Baby steps, ever closer… “"President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday suspended Russian participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty with the United States, warning Washington that Russia had put new ground-based strategic nuclear weapons on combat duty," Reuters reports of the new declaration.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...ear-treaty-puts-new-missiles-combat-readiness
I have read reports that parts of the Russian military on now on their equivalent of Defcon One, prepared for nuclear war. I think this was done in response to the report that the U.S. was largely responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline. Biden was just fulfilling his promise. Can't Vladimir understand that? Putin has promised to attack nations on his borders if NATO expanded. Just leaders fulfilling their promises. Putin has promised to go nuclear if Ukraine attacks Russian infrastructure. So far, that promise has not been fulfilled, but nuclear equipped ships are now prowling the North Sea for the first time in over thirty years.
China has now pledged support for Russia. inch by inch… https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...nd-national-interests-putin-confirms-xi-visit
Yeah, the first formal statement affirming the alliance. If China and Russia stick together, they can rule the world. When we break with China, we will be left with empty Walmart stores and they will have factories for which Russia can supply the raw materials and energy.
I am actually getting pretty worried, my wife and I both. There are too many things accumulating that are starting to create a lot of pressure. This pledge of support for Russia’s national interests is, to me, a clear statement they intend to support Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. The E.U. has been making all kinds of threats about that before it even happened. Meanwhile, BRICS is not only firmly established, it has other countries applying for membership. India is supposedly an ally to the U.S. but they are the “I” in BRICS. All this when the U.S. is saddled with absolutely feckless “leadership”.
One of the big dangers is our enormous debt--both personal and government. Never in the history of the world has a nation piled up so much debt. As I see it, that is only possible because the dollar is the reserve currency and the currency of energy world wide. The dollar is the primary target of both BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is larger than BRICS and really controlled by China and Russia to a lesser extent. The American people seem to be wallowing in ignorance of this as they collect their government payments and rant against Trump, who did what he could to keep the current situation at bay. Should we lose the dollar as reserve currency, it appears the entire U.S. debt will become due. We cannot possibly pay it, so we will default and cause a collapse of the Western economy. Russia will be saved by the stupid sanctions that the Biden Administration put on that nation over aggression in Ukraine, a nation of no particular strategic importance to the United States.