The current American sanction against Russia is, to many people, to strangle Russian economy and to bring Russia down to its knees, economy collapsed and country broke. The victim is Russia and the Russian people. So everyone is happy. It is all about the Americans punishing the Russians.
This is the superficial belief of many people. But sanction has a bigger and unspoken meaning that affects many countries without them knowing or acknowledging it. Get the picture?
Sanction is not just about the Americans punishing the Russians. It is a statement that the Americans are the policemen, the Empire, and punishing any country that it declared as outcast. But for the sanction to work, the Americans, the Empire, must have the power to control countries to do its bidding. The sanction would not work if the rest of the world just ignore the sanction and go on trading with the Russians.
Sanction is about the Americans' control over countries to do what the Americans want them to do. It is about American power, about America's ability to exercise that power over other countries, their allies, stooges or even countries unfriendly or enemies of the Americans. Sanction is an exercise of power over other countries, not just about punishing Russia. The Americans are like the big bully carrying a big stick, do as I told you, to bite the Russians or I will whack you. They wanted to control China and India as well. Do as I said or there would be consequences, ie we will attack you.
In this sanction we even see supposedly neutral countries like the Baltic countries and Switzerland forced to join the sanction. This is how powerful the Americans are, ... or how weak the Americans are today. American's power is measured by how many countries it could ordered to sanction Russia versus how many countries refusing to accept that order to sanction Russia.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the American power is now limited to its control over the European countries, the AngloSaxon countries and its semi colonies like Japan and South Korea. The rest of the world, though fearful of the Americans, would do their best not to be involved and the Americans could not do anything to them, notably the Asean states, Central Asian states and the states in Latin America and Africa, and of course the Muslim and Arab states. The Americans have lost their control and hold over these countries when they said no to the sanction, or act daft, not whispering a word and do nothing. And the astonishing case of India, a strong American ally, that simply told the Americans, leave us alone. In short, the Americans cannot order them around.
From this sanction the world can clearly witness the countries that the Americans could still control and told to do its bidding, willingly or unwillingly. The rise of Russia and China and their banding together to take on the Americans have given the rest of the international community confidence and breathing space not to be coerced and threatened by the Americans to do their bidding, and getting away with it. Without China and Russia standing up to the Americans, many smaller countries would be left with no choice but to sanction Russia as told by the Americans.
A multi polar world can give the smaller countries a bigger space and freedom to act on their own national interest. Yes, real freedom, not the fake American freedom to do what the Americans approved or else... A multi polar world would also clip the claws of the American eagle and stop it from hurting smaller states. Americans cannot simply coerce and control smaller states by using the term sanction as an excuse. To be with us or against us. Who cares about American sanctions?
This sanction clearly shows how weak the American Empire is today. Only the white men countries and semi colonies and stooges could be ordered around and to suffer the consequences. Europe is the biggest victim of this sanction, NOT Russia, and paying a very high price for it, very high inflation and also have to pay for the war in Ukraine, an American war that they did not want.
Forget about Ukraine and Ukrainians, they are expendable, the sacrificial lamb for the slaughter.
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A very good explanation for what the American sanctions really are.
The exercise of imposing sanctions is dependent upon those who wished or are unwilling but have no choice but to follow the unreasonable "orders". If there are countries unwilling to follow suit, and have a viable alternative, then the whole sanction issue does not work anymore.
For example, in the present situation, where Russia and China are offering a genuine choice to the rest of the others, then the sanctions can hardly work. Perhaps, only upon the UK, Canada, Aussie and some of the staunch EU countries. Even among the EU countries, there exist certain degrees of flexibilities to act or not.
According to Pepe Escobar, we are likely be going back to Iron Curtain Mk 2..
http://thesaker.is/pepe-escobar-and-danny-haiphong-russia-china-and-the-post-dollar-world/
Do expect loads of internet hacking and disruptions..be careful of more phishing scams etc..
And the USA and the West wants China to follow their dictates to condemn and sanction Russia, in other words to do their bidding.
The most hypocritical act is warning China not to help the Russians. What are they doing by sending help in the billions to help Ukraine? Why must sovereign countries like China follow the dictates of the USA? Some of their allies like Saudi, UAE and India are distancing themselves from the USA and the West and their actions against Russia. China is not a colony of the USA like Japan and South Korea and that country 'down under' the crotch.
That the sanctions are definitely not working can be seen from the Ruble rising to 70 rubles to the US$. The Russian economy is far from collapsing as Biden forecasted. And on top of that, some European countries are reluctant to even consider an embargo on Russian oil and gas. Some EU countries are just play acting about banning imports of Russian oil, but on the sly are shipping Russian oil to fuel their energy needs, which even the USA is doing it themselves. Oh, they can call it open market deals, but it is still Russian oil by any other name.
Chinese Defense Minister’s Iran trip to help lift military ties to ‘unprecedented’ level
Chinese State Councilor and Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday and both sides agreed to further deepen cooperation in military and other areas, during a rare visit by the Chinese Defense Minister to Iran that experts say could help elevate China-Iran military ties to an unprecedented level against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile US and a tumultuous global situation.
Wei's trip to Iran marks the highest-ranking Chinese official visit to the Middle East country since the implementation earlier this year of the 25-year Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement between China and Iran, a sweeping deal to further improve bilateral political and economic ties between the two countries - both are facing intensifying hostility from the US.
During the meeting on Wednesday, Raisi called for expanding the areas of cooperation between the two countries and strengthening all-round cooperation, including in the military field. After the meeting, they reached consensuses on expanding high-level strategic communication, deepening military exchanges and conducting joint exercises and personnel trainings, Xinhua reported.
Iran, which opposes unilateralism, hegemonism and external interference, firmly supports China in safeguarding its core interests, Raisi said, while expressing gratitude to China for its long-standing support and assistance during Iran's difficult times, according to Xinhua.
For his part, Wei said that his visit to Iran, which came against the backdrop of the current turbulent international situation, reflected the importance of China-Iran relations, their firm mutual support and joint progress. The Chinese military is willing to maintain strategic communication with Iran, make good use of the cooperation mechanisms, and boost pragmatic collaboration, so as to lift bilateral military ties to a higher level, Wei said.
The two sides also had an in-depth exchange of views on the regional and international security situations, Iran's nuclear issue and the situation in Ukraine.
Hua Liming, former Chinese ambassador to Iran and an expert on Middle East affairs, told the Global Times on Thursday that "both China and Iran are targets of US hegemonism. I think this is the most important common language between the two countries."
Commenting on the consensus reached on military cooperation, Hua said such detailed military communication and cooperation with Iran, a major power in the gulf region is unprecedented. Hua noted that there have been military contacts between the two sides over the past 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Iran, but substantive exchanges have been few, with mutual visits or observing each other's exercises having been the most common exchange.
- GT
Recession is on the cards all over the world. No country is going to escape. We are going to see jobs disappearing, inflation rising, mortgages defaulting and oil prices increasing. Once factories start reducing production because of supply chain disruptions and non-payments or customers cannot afford to buy their products, services companies like airlines, ships, ports and trucking companies will come to a standstill. Better start saving money now.
Sanctions, ptui! When has sanctions worked with any country! Look at N.Korea, Iran, Venezuela. Has it ever changed the policy in these country! The people still tahan the sanctions, and they carry on.
Just yesterday, Fatty Kim launched a new bomblastic missile. He say ptui to the America. ptui to the Japan. Even got no vaccine, N.Korea got no cases.
Iran is said to be moving it's centrifugal research facilities underground. This is to prevent attacks by Israel and the USA and it will continue it's enrichment of Uranium. What does this mean? Iran becoming the next nuclear power is on the cards and is only a matter of time.
It has been a long standing ambition of Israel to take out the nuclear facilities at Natanz and the Iranians are well aware of that. There were many attempts by Israel to sabotage the facilities in the past and things cannot be left to chance any more.
Ironically, the USA, UK and the West are basically continuing to proliferate it's nuclear policy eg giving Australia nuclear submarines, so they have no more real moral ground to deny Iran it's nuclear ambition. Even Ukraine is asking for nuclear weapons.
Now that Iran and China are co-operating even in the military field, nothing is going to be impossible or unprecedented. And with Iran and Russia also in close co-operation, NATO and the West can no more dictate the situation in Europe and Middle East.
Hello uncle RB, now that Singapore has imposed sanction on Russia, would you classify Singapore as a stooge of the evil empire?
Singapore is nobody's stooge.
Agree, Singapore is nobody's stooge. Singapore is a principled country, the only principled country in the whole world.
Ouch! I rather Singapore be less principled, like India, can be friends to the Americans and also friends to the Russians. This is diplomacy, Indian diplomacy at its best.
Singapore needs to learn from India. It is a big waste to have so many Indian talents here in high places and Singapore still did not learn anything useful from the Indians.
The crtieria for a principled country are:
1. Political leaders are incorruptible.
2. Political leaders are immortals.
3. Or, Political leaders are high priests and high priestesses.
Uncle RB, we learn a little bit. DBS went up $1.27 today. Huat ah.
None of the above! Very sorry to say that. Not say I want to say, but I must say.
1. Political leaders are never, never and never immortals.
2. Political leaders are never and never will be high priests and high priestesses.
3. Extremely rare will one be able to find a political leader who is incorruptible. If there is one who claims to be incorruptible, then there is an occasion to celebrate, as well as to be concerned. One celebrates because the existence of that politician is going to be short-lived. On the other hand, one is highly concerned because this particular personality may be assassinated soon. (Touch wood.).
“Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act” means Kiev heading into debt pit
On Thursday, the US House of Representatives approved the “Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act,” which makes it easier for Washington to send weapons to Ukraine amid its conflict with Russia.
However, lend-lease isn’t free, and generations of Ukrainians are going to pay for the weapons that’ll be supplied by Washington to Kiev under the program. Those deliveries are conditioned on Kiev having to pay for the “return of and reimbursement and repayment for defense articles loaned or leased.”
Washington’s motives are crystal clear,” Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on Telegram, suggesting that lend-leasing to Ukraine “would allow to increase the profits of American defense corporations by several times.”
Volodin recalled the events of World War II when the Soviet Union had received military hardware from the US under a similar lend-lease scheme.
“It was described as help from the allies,” but the USSR, which lost 27 million lives fighting the Nazis, had to return those debts for decades, among other things, sending its platinum, gold and timber to America as part of mutual settlements, he said.
“The payments were only completed 61 years after the Great Victory, in 2006,” Volodin pointed out.
Lend-lease is basically a commodity loan, and “not a cheap one,” he warned. “Many future generations of Ukrainian citizens are going to pay” for the weapons, ammo and food supplies delivered by Washington. By agreeing to the land-lease scheme, “Zelensky is leading the country into a debt pit."
- RT
Alamak! This Volodin bugger is damn stupid. Trying to argue lend lease is pointless.
1. If Ukraine lose and become part of Russia, then Russia is responsible to pay back Ukraine loans.
2. If Ukraine win, then Russia will pay back the lend lease from its frozen reserves.
This is the real debt trap the Americans had been falsely accusing China of in the BRI. China's BRI is building infrastructure, like building properties, assets that can be used for many decades, to facilitate economic growth and trades.
The American debt trap is about weapons to be spent in war, nothing for the Ukrainians to gain. And the stupid Ukrainians fell into this debt trap set up by the Americans to fight a war that they did not want to, a war for the American Empire.
A war like this will make the Americans rich for many years, like exporting all the weapons in a short span of time.
How come no western media talking about this debt trap?
Iran, China & Russia Trinity against US ?
China and Iran have agreed to deepen all-round cooperation, including in the field of defence & military. Iran and China will be deepening practical cooperation in areas involving military services and arms, joint exercises and training. The decision was taken during Chinese Defence Minister Wei Fenghe’s recent visit to Tehran. China is aware that Middle Eastern countries like Iran have a great need to import weapons from other countries.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-gold-standard-kremlin-confirms-intention-back-ruble-gold-and-commodities
'Since its good to go right back to the source of Rossiyskaya Gazeta (RG), I have added an English translation of the relevant sections of Patrushev’s interview with RG (using Yandex Translate) below.
RG Question: And what do we need to do to ensure the ruble's sovereignty?
Nikolai Patrushev: “For any national financial system to be sovereignized, its means of payment must have intrinsic value and price stability, without being pegged to the dollar.
Now experts are working on a project proposed by the scientific community to create a two-circuit monetary and financial system.
In particular, it is proposed to determine the value of the ruble, which should be backed by both gold and a group of goods that are currency values, and to put the ruble exchange rate in line with the real purchasing power parity.”
So there you have it. The Russian Government is actively working on creating a gold and commodity backed Russian ruble with intrinsic value which is outside the orbit of the US dollar. '
"Volodin recalled the events of World War II when the Soviet Union had received military hardware from the US under a similar lend-lease scheme.
"“It was described as help from the allies,” but the USSR, which lost 27 million lives fighting the Nazis, had to return those debts for decades, among other things, sending its platinum, gold and timber to America as part of mutual settlements, " he said.
“The payments were only completed 61 years after the Great Victory, in 2006,” Volodin pointed out.
"Lend-lease is basically a commodity loan, and “not a cheap one,” he warned.
"Many future generations of Ukrainian citizens are going to pay” for the weapons, ammo and food supplies delivered by Washington. By agreeing to the land-lease scheme,“ Zelensky is leading the country into a debt pit.""
This is what an irresponsible businessman turned politician is doing to the Nation. This is what Zelensky is doing to the Country. After the war, it is the common people of Ukraine who are going to pay fro this DEBT TRAP set up by the Evil USA. That's why Americans can keep printing paper-money by the $Trillions every year, and don't need to pay back!
The Evil USA has been setting up numerous debt traps all over the world, and nobody is the wiser, until recently. When people started to dig deeper and deeper, than we find all these traps!
Sanctions against Russian oil?
What a joke!
Someone is making a killing by mixing Russian oil with oil from other countries and selling it off as 'Puerto Rico' oil to EU...
Now Russia is making more money by selling more oil before the sanctions..totally speechless:
http://thesaker.is/anatoliy-shariy-embargo-failure/
It is now well known that Russian oil had been moving to unknown destinations, to be mixed with oil from other sources and sold as non-Russian oil. What a joke this is!
I said before, Putin and Xi are sniggering behind their desk seeing what those European clowns are doing by trying to put on a show of solidarity to fool the world. No, the world is not fooled and they are fooling themselves silly.
Meanwhile Russia is said to be selling Russian oil like never before and making much more money than they can imagine, in the process also propping up the Ruble as well, all thanks to clueless Biden and his geniuses in Washington and the stupid Europeans being lead by the nose into the gutter.
This sanction is actually about sanctioning the Europeans. They are the ones suffering as they must import most of their needs, oil, gas, coals, food, fertilisers etc etc, and also to export their goods to Russia, China and the rest of the world.
Their exports and imports are seriously undermined and they would last for another 6 months before their economies collapsed
Piazza going to be expensive:
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/spring-wheat-used-pizza-crust-nears-14-year-high-floods-devastate-northern-plains
'U.S. spring-wheat futures are nearing the highest level since 2008, as the Northern U.S. Plains are plagued with devastating floods that prevent farmers from planting in the high-producing crop region.
Blizzards, winter storms, high winds, and extreme flooding battered the Dakotas and stalled plantings in April, raising concerns about shrinking crop yields as prevent plant dates for North Dakota are at the end of May.'
Anon "It is now well known that Russian oil had been moving to unknown destinations, to be mixed with oil from other sources and sold as non-Russian oil. "
Where can they do this? Is doesn't seem realistic.
Many oil trading and energy analytics companies track every shipment of oil. Russia exports are several million barrels. You cannot mix these large quantities in any port or oil terminals without people knowing. The oil terminals in most place already have scheduled deliveries and storage contracts for a few months. They are not lying empty waiting empty. Each Russia ship has about 100k barrels, and many have turned off their AIS (automatic identification systems) to avoid tracking. But any new delivery from Russia would cause some disruption for the oil terminal operation, at the port and result in contractual failures for existing companies using the port to deliver their own contracts. I think less than 1% of Russian oil can be mixed in these ports without people knowing.
Business Insider reported that 11.1 million barrels of Russian oil just disappeared in April, compared to none before. It is suspected that the oil from Russian ships are mixed on larger ships at sea with other cargoes, obfuscating the Russian origin. How this is done is not disclosed.
Russia export almost 3m barrels/day, that is 90m barrels/month. 11.1m barrels is only about 10%. It is not impossible to mix oil with ships at sea, but this is difficult and slow. N.Korea does this because they will subsequently accept the ships at their ports. Normal ports will ask where these ships came from, their cargo manifest which will identify loading ports, quantities, suppliers, buyers etc. You cannot leave a port with 10k barrels, and then arrive with 100k barrels. Maybe Once or twice you can do, but that's it, and probably not in developed countries without the port and customs authorities questioning, and possibly arresting the ship and its crew.
I think the 11m barrels are still at sea on some ships whose AIS is off and that's why it is temporarily unaccounted. No oil shipments disappeared previously because it was not necessary to hide Russian shipments. They may take some satisfaction each time a shipment gets thru, but it is a small fraction of what they used to sell openly.
Don't rule out the Americans or CIA buying it cheap and resell it to European countries for a big profit. They can do it as they can ownself checks ownself.
If the CIA is buying it cheap, then how can Russia be laughing all the way to the bank?
Understand USA gas if sold to the EU, cost from five to ten times more than Russian gas by pipeline. Oil must also be very much more expensive for the Europeans if bought from USA. It is a win win situation for Russia and the USA. And the Europeans are screwed upside down.
If anyone cannot do it, the USA can and that is for sure.
That China will be next is as sure as the sun rising from the East. And China has been preparing itself by upgrading it's military, forging alliances, finding new avenues to avoid being sabotaged by sanctions.
The USA, Europe and the whole world will suffer as much as the Chinese in such a confrontation and it will be naive to believe that the USA and the West will enjoy the safety of being far away from the theatre of conflict, just like the USA during the two World Wars.
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