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한 줄 요약:
기존의 카쟈르 마피아들이 구성했던 미국 중심의 지배적 이데올로기에 기반한
특정 대상국가들에 대한 경제제재 행위들은
모두 그들이 수립했던 금융 시스템에 기반을 둔 단일극성의 헤게모니 였으나
이제 카쟈르들 위주의 질서들이 깨져 나갔으므로
BRICS 국가들이 SWIFT 체제로부터 탈피하려는 움직임은 이미 태동하였으며
아울러 중국은 SWIFT 를 대체하기 위하여
10월 부터 CIPS ( 중국 국제결제 시스템)을 가동 운영 중에 있으며
이는 곧 위안화가 달러를 대체해 나갈 것이며 (이미 그렇게 되고 있음) 이며,
과거의 미국적 SWIFT 지배 통제 방식은 더 이상 행성적으로 통용 되지 않을 것....을 함축 한듯..
이란이나 북한에 대한 경제제재 조치란 결국
은행간 결제 시스템의 네트워크를 틀어 막아 거래 결제대금의 돈줄을 막아 고사 시키거나
상황을 만들어 내고는 째찍과 당근을 내미는 등..협잡거리 짓거리들 투성이었던 지난 날의 역사..
이란의 경우 미국 주도의 대외 경제 봉쇄 정책으로
그들의 무역결제 대금이 400조원 가량 미수형태로 남아 있었으나
이란 핵 협상이 풀려 나가면서 고스란히 되 찾을 수 있게 되었던 사례 라던가..
북한은 말 할 것도 없고..
어제일자 김 정은의 노동당 건립 70주년인가..
기념사에서도 이러한 관련 내용들이 포함된 포괄적 연설내용을 보아도 그렇고..
뭘 믿고 핵을 포기하라고 하는 것이냐? ..라고 거듭 되묻는 북한..
정말 강성철권 독고다이 곤조통 같으면서도
UN 에서의 리수영 외무상의 발언들을 보면
그들은 역사를 틀고 왜곡하려는 새키들로 가득한 이 나라 보다
더욱 정확하게 과거사들을 직시하고 있어 보인다..
역사가 15,000 년을 넘어
아틀란티스 - 레무리아 제국의 파괴사 까지도 이어져 있는 고대사를 지닌 행성문명 역사의 모델국가에서
카쟈르 산하 일본 양아치 우익 놈들이 조종하여 역사를 비틀려는 시도에서 튀어 나온
건국절이라니... 이 망할 새키들아..
암튼,
(원론으로 돌아가..)
러시아 중심의 움직임에 따른 국제정세의 흐름들이
BRICS 국가들로 하여금
기존의 카쟈르 SWIFT 체제의 탈퇴 및 자체붕괴를 이끄는
견인차 역할을 하고 있다고..
Russia precipitates the abandonment of SWIFT among the BRICS
By Ariel Noyola Rodríguez
Oct 12, 2015 - 6:13:46 AM
Russia precipitates the abandonment of SWIFT among the BRICS
After the reintegration of Crimea in Russian territory, the United States has pressured regulatory authorities of the European Union to restrict the access of Russia to SWIFT, the system of international payment founded by 200 Anglo-Saxon banks in the decade of the 1970s. In response, the government of Vladimir Putin has established an alternative system of payments that has already begun to extend its operations among Russian banks and, let it be said in passing, has served as an inspiration for China as well as the other countries that make up BRICS.
The unipolarity of the United States in the world financial system is rapidly fading. As a consequence of their political near-sightedness, Washington has obliged other countries to establish instruments of financial cooperation that abandon the use of the dollar, as well as multilateral institutions that are no longer guided by the rules imposed by the US Treasury Department [1].
The fact is that finances and money have been utilized as instruments of foreign policy, that is, as mechanisms of global domination that look to undermine both geopolitical adversaries (Russia) as well as rising economic powers (China) that resist submitting themselves to the North American yoke.
Faced with the impossibility of establishing their strategic objectives through diplomacy, the United States is engaged in a financial war, either through economic embargoes, speculative attacks, freezing bank accounts of politicians and businessmen, etc.
In open violation of the principles of international law, Washington aims its artillery at countries that make up the so-called “axis of evil”: North Korea, Iran, Syria, Sudan, etc. Their modus operandi consists in strangulating the economy of the country involved in order to provoke a change of regime [2].
[Ron: In effect these US sanctions actions are ACTS OF WAR on the countries upon which they are perpetrated.].
Now this same strategy is directed against the Government of Vladimir Putin. After the reintegration of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to Russian territory –upheld in the referendum celebrated in March of 2014– the United States, the United Kingdom and Poland pressured the European Union to expel Russia from the Society of World Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) [3].
Founded in 1973 in the city of Brussels, Belgium, SWIFT is an international system of communications that allow banks to realize electronic transferences among themselves. Before its establishment, financial entities were limited to communicate through Telex and bilateral telephone systems.
In this sense, SWIFT constituted a high level technological advance, given that it allowed both an increase in the speed of trade and world investment, as well as diminishing the costs of transaction in an unprecedented scale.
At the present time, SWIFT is utilized by 10,500 banks – above all US and European – in more than 200 countries. In their day of greatest apogee in 2015 they processed 27.5 million orders of payment.
SWIFT is a “technical” mechanism, purely “neutral” according to the magnates of Wall Street and the City of London. Nevertheless, the attacks of September 11 on the Twin Towers led the United States to involve itself in the system of payments: the Treasury Department since then demanded “specific information” with the excuse that they would “monitor” the channels of financing of “terrorist groups”.
In this way, with the argument that they were involved in illegal activities the Iranian banks were disconnected from SWIFT three years ago, a situation that left the provision of credit for foreign trade for the Persian country in an awkward predicament.
At the same time, Washington opened the way for the National Security Agency (NSA) to be involved. According to the revelations of Edward Snowden ‘Follow the Money’ is the name of the specialized programme of the NSA that is charged with spying on the global financial system [4].
The following [of money] realized by the personnel of the NSA ended with the establishment of a data base ‘TRACFIN’ that in 2011 contained at least 180 million registers of operations among banks, credit card transactions and, obviously, thousands of messages in the SWIFT system.
Hence the United States undertook a quasi monopolistic control of the system of international payments in order to asphyxiate their rivals. To date the disconnection of SWIFT had not been implemented against Russia because of a “lack of authority” on the part of the regulatory authorities. It is one thing to chastise a regional power, and quite another to take on a face to face battle with a world power.
With all that, the constant threats from the United States and their European allies led the Government of Vladimir Putin to establish an alternative system of payments. More than 90% of the Russian banks operations are cross-border, so that if the expulsion of Moscow from the SWIFT system were realized, the consequences for the world economy would have been catastrophic [5].
The principal Russian banks (Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Bank of Moscow, Rosselkhozbank, etc.) have already entered bilateral agreements and fully use the new system of payments, according to Olga Skorobogatova, the vice-governor of the central bank [6].
The new system of transactions diminished the costs in comparison with SWIFT, and more importantly, gave Moscow greater political autonomy and economic security in case of a new rise in sanctions. In addition, the Russian initiative unleashed the construction of alternative systems of payment in other parts of the world.
On the one hand, China is ready to move in coming weeks with their own system of transactions [7]. on the other, the members of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are discussing the possibility of launching a multilateral system of payments, that is, that not only Russia and China would benefit, but the system of payments would undertake operations among all members of the block [8].
The plan orchestrated from Washington and Brussels against Russia ended with a ‘boomerang effect’, since it not only involved the expulsion from SWIFT, but Moscow established an alternative system that completely neutralized the attempts of destabilization and in parallel, served as the inspiration for the BRICS countries and will soon serve the majority of emerging economies.
Translation
Jordan Bishop
Source
Russia Today (Russia)
[1] «The Fragility of the Global Financial Order», Mark Dubowitz & Jonathan Schanzer, The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2015.
[2] «Financial sanctions: The pros and cons of a SWIFT response», The Economist, November 22, 2014.
[3] «U.K. Wants EU to Block Russia From SWIFT Banking Network», Bloomberg, August 29, 2014.
[4] «’Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments», Der Spiegel, September 15, 2013.
[5] «Russia weighs local alternative to SWIFT payment system - agencies», Reuters, August 27, 2014.
[6] «Russia’s SWIFT Equivalent Already in Use», Russia Insider, September 21, 2015.
[7] «China’s mega international payment system is ready, will launch this year - report», Russia Today, March 10, 2015.
[8] «BRICS starts examining SWIFT alternative», Russia Today, June 17, 2015.
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