White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's death
White House promises 'major sanctions' on Russia in response to Alexei Navalny's death
The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic penal colony.
Even more major than the current major sanctions...
Cool now do Israel.
This.
Israel represents a massive foothold in the region for the US, as well as facilitating all of those new oil pipelines running through Gaza. Palestinians are probably going to be wiped off the face of the Earth in order to keep that sweet sweet oil money in American politician's pockets.
So either they were going light on sanctions despite Russia invading and attacking a sovereign nation or they're lying about adding sanctions just for diplomatic clout.
That's not exactly how sanctions work. You have legal limits on sanctions based on trade agreements. Certain actions by the other nation allow you to enact or lift sanctions and still keep the trade agreements and diplomatic ties in place.
The idea is that you don't dump all of your sanctions at once onto Russia, because then they have nowhere else to go but to escalation. The west wants to give Putin economic "off-ramps" so he can withdraw from Ukraine out of financial pressure rather than with violence.
Double secret sanctions
Who told you about the double secret sanctions???
Somebody broke Rule 1 of the Double Secret Sanctions Club.
I bet they are going to cancel Putin's Netflix account now. Could start WW3
Nyetflix.
Whoa whoa whoa, that's maybe too harsh. Maybe just downgrade him to ad-supported?
People like you literally want to see the world burn. Sanctions I understand, but advertisements, might as well threaten him with waterboarding.
Government: kills one person
USA: sanctions! All the sanctions!Other government: kills 29,000 persons
USA: would you, idk, like some more bombs?So have they been holding back this whole time?
It would start to become less about sanctioning russia and more about applying sanctions to anyone who does any kind of business with them
They'll teach'em!
How many more sanctions can the US still put on Russia? They've shown that western sanctions mean nothing as long as India and China are willing to do business.
There always the option of sanctioning countries that don't sanction the target country.
This should already be happening to Russia. It should be a ratcheting strategy of continuing sanctions till Russia retreat back to their own borders.
Awwwe yeah let's get it.
sounds serious
Unfortunately there are too many Americans here to even get the irony of this absurd reaction the same time the US is attempting to jail a journalist for exporting defense secrets. The same US that went outside jurisdictional bounds to attempt to extradite this journalist and failed.
All the sanctions are doing is weakening the US position as a global financer. When nobody wants to buy your debt, your economy will collapse. Weaponizing holding that debt, holding assets, and doing trade in the currency accelerates alternative methods.
I understand Americans don't get any of the news in the world, but it's already happening and this is making it go faster. Good riddance.
Yes, keep isolating Russia from the Western economy. This will surely work!
Oh yeah just let Russia trade with impunity, now that will really help!
Well, yeah. When they were integrated into the global economy that had an incentive to follow international law. Now that they're completely separated they have no reason to bother anymore because they're building a parallel economy. Sanctions have only made things worse because now Russia can act with impunity and there's nothing anyone can do.
NO FLY ZONE OR RIOT!
Russia has very little to offer the west. The west has plenty to offer Russia. Turns out, India and China also have plenty to offer Russia.
Russia is basically a gas station with guns.
But now it's China's gas station with guns.