Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s “Russian sanctions” are the best thing that ever happened to Russia. The sanctions forced Russia away from her mindless effort to be part of the West, turned her toward her real allies, and forced Russia to do what she should have done long ago — bill her energy in rubles, thus supporting her own currency instead of her enemy’s. Washington’s sanctions are also benefiting Russia by tearing up the economies of NATO countries, causing dissension among EU members, and causing, finally, European peoples to wonder why their governments support Washington’s warmongering at the expense of the European peoples.
Washington’s sanctions fall on Washington’s European empire. The European benchmark price of electric power has risen 500% to $509 per megawatt hour. The European natural gas future price is ten times higher than it was a year ago. The idiot German government is “helping” the situation by placing additional taxes on natural gas.
German industry executives are expressing concerns that Germany, denied energy by Washington’s sanctions, will be deindustrialized. American owners of cars made by Mercedes, Porsche, BMW, and Volkswagen might soon find themselves unable to obtain parts needed to keep their cars in service.
Bankruptcies in Europe are exploding. In the past three months bankruptcies are up 11.9% in Denmark, 14.7% in Belgium and 74.4% in Latvia.
Meanwhile, Russia is benefitting from high energy prices and a strong ruble.
The question is: Is the real target of Washington’s sanctions Russia, or is Washington making Europe even more subservient to Washington’s domination by driving down the European economies?
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For the criminals in power in Mordor On The Potomac the intended victims of everything they are doing are “We The People”….Americans. The poor schmucks in the EU and Russia are secondary unintended victims.
When agenda driven foreigners take over your government, bruh …
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/20/ron-klain-susan-rice-take-lead-joe-biden-disappears-vacation/
Well congrats to realizing what others figured out 2-3 months ago already.
Maybe ima dummy but i didn’t know Latvian bankruptcies were 74%. The economic condition of vassal territories is relevant.
Queue up yet another perfect crisis “requiring” a bail out with US Treasury bux and IMF servitude. Since We Are the World. Of course, our beloved usual suspects can skim their hefty vig.
To paraphrase Saint Smedley, “Fifth-generation warfare is a racket.”
The meme “the conflict in Ukraine is really about Germany” hit my awareness about eight months ago, and I think it’s largely correct. The Russians and Chinese want Europe/Germany a major pole of their Eurasian project; the Americans would much prefer to see Europe/Germany crushed into an irrelevant backwater, rather than working as a part of Team Eurasia.
The prospect of any sort of German-Russian alliance (or even a friendly working relationship) has terrorized the Anglo establishment for many, many years. Bismarck certainly understood this.
Nice synchronicity, was reading quotes from this great statesman today. I wonder what Herr Otto von B would make of former PM Mutter Merkel’s unrestricted immigration of unskilled labor?
Since when has ‘Washington’ done anything for the benefit of ‘European Peoples’?
All to create the circumstances necessary to successfully argue for “a more perfect union”.
They’re waking up ! It has been in NO country’s best interest to support American imperialism because our CIA has made a mockery of our Constitution as it exacts war upon any and all who do not support our Petro Dollar and our Corporatism and its Oligarchy, which is about six companies which own most of the worlds large corporations. They exact capitulation from governments to support America living beyond its means as they push our economy into the hands of the banking Cartels.
It is too bad that the deep state is using a demented old fool ( BIDEN ) to exact its tribute from the American people. Those psychopaths need to be taken out, lock-stock-&-barrel, before they kill us in WW-III.
The death of millions has always been the goal of a small tribe of evil Banksters, they now own most of the U.S. politicians, NATO, UN, WEF and dozens of other NGO’s. We are cattle and will be treated as such…consider Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci as your veterinarians.
“In 1949 Congressman Rankin introduced a bill that would recognize as subversive and outlaw the ‘Anti-Defamation league of B’nai B’rith, that formidable organization of Jewish cowboys who ride herd on their American cattle…In both the House of Representatives and the Senate committees were beginning investigations of covert treason and alien subversion,,,Then Senator McCarthy undertook a somewhat more thorough investigation, which seemed to open a visible leak in the vast dike of deceit erected by our enemies and it was easy to assume that the little jet of water that spurted through that leak would grow hydraulically until the dam broke and released an irresistible flood.” (except the “flood” was a cacophony of vituperative howler monkeys against McCarthy)
Revilo R. Oliver; America’s Decline: The Education of a Conservative 1981
I thought the US was the real target.
Wakeup people. The Fed is under the control of the White Hats, not the NWO/Davos Satanists. Sanctions and raising interest rates are destroying the EU. Home of the NWO. Russia from the east has taken down their money laundering operation in the Ukraine. Fed raising interest rates will take out the NWO’s European Union. Their banks can’t handle it. EU will break up and go back to sovereign nations. NWO is finished. Then they have to finish the cleanup of the Deep State here. Recent Supreme Court rulings and blowing up the NWO’s Georgia Guide Stones says the Deep Sate is not in charge anymore. So, what’s left will do everything to create chaos. And they still own the MSM. But not for long.
Well, that was easy. All that had to happen was to knock over a few concrete slabs in Georgia. Then the serfs lived happily Q-ever after.
You probably read too much Luongo, bless his heart.
Europeans are Trash let them DIE
Where’s a mustachioed, pissed off private , when you need one?