The UK Has A Plan To Cut Off Russian Businesses From The Rest Of The World

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The UK Has A Plan To Cut Off Russian Businesses From The Rest Of The World

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The United Kingdom will push the European Union this weekend to consider the most punitive sanctions yet against Russia for its involvement in escalating the crisis in Ukraine.
According to Bloomberg, the U.K. plans to propose blocking Russia from the SWIFT banking transaction system, a move analysts say would effectively cut off Russian businesses from the rest of the world's financial system. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will put forward the proposal during a meeting with E.U. leaders in Brussels on Saturday.
"This would be a major escalation of the sanctions. Most international payments flow through SWIFT. Banning Russian banks and companies from SWIFT would effectively cut off Russian businesses from the rest of world," said Bruce Johnston, a London-based analyst at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
"It would also have a major impact on European businesses who need to paid by Russians, and want to consume Russian energy."
The move would have a significant effect on Russia's banking sector, as many financial institutions across the world use the system. According to SWIFT's website, it transmitted more than 21 million financial messages per day in July. It helped process payments among more than 10,500 financial institutions and corporations across 215 different countries.
Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the  Foundation for Defense of Democracies, compared the potential move to one leveled on Iranian institutions in 2012.
"SWIFT is the electronic bloodstream of the global financial system," he told Business Insider in an email. "Cancelling Putin's credit card could have far reaching consequences for the Russian economy as Iran discovered when scores of its financial institutions were expelled from SWIFT in 2012."

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David Cameron will propose blocking Russia from the SWIFT network.

The U.S. and E.U. have imposed multiple rounds of sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. Most recently last month, they leveled targeted sanctions on Russia's energy, arms, and finance sectors. But so far, the sanctions have not changed the calculus of Russia or President Vladimir Putin.
This week, the conflict has sharply escalated, as Ukraine, NATO, and the West said Russia sent troops across the border to fight with pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern regions of the country.
This week, the rebels have opened a new front  in the cities of Amvrosiivka and Starobeshevo. One  fear is that Russia is attempting to create a land link between Russia and the strategic peninsula of Crimea, which Russia annexed with special forces troops in March. Poroshenko said Russian t roops are  leading  a separatist counteroffensive in the east, bringing in tanks and firing artillery from inside Ukrainian territory.
President Barack Obama and European leaders have agreed on the need for new "costs" in the wake of the latest escalation, but officials in both areas are questioning the legitimacy of the strategy. In the U.S., multiple Republican lawmakers have called on Obama to provide military assistance to Ukraine, saying a political resolution to the conflict is not possible if Russia continues to pursue its goals through military means.
In Europe, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group told Business Insider he expected there to be high-profile breaks among leaders on the sanctions strategy.
"It's hard to see the west holding off for much longer in not calling Russian forces an invasion. That leads to more 'level 3' (sector wide) sanctions on Russia, yes, but we'll now see a real fragmentation of European leaders publicly calling the policy a failure and looking to break from further coordination," Bremmer said.
"After all, many Europeans have been deeply skeptical of Russian sanctions from the beginning, and to the extent that the purpose of sanctions was to prevent an invasion. That's clearly failed."

Senior Obama administration officials declined to comment about possible new sanctions on Russia during a conference call with reporters Friday about new sanctions leveled on individuals and businesses in relation to Iran's nuclear program. An administration official did not immediately respond to a subsequent request for comment.

Ukraine National Security and Defense Council

The situation in eastern Ukraine on Friday, Aug. 29.

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The UK Has A Plan To Cut Off Russian Businesses From The Rest Of The World

I don't know how many of you know this but Putin's Goal is two things: First, he wants to return to the Old Huge Russian Empire and 2nd his goal is to establish a 2nd Soviet Union. He is making the U.S., Europe, and Great Britian do this with sanctions. 

So, now he can say to the Russian People, "Oh. Those bad Europeans, Americans, British, Australians and Canadians, they took away your democracy and took away Capitalism and world trade. They are all so Bad!"

But, this is what he actually wants and cannot do directly without starting a revolution in Russia. Can you imagine how angry the average Russian is going to be at Europe, the U.S. , Great Britain, Australia and Canada? They will be angry enough to send their boys to fight us in a war like World war II because they aren't told what Putin is really doing.

Do you actually want to hear what they are hearing in Russia?

They are actually hearing that the Ukrainian government are all fascist Nazis and that the poor Russians in Eastern Ukraine are being starved by the Ukrainians. Also, unless Russian families have a son returned in a body bag they didn't know anything violent was going on. Even when their sons are returned dead from Ukraine they still aren't told how they died or that they were in Ukraine. They might suspect but don't know anything for sure.

British, U.S., European news isn't allowed in Russia now. There is a complete news blackout of western news. So, the average person knows nothing about what  you and  I know regarding Ukraine, Syria, or Iraq or ISIS.

So, in the meantime Putin is outfoxing the west with lies to his people, lies to us, lies to everyone. He is a slight of hand magician right now. He always was. Unfortunately, the Russian people never completely found out in time to stop him. 

Will the world stop him? Did they stop Hitler? How did that work out?

Once he has economically separated his economy from the rest of the world he plans to destroy the western economies directly through information already gleaned on everyone in the western world by destroying internet banking completely once he has separated the U.S. and Europe from his economy completely. 

So, his goal is not just Ukraine it is world wide domination. What about China?

I think at some point Russia and China know that they are going to have to duke it out too.

This sounds like a nuclear or economic holocaust to me. What do you think?

In regard to the internet this is what to expect: Every possible U.S. citizens bank accounts drained into Russian Controlled systems. Then this money would be used to build weapons to pay their army to fight European and British and U.S. and Canadian Armies to the death. However, meanwhile at home there is no functional internet for any business.

What we are talking about here is the end of western civilization if he follows through with this plan. Imagine Brezhnev or Kruschev has come alive and turned into Putin. Remember the saying to the western World "We will bury you!"

This was said to us by Krushchev in the 1950s but Putin believes he can carry out this threat. Think about it.

 

What is Putin's motive you might ask: "Revenge on the western world for the collapse of the Soviet Union!" This is actually quite simple to understand if you understand how Putin actually thinks.

You might say: "Putin isn't atheistic." But, this will be a Christian Soviet Union the way this all is presently going. It will also be the Russian Orthodox Church versus Catholics and Protestants.

So under Putin at least the new Soviet Union will Also be Christian to spread Russian Orthodox Religion all over the earth.

This is what is going on in Putin's mind and the minds of his friends right now.

It sort of reminds me a lot of how Hitler thought in some ways.