Biden's Hard Line on Russian Oligarchs

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  • scott
    Go-to Guru
    • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
    • 15799
    #1

    Biden's Hard Line on Russian Oligarchs

    The US reportedly watered down sanctions against a key Russian oligarch out of fear that disrupting his business empire could hurt the global economy
    • The US Treasury issued a special license exempting Alisher Usmanov's businesses from sanctions.
    • The move makes it legal for the oligarch's entities to continue doing business with US companies.
    • Officials reportedly feared that blocking his network of businesses could disrupt global trade.


    The US reportedly watered down sanctions against a key Russian oligarch out of fear that disrupting his business empire could hurt the global economy
    https://www.businessinsider.com/us-treasury-watered-down-sanctions-russian-oligarch-alisher-usmanov-report-2022-3
    Leaked emails obtained by The Wall Street Journal shed light on why the Treasury issued a sanctions exemption for Alisher Usmanov's businesses.



    Of course he did. This Administration is completely tone-deaf, incompetent, and corrupt.

    Watch for more of this.
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    • scott
      Go-to Guru
      • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
      • 15799
      #2
      Also, they planned to lie about it:

      In an email exchange dated March 1 reviewed by The Journal with the subject line "Usmanov mitigation," Lisa Palluconi, a Treasury official, detailed the plan for watering down sanctions against Usmanov, saying that "messaging will be that we continue to look into his entities … or something like that."
      "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
      -John Locke

      "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
      -Newman

      "Grievance groups are playing King of the Hill."
      -Newman

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        • Newman
          Behind the Iron Curtain
          • Friday, November 1, 2013
          • 25814
          #3
          Originally posted by scott View Post
          Also, they planned to lie about it:
          In an email exchange dated March 1 reviewed by The Journal with the subject line "Usmanov mitigation," Lisa Palluconi, a Treasury official, detailed the plan for watering down sanctions against Usmanov, saying that "messaging will be that we continue to look into his entities … or something like that."
          I don't know what his businesses are. We've been in the throes of a war hysteria, shutting down everything "Russian," Russian or not. There may be valid reasons for exempting something here; I don't know, as I wrote.

          But the plan to lying gets me. It's an easy habit to get into, ain't it, Lisa?

          Just add Treasury to the list: CDC, the FBI, the Joint Chiefs, the WFG just about (whole f'ing government). And her unstated assumption is the media will cooperate. She wouldn't have said what she did if she thought for a nanosecond real journalists would call her to account.



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            • scott
              Go-to Guru
              • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
              • 15799
              #4
              Originally posted by Newman View Post
              I don't know what his businesses are. We've been in the throes of a war hysteria, shutting down everything "Russian," Russian or not. There may be valid reasons for exempting something here; I don't know, as I wrote.

              But the plan to lying gets me. It's an easy habit to get into, ain't it, Lisa?

              Just add Treasury to the list: CDC, the FBI, the Joint Chiefs, the WFG just about (whole f'ing government). And her unstated assumption is the media will cooperate. She wouldn't have said what she did if she thought for a nanosecond real journalists would call her to account.


              Yep, that's the worst part. They have no intention of being honest and they know they don't have to because the lapdog media will back them up - especially with those subsidies for journalism just passed. We're all paying part of their expenses to tell us what the government has decided we need to see and hear.
              "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
              -John Locke

              "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
              -Newman

              "Grievance groups are playing King of the Hill."
              -Newman
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