Gas for Ruble; Putin's Retaliates against the Western Sanctions

Gas for real money, thanks for the excessive overuse of unilateral coercive measures by the west dubbed wrongly as sanctions, the west shot itself in their own both feet; Russia will sell their gas to Europe for Ruble, take it or leave it.

President Putin sets a ruble-for-gas payment deadline – effective April 1, tomorrow. The new law stipulates that ‘unfriendly countries’ must open accounts in Russian banks. Current gas contracts will be stopped if buyers do not meet new payment terms.

It was the French Minister of Economy who described the Western sanctions against Russia as a declaration of war; I'm not sure if it was him or someone else who added 'the Western sanctions are the nuclear economic war against Russia.'

President Putin: 'Judging by the statements of Western politicians, they are ready to neglect the interests of their citizens, just to please their overseas master.

We have been observing such questionable approaches and actions in economic, energy, and food policy on the part of Western countries for several years. The food crisis will be followed by another wave of migration, including, and above all, to European countries.

Sort of inside–out populism: ppl encouraged to eat less, dress warmer in order to save on heating, to refuse to travel - this is supposedly for the benefit of those who are required to undergo these voluntary deprivations for the sake of abstract North Atlantic solidarity.

Nevertheless, decisions are being made that push the world economy towards crisis, to the rupture of production and logistics ties, to an increase in inflation and inequality, to a decline in the well-being of millions of people, and in poorest countries to mass starvation.'

For years ever since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russia has extended its hands to the West trying to integrate into the global economy on the bases of mutual respect and to be treated as the superpower it is, and every time it was faced by further western arrogance, not that they don't realize its super powers and its vast resources, they simply see Russia as a good prey to be divided amongst themselves after their NATO aggression evil alliance finally surrounds Russia.

Well, with their non-independence, the European leaders handed President Putin his request on a golden plate and with him having the upper hand instead of building up an understanding based on mutual respect. The USA will not be happy either, their dollar is ever losing its hegemony over international trades, the world is sick of its dominance and the overuse of its largely inflated value.

Tomorrow is the day of truth, the world is having a date of a New World Order, better than the one envisioned by the neo-con USAians 4 decades ago which led to the slaughtering of millions of people, displacing tens of millions more, and the devastation of many countries under the guise of 'spreading democracy' and 'freedoms' the US citizens largely lack.

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