Economic Warfare & the Weaponization of the Dollar | Julia Friedlander

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 236 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Julia Friedlander, the C. Boyden Gray senior fellow & director of the Economic Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. Ms. Friedlander served as senior policy advisor for Europe in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, where she collaborated with EU partners on global sanctions policy and combatting illicit finance and as director for the European Union, Southern Europe and Economic Affairs at the National Security Council, charged with coordinating U.S. interagency policy on transatlantic relations and the European Union for White House.

Julia’s extensive experience in economic statecraft make her the perfect person to speak to about the the sanctions that have been and continue to be levied against the Russian economy and its political class. We discuss what these sanctions mean in practice and what it is that makes them so unprecedented, as well as the intended and unintended consequences for the prosecution of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Aditional topics include the effect of sanctions on the geopolitical stability of Europe, the future of Russia, and the position of the dollar at the center of the international, financial system.

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Episode Recorded on 03/07/2022

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? My name is Dmitri Kaffinis and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:06.0	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives
0:14.0	and to learn and to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:19.0	My guest in this midweek episode is Julia Friedlander. Julia is the Seaboyden Gray,
0:24.0	Senior Fellow and Director of the Economic State Craft Initiative at the Atlantic Council's
0:30.0	Geoeconomic Center. And as you will soon discover, she is the perfect person to speak to,
0:36.0	about the subject we're going to discuss today, which is the sanctions that have been
0:41.0	and continued to be levied against the Russian economy and its political class.
0:46.0	What it is that makes those sanctions truly unprecedented and what the intended
0:51.0	and unintended consequences of those sanctions could be for the prosecution of the war in Ukraine,
0:57.0	the geopolitical stability of Europe, the future of Russia, and the position of the dollar
1:02.0	at the center of the international financial system.
1:06.0	There is no subscriber section today's episode. Guys, the entire conversation is available on the public feed.
1:12.0	But if you want access to the transcript and intelligence report, which includes, among other things,
1:17.0	links to resources and materials that I used in preparation for my conversation with Julia,
1:22.0	you can find all of that on our website at hiddenforces.io, where you can also become a premium subscriber today.
1:30.0	Lastly, if you've derived value from this podcast, if it's helped you, make sense of what can oftentimes
1:37.0	feel like a senseless news cycle full of scary headlines, overly politicized narratives,
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1:55.0	and it would mean the world for me if you would take only a second of your time right now to do it.
2:02.0	And with that, I bring you yet another educational and timely episode with my guest, Julia Friedlander.
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