By Nick Stamatakis
The title says it all. If you have “sworn enemies” like the ones mentioned who choose to make deals with Russia – and China – as all these countries do, then you know that something big is going on in the world, that the geostrategic plates are shifting… In this short article, I will list the latest economic news in the aftermath of the sanctions against Russia that show the strategic changes in the world recently. Let me start by underlining that all this is happening as Russia, China and others are preparing a new swift payment system to be announced in a matter of weeks…
- It was announced two days ago that Saudi Arabia is in talks with China in order to make a deal and price its oil in the Chinese currency (Please check our post here). This happened after the leaders of S.Arabia and UAE refused to even pick up the phone and talk to Biden!.. And after S.Arabia and Venezuela rejected Biden’s plea to increase oil production!… Here is more detail…
- A few days before the Russian invasion started Iran and Russia had high-level talks enhancing their cooperation. Meanwhile, yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow has received written guarantees from Washington that Western sanctions on Russia over Ukraine will not affect cooperation with Iran within the framework of the 2015 nuclear deal. Could you believe that, as the US imposes “sanctions”, Russia is still acting as the main negotiator in the Iran nuclear talks? Not to mention that Iran will definitely show Russia the way to sell oil despite the sanctions as it does now to the tune of 3 million barrels daily… Not to mention that Turkey, which already launders Iranian money (and which rejected imposing sanctions on Russia) will also help in many ways… Not to mention, finally, the Greek shipowners, who are experts in breaking any embargo anywhere on earth and are doing the same in Iran… They tried in Venezuela but they were stopped by the State Dept initially – I am not sure what they are doing now… Did I mention that the Greek Revolution started with the tons of money the Greek shipowners made by breaking the British embargo against Napoleon on Marseilles in 1814? Good luck with the oil embargo on Russia!…
- In the middle of the war, Pakistan signed a huge trade deal with Russia including an oil pipeline!! Did I tell you that they “forgot” to even mention the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Did you say “condemn”? No, they did not condemn anything…
- As for Pakistan’s eternal enemy, India, where to start? They are buying Russian arms for decades and their relationship with Russia is as close as it has ever been. Just yesterday they bought on the spot 3 million barrels of Russian oil at a discounted price according to WSJ… Even further, India and Russia are discussing alternative systems of payment... How long do you think before China and others will make the new SWIFT a reality?….
I think I should stop here… No need to comment further on where all this is going… But before I go let me make reference to the combined population of Asia (4.5 billion people) and their combined GDP (about 68 Trillion…)
March 17, 2022, n.stamatakis@aol.com www.helleniscope.com
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