TASS — Sanctions Against Russia Do Not Work, New Measures Should Be Introduced - US Senator

Economic warfare is heating up. Can kinetic warfare be far behind?

TASS
Sanctions Against Russia Do Not Work, New Measures Should Be Introduced - US Senator

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The imperialist powers feeling their oats.

As Peters sees it, the economic war is aimed at China.

Hey, make up your mind, is it China, or Russia, or Iran, or Venezuela, or Cuba, or ? — anyone refusing to become either a US puppet state, a vassal paying tribute (like European countries), or a colony being exploited.

Looking more and more like a protection racket.

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"Now The Real Economic War Begins, With America And Europe Allied"

Eric Peters, CIO Of New River Asset Management, as excerpted from his latest Weekend Notes

Vesti — Head Russian banker speaks out from Davos - "sanctions are a full-scale economic war"

The head of VTB Bank Andrei Kostin, who is currently in Davos at the Economic Forum, has spoken out in relation to the situation surrounding Western sanctions against Russia.

"What we modestly call sanctions, in fact, is a full-scale economic war that aims to put tremendous pressure on our economy, to restrain its growth, to worsen the living conditions of our people, to worsen our economic development, and thus to influence the domestic political situation in our country, including the elections and the further course of our country's leadership," he said.

"Sanctions are a planned, systemic, comprehensive work targetted at a number of industries", Andrei Kostin believes. However, in his opinion, one should not be afraid as Russia, "of course, has a set of means to counteract this."

Fort Russ
Head Russian banker speaks out from Davos - "sanctions are a full-scale economic war"

Vesti - by Inessa Sinchougova

Unintended consequences.

TASS
Western companies are losing Russian market, energy minister notes

TASS — Russia’s disconnection from SWIFT tantamount to atomic weapon — Polish foreign minister

Economic warfare.

A possible decision to disconnect Russia from international financial message system SWIFT can be compared to an "atomic weapon," Polish Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna said on Friday. 

"If we speak about sanctions, this is an atomic weapon, an extreme measure. There is still a long list of sanctions that can be used before that. But it should be borne in mind that this weapon acts in both ways and can strike against all of us," the Polish foreign minister said at a joint press conference with UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Warsaw.... 

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on late January Russia would have no limits in its response to the country’s possible disconnection from the SWIFT system.
"We’ll watch developments and if such decisions are made, I want to note that our economic reaction and generally any other reaction will be without limits," he said.

Disconnection from SWIFT would disconnect Russia from Europe, ending financial transactions, debt repayment, etc. and it would likely provoke hardship — think immediate suspension of energy shipments — if not a financial crisis in Europe, too. It would also swiftly undermine SWIFT as a global payment system, destroying its credibility. Just bringing up the possibility has begun to undermine global cooperation based on using Western institutions. The damage has already been done. Workarounds are already in the works, and it is likely an irrevocable shift.

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Russia’s disconnection from SWIFT tantamount to atomic weapon — Polish foreign minister