no offense Trinnidaddy but there are things here that do not clarify in my head:
that is an opinion written by one who comments on the Saker blog, apparently requested by the man who runs the blog. it is his opinion the depth of the relationship developing between the Chinese and Russians. there is no way to prove at the moment whether he is wrong or right. if we use our heads and stick narrowly to experience and history it seems illogical for the Russians to trust the Chinese to the extent suggested by that poster. there is nothing in that longstanding relationship that would warrant such rapid integration. I mean Russia and China were in military stand-off not more than 50-65 years ago.
so we must take that opinion with a grain of salt.
you must also remember that:
that Russia is not like most countries in the world their currencies/central banks prisoner to the Zionists. Putin took back the Russian central bank/Russian ruble and kicked out the Zionists. Putin has set a very bad(good) example for the world, which is a current and additional reason the Zionists/Jews hate Putin/Russia so much... and using Obama and the American political classes have pitted America against Russia, apparently with intent to lead to a war in which Israel theoretically will be to the side, while the 2 giants smash each other into existential futility.
the Russian/Jewish enmity is a longstanding one of truly deep dimension. I don't think the Jews will stop until they kill every last Russian/or the Russians kill them. the Jewish financial power is responsible for the Russian carnage of the Bolshevik Revolution and world war 2. it is also responsible for the modern rape of Russian wealth when that nation fell under traitor Gorbachev. most of the Russian oligarchs are Jews. they constitute a fifth column in Russia at the moment, a deadly group enemy of Putin.
Putin has economic options:
the Russian currency can be decoupled from international trade and speculation with the ruble, stopped cold
just like America does with its own currency with all its debts denominated in USD..Russian can print its money to meet its obligations almost endlessly.
Russia has been the number one hoarder of gold in the world. Russia is flush with gold..real gold. Russia is also one of the worlds top gold producers, close to #1 if not #1
Russia has all kinds of options to screw the US economy that Putin never uses. somebody suggested that the Russians get into the gold shorting market..you know the paper futures the Zionists use to keep the price of gold down ::confused:: a simple purchase of the right amount of gold paper..a few billion.. along with an absolute demand for delivery of the physical gold, would collapse that market. and if the gold short collapses and gold appreciates to its proper value the USD collapses for investments would run from US treasuries to gold. for silver too because the same applies with silver, platinum..all precious metals
similarly there a many ways the tottering US economy can be harmed..just like they try to harm the Russians. it would lead to all our economic warfare of course..but that is what we already have.. and soon enough hot war. and the idea is that this is what the Zionists want, but Putin plays a different game. Putin is not a fool..and if all this is genuine confrontation between Russia and America, Putin appears to be ready to fight but following the best possible path to avoid war.
then again it is not as if America is a self sufficient monopoly able to deliver punishment to other countries and remain solvent. America depends on others, or ropes in its client states to do its dirty work now.
America is an empire that has established relationships around the world that are coercive and totally exploitative, through dictatorial political classes it has imposed on those dominated nations. there is not one single nation that is doing America's bidding currently to bring pressure on Russia, that is not cutting off its nose to spoil its face. and the point is that America must use those nations to get the effect it wants on Russia....American cannot do it alone. and as in Saudi Arabia, all American client states have populations in total opposition to the governments America has imposed on them..opposition that supports internal warfare against those corrupt dictators.
the European populations are all against their governments for supporting Obama's Russian policies. All the Latins are opposed, Muslims too. and all the Muslim oil producers lose tons of revenue by low oil and gas prices. they must all draw down reserves in huge quantities to meet their national budgets..all for American interest. the same principle you raise with China seeking its own selfish interest in the current cheap hydrocarbons market applies here: why must Arab countries draw down reserves, literally bankrupt themselves for American interests ::confused::
and what happens to them at the end of all this ::confused::
bankrupt..will America see to their economic replenishment ::confused:: would America be in a position to do..or will America even want to ::confused:: that is the question.
in a world in which Venezuela and Russia can also flood the market and keep prices low why wont they tit for tat..as long the Muslim dictators remain in power for example ::confused::
then again that bankrupt and weak Arab oil producers suits Israel. the would be easy pickings for Israeli control at the end of this, their capacity to oppose Israel done, Muslims finished as a force in the world..all of them bankrupt.
it looks to me like the target of all this is not only Russia but all countries..especially the jackass Arab/Muslim dictators now taking their countries to destruction for Zion. low oil prices is a mugs game, a fools game that is calculated to knock off all development in the world that challenges the USD and American hegemony. it is a total attack, all out war on an economic basis so far... and the fools do not see it. this is not about Russia per se. Russia is the noise, the distraction that hides the fact that they all lose in the end and America regains/retains its domination.
it is a desperate American great game tactic for all the marbles..that is intended to waste down all Americas opposition..actual and potential. in potential all the people of the world are opposed to America. they must be whether they are conscious of it or not. America is the enemy of the world. it is in the worlds interest to liberate itself from America. so this here must be an attack on the world, that very world oppositional character of things American, that can break out at any time and chase America back into its borders, eliminating Zionist power globally.
that is more like what I see here..and it tends to explain Putin's reaction, the game he is playing. he is up against enemies globally and internally. no doubt he can smash internal Russian opposition and establish dictatorial power. I think he believes that he must maintain and develop Russia as a democracy, an example of what he intends for the world..and that dictatorial power would not serve any positive end..that in fact is what the Zionists want...another Soviet style Russian social monster that they can again control from the top down. but Putin resists, pushing ahead with democracy
there are also many economic benefits for Russia from a low ruble that they are already taking advantage of. there is increasing focus on internal Russian economic development that they have ignored up to now, but have begun to push forward..development that would eliminate dependency on imports..
also America is a hollowed out economic centre, again, dependent on the rest of the world for its sustenance. racing against time the
Americans are playing desperately, trying games like low oil prices. they have put the Saudi royal family between rocks and hard places. the Saudi Royals will have bankrupt Saudi Arabia, in which case that would leave them defenseless against their own population, against the Jewish state, against Iran. and we know in the end America does not care about them in the least. all their 'pets' are expendable in the end...a hard and terminal lesson Saddam learned
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