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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: zax who wrote (142353)3/7/2014 7:58:07 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
And it would be unnecessary. Instead, sanction the 140 oligarchs who would dump Mr. Putin in the trash tomorrow if he cannot protect their assets abroad. Target their visas, their mansions and IPOs in London, their yachts and Swiss bank accounts. Use banks, not tanks. Thursday, the U.S. announced such sanctions, but they must be matched by the European Union to be truly effective. Otherwise, Wall Street's loss is London's gain, and Mr. Putin's divide-and-conquer tactics work again.

And how do they do that? And what is their justification? The oligarchs did not direct the invasion; Putin did. Should that same strategy have been used when the US invaded Iraq........penalizing American businessmen esp if they supported the Bush administration?

In a world very much committed to business, do you go after the businessmen of a nation whenever you don't like what that nation is doing? I think not. And calling them oligarchs does not make them any more criminal.
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