Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Is Russia A Legitimate Stock Market Player?

Around the first of April, President Barack Obama placed sanctions against billions of business and
individual dollars in Russia's economy. Europe went along with some of them.
But if Europe is truly the bank laundering Russia's gangland type money, someone should note the
Netherlands must not be fully playing along.
Days after President Obama's first set of sanctions went into effect over Russia's annexaton of the Crimea, Mr. Jan Peter Schmittman, his wife, and one of his daughters were found killed in their own
home. I felt at the time, and feel now, that Mr. Schmittman, CEO of the bank ABN AMRO Netherlands didn't feel he could circumvent the laws surrounding the sanctions enough to launder
the money Russian authorities may have insisted be made sterile.
A CEO in such a mammoth banking system does not suddenly lead a controversial enough life to
endanger himself and his family in a multiple homicide.
On TV, the remaining daughter would be suspect. In this case- I don't think any motive could be
activated for any such intention for the other family.
Now, again, President Obama has enacted new, stiffer sanctions for Russia for its incursion into the
Eastern Ukraine.
The Republicans in our Congress, who wanted stiff sanctions, still seemed dissatisfied with the strength of President Obama's foreign policy treatment of Russia.
Yet days after the President's new sanctions were made public, Russia closed all but one air lanes for
flight over the Ukraine. Thereby setting up Malaysian flight 17, mainly populated by Dutch citizens,
to be shot down by the Ukrainian pro-Russia separatists.
For four to five days, drunk and disorderly pro-Russian soldiers looted the bodies and belongings of
the innocent dead.
The Dutch government began to make entreaties to a myriad of world officials to intervene at least
enough to bet their dead returned.
As far as I can see, this was a deliberate mass murder.
How will Russia become a legitimate state actor in the world when organized crime has more power
in that country than any other entity?
I hope the Netherlands will be supported enough to make other countries prepare to stop doing
business with the gangland state.

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