{"id":61363,"date":"2022-01-08T09:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61363"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:03:19","slug":"uk-threatens-russia-with-high-impact-sanctions-over-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61363","title":{"rendered":"UK Threatens Russia With \u2018High Impact\u2019 Sanctions Over Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/01\/06\/uk-threatens-russia-with-high-impact-sanctions-over-ukraine\/\">UK Threatens Russia With \u2018High Impact\u2019 Sanctions Over Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span class=\"pagesub\">NATO foreign ministers are meeting Friday to discuss Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss\u00a0warned Russia that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/uk-working-on-high-impact-sanctions-against-russia-over-ukraine\/ar-AASvxaH?li=BBnbfcL\">the UK is working on \u201chigh impact\u201d sanctions<\/a>\u00a0Western powers could implement over allegations that Moscow is plotting to invade Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK is working with our partners on these sanctions, including high impact measures targeting the Russian financial sector and individuals,\u201d Truss said.<\/p>\n<p>For their part, the Russians have strongly denied the claim that they are planning to invade Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin is concerned with the increased US and NATO presence in the region and is seeking security guarantees that NATO won\u2019t expand further eastward.<\/p>\n<p>Truss insists that Russia is the \u201caggressor\u201d and that NATO has always been a \u201cdefensive alliance,\u201d although since the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO has waged wars of aggression in the Balkans and across the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Truss\u2019 language on sanctions echoes what is coming out of Washington. The US has warned Moscow of \u201csevere\u201d sanctions that would aim to isolate Russia from the global financial system. In a call with President Biden last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/12\/30\/putin-warns-biden-major-sanctions-over-ukraine-would-sever-us-russia-ties\/\">Putin said such sanctions could lead to the end of US-Russia relations.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Truss and other NATO foreign ministers will hold virtual talks on Ukraine ahead of planned meetings with Russia. On January 10th, US and Russian officials will meet in Geneva to discuss Moscow\u2019s concerns. On January 12th, NATO will hold a meeting with Russian officials in Brussels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Threatens Russia With \u2018High Impact\u2019 Sanctions Over Ukraine NATO foreign ministers are meeting Friday to discuss Ukraine On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss\u00a0warned Russia that\u00a0the UK is working on \u201chigh impact\u201d sanctions\u00a0Western powers could implement over allegations that Moscow is plotting to invade Ukraine. \u201cThe UK is working with our partners on these [&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":[5001,30261,1997,553,694,1109,820,821,2080,862],"class_list":["post-61363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-war","tag-dave-decamp","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61363","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=61363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61363\/revisions\/61364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}