Making Sense of the Unprecedented Sanctions on Russia
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Over the past week, the United States and its allies have responded to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine with some unprecedented actions of their own—economic sanctions that target Russia in ways that have never been tried before, let alone applied to one of the world's largest economies over just a handful of days.
To discuss this revolutionary sanctions strategy and what it may mean moving forward, Scott R. Anderson sat down with two sanctions experts: Julia Friedlander, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and Rachel Ziemba, adjunct fellow at the Center for a New American Security. They talked about the different types of sanctions being applied, what impact they will have on the Russian economy and what the consequences may be, not just for the conflict in Ukraine, but for the rest of the world moving forward.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | And again, that's the chronology that we were sort of anticipating here. |
| 0:37.5 | And so, doing this central bank of reserves right now, again, goes to sort of a lean scene, |
| 0:42.8 | the immediacy of take of the action, right? |
| 0:45.3 | This is this is sort of now, according to the US government, and now we're never |
| 0:48.4 | wondering how it's going to be. |
| 0:55.4 | And so we can go into what it means economically and again that's also a bit of black box. |
| 0:56.8 | Going forward for the next week but I just to highlight this acceleration of this and |
| 1:01.3 | hitting the reserves blocking up essentially the bread and butter of the Russian economy |
| 1:06.2 | is the strongest measure we could've given and we took it ahead of other thing and a |
| 1:12.0 | Swift was a political kick to the Ukrainians who thought that it became a symbolism of |
| 1:16.7 | of our support for them. |
| 1:18.1 | And so we did it, but again, that, you know, |
| 1:21.3 | the pales and compares them to the central banks. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm Scott R. Anderson, |
| 1:26.0 | and this is the Laugh Air Podcast for March 1st, 2022. |
| 1:30.0 | Over the past week, the United States and its allies |
| 1:32.3 | have responded to Russia's military invasion |
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