TIRO NO PÉ: mundo descobre que EUA já consegue e usará sistema financeiro em chantagem a todos.
Países buscando novas alternativas, esvaziam o poder do dólar.
The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will eventually force Vladimir Putin to change course in Ukraine. But this conventional wisdom obscures significant costs. Just as using drones to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan may have created more converts to Islamic militancy than it has eliminated, sanctions advocates haven’t reckoned with the unintended consequences of the policy — consequences that could prove far more damaging to American interests than the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine.
The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will eventually force Vladimir Putin to change course in Ukraine. But this conventional wisdom obscures significant costs. Just as using drones to target suspected terrorists in Pakistan may have created more converts to Islamic militancy than it has eliminated, sanctions advocates haven’t reckoned with the unintended consequences of the policy — consequences that could prove far more damaging to American interests than the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine.
First, by employing commercial and financial sanctions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine, the United States — the architect and largest beneficiary of the globalized system of trade and finance — is exploiting post-Soviet Russia’s integration into that system. Years of mutually beneficial progress that brought 140 million Russians into the orbit of global economic governance are now in doubt. Even if sanctions succeed in changing the Kremlin’s behavior and are then lifted, the American objective of integrating Russia into the global economy has been fundamentally undermined. Second, the use of sanctions broadcasts to others the strategic hazard of integrating into the American-led global financial system. Whatever the outcome of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and whatever Mr. Putin’s ultimate fate, other non-allies of the United States have now learned the lesson that hard-won institutional integration can be turned against those states that achieve it.
EUA confrontando aliados e já corroendo as suas economias. Perdendo apoio, segue o declínio.
Obama’s pattern of complete disaster in foreign policy is repeating yet again as Europe is suffering an economic implosion and Obama has dealt a serious death-blow to the GDP of Europe particularly in agriculture. The golden rule in France – never mess with its farmers. The sanctions against Russia are backfiring on the US and history is repeating as to how the United States will collapse. It appears the very same mistake that led the arrogance of Athens causing all its allies to abandon it and some actually turned and aided Sparta in killing the Athenian Empire is unfolding before our eyes. I have warned that the NSA inflicted a very serious and deep wound against American Allies. I have warned that the Obama sanctions were not going to play out the way he had intended. Nobody seems to ever ask have sanctions ever worked even just once. It is the same play-book over and over again without results.
France is bankrupt. It hates America and still suffers from the loss of Waterloo and had they won that battle, many still believe the world would be speaking French rather than English. By France needs Russian natural gas. Total SA, France’s largest energy company, has just announced that the company is seeking $27-billion financing for a gas project in Russia, the Yamal LNG project, ignoring the Obama sanctions against Russia. They will not use dollars and are looking to finance the project in euros, yuan, Russian rubles, or any other currency but US dollars to avoid being prosecuted based on dollar transactions.
