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In response to Russia's [[Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine]], first the [[Biden]] Admin did nothing assuming [[Ukraine]] would fall in a week. When that did not happen. The [[Biden]] Admin demanded 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 (which owns [[Google]]), Meta (which owns [[Facebook]]), 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]].

In response to Russia's [[Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine]], first the [[Biden]] Admin did nothing assuming [[Ukraine]] would fall in a week. When that did not happen. The [[Biden]] Admin demanded 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 (which owns [[Google]]), Meta (which owns [[Facebook]]), 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]].

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 stalement,''' but civilians are still dying on both sides. Russia cannot use nukes because it is downwind from  [[Ukraine]]. The war has proven 2nd world weapons of Russia and China are no match for Western 1st world weapons.

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 continues,''' and 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]] 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>

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>

None of these predections of United States standard of living are still true in 2026.

These predictions of United States standard of living are responsible for the re-election of [[Donald Trump]] in 2024.

 

===The Hill===

===The Hill===

On op-ed in ''[[The Hill]]'' observed:

On op-ed in ''[[The Hill]]'' observed: