{"id":220,"date":"2014-03-07T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:09:03","slug":"ukraine-dollar-vs-ruble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine &#8211; Dollar vs. Ruble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead at the conflict between the US and Russia over Ukraine,\u00a0<strong> it may turn out that this could become a financial war rather than a kinetic war.<\/strong>\u00a0 The US has an enormous strength irrespective of our military&#8211;the US dollar.\u00a0 Putin and his wealthy colleagues will be acutely aware of the effects on the Russian ruble and virtually all other Russian financial instruments.\u00a0 Their wealth dropped radically after last weekend.\u00a0 But, stay tuned.\u00a0 Russia has great talent in the cyber world and the US financial system has demonstrated its weaknesses at various points.\u00a0 Remember Target?\u00a0 If I were in Putin&#8217;s place I would be thinking of ways to cause some pain to the US financial markets.\u00a0 I would hope our national security leadership is keeping a watch out for this.\u00a0 The difficulty, like so many things in the cyber world, may be establishing attribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead at the conflict between the US and Russia over Ukraine,\u00a0 it may turn out that this could become a financial war rather than a kinetic war.\u00a0 The US has an enormous strength irrespective of our military&#8211;the US dollar.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/?p=220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,5,77,48],"tags":[55,54,23,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charlesduelfer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}