Irish Savant – irishsavant.net March 6, 2022
Everything you read and hear about sanctions in the current conflict focus on their impact on Russia. Trade to and from that country has indeed been drastically curtailed and without doubt the population will suffer. But Russians are used to suffering and previous sanctions initiatives have had minimal impact even when the ruble collapsed on the markets in 2014. What the West doesn’t understand is that the ruble is the currency the Russians use inside the country but the price of oil and gas is the Russian currency outside the country. In fact it’s plausible to suggest that the ensuing autarchy has strengthened the country in the medium to long term. Admittedly previous sanctions regimes have been much less draconian than those now being implemented. In fact when ‘the West’ (I use that term to describe the United States and its satraps) throws all restraint aside and resorts to downright piracy and gangsterism (Italy robbing a Russian billionaire’s yacht, America robbing Iranian and Venezuelan oil on the high seas, Libya’s and Iraq’s gold – the list is endless) maybe Russia will decide to respond in kind.
Much is made of the fact that Russia’s economy is only the size of Italy’s and thus of very limited influence. But crude GDP comparisons mask an interesting reality because were Russia finally to decide to respond in kind the impact on the West would be catastrophic but not for Russia. While the most obvious response would be to cut off oil and gas supplies to the West they could also cut off supplies of grain and fertilisers. Russia controls about half of world potash production and a quarter of its wheat. The combined impact would – in my opinion anyway – bring the West to its knees in quick order. Forking out the equivalent of $30 for a gallon of petrol and the same for a burger will concentrate the minds of the public very quickly. Or the Russians could demand payment for their exports in gold or silver. Either way the reaction could be epic.
Russia has many additional options with which to target the West. They could halt the export of rocket engines, titanium (vital for vehicle, aerospace and medical device manufacturing) and enriched uranium, Russian supplies of which make up half of the fuel for American commercial nuclear power plants. They could take a leaf out of the West’s book and seize the assets of Western banks in Russia and put them in escrow account until they’re satisfied with the West’s response to broader issues. They could stop paying the leases on the hundreds of airliners leased from the West and now located in Russia. The now almost worthless Russian companies quoted on Western stock exchanges can now be bought by the Russian state at a fraction of their intrinsic value. Or they could take a leaf out of the CIA’s book and discreetly foment uprisings in small African countries that supply essential minerals like cobalt to the West. All the while calling for a peaceful solution based on international law. How Putin and his people would laugh at that!
I find it hard to believe that the West could keep the plates spinning in its already shaky financial Ponzi scheme were the system subjected to the shock and awe I’ve described. Monetising won’t work as central bank printers are already smoking from the frantic production of based-on-faith-alone currencies. No, I think Russia holds the aces in this dispute.
However there is another possibility. Could the economic and social cataclysm that would follow such a Russian move play into the hands of the Satanic globalists and provide the pretext to usher in the Great Reset and Agenda 2030? Bear in mind the Masonic motto Ordo Ab Chao, Order Out of Chaos. That’s how they’ve seized power time and again throughout history. Another way of looking at it is through the Hegelian Dialectic, problem –> reaction –>solution.
Be it curse or blessing, we surely live in the most interesting of times.
Double standards again! When the world refuses to trade with Russia it’s “sanctions”, but when Russia looks like cutting off trade with others that’s a “threat”. It isn’t Europe’s gas anyway it’s Russia’s. It only becomes Europe’s gas when Russia sells it, and now why should it? Let Europe and the UK freeze for a month or two, kill their economies like they’ve conspired to kill Russia’s (yes, it is a conspiracy and not just a theory), but Russia must do the same to the US and its people by cutting off its oil sales to them.
If such treatment is good enough for Russia and its people then it’s good enough for Europe and the US and their people. God knows their rulers are warmongers and war criminals without equal.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-ukraine-latest-news-moscow-230414223.html
When Britain started talking about “sanctions” I remember thinking how this will hurt Britain more, like when there was no trade across the Channel and the papers said “Continent completely cut off”.
THE WEST IS A HAUGHTY IDIOT !
AND MERITS WHAT IS TO COME
Of course we also have to consider whether Russia is just playing its part in the greater game on behalf of the demons who rule the world. The Russian attack on the Ukraine is mighty convenient as a distraction to everything else going on: the faltering Covid scam and the underlying financial catastrophe that is ready to explode and the need for the demons to get their world-wide prison up and running. Putin is awfully cosy with the yids in Russia, so we can only hope that he really does have the interests of his country and its people at heart after all. However, I think that any leader in today’s world who was a genuine threat to the power of the demons would face an assassin’s bullet or have an unfortunate accident in short order.
I completely agree with this article. Any free flow of trade is going to screw us all.
The politicians (criminals) are fomenting this war as cover for vaccine deaths and their failed policies – like putting money toward windmills and electric cars in an ice age. Elon Mush says to the world this week, we need more oil and nuclear power plants. Ha ha. Electric cars need oil, coal, and nuclear power to work. This model of everyone having a car means absolutely shit tons of energy – and if you start shuttering power plants while this huge demand is going up you are going to get instant shortages of power.
Solar panels and windmills are a joke, not even 1% of the energy. Not enough to even power one year of electric cars coming off the assembly line. Biden and Pelosi are two old and scientifically illiterate douche bags stammering to teleprompters and they are going to ruin your day with their insane policies.
And in case any idiot out there still believes in global warming – we are in an ice age, we never left the ice age, current human civilization was only possible because we are in an interglacial. If the current glacial cycle blip is down into another ‘little ice age’ it is quite possible our current model of sucking every watt out of every source is leading to a huge catastrophe when the green lunatics – who are lacking in intelligence and engineering knowledge – decide to kill power sources bases on their “inner feelings” and “woke emotions”.
Liberal Idiot: Hey do you see my new Tesla with twin motor drive?
Conservative Engineer: Yeah it needs coal power to operate.
Liberal Idiot: What are you talking about you racist, my Tesla uses electricity from a Tesla charging hub.
Conservative Engineer: Yes, and that wire goes all the way back to that hundred year old coal power plant down by the river.
Liberal Idiot: I bet you voted for Trump, you are a white racist and why we need to end the white race, I will have you know my daughter is having babies with a black man from Ethiopia. Our whole family is triple vaxxed, I bet you are one of those Nazi anti-vaxxers and like Putin.
Conservative Engineer: I hate Trump as much as Biden, both are evil pricks who are harming us, and no I do not vote the lesser of two evils. Your daughter is a race mixing whore and you are an overpaid virtue signalling idiot. I hope your Tesla catches fire and locks the doors with you inside.
The ‘sanctions’ policy is all a sham. The Zionist Cryptocrats who control both ‘sides’ of this ‘war’ behind their yarmulke Jewish Presidents (Putin/Zelensky) must make it appear that its ‘real’ for the goyim. They know Russia is too vast to be affected by any ‘sanctions’– plus it has all of China to do business with…
Its been close to two weeks now since Russia invaded Ukraine, & yet no declaration of war from Britain or France. They only waited two days after Germany invaded Poland in 1939.. Oh that’s right, they only declare war on their real enemies, but when one of their own Chabad Lubavitch agents invades a nation nothing happens…Hitler should have worn a yarmulke, then Britain/France/USA would have left him alone too…lol
According to Greg Mannarino an hour ago Biden said the US is going to ban imports of Russian oil, but already China has promised to buy it. If Russia bans the export of oil then you deal with it, but to do the damage yourself? The US must practice being stupid, ‘cos they’re really good at it.
The sanctions and everything else against Russia is a plan to destroy the US dollar / Euro and food supplies in order to bring in the social credit system. They’ll blame Russia but that’s what (((they))) always do; the globalists are behind this, the Khazarian mafia thugs behind everything for hundreds of years; Russia is just a means to THEIR ends
Late today, been travelling.
“They could halt the export of rocket engines”.
The Russians have stopped supplying rocket engines to the US.
Russia might not need to respond like for like. The sanctions appear to be more detrimental to the West than Russia.
The US Fed and Wall Street weren’t consulted about SWIFT. They are furious. Other sanctions are going to break the sheeple and close an untold number of businesses. You can’t heat a hotel at current energy costs and you can’t pass the cost on, because no one will pay, so you end up closing the hotel, and this is just one example.
There’s another way to look at this. Maybe the NWO wants as much economic pain as possible, so the old die from the cold and the poor starves to death?
For instance, the NHS is totally beyond recovery, which is exactly what the regime wanted. Cold hungry sheeple will die much faster when they release the next bioweapon.
Also keep in mind that the regime will be collecting a lot more tax. Higher prices, lots more VAT.
IF the regime cares about the sheeple and the economy, they could cut fuel duty and VAT, still get the same tax take, but cut prices… I doubt the City would like that.
I’ve been saying for years and years. House prices are 50% over real price discovery, but I go further, house prices could collapse by 70/80%, that would make most mortgage paying sheeple, bankrupt, and with many losing their jobs, one can see how our war mongering leaders are more at war with their own sheeple, than with the Russian regime.
@Yukon Jack! Bravo! Having a conversation with a so-called woke liberal is like having a conversation with a retarded drooling idiot.
Look up the Kievan Rus and understand exactly what it is about. All Norse peoples from Norway to Finland took the land in the 8th century. In the 10th century defeated the Khazar empire. Then became Christians. The land of the Kievan Rus is Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Baltic states. Their bretheren are the Norsemen. Blue and Green Eyes and light colored hair, the most blue eyes blonds are in the Ukraine and surrounding areas.
The symbols of Oden and Woden are the same as are their gods which was shared throughout. If Putin is fighting for Russians (I don’t think he is as he is a major player in Freemasonry along with China’s Xi and US presidents and “leadership”). It’s all kabuki theatre.
Whites are again fighting each other and not Semites, Mongols, Moslems, Africans, Jews, criminals, nutters, anything we could do good by fighting against. Like Hitler’s Nazis the ones in YUcrein are only killing Russians, Whites, hated-by-Jews people.