Ukraine.

And the same thing should be done to China and ALL CSTO countries.

[DesertRhino]

The US Government illegally stole 650 billion from them. So you get Rubles sport....or nothing.
A default is a “so what”. It’s not like it’s going back to normal for decades no matter how this war turns out.