#214: The Government Hates Your Guts
Macroaggressions
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Bank Runds in Russia Due to the Swift System
The swift system is a society of world wide inter bank financial communication. It's used for international payments. The thing about the swift banking system where these wires go? You know, you want to send one wire from a to b, it's got to get routed through new york city first. And so because that america has control of it, russias built a back up system, though. After 20 14, when they took crimea and and the west threatened them with with the with getting them off the swift system, they built a back-up system. But what's interesting is that russia and ukraine are both world economic foreign partners. They were involved in
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