{"id":13012,"date":"2024-02-27T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:05:05","slug":"the-west-tried-to-crush-russias-economy-why-hasnt-it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13012","title":{"rendered":"The West tried to crush Russia\u2019s economy. Why hasn\u2019t it worked?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;many Russian banks, including some key ones involved in energy transactions, have not been barred from SWIFT.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/econographics\/russia-sanctions-database\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to the Atlantic Council<\/a>, \u201cmost of Russia\u2019s regional and smaller banks, over 300, still have access to SWIFT, enabling Russia to conduct cross-border payments and transactions for imports and exports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the shut out was not universal has left ample scope for Russian banks to continue to benefit from SWIFT messaging services,\u201d said Keatinge of RUSI Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/24\/russia-economy-west-sanctions-00142713\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/24\/russia-economy-west-sanctions-00142713<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;many Russian banks, including some key ones involved in energy transactions, have not been barred from SWIFT. According to the Atlantic Council, \u201cmost of Russia\u2019s regional and smaller banks, over 300, still have access to SWIFT, enabling Russia to conduct cross-border payments and transactions for imports and exports.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact that the shut out was not universal has left ample scope for Russian banks to continue to benefit from SWIFT messaging services,\u201d said Keatinge of RUSI Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/24\/russia-economy-west-sanctions-00142713<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,924,217,165,728,272,355,314,1545,315,1001,619,158],"class_list":["post-13012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13013,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions\/13013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}