Vladimir Putin's gamed out that he can handle the sanctions, says Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer

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[ancienparigot]

Always an excellent take from Ian Bremmer

[orwellhuxley]

Applying sanctions on Russia is akin to when I cut gas money to my 18 yo boy. Sanctions have worked well against Cuba, N Korea, Iran, etc., haven’t they? So well that it has strengthened the very tyrants we aimed to weaken.

[danmiller]

This individual is absolutely right!!😊😊😊😊😊

[danielhutchinson]

Does the US understand that Russia is supplying fuel to Europe?
The US seems to need to accept responsibility for pushing Putin?
The US work to get Russia out of the Gas business,
seems to be kinda dumb in winter?
The efforts to promote LNG seems to be beyond the ability of the US Army?

[amatuer]

Putin personally can handle it, but his people will feel it !

[intienergia]

Ian has the perfect look for an expert in international politics - a permanently furrowed brow.

[HarrisonHollers]

Ian Bremmer may be one the top experts on geopolitical events. Glad to hear his insight rather than talking heads saying whatever their audience wants to hear.

[SmileyD]

Hello...many of us knew how this was going to go down...being American and seeing how nieve our leaders are is mind-boggling. The smoke and mirrors have been shattered

[gregorydesleskine]

I have just spoken to some Russian people in Moscow and they said to me that they are used to sanctions and that they won't affect their lives in any big way.

[Rachel-jjzv]

Putin is laughing at those sanctions 😒

[seangriffin]

Help Ukraine by sending them the tools they need to defend their families from an evil dictator. Defend democracy. Send defensive weapons! Kick Russia out of SWIFT. #Ukraine #StandForUkraine #AntiTank

[freighttrain]

Does his oligarchs have enough cash to back his war? and for how long?

[htnguyen]

It is easy to see why China not opposed this Russia invasion of Ukraine because soon China will do the same thing to Taiwan and other smaller neighboring countries and it will have Russia’s support. Economic sanctions won’t do anything to these 2 big countries.

[ik]

The US has 1 trillion dollars in trade deficit. This is possible only because the US dollar is international currency. Whereas other countries produce real goods for international trade, the US prints US dollars out of thin air to purchase those real goods. The US also prints trillions of dollars, which would cause hyperinflation. Hyperinflation does not happen because other countries absorb the excess of the US dollars. Other countries absorb the excess of the US dollars only because all oil and gas trades in the world are done in the US dollars. Which is why the US dollar is also called petrodollar. (Petrodollars are U.S. dollars paid to an oil-exporting country for the sale of the commodity. The petrodollar system is an exchange of oil for U.S. dollars between countries that buy oil and those that produce it.)

Russia has been working with China and other countries to move away from the US dollar in trading oil and other things. The process goes slowly because Russian oligarchs have part of their wealth tied to the US dollar. However, if the US puts too many serious sanctions on Russia, that will expedite Russia's refusal to use the US dollar in oil and gas trades with other countries. When other currencies become more common in oil and gas trade, more countries will begin refusing to use the US dollar for international trade and purchasing-selling oil and gas. This will lead to the US dollar losing its status of petro- (oil and gas) currency. And when this happens, the US will have nothing to offer to other countries to purchase their goods and services. And that will make the US economy crash.

One solution would be to keep the US dollar alive would be to physically destroy Russia and China, but that's impossible because Russia would retaliate and drop nukes on the US and Europe. Another solution would be to build a real economy in the US that produces and provides, but banks and the super-wealthy do not need that. What remains is to support world instability, instigate wars, promote anti-Russian propaganda, to sanction Russia in order to prolong circulation of the US dollar as petro-dollar, and to print dollars out of thin air for as long as it's possible.

[Dinngg]

Yep, no sanctions matter. May make us feel better, though.

[JohnSmith-xczu]

It doesn’t take a foreign policy expert to figure out that the Chinese are not onboard. Last I checked, the tarifs Trump slashed on them are still there, which could be part of the solutions of our supply chain problem. Hey, what do I know?!

[Z]

The ruble has regained its strength to what it was prior to the Ukraine crisis

[joem]

What ? Beijing is a wild card ? First time I ever heard that. Beijing does what it says all the time.

[gemthetics]

"Call on the Lord in the day of trouble
and he will deliver you."
         - Psalm  50 :15

[operator]

i love how our people act so shocked being lied to when they lie with every breath. quit crying.