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The [[Biden]] Admin and the [[EU]] believed that by waging economic war of sanctions against civilians, with the intent of making the Russian people suffer, they will rise up in the streets to pressure their government to change policy or to overthrow it to alleviate the economic misery.<ref>https://theconversation.com/the-west-thinks-that-russians-suffering-from-sanctions-will-end-up-abandoning-putin-but-history-indicates-they-wont-179075</ref> In 2026 five years later the war is at a statement but civilians are still dying on both sides. Russia cannot use nukes because it is downwind from  [[Ukraine]]

The [[Biden]] Admin and the [[EU]] believed that by waging economic war of sanctions against civilians, with the intent of making the Russian people suffer, they will rise up in the streets to pressure their government to change policy or to overthrow it to alleviate the economic misery.<ref>https://theconversation.com/the-west-thinks-that-russians-suffering-from-sanctions-will-end-up-abandoning-putin-but-history-indicates-they-wont-179075</ref> In 2026 five years later the war is at a statement but civilians are still dying on both sides. Russia cannot use nukes because it is downwind from  [[Ukraine]]

==Moonofalabama==

===Moonofalabama===

''Moonofalabama a pro Russian group'' predicted on the 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>  Western sanctions against Russia were successful in speeding up an alternative global trading system for 70% of the world economies that continue trading with Russia.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/18/powell-rapid-changes-are-taking-place-in-the-global-monetary-system-that-may-affect-the-international-role-of-the-dollar/</ref> With the enactment of Russian sanctions by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and [[Brussels]], Russia pivoted to [[Asia]].

''Moonofalabama a pro Russian group'' predicted on the 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>  Western sanctions against Russia were successful in speeding up an alternative global trading system for 70% of the world economies that continue trading with Russia.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/18/powell-rapid-changes-are-taking-place-in-the-global-monetary-system-that-may-affect-the-international-role-of-the-dollar/</ref> With the enactment of Russian sanctions by [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] and [[Brussels]], Russia pivoted to [[Asia]].

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>

The [[United States Treasury]] under the [[Biden]] Admin 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:

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>}}

{{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>}}