The United States Treasury Dept is planning to send officials to key parts of the globe to act as enforcers for western sanctions against Russia. Essentially, it’s a blackmail and extortion tour, where Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson will visit non-compliant nations and central Western banking hubs to threaten foreign nations against continued noncompliance.
Whether any nation complies with the pressure campaign threats is still unknown. However, against the backdrop of various geopolitical alliances now cleaving the global economy, and with a larger network of non-western nations now forming their own trade partnerships without regard for Washington DC opinion, the effort to draw “with us” or “against us” lines could backfire.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top sanctions officials from the U.S. Treasury Department plan special international trips this month to pressure firms and countries still doing business with Russia to cut off financial ties because of the war on Ukraine.
The message is that those working with Russia’s government must decide:
1. Continue to provide Moscow with material support or
2. Keep doing business with countries that represent 50 percent of the global economy.
Those are the choices to be laid out, senior Treasury officials told reporters on a call Friday. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the travel plans.
Treasury officials Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson — specialists in sanctions and terrorist financing — will travel to Europe this month to meet with leaders of financial institutions in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. They plan to share intelligence on potential sanctions evaders and to warn of the potential penalties for failure to comply with international sanctions.
Rosenberg will also make a stop in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to urge the country’s private businesses not to provide material or intelligence support to the Kremlin. Earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kazakhstan to pledge U.S. support for its independence and to stress the importance of respect for “sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence.” (read more)
Nice country you got there…. it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.
As the US blackmails and twists arms, BRICS is looming in the background, beckoning.
so true. they (neocons) already tried a color revolution in kasakhstan so that country probably sees through the threats.
the example of russia weathering sanctions and flourishing is an example to the non-western world that will gain momentum as the months and years advance. once the u.s. weaponized dollar reserves it really was over. biden’s advisors are nearly as braindead as he is.
Hahahaha LOL!!
Payback for the Arab Spring!
Unfortunately its in the WaPoop
Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says
President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/10/egypt-weapons-russia/
Now who could possibly be the ones to leak that story to the Post.
Totally not a self serving motive in there at all for the CIA or other.
One thing that the leaked documents seem to show is that the US is relying on information from Ukraine without any ability to check that information. This is the kind of stuffing I don’t trust. Sounds too much like State Department/Ukrainian propaganda.
The documents claim that the UAE is helping Russia and that Russian intelligence was bragging about it, as included in the DailyMail, a propaganda rag. That just sounds wrong because I see at no other time has Russian intelligence bragged about anything else. It is the US intelligence/State Department/CIA that leak things constantly and brag about things.
El-Sisi knows the Obama admin wanted him dead and Morsi in power. He also knows Biden is a front and the Obama-ites are running the U.S. government. So his choice is totally rational.
I wonder if this is the US revolution quote (possibly from Ben Franklin), “we must hang together or surely we will hang separately.” in reality. The ones who tried on their own found out (Quadaffi/Sadaam). Even as me from US, I want them to hang tough and hang together. If mount a united front they should be able to do it. I would think it shouldn’t take too long, like on the order of a few months of focus.
ukraine is the pivot point of this century. it is the bridge too far for the neocons and possibly even their great allies israel and the military industrial complex. so many truly inconvenient truths have been revealed through that epic blunder.
Another Rosenberg traitor…
“Keep doing business with countries that represent 50 percent of the global economy” When that 50% is willing to commit economic suicide on the altar of climate change they might not get many faithful takers
“on the altar of climate change” and transgenderism… fixed it.
Yes to both. Economic, cultural, and moral suicide. Sad that DC is turning out to be the villain in the world. One day Jesus will make war in “pure righteousness!” Love that scripture from Revolutions 19.
Egypt secretly planned to supply rockets to Russia, leaked U.S. document says
President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West.”
How can a third world country like Egypt even make rockets, let alone 40 000???
Someone else is making the rockets and using Egypt as a front.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/10/egypt-weapons-russia/
As I wrote above, the leaked documents seem to show in some places that the US is using Ukrainian information without an ability to check it. So…….I just can’t help wonder if this is true or not.
don’t really know about egypt and rockets but “third world countries” are in many cases rapidly industrializing. russia actually did buy drone designs and prototypes from iran and has now produced them in quantity and used them on the battlefield.
especially if “the west” continues to eschew fossil fuels in its headlong rush into “the green revolution,” the nonwest will enjoy a much more rapid pace of economic advance.
FUN FACT:
The Fed provided Swiss National Bank with 20 TRILLION last October in a USD Liquidity Swap (essentially a very short-term currency exchange loan).
See for yourself here: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/desk-operations/central-bank-liquidity-swap-operations
Probably nothing…
It looks like $20 billion, not trillion. Still a nice loan, if you can get it.
I searched October 2, 2022 to October 31, 2022, under Swiss National Bank.
Thx, good catch, you’re right.
Counterparty Trade Date Amount Interest Rate
Swiss National Bank 2022-10-05 $3,100,000,000 3.33
Swiss National Bank 2022-10-12 $6,270,000,000 3.33
Swiss National Bank 2022-10-19 $11,090,000,000 3.33
The article below hints at what may be going on, but I don’t think the author is aware of the above. I’m not on twitter, or I’d let her know it seems to line up with her “suspicion”.
https://www.pacemaker.global/commentary/the-daisy-chain-hypothesis-is-cross-currency-qe-behind-stealth-bond-interventions
Clues to help track down the Pentagon top secret files leaker – which senior officials claim could be an ‘inside job’: A hunting manual and SHOE in photos of Ukraine classified documents could be key in ’embarrassing’ breach
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11957129/Was-Pentagon-leak-inside-job-Republican-blasts-Biden-slow-support-Ukraine.html
It is the most serious intelligence security breach in the United States since WikiLeaks obtained some 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables in 2013.
Beware the DailyMail. On the conflict in Ukraine, they publish a lot of State Department misinformation. Some of their articles are completely fabricated.
Newsmax is leftist too
This will backfire bigly
Joebiden will backfire fugly…
Narcissistic self-absorbed POS..
Delaware should be stripped of their voting rights for continuously putting this abhorent thing in the senate for all these years…
Biden is an utter failure…he stands for nothing…even Obama is better than Biden
Obama has his half black to justify his hatred of america…Joe is just a self-serving narcissist…
What about all the “leaders” in the Senate who have known all these years about his stupidity and gross corruption, and DONE NOTHING. Never asked him to step down, stop, or anything else.
Nasty pieces of schitt.
Treasury needs to revive Operation Cassandra..
….A ten year operation shot down by obama…
If Obama opposed it is good reason to revive it…
Obama is Marxist and anti-america…
Bidet is his third admin….
Obama opposed keystone to benefit Venezuela commies…and cocaine smugglers allied with iran
Bidet shut down keystone and has allowed chevron to restart crude oil production in venezuela…instead of Canadian crude
Chevron stole Gulf Oil employees retirement accounts to buy gulf oil…they didn’t want the refineries…they wanted the oil reserves…
The US Govt has schemed and lied and manipulated their own people to harm our nation…energy security is national security….
Washington DC is the enemy of the people……
Wake UP millenials…wake up gen z…don’t continue “woke”…
Really, truly…wake up…
“on condition of anonymity” certainly covers a lot of A$$! No chance to be held responsible for dumbness.
I suspect they won’t have much success.
First off, they have already lost the battle with Mexico, right on the Southern border.
Beyond that, these Nations all know what the U.S. has in its arsenal of threats, and they aren’t impressed I suspect.
“What ya gonna do,…INVADE us? Your military is depleted of equipment, if it wasn’t left in afghanistan, it has bern expended or apprpriated and sold in Ukraine.
By the way, if ya wanna BUY some, we got a bunch, lol.”
As for “color revolutions” they hardly have a great track record, so its far from a sure thing, with their regime changes ultimately being unsuccessful more often than succesful.
These countries have put up with this bullying, and largely caved to it, for many years. I suspect they will get a certain pleasure in telling the bully to pound sand.
And, with the U.S. and western nations economies collapsing, economic threats don’t hold much ‘juice’ either.
There’s an old saying, that my grandpa used to tell my younger brother and I. Usually came after I retaliated and punched him (back).
He used to say “What goes around, comes around. So be mindful of what you do.”
Definitely applies here, doesn’t it?
AMLO of Mexico is brazenly breaking the terms of the USMCA, on multiple fronts. He does not fear Biden.
He’s Mexican, there is no honor. He and other Mexican “leaders” have grifted off of loopholes in NAFTA, exported their poverty & overpopulation to the US, driven poorly maintained trucks on our highways, provided free passage for millions of invaders across our borders. And now this.
Nobody respects us anymore. https://tfiglobalnews.com/2023/04/10/bidens-barks-no-match-for-amlos-mexican-nationalization-bites/
There should be a law prohibiting federal agencies from sending government employees to foreign destinations in the conduct of performing their duties. The US treasury has absolutely no business on foreign soil whatsoever. If McCarthy wasn’t a globalist stooge he would step in a defund this misguided adventure. All the checks and balances the founding fathers put in the constitution have been circumvented by all three branches of our government who are more bound to the WEF agenda than their oaths to the constitution and serving the American people.
A really dumb move. Though these criminals are slick they are not wise.
Western “leaders” are working overtime to build support for BRICS currencies as replacements for the USD.
Where, oh where will the paleface imperialists get their future war financing, when they can no longer peddle US treasuries as collateral for Yellen-bucks?
Childish arrogance of our “leaders” doubling down on STUPID. BOOM!
More threats. That will entice other countries to help the U.S. War Mongers and European Colonies start World War 3. NOT.
Why not turn Ukraine into Austria or Switzerland and find some difficult but acceptable detente with Russia. Russia is not going away.
Lavrov made comments in reaction to this announcement. “Are we afraid of interaction of Western countries – be it the US or EU -and our neighbors? If we are really talking about interaction, interaction equal in rights, mutually beneficial, transparent, carried out in accordance with international law – no one can have any fears.”
“If the question is that, instead of interacting on the principles that I mentioned, Western countries will engage in threats, blackmail, that will force our allies to undermine relations with the Russian Federation to the detriment of their own national interests, then, of course, we will not hide our attitude to such attempts. And our Kazakh friends, our other partners in the CSTO, in the EurAsEC, in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization – they perfectly understand what is at stake.”
Lavrov and the Russians understand much better than people in our own country what is going on.
Lavrov is one smart cookie … And tough as nails. We should pay attention.
I agree with the lower picture.
Sanctions = “You must help us starve and mutilate the people !”