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So far, the American government has not imposed sanctions on Mr. Putin himself, and officials said they would not in the short term, reasoning that personally targeting a head of state would amount to a “nuclear” escalation, as several put it.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: ALoveSupreme
I would be surprised it this would actually happen. Can you imagine the tin or worms for all the other politicians that this would open?
Imagine had someone thought of targeting Clinton's personal wealth over Monica when he was caught lying? or someone so smug as the UK's Osborne and Cameron or even the Queen - not to mention the King of Saudi and all those other wealthies.
It really would be the public finally getting some power if these people could be targeted successfully for all their misdeamours and making them personally pay.
originally posted by: VirusGuard
"Targeting Putin's Personal Wealth"
Tony Blair used that excuse when sadams wealth was stolen but the facts are that it was not his personal money and belonged to the people of Libya and this excuse allowed Blair to get away with it but he did need to go into hiding for about a year afterwards.
originally posted by: wisdomnotemotion
This is the modern Russia we're talking about.
originally posted by: Rocker2013
Aside from that, the "nuclear" we are talking about here has nothing to do with weaponry, this is just a turn of phrase meaning the "nuclear option", denoting the significance of the impact such a move would have. This has nothing to do with weapons being used and everything to do with this being the ultimate method of getting to Putin with sanctions.
originally posted by: AudioOne
You got a star just for having Coltrane as your profile pic. The thread content was interesting as well... But Trane.... I think I'm going to put Crescent on right now.
originally posted by: VirusGuard
"Targeting Putin's Personal Wealth"
Tony Blair used that excuse when sadams wealth was stolen but the facts are that it was not his personal money and belonged to the people of Libya and this excuse allowed Blair to get away with it but he did need to go into hiding for about a year afterwards.
Mr Putin does not have a personal account with $40bn in it like some pepole here claim he has and trying to freeze that type of money if it's not just moved to another digital bank account might get un frozen with a few nukes from Russia or they would just seize all the assets based in Russia and tell the USA to keep it's fiat paper.
London has a property boom and I have been informed by two people that this is all Russian money pooring into property.
The OP knows thats the CDS has the wheels falling off the banking system and peope in the casino are starting to panick so maybe this phony war is also an excuse to blame it all on someone else in an attempt to avoid being hung by people in the streets.
One little suitecase bomb (39 are missing) let off in the sqare mile of london would permantly close the casino in the blink of an eye if this war ever got real and then Putin could offer Europe terms of surender for being so stupid as to letting the USA tell Europe what it can and cannot do and demand payment of this now $40bn worthless fiat paper being payed in Gold.
Logic says to me that no one is about to start playing chicken with Russia so my conclusion is that Putin is in on a deal with Obama but we will see.
originally posted by: ALoveSupreme
Thanks for making that clearer. I thought I was stressing the metaphorical nature of 'nuclear' by putting it in quotations but going back to read what I initially posted I can see I could have done better.