Checkmate To Putin

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping

Russian Wife: "What's this 'special military operation'?"
Russian Husband: "It's a proxy war - Russia vs. NATO."
Russian Wife: "How's it going?"
Russian Husband: "We've lost fifteen thousand troops, eight generals, five hundred tanks and a hundred planes."
Russian Wife: "Wow. What about NATO?"
Russian Husband: "They haven't showed up yet."                                                   Konstantin Kisin

                      

Scott Ritter of the UN, who warned us about Iraq's lack of WMD all those years ago, says "Last year we sent 20,000 NATO troops into Ukraine to train [the Ukrainian army].

We sent around 12,000 Ukrainian troops outside of Ukraine to train with NATO in every country in Europe. They used the same tactics, the same communication, the same weapons, they wore the uniforms. They are a proxy army of NATO, and so the Russian perspective is: ‘We can't have a NATO proxy here, so your military is going bye-bye."
Ritter added "This war will end the moment Ukraine changes its constitution [removing the requirement to join NATO]"

The objectives of NATO (aka the USA) and the European Union are quite clear.

I do not condone what Russia has done, on the contrary I reject all invasions, except on humanitarian grounds, I am just clarifying Vladimir Putin's position as I see it.

There is more to this than meets the eye, or filters through our propagandic media.

What is being omitted by our bought and paid for prostituting press?

Has Putin chose to act now because the United States is currently being governed by a weak and incompetent administration?

The USA is financially strong, not least because of the Petrodollar - this monopoly keeps them in charge.

Putin knew that Russia's invasion of Ukraine would be met by sanctions and the West throwing it out of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications).

Putin's response is to cut off Russian gas and oil to Europe, knowing Europe gets forty percent of its oil and gas from Russia.

So now Putin demands that all transactions be settled in ruble or gold or any non-dollar asset. This causes massive price and supply disruption to western markets, as well as threatening the Petrodollar system.

Russia and China have long been looking for a way to remonetise gold as well as be able to exit from SWIFT - but to do so would be an act of war against the USA and its allies [UK and EU].

So instead Russia invades Ukraine, and the poorly led USA gave Putin and Xi Jinping exactly the excuse they were after.

Now that Russia is out of SWIFT it is free to sell its oil to the highest bidder, in a currency of its choosing.

When Russia turns its pipelines back on it will sell it for rubles.

Let us not forget that Russia is the third largest producer of oil and gas in the world.

At the beginning of 2022 oil was trading at $75 a barrel. Now just the months later it has almost doubled to $140 a barrel.

Russia can now make ruble and other currency agreements without converting to dollars.

Both Russia and Iran are offering oil to India and China at discounted prices, and both countries - who are second and third highest oil consumers in the world - are taking advantage of these bargain basement prices.

Putin sent Syria's Al-Assad to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to broker on Russia's behalf.

Now SA and UAE are openly considering trading oil in local currencies.

SA and UAE have refused Joe Biden's request to raise oil output, and are avoiding all phone calls from the President.

When in the last fifty years would SA or UAE dare refuse to answer calls from the President of the United States?

Removing Russia from SWIFT was exactly what Putin and Jinping wanted.

The SPFS (System For Transfer Of Financial Messages) is the Russian equivalent of SWIFT.

There are plans to integrate the SPFS network with the China-based CIPS (Cross-border Interbank Payment System). This alternative system will take away the USA's influence over the world economy.

An SPFS-CIPS alliance would be a competing currency system which would further weaken the US dollar.

The USA would be competing on a financial level playing field with Russia, the second largest exporter of energy, and China, the largest exporter of manufactured goods in the world, for the first time.

Russia and China will find it easy to trade with South American and African countries who have been exploited by the USA and Europe in the past.

Oil is the most traded commodity in the world and it is settled in US dollars.

For the last fifty years the Petrodollar system has seen the rise of powerful Middle Eastern countries like SA, UAE and Qatar.

If the worlds largest exporter of oil (Russia) and the worlds largest importer of oil (China) come together they will not need to settle in dollars, and will easily break these petrol funded fiefdoms.

Thomas Jefferson famously once said "The government you elect is the government you deserve."

Political tribalism, apathy and arrogance has taken the USA, UK and EU down this rocky road to mediocrity. Putin baited us, and Biden went for it hook, line and sinker.

When you freely elect corrupt, undemocratic oafs, do not expect them to do a good job.

In defence of the British people, we really have no choice. We can either elect a scruffy corrupt oaf or a immaculate corrupt oaf.

Western political leaders seem more concerned with politically correct pronouns and unsustainable carbon zero targets set by western plutocrats, than taking care off business.

Checkmate to Putin.

 

by L. H. Etheridge.

(Thank you to Konstantin Kisin and Crux)