[RC one]

To be sure, some such as Bloomberg, are skeptical that the unprecedented pivot by Russia toward China as it shuns the west, will merely harm the Kremlin. Others, however, wonder: who will be left standing: Europe, with its chronic deficit of energy and reliance on Russia, a country overflowing with natural resources, or Russia, whose economy is currently underoing a dramatic and painful shift, as it scrambles to dissolve all linkages to the Petrodollar and face the Gas-O-Yuan? Perhaps it is worth refreshing this subject in a few months, after Europe's economic situation is made far more clear after what is sure to be a long, cold winter.

Wow...who could have predicted this?

[Para-Ord.45]

USA and Suafi Arabia agreed to let oil prices continue to drop without lowering production in an attempt to harm Russia.

It will fail