[JonPreston]

Sanctions?

What sanctions?

[BobL]

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.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Based on the players as mentioned in this article, "European banks have joined Wall Street" and now must be what some few avid Freepers like to call "RuZZian" assets.

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.