MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show March 1, 2022 02:09:00
11. putin knew in advance that he was gonna do. this he has been laying the groundwork for this for a long time. he knew there would be economic sanctions against him if he did something like this. one of the ways that he tried to make russia sanction proved in advance of this invasion, was by building up a huge pile of foreign currency in the russian central bank. basically as a rainy day fund, something that the russian government could live off of for a long while until the rest of the world calm down and let them -- resume business as usual. they built up a reserve currency fund, between 6...
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