I’m very serious when I share with people that almost everything we understand about the geopolitical purposes and impacts of sanctions against Russian economic interests is entirely fabricated. However, because the scale of the propaganda against us is so effective, breaking the mental/cognitive barrier is almost impossible.
It’s not that situations are ‘shaped’ or information is ‘manipulated,’ like would be the definition of the term “disinformation.” But rather that the entire construct of reality regarding the economic issues -as presented- is fabricated, created by massive financial interests, and flat-out lies; I mean, total unadulterated nonsense. Complete fiction.
This latest article from Reuters, and the accompanying graphic from ZeroHedge, only scratches the surface.
[SOURCE]
We are through the looking glass folks. Literally captive to the narrative as sold by our Western government officials, and there’s a huge one-way mirror; beyond which, massive segments of the grey zone are looking at us as if we are pathetic victims of professional propaganda.
The worst part of this dynamic is how the USA looks insufferably weak, because we are playing this massive game of pretending that only the Yellow Zone is participating in.
MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Almost all of Russia’s oil exports this year have been shipped to China and India, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday, after Moscow responded to Western economic sanctions by quickly rerouting supplies away from Europe.
Russia has successfully circumvented sanctions on its oil and diverted flows from Europe to China and India, which together accounted for around 90% of its crude exports, Novak, who is in charge of the country’s energy sector, told Rossiya-24 state TV.
He said that Russia had already started to forge ties with Asia-Pacific countries before the West introduced sanctions against Moscow following the start of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022.
“As for those restrictions and embargoes on supplies to Europe and the U.S. that were introduced… this only accelerated the process of reorienting our energy flows,” Novak said.
He said that Europe’s share of Russia’s crude exports has fallen to only about 4-5% from about 40-45%. (read more)
What Alexander Novak shares is stunningly accurate, only the ramifications are far more serious. This is why I am spending so much time trying to break the issue down into digestible portions.
Russia and Iran are now trading oil (and other things) in their own national currencies, not the petrodollar. This is the epicenter of a process initially triggered by the BRICS economic alliance and is now taking place in real time while the proverbial WEST pretends it is not happening. Now, it might sound esoteric, as if it is a disconnected or academic issue that doesn’t have real substantive ramifications, but that’s not true.
I can literally see how global trade is now cost-shifting as the dollar starts to weaken (become less used) as a trade currency. Again, like our domestic social issues, this de-dollarization process is “slowly at first,” but eventually this is going to come all at once.
As USA consumers we cannot see it yet, because we are inside an economic system that is entirely dependent on dollars. However, as the devaluation of the dollar continues slowly to happen, outside our dollar-based economy, the cost of goods, products and stuff in the ordinary life of people within the GREY ZONE is now stunningly less. It’s not showing up in currency markets (dollar -vs- fill_in_blank), because the currency trades are not part of the trade/cost dynamic outside the YELLOW ZONE.
Go into the grey zone and compare the price of “product X” to what you would pay in the United States for “product X”, and you will see the difference in the end consumer price is starting to widen faster. Identical goods in the USA cost much more than goods outside the “west.”
As the de-dollarization continues (mostly driven by the lessening of oil sold using the petrodollar), the disparity in price will get even more stark. As a result of this dynamic, wages in the USA (or the “west”) must necessarily rise faster; however, that’s only part of the issue.
If I took $200 into a Russian supermarket, buying only consumable food products, I would end up with about 3 shopping carts full of food. Take that same $200 into the average USA supermarket and you get one shopping cart or less. This is the scale of what is likely to happen in durable goods. The “cleaving” is underway.
Let me say that again, the “cleaving” of dollar-based price/value is underway.
Starbucks pulled out of Russia. The building still exists, the furniture still there, the equipment still there, just a different name, “Star Coffee” lolol. Starbucks is roughly $6 for whatever, the StarCoffee is $1. Same stuff. A cab/uber ride in USA might be $25, or in EU might be €30, but outside the yellow zone around $6 to $10/max. It’s getting crazy how big the difference is.
Now, the price disparity is not in everything, only in the products that do not originate from inside the yellow zone. The increased price of the yellow zone goods transfers into the grey zone when the product is moved. However, if the yellow zone and grey zone both produce an identical product (or service), that’s when you see the massive difference in price. [And no, this is not a lower cost labor issue]
Conversely, prices of goods originating from the grey zone shipped to the yellow zone will be far less than the comparable product created from within the yellow zone.
What is going to happen?
I suspect we are going to import even more products from the grey zone at a greater rate, because there’s a lower origination price and greater opportunity for profit. Wait and see.
China needs energy, Russia needs computer chips and tech. They are trading thusly. Now watch… if the sanctions are ever lifted, we will start importing Russian made electronic goods, because less expensive. It’s nuts.
Remember, our ‘western’ government is doing this to us on purpose.
“We are […literally captive to the narrative as sold by our Western government officials, and[…] pathetic victims of professional propaganda The worst part of this dynamic is how the USA looks insufferably weak.”
I. What happened during Obama/Biden Administration from ‘9/13 onwards
II. What happened during Biden/Harris Administration
[1] The EU-Ukraine association agreement: a potted history – POLITICO
[2] Remarks by President Obama to the People of Estonia | whitehouse.gov (archives.gov)
[3] How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost | The Hill
[4] The Obama Doctrine, by Jeffrey Goldberg (voltairenet.org)
Sounds like part of the big coverup,
Covering up the extraordinarily well-documented historical conflict between Jews and Russians.
Why is it that Jews have caused so many conflicts?
The list is quite extensive.
As to Russia, a good exposition by an Orthodox Christian Russian is
Russophobia by Igor R. Shafafevich.
Some Russian bloggers are suspicious of the entire drama.
The claim from them is that not only are the white Christian men of Ukraine being eliminated but the Russians that are being conscripted and eaten up in the “meat grinder” are overwhelmingly white Russian nationalists.
Western news reports claim just the opposite. Now claiming that minorities from Russian border areas are the majority of Russian soldiers killed recently.
I. Why is it that Jews are involved in so many (war) conflicts?
Heinz A. Kissinger: “Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong” [1]
As many Jews see themselves in the role of victims, more as self-defenders than as practical war participants of their own making or choice, I have rephrased your question a bit. Instead of going into the historical dimensions (representative of many: Bar Kokhba revolt as 3rd and final escalation of Jewish-Roman war 132-136), I look back 90 years, when many Jews came from Europe to flee to the USA because of the Nazi dictatorship. The “Holocaust” has also contributed to the fact that actions of Jews are viewed in a more positive way than similar behaviour from goys (the late Heinz A. Kissinger, who bypassed State Department most of the time, supported military dictatorship in Argentina and removal of Salvador Allende in Chile, bombardments of Viet Cong, Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, …).
For a long time, any criticism of actions and decisions from Jews were equated with anti-Semitism. That changed when “Barry” moved into WH. The pendulum has swung back as Hamas terror descends on Israel and “Brandon” will pay the price for his duplicity of supporting Iran and being for Israel at the same time.
Although DJT was the President who supported Israel the most – much to the chagrin of Ann Coulter – influential Jews want to destroy him. Maybe it’s all about profit and materialism and not about Israel.
II. “[H]istorical conflict between Jews and Russians”
The Ironies of History: The Ukraine Crisis through the Lens of Jewish History | Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (upenn.edu)
[1] Walter Isaacson: Kissinger: A Biography, Simon & Schuster 2005
Are you paid to write here ?
No
The Highlight being that a woman who Obama and Biden installed to handle the Ukrainian Bailout funds during Obama’s Ukrainian Govt’ Overthrow years, was also later transferred to Puerto Rico to handle the Billions of dollars of Bailout funds (aka money laundering to Democrats…) until Trump put a stop to it. Now here we are and Crooked Biden is still looting the American Taxpayers by the Trillions.
FACT SHEET: U.S. Crisis Support Package for Ukraine | whitehouse.gov (archives.gov)
FACT SHEET: U.S. Assistance to Ukraine since February 2014 | whitehouse.gov (archives.gov)
Interim-Staff-Report-A-President-Compromised-The-Biden-Family-Investigation-1.pdf (house.gov)
The Bidens’ Influence Peddling Timeline – United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
HMKP-116-IG00-20200731-SD001.pdf (congress.gov)
HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD067.pdf (congress.gov)
Ukrainian MP Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million – PopularResistance.Org
It’s Igor Shafarevich. Not nit-picking; he’s a great thinker who should be read more. My first exposure to him was the essay Socialism in Our Past and Future by “A.B.” In Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s anthology From Under the Rubble. Shafarevich later expanded it into a book called The Socialist Phenomenon. Great stuff that is maybe even more relevant now than when it was written 40 or 50 years ago.
Repeat Back Better? Make Tymoshenko PM Again
“The person credited with rallying the crowds is Yulia Tymoshenko… She’s threatened to bring the protestors back to the streets if MPs defy her.”
Nice summary!
Didn’t Samantha Powers take a trip with her cheer squad (no name and Grahamnesty) promising an exciting era of carnage in the early stages of your timeline?
Samantha Power (backed by McCain & Graham) was Ambassador to UN at that time. She married Cass Sunstein, a jew, who she met during “Barries” 1st presidential campaign.
While I don’t know if she visited Kiev in ’13/’14 (McCain did), she gave several speeches in tonality you described. With her pro-Palestina and anti-Israel approach, it will give “Brandon” a lot of headaches. If he notices.
Thanks.
After the US led coup to oust the elected, pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, the Russian speaking and identifying people in the west of Ukraine held referendum. They all voted to leave Ukraine and ask Russia to annex them. After all, they were historically Russian people.
In response, the Ukrainian government led by the US puppet president Petro Poroshenko sent his military including the Neo Nazi Azov Battalion who used to march in Kiev with swastika banners while shouting “Jews out” to shell and shoot up the western regions such as the Donbass.
Using Neo Nazis in a country with a huge population of Jews is beyond all logic. volodymyr zelenskyy is Jewish as are all of Ukraine’s oligarchs. Between 2014 until the Russians attacked Ukraine, the Ukrainian military killed over fourteen thousand men, women and children in the west.
It is NOT Putin who is the criminal it is those in the US government such as Victoria Nuland who with the military industrial complex used the Ukrainian military in an attempt to defeat Russia. The idea was to plunder Russia’s vast natural resources and put them in the hands of companies such as Blackrock and Vanguard.
You are absolutely correct, but defeating Russia was, and still is, to be done by bringing her ‘under’ NATO; glad she has resisted; she is therefore a ‘created’ enemy. NATO and the UN are the head of the emerging NWO/communism.
The advent of NATO and the UN led the world to ‘create’ enemies for profit, never ending wars where there are no clear cut winner or loser, AND set up a world wide controlled economic structure eventually with easily controlled digital money. These plans have been in the making since 1776………the constitution for the people to prosper – capitalism – was feared and hated by monarchies. It still is, and the greatest worldwide monarchy NWO has been the wet dream of tyrants and despots through out history. World conquest, what a hoot.
God Help US
They fear and scorn what they call ‘populism’ for a reason. And constitutions and ideals for the people are the thorn in the side of the wanna be rulers. Simile, metaphor, or just thinking out loud??
Ironically Putin/Russia actually asked to join NATO!
True or not, I do not know however plenty of search results, here’s one :-
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule
World wide digital currency? How does that happen when the West has been cleaved from most of the world? It’s like these globalists are just fkn nuts.
The constitution required AMENDMENTS to it bc they forgot about US. It was designed for federalists by federalists. Read up on history.
Eastern Ukraine; not western Ukraine. BTW, Ukraine is Magog. You can read about what happens to it and those nations who are destroyed who live carelessly in the islands and coastlands (EU,UK,US) in the Book of Ezekiel, Chapters 38 and 39.
My mistake, I wrote my comment at one in the morning. Thanks for the correction.
Finished reading that a few weeks ago. As I read through this great article and wonderful comments this is exactly what I’m thinking of.
“Biden’s willing.”
OK, but how does drastically weakening the US and the West help “them” (globalists, oligarchs, etc.) defeat Russia and the rest of the world????? I’m beginning to think these globalists are just plain fkn nuts and out of control! Ukraine just looks like a huge money laundry piled with dead bodies, and the US as a piggy bank to plunder with zero accountability. Am I the only one noticing dollars being converted into land/gold/silver/commodities? They see what’s coming while telling the rest of us plebs to keep buying their increasingly worthless paper, watch football, and stuff our faces with pharmaceuticals, junk food, and tranny fluid beer.
I have often wondered about that. They want to rule the world while they crush their ability to do so. What you said makes sense. If they have calculated what is coming then the whole game is to just steal everything in sight while they still can.
It has been reported that Blackrock owns over 90% of the land in Ukraine.
Shortly after “2014” a freelance reporter traveling around Ukraine wrote that all the impoverished towns are surrounded by productive farmland but the locals don’t own the land.
What little he could verify was foreign owned.
Victoria NUDELMAN: Deep Khazarian ancestry.
Moscow’s anti-sanctions tsarina: What the woman leading Russia’s Central Bank says about economic war with the West
The woman who has become a nightmare for the architects of Western sanctions against Russia gives her first interview in two years
The head of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, has held the position for more than ten years. When she was just starting the job, the world’s media highlighted that Nabiullina had become the first woman to run a central bank in a G8 country. Now, however, the Western press talks about her in a completely different context. Not long ago, Politico magazine named her “disruptor of the year” because she “has managed to stave off the effects of unprecedented Western sanctions designed to drain the Kremlin’s coffers.”
https://www.rt.com/business/589811-elvira-nabiullina-interview-rbk/
stave off the effects
26 years on, Russia set to repay all Soviet Union’s foreign debt (2017)
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-bosnia-debt-idUSR4N1F102X/
sanctions designed to drain
Gold surpassed dollar assets in Russia’s reserves for the first time (2021)
“A multi-year drive to reduce exposure to U.S. assets… making it the world’s biggest buyer.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/russia-s-583-billion-reserves-now-hold-more-gold-than-dollars
Once again we are all ahead of the information curve on this and many other issues thanks to you Sundance be well stay strong and keep it coming
R.D.
All good info. Keep the faith. Happy New Year
We lost this Ukrainian War and should bring our resources back home. Not one penny for Zelenskyy, let the European Union pay the Ukrainian pensions for we cannot afford these leeches.
India Scoffs at Coal ‘Transition’: ‘Not Happening in Foreseeable Future’
Prophetic times
but ALWAYS STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!
Trump 2024
“Nuts!”
If you recall, in their ‘you’ll own nothing and be happy’ ad, the WEF advised that the US would not be a superpower in their agenda. We are seeing this happen, in real time. By the way, didn’t Saudi Arabia express an interest in BRICS and getting off the petro dollar?
I still wonder if the ‘wall’ around US finances was really part of the plan. Perhaps it is just as logical to think that those planning the ‘isolation’ of Russia were so enveloped in their hubris, that they believed that the rest of the world would align with the US and its interests. We had the EU, who barely whimpered when Nordstream was destroyed, and they began to purchase US LPG at 4x the cost from Russia. Leaders like Orban who refused to cooperate were ostracized, but the rest of the EU decided that alignment with the US was more ‘advantageous’ than their own economies. Perhaps another difference is that those in power in Russia are in their positions due to merit and expertise, rather than US ‘leaders’ who acquire their positions due to political adherence and DEI. Perhaps naively, I do believe that US ‘leaders’ felts, in their hubris, that the rest of the world would align with the US and ‘democracy’ (lol), rather than aligning with the economic decision making that was advantageous to their countries.
Yes, they rule by stupidity, arrogance and incompetence but they were smart enough to hijack our entire political structure, plunder our treasury at will, and create an all encompassing Orwellian spy network and police state. They can only rule through force and intimidation.
Of secondary importance :
Greenland should be painted yellow.
”Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.[14] It is the largest country within the Kingdom and one of three countries which form the Kingdom, the others being Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands; the citizens of all three countries are citizens of Denmark. As Greenland is one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union, citizens of Greenland are also granted European Union citizenship.[15] The capital and largest city of Greenland is Nuuk.[15]” Wikipedia
For the record, Greenland is not a member of the European Union. This autonomous part of Denmark left EU in 1985 after a referendum, but they are certainly a western country and should be yellow as hell.
Yes, you are right, thank you.
From Wikipedia :
”As a consequence of political complications in relation to Denmark’s entry into the European Common Market in 1972, Denmark began to seek a different status for Greenland, resulting in the Home Rule Act of 1979.
This gave Greenland limited autonomy with its own legislature taking control of some internal policies, while the Parliament of Denmark maintained full control of external policies, security, and natural resources. The law came into effect on 1 May 1979. The Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, remains Greenland’s head of state. In 1985, Greenland left the European Economic Community (EEC) upon achieving self-rule, as it did not agree with the EEC’s commercial fishing regulations and an EEC ban on seal skin products.[71] Greenland voters approved a referendum on greater autonomy on 25 November 2008.[72][73] According to one study, the 2008 vote created what “can be seen as a system between home rule and full independence”.[74] ”
So, yellow its colour is.
Unless the future President Trump succeeds this time ”in persuading” the government of Denmark to sell it to the US, so that they will enter together the gray zone…!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/trump-considering-buying-greenland
President Trump proved for four years these people are not that smart. He is logical and was able to out maneuver their hooey and solve supposedly un-solvable problems, like energy independence. Putin is the same way, see problem, fix problem…next. Most are real easy like getting around a meaningless embargo.
The exact opposite is true with the uniparty/enemy/swamp rats in Western governments, see problem or make up problem, exacerbate problem, assemble pedigree panels in the enemy MSM to pretend and prattle on incessantly for decades, manipulating the public about the complexities, of well, everything.
The swamp rats aka the demons are not that smart but can walk in a straight line, and say; “yes master, there are more than two genders.”
We really do need to break the trance.
No, it’s time for a divorce!
What does the world look like without America? What does America look like as a non super power. Is there any thought on this, anyone put the focus and goal on how to navigate and survive?
On the 27th, Sundance posted about the banks laying off 60,000 employees.
Read that and the entire comment thread. It will take a while.
Bamanicious ask a question about surviving a banking crisis. You would find the long line of answers enlightening. Good questions can get a host of valuable responses at the Treehouse.
Exactly right. Energy is the master currency for all species and always has been! The globalists long have tilted the trade corridors to China and this energy tilt is all the more so then even the CO2 scam has been… Now so long as President Trump gets back in power soon, then having conserved North American energy and going back to manufacturing away from China are important positive steps.
Don’t put all your eggs in the Trump basket. What makes you think they will allow a fair election? Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Question:
At what point does AOC and her GND cronies say to themselves, “Ya know what? Maybe I’m not that smart!”
When the dollar goes down their ill gotten gains will be worth nothing.
If CW2 breaks out as a function of Trump 2024, those bunkers will do little to protect the entitled because the lefties will attack their own.
What then?
I doubt they can think that far ahead. The black rimmed Karen glasses don’t make them smarter or look smarter.
When they wake up in hell.
G od help us as our unelected governments are corrupt.
Help – what is the password to access the password-protected posts? Thank you
I need the password as well. Longtime reader but I work too hard to fully keep up.
Thanks
You need to buy your super-secret squirrel decoder ring first, lol.
University of Michigan alums know the password.
And how do we think this will affect inflation and the direction the Fed takes? Pretty obvious. Why oh why do we pay taxes for this worthless type of governance?
Ok, SD. Why? No one ever tries to explain the “why.” How does bankrupting the US benefit the globalists? How does making America, and the West, an over crowed, immoral, depraved, lawless, bankrupt, impoverished, weakened, drug addicted, third world shithole give Dr. Evil and his sick billionaire minions more money and power to rule the entire world? No heat? No stoves? No furnaces? No refrigerators? No Cars? No airplanes? Abortion, poison injections, child mutilation, legal pedophilia, no real food only bugs for the population of the West? The end game is obvious. We are the carbon they want to eliminate. Well, on the bright side this should stop illegal immigration.
So, what do we do? Sit and helplessly watch our families starve or get taken to the death camps? That seems to be the endgame. It’s great to understand what’s happening in this age of insanity but no one is offering any plans/ideas on how we can fight this obvious plan to murder all of us and destroy our country.
I come here to the treehouse to get my morning dose of doom and gloom, lol. Everything I hear from SD and other alt-media people paints a very bleak picture. It’s like watching an 18 wheeler going down a steep grade with no brakes and no way to stop it. What you’re talking about SD is our imminent death at the hands of these insane inbred billionaire genocidal whackos. There seems to be no political solution to our situation. They will either terrorize us if we resist their death by a thousand cuts, or drag us off to a Gulag or an extermination camp. Tell me, please, what options do we have left? They have us boxed in and control an absolute police state. How about giving us some hope, some solutions? I feel alone. Almost every “conservative” around me has their heads in the sand with bread and circuses. They think the stock market is doing great. They think everything is going back to normal. The libs in my family think anything is better than Trump in office. They are oblivious. They think I’m being a Chicken Little. It’s pretty damn depressing. Why should I stick my neck out to fight for any of these morons? It would almost be satisfying to watch them suffer from their ignorance if it wasn’t so tragic for the rest of us.
Ponder that 200$ buys a whole lot more in Mexico than US when it comes to groceries.
Where did India and China import all their oil from before Russia came in?
from anyone that would sell it at the best price … now Russia is the best price always … without sanctions the market could shop around for oil … with the “sanctions” the market was forced for a period to shop in a reduced supply market (i.e. price pressure) … then China and India decided that Russian oil was fine … on the supply side there are now 2 markets for oil … same group of buyers but some of them have tied 1 arm behind their back with sanctions …
Wait until February, 2024. That’s when the P.do Peter regime will steal Russia’s billions and finally put paid to the credibility of the Western financial system. The dollar will die a death by a thousand gaping wounds.
america is a satrap of DS/cabal/israel. we have oil and many other natural resources here. we should evict the traitors and drill etc here. that has always been the answer.
FYI, cousin Joe Dan at Intellectual Froglegs is at it again. Enjoy. RINO Season — Intellectual Froglegs
and India is now a HUGE seller of diesel and gasoline to the EU …
Imagine what the sanctions look like to Russia. Europe still buys Russian Energy but at a much higher price. How could Russia conclude anything other than the U.S. wants to see Europe back in 1946.
FWIW. If the purported Russian $330 billion located mainly in European Banks is taken, first there will be huge withdrawals from Western Banks by countries that are not considered squeaky clean and second Russia will be incentivized to take $330 billion away from the European Countries that rob them.
‘Credit where credit is due’; RACHEL MALDONADO’s newsletter: 1. 9 million military age males have entered the US in an invasion on our southern border, in the 3 years of Biden, 200 billion of US tax
dollars sent to Ukraine instead of on US infrastructure needed, Attack on men, with propaganda that masculinity is Toxic, Attack on women, promoting promiscuity which leaves women feeling lonely
Why the F**k are we are we allowing this?
Who is she?
This is the only Rachel Maldonado I know of. She has a substack page as well.
http://rhmaldonado.com/
This younger generation of women are truly screwed in the head….. ( and yes most vote Democrat) They all vacation and live lavishly without a boyfriend, or husband most of the year…. then the end of the year their social media highlights show all the vacationing, fun times, etc. (that men don’t get very often) Yet The women have a whiny almost baby like attitude of still being still for New Years….. it’s hilarious, yet sad for the men who try to like them.
In retrospect, the “fruit/s” of the 19TH Amendment.
So … the vaunted “SWIFT” system that our Treasury Department used for good or evil, is effectively destroyed anyway, now a moot point.
Lots of players now see how-to-implement work arounds.
Nice job, Team Biden / Neocons / Globalists.
What are y’all gonna make FUBAR next? How will you dufuses weaken America today?
BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, with more and more countries applying to come on board every day. Look at the lineup. It’s right in front of our noses. This economic alliance has been in play since 2010. Is it weakening while America is strengthening?
Testing. My password isn’t working on other article.
Never mind. Figured it out. 🙄
State the purpose……
I am thinking of moving to India.
I am thinking of moving to india
Yellow zone has higher quality standards due to all the regulations and consumer rights. The rest of the world doesn’t care about those protections and thus gets product that reflects that ethos
BINGO!
Destroy the Western Middle Class is the motto.
Sundance casts light onto the fabricated reality we are living in. The West and America are now as the Soviet Union had been—existing in a fabricated reality behind an iron curtain. The iron curtain symbolizes the capture of minds by dark powers who control and inform the mind of Big Brother, thus, the fabricated reality consists of circles within circles. At the heart of the circle is Big Brother, the spinner and weaver of the fabricated reality. The next circle is where true believers dwell. They look upon the poisonous lies of Big Brother and see power for themselves, thus they freely imbibe the poison and are transformed into conditioners, controllers, and commissars. Occupying the largest circle are the double-minded. Cognitive dissonance is their daily condition. They know that men are men and not women too but refuse to affirm the truth out of fear of the commissars. Standing outside the circle are truth-tellers. Their minds are untouched by the darkness. Their work is to make forays into the largest circle and bring truth and wisdom to all who will receive it. Not many will. Because they are a great danger to Big Brother he hunts them down and kills them.
I agree with the premise regarding the plan for the “yellow zone”.
I don’t agree that the “gray zone” is uniform in plan nor action.
Take Brazil for an example. Relative to their economic reality, prices and taxes are skyrocketing and the average Brazilian is becoming desperate, many rapidly becoming poor. Those who have means leave. Big CCP investments happening the past few years there and size and scope of CCP projects are steadily increasing.
Take Argentina as another example. Pegged themselves to the US dollar again. Shunning CCP investment. Milei must be betting on a Trump victory, because if deep state wins Argentina will be screwed.
https://www.memri.org/reports/side-effects-sanctions-russia
“Conclusion
Of course, the sanctions policy has become an important instrument of pressuring autocratic and aggressive regimes to stop their wrongdoings, and therefore such practices cannot be abandoned in the foreseeable future. However, I would reiterate this instrument should be used with great prudence and caution because it now looks that it can inflict serious harm on the Western powers – on the one hand because it may cause significant damage to their economies, in many cases exceeding that brought on the sanctioned country, and on the other hand since it undermines the very fabric of the rule-of-law-based society that for centuries served as the best guarantee for Western social and economic success. Therefore, I would suggest that it might be the best choice to refrain from developing new sanctions, to use the existing ones for the time being, and to focus the main effort on providing military and financial aid to Ukraine,[41] which may be far more rewarding than any sanctions imposed on its enemies.”