I’m not good about economic stuff. But I have read enough, including Clandestine articles, to know that Russia has been quickly forging trade and other relationships with the BRICS countries including some others that want to join and are associates. Especially Russia and India, as well as other Asian and SE Asian countries. Russia being prevented from trading with EU and the US is not harming Russia at all from what I have read.
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The Yale article, even with all its "Russia experts," does not seem to examine the possibility of a new trading bloc emerging with Russia as an important participant.
Maybe Bert would care to opine as to why this possibility was omitted, at least from the youtube presentation.
I felt the article was permeated with "Hopium" that Russia and China would fail to find such common ground. They seemed to indicate China's economic relationship with the U.S. would preclude it; but there is that GIANT GLOBALIST LIE again: that countries with economic ties do not fight wars.
History shows that the opposite is true. Consider the massive economic ties between Germany and the rest of Europe before WWI and WWII.