Posted on 02/25/2022 2:19:42 PM PST by NoLibZone
With no appetite for military confrontation, the U.S. and its allies are relying on sweeping economic sanctions to persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull out of Ukraine.
But the effectiveness of those measures are anything but certain, relying on a host of factors that includes how much China is willing to come to Moscow’s aid.
Placing a stranglehold on Russia’s $1.5-trillion economy will not be easy, especially since it began trying to buffer itself from international sanctions after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
Russia has sidelined growth to pare down its debt and built up its reserves of foreign currency and gold — so much so that it reached record levels this year at over $640 billion.
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Traitors!
Pukin is laughing at the sanctions.
Because like him or not, Putin is a genius.
I couldn’t find the line that praised them, where is it?
I couldn’t find the line that praised them, where is it?
I couldn’t find the line that praised them, where is it?
wow i don’t know how that triple posted
Didn’t Obama basically innoculate Russia against sanctions?
He tried to cut them off from Swift and from international credit, only for it to spectacularly backfire? Because of the lack of Russia debt or something?
Sorry, not remembering the details very well. But this isn’t the 1st time Russia has had to think about this.
That’s what Trump was warning, not praising, about.
Putin was a high ranking member of KGB. That means he is not stupid.
He's not a genius, despite George Bush and John McCain having looked into his soul.
For example, I wonder how he's going to extricate Russia from this present war, without getting bogged down
But unlike the woke, deep-state clowns in Washington DC, he is a Realist, a Nationalist and NOT an ideologue. He doesn't believe in woke-leftist fantasies and then ignore, and lie about, the obvious contradictions that occur when reality doesn't match fantasy-ideology.
He is a genius but very few Americans get it.
I can tell you exactly what he is doing. All you have to do is listen to him.
Would you like to know? See my posting history.
And you were almost there, btw. He is exposing hypocrisy. Especially ours.
Praise or no, Putin did prepare for sanctions, and that’s no surprise.
Russia has also spent 21 years MODERNIZING its military, while our priority was integration of Drag Queens, and we may well get a taste of what he has, the way things are going.
If we don’t clean house of our current batch of traitorous clowns running our military, Putin might decide now is the time to take US down a peg! I know there are still many good men in the military, but the ones at the top seem woke and crazy. What can be done?
When do sanctions ever work on a dictator?
I wouldn’t worry. The Ukrainians are showing that the Russian Army isn’t all that superior.
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