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Amundi closes Russia ETF as MSCI calls time on index
Amundi has shut its last remaining Russia equity ETF after MSCI said it would discontinue index calculation on 1 March...
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Nuclear arms control treaties falling apart due to the war. US blames Russia of course.
Meanwhile, we’ll smooth things over with 100+ tanks.
I see they found some of our tax dollars
the woman leading the Kyiv tax authority was accused of massive fraud after a raid of one of her four homes
So much for that oil price cap, plenty of buyers.
and middlemen.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-16/india-now-buying-33-times-more-russian-oil-than-a-year-earlier
Last June, the Navy divers, operating under the cover of a widely publicized mid-summer NATO exercise known as BALTOPS 22, planted the remotely triggered explosives that, three months later, destroyed three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
on the military front,
on the economic front,
Peace in our time. Seizing weapons that were opposing (the US backed) Yemeni genocide, send them to Ukraine.
It’s ok if they’re SOBs as long as they’re our SOBs
and then selling the refined diesel to NY etc How India Is Turning Russian Oil Into The West's Fuel.
Index providers ending their service for the Russia stock market, causing the corresponding ETFs to shut down.
Amundi has shut its last remaining Russia equity ETF after MSCI said it would discontinue index calculation on 1 March...
Russia is using Yuan/ Rs etc to trade oil now. Apparently at record highs. I wonder how this impacts USD long term.
Could be much more detrimental compared to our billions being spent on the war
One year into Russia's naked aggression against Ukraine, it has become clear that neither side is strong enough to win the war nor weak enough to sue for peace, writes Fareed Zakaria.
If the war grinds on like this for years, it will be worth asking – are we letting Ukraine get destroyed in order to save it
our tax $ @work Apparently there is one pentagon guy on the ground there
President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired a slew of senior Ukrainian officials amid a growing corruption scandal linked to the procurement of war-time supplies, in the biggest shakeup of his government since Russia's invasion began.
Hmm … which is more surprising - that they’re doing anything about it, or that it’s getting any coverage on liberal/progressive/socialist networks? I know the coverage won’t last, or be in-depth, but that it’s getting 20 seconds on the air seems shocking.
and now Yellen makes a secret trip. Why are we footing most of the bill??
Well Sam, ahem, her trip might be the easiest to justify. She has to figure out how to secretly print the money that we’re giving away.
Evil far right peace-mongers
‘I realized that my own side was led by a bunch of incompetents and ideologues who had taken our country down a path of destruction. And for what?’
the anti-war right views this debate as an either/or proposition: either Washington stops intervening in foreign conflicts and repairs our infrastructure, forces manufacturers not to off-shore jobs, breaks up Big Tech, ends progressive dominance of the social media algorithm, and restores sanity to our politics and culture. Or it keeps wasting blood and treasure overseas, and America continues down its path of decline.
No one summed up this choice better than Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri when he said last week: “I would just say to Republicans, ‘You can either be the party of Ukraine and the globalists, or you can be the party of East Palestine and the working people of this country.’ ”
“If you paid your 10%, you don’t get sanctioned”, the oligarch edition.
Billionaires Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yelena Baturina have not been sanctioned by the Biden administration.
Yevtushenkov and Baturina partnered with Hunter Biden while searching for US property investments while Joe Biden was vice president, according to communications from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and witnesses who spoke with The Post.
Yevtushenkov allegedly expressed interest in courting the powerful political family for reciprocal “favors” and Baturina allegedly dined in 2015 with then-Vice President Joe Biden and a group including other Hunter Biden associates from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
“I think it’s very fishy,” a source with firsthand knowledge of the relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov told The Post — noting that the oligarch, estimated by Forbes to be worth $1.7 billion, is sanctioned by the UK and Australia but not by the US.
Say it’s not so - even NYT now admits it wasn’t the Russians that blew up their own nat gas sales pipeline. Who would have thought?
New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe.
(re:Zelensky, i’m sure they didnt look very hard)
I guess the US Navy is a “Pro Ukrainian group”, ala Seymore Hersh’s investigation earlier, if you read this NYT article the right way .