We'll see how that turns out.
I do remember others mocking/dismissing the the warnings about the sanctions/bullying with SWIFT would push countries to seek an alternative.
Putting my tinfoil hat on--the Covid and potentially environmental lockdowns are prep for the calamity on the hime front.
The free state of Florida is doing just fine. The political party out of power always tries to spreads FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). They just want to make everyone feel miserable to get a change of the power in the swamp. It’s important not be gaslit into such nonsense.
BRICS nations meeting in Africa for a Summit say
“the American empire is collapsing, just as many here predicted.”
That’s Obama’s doing.......remember he said.......”we’ve got to take America down a peg.”