Back in August, Ukraine struck a restructuring agreement on some $18 billion in Eurobonds with a group of creditors headed by Franklin Templeton.
Under the terms of the deal, Kiev should save around $4 billion once everything is said and done. That was the good news. The bad news was that Ukraine still owed $3 billion to Vladimir Putin. Here’s what we said at the time:
Submitted by Koos Jansen via BullionStar.com,
The very reason I became interested in gold after the financial crisis in 2008 was because of Dutch gold guru, author, journalist, entrepreneur, and fund manager Willem Middelkoop. When I started reading his books I was immediately obsessed with economics and the gold market – along with thousands of others across the world. Who would have thought that I would become a precious metals analyst a few years later?
You Want War With Russia?
In this article, Pepe Escobar spells out the across-the-board military superiority of Russia over the combined forces of the West: http://www.opednews.com/articles/You-Want-War-Russia-is-Re-by-Pepe-Escobar-NATO_Putin_Russia-And-Turkey_Russia-And-Us-Conflict-151216-994.html
The reckless arrogance of the American neoconservaives has blinded the White House Fool and the dumbshits that sit in the House and Senate to the disastrous consequences for the West of war with Russia.
Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted at Sputnik News,
Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one single overarching theme: prevent – by all means necessary – the emergence of a power, or powers, capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral swagger, not only in Eurasia but across the world.
The NATO master plan for northern Syria in the next few weeks and months essentially features US, UK and Turkey fighter jets, with the French still in the balance (are we de facto collaborating with the Russians, or is it just posture?) This is being sold to global public opinion as a "coalition" effort -- with Russia barely mentioned.