‘We’ve never done this to an economy like this before,’ a former sanctiooner says
Good to know you’ve induced defaults in other economies before though and even better to know you’re just hail marying possibly the global financial system.
Seriously though, is this going to work in the way they want it to and if not what’s going to be the fallout of it?
Yanks would rather see the entire world burn, than give up their hegemonic position
Shit like this really worries me. That if they were ultimately against the proverbial wall, about to fall, no way out, no way to win that they might just launch all the nukes and try and burn the world to a cinder rather than let their enemies win. There are many among them who are that deranged. Who would see annihilating humanity as preferable to the loss of their precious “norms” and their hegemony and rule. And who would with their last breath claim that the Russians and Chinese did all this or caused it and that they had no choice and were righteous to do so.
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The US is already inching up to the line of attacking Russia in a full on cyber-attack to cripple their economy as that is about the last thing left after this that isn’t kinetic warfare. They’re growing frustrated by losses in Ukraine and are desperate to stop them. They will sooner or later pull that trigger as well. Or goad Russia into reacting.
They are pulling out every single stop to stop Russia, to get a win from the Ukraine situation, to force them out and let the Nazis there win and for their media to cheer. It’s not even about the strategic situation with the Nazis and having NATO there anymore it’s about morale and sending a message to allies that they’re still strong and not to be fucked with. If Russia continues and succeeds in partitioning Ukraine and disarming and destroying most of their weapons and killing many of their Nazis as well as taking many western assets prisoner and trying them and broadcasting that it will be a big blow to the US/NATO hegemony and image. An unacceptable one.
Russia should consider escalating first to warn them off. The west is already self-righteous and would even see nuking Moscow as justified at this point if it meant cutting the head off Russian government, killing Putin and installing their own puppets. Russia has significant cyber capabilities.
Fact is soon enough NATO is going to put together a flotilla to try and get the grain they say Russia is blockading in port but which in fact Ukraine is holding back or preventing from leaving thanks to unmoored dangerous old sea-mines they’ve flooded the black sea with. They’re going to sail in, land a bunch of heavy weapons systems for sinking the Russian fleet and then do that unless Russia reacts and sinks them. They will do this under the auspices of the UN for humanitarian reasons claiming Russia is starving the global south.
This is the violent, angry lashing out of a cornered, diseased, injured but not dead empire.
