Strategy of U.S. Anti-Russia Sanctions Becomes Clearer: Serving American Billionaires
NOVANEWS
Targeting Russia's Competing Oil-Gas Giants and Weapons Producers
By Eric Zuesse
On Friday, April 6th, Reuters headlined “Russian businessmen, officials on new U.S. sanctions list”, and opened: “The United States on Friday imposed major sanctions against 24 Russians, striking at allies of President Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other ‘malign activity’. Below are the most prominent businessmen targeted along with their main assets and connections as well as extracts from the U.S. Treasury statement.”
As that Reuters list makes even clearer than before, U.S. economic sanctions against Russia are focused against mainly the following four categories of targets in Russia:
1. Russian competitors to America’s largest international oi...