The Treasury Department sanctioned four Ukrainians on Thursday for being alleged “FSB pawns,” including two people who worked with Paul Manafort in Kyiv.
Why did this take so long?
Timing not coincidental. Sending a message to the folks around Putin that their personal lives and travel plans to their mansions in London will get tricky if they don’t nudge him a bit about maybe not invading Ukraine tomorrow.
Only a matter of time until the Times or the Post snags Josh Kovensky.
Naw. He actually calls up folks in Ukraine and interviews people and does research and shit.
He’d last a New York Minute at either the WaPo or NYT for the sin of committing actual journalism.
Today’s Republican Party has more Russia connections than Aeroflot.
(h/t Garry Kasparov)
Do you really think under Trump’s maladministration this would have been allowed to happen?
Across the West, the devices the Right have used to maintain power have been supercharged by an aggressor with enough money to mint traitors and fill an office block with people willing to talk crap on the internet.
If you factor in the fact that the working population of the country has had their hopes driven from them by sending all the manufacturing to China, it is only fair to say that the Communists won the Cold War.
And, the members of the Republican Party are pink, right down to their underwear! (h/t to Richard Nixon in his political race against Helen Gahagan Douglas).
Remind me to tell my college-student kid to major in witch-hunting.
If that’s the case that we lost the Cold War then Vietnam is when we lost. We had to give China access to western banks to get them to stop supplying NVA. Now just look.
Treasury Department Sanctions Two Ukrainians Who Worked With Manafort
Just don’t call them “oligarchs”. That would make judgy-wudgy unhappy.
He might not take well to the level of editorial redirection that is routinely practiced in those places.
Which is where we won. We’ve got a strangehold on the world’s economy via SWIFT, it’s how we can cripple russia in seconds after they cross the border into Ukraine.
They’ve been trying to get an alternative up, but that thing’s handling like literally a few tens of thousands of dollars in transactions, an absolute joke.
Or having to “balance” his articles on Ukraine with the Moscow point-of-view.
Yup. If we cut them off from SWIFT their oil trade is dead in the water. Biden basically told them yesterday that they will be cutoff from all Western banks if they set foot in Ukraine, at his press conference.
We should also cut all their links to the World Wide Web by laying siege to their fiber links. Isolate them COMPLETELY - the world can do just fine without them. The issue is that the Russians have nukes so the question is how dangerous will they become when their economy rapidly implodes.
Not gonna go nuclear. Russia’s got their big populations just crowded way to close together in too few places. Lose Moscow, it’s basically over for the country.
We can afford to lose D.C., NYC and a few others and still have a totally functional country, just a mess to clean up, but not existential.
Good points. They have vulnerabilities we don’t have. Our SSBN fleet remains our biggest threat, is essentially our final volley if everything else goes to Hell and would end their existence, and they know that.
Speaking of kookooranians, what’s going on with Lev and Igor?
What, is Josh caught up in this scandal, too?