On Wednesday, the US announced another round of sanctions on Russia. According to the Treasury Department, the measures targeted “facilitators of Russian sanctions evasion.”
The Treasury Department accused the people and companies it targeted of working to evade US sanctions on Russia. The sanctions hit the Russian bank Transkapitalbank as well as a network of more than 40 individuals and entities the US said is led by Russian billionaire Konstantin Malofeyev.
Malofeyev had already been under US sanctions, which were first imposed in 2014. Wednesday’s measures also targeted Russia’s virtual currency mining by sanctioning the holding company of the Moscow-based bitcoin miner BitRiver.
Separately, the State Department announced new visa restrictions on 635 Russians, including members of the State Duma.
So far, the US-led Western sanctions campaign has done nothing to stop the fighting in Ukraine and doesn’t appear to be hurting Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose approval ratings are soaring. While the Russian economy is hurting, Russia’s ruble has already recovered from the crash it took when Putin first invaded Ukraine, and inflation in Russia has slowed to pre-war levels.
The US and its allies are digging in for the long-term as the EU is planning to phase out Russian energy despite the damage it will do to Europe’s economy. At this point, the sanctions have exemptions for energy deals, although President Biden has banned the import of Russian oil, gas, and coal into the US.
Doesn’t this remind of anyone of how Germany, reviled, broke, made to scrabble in unholy ways for money after WWI reemerged as…nothing good.
Ok so maybe we don’t ask for reparations. Do remember that Germany was a large civilized country in the heart of Europe with significant industrial potential. Russia isn’t, they are a backwards poorly governed country perpetually enviously looking at Europe but due to their deficiencies never able to join the club.
Here is a joke,, what doesn’t buzz and what doesn’t fit in your ass?
A Russian made ass buzzer.
Better hope that applies to those thousands and thousands of nukes.
I don’t understand this threat of global nuclear war. Do dummies think there is a win there? Do you suppose it generates sympathy in the world for Russian culture and civilization?
NAZI humor.
Mentality here; If not Pro Putin, must be Nazi.
A clear sign that the person has been brainwashed 🙂
Let’s see how things look this time next month.
This looks like driving a complete schism between US and Russia, or the west and others. In the end the split will spread right across the UN, economics and communication, the web, press and everything. They simply won’t share anything, not least any sense of law or politics. This will make the cold war look like a polite pause.
US Announces Another Round of Sanctions on US
I love how we always sneer about countries who ‘evade sanctions’ as if we have the God given right to impose them and make it sound like people who oppose us are criminals.
We even threaten other countries if they do not go along with us as we warn about the ‘China threat’.
More US sanctions means more bullets hitting their feet…! Pretty soon US won’t be able to walk and would be on Wheelchair…!
Talk about something coming back to bite ya on the ass.
When the dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency, say buh-bye to your investments. ( Of course, most Amerikkkans can’t come up with $400 for an emergency.)
Bye-Done is such a raging incompetent that he has assured that Trump will once again be our Fearless Leader in ‘24.
“”…the EU is planning to phase out Russian energy…””
right then. meanwhile the US still imports at least 12 million barrels of oil from russia every single month.
i predict that despite any phony sanctions, uncle sam will keep buying oil from russia and will simply resell it to europe. way to go uncle sam.