What sanctions?
Posted on 08/18/2022 5:37:38 AM PDT by JonPreston
European banks have joined Wall Street in allowing clients to trade Russian debt once again after the US Treasury gave the green light last month for investors to wind down their positions.
The global market for Russian sovereign and corporate bonds froze in June after US investors were banned from buying Russian securities on the secondary market as part of the wests sanctions against Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine.
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What sanctions?
Good to hear the West is FINALLY starting to figure out that trying to ‘sanction’ Russia was an IDIOTIC IDEA and are finally putting an end to it.
...and it makes sense, as the interest rates (hence returns) in Russia are still very high, compared to the West.
The requirement by some that there be only two sides to a very complex issue is what "closing down" the Overton window is all about. For example, Freepers who have suggested that the whole is "not my circus and not my monkeys" also might be slurred as "RuZZian" assets, but now the ranks are joined by European banks and Wall Street. That's a lot of Kremlin assets when one thinks so narrowly.
Following Biden’s lead on foreign policy has been a disaster x 50 years, yet with Russia! and the Ukraine we’re now suppose to think he got something right? No thanks. The past is prologue with Internationalists.
My best deal in a long time was to swap dollars for rubles and by the Russian bonds on Moscow exchange. Almost caught both lows at the same time.
“...yet with Russia! and the Ukraine we’re now suppose to think (Biden) got something right? No thanks.”
And the Ukraine Cheerleaders also want us to believe the Western Media.
What’s really funny now is how the Russian media is now FAR MORE CREDIBLE than the Western Media. In fact, I have yet to hear anyone here point out any lies from RT, after I’ve challenged them several times.
Indeed. Beyond simple conservatism as descriptor, I am staunchly a localist, so to speak, and within the confines of this nation, a nationalist who can deal with the well-meaning across a rather wide range of political views. The notion that any "totality" far away can make adequate decisions for me is ludicrous, as Nazi as it is Stalinist, Maoist or progressivist and internationalist.
Governments grow too large, and in doing so crowd out the individual who becomes a threat to the collective. Theorists seemingly Left and Right alike have at least noticed that "the State" diminishes "a society" in a rather easy-to-understand ratio. More State, less society. More society, less State. Though simplistic, it captures the general sense of it. Individualism annoys the collective, and therefore the collectivist.
Do you realize the margins on oil and gas smuggling?
They’re Yuuge!
...funny now is how the Russian media is now FAR MORE CREDIBLE than the Western Media.
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On this spiral of history, USA is communist and Russia is a capitalistic federation.
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