Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Financial Shock and Awe: West Disconnects Russian Banks from SWIFT, Sanctions Russia's Central Bank" video.

  1. That's probably what the evil empire wants. It wants Europe to be as separate from Russia and Asia as possible and basically sanction and embargo them like it did during the cold war. All for the benefit of the United States, of course. It wants Europe and Asia to remain as disconnected as possible. A united and economically developed Eurasia would be a nightmare and a united Afro‐Eurasia even worse.
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  2.  @tjsbbi  What if China and later India joined in and then later still Latin America, Africa and the Middle East? Would that also be naive? The ball may roll slowly at first but once a‐rolling, boy does it pick up speed! Time will tell.
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  3. Yes, I tend to agree. Outstanding in my very humble opinion.
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  4.  @sparky6086  Short squeeze?
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  5.  @MuhammadAli-in1qm  Go home white sock puppet! And stop using the photo of a black Muslim man who fought against western racism, imperialism and colonialism and paid with a prison sentence for it.
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  6. The Ukrainian government is, it seems to me, basically a puppet government in the fullest sense of the word. The hands of its president are tied by the die‐hards in Kiev (neo‐fascists, US‐trained elements in the army capable of removing him) yet he is, in my honest opinion, in a losing position, militarily speaking, so eventually he, or his replacement, must come to the negotiating table. As for sanctions, they aren't really designed to work in the way they are described. They are basically a form of warfare permanently waged on a country which, like all warfare, is designed to kill and maim. They are, rightfully in my opinion, criminal under international law and and act of war. Another thing is the USA might even want the current economic, financial and international system and its institutions to collapse; controlled implosion followed by reconstruction of the (at least western) world's financial architecture under US auspices. In other words a kind of Bretton Woods 2 tying the European Union, Australia and New Zealand willingly our otherwise, to the USA (maybe akin to the continental blockade system that Napoleon Bonaparte tried to use against against Britain during the Napoleonic Wars or the similar system used by the USA during the cold war against the Soviet Union and Pact). Whether such a thing would work and whether China – which I'm assuming is the biggest economy round about now in real terms rather than the nominal terms reported in the media – would go along with it or has the power to modify it in such a way that it thwarts the USA'S continued dominance I have no idea. The use of the IMF's Special Drawing Rights as a – presumably temporary – form of international currency for this purpose (perhaps in the form of digital currencies which I am given to understand allows for more governmental control over ordinary people) might be used for this purpose, but I'm just speculating wildly.
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  7.  @kiwikeith7633  They're probably a fake party created by US intelligence.
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