Ukrainian War Developments
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japan incurring a serious grudge from a russia with 5000 nuclear weapons is not in a good position to confront china.
Another good analytic video. He is a former grunt and tries very hard to be unbiased.
i doubt russia is keen to accept US dollars from china at the moment. the russians would probably demand gold or chinese yuan. The Russian bargaining position is not quite as poor as it might seem, China also wants to internationalize the yuan further as a way to hedge away its own exposure to the dollar, it will undoubtedly be willing to pay some premium to achieve that.
Russia might have rewarded japan if japan didn’t hastily jump on the American squeezing the russians bandwagon, but right now, the slim chance of any settlement of the japanese northern territories is pushed out by at least another generation.
As to invading hokkaido, when was the last time the russians conducted any serious cross open-water amphibious operation against a modern opponent? People speak of putin’s russia abs stalin’s soviet union as if they were the same thing and the rest of the world as compared to the USSR remains much as it were in 1945.
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Easy to announce headlines but the devil's in the details. How are they gonna do it? Maybe buy more solar panels form Xinjiang or more wind turbines from China or more nuclear reactors ... With Chinese technology.
Words are cheap. Actions are hard.
It was not ego is lack of courage. It was strategy and geopolitics. They did it specifically to draw Russia our into a conflict. It was quite deliberate I feel.
Compared to Wendover Video. This is a lot better.
"if we catch..." - thats why the US/NATO powers are shooting itself in the foot with the SWIFT bans. Once off swift and using bilateral financial networks, CIPS, eRmb/digital yuan, the United States will no longer be able to monitor and track who's sending or receiving money since those systems are not obliged to report client and transaction details to the United States.
One would think it would to your own interest to keep your so called adversaries and enemies on your system so you can continuously monitor and track their financial movements and who they are trading with.
SWIFT and the USD is a like a drug and it's in the best interest for the United States to be the dealer, cutting people off just forces them to go to other suppliers.
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“if we catch…” is self defeating bluster from a political culture that has embraced the mantra of “braggadocio is strength”.
The reason why the US can get away with it for a while is the US does actually have real strength to back it up. The problem is the US political culture is increasingly committed to braggadocio over investment in real strength, so the real strength, while still formidable, is a wasting asset.
Fragmenting the world finance by torpedoing the Dollar’s role as a reliable reserve currency is one of those weapons that is terrible but that can be used once. The US just used it and shot it’s wad, not for any real long term strategic gain worthy of firing off this one available shot, but as a apoplectic reflex over the fact that Russia did not just keel over when the US wanted her dead.
The reason why the US can get away with it for a while is the US does actually have real strength to back it up. The problem is the US political culture is increasingly committed to braggadocio over investment in real strength, so the real strength, while still formidable, is a wasting asset.
Fragmenting the world finance by torpedoing the Dollar’s role as a reliable reserve currency is one of those weapons that is terrible but that can be used once. The US just used it and shot it’s wad, not for any real long term strategic gain worthy of firing off this one available shot, but as a apoplectic reflex over the fact that Russia did not just keel over when the US wanted her dead.
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Update, location confirm 50.463860°N, 29.795898°E.
Russians 100% were not in Makariv on 28th, clearly war crime for Ukrainian army.
Honestly, the most surprising aspect of this for me was the weaponization of the dollar. I didn’t expect the US to blow their wad against Russia who is much more weaker instead of China. Just more proof for Alex Mercouris claims that the West is being led by amateurs.
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