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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    The lack of engagement with Russia suggests Chinese businesses may be afraid of falling victim to secondary sanctions introduced against Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine
    But but the sanctions aren't having an effect.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    "pals" don't want to touch
    Military drills

    26 Jul, 22:50

    Russia to hold Vostok large-scale strategic command and staff drills

    The drills will bring together the Airborne Force, long-range and military transport aircraft and also military contingents of other countries

    MOSCOW, July 26. /TASS/.

    "The Vostok 2022 strategic command and staff drills will run under the command of the chief of Russia’s General Staff on August 30 - September 5, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday.

    "The Vostok 2022 strategic command and staff exercise with troops (forces) of the Eastern Military District will run under the command of the chief of the Russian General Staff on August 30 - September 5, 2022," the ministry said in a statement.

    The strategic command and staff exercise will practice employing combat groups in ensuring military security in the Eastern region. The drills will bring together the Airborne Force, long-range and military transport aircraft and also military contingents of other countries, the statement reads.

    "Practical operations of the troops (forces) will run at the Eastern Military District’s Bidzhanskiy, Burduny, Bukhta Anna, Goryachiye Klyuchi, Knyaze-Volkonsky, Litovko, Lagunnoye, Mukhor-Kondui, Novoselsky, Sergeyevsky, Telemba, Uspenovsky and Tsugol training grounds, "

    the ministry specified."


    Continues at:

    Russia to hold Vostok large-scale strategic command and staff drills - Military & Defense - TASS


    A map of Russian Military Districts, shown in yellow on the map. Adjoining one of its friends to the south, it seems.

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    Military districts of Russia since 2021

    Northern Military District

    Eastern Military District

    Central Military District

    Southern Military District

    Western Military District

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_districts_of_Russia


    One wonders if the "pal" to the south of the Eastern Military District, has accepted it's invitation to attend and allow their own military forces to join the:

    "large-scale strategic command and staff drills"

    I'm surprised that Russia is able to hold them, what with all its military forces are, as alleged by some TD posters, being:

    1. Obliterated by the 16% supplies military personnel,

    2. Obliterated by the 16% supplied wonder weapons,

    3. Obliterated by the 16% supplied intelligence,

    4. Obliterated by the 16% supplies food,

    5. Obliterated by the 16% supplied fuel,

    6. Obliterated by the 16% supplied mercenaries.

    7. Obliterated by the 16% supplied ammunition

    8. Obliterated by the 16% supplied training

    9. Obliterated by the 16% supplied finances

    10. ....

    Where do all these Russians come from is:

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    Despite sweeping sanctions, Russia's economic outlook has improved since April

    Despite sweeping sanctions, Russia's economic outlook has improved since April — but it's gotten worse for almost every other country





    • The IMF forecast Russia's economy to contract 6% this year — an improvement from its April forecast.
    • Russia's crude-oil and energy exports have been holding up better than expected, said IMF.
    • Global economic outlook is gloomy, with growth likely to hit 3.2% this year, down from 6.1% in 2021.



    Russia's economy is holding up better than expected amid sweeping sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, according to the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook report issued on Tuesday.

    The IMF slashed growth forecasts for almost every country, but upgraded Russia's economic forecast — with the country's economy still contracting, but by 6% — an improvement from the IMF's April forecast of an 8.5% contraction.

    That's because Russia's crude-oil and non-energy exports have been "holding up better than expected," the IMF wrote in its report. "In addition, domestic demand is also showing some resilience thanks to containment of the effect of the sanctions on the domestic financial sector and a lower-than-anticipated weakening of the labor market," added the IMF.

    "That's still a fairly sizable recession in Russia in 2022," IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas told the AFP. And "there is no rebound" for Russia with the country's economy expected to contract by 3.5% in 2023 — down from IMF's April forecast of a 2.3% contraction, as sanctions gnaw their way through the economy, Gourinchas added to the news agency.

    Overall, the IMF warned of a gloomy economic outlook with global growth likely to hit 3.2% this year — down from 6.1% in 2021 due to higher-than-expected inflation, a slowdown in China, and fallout from the war in Ukraine.

    Europe's growth is weighed down by the possibility of a Russian natural-gas supply halt as countries in the region are heavily dependent on the fuel import. GDP growth for the euro-zone is expected to slow to 2.6% this year, down from 5.4% in 2021.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/despite-s...071532029.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    But but the sanctions aren't having an effect.
    On Russia, less and less.

    On Europe and NaGastan, they are exploding every day, citizens warmth, citizens pocket books, citizens mental health/hygiene, citizens access to food and diminishing front page media coverage.

    Europe Natural Gas Supply

    1. European “certification”, thwarted NS2. No heating for Europe.

    2. Canada “certification” can close NS1. No natural Gas for Europe.

    Russia sanctions: Can the world cope without its oil and gas?

    By Jake Horton & Daniele Palumbo

    BBC Reality Check

    Published 2 days ago

    How much Russian gas does Europe use?

    "Russia supplied the EU with 40% of its natural gas last year.

    Germany, Europe's largest economy, was the largest importer in 2020, followed by Italy.

    The UK imported just 4% of its needs from Russia and the US doesn't import any gas from Russia.

    However, they are also affected when Russia restricts supplies to mainland Europe, as this causes global gas prices to rise. Gas prices have almost doubled in the UK over the last year.

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    Consumers are facing rising energy and fuel bills as sanctions on Russian energy kick in.

    Heating prices are likely to increase even further if Russian gas exports to Europe are restricted.

    In the UK, household energy bills have been kept in check by an energy price cap.

    But bills rose £700 to about £2,000 in April when the cap was increased.

    They are expected to reach more than £3,200 when the cap is increased again this autumn.


    UK petrol and diesel prices have also soared
    , and the government has announced a cut in fuel duty as motorists struggle with record prices."


    https://www.bbc.com/news/58888451


    No deals signed by Europe for gas or oil so far. Any updates 'arry?

    NaGastan:


    U.S. to sell additional 20 million barrels of oil from strategic reserve

    By Timothy Gardner

    July 27, 20222:03 AM GMT+7Last Updated 2 days ago

    WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) -

    "The Biden administration on Tuesday said it will sell an additional 20 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a previous plan to tap the facility to calm oil prices boosted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and as demand recovers from the pandemic.

    The administration said in late March it would release a record 1 million barrels of per day of oil for six months from the SPR, held in hollowed-out salt caverns on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas.

    The United States has already sold 125 million barrels from the reserve with nearly 70 million barrels already delivered to purchasers, a senior administration official told reporters.

    The SPR releases have been a "supply lifeline" to oil and refining companies as the industry continues to get oil production back online after declines during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the official said.

    The U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistics arm of the Energy Department, said this month that U.S. oil output will rise to more than 11.9 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2022 and to nearly 12.8 million bpd in 2023, from about 11.2 million bpd in 2021. That compares with a record near 12.3 million bpd in 2019.

    The United States will take bids in autumn to begin the process of buying back 60 million barrels of crude for reserve, a first step in replenishing the stockpile after the 180 million barrel release, the Department of Energy said in May. read more

    The department will soon propose a rule to help put oil back into the SPR, where levels have sunk to 475.5 million barrels, the lowest since June 1985, by allowing it to enter forward contracts to purchase oil in future years at fixed, preset prices.

    "What it means in practice is that producers would have more certainty about future demand for their product, and that would encourage investment in production today," a senior U.S. official told reporters.

    Oil purchases to replenish the SPR will not be competing with demand for oil in the near term as they will likely take place after fiscal year 2023, an official told reporters."

    Continues at:

    https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ve-2022-07-26/




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    Hoohoo loves the puffy lies and blackmail.

    Complete vermin.

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    28 Jul, 2022 07:54 HomeWorld News

    Sanctions on Russia could leave Britain without fish'n'chips

    There are fears that half of the country’s shops selling the uniquely British fast food may go out of business


    Sanctions on Russia could leave Britain without fish'n'chips — RT World News

    28 Jul, 2022 06:01 HomeBusiness News

    Cheeseburger falls victim to cost-of-living crisis

    The McDonald's staple in the UK sees first price hike in 14 years

    https://www.rt.com/business/559726-mcdonalds-cheeseburger-cost-of-living-crisis/


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    This nostalgic masterpiece was written April 25, by a Quoran with an MA in history & latin from Ohio State-


    Is Russia going to regret their war against Ukraine?





    The war in Ukraine is a war of attrition- a war of economic attrition.

    Russia is not a wealthy nation by any means. In fact, they are poorer than Italy, a substantially smaller nation. Russia does not have a massive economy with endless potential, they have a very restricted economy built to favor the elites.

    Lots of people have died in this war so far. Russian losses approach 30,000 (killed or wounded) and about 20% of their deployed forces are gone. Russia has more people though and it can replace at least some of its losses.

    However, what is going to break is the Russian economy.


    • The ruble is dead. Nobody is buying rubles because nobody is exporting resources. This means the ruble is only stable thanks to Russia burning through its foreign currency reserves and restricting trading
    • The Russian stock market is dead- it tanked 30% before it was closed. As of today, you can buy stocks but you cannot sell them
    • Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok have cut off Russian access to their services
    • Exxon, BP, and other oil companies have pulled out their investments, totaling 40 billion dollars
    • Virtually every car and plane manufacturer has stopped production in Russia
    • International banking systems have cut Russia off- restricting Russian access to their foreign currency accounts



    Russia is making no money. Their exports have tanked to virtually nothing and they aren’t importing much either. This means the cost of basic goods like food has gone way up.

    As the cost of living increases the ruble’s value remains the same. In reality, the ruble is useless and the only reason it has value is that Russia is propping it up.
    At some point, the Russians will run out of foreign currency while the cost of living triple in price. Couple this with 10–20k dead Russians.
    This will cause the Russian people to turn on Putin

    Meanwhile, the Russian Oligarchs, who keep Putin in power, will turn on him over this war. They are losing tons of money every day and their business empires are crumbling. They will blame Putin for this.

    Putin knows all of this. That’s why he suddenly changed war goals and stopped trying to take Kyiv. He knows he has to end this war quickly and he needs to be able to say he won.

    Ukraine knows all of this too. They know the Russian economy will collapse as a result of this war. So Ukraine is unlikely to give in. After 2 months of insanely bloody fighting, Russia has taken Kherson (which is now contested) and they have almost taken Mauripol. After 2 more months of fighting maybe Russia takes 1 additional city- maybe.

    Ukraine knows this and will bleed Russia out. They will inflict high losses on the Russian military and bide their time.

    The Russian economy will collapse and just like WW1, the Russian people will turn on their fearless leader. Ukraine is merely waiting for this to happen.
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    There are still lots of facts in that article, even if it was written on your shit site.

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    The Russian stock market is dead
    True

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Tiktok have cut off Russian access to their services
    True

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Exxon, BP, and other oil companies have pulled out their investments, totaling 40 billion dollars
    True

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Virtually every car and plane manufacturer has stopped production in Russia
    True

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    International banking systems have cut Russia off- restricting Russian access to their foreign currency accounts
    True

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Their exports have tanked to virtually nothing and they aren’t importing much either. This means the cost of basic goods like food has gone way up.
    True and validated by numerous Russian youtubers.

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    In reality, the ruble is useless and the only reason it has value is that Russia is propping it up.
    This is true as well. In an important note, the ruble has been tanking over the past month. Especially over the past week. Reality is coming soon.

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    No matter what the Kremlin says, the sanctions against Russia are working and 'catastrophically crippling' its economy: study


    Five months into the invasion of Ukraine, Russia's economy is imploding from sweeping international sanctions and a corporate exodus, a Yale University analysis has found. The analysis, released July 20, was led by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management.

    The study's findings stand in contrast to studies of Russia's economy that show it's holding up better than expected. Many of those analyses, forecasts, and projections draw from Russian government economic releases, which are becoming "increasingly cherry-picked; partial, and incomplete, selectively tossing out unfavorable statistics while keeping favorable statistics," the Yale team wrote. "Indeed, the Kremlin has a long history of fudging official economic statistics, even prior to the invasion."

    Russia's economy has not rebounded and is in fact "reeling," the Yale authors found. They used private Russian-language data sources and sources like high-frequency consumer data for their analysis.

    "From our analysis, it becomes clear: business retreats and sanctions are catastrophically crippling the Russian economy," the authors wrote.

    One reason Russia appears so resilient is because the Kremlin has been flooding the economy with "artificial liquidity" and propping up the ruble with "draconian capital controls," wrote the Yale team.

    In reality, the corporate exodus out of Russia has reversed nearly 30 years worth of foreign investment, as those foreign companies accounted for 40% of the country's GDP, the Yale authors added.

    "Putin is resorting to patently unsustainable, dramatic fiscal and monetary intervention to smooth over these structural economic weaknesses, which has already sent his government budget into deficit for the first time in years and drained his foreign reserves even with high energy prices," they wrote.

    In April, Russian Finance Minister Anthon Siluanov said the country will draw from its rainy-day fund to cover the deficit. The move, the Yale team wrote, points to a Kremlin that is "fast running out of money, despite intentional obfuscation."

    The report's authors call on the international community to keep pressure on Russia over the Ukraine war: "Defeatist headlines arguing that Russia's economy has bounced back are simply not factual — the facts are that, by any metric and on any level, the Russian economy is reeling, and now is not the time to step on the brakes."

    https://www.businessinsider.com/russ...e-study-2022-7

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    The Ruble is worth more than at the start of the conflict. Unlike you the charts don’t lie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    the Ruble is worth more than at the start of the conflict. Unlike you the charts don’t lie.
    That is not what I said. Do not twist my words, new recruit. It is now trending downwards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    That is not what I said. Do not twist my words, new recruit. It is now trending downwards.
    As usual what you said is of little relevance. Year on year the Ruble is up some 20% against the USD, It is also up since the sanctions were put in place. Currencies move up and down on a minute by minute basis. I suggest technical analysis is not your forte if you perceive the trend is the Ruble tanking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    As usual what you said is of little relevance.
    Perhaps, if you are a Putin jizz jockey.

    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    I suggest technical analysis is not your forte if you perceive the trend is the Ruble tanking.
    You should keep your suggestions to yourself, old fool.

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    JPMorgan says Russia has had little problem rerouting its oil exports, meaning the expected plunge in production never happened




    • Russia has been able to reroute its oil exports away from Europe with little fuss, JPMorgan has said.
    • The bank's analysts said they expect Russian production in the third quarter to be higher than a year ago.
    • Better-than-expected global production and signs of a drop in demand have pushed oil prices lower.




    Russia has been able to reroute its oil exports away from Europe without serious disruptions, JPMorgan has said, adding that the expected drop in output "never happened."

    Better-than-expected Russian production, along with the release of oil from global strategic reserves, helps explain the recent drop in crude prices, the bank's head of commodities research Natasha Kaneva said in a note to clients.

    Russia's oil exports to Europe — its biggest market — have fallen relatively sharply in 2022, as companies have "self-sanctioned" in the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in late February.

    However, Russia has been able to shift its exports towards Asia, with India and China in particular stepping up their purchases. More recently, a jump in domestic demand has caused Russian oil production to rise back to prewar levels.

    "The market consensus was too pessimistic about Russia's capability to re-route volumes to other buyers," Kaneva and her colleagues said in the note Wednesday. "Russia's exports adjusted towards other buyers without a serious disruption to its production."

    "At its peak, the oil market was pricing in the worst-case scenario — a 3 million barrel a day loss of Russian production combined with record-high summer demand — while, in reality, it never happened."

    JPMorgan expects Russia production to produce 9.95 million barrels a day of oil in the third quarter, above the 9.76 million barrels a day produced in the same quarter a year earlier.

    It thinks production will slip to 9.5 million barrels a day in 2023, staying relatively strong despite the European Union's ban on most oil imports from the country.

    Oil prices have fallen in recent weeks, with global supply stronger than expected and demand likely to weaken in the coming months as the world economy slows. WTI crude, the US benchmark price, was down around 10% over the last month to trade at $98 a barrel Friday.


    JPMorgan says Russia has had little problem rerouting its oil exports, meaning the expected plunge in production never happened

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    ^ I feel the only people that are really suffering due to these sanctions against Russia are the general public global wide.

    I know my wife and I are!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loy Toy View Post
    ^ I feel the only people that are really suffering due to these sanctions against Russia are the general public global wide.

    I know my wife and I are!
    Absolutely! Including the general Russian population.

    Sanctions by their very nature hurt both sides.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loy Toy View Post
    ^ I feel the only people that are really suffering due to these sanctions against Russia are the general public global wide.

    I know my wife and I are!
    You are both in Thailand, I presume.

    In what way are the 16% imposed sanctions affecting you and our wife, business?
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    The EU collectively are finally realising they have lost their monopsony on cheap Russian oil and gas.

    They should have seen the runes, Power Of Superior 2014 and Power Superior 2 2022, should have rung warning bells.

    Power of Siberia 1 and 2.

    Power of Siberia - WikipediaThe Russia/India pipeline is being touted again.

    Where will the users of cheap Russian gas in Europe, industrial and domestic, to feed their addiction?

    Some TD posters believe they have a number of solution, which however, have yet to be found, agreed, signed and delivered.

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    Don't stop there.

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    The West Can’t Stop Pillaging Other Countries’ Bank Accounts

    .....The west’s larcenous behavior erodes trust in its financial system, to understate matters. Keep your savings in dollars or in western banks and you could lose them, if say, you don’t let NATO invade your country and topple your government, or balkanize your country, or even if you don’t privatize your ports, or worse, you let China invest in them. Not saying these last two have happened, but if the past is precedent, they sure could. All over the world, in recent months, countries finally got the message, and some feel vulnerable. So things have begun to change in ways that do not bode well for Washington’s global financial hegemony. It is certainly likely, for example, that Chinese leaders look at their more than one trillion dollars in U.S. debt and now think “Gee, maybe that’s not such a great idea.” Indeed, compared to May, 2021, China’s holdings in U.S. treasury securities this year fell by 9 percent.

    All this is of a piece with the eye-popping news, scarcely mentioned in western media, that Russia, China and the rest of the BRICS countries – Brazil, India and South Africa – “are officially working on their own ‘new global reserve currency,’” as Information Clearing House reported on July 25. Currently the dollar holds that primo place. The dollar is the world’s reserve currency, with all the many privileges that entails, privileges which, if completely lost, would entail a western financial contraction the like of which the world has probably never seen.

    But maybe they won’t be completely lost. There will be the west and then also, separately, the rest – with the rest, of course, being far bigger, population-, resources- and ultimately wealth-wise. “The issue of creating an international reserve currency based on a basket of currencies of our countries is being worked out,” said Vladimir Putin at a BRICS meeting in June. Moscow began dumping its U.S. treasuries back in 2018. The west’s ill-advised economic war on Russia has now accelerated developments that will – surprise! – backfire massively.

    Meanwhile, with western banking dangers in mind, some years back China inaugurated the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) possibly to help sidestep the western Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) messaging system and to process payments in yuan. “The system has an expansive network of 1280 financial institutions,” Insider reported back on April 28, noting that Russia started the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) even earlier, back in 2014. Both countries, but Russia particularly, due to the west’s economic war against it, have begun to de-dollarize their trade and these two organizations help them do that. If innovations like these take hold, along with the new BRICS reserve currency for over half the world, and the dollar loses its dominance, “it will hurt the U.S. economy,” mainly through inflation, to put it mildly.

    So China now uses CIPS when settling direct trades with Russia, while Russia recently began conducting its considerable oil trade with India in rupees and rubles. Moscow now transacts as many of its other foreign deals in rubles as it can, and that’s a lot. To repeat, it does so in response to the west’s economic war against it. The idiot Eurocrats who wage that war, instead of promoting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, seem blind to the possibility that Moscow can fight back economically, and when it does, they scream....

    FULL- The West Can’t Stop Pillaging Other Countries’ Bank Accounts - CounterPunch.org

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    There's always this whiff of desperation in this puffy propaganda.


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    There is more than a whiff of desperation when you plunder other Sovereign nations bank accounts- including that of the world's poorest nation. The damage it has caused to USD hegemony, the USD as a safe haven, and the whole SWIFT virtual monopoly has people in the investment biz shaking their heads. Bottom line is, the economic sanctions have not worked and the world is moving away from the USD as the sole, or even main de facto international trade currency. The long term implications are..... concerning.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Bottom line is, the economic sanctions have not worked and the world is moving away from the USD as the sole, or even main de facto international trade currency. The long term implications are..... concerning.
    With China owning one trillion dollars of American debt, do you think they will work to make that happen? Or risk a war over Taiwan? If the dollar is weaker, China is weaker.

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