> half (or more) of the world's oil will be bought in a currency other than the US Dollar Russia, last I heard, provides what, 8% of the oil? While many countries *may or may not* be genuine in questioning the status of the u.s. dollar, especially the sauds, india, venezuela, etc, their final pronouncement on that will likely be dependent on the outcome of the ukraine conflict. The u.s. is used to having a "fence" to run its laundered money and other black budget operations, so the longer it has held on to it, the tighter it will attempt to hold now--the current scenario being an example of that. It's not a confident move, and speaks to lack of development of alternatives, *thats* the take away, how precious ukraine is to u.s. international operations. Like a lynchpin, or the pin in a grenade. Russia just dared to pull it. Ukraine being the "weakest link" to Russia, would be such an effective move, that I struggle to see it as anything at this moment except intentional on Russia's part. Allow your enemy into a key place, to build up a network at your proverbial doorstep, the threat of whom *legitimizes any* level of response you might have. Sort of like those lure fish in the depths of the ocean. Entice an opponent with opportunity, or strategic weakness, a nation supposedly underdefended by the KGB or russian military, who, if captured by the u.s., would cut off russian gas, cut off russian deep water naval access, control a huge chunk of eastern europe grain export, the works. And then when they get cozy, spring the bear trap on their greedy hands, and come out clean despite having set the trap to begin with. You know what they say *if your enemy is making a mistake, why interrupt them?*, and clearly russia lives by this, otherwise the foolish u.s. occupation government we all live under wouldn't have fallen into such a pit to begin with. I think, if a broader war doesn't come out of this, what will result is a tentative attempt by the u.s. to parlay a truce and new agreement, which the u.s. will have no intent of keeping--no matter what we offer or how the u.s. claims this time is different from past treaty obligations. It'll be purely an attempt to buy time. > My guess is the Western World ex. WEF and all the other parasites in Geneva and Basel will bow to this threat. Bingo, but never underestimate the desperate and minor factions in a power struggle. They're trying not to knock over the table they're all playing at. > All the power in the Knights of Malta, Jesuits and the Vatican and we hear nothing but silence. I don't know about malta, the jesuits, etc, but theres two reasons typically, when big players go silent, theres pantshitting happening, or they're up to something. It could also be they took the long view of this, which is that this entire thing is overblown and petty, which would say to me the college of bishops and the papacy doesn't approve of the u.s. approach. Would explain the lack of pressure from them on russia, and the calls to 'consecrate' russia. If they're floundering on this, it tells me the church is perhaps moribund, because why *wouldn't* they attempt to cut the east orthodox church's throat? Thats basic rules of competition at that scale In the face of competition from american protestantism and asian materialism, the church has to be as unified as possible, reducing competition as much as possible. On the otherhand, the orthodox is a sort of "idealogical buffer state", where even if the orthodox church OR the catholic church were eliminated, the other would survive, and be strengthened, embolded, and more unified, so taking out one or the other by themselves would be a mistake. I see now that the logical conclusion for the church's behavior, for not putting serious pressure on russia (assuming I'm correct), is because they've rightly concluded russia falling would eventually lead to the failure of orthodoxy, which in turn would eventually lead to the catholic church being significantly more vulnerable in the long-term global culture wars. The best possible move (out of two bad options - passing up the opportunity to eliminate competition vs *aiding* competition), is therefore for the jesuits to aid and bolster russia while undermining the west (the u.s.) and the european union.