Punishing Putin ebook
With gripping sweep and an eye for juicy detail from superyachts to the dazzling rise and fall of McDonald s Big Macs in Moscow Baker deploys a career of front row access to oligarchs and historic events to detail the cat and mouse battle to bring Putin to heel with the most potent weapon threatening those in his inner circle money Nonfiction
An in depth authoritative and timely look at the unprecedented economic war the US and its European allies are waging against Russia after Putin s invasion of Ukraine written by a veteran journalist with unparalleled access to Western and Russian sources Undeterred by eight years of timid US sanctions Vladimir Putin ordered his full scale assault on Ukraine on February 24 2022 In the hours that followed across the world Western leaders weaponized economic tools to counter an unprecedented land grab by a nuclear armed power What followed was an undeniably world changing financial experiment that risked throwing the world into a devastating recession The end goal was to sap the strength of Putin s war machine and damage the Russian economy once the eleventh largest on the planet Here Russian expert and veteran journalist Stephanie Baker explains in fascinating detail how this furious shadow war its causes how it is being executed and its ability to affect Russia and the course of history From seizing superyachts to manipulating the global price of oil to trying to block the sale of military technology to Russia we learn how the White House coordinated with top officials in London and Brussels to freeze a staggering 300 billion in foreign currency reserves accumulated in the West by Russia s central bank Mobilizing an army of white collar crime investigators and experts on international law Baker explores how the West has cracked down on illicit Russian money by targeting oligarchs one superyacht at a time and their enablers around the world Filled with propulsive fly on the wall details Punishing Putin takes us into the frantic backroom deliberations that led to a whole new era of carefully calculated economic statecraft and shows how these new strategies are already radically rearranging global alliances that will influence the world order today and for generations to come Punishing Putin Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia.