{"id":10173,"date":"2015-07-18T08:21:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2015-07-18T08:21:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T13:21:14","slug":"greeces-lesson-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10173","title":{"rendered":"Greece\u2019s Lesson For Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greece\u2019s Lesson For Russia<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

\u201cGreece\u2019s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.\u201d \u2014 International Monetary Fund<\/em><\/p>\n

Greece\u2019s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot be trusted. Washington is committed to economic and political hegemony over every other country and uses the Western financial system for asset freezes, confiscations, and sanctions. Countries that have independent foreign policies and also have assets in the West cannot expect Washington to respect their property rights or their ownership. Washington freezes or steals countries\u2019 assets, or in the case of France imposes multi-billion dollar fines, in order to force compliance with Washington\u2019s policies. Iran, for example, lost the use of $100 billion, approximately one-fourth of the Iranian GDP, for years simply because Iran insisted on its rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.<\/p>\n

Russian journalists are asking me if Obama\u2019s willingness to reach a deal with Iran means there is hope a deal can be reached over Ukraine. The answer is No. Moreover, as I will later explain, the deal with Iran doesn\u2019t mean much as far as Washington is concerned.<\/p>\n

Three days ago (July 14) a high ranking military officer, Gen. Paul Selva, the third in about as many days, told the US Senate that Russia is \u201can existential threat to this nation (the US).\u201d Only a few days prior the Senate had heard the same thing from US Marine commander Joseph Dunford and from the Secretary of the Air Force. A few days before that, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff warned of a Russian \u201chybrid threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Greece\u2019s Lesson For Russia \u201cGreece\u2019s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.\u201d \u2014 International Monetary Fund Greece\u2019s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[130,195,353,1167,1467,441,584,2951,694,865],"class_list":["post-10173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-debt","tag-gdp","tag-greece","tag-hegemony","tag-iran","tag-obama","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-russia","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}