If Russia went into the Philippines & said they didnt accept the outcome of a vote there & told us we needed to be out of there ":tomorrow", how would we respond?
We have exactly ZERO business in any of it.
A former military guy being interviewed said he see this as a HUGE distraction & an attempt at locking some of Russias troops down so we can go back & go after Syria & Iran.. The Global Elite are using Nato & our military once again,, We are heading for disaster & the potential for nukes is off the charts,,
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/3/15/kremlin-if-the-us-tries-to-hurt...Excerpts
From the economic point of view, everyone should get ready for tough actions from Moscow. Sergei Glazyev, the most hardline of Putin’s advisors, sketched the retaliation strategy: Drop the dollar, sell US Treasuries, encourage Russian companies to default on their dollar-denominated debts, and create an alternative currency system (reference currency) with the BRICS and hydrocarbon producers like Venezuela and Iran.
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Washington’s decision to release a minuscule 5 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve caused the price of oil to tank – a direct attack on the main revenue source of the Russian government, and a sign that Washington is willing to hit where it hurts the most [read a trader’s lament.... Commodity Markets Will Be Used As A Weapon Against The Putin Regime, Starting Now].
Russia instantly retaliated, it seems. Suddenly, there was a mysterious mega-plunge of $104.5 billion in US Treasuries held in custody by the Federal Reserve during the reporting week ended March 12. It brought the balance down to $2.86 trillion. These securities are owned by foreign countries. As of the US Treasury’s December statement, the most recent available, the Fed held $138.6 billion in Treasuries that belonged to Russia – down by $22.9 billion from a year earlier. The mega-plunge of $104.5 billion? No data is available yet to confirm these securities belonged to Russia. And if they did, it’s unlikely that Russia dumped them on the market, but it could have transferred them to another banking center, such as Luxemburg, to get them out of reach of the US government, and be able to dump them at an opportune moment.
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“Why should we have dollar contracts with China, India, Turkey?” he said. “Why do we need this? We must have contracts in national currencies. And this applies to energy and other spheres.” The focus would be on Russian oil and gas companies. “They must be braver in signing contracts in rubles and the currencies of partner-countries,” he said. “I think now there is an additional impetus to finally finish this job.”
And the “currency reserve policy” would need some adjustment with maximum focus on “local currencies”; it was the normal way, he said. In Mândrăşescu’s analysis, Ulyukaev was outlining an attack on the petrodollar system and the enormous advantages it confers on the US, with the goal of creating parallel petro-currencies.
Links in the article, too
In short,, our dollar is a fragile thing and our foreign policy hasnt done anything to create friends. The post WWII deal that made our dollar so important is not looking like something we can depend on any more. When the rest of the world decides our dollars arent necessary for their international trade, those dollars they are currently using for trade will come home, creating an inflation rate that is gonna hurt us, real bad. Hell,, no worries,, we will start a war if that looks like its gonna happen,, So far, inside our national boundaries we havent seen the pain of warfare since before ICBMs & heavy bombers. That may not last..
Wanna hear what a Russian journalist says?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/16/ukraine-crisis-russia-kiselyov-idUS...Links in article
Russia can turn US to radioactive ash - Kremlin-backed journalist
Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:07pm EDT
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By Lidia Kelly
MOSCOW, March 16 (Reuters) - A Kremlin-backed journalist issued a stark warning to the United States about Moscow's nuclear capabilities on Sunday as the White House threatened sanctions over Crimea's referendum on union with Russia.
"Russia is the only country in the world that is realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash," television presenter Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly current affairs show.
Behind him was a backdrop of a mushroom cloud following a nuclear blast.
Kiselyov was named by President Vladimir Putin in December as the head of a new state news agency whose task will be to portray Russia in the best possible light.
His remarks took a propaganda war over events in Ukraine to a new level as tensions rise in the East-West standoff over Crimea, a southern Ukrainian region which is now in Russian forces' hands and voted on Sunday on union with Russia.
Russian television showed images of ethnic Russians in Crimea dancing, singing and celebrating the referendum but followed them with accusations that Kiev's new authorities and the West have allowed ultra-nationalists to attack Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine.
Kiev and the West blame the violence in eastern Ukraine on pro-Russian groups and say the Crimea referendum is illegitimate. The United States has warned of imminent sanctions against Moscow.
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