Ofwel: de VS gebruikt SWIFT als
terreurwapen tegen staten die de VS niet welgevallig zijn....
Gelukkig heeft de VS daarmee in haar eigen staart gebeten, zo heeft
China al een eigen intern systeem en Rusland heeft haar eigen internationale betalingssysteem 'gelanceerd': SPFS, waar het land nu overlegt met China, Turkije en Iran voor deelname aan dit systeem.
Met haar handelen isoleert de VS zich
steeds meer, volkomen terecht stelt Tom Luongo in het hieronder opgenomen artikel (door Tyler Durden 'geredigeerd' en op Zero Hedge geplaatst) dat de bankwereld
pas echt wakker zal worden als de VS de Duitse Bank zou willen
straffen voor het handelen in Russische energie (gas en/of olie) en
die bank zou daarop besluiten om van SWIFT op SPFS over te stappen.
Ongelofelijk dat de
VS denkt werkelijk iedereen de valse VS wet voor te kunnen schrijven (en te belachelijk voor woorden dat men de VS over de wereld als een psychopathische
massamoordenaar tekeer laat gaan...).....
For Russia, Change Comes SWIFTly
by Tyler
Durden
Sat,
11/03/2018 - 22:05
During
the ruble crisis of 2014/15 Russia announced in the wake of U.S. and
European sanctions over reunifying with Crimea that it would begin
building a domestic electronic financial transfer system, an
alternative to SWIFT.
That
system, System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS), is not
only now functioning in Russia, according to a
report from RT it
now handles the financial transfer data for more than half of
Russia’s institutions.
According
to Anatoly Aksakov, head of the Russian parliamentary committee
on financial markets:
The number of users of our internal financial messages’ transfer system is now greater than that of those using SWIFT. We’re already holding talks with China, Iran and Turkey, along with several other countries, on linking our system with their systems,” Aksakov said.
“They need to be properly integrated with each other in order to avoid any problems with using the countries’ internal financial messaging systems.”
This
is a follow up to last month’s boast by the Russians that their
system was seeing a lot of international interest. How much of
this is boast and how much of it is reality remains to be seen, but
the important point here is that the minute the U.S. weaponized SWIFT
for use in its foreign policy, something like this was bound to
occur.
China
has its own internal system. And other countries are building
theirs as well.
The SWIFT Cost
A
common theme on this blog is that control
is an illusion. Power is ephemeral. The
best way to exercise your power is to have it but never use it.
Because once you do use it you define for your enemies the costs of
their lack of compliance to your edicts.
And if there is one thing humans are good at it is responding to known incentives. Once we can calculate the cost of one behavior over another we can then decide which one is more important to us.
Once
costs of staying in SWIFT rise above the benefits of building your
own alternative, you build an alternative.
SWIFT
is a market power similar to a CEO having billions in restricted
stock in their company. A lot of hay is made about the net
worth of people like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg.
Quoting
their net worth by multiplying their known holdings times the current
price of the stock is useless. Because they can’t sell it.
It is market power or perceived wealth that evaporates the moment
they signal to the market their intention to sell.
In
reality, if they tried to sell their stock all at once the value of
the stock would plummet as buyers would run for the hills and they
would realize far less than their stated net worth before the selling
began.
So,
if anything they are a captive of their own success, needing to
manage the creation carefully to avoid damaging its reputation,
market position and, ultimately, its business.
SWIFT
is a monopoly system, a monopoly born of convenience and inertia
thanks to it being neutral to whims of international political
spats. Enter
the late stage of imperial thinking in the U.S. where our control
over world affairs is waning first in the hearts and minds of various
people around the world and then in policy and you have the beginning
of the end of SWIFT as the only international financial transfer
system.
Back
in 2010, I remember Jim Sinclair banging his shoe on the table about
our threatening Switzerland over opening up its customer data looking
for ‘tax cheats’ under FATCA. He said then that the Obama
administration was idiotic for doing this.
This
is where I got the maxim, once
you go nuclear you have no other option.
And
he was right.
Then Iran was cut out of SWIFT in 2012 to effect regime change which also failed. And that woke the world up to the reality. The U.S. and Europe will attempt to destroy your livelihood if you dare oppose its unilateral demands.
Then Iran was cut out of SWIFT in 2012 to effect regime change which also failed. And that woke the world up to the reality. The U.S. and Europe will attempt to destroy your livelihood if you dare oppose its unilateral demands.
Our
political and financial elites, The
Davos Crowd,
will stop at literally nothing to ensure your compliance.
Too
bad that SWIFT is just code. It’s just an encrypted messaging
system. And like the push to stifle alternative voices on
social media - de-platforming Alex Jones and Gab for examples - the
solution to authoritarian control is not fighting fire with fire, but
technology.
And
that’s exactly what Russia has done. They
applied themselves, spent the money and wrote their own code. Code
is, after all, hard to control.
De-coding SWIFT’s Power
It
is also what is happening all over the Internet communications supply
chain right now. The
infrastructure independent content producers need to resist corporate
control is being built and will see their businesses rise as so many
more people are now woke to
the reality of the situation.
As
Russian banks and businesses reap the benefits of no longer existing
under SWIFT’s Sword of Damocles, others will see the same benefits.
I’ve
been making this point all year, the more the Trump administration
uses tariffs and sanctions to achieve its political goals the more it
will ultimately weaken the U.S.’s position worldwide. It
won’t happen overnight.
It
will build, gradually, steadily until one day the threat will no
longer be there.
We
may have already reached that moment as President Trump has ruled out
pressuring SWIFT to cut Iran out of the system. Too bad his
evil Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doesn’t agree with him.
But, Mnuchin
is living in the past, he doesn’t respect the resistance that’s
forming to U.S. financial hegemony. He will though when it
proves ineffectual.
Russia’s
SPFS will gain clients across Iran, Turkey, China and the rest of its
close trading partners. This will accelerate the
de-dollarization of Russia’s main trade, hydrocarbons, since many
of these countries are major buyers of Russian oil.
When
you hear the announcement from a German bank under sanctions from the
U.S. for trading in Russian energy that it will use SPFS as its
transfer system, that will be the real wake up call to the markets.
Change
then will comes, forgive the obvious pun, swiftly.
Tag
Business
Finance
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Zie ook:
'Trump gelooft zijn geheime diensten inzake Iran niet meer'
'Trump administratie chanteert en bedreigt de EU over 'schending' onterechte VS-sancties tegen Iran' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
'Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie'
'Frankrijk beschermt Iran tegen de 'politieagent' van de wereld, de VS'
'Trump gelooft zijn geheime diensten inzake Iran niet meer'
'Trump administratie chanteert en bedreigt de EU over 'schending' onterechte VS-sancties tegen Iran' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)
'Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie'
'Frankrijk beschermt Iran tegen de 'politieagent' van de wereld, de VS'
'The New Tyranny of the Dollar'
Mijn excuus voor de fout in de kop, hier stond onterecht monopoly te lezen, wat uiteraard monopolie moet zijn; mijn excuus.
Tekst aangepast op 9 november 2018, na controle van meerdere andere berichten. (was ervan overtuigd dat Rusland haar systeem voor een groot deel nog moest optuigen)
Mijn excuus voor de fout in de kop, hier stond onterecht monopoly te lezen, wat uiteraard monopolie moet zijn; mijn excuus.
Tekst aangepast op 9 november 2018, na controle van meerdere andere berichten. (was ervan overtuigd dat Rusland haar systeem voor een groot deel nog moest optuigen)
