US/NATO War on Russia

[Peter Presland]

"Hear that Mr. Anderson, that is the sound of inevitability".

Aye.

And real fun will be seen when, rather than if, Russia begins a similar dollar de-linking program - because there are lots of other nations ar sound the world anxious to move away from dollar hegemony / American control.

But Uncle won't go down without a fight.

Agreed on both counts - especially the last one which is the one that gives me the horrors.

And it seems that Russia has ALREADY begun to do just that using the Rossiya Bank sanctions as a sort of test bed. There are even those who see those sanctions as EXACTLY what Putin needed. After all, what is he supposed to do if the West starts to interfere with Russia's financial trade settlement systems - roll over for a tummy-tickle??? Despite western populations' ignorance of such things, my guess they will judge Russia's actions reasonable with only the simplest of explanations. I just can't believe the the US has not seen and gamed this though. Are they REALLY that stupid?

Read between the lines of this article. Putin doesn't have the air of a man whistling past the graveyard IMO; rather that of a man who has been presented with just the gift he was looking for by his Western would-be tormentors.

For sure it's a VERY dangerous game being played out though because, as you imply, Dollar hegemony is the US unstated but absolute red-line. They simply will not relinquish it short of using every dirty trick in their vast arsenal of dirty tricks - diplomatic, Intel and (God help us) military.