My take is simple: Both sides - the US / NATO / EU, and Russia / China / India (but we can't mention the latter out loud yet) want a step back toward Cold War conditions, and a general disentanglement of international economic/financial systems. And a "swift" kick in the ass for globalist political and economic players everywhere.
To elaborate, Russia actually wants to get out of SWIFT, since it already has its own equivalent system. So do China and India. They'll resume trade among themselves (and Iran etc.) using their own national currencies, while the dollar effectively becomes defunct as the global reserve currency. The end result - greater financial stability in the East, preventing incidents such as the 2008 financial crisis, and a severe reduction of global banking cartel influence worldwide. Of which the US will actually benefit as well, since these conditions will be used as pretext to eliminate globalist financial actors on American soil as well.
As for the current theatrics - Ukraine is either being reinforced as a buffer state (with tons of military gear being dumped by both sides, Russian vehicles conveniently "running out of fuel" right after arrival, all while Russia continues to deliver gas and utility supplies to the Ukraine infrastructure), or even better - it'll plead its case to rapidly join the EU and get accepted on a pity vote... whereupon Russia will now have a finger in the European pie, with no direct national obligations of its own.
All in all, not a bad game plan. There will be the obligatory barking and pretentious posturing by both sides, plenty of social media drivel as well, maybe some price increases and/or supply shortages for consumer goods, particularly in the EU. But other than that, it's nothing we haven't seen in the late 20th century already.
Well, Russia wanting a return to its Cold War power and prestige is pretty self-explanatory. An added factor now is that a separation of banking systems would curb the efforts of oligarchs to steal and launder away national funds - hence the currently developing scandal with Swiss bank money laundering.
Respectively, countries like China and India will gain a wealthy (as in cash-in-hand) trading partner in Russia, which will allow them to also detach from the dollar and be independent from the less than stable Western consumer markets.
For the US, the dethronement of the dollar as the global reserve currency will be a hit initially, presenting obstacles in foreign imports and outsourcing labor... which are the perfect conditions for renewing Trump's "buy American, hire American" policies and developing independent internal markets, particularly in the resource and manufacturing industries. The "Rust Belt" might just get a shiny new polish.
As for the EU, the excuse of Russian aggression (along with the US's continued withdrawal from its NATO duties) will be used to boost its own military-industrial complex - as Germany has already set out to do.
So now it's wise to ask - where's the catch? With so much gains, someone has to lose. And they do. Bigly. I've already mentioned the oligarchs, but the major losers will be precisely the kind of unscrupulous banking clans and financial regulators that caused the 2008 recession. Their own power will be severely diminished - which is why the media right now is also reeeing to high heaven. We're talking about a trap decades in the making, that's only becoming visible now, when it's too late to stop its momentum, and when a number of power players - the Clintons, Biden and his handlers, Merkel etc. - have been leveraged out of the way.
Finally, for us simple folk, all that's left to do is enjoy the fireworks, and maybe take up a vocational class as preparation for the impending labor market growth.
My take is simple: Both sides - the US / NATO / EU, and Russia / China / India (but we can't mention the latter out loud yet) want a step back toward Cold War conditions, and a general disentanglement of international economic/financial systems. And a "swift" kick in the ass for globalist political and economic players everywhere.
To elaborate, Russia actually wants to get out of SWIFT, since it already has its own equivalent system. So do China and India. They'll resume trade among themselves (and Iran etc.) using their own national currencies, while the dollar effectively becomes defunct as the global reserve currency. The end result - greater financial stability in the East, preventing incidents such as the 2008 financial crisis, and a severe reduction of global banking cartel influence worldwide. Of which the US will actually benefit as well, since these conditions will be used as pretext to eliminate globalist financial actors on American soil as well.
As for the current theatrics - Ukraine is either being reinforced as a buffer state (with tons of military gear being dumped by both sides, Russian vehicles conveniently "running out of fuel" right after arrival, all while Russia continues to deliver gas and utility supplies to the Ukraine infrastructure), or even better - it'll plead its case to rapidly join the EU and get accepted on a pity vote... whereupon Russia will now have a finger in the European pie, with no direct national obligations of its own.
All in all, not a bad game plan. There will be the obligatory barking and pretentious posturing by both sides, plenty of social media drivel as well, maybe some price increases and/or supply shortages for consumer goods, particularly in the EU. But other than that, it's nothing we haven't seen in the late 20th century already.
That's a plausible take and thank you.
Where is the basis for this theory?
Just intereated. Not against you
Well, Russia wanting a return to its Cold War power and prestige is pretty self-explanatory. An added factor now is that a separation of banking systems would curb the efforts of oligarchs to steal and launder away national funds - hence the currently developing scandal with Swiss bank money laundering.
Respectively, countries like China and India will gain a wealthy (as in cash-in-hand) trading partner in Russia, which will allow them to also detach from the dollar and be independent from the less than stable Western consumer markets.
For the US, the dethronement of the dollar as the global reserve currency will be a hit initially, presenting obstacles in foreign imports and outsourcing labor... which are the perfect conditions for renewing Trump's "buy American, hire American" policies and developing independent internal markets, particularly in the resource and manufacturing industries. The "Rust Belt" might just get a shiny new polish.
As for the EU, the excuse of Russian aggression (along with the US's continued withdrawal from its NATO duties) will be used to boost its own military-industrial complex - as Germany has already set out to do.
So now it's wise to ask - where's the catch? With so much gains, someone has to lose. And they do. Bigly. I've already mentioned the oligarchs, but the major losers will be precisely the kind of unscrupulous banking clans and financial regulators that caused the 2008 recession. Their own power will be severely diminished - which is why the media right now is also reeeing to high heaven. We're talking about a trap decades in the making, that's only becoming visible now, when it's too late to stop its momentum, and when a number of power players - the Clintons, Biden and his handlers, Merkel etc. - have been leveraged out of the way.
Finally, for us simple folk, all that's left to do is enjoy the fireworks, and maybe take up a vocational class as preparation for the impending labor market growth.