Excellent, insightful article, though obviously very depressing for a Westerner to read.
The thing that keeps striking me every time I read the West’s latest virtue signaling drivel is how self destructive they are and how surprisingly unaware they are of what they are doing to our civilization.
They think in this obnoxious moralizing and repeated attempts to isolate Russia that they are strengthening their global positions when in reality they are destroying our relevance. They are just escalating our decline.
Clinging to an outdated road map of imperial superiority.
This is how bizarre they are....
“Crippling Unhinged Russian Belligerence and Chinese Involvement in Putin’s Schemes Act”
I feel like I am back in grade school reading the title.
I said recently that watching Xi and Putin deal with Biden reminds me of the scene in Grizzly Man where the bush pilot suggests the grizzlies don’t eat Timothy Treadwell because they know there is something wrong with him.
Then look at this, from 2021.
https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/spfs-russia-s-alternative-to-swift.html/
And from telegram -
🔹Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission 🇪🇺, sends shockwaves across Africa, Latin America & Asia. She revealed a task force to confiscate (steal) frozen Russian 🇷🇺 assets during a press conference on Ukraine 🇺🇦.
🔹This sets a precedence that no country’s assets are safe in western jurisdictions & economic bullying will be used by the west.
🔹The EU 🇪🇺 just undermined ‘Lex Mercatoria’ (Latin – ‘Merchant Law’). The autonomous legal order of international economic relations for trade & rules for settling disputes. The west has now destroyed, how money & currencies function in relationship to trade & private property rights.
Last reported on this channel:
💠SCO countries 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷🇮🇳🇵🇰🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇯🇺🇿 begin to shift trade transactions outside western currencies/payment systems
💠BRICS 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 nations open to bypassing SWIFT using Russia’s SPFS.
💠China 🇨🇳& Russia 🇷🇺 reduces USD & Euro use for trade.
And this -
US desperately trying to lure India away from Russia .
Despite US pressure, India has been reluctant to join the Western sanctions on Russia, placing domestic energy security above geopolitical tensions. Instead, the world’s third biggest energy consumer has been stepping up purchases of discounted Russian oil since the spring. Earlier this month, India’s Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC that the country will continue to purchase Russian oil in the face of growing pressure from the West.
Trade between Moscow and New Delhi has more than doubled so far this year. The two nations are currently working on bilateral measures to expand the use of national currencies, the ruble and the rupee, in mutual settlements.
Talks are also underway about mutual acceptance of Russia’s Mir and India’s RuPay payment cards, as well as options to implement each other’s interbank transfer services: India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and SPFS, the Russian alternative to SWIFT.