A Failure of Economic Attacks Against Putin May Be Used Against Citizens
As the Biden administration keeps beating the war drums against Russia and looking under every rock for potential war crimes or chemical weapons attacks, while ignoring the vast number of war crimes committed by the United States government, it continues to issue more executive orders to sanction Russia, outside of the legislative process, of course. In an attempt to sink the Russian economy and coerce the Russian people into overthrowing Vladimir Putin (the president did insist that the Russian leader must go), President Biden, who by his own words admitted that sanctions do not deter the military actions of the leadership of the targeted country, has acted as if sanctions will deter Putin, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials have suggested from the beginning. So, Mr. President, which one is it? Do they work, or do they not?
For starters, the European Union, which relies on Russia for approximately 40% of its oil, continues to violate its principles of punishing the big, bad Putin, out of convenience and necessity. While this occurs, Russia still has an advantage and can use its leverage against Western economic attacks.
Right after the Biden administration announced the initial sets of sanctions, along with the EU and a handful of other countries, and cut off some of Russia’s banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China swooped in to assist, with its alternative processing system, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). The president warned China that it needs to halt Russia’s aggression and that neutrality on the invasion was not an option, so I guess China must bend to American bullying and comply with the demands, right (assuming that China even has the ability to sway Putin’s actions)?
China and India also made up some of the slack in Russia’s economic downturn by purchasing Russian oil in rubles at a discount, per the order by Putin that countries must exchange oil in his country’s currency. It appears that the Russo-Ukrainian War is causing nations of the world to choose between the current United States-led economic order and the new “axis” order led by Russia and China. This, coupled with the growing military alliance of the two superpowers and the arms race between the West and the East, could lead to competing world orders and military confrontation on a massive scale (China is supplying Serbia with missiles; the United States is considering putting nuclear missiles in Poland, in addition to the conventional missiles already located in Poland and Romania, and expanding its quantity of troops in NATO countries; and the American military is attempting to play catch-up with its technology on hypersonic missiles). Even Cold War II would be detrimental to Americans, however, it would be lucrative to the defense contractors that work hand-in-hand with the federal government.
Biden’s new sanctions targeted at Russian oligarchs (to freeze their assets and prevent transactions within the United States and its banking system), new investment within Russia, and critical Russian state-owned enterprises will certainly not deter Putin’s military objectives, and Putin has just recently vowed to continue fighting (at least Biden can be half right and half wrong because he said that sanctions would deter, then changed his mind, and then pushed more through again, in a flip flop type of fashion). In fact, the ruble has recovered to roughly its pre-war value, and the Russian economy is stabilizing (at least for the moment), despite the concerted effort by the world’s most powerful countries to intimidate Russia into surrendering.
Much of the recovery may be due to Putin’s strict financial rules (such as prohibiting his citizens from exchanging rubles for foreign currencies and closing the Russian stock market to foreign investors) and the pegging of the ruble to gold (something that the whole world could learn a lesson from, as a gold standard would likely curb inflation and permanently increase the value of global currencies, including the U.S. dollar). Putin is even subsidizing the wages of some sectors of the economy and considering the nationalization of assets and companies.
A gold standard and replacement of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world may threaten the plans of the global elite, but on the other hand, maybe the plan is to sink currencies worldwide and replace them with a digital and programmable currency that is to be used by all global citizens. It is difficult to tell what direction the global economy will take, but in either scenario, the average people of most countries will suffer.
Although Russia has seemingly refocused its efforts to the Donbass, perhaps because of military defeats or because its objectives in the western part of the country have been fulfilled (it is difficult to know, being that we only have access to bias news in both Russia and the West). Either way, what is terrifying about this is that many nations in league with the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum (WEF), including the neutral Switzerland (where the WEF is based), have attempted to utilize economic terrorism to destroy the Russian economy and the lives of ordinary Russians.
If the system can be used against Russia, it can certainly be used against any other nation or citizen. We already saw the Canadian government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seize the bank accounts of those who donated any amount to the Freedom Convoy, and if a supposedly shining beacon of democracy, such as Canada, can get away with preventing transactions of those who have anti-government views, imagine what the future will look like. We also can understand this through the eyes of the recent pandemic, in that the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and many others participated in forced lockdowns, business shutdowns, and vaccine passport systems (denying access to goods and services for those who made a choice over their bodies) over a virus.
The West is starting to look more and more like Russia and China, with its gradual introduction of authoritarianism, and it may not be too long before your ability to buy and sell goods may be linked to how obedient you are and whether or not you support groups that the government arbitrarily declares terrorists (the bulletins issued by the Department of Homeland Security on pandemic resistance and disbelief in the 2020 presidential election results are good examples of how this mentality creeps into the United States' policies). The situation against Canadian and Russian citizens is a warning for those who care to heed it. Freedom of choice is at stake, and the Russo-Ukrainian War is another step closer to the global agenda of totalitarianism.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
For starters, the European Union, which relies on Russia for approximately 40% of its oil, continues to violate its principles of punishing the big, bad Putin, out of convenience and necessity. While this occurs, Russia still has an advantage and can use its leverage against Western economic attacks.
Right after the Biden administration announced the initial sets of sanctions, along with the EU and a handful of other countries, and cut off some of Russia’s banks from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China swooped in to assist, with its alternative processing system, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS). The president warned China that it needs to halt Russia’s aggression and that neutrality on the invasion was not an option, so I guess China must bend to American bullying and comply with the demands, right (assuming that China even has the ability to sway Putin’s actions)?
China and India also made up some of the slack in Russia’s economic downturn by purchasing Russian oil in rubles at a discount, per the order by Putin that countries must exchange oil in his country’s currency. It appears that the Russo-Ukrainian War is causing nations of the world to choose between the current United States-led economic order and the new “axis” order led by Russia and China. This, coupled with the growing military alliance of the two superpowers and the arms race between the West and the East, could lead to competing world orders and military confrontation on a massive scale (China is supplying Serbia with missiles; the United States is considering putting nuclear missiles in Poland, in addition to the conventional missiles already located in Poland and Romania, and expanding its quantity of troops in NATO countries; and the American military is attempting to play catch-up with its technology on hypersonic missiles). Even Cold War II would be detrimental to Americans, however, it would be lucrative to the defense contractors that work hand-in-hand with the federal government.
Biden’s new sanctions targeted at Russian oligarchs (to freeze their assets and prevent transactions within the United States and its banking system), new investment within Russia, and critical Russian state-owned enterprises will certainly not deter Putin’s military objectives, and Putin has just recently vowed to continue fighting (at least Biden can be half right and half wrong because he said that sanctions would deter, then changed his mind, and then pushed more through again, in a flip flop type of fashion). In fact, the ruble has recovered to roughly its pre-war value, and the Russian economy is stabilizing (at least for the moment), despite the concerted effort by the world’s most powerful countries to intimidate Russia into surrendering.
Much of the recovery may be due to Putin’s strict financial rules (such as prohibiting his citizens from exchanging rubles for foreign currencies and closing the Russian stock market to foreign investors) and the pegging of the ruble to gold (something that the whole world could learn a lesson from, as a gold standard would likely curb inflation and permanently increase the value of global currencies, including the U.S. dollar). Putin is even subsidizing the wages of some sectors of the economy and considering the nationalization of assets and companies.
A gold standard and replacement of the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the world may threaten the plans of the global elite, but on the other hand, maybe the plan is to sink currencies worldwide and replace them with a digital and programmable currency that is to be used by all global citizens. It is difficult to tell what direction the global economy will take, but in either scenario, the average people of most countries will suffer.
Although Russia has seemingly refocused its efforts to the Donbass, perhaps because of military defeats or because its objectives in the western part of the country have been fulfilled (it is difficult to know, being that we only have access to bias news in both Russia and the West). Either way, what is terrifying about this is that many nations in league with the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum (WEF), including the neutral Switzerland (where the WEF is based), have attempted to utilize economic terrorism to destroy the Russian economy and the lives of ordinary Russians.
If the system can be used against Russia, it can certainly be used against any other nation or citizen. We already saw the Canadian government, under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seize the bank accounts of those who donated any amount to the Freedom Convoy, and if a supposedly shining beacon of democracy, such as Canada, can get away with preventing transactions of those who have anti-government views, imagine what the future will look like. We also can understand this through the eyes of the recent pandemic, in that the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom, and many others participated in forced lockdowns, business shutdowns, and vaccine passport systems (denying access to goods and services for those who made a choice over their bodies) over a virus.
The West is starting to look more and more like Russia and China, with its gradual introduction of authoritarianism, and it may not be too long before your ability to buy and sell goods may be linked to how obedient you are and whether or not you support groups that the government arbitrarily declares terrorists (the bulletins issued by the Department of Homeland Security on pandemic resistance and disbelief in the 2020 presidential election results are good examples of how this mentality creeps into the United States' policies). The situation against Canadian and Russian citizens is a warning for those who care to heed it. Freedom of choice is at stake, and the Russo-Ukrainian War is another step closer to the global agenda of totalitarianism.
Thank you for reading, and please check out my book, The Global Bully, and website.
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