Some really interesting developments are happening apropos the banking and financial situation in Russia and the world. Firstly, to set the stage: there’s the rumor going around that Saudi Arabia has allegedly declined to renew its purported “50-year Petrodollar deal”, signed—again, allegedly—on June 9th, 1974.

Another sitrep collating the latest news. Nothing you wouldn’t already know about if you have been following the news closely, but it’s useful to have the most relevant new developments all gathered into one place.

The most interesting, as usual, is not so much what is happening in Ukraine, where Russia continues to dismantle the “mother of all proxy armies” in a cool and methodical manner, nor is it the Saudi related rumor referenced in the title, but rather the mounting evidence of deliberate and accelerating dedollarization in BRICS+, and increasing desperation on the part of the collective West as it loses the financial and economic war.

Also, Dmitry Medvedev has yet again escalated his “bad cop” rhetoric to another level, which i personally find very entertaining.

  • SugandeseDelegationEnglish
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    18 days ago

    It also drops an ableist slur towards the end. Seems like one of these news sources that are full of red flags but unfortunately have some decent analysis as well

    • cfgaussianOP
      2·
      18 days ago

      I didn’t pick up on that, but it wouldn’t surprise me.

      • SugandeseDelegationEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        It just goes to show that real battles aren’t won on steril statistics and WarThunder forum sp*rg-out

        While I agree with the sentiment that the player base of games like WarThunder is full of reactionary armchair generals cheering at every new weapons shipment for Ukraine like it’s a football match, that word was really unnecessary and from what I’ve seen it’s basically a new iteration of calling people autistic as an insult on places like 4chan and other incel/Gamer communities, which is what bothers me most - usually you can tell what communities some people frequent online based on the words they use, which in this case is one of the red flags I mentioned about the author

        • cfgaussianOP
          3·
          18 days ago

          Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying. I glossed over that part when reading because i didn’t know that word and i didn’t understand the “WarThunder” reference either. Went over my head. But as i said, not surprised.

          • SugandeseDelegationEnglish
            3·
            18 days ago

            Yeah, not to detract from the sitrep which I think is good, but it helps to point this out since it’s a bit of a dog whistle