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.
The power of 0’Bama compels you–to support Ukraine and fight Russia!
They should put the question to their own countrymen first (sorry I am Canadian, that should be countrypersons first).
Good luck with that
They’re gonna need it.
Correct.
Note to current administration: Blackmail and extortion only work if there aren’t any other big guys on the block as an alternative. Otherwise it’s just empty threats.
Broadcasting impotence is a poor battle plan.
Nothing to back it up. They have no barter. No leverage. No dollar. Only a weak little man.
I hope that “weak little man” winds up under a bridge holding a tin cup.
They have Five Eyes intelligence/blackmail to threaten those countries with. They know which ones have been slave trafficking, shady/illegal financial deals, which leaders are pedophiles, etc… I’m sure they have more than we would want to know or imagine about these countries and their leaders. That is what they have to back up their threats – like a big Mafia.
Yup. They may have just as much on Joe. It’s Spy vs. Spy
And that’s how they control him.
We already know most of the dirt on Joe, but it’s less effective without also having control of weapons systems like Twitter and CNN.
” Antonio Prohías (January 17, 1921 – February 24, 1998) was a Cuban-American cartoonist. He was the creator of the satirical comic strip Spy vs. Spy, which he illustrated for Mad magazine from 1961 to 1987.”
IMO, he was prescient.
I remember those black and white Spy comics, and looked forward to them each time the Mad mag came out.
How about a Republican Alvin Bragg start looking into the Lefty and Righty gang! I’m sure they can find a lot on Obama, Clinton, and slo’ Joe! The can of worms has been opened and the worm can turn! Tit for tat! There’s a lot of officials that can pee their pants!
You mean they know who their “partners” they have been working with in “slave trafficking, shady/illegal financial deals, which leaders are pedophiles, etc…”
Unfortunately, that goes both ways.
So, let them go for it. It will matter not once the economy tanks and the USA can no longer provide what they have always provided. Even the clueless will get a clue when they are personally affected.
Exactly. A big fake/hollow “threat” which will go nowhere, now that the entire EU knows the Biden regime was behind the blowing up of the Nordstream pipeline. Further, the BRICS is gathering steam with even more countries considering joining them. This installed failing regime likely bit off more than they can chew.
Pure comedic gold ✨️
“Keep doing business with countries that represent 50 percent of the global economy.”
I may need to brush up on my math but it sounds like the choice is to do business with 50% of the global economy.
Your math is exactly right, no rust involved.
What maroons!
Reminds me of Germany Foreign Minister Annalein Baerbock making statement recently that Germany would only deal with Russia if Russia did a 360 degree turn.
Yup….she said that! I had to watch that clip twice just to make sure I heard it right 😅 !
And we wonder why the World is so messed up…
Maff is hard…en stuff….!!!
Yeah, but our 50% is much larger than the other 50%.
/s
You know how a Commie can’t let go of a Narrative – They can’t let go of a War either.
Economist,
Are you an advocate of the Austrian School of Economics?
Unlimited pudding*, but, only if you comply.
*While supplies last.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat*?
*New & improved, now with added mRNA “flavor enhancers”
I just wonder how this all works out with all those that were vaxxed! Eating all that infected plants and animals, A lot of people are gonna have a lot of mRNA in their system! Just how are the elites going to find out what to buy at the supermarket?
You, behind the bikesheds! Stand still (for your shot), laddie!
Just as you would handle the run of the mill narcissist – other countries are just going to ignore this faux administration.
Yes, JWoo. They need to be treated like the child throwing a tantrum. Ignore them.
Perfect! That’ll finally kill off the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. All according to the Bidinh plan … “knocking America off her high horse” as desired by Obama
The typical Lefties have yet to realize it will affect them as well. The Lefties are gathering around Dylan Mulvaney in celebration of him in a bathtub with a 6 pack of Bud Light.
They do not get it and will only realize it once their own bank accounts crash. Bring it on. It’s the only way they will see they are being played, used. Unfortunately, we will also suffer.
“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Vice President Joe Biden. (From an interview in 2014)
Unfortunately, this quote has aged far too well and we are now approaching the FIFTH decade of Joe being spectacularly wrong! The combination of ignorance and arrogance might have been amusing at first, and then later perhaps embarrassing for his defenders, but now his “errors in judgement” are endangering millions of people and the stability of the world as we know it!
And still, the band plays on…
I’m probably not supposed to say this, but I hope the BRICS takes off and gains ground, even accumulating more countries to join them. The Leftist Government (Biden Regime) in the USA needs to collapse and yes, cause suffering and harm to We the People, and to the clueless Lefty Libtards as well, before the citizens of both sides will say “NO MORE; BEGONE BIDEN/OBAMA REGIME.”
When everything here collapses and people are suffering, the Left also wins. They will simply Build Back Better , WEF style.
No they won’t. They will simply murder the weak, coral the stupid, and be left fighting those who have the balls!
Brian Nelson, yet another unelected Bureaucrat Lawyer and Yale graduate….
Stacey Abrams graduated from Yale! Well, she didn’t so much “graduate” as was given a degree because she was eating Yale out of house and home!
Yale: “Would you like a pizza or a burger Stacey?”
Stacey: “Both!”
Send her to squat on the noncompliant countries.
Thought bio-chemical weapons were outlawed?
We are all aware that graduating from Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford means nothing of real importance any more. With the economy in free-fall and the BS going on with this Regime, I predict “game over” in their very near future. Heck, even the EU is starting to acknowledge it.
Do what the Biden crime syndicate — correction, “administration” — says or they’ll send Samantha “Supermodel” Power to look at you with her excruciating face!
This Liz Rosenberg would give Samantha Powers a run for the money in the evilness and looks department(check her out in her Treasury Dept page – https://home.treasury.gov/about/general-information/officials/Elizabeth-Rosenberg).
Among her resposibilities : “the use of targeted financial measures to advance U.S. national security.”
also “she published and spoke on the national security and foreign policy implications of the use of sanctions and economic statecraft”
All everyone has to do is follow the links.
She is part of CNAS. So was Nuland.
CNAS gets a lot of its funding from Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, US State Department, Facebook, Google, JP Morgan,BP,Chevron, etc.and even large donations from….Taiwan.
Easy to see who she really represents.
I learned from The New Atlas to look up the letter organization and see who sponsors, donates and supports.
2 defense contractors (MIC); 2 social media companies (IC); Old Bank (legacy IC – US & UK); BP (the Crown and UK IC); Chevron (descendant of old Rockefeller dynasty – US banking, pharma & US IC)
And the plot thickens!
Good research!
She looks like a semi ran over her face and her nose went up between the duals.
The white house imbecile’s representatives, are frankly targeting the countries, from a position of weakness. The US has no leverage. This administration is the past, and like it or not, at this point, Russia is the future.
They are imbeciles and they do operate from weakness. Who’s running things? Susan Rice and Jill Biden?
Anyone notice that it is the Treasury Dept (not the STATE DEPT) going to other countries to ‘negotiate’ our support of our foreign policy?
Who were those people going to other countries for the Treasury Dept to apply pressure, and who is the head of the Treasury Dept?
Every. Single. Time.
BTW, Treepers, anyone hear the news today about Musk being in China around the same time as Macron and penning a deal using Chinese money (subsidies) to build one of his manufacturing facilities there?????
On Musk – Told ya!
Anymore doubts about the Taibbi thing? He was chosen for a reason and played his role to perfection.
Carlson and the J6 video footage? 1-2 nights of coverage that most of us already knew, then nothing!
But it was Murdoch/Ryan that stopped him!
You don’t think McCarthy knew that? If McCarthy really wanted the people to see, he would release it to someone who would release it all!
Back to Musk: On the domestic front:
Tesla & Solar City – BBB / green agenda subsidized
Twitter – IC subsidized
At national levels – double agent.
On the international level – All WEF!
See the patterns? Enjoying the DS/IC sitcoms?
I appreciate your thoughts yet I can’t understand your “shorthand” when using such abbreviations the Pentagon would truly love. BBB,IC, WEF, DS/IC. You could perhaps widen your audience and understanding if more viewers understood what those letters represented, as opposed to guessing. Then again, maybe that train left the station prior to my arrival.
Most of us know these on this site, but I’ll help you out.
BBB – Build Back Better (Biden Administration initiative)
IC – Intelligence Community – you will Sundance use these frequently on this site
DS – Deep State – ditto – common parlance
WEF – World Economic Forum – used everyday everywhere in MSM and alternative media
Or the Central Banks and their Nazi compatriots in Switzerland via the Bank for International Settlements BIS panicking due to their Eurodollars, all 41 trillion (est) becoming worthless FIAT toilet paper. Which they have always been.
Thanks. I’ll have to check that out. Wasn’t aware.
Yes, I get it. That is why I am cheering on the BRICS’ initiative. Russia and the BRICS need to put the current Obiden Regime in their place, at the bottom. where they belong. I, for one, have had enough of their gaslighting and illicit takeover of our government. I applaud anybody and everybody who will crush these satanic illegitimate WH squatters. Bring it on, world.
Hear, hear!
Meanwhile, here’s a story about how the GDP of the 5 Brics member states is LARGER than the traditional G-7 economies including the us, Canada, uk, Germany, etc.
They also reveal the rush to join Brics by a growing number of countries that are dissatisfied with the abuse and corruption by America and it’s puppets using the old economic system.
Heck of a job biteme!
https://www.rt.com/business/574303-brics-g7-share-global-economy/
Or/and this https://www.thefinancialtrends.com/2023/04/10/brics-surpasses-g7-on-gdp/
Not only are Countries joining BRICS while fleeing the traditional G-7 economies, but also those economies are where most of the potential market growth lie.
Prepare accordingly.
Oil=energy
Energy=growth
More fundamental transformation; perfect for those posing as important, but hapless. I pray that those representing our government will have their hearts changed from bullying to supporting other viewpoints – diversity of thought, please.
Sounds like a threat to me, but what do I know?
A2 was in China. Are you A2? Just wondering….
Look at our success with the Cuban embargo!!! The government is going to collapse soon!!!!
That may be what is needed in order to rebuild it the way is was meant to be. “…clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…” until these clowns and jokers are taken down with real consequences, they will not acknowledge what the Regime is doing.
Unfortunately, We The People, who understand what is gong on, will also suffer the consequences, especially the financial consequences. I recommend we “gird our loins” mentally and metaphysically, to let this crap take place so we can then offer the solution and annihilate these Leftists.
I am, and have been for a very long time, of the mind that through the understanding of what is going on I find it easier to depend on God, and to acknowledge His will. I don’t need to use a lot of energy fighting within myself which road to choose even though suffering is inevitable. I have known how the game is going to end, and c’est la vie.
Walls are closing in!
All the countries are being put on double secret probation.
These cretins are making the rest of the world wonder how long we’re willing to put up with this crap.
Yes. The buck stops with US: We The People.
It is us who allow these monsters to practice their dreadful perversities. The abominable rot in Washington D.C. must be destroyed and only We can do it. How best to do so is the only question.
Do not make peace with evil. Destroy it.
Currently, we do not wield enough power to take these monsters to task. But it looks like Russia and the BRICS are going for it. I applaud them. And I hope they succeed. Sorry, NOT sorry if you disagree with me on this.
So, countries left and right are searching for ways to work outside the US dollar for a number of reasons including avoiding the effects of potential sanctions if they put a toe wrong… and our answer to that is to make more threats of sanctions.
That ought to help world leaders feel more confident about being partners with the US.
There’s no way I buy that these choices are just bad decisions. To me, this is just more proof this is all on purpose.
The whipping will continue until morale improves!!!
So you are saying that the current Regime in power in the US WANTS OUR government to fail? If so, that sounds like Biden owes China and Ukraine for all the money they “gave” gave him in the past. They helped install him so that they could “own” him and collect their dues.
I’m not surprised. Looking forward to all the ignoramuses in this country waking up to their empty wallets and food scarcity, etc.
On the other hand, will they ever get it????? I am so frustrated with the amount of ignorant people in the USA.
I am too but I wish you wouldn’t rush empty wallets on all of us just because 50% of this country are ignorant idiots which includes TPTB……and my brother, who told me this weekend there was no such thing as digital currency or food scarcity.
Maybe he’s right, even though he is a stupid liberal because it looks like we will be skipping that digital currency step. Things are moving too fast and maybe they will be too busy to initiate that agony on us.
If you don’t mind, I think I will just wish for a nuke straight into DC. You know, the K.I.S.S method.
More and more the U.S. is viewed internationally as the “Evil Empire “. Does it not stand to reason that at some point the nations of the world will band together to rid the earth of this scourge?
They don’t have to do it militarily, they can achieve that with financial warfare, so to speak. BRICS is the beginning of that process, already set in motion.
Yes, and I applaud them. This Regime is a disaster and needs to be taken down. They are a bunch of ideological imbeciles that ASSUMED they have all the power. The BRICS and others are calling them out.
Right up to the moment they discover Russia/China are worse!
Stick with the Devil you know?
Or go for an alternative?
Right now it appears China has the upper hand. They are brokering peace deals. They are offering trade deals.
US and the West are promoting Sanctions and more War.
bs ..globalist
I think the rest of the nations are waiting on our own internal 5th column to destroy ourselves.
Considering the economic weight of the BRICS nations, it’s unlikely that the US Treasury is representing ‘50% of the globe’s economy’.
These people are living in the past. The economic world is moving on from the American bully.
The government still acts as though they are the only game in town and it is becoming increasing clear they are not.
They will be politely but firmly rebuffed. As their power wanes, their threats become increasingly hollow.
Oh, that’s going to work out just fine. No problems at all. Look how many swear words they’re going to learn in foreign languages. How many ways can they be told to STFU and “Yankee, go home” do you think?
Side note: I was a waitress in a Chinese restaurant, blue eyes and all, in the mid-70ies. I wish I could remember all the curse words and phrases the cooks and Chinese waiters taught me. Pro tip: Never, ever ask for butter for your steamed rice in a Chinese restaurant. Just saying…
Real power is an attractant, it pulls. It seldom needs to push.
Julian Assange’s alleged online Advocate also known as “The Errant Friend”, or “E” for short, posted this on telegram.
“Continuing the trend of Nations abandoning US foreign policy. French President Macron has returned from a trip to China to criticize both the U.S. position on Taiwan, and the instability of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
It is likely, on the heels of their 21 billion dollar shipbuilding Yuan deal, that France will be the next country to move toward the Chinese Yuan as their preferred method of trade; since it comes without the theater of war attached to its usefulness.
Ukraine
“As part of the leaked documents on the US war in Ukraine, people have learned that the US intended to pressure third parties, chiefly Israel, to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine.
How well do you think they can operate in the light though?
Do you think public knowledge of these plans will make that more difficult?
I was betting on that when revealing their secrets, that we might move to end a war much faster with a good dose of truth.
Sometimes, all it takes is a little light.” – E
So… why are we incentivizing folks to join BRICs?
The controlled demolition of the Dollar continues– from the inside.
Because this administration hates the United States and all it stands for?
China owns all the Bidens.
and I hope they roast ’em on a barbeque spit.
What would be an example of a backfire?
Lets see… Since nothing is actually “made” in the USA, those countries join the BRICs nations and sell all of their US Dollars required for trade back onto the market. This will cause a swell of dollars to return to the US, devaluation, and collapse of the dollar.
Look up project Sandman.
Gonzalo Lira just posted YouTube recently on what it means described in layman’s terms.
It’s pretty good.
And you know…
…if President TRUMP were doing this, the M.S.M. and every DEM would be screaming “BLACKMAIL! EXTORTION! TREATING OUR ALLIES LIKE ENEMIES!!!”
…and such activity would be listed among the articles for his IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL!
But not with The Manchurian Marionette! It is “pressure” to “do the right thing.”
Because Russia is evil…and the DEMS want the monopoly on Evil in this world!
Oh how I hope the evil scumbags get what is coming to them, and soon!
records obtained from our investigation into the circumstances surrounding the Mar-a-Lago raid further confirm that the FBI obtained access to these records through a “special access request” from the Biden White House on behalf of the DOJ.
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“specialists in sanctions and terrorist financing”
the whole FJB admin are specialist in sanctions against their political and ideological opposition as well as being specialist in funding their own leftist terrorist.
Rubio, Graham, and a bunch of other warmongers want us to send out children to die for Taiwan. Do any of these dolts understand logistics or anything else about war? The US Navy would be sunk before it got close. If they are so keen on dying for other countries, let them saddle up and go. We should all call their offices and let them know that Americans are tired of their wars. I’ll send some money to any candidate who challenges these jerks.
Just doing a list of politicians (warmongers) who are promoting getting involved in Taiwan should be a red flag for everyone.
Taiwan = Ukraine 2.0.
We are being “led” by wilful idiots.
After Russia the same will be applied to the US in the eyes of green energy.
Material or support for oil and gas production.
And keep doing business that represents 50 percent of Global energy in the petroleum field.
Americans Liz Rosenberg and Brian Nelson should be arrested and prosecuted in the first country they attempt to blackmail. In fact, an international criminal warrant for their arrest should be immediately issued so they may be detained wherever they land and quickly delivered for trial.
Narrative evolving as it goes to make sure it appears we care about the dollar.
That’s the ticket!
Next send Pete Buttigieg to threaten them with him showing how to solve their transportation and supply and Demand issues!
Then maybe our DoJ to show how to maintain law and order and the art of persecution.
I’m sure all these countries are clamoring for lessons on election integrity and our outstanding public education.
Matter of fact, how about we just send our entire and oh so brilliant government overseas to ensure our ………Ya know, the thing?
All kinds of comical scenes coming our way from this clown show. US Delegation: “You will comply with our policy or we will expose your illegal activities!”
Host Delegate turns to secretary and says “Can you please go get the Biden file? And maybe the Clinton file too, eh?”
Why is the U.S. Treasury Dept messing around in the State Depts’s turf?
They already sent Blinken. Obviously he failed. No surprise.
Looks like the Blinken visit to Kazakhstan was not successful …so they send in the Treasury Department officials?
I do see the humor of the situation.
This will be interesting……
Also…..
Talk of an alternative to IMF has resurfaced in ASEAN. Only this time it appears to be gaining traction.
Yes, this entire Cabal is clueless and a total failure. They are looking at success in making the USA a Banana Republic.
We need to stop this madness. If it takes BRICS to bring us down, bring it on. This Regime needs to be crushed like the Roman Empire in their days of Hedonism and Perversion.
But Rita, we all will have EVs, fancy iWatches, mirrors that broadcast exercises, big homes, and the gratification that only the bad humans still use coal, oil, and natural gas.
Don’t worry folks, Uncle Joe’s got this!!!
Its time the American people joined Russia, China, Brazil, India, etc. and dump the Federal Reserve worthless funny money in favor of a currency backed by value such as gold and silver. Then we can perhaps dump the central bank gangsters.
LMAO! A couple of schmucks from Treasury are going to threaten who? They will be lucky not to get thrown out on their asses is my bet.
I think as other countries turn their backs on the USA, the USA will become an isolated country.
I wonder when smart businesses will start moving things back to this country? I feel like things are about to go down.
This is how we operated best and rose to our zenith
It’s the state department that’s supposed to go out and pound on the table and make demands and issue ultimatums (negotiation and diplomacy are so passe), what is this with sending treasury people out? LoL
At this point I have to say GOOD let them try. Americans and Western Citizens have been held hostage by these people and their elite oligarchs. Unfortunately its not likely companies like Busch and Nike will ever go broke. They’re not putting Mulvaney on cans for consumer money even though I sincerely believe the marketing bimbo firmly believes it will work. Execs are doing it so they can be rewarded with ESG points. In sane times that would be the kiss of death but if you believe we are a rational society you most likely believe Brandon got 81 million votes.
If you want to truly see who is winning WW3 simply look outside to places that haven’t been captured by the GAE. In one year since the hostilities in East Europe kicked off these countries have only become emboldened. If they are anything like us they view US/EU through the same prism. A society of weak immoral fools that have become entitled to the point of narcissistic rage.
These so called Western Elite have brought us to a fork in the road. Their lust for absolute power has led us to only 2 choices and they are not mutually exclusive. One is WW3 and Two is abject poverty. I suppose it could be something in between but I don’t hold out much hope for a solution which circumvents both. They tried to buy and intimidate the world and sold us all down the river instead.
Trump caused a firestorm on Twitter yesterday (that is not a typo). He posted “World War III” from his T Social feed. It was pretty cryptic as it didn’t seem to correspond to his other posts. Found it as Kim Dotcom had highlighted it. Kim offered some reasonable suggestions such as a full out Blue Collar Strike (think Canadian Truckers). Another guy Aaron Day who is supposedly running in 24 on the R ticket suggested a bank run. If done correctly both could be a very powerful weapon wielded by the people America seems to kick the hardest.
WWIII was #1 trending yesterday evening. Most were from the lefty perspective. I usually ignore their kind but I couldn’t stop reading their posts. I looked at it way too long and went from anger/disgust to black pilling myself again. The left in this country has been encouraged to take of the gloves and that is exactly what they have done. The most troubling thing for me is know how many people out there who are not that far gone, who cannot seem to connect the dots. Their compliance and silence with this lunacy all in the name of sabotaging DT has greenlighted the collective rage.
Good time to buy Goldbacks.
I researched those. Not impressed – hard to trade as I recall. Buying gold jewelry instead. I know something about that stuff.
>>> “Trump caused a firestorm on Twitter yesterday (that is not a typo). He posted “World War III” from his T Social feed. It was pretty cryptic as it didn’t seem to correspond to his other posts.
I have, perhaps, a different interpretation of President Trump’s post.
Could it have been a personal declaration of war?
~ EM
Anything is possible but probably not. Actually he was catching some grief from liberals who wanted him “gagged” because according to them he was trying to start a war so he wouldn’t be prosecuted smh. I believe that would fall more in line with a Civil War or Revolution. I suspect he was referring to Chinese ships circling Taiwan at the present time. He just posted this today. I think he’s trying to warn people that it is closer than many of us understand.
“The way the U.S. is going, we will soon be in World War lll, with NO AMMUNITION!”
Not only will be low on ammo but also low on capable fighting men. FJB and the leftists have done a terrific job over the years esmasculating the population. They no doubt target the people they deemed to be the greatest threat to their control. Works great for social control but not so well for fighting wars.
Sounds to me, that they are running out of bullets, and this is their final push to intimidate countries.
Gotta love some ole’ USA/CIA/STATE/TREASURY extortion.
The brand name goes way, way back.
It’s who we are, and what we do.
“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
“I’m haunted every day by what I did as an economic hit man (EHM). I’m haunted by the lies I told back then about the World Bank. I’m haunted by the ways in which that bank, its sister organizations, and I empowered US corporations to spread their cancerous tentacles across the planet. I’m haunted by the payoffs to the leaders of poor countries, the blackmail, and the threats that if they resisted, if they refused to accept loans that would enslave their countries in debt, the CIA’s jackals would overthrow or assassinate them. I wake up sometimes to the horrifying images of heads of state, friends of mine, who died violent deaths because they refused to betray their people. Like Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth, I try to scrub the blood from my hands. But the blood is merely a symptom.”
― John Perkins, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Assange’s (alleged) advocate known as E posted this to Telegram:
What is taking place in Ukraine, so you understand what the US is actually doing. It is a process called Debt-Trapping:
In a scenario where central banks connected to the US buy out Ukraine’s infrastructure during a manufactured war, the central banks use a strategy that involves providing high-interest loans to Ukraine with probable lengthy windows to repay at first. The default, or likelihood of default on these loans will subsequently trigger the credit default swaps purchased by the foreign banks, which allow them to earn profits at the expense of Ukraine.
A Credit Default Swap (CDS) is a financial instrument used by investors to hedge against the risk of default on a debt obligation by a borrower. In the case of Ukraine, it would allow a foreign bank to bet on the country’s default on its debt obligations as a means of profiting from it.
The foreign banks offering the swaps are essentially selling insurance to investors. If Ukraine defaults on its debt obligations, the investors who purchased the swaps will receive a predetermined payout from the bank, offsetting their losses from the default. This creates an incentive for foreign banks to encourage Ukraine to take on more debts with higher interest rates, because they are betting on the country’s default rather than its ability to pay back the loans.
Once Ukraine defaults on its loans (again by design), the foreign bank can use this as an opportunity to buy out Ukraine’s infrastructure assets, such as natural resources, businesses, and infrastructure. This type of maneuvering allows the banks to use the country’s financial ruin as a way to gain control over its assets.
The acquisition of Ukraine’s infrastructure by foreign entities following a manufactured war would create a situation where the country is stripped of its resources and industries by the foreign power, leading to social and political unrest, and a loss of control over its destiny. Such actions typically have long-lasting implications for the people and countries involved.
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They aren’t actually betting on Ukraine winning. They are simply emptying the country out, and taking it over for profit, and betting on its eventual loss sealing the deal.
Not saying it’s right. I think I’ve read China does the same thing.
nope. China does debt to build infrastructure that will support trade. China must do trade to survive. They are trying to build markets.
The western banker’s cabal just wants control and payments.
Yep, the American rulers are like the Mafia. Take what isn’t theirs, and kill if refused.
The U.S. government has been a criminal organization for many decades.
Wet and dry work is carried out daily in this country and around the world.
So does China. They do it through predatory lending. They’ll lend the money to build your asset, for example a shipping port, and if you don’t make payments on time, they get asset. Part of their belt and road strategy.
Sounds no different than if you and I took out a loan to buy a boat. If we don’t pay, it’s repossessed. China is doing nothing that is not done to us for lack of payment. What the US does is, as others have said, akin to how the Italian mafia handles business.
hmmmm…..any way one looks at it, this all leads to the US being left behind.
And you think China does all that for free? No.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/21/china-debt-diplomacy-belt-and-road-initiative-economy-infrastructure-development/
Seems like a modern day version of imperialist & colonialist exploitation.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen. — Woody Guthrie, “Pretty Boy Floyd”
Great points. However, I am praying that BRICS will be successful and cause an uprising, which our Regime has no standing. It NEEDS to happen (even to those of us who are America First). I pray that we see this installed Regime fall hard and be crushed. If it doesn’t happen, the USA as we have known it for over 240 years is finished. Besides the BRICS movement, even the EU is not on board with this socialist Regime. Even Macron had some harsh words today,
The EU worked hard to install this junta. They knew that they were getting Obumbler on steroids.
Macron was bought by Xi
Same thing happening in the U.S.
We are at the end of the beginning of the process.
Seems the song remains the same. And we are now learning the tune.
Great posts. Bankers have been doing this forever it seems. I wish we would back the leaders that try to buck the central bankers, but the U.S is dumbed down by propaganda and the enforcer for the bankers. Gaddafi of Libya turned that country around because he issued their own currency just like Germany did before WWII. That is why the bankers declared war on Germany.
Just like the good ol mafia we knew and loved…
Truly hideous. I hate these people. If they ARE actually “prople”.
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
War for any other reason is simply a racket. There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism. It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”– Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, 1933
Rest in the Vine: Ukrainian Rhapsody: To the DC War-Mongers, America is the Foreign Country
Yet they ignore reality and his name is Macron.
They ignore it in peril.
The UN speaks out of both sides of their mouth. All the time. Time to dissolve the UN. If they ever had a non-partisan role in the world, they have abandoned what they initially stood for. Now they are just another arm of the Globalists.
US runs the UN.
You mean the Lefties in the US. Also, China has a huge influence, along with the CHICOM and the WHO. They are all run by the same Polictic/NWO/WEF, etc.
I am looking forward to BRICS and more countries joining them to call out and demolish this Cabal. Yes, We, Patriots will suffer along with the rest of the world initially, but in the end we will take back OUR COUNTRY.
Prepare for a reckoning, Patriots.
Yes, the US. I believe it is the uni-party Swamp Critters.
China recently tried to get UN to investigate Nordstream.
It was a No-go.
Same with the Ukraine bio-labs. UN refused to investigate.
US totally runs UN.