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Monday, February 28, 2022
UNITED KINGDOM KICKS DICTATOR PUTIN'S HEAD ACROSS THE TARMAC - UK to Freeze All Russian Banks’ Assets, Bars Ships
Hannity calls for Russian Army to turn on 'tiny tyrant' Vladimir Putin
Former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly said Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” that he does not understand the praise on the right for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Anchor Jake Tapper said, “We’ve heard a lot of prominent Republicans, both in politics and in conservative media, praising Vladimir Putin, even calling him a genius. What’s your response when you hear that?”
Kelly said, “Disbelief. He’s a tyrant. He is a murderer. He has attacked an innocent country whose only crime is that they want to be free and democratic, and they’re working in that direction and have been working in that direction. They have been a cooperative country. They gave up, on our word, they gave up the nuclear weapons that the old Soviet Union left behind. They participated with other U.S./NATO allies. They participated in operations — peacekeeping operations in Africa and Afghanistan, places like that. They were part of the partnership for peace, although not members of NATO, they worked alongside NATO in these various good operations.”
Kelly added, “You know, is Putin smart? Yes. Tyrants are smart. They know what they’re doing. But that’s — I can’t imagine why someone would look at what’s happening there and see it anything other than a criminal act. I don’t get it, Jake.”
The UK on Monday said it would freeze the assets of all Russian banks over the invasion of Ukraine, tightening the international economic stranglehold on Moscow over its “unjustified aggression”.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK wants “a situation where they (Russia) can’t access their funds, their trade can’t flow, their ships can’t dock and their planes can’t land”.
More than 50 percent of Russian trade is denominated in dollars or sterling and the new powers “will damage Russia’s ability to trade with the world”, she told parliament.
At the same time, British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps ordered all UK seaports to turn away Russian vessels, having already barred Russian aircraft, including oligarch jets.
Britain last weekend joined the United States and Western allies in preventing the Russian central bank’s ability to use reserves to support the plummeting ruble.
And it also cut selected banks from the SWIFT international money transfer system, which Truss said was only the first step in a “total SWIFT ban”.
As Truss spoke in parliament, the Treasury announced asset freezes on Russia’s state development bank VEB, and commercial lenders Otkritie and Sovcombank, with the rest of the freeze to come into effect “in days”, Truss said.
The sanctions add to those announced last week on a series of Russian banks, businesses, billionaires, President Vladimir Putin himself and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Three million businesses
The assets freeze on Russian banks will stop the Kremlin from raising debt in the UK and will prevent more than three million businesses from accessing UK capital markets, Truss said, also promising a ban on “high-end technological equipment such as micro-electronics, marine and navigation equipment”.
“This will blunt Russia’s military industrial capabilities and act as a drag on Russia’s economy for years to come,” she said.
UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom meanwhile said it had opened 15 new investigations into the “due impartiality” of state-funded Russian broadcaster RT since the invasion of Ukraine.
London has long been accused of turning a blind eye to illicit Russian money, but Truss promised new measures would target oligarchs’ “houses, their yachts and every aspect of their lives”.
“I say to our Ukrainian friends, we are with you. In Britain and around the world we’re prepared to suffer economic sacrifices to support you however long it takes,” she added.
“We will not rest until Ukraine sovereignty is restored.”
London’s tough talk was blamed by the Kremlin for provoking Putin into raising the readiness level of Russia’s nuclear forces — a claim dismissed by UK officials as risible.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman was forced to backtrack after telling a daily briefing that the swingeing set of sanctions imposed by Britain, Europe and the United States was intended “to bring down the Putin regime”.
Downing Street said that he had misspoken, and the spokesman clarified that he was talking about “how we stop Russia seeking to subjugate a democratic country”.
‘Moving and courageous
In his latest call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday evening, Johnson praised the “heroic” resistance of Ukrainians, according to Downing Street.
Johnson was to visit Poland and Estonia on Tuesday, two NATO allies bordering Russia where Britain has been stepping up military support.
The prime minister released a further £40 million ($54 million) in humanitarian aid for Ukraine, after giving an emotional address at London’s Ukrainian Catholic cathedral on Sunday.
“Never in all my study, my memory of politics and international affairs, have I seen so clear a distinction between right and wrong, between good and evil, between light and dark,” he told the congregation.
The cathedral’s Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski said that he had been blessing Ukrainian men and women who were en route to defend their homeland.
“People have come and told us they’re returning back to Ukraine to fight and wanting us to pray for them and give them our blessings,” he told journalists.
“It’s very touching, very moving and very courageous,” he said on Monday.
Chechenya’s leaders, for their part, have had no qualms about underscoring the Islamist character of their involvement in the invasion — at least in statements intended for the local populace — with the Mufti of the Chechen Republic explicitly stating that “at the legislative level, insulting the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur’an is prohibited” and “there is freedom to practice Islam to the fullest” under the current political arrangements, but that “all this will fall apart if Russia falls apart.”
‘We Need Your Support:’ Ukraine Asks Tim Cook to Block Access to Apple Products in Russia
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov has contacted Apple CEO Tim Cook asking him to pull all of Apple’s services from Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine.
Business Insider reports that Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov recently sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook requesting that Apple cut off its services to Russia. Fedorov, who also acts as Ukraine’s digital minister, published the letter he sent to Cook on Twitter.
The letter asked Cooke to help “protect Ukraine” and to”stop supplying Apple services and products to the Russian Federation, including blocking access to the App Store.” Fedorov added: “We need your support — in 2022, modern technology is perhaps the best answer to the tanks, multiple rocket launchers (hrad) and missiles.”
Apple has not responded directly to the letter, but Cook tweeted earlier on Friday that he was “deeply concerned with the situation in Ukraine.” He added: “We’re doing all we can for our teams there and will be supporting local humanitarian efforts. I am thinking of the people who are right now in harm’s way and joining all those calling for peace.”
YouTube, Google, and Facebook (now known as Meta) have all blocked Russian state media from generating ad revenue from their platforms since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
Breitbart News has reported that the official Ukrainian Twitter account recently demanded that the platform ban Russia’s account from the platform. “Hey people, let’s demand @Twitter to remove @Russia from here,” said the @Ukraine account. “No place for an aggressor like Russia on Western social media platforms.”
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolanor contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
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