The most charitable way to read Biden’s sanctions is that he’s an idiot of the first water.
Biden might be an idiot, but his back room advisors aren’t.
They knew that pushing Russia out of the SWIFT bank payment system would drive Putin & Xi closer together.
It would also chip off a big chunk of the global petrodollar dominance & formally begin its demise. When that happens, USA will realise it’s not as rich as it thinks. All my life USA has benefitted from “exorbitant privilege”, because they can run budget & structural deficits nobody else can. That’ll stop.
Fossil fuel shortages in USA are unconnected to Russia & almost solely self inflicted through malign policy decisions at home.
Western Europe had really damaged itself, in the short term, irreparably. Germany will not only be cold & quiet, but there are no substitute fuels immediately available.
Whether Russia is a cooperative partner behind the scenes in bringing about the end of days in the West, I don’t know. But they’re coming, probably in the next year.
For the first time ever, our leaders have set the controls for the heart of the sun & pressed the button. There’s no coming back from here, because they’ve no intention of helping recovery, only destruction.
If you’re not frightened, you’re already close enough to death that this doesn’t matter.

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