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Letter to Mr pootin:

Dear Mr pootin,
If you MUST initiate a nuklear holocaust, plz do so AFTER I die of natural causes.
You dying beforehand is totally acceptable, also.

With regards,
The Skunk...

https://www.unz.com/runz/playing-a-game ... hessboard/

Playing a Game of "Fool's Mate" on the Grand Eurasian Chessboard

For at least a generation or more, America’s international policies have increasingly been governed by our Ministry of Propaganda, and the bill may finally be starting to come due.

Last Wednesday the Wall Street Journal reported that Saudi Arabia was joining China’s Shanghai Cooperative Organization, a decision that came just a few weeks after the announcement that it had reestablished diplomatic relations with arch-enemy Iran following negotiations held in Beijing under Chinese auspices. For three generations, the oil rich kingdom had been America’s most important Arab ally, and the lead sentence of the Journal article emphasized that this dramatic development reflected our waning influence in the Middle East.

That same day, Brazil declared that it was abandoning the use of dollars in its transactions with China, its largest trading partner, following an earlier statement that its president planned to meet with China’s leader in support of that country’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war, a diplomatic initiative strongly opposed by our own government. Geopolitical dominoes seem to rapidly falling, taking down American influence with them.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHXq6Sq ... nnel=MSNBC

In Kyiv visit, House Republican says U.S. support for aid to Ukraine is 'overwhelming

Reports from the wider war again:

https://treeofwoe.substack.com/p/the-system-is-down

On December 28, 2022, in an essay entitled “Predictions and Prophecies for 2023,” I made exactly one prediction for the year ahead:

The Petrodollar System will end! As I explained in my series Running on Empty, the petrodollar is the centerpiece of American hegemony. I predict that in 2023, at the latest 2024, that system will end. Its demise may be disguised by the mainstream and financial press, but it will be self-evident in the transactions themselves, and its aftershocks will be mighty.

Here’s what has happened since:

Jan 17, 2023: Russia and Iran began collaborating to create a gold-backed cryptocurrency.

Jan 18, 2023: South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation announced that the BRICS bloc was studying how to create a new currency system.

Jan 19, 2023: The UAE and India began negotiating to use rupees for trading non-oil commodities, shifting away from the US dollar.

Jan 22, 2023: Brazil and Argentina began discussing the establishment of a common currency for the two largest economies in South America.

Feb 10, 2023: Russia announced a voluntary reduction in oil production by 500,000 barrels per day (BDD).

March 8, 2023: Central banks began buying gold at the fastest pace since 1967 to diversify their reserves away from the US dollar.

March 19, 2023: For the first time in 48 years, Saudi Arabia expressed an openness to trading oil in currencies other than the US dollar.

March 24, 2023: Saudi Arabia agreed to sell oil to Kenya for Kenyan shillings instead of US dollars.

March 27, 2023: Saudi Aramco Buys 10% of China’s giant refining company Rongsheng Petrochemical Co.

March 27, 2023: The BRICS bloc overtook the G7 block in Global GDP.

March 29, 2023: Saudi Arabia’s cabinet approved a decision to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a dialogue partner.

March 29, 2023: China and Brazil agreed to ditch the dollar and settle trades in each other's currencies.

March 29, 2023: The world’s richest man called de-dollarization “a serious issue” and warned that countries want to ditch the dollar.

March 30, 2023: China began purchasing natural gas trade from France, settling the transaction in yuan rather than dollars.

March 30, 2023: The BRICS countries announced they had begun work on a new currency to replace the dollar as the global reserve currency.

March 30: The former Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs called on the BRICS bloc to accelerate de-dollarization efforts.

April 1, 2023: India and Malaysia agreed that trade between the two nations can now be settled using the Indian Rupee instead of the dollar.

April 2, 2023: Oman announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 40,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 2, 2023: Algeria announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 48,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 2, 2023: Kuwait announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 128,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 2, 2023: UAE announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 144,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 2, 2023: Iraq announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 211,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 2, 2023: Saudi Arabia announced it will voluntarily cut its oil output by 500,000 bpd until the end of 2023.

April 3, 2023: China’s yuan replaced the dollar for the first time as the most-traded currency in Russia.

April 3, 2023: De-dollarization discussions on Twitter and Reddit surged 600% compared to the prior three months.

In his novel Goldfinger, Ian Fleming famously said “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” We’re well past three events. This is not a “trend”. This is a globally coordinated action against the petrodollar and there’s no mistaking what it means.

It means the Petrodollar System that has served as the bedrock of world finance since the 1970s is over.

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