NP - Russian Sanctions

[malignd at aol.com]

Thanks.  Will read.



-----Original Message-----
From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 6:05 pm
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Here:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/world/europe/us-imposes-new-sanctions-on-russian-officials.html?hp


-----Original Message-----
From: malignd at aol.com
Sent: Mar 17, 2014 6:00 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
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Curious as to where you got this information.  Not doubting it, but it seems to me unlikely.

Apparently, most of them have no bank accounts or assets in the US. Putin should retaliate by evicting Biden from his Moscow apartment.




-----Original Message-----
From: kelber <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, Mar 17, 2014 5:58 pm
Subject: Re: NP - Russian Sanctions


Apparently, most of them have no bank accounts or assets in the US. Putin should retaliate by evicting Biden from his Moscow apartment.


Laura

-----Original Message-----
From: David Morris 
Sent: Mar 17, 2014 5:18 PM
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Subject: NP - Russian Sanctions


http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/russia-sanctions-031714
 

The president today took the only action open to him, knowing full well that it's not going to be "enough" because nothing is ever "enough," and what about Benghazi, anyway?
"We have fashioned these sanctions to impose costs on named individuals who wield influence in the Russian government and those responsible for the deteriorating situation in Ukraine," the White House said in a statement. A senior administration official said that the goal of the sanctions was to target the individual wealth of the seven people targeted by Monday's executive order. But those same officials would not rule out further steps against the Russian government going forward.
This is something of a shrewd move. If we accept the fact that the Russian government is basically an organized cabal of kleptocrats with delusions of empire and a nuclear first-strike capability, why not bring some economic pain that might make some of the pirates turn on some of the others? Putin's power comes basically from being the first among thieves. That's how he maintains control over, among other things, the military. If some of his cronies hear their bank accounts scream, there's no telling what the consequences will be.


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