::::Note: [[US]] sanctions on [[Russian oil]] are meaningless. The US does not buy [[Russian oil]] ([https://en.usm.media/despite-the-embargo-the-tanker-brought-russian-oil-to-the-us-navy-base/ except for the US Navy]). US sanctions are intended as a pressure tactic on third parties to go along, otherwise known as the "[[weaponization of the dollar]]" or "weaponization of the global finance system" which is, or already has, backfired with the creation of [[BRICS]], [[dedollarization]], and the rising [[gold]] price (because foreign banks & governments are dumping the dollar cause they are losing [[confidence]] in it) Sanctions and [[economic]] [[blackmail]] are not the way to go about rebuilding [[confidence]]. | ::::Note: [[US]] sanctions on [[Russian oil]] are meaningless. The US does not buy [[Russian oil]] ([https://en.usm.media/despite-the-embargo-the-tanker-brought-russian-oil-to-the-us-navy-base/ except for the US Navy]). US sanctions are intended as a pressure tactic on third parties to go along, otherwise known as the "[[weaponization of the dollar]]" or "weaponization of the global finance system" which is, or already has, backfired with the creation of [[BRICS]], [[dedollarization]], and the rising [[gold]] price (because foreign banks & governments are dumping the dollar cause they are losing [[confidence]] in it) Sanctions and [[economic]] [[blackmail]] are not the way to go about rebuilding [[confidence]]. |