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Russia Secretly Helped Venezuela Launch a Cryptocurrency To Evade US Sanctions (time.com)
According to an exclusive report by Time, Russia helped Venezuelan officials create the world's first state-backed cryptocurrency to skirt U.S. sanctions. The cryptocurrency was launched in late February and was banned by the Trump administration earlier this week. From the report: The new cryptocurrency, a form of digital cash that is supposedly linked to the value of Venezuela's oil reserves, was launched on Feb. 20 during a ceremony in the presidential palace in Caracas. Nicolas Maduro, the socialist leader of Venezuela, declared that it would serve as a kind of "kryptonite" against the power of the U.S government, which he sarcastically referred to as "Superman." Sitting in the front row at that ceremony were two of Maduro's Russian advisers, Denis Druzhkov and Fyodor Bogorodsky, whom the President thanked for aiding his fight against American "imperialism." Both men have ties to major Russian banks and billionaires close to the Kremlin. But they were not the most senior Russians involved. According to an executive at a Russian state bank who deals with cryptocurrencies, senior advisers to the Kremlin have overseen the effort in Venezuela, and President Vladimir Putin signed off on it last year. "People close to Putin, they told him this is how to avoid the sanctions," says the executive, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity. "This is how the whole thing started."
a bit after a russian shill promotes the idea
Their citizens have suffered enough already. Why focus on one dictator when the world is full of them?
I'm glad Putin did it, even though he's an asshole in general, just like I'm glad Trump reduced H-1B "body-shop" application approvals even though I disagree with most his other stances. I'll give kudos to jerks when they accidentally do right.
Table-ized A.I.
ignore what his own advisers told him about congratulations for Putin.
"Well sir, if you congratulate Putin like every other world leader, including Merkel, Macron, et cetera, is doing, the Democrats will remove the dildos from their asses and shove even larger ones in, for even louder REEEEEEEEing."
"And if I don't?"
"Same thing, just without keeping cordial relations with a nuclear power."
OK, so why did Trump's lawyer pay her $130,000 then?
It's not slander if it's true.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. - Winston Churchill
Although I have trouble understanding how only having two political parties to vote for makes a "Democracy".
Especially since your guvment have been slowly chipping away at your own constitution for decades, next will be the right to bear arms. Most (if not all) of your nutters who shoots up a school was flagged as a potential risk, but NOTHING was done. WHY? So they can point at the violence and deaths and say, "See, guns are bad, only we the guvment should have them".
America, the land of the not so free.
Reagan shut down a LOT of mental institutions and all those nut jobs have been roaming the streets, it's a recipe for massacres as has been proved again and again, yet NOTHING is done. WHY?
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
The Russians secretly helped Venezuela by sitting in the front row at the launch ceremony. Good catch TIME
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