Oleg Zabluda's blog
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
 
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Obama administration [...] there were attacks on the State Department, on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and on the White House by the Russians, [...] But they never announced publicly it was the Russians and they never made them pay a price.
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There were people who came in and said, let's disconnect the Russians from the world financial system. Well, that seemed like a really good idea until someone put up their hand and said, well, you know, the moment you do that, there's no way to pay them for the gas that's going into Europe and the Europeans are going to freeze.
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DAVIES: you could expose Putin's secret assets, maybe even make some of his money disappear.

SANGER: ...The Federal Reserve doesn't like any idea in which you sort of legitimize going into a central bank and making money disappear
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But President Obama had a particular fear. And his fear was escalation. We do something to Putin - and Putin was already inside, the voter registration systems in Arizona and Illinois. [...] And they all thought in the White House, Hillary's going to win and Trump is going to turn around and say, the election was rigged for her, and that will create chaos. And they didn't want to play into that narrative. [...] They thought that they could deal with the Russians and retaliate against the Russians after Hillary Clinton was elected
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https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621338178/journalist-warns-cyber-attacks-present-a-perfect-weapon-against-global-order
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621338178/journalist-warns-cyber-attacks-present-a-perfect-weapon-against-global-order

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