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Removing Russia from SWIFT – The Nuclear Option

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) is employed by over 11,000 institutions across 200 countries and serves as the messaging...

January 6, 2022 & Civil Unrest

QUESTION: Your target for this week concerning Russia might be hitting Kazakhstan. The protesters began shooting the military and they set the President’s...

Sanctions and Starvation in Afghanistan

    (Afghanistan-related designations are one of the few cases in which President Barack Obama’s administration imposed more economic sanctions (103)...

Sanctions Never Work

A number of people have asked for my view on putting on sanctions of Myanmar. There have been sanctions for almost 50 years. They never work, similar to the...

Hong Kong & Sanctions

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Hong Kong is the source for US dollars for China. If Trump imposes serious sanctions, this would actually lead to a shortage of dollars in...

Hong Kong – The Matchstick to War?

The US-China tensions over Hong Kong are boiling over. The US government is reportedly considering imposing sanctions on Chinese firms and officials over China’s...

Guyana & the Future

QUESTION: Hi Martin, thanks for including little Guyana in your blog today. I was born in Canada, but my parents emigrated from Guyana decades ago. I haven’t...

Do Sanctions Ever Work?

QUESTION: Hello, with all the talk of sanctions in the news against North Korea and Iran, have sanctions against a country ever worked? Aren’t they a pretext that...