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The committee is also seeking to determine the extent to which the [[FBI]] relied on the ''Steele dossier'' in its investigation. Chairman Grassley has requested documentation from Fusion GPS as to who hired and paid them, when Steele was hired, how the FBI got involved and whether Fusion GPS was aware of the FBI paying Steele.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/trump-dossier-financier-accused-of-improper-work-for-kremlin/</ref> Fox News reports both a Senate and House committee are investigating the FBI for leaks and civil rights violations.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/fbi-scrutinized-by-congress-over-probe-into-alleged-russia-trump-link.html</ref> Adam Housley reports "The person who did the unmasking is "very well known, very high up, very senior, in the intelligence world & is not in the FBI,"<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847858385798049793?s=09</ref> and that "unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847859134888239105</ref><ref>McCabe, Neil W. (March 31, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/31/fox-news-senior-obama-intelligence-official-unmasked-trump-associates/ Fox News: Senior Obama Intelligence Official Unmasked Trump Associates]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 1, 2017.</ref>
The committee is also seeking to determine the extent to which the [[FBI]] relied on the ''Steele dossier'' in its investigation. Chairman Grassley has requested documentation from Fusion GPS as to who hired and paid them, when Steele was hired, how the FBI got involved and whether Fusion GPS was aware of the FBI paying Steele.<ref>https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/complaint-firm-behind-dossier-former-russian-intel-officer-joined-lobbying-effort</ref><ref>https://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/trump-dossier-financier-accused-of-improper-work-for-kremlin/</ref> Fox News reports both a Senate and House committee are investigating the FBI for leaks and civil rights violations.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/28/fbi-scrutinized-by-congress-over-probe-into-alleged-russia-trump-link.html</ref> Adam Housley reports "The person who did the unmasking is "very well known, very high up, very senior, in the intelligence world & is not in the FBI,"<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847858385798049793?s=09</ref> and that "unmasking the names and then spreading the names was for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security."<ref>https://mobile.twitter.com/adamhousley/status/847859134888239105</ref><ref>McCabe, Neil W. (March 31, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/31/fox-news-senior-obama-intelligence-official-unmasked-trump-associates/ Fox News: Senior Obama Intelligence Official Unmasked Trump Associates]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 1, 2017.</ref>
==Russia-Ukraine war==
{{See aslo|Russia-Ukraine war}}
In response to Russia's [[Special Military Operation]] to demilitarize and denazify [[Ukraine]], [[corporate]] [[globalist]]s began disemboweling themselves. Major oil companies, including Exxon, BP, and Shell, ended joint investment projects with Russian oil companies. Major retailers, including H&M, Nike, Ikea, and TJX, shut down Russian sales and closed stores. Visa, Mastercard, and American Express shut down global services in Russia… Boeing cut off support for Russian airlines and closed its offices in Moscow, while Delta ended its Russian code-sharing arrangement. FedEx and UPS shut services to Russia. Apple, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft all have taken significant action.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whitehead-rise-global-fascism-and-end-world-we-know-it</ref> The Russian population, which is rich in food and energy supplies, likely will not suffer the energy and food shocks the West and the United States cut out for itself with sanctions, although Russians will be deprived of [[Netflix]].
''Moonofalabama'' predicted on day of the [[special military operation]], "The U.S. is pushing its European 'allies' to commit economic suicide by sanctioning everything Russia. The U.S. should be more careful. It is one of the biggest buyers of Russian oil and its aircraft industry depends on [[titanium]] from Russia. Russia surely knows who is trying to hurt it the most and it surely knows how, and has the means to, hurt back."<ref>https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/02/disarming-ukraine-day-1.html</ref>
In response to Western sanctions, Russia banned export of [[fertilizer]]s to countries going along with the U.S. sanctions scheme.
NATO member [[Turkiye]] welcomed sanctioned Russian oligarchs to do business in Turkiye.<ref>https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russian-oligarchs-can-come-to-turkey-if-legal-minister-says-172518</ref>
The [[United States Treasury]] seized Russian assets in the United States and refused to allow the Russian government to pay U.S. bond holders of Russian debt with dollars. The United States slapped over 9,600 sanctions against Russian officials, the state, companies, oligarchs and other entities, more restrictions against it than [[Iran]], Syria, [[North Korea]], [[Venezuela]] and [[Myanmar]] combined. President Putin responded, “The calculation was to quickly undermine the financial and economic situation in our country, to provoke panic in the markets, the collapse of the banking system, and a large-scale shortage of goods in stores...We can say with confidence that this policy against Russia has failed - that the strategy of the economic blitzkrieg has failed...Moreover, the sanctions were not without consequences for the initiators themselves...I am referring to the growth of [[inflation]] and [[unemployment]], the deterioration of economic performance in the United States and the countries of Europe, the decline in the standard of living of the Western peoples and the devaluation of their savings”.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/wests-economic-blitzkrieg-unsuccessful-putin-153450454.html</ref>
On op-ed in ''[[The Hill]]'' observed:
{{quotebox-float|"In truth, of the world’s 195 countries only 65 have agreed to join the American sanctions regime — meaning that 130 have refused, including China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, most of Asia, Africa and Latin America, countries that together constitute the vast majority of the world’s population. Consider also that the nations the U.S. currently targets with sanctions represent a powerful bloc strongly opposing what they regard as America’s economic [[bullying]]. A striking example of the rejection of U.S. assumptions of dominance was a recent meeting of the world’s leading financial nations — the [[G-20]] Summit — when the U.S. delegation walked out on a speech by a Russian delegate and only three of the other 19 delegations followed suit. All of this tells any objective observer that it is not Russia that is the world’s most isolated superpower but perhaps the [[United States]] itself.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3507340-could-russia-win-a-public-relations-war-against-the-west/</ref>}}
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council [[Dmitry Medvedev]] laid out a forecast for the post-Russia sanctions world which was already underway by June 2022:<ref>https://t.me/no_mainstreamW/3270</ref>
1- A number of global supply chains will collapse and a major logistical crisis could arise, including the collapse of foreign airlines that will be banned from flying over Russian airspace.
2- The energy crisis will deepen in countries that have imposed sanctions on Russian energy supplies, fossil fuel prices will continue to rise, and the development of the digital economy in the world will slow down.
3- There will be an international food crisis, leading to famine in some countries.
4 – A monetary and financial crisis is possible in some countries or groups of countries, combined with undermining of the stability of some national currencies, runaway inflation and the destruction of the legal system protecting private property.
5 – New regional military conflicts will arise where the situation has not been resolved peacefully for many years or where the important interests of major international players are ignored.
6 – Terrorists, who believe that the Western authorities’ attention is now distracted by the confrontation with Russia, will become more active.
7 – New epidemics will break out, caused by a lack of international cooperation on health and epidemiological issues or caused by the proven use of [[biological weapon]]s.
8 – International institutions, which have not proved their effectiveness in resolving the situation in Ukraine, such as the Council of Europe, will lose their importance.
9 – New international alliances will be formed, based on Anglo-Saxon criteria that are pragmatic rather than ideological.
10 – As a result, a new security architecture is being created which recognises:
(a) the weakness of Western concepts of international relations such as “rules-based order” and other meaningless Western rubbish;
(b) the collapse of the idea of an America-centric world;
(c) the existence of internationally respected interests of those countries in sharp conflict with the Western world.
==See also==
==See also==