{"id":36823,"date":"2018-08-19T11:47:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36823"},"modified":"2018-08-19T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T16:47:38","slug":"sanctions-sanctions-sanctions-the-final-demise-of-the-dollar-hegemony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36823","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions \u2013 the Final Demise of the Dollar Hegemony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-title\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/sanctions-sanctions-sanctions-the-final-demise-of-the-dollar-hegemony\/\">Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions \u2013 the Final Demise of the Dollar Hegemony?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans \u2013 confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who do not respect sanctions dished out by Trump, alias the US of A, against friends of their enemies. The absurdity seems endless and escalating \u2013 exponentially, as if there was a deadline to collapse the world. Looks like a last-ditch effort to bring down international trade in favor of \u2014 what? \u2013 Make America Great Again? \u2013 Prepare for US mid-term elections? \u2013 Rally the people behind an illusion? \u2013 Or what?<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>All looks arbitrary and destructive. All is of course totally illegal by any international law or, forget law, which is not respected anyway by the empire and its vassals, but not even by human moral standards. Sanctions are destructive. They are interfering in other countries sovereignty. They are made to punish countries, nations, that refuse to bend to a world dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like everybody accepts this new economic warfare as the new normal. Nobody objects. And the United Nations, the body created to maintain Peace, to protect our globe from other wars, to uphold human rights \u2013 this very body is silent \u2013 out of fear? Out of fear that it might be \u2018sanctioned\u2019 into oblivion by the dying empire? \u2013 Why cannot the vast majority of countries \u2013 often it is a ratio of 191 to 2 (Israel and the US) \u2013 reign-in the criminals?<\/p>\n<p>magine Turkey \u2013 sudden massive tariffs on aluminum (20%) and steel (50%) imposed by Trump, plus central bank currency interference had the Turkish Lira drop by 40%, and that \u2018only\u2019 because Erdogan is not freeing US pastor Andrew Brunson, who faces in Turkey a jail sentence of 35 years for \u201cterror and espionage\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions \u2013 the Final Demise of the Dollar Hegemony? Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans \u2013 confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who do not respect sanctions dished out by Trump, alias the US of A, against friends of [&hellip;]<\/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":[259,19347,9937,783,18938,805,4311,827,839,6278],"class_list":["post-36823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-empire","tag-peter-koenig","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-the-saker-blog","tag-trade","tag-trade-wars","tag-united-states","tag-us-dollar","tag-us-dollar-hegemony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823","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=36823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36824,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36823\/revisions\/36824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}