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ALERT: Putin Departed From His "Wait and See" Strategy

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Something isn’t right. And, whatever is happening, it is very bad news.

If you haven’t already heard, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave the U.S. and the West a stern warning on Tuesday, January 27. If future sanctions end up restricting Russia’s ability to operate via the SWIFT system that is used for international banking transactions, Russia’s response will be “without limits.”

“We’ll watch developments and if such decisions are made, I want to note that our economic reaction and generally any other reaction will be without limits,” Medvedev said.

A Stunning Threat

Threatening an unlimited response is remarkable. In war – and this is a war, by the way – responses are generally expected to be proportionate. Disproportionate responses are obviously frowned upon and, for whatever it’s worth, against international law. As a result, unlimited responses are generally restricted to situations where the threat at hand is viewed as an existential threat.

This is important. If unlimited responses are reserved for existential threats, then this means Russia is saying something very surprising. In particular, if Russia is threatening an unlimited response to a potential SWIFT ban, then they’re suggesting that this ban would be a threat to Russia’s very survival as a country.

Why is this so surprising?

As we all know, the dollar is dying. The U.S., to prop it up, is waging wars everywhere. And currently, Russia is in its cross-hairs. This is why the U.S. has been doing everything in its power – including sanctions, economic warfare, and covert operations in Ukraine – to provoke Putin to make some stupid move so that he can be blamed for the hot phase of World War 3.

How has Putin been responding to these provocations? Wisely. He has been buying gold, dropping the dollar, and patiently waiting for the U.S. to collapse under the weight of its own problems – something bound to happen fairly soon.

This Doesn’t Make Sense

Given Putin’s strategy for handling U.S. provocations, there’s one that wouldn’t make any sense to do. In particular, it makes no sense for Putin or his government to announce that they have a weak spot that will force them to make the stupid move they’ve been actively avoiding.

That would be like announcing that your quarterback has a bum left knee. You’re just begging the opponent to hit it.

But that is precisely what Putin’s government appears to have just done. When Medvedev threatened an unlimited response to a SWIFT ban, he basically told the U.S. that they can get the war they want with a simple sanction. The move appears so stupid that it demands an explanation.

What is Really Going On?

So, what’s really behind this threat? There are at least three possible explanations, and none of them inspire confidence.

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    • Ideas Time

      We are being played. Get it?

      • VirusGuard

        You could be right since both sides are talking big and not putting boots on the ground and when this all started I thought it might be about pushing oil prices up so both side could profit but that turned out to be a bad theory.

        Letting Russia get back a bit more of the Ukraine would be a price worth paying for the USA if this stops Russia trading with Europe so that the USA can soak up the trade lost by Russia even when most people know that it was the USA that started the whole afair in the first place.

        Putin might just be tired of the Nazi’s in the Ukraine attacking the east of the country and his people are demanding some action to stop the murders so he’s going to invade at last and lets remember that US sanctions was an act of war so lets not forget just who started it if nukes start flying

    • Hannon

      Lol, Obama’s job is to make empty promises, do you really think it’s any different with the Russians? I’m sure he promised all sorts of things to them that he didn’t deliver. BTW, Russia is building its own SWIFT system, what’s lost in translation and out of context in statements like this is the fact if Russia fully decouples from the west, we will collapse too. They keep offering up fair deals instead of lighting the fuse and we keep spitting in their face, but the time is going to come where they’re left with no other choice. It’s a monetary war not shooting war, their military is designed to drag you into a mud fight on their turf and bleed you out, not for global deployment, with the exception of a M.A.D. nuclear component.

    • spd1275

      Putin knows exactly what he’s doing. Iran, north Korea, and most the Arab states will start the war, Putin head forward to capture Jerusalem then Saudi Arabia. He will fail by divine intervention, but there will be consequences. China and India will march. The end times scenario will begin and God Almighty will repeatedly intervein.

      It is beginning. Scoffers, we are told, will continue to make fun of it all. Even angels in the sky announcing it will not deter God’s wrath.

      • Anonymous

        The modern representatives of the “state” of Israel do NOT acknowledge the risen Jesus as the Christ, nor do they worship and serve his Father, at the present time, and they haven’t done so since the crucifixtion and ressurection of Jesus, The Christ.

    • David Montaigne

      I think a fourth possibility exists: Putin intends to drop the dollar and when the dollar system finally implodes and western economies plunge into chaos – this move allows him to deflect blame back to the USA. In effect, Russia is saying: “You are excluding Russia from the dollar system of trade – which forced us to establish a new one – if your own system collapses because other nations start using a new a better system – you brought it on yourselves.” This may not successfully put the blame where it belongs (greedy banking leaders in New York and London) in US media. In America, Russia, China, and others leaving the dollar will be portrayed as CAUSING the next great depression (when really, the Federal Reserve’s abuse of the ability to create money from nothing has been taken to new heights.) But these recent statements will document the chain of events for Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world who will need to understand what happened and why and what method of trade and what type of currency they need to use in the future (not dollars.) It is so shameful that American leaders (elected and not) had to abuse American privileges so badly that the country will probably lose everything.

      I suspect the collapse of western economies is inevitable and cannot be delayed much longer than another 6-10 months. What I expect after that is horrific. Read Antichrist 2016-2019 – http://www.amazon.com/Antichrist-2016-2019-Mystery-Babylon-Caliphate/dp/1501025392

      • Anonymous

        The present physical money/currency based economic system is being replaced with a totally cashless economic system that will use some type of electronic/electrical brain scanning/interface device placed on human beings to identify and authenticate individual buyers and sellers. Just a matter of time. Bill Gates foundation has already invested over $100 million “dollars” in developing “innovations” for this purpose! Information on this is readily available on the Internet.

    • David Montaigne

      Watch – U.S. Government Preparing To Blame Russia For The Economic Collapse
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84924572&v=Nu9xYQFKv-s&x-yt-ts=1422411861
      While we all blame each other’s nations instead of the greedy banking elite, everything goes to hell as planned.

    • liberty

      Actually folks you’re all wrong.
      Everyone wants to pour out their opinions , but no one wants to hear what GOD has to say .

      I already know whats about to happen and even when it all ends and even how.
      God showed it all to me.
      He laid out the whole plan and confirmed it all with lots of evidence.

      The World will soon witness a Mighty Work wrought all by His Hand that will leave men in astonishment (and fear of the Lord) when they see what He is about to do.

      Obama can have or make or announce all the plans he wants, but it is GOD whom has the final say and I can tell you now , that He has allowed all that has transpired , so that in the end He can show HIS Mighty Hand,so that the world will see and to know that He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and there is no other like Him.

      He will move faster then you can possibly imagine …just when you think things are going to climax in the world.
      And He will show His Power to the whole world , in a way never witnessed before…
      and you will all be seeing this sooner then you think.

      Nope……..no one can fathom , dream or speculate what God is about to do, because His Thoughts are not your thoughts and His Ways are much higher.

      Sorry………..cant leak any details .
      No one wants to hear them anyways.
      They all want to rely on their carnal understanding.

      You’ll all have to “Wait and See”, but you heard it here first.
      I already know Gods Step by Step Plan…but you would never believe it .

      You can know it too, just TRY ASKING Him.Youll be amazed at what He can show you.

      Pay no attention to the “hype “ of the headlines or the hysterias.
      You all forget that God has the final word. Not men….and He will confound everyone.
      The Wisdom of men is Foolishness to God…

      • Anonymous

        Correct!

    • Anonymous

      Soviets perfected superweapons technologies back in 1960′s. One can only imagine where they are now with this stuff. When they say they’re going to respond “without limits” should they not be allowed to operate in the SWIFT system, then the proverbial do-do will hit a gigantic windmill! They ain’t playin’ war games any more!

    • Anonymous

      Read some info on Soviet Scalar EM weapons. At first I was skeptical, but now am not skeptical. You might want to read this:

      http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/02files/Russian_Scalar.html

    • kletus_ledbetter

      Oh boo hoo hoo, the Western nations are beating up on the Russian economy. First let me say that I’m no fan of Obama. Now that said. The Russians have started fires all over the world that the West has had to put out at a cost of trillions of dollars. The Russians have helped Iran develop their nuclear program, handed out weapons to Iran who in turn passed them out to Syria who in turn passed them on to Hezbollah. The Russians will support any terrorist organization that cost the west money. This Russian backing emboldens the terrorists. Whats happening to the Russian economy is karma. You reap what you sow. Please, no war with Russia over Ukraine. Just keep wrecking their economy till Putin wets his pants.

    • Don't be hating!

      Yeap. This is all a HYPE between the US and Russia. DECEPTION at its best! Is evil politics right

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