In thinking through the (for now) gradually unfolding collapse of the American empire, the collapse of the USSR, which occurred close through three decades ago, continues to perform as a goldmine of useful examples and analogies.
Continue reading 4 Signposts of American Collapse Which Also Occurred in the USSRCategory Archives: Hybrid WW3
The Conflict in Ukraine is Precipitating the End of Western Domination
The Ukrainian conflict, presented as a Russian aggression, is only the implementation of the Security Council resolution 2202 of February 17, 2015. If France and Germany did not keep their commitments during the Minsk II Agreement, Russia prepared itself for seven years for the current confrontation.
Continue reading The Conflict in Ukraine is Precipitating the End of Western DominationRussia Cuts Off Gas Supply to France for Failure to Pay; China Reselling Russian Gas to EU at Premium
Yes, you read it right, Gazprom has announced it will halt gas supplies to Engie following the French company’s failure to pay for gas deliveries in July.
Continue reading Russia Cuts Off Gas Supply to France for Failure to Pay; China Reselling Russian Gas to EU at PremiumThe Imminent Danger of a Large Scale US-Russia War
The White House keeps insisting that it will not directly involve American soldiers in the war in Ukraine, but it keeps taking steps that will inevitably lead to a large-scale open combat role for the US against Russia.
Among the most recent moves to increase the pressure on the Kremlin, Biden revealed at a NATO summit meeting in Madrid on June 29th that the US will establish a permanent headquarters in Poland for the Fifth Army Corps, maintain an additional rotational brigade of thousands of troops in Romania and bolster other deployments in the Baltic states.
Also, the number of US troops in Europe, currently approaching 100,000, will be increased. Biden also was pleased to learn that Turkey had been enticed to drop its objection to Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
On the way to the NATO summit aboard Air Force One, Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan advised that “By the end of the summit what you will see is a more robust, more effective, more combat credible, more capable and more determined force posture to take account of a more acute and aggravated Russian threat.” Presumably Sullivan was reading from a prepared script, but the objective surely seemed to be to heighten tension with Moscow rather than attempt to reduce it and come to some kind of diplomatic settlement.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also did his bit. In an astonishing display of derriere kissing, he responded that the new US force posture commitments were demonstrative of Biden’s strong leadership. What Stoltenberg did not mention was that Biden has been lying for some time about the presence of US military personnel in Ukraine. He let the cat out of the bag back in March, when he told troops belonging to the 82nd Airborne division in Poland that they would soon be going to Ukraine, observing that “You’re going to see when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see —
” It was an admission that US forces are already in place inside Ukraine even though the White House quickly did damage control, asserting that the president continues to be opposed to American soldiers being directly engaged in the fighting. Biden also claimed that the US was working to “keep the massacre [of Ukrainians] from continuing.”
Again, the language was hardly designed to make some room for a possible accommodation with Russia to negotiate an end to the fighting.
And now there is a New York Times report entitled “Commando Network Coordinates Flow of Weapons in Ukraine, Officials Say: A secretive operation involving US Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine’s still outgunned military.”
The article describes a more active US role in Ukraine than the Biden Administration has been willing to admit publicly. Back in February, before intervened in Ukraine, the US reportedly withdrew its own 150 military instructors, many of whom were training Ukrainian soldiers on newly acquired American produced weapons. However, some Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) paramilitary operatives and special ops troops continued their service in the country secretly, directing most of the intelligence flow the US is sharing with Ukrainian forces.
In addition to that, special ops soldiers from Washington’s NATO allies have been managing the movement of weapons and equipment into Ukraine and providing some specialized training. It has also been reported that British SAS commandos are actually guarding President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The NYT specifies, citing American and other Western officials, that the soldiers and CIA officers are currently not on the front lines with Ukrainian troops. Also according to the Times, even though the US and NATO member states have not acknowledged the presence of their paramilitaries soldiers in operational roles in Ukraine, Russia and other intelligence services around the world are aware of this.
The New York Times report appears to be generally correct, though it does omit some details, some of which I have been hearing from former colleagues in the intelligence services. There has been considerable overt training at the Grafenwoehr German army base as well as at the Ramstein US Air Base to familiarize the Ukrainians with the new weapons arriving. Other NATO countries are also participating in the training.
Meanwhile, the cadres of special operations soldiers and intelligence personnel operating primarily in western Ukraine are not in uniform and many of them are working under various contrived cover designations, including sometimes loose affiliations with foreign embassies and NGOs. There are also a conventional CIA Station, a group from the National Security Agency and a Military Attache’s office in the recently reopened US Embassy in Kiev.
All of the above means that Biden and other western leaders have been dissimulating regarding their active participation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Apart from his possible gaffe, Biden will not admit that there are American boots already on the ground, but they are there and are playing a major role in both logistics and intelligence sharing. The potential downside for the president could come when some of these soldiers in mufti get killed or, worse, captured and start to talk about their role.
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, observes that deploying plausibly deniable non-uniformed personnel “is completely typical of the initial stages of a US-backed long war, and for long-term political manipulation of the target country. This is the future that neoconservative ‘strategists’ in DC and their British and European allies imagine for Ukraine.
Rather than a negotiated conclusion, with a new Ukrainian role as a neutral and productive country, independent of both Russian and US political influences, the US government and CIA see Ukraine as an expendable yet useful satrap in its competition with the Russian Federation.”
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson sees the activity in stark terms, while also commenting that the CIA has not won a semi-clandestine insurgent war in forty years. He observes that “Ukraine is a proxy; the West is trying to destroy Russia, it’s that simple. It would be one thing if Russia was the most evil, oppressive, authoritarian regime in the world. It’s nowhere even close. Even though the West keeps trying to portray Russia as such. The fact of the matter is, the West wants the resources that Russia has and it wants to control Russia. [But] Russia is not about to be controlled.”
In other words, Washington might be seeking an unending war entangling Russia and limiting its options globally. The Biden Administration has staked its reputation and possible political future on enabling Ukraine to survive without succumbing to Russian territorial demands. It is a risky and even dangerous policy, both in practical terms and politically.
The persistence of the Ukrainians in their defense is largely a product of US and Western Europe guarantees that they will do all that is necessary to support Zelensky and his regime, which is already seeking $750 billion in aid for “reconstruction.” If western military casualties begin to surface, the political support for the Ukraine war will begin to fade in Washington and elsewhere and there will be consequences in the upcoming midterm US elections in November.
A final comment on the Times piece is in response to the question why it has appeared at all at the present time.
The mainstream media has been a cheerleader for aggressive US support of Ukraine and Zelensky, but now it is beginning to step back from that position, as have also the Washington Post and other media outlets. Perhaps they are becoming convinced that the game plan being promoted by Washington and its European allies is unlikely to succeed at great cost to the respective economies.
Larry Johnson puts it this way:
“I think the purpose of this article coming out now is just to lay the groundwork for why we can’t put or shouldn’t put any more US military personnel or even CIA personnel inside Ukraine because continuing to put US personnel…inside Ukraine to train is becoming too risky because of Russia’s success on the battlefield.”
One might also add that it is exceptionally dangerous. A misstep or even a deliberate false flag coming from either side could easily make the war go nuclear.
The Western Strategy to Dismantle the Russian Federation
Renewing the strategies of Germany during the First World War and of the United States and the Ukrainian integral nationalists during the Cold War, the Westerners have just created a Forum of the free peoples of Russia. The aim is to prolong the break-up of the USSR, to create separatist movements and, ultimately, to proclaim the independence of twenty regions of the country.
Continue reading The Western Strategy to Dismantle the Russian FederationRussia and Turkey Reach Deal to Ditch Dollar in Trade
Ankara agrees to pay for some of Russian natural gas supplies in rubles. Russia and Turkey have reached an agreement in principle to switch some of the payments for Russian natural gas to rubles as part of deepening trade ties between the two countries, the Turkish energy ministry announced on Thursday.
Continue reading Russia and Turkey Reach Deal to Ditch Dollar in TradeUS-China Chip War Continues: Geopolitics and the Semiconductor Industry
As the tension between the US and China mounts as a fall-out of Nancy Pelosi’s provocative Taiwan visit, the technology war between the two is also taking a new turn. Both houses in the US Congress have approved a $280 billion plan – The Chips and Science Act – to boost US chip manufacturing.
Continue reading US-China Chip War Continues: Geopolitics and the Semiconductor IndustryWhy the West is Easing Its Sanctions on Russia
If you ask a random EU official if the bloc should continue trying to punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, you will invariably get a positive answer.
Continue reading Why the West is Easing Its Sanctions on RussiaThe EU Has Begun its Retreat
Does the ECB drill for oil? Does the ECB run a farm? Does the ECB drive a truck? Does the ECB pilot a cargo vessel across the Pacific or load freight at the Port of Los Angeles?
Continue reading The EU Has Begun its RetreatWeapons and Billions for War
This is what the Taiwanese taxpayers haven’t understood yet, i.e. they will be spending billions more once the actual war with the mainland begins. The Ukrainian battlefield is the most subsidized in the world by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Continue reading Weapons and Billions for WarHow A Missile in Kabul Connects to A Speaker in Taipei
Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
Continue reading How A Missile in Kabul Connects to A Speaker in TaipeiWhat the Vinnytsia Strike Signifies
At 10:40 AM local time on July 14 three cruise missiles launched from a Black Sea-based Russian submarine struck an 8-storey office building in downtown Vinnytsia – a city of 370,000 located 260 kilometers southwest of Kyiv and 400 kilometers north of the Black Sea coast. (See map below).
Continue reading What the Vinnytsia Strike SignifiesSaudi Arabia is Now Importing and Re-Exporting Russian Oil to the EU
Ever since United States President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he’s been trying to bring Saudi Arabia back to the political West’s flock. The attempts to do so have escalated significantly after Russia launched its counteroffensive against NATO’s encroachment. Biden made numerous futile attempts to contact Saudi leadership, culminating with a failed visit on July 15.
Continue reading Saudi Arabia is Now Importing and Re-Exporting Russian Oil to the EUPutin Predicts ‘Revolutionary’ Changes
Only “truly sovereign” states will succeed after “enormous” geopolitical transformations, the Russian leader claimed.
Continue reading Putin Predicts ‘Revolutionary’ ChangesWhy NATO Can’t Afford to Have Russia as its Main Enemy
The world is currently changing so rapidly that the term ‘new normal,’ which first appeared in the business realm and later enriched diplomatic slang, has been added to the active vocabulary of not only all those who follow the news, but even those who don’t.
Continue reading Why NATO Can’t Afford to Have Russia as its Main EnemyB61-12 MiniNukes to be Used in “A Nuclear First Strike” via Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands
“Production of the B61-12 nuclear bomb begins,” Sandia National Laboratories announced from the United States. The B61-12, which replaces the previous B61 deployed by the U.S. at Aviano and Ghedi and other European bases, is a new type of weapon.
It has a nuclear warhead with four power options, selectable depending on the target to be destroyed. It is not dropped vertically, but at a distance from the target on which it is directed guided by a satellite system. It can penetrate underground, exploding deep to destroy command center bunkers in a nuclear first strike.
The B61-12s, classified as “non-strategic nuclear weapons,” are deployed in Europe — in Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Britain and probably other countries — at distances far enough to strike Russia. They thus have offensive capabilities similar to those of strategic weapons.
Another nuclear weapon system, which the United States is preparing to install in Europe against Russia, is ground-based intermediate-range missiles. They can also be launched from “anti-missile shield” installations, deployed by the U.S. at bases in Deveselu in Romania and Redzikowo in Poland, and aboard five warships cruising in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic Sea close to Russia.
That such installations have offensive capabilities is confirmed by Lockheed Martin itself. Outlining the characteristics of the Mk 41 vertical launch system, used in both land and naval installations, it specifies that it is capable of launching “missiles for all missions, both defense and long-range attack, including Tomahawk cruise missiles.” These can be armed with nuclear warheads.
Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.
Russia Explains Deadly Strike on Ukrainian City
Moscow said it targeted a meeting of Kiev’s military commanders with foreign arms suppliers in central Vinnitsa.
Continue reading Russia Explains Deadly Strike on Ukrainian CityRussia and China Haven’t Even Started to Ratchet Up the Pain Dial Yet
The Suicide Spectacular Summer Show, currently on screen across Europe, proceeds in full regalia, much to the astonishment of virtually the whole Global South: a trashy, woke Gotterdammerung remake, with Wagnerian grandeur replaced by twerking.
Continue reading Russia and China Haven’t Even Started to Ratchet Up the Pain Dial YetUS Sen. Blumenthal Says He Hopes to See a ‘Hand-to-Hand Insurgency’ in Ukraine
Blumenthal and Sen. Graham visited Kyiv to push a plan to designate Russia as a ‘state sponsor of terror’.
Continue reading US Sen. Blumenthal Says He Hopes to See a ‘Hand-to-Hand Insurgency’ in UkraineEuropean Commandos & CIA Operating on the Ground in Ukraine
Previous reporting from the New York Times and CNN said the White House had incomplete intelligence about the war because of a lack of personnel in Ukraine.
Continue reading European Commandos & CIA Operating on the Ground in UkraineThis Financial Coup d’ Etat aka Great Reset is A Planetary Takedown by Financial “Insiders”
Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), contends this is what the so-called “reset” looks like. High food and fuel prices along with crushing interest rates are no accident. CAF explains,
Continue reading This Financial Coup d’ Etat aka Great Reset is A Planetary Takedown by Financial “Insiders”Guilty of Massacres on Both Sides, Poland and Ukraine United vs Russia
Poland and Ukraine have a complex history of massacres on both sides. However, for eight years, they have been united against Russia. After having considered annexing a Russian territory if Moscow loses the war, Warsaw would like to annex a Ukrainian territory, if Kiev loses. President Andrzej Duda has reportedly received guarantees from his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that, in gratitude
Continue reading Guilty of Massacres on Both Sides, Poland and Ukraine United vs RussiaThe Old World is Over
Russian leader has buried the old world order and outlined his view on Russia’s and the world’s future, in a key address.
Continue reading The Old World is OverPutin Reroutes Critical Hydrocarbons Eastward Leaving Europe High-and-Dry
“Rejection of Russian energy resources means that Europe will become the region with the highest energy costs in the world. This will seriously undermine the competitiveness of European industry which is already losing the competition to companies in other parts of the world…. Our Western colleagues seem to have forgotten the elementary laws of economics, or simply prefer to ignore them.” Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation
Continue reading Putin Reroutes Critical Hydrocarbons Eastward Leaving Europe High-and-DryRussia is Staging A Rebellion Against the West and its Liberal World Order
Moscow has been unwilling to accept the secondary role assigned to it by the West and now the consequences are being felt.
Continue reading Russia is Staging A Rebellion Against the West and its Liberal World OrderThe Falsehoods of the Ukraine War: Multiplied Lies. Children Murdered by Ukrainian Missiles
Is it anything positive when mainstream media starts to admit that Ukraine is losing the war with Russia? Not necessarily. While when she is losing – we should send her help even more!
Continue reading The Falsehoods of the Ukraine War: Multiplied Lies. Children Murdered by Ukrainian MissilesStrategic Ambiguity on Taiwan is Dead
Biden’s latest defense pledge to Taiwan, gaffe or the real U.S. policy? President Joe Biden has once again roiled the geopolitical waters of East Asia with his latest statement on U.S. policy toward Taiwan.
Continue reading Strategic Ambiguity on Taiwan is DeadIs the US Preparing a Plan to destroy Russia’s Black Sea Fleet?
It would be really difficult to believe that the United States is not in a proxy war with Russia if reports that it plans to send anti-ship missiles to Ukraine are true.
Continue reading Is the US Preparing a Plan to destroy Russia’s Black Sea Fleet?Russia Has the Historical Right to Invade Ukraine
We’re talking about the 1990s: the promises were given, but the West then went ahead and started to expand NATO once, as John Mearsheimer likes to put it there was the first tranche, then the second tranche of expansion… Then NATO starts expanding in Georgia and in the Ukraine. The Soviet Union says it’s a red line.
Continue reading Russia Has the Historical Right to Invade UkraineThe Value of Russia’s Contract Army in Modern Warfare
Modern warfare is very difficult to wage. Especially a long war. On the one hand, the population of any country is easily excited and demands severe punishment for the insidious enemy, smashing his capital to rubble in response to the theft of a chicken from our territory. On the other hand, people like war only as long as the losses associated with it do not personally concern them.
Continue reading The Value of Russia’s Contract Army in Modern WarfareThe Military Situation in The Ukraine
The Road To War
For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it.
Continue reading The Military Situation in The UkraineTowards a Global Food Disaster, Engineered through Acts of Political Sabotage
It’s beginning to look like some bad actors are deliberately taking steps to guarantee a coming global food crisis. Every measure that the Biden Administration strategists have been making to “control energy inflation” is damaging the supply or inflating the price of natural gas, oil and coal to the global economy.
Continue reading Towards a Global Food Disaster, Engineered through Acts of Political SabotagePutin Warns the US to Back Off in Ukraine
The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of “democracy versus autocracy,” has dramatically changed with the assertion by the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a news conference in Poland Monday following his and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Kiev, that Washington wants to “to see Russia weakened.”
Continue reading Putin Warns the US to Back Off in UkrainePutin Promises ‘Lightning’ Response to Strategic Threats
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned outside forces against interfering in the Ukrainian conflict, promising a “lightning-speed” response to such actions, with the use of Moscow’s most advanced weaponry. President Putin warns that Russia won’t hesitate to use ‘weapons that no other country’ possesses to defend itself.
Continue reading Putin Promises ‘Lightning’ Response to Strategic ThreatsThe End of Western Domination
The Western sanctions against Russia, decided unilaterally by Washington, are presented as a just punishment for the aggression against Ukraine. But, without mentioning their illegality under international law, everyone can see that they do not reach their target.
Continue reading The End of Western DominationDawn of a New Global Financial System
Sergey Glazyev is a man living right in the eye of our current geopolitical and geo-economic hurricane. One of the most influential economists in the world, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a former adviser to the Kremlin from 2012 to 2019.
Continue reading Dawn of a New Global Financial SystemUS Lt. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier, Jr. Taken Prisoner in Mariupol
American combatants in Mariupol? Persistent rumors that Lieutenant General of the United States Army Roger L. Cloutier, Jr., taken prisoner in Mariupol, are gaining ground.
Continue reading US Lt. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier, Jr. Taken Prisoner in MariupolThe War Propaganda Changes its Shape
If the Russian army has won the war against the Banderites in Ukraine, NATO has won the cognitive war against its own citizens in the West. The Atlantic Alliance has developed a new form of propaganda based on what it denounced a short time ago: Fake News, that is to say not false information, but biased information. How to protect yourself from it?
Continue reading The War Propaganda Changes its ShapeMedia Sat on Hunter Biden’s 450GB “Laptop from Hell” Data Showing Criminal Activity
Except for the DailyMail, the Washington Post, New York Times and Senator Chuck Grassley – a ranking Republican, sat on for months an estimated 450GB of deleted data from Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell, which shows incriminating photos, archived emails, etc., that could pin down Biden’s fake presidency.
Continue reading Media Sat on Hunter Biden’s 450GB “Laptop from Hell” Data Showing Criminal ActivityNew Revelations: Nazi Roots of The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
There are certain royal closets which can no longer contain the voluminous skeletons that certain powerful forces have wished be stuffed forever out of sight.
Continue reading New Revelations: Nazi Roots of The House of Saxe-Coburg-GothaAnti-Russia Sanctions Fallout: A New Bloc Forming Between BRICS and the Middle East
Economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff joined CN Live! to discuss the economic war against Russia and its boomerang effect on the West. Does it mean that globalization is over?
Continue reading Anti-Russia Sanctions Fallout: A New Bloc Forming Between BRICS and the Middle EastWho Are the Americans Running Bioweapons Research in Ukraine?
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) revealed new documents on Thursday that had been seized by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, including correspondences between American financier Hunter Biden – the son of US President Joe Biden – and figures involved in biological research in Ukraine, which an investment firm of his helped to bankroll.
Continue reading Who Are the Americans Running Bioweapons Research in Ukraine?Russia vs. Ukraine, Who Violated the Law of War?
During his recent four-day European tour, U.S. President Joe Biden made headlines when, during a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda, he described Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who I quite frankly think is a war criminal,” adding “I think it will meet the legal definition of that as well.”
Continue reading Russia vs. Ukraine, Who Violated the Law of War?Liberated Mariupol Will Become A Key Hub of Eurasian Integration
Mariupol was battered by Ukraine’s right-wing Azov battalion well before Moscow launched its military ops. In Russian hands, this strategic steelworks port can transform into a hub of Eurasian connectivity.
Continue reading Liberated Mariupol Will Become A Key Hub of Eurasian IntegrationThe New World Order Under the Pretext of War in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine was not opened by Russia on February 24, but by Ukraine a week before. The OSCE is a witness to this. This peripheral conflict had been planned by Washington to impose a New World Order from which Russia, then China, were to be excluded. Don’t be fooled!
Continue reading The New World Order Under the Pretext of War in UkraineUkrainian Nationalists Who Tortured Russian Soldiers on Video Captured by RSF
Earlier, a video was circulated on social media in which several armed Ukrainians were seen torturing and shooting captured Russian soldiers, prompting calls for Kiev to address the issue.
Continue reading Ukrainian Nationalists Who Tortured Russian Soldiers on Video Captured by RSFLiberation of Mariupol from Nazi Asov Battalion
Russian troops are reported to have taken full control of Mariupol and have arrested members of the Asov Battalion, some of which were paraded to a jeering crowd.
Continue reading Liberation of Mariupol from Nazi Asov BattalionIntrepid Ground Reporter Finds Russians Welcomed as Liberators in West Propagandized Henichesk City
Propaganda has been spread on the Wikipedia page of Henichesk, stating the following: “On 24 February 2022, Henichesk was captured by the Russian Army in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. It was where the famous incident occurred where an old woman confronted Russian soldiers and said ‘Put sunflower seeds in your pockets so they grow on Ukraine soil when you die,’ as well as the death of Vitalii Shakun blowing up a bridge to stop their advance.”
Continue reading Intrepid Ground Reporter Finds Russians Welcomed as Liberators in West Propagandized Henichesk CityHunter Biden Secure $Millions for Pentagon BioWeapons Research in Ukraine vs Russian Genome
Just like with the designer SARS virus that they’ve used to eliminate the East Asian genome from the face of the Earth decades ago, and repeated again via COVID19, so too is the case with the 30 biolabs in Ukraine where they sought the full elimination of the Russian genome for the eventual control of the resource-rich Russian Federation land mass — that’s the consequence of the revelations made at the Daily Mail.
Continue reading Hunter Biden Secure $Millions for Pentagon BioWeapons Research in Ukraine vs Russian GenomeUkraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA Cutouts
Since the Russian offensive inside Ukraine commenced on February 24, the Ukrainian military has cultivated the image of a plucky little army standing up to the Russian Goliath.
Continue reading Ukraine’s Propaganda War: International PR Firms, DC Lobbyists and CIA CutoutsRubles for Gas Purchase Ensures “Unfriendly Countries” Prop Up Russian Economy
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 23 that natural gas payments from so-called unfriendly countries will be made in rubles from now on. He stressed however that Russia will continue to supply gas to other countries according to the volume and price specified in previously signed contracts.
Continue reading Rubles for Gas Purchase Ensures “Unfriendly Countries” Prop Up Russian Economy