My theory on the sanctions is that Putin actually wanted for Russia to be taken out of SWIFT, since it already has its own alternative system, as do China and India. They use their own national currencies, while SWIFT is mostly based around the dollar. So there's likely a major upcoming financial crisis concerning one or the other (or both), and detaching from them is a precaution.
As for the other sanctions - I find them laughable at best. Especially the censorship concerning Russian media in the EU - both RT and Sputnik are getting blocked or DDoS-ed as "government propaganda"... but Pravda is completely ignored? How come? (Though maybe it's just not that popular.) Never mind just using VPN or Tor, but it's not like digital literacy has ever been a strong suit for politicians, even younger ones.
All in all, I do think we have a Wag the Dog situation unfolding, either a complete distraction or a particular spin on certain other events. I'm pretty sure Kiev is not a fun place to be in right now, but I doubt it can be properly called a war zone.
In the meantime, I just hope they don't close the Russian stores where I live. Finding good caviar is hard enough, never mind having to make my own salads.
SWIFT is just fast way of money transfers. It is not necessary for transfers at all.
Putin never did anything really harmful for NWO or even slightly against NWO narrative. Everything from mass-surveillance to tolerance shit and of course coronahoax.
RT is very interesting thing - you will never find their most interesting english articles in russian. Especially it become noticealble with coronahoax. There even was cases when russian users of Vkontakte was banned and fall under the attention of police for disinformation for translating english RT articles and posting translations on their pages.
It is not even Wag the Dog, it is like a bad modern remake of good old movie where main plot mostly replaced with gay love story, transgender problems and BLM narrative.
We have a lot of dfferent caviars - red (salmon), black (sturgeon), white (pike), other (cod, halibut, etc). Black caviar was artificially made superluxury food. You could easily buy sturgeon from local fish farms, and it is not very expensive (twice a price of salmon and three-four times chaper than tuna), so population of sturgeon already restored, but production of sturgeon caviar is prohibited by authorities. All black caviar sold here now is imported from Turkmenia or Kazakhstan and cost mindblowing $100/50gram.
My theory on the sanctions is that Putin actually wanted for Russia to be taken out of SWIFT, since it already has its own alternative system, as do China and India. They use their own national currencies, while SWIFT is mostly based around the dollar. So there's likely a major upcoming financial crisis concerning one or the other (or both), and detaching from them is a precaution.
As for the other sanctions - I find them laughable at best. Especially the censorship concerning Russian media in the EU - both RT and Sputnik are getting blocked or DDoS-ed as "government propaganda"... but Pravda is completely ignored? How come? (Though maybe it's just not that popular.) Never mind just using VPN or Tor, but it's not like digital literacy has ever been a strong suit for politicians, even younger ones.
All in all, I do think we have a Wag the Dog situation unfolding, either a complete distraction or a particular spin on certain other events. I'm pretty sure Kiev is not a fun place to be in right now, but I doubt it can be properly called a war zone.
In the meantime, I just hope they don't close the Russian stores where I live. Finding good caviar is hard enough, never mind having to make my own salads.
SWIFT is just fast way of money transfers. It is not necessary for transfers at all.
Putin never did anything really harmful for NWO or even slightly against NWO narrative. Everything from mass-surveillance to tolerance shit and of course coronahoax.
RT is very interesting thing - you will never find their most interesting english articles in russian. Especially it become noticealble with coronahoax. There even was cases when russian users of Vkontakte was banned and fall under the attention of police for disinformation for translating english RT articles and posting translations on their pages.
It is not even Wag the Dog, it is like a bad modern remake of good old movie where main plot mostly replaced with gay love story, transgender problems and BLM narrative.
We have a lot of dfferent caviars - red (salmon), black (sturgeon), white (pike), other (cod, halibut, etc). Black caviar was artificially made superluxury food. You could easily buy sturgeon from local fish farms, and it is not very expensive (twice a price of salmon and three-four times chaper than tuna), so population of sturgeon already restored, but production of sturgeon caviar is prohibited by authorities. All black caviar sold here now is imported from Turkmenia or Kazakhstan and cost mindblowing $100/50gram.