Sanctions
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It's been a busy week for 🇮🇳 foreign policy - 🇺🇸 rejects 🇺🇦 proposal for sanctions on 🇮🇳 for buying Russian oil - NSA Doval visits 🇷🇺 - Can 🇮🇳's "disaster diplomacy" help reset ti...
Syria, the Earthquake, humanitarian aid, sanctions. A long 🧵with facts and context:
Oil war🧵 EU’s sanctions package on Russia will impact countries like India. EU is capping what other countries can pay for Russian oil. It bans the sale of oil above that price. Th...
After Putin's mad invasion of Ukraine, the foundation of Western policy toward Russia must be that Russia will be unable to live in peace as long as the country is being ruled by P...
Lessons from Russia sanctions 1. Sanctioning a c/a surplus country is harder 2. You have to hit a c/a surplus country's exports 3. We purposefully avoided that with our carveouts 4...
> bring law (CAATSA) to extraterritorialize it's jurisdiction. >Threaten sovereign states with its imposition. > Wave the law for its own interest. >Then pretend as if did a big fa...
"Europe’s concerns have changed since #Russia invaded #Ukraine and the West responded with sanctions. In just a few weeks, energy security has eclipsed the climate crisis." https:...
1.Tharoor in Hindu t’day says world was being knit together till Ukraine war.Really? Yugo/Iraq/Libya/Syria/IS/Afg/South China Sea/ Ladakh/Yemen/Pak terror/NKorea/JCPOA, Paris Agree...
1/ What would an Energy Embargo mean for Russia? We already expect a growth contraction of -15% in 2022, yet the financial system appears to be stabilizing and Ruble is nearly back...
THREAD I argue in this @WSJopinion, that when Saudi & UAE decline phone calls @JoeBiden, rebuff request to lower oil prices & shy away from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,...
The narrative sounds simple: sanctions will crash the Ruble, isolate Russian economy, create massive inflation and hopefully Russia will cave. But the chart for EUR vs RUB stubbor...
Putin's war shows no sign of letting up. It's time to impose sanctions on the lifeblood of Russia's economy: Oil Oil is the weak spot in the pressure campaign. It doesn't have to...
I work in the aviation sector, and I can tell you that for all intents and purposes Russian aviation has - at best - about three weeks before it’s show over. One aspect is the fa...
Today, I am authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to Russia. This will impose severe costs on the Russian economy — both immediately a...
27 years after the US designated #Sudan as a state sponsor of international terrorism, President Trump signals his intention to lift the designation & the associated sanctions. 🧵 h...