The stir in Washington is causing Russia’s growing ties with the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, all of which have been blatantly ignoring the West’s sanctions wars
In addition, the leaders of these states have a rather cool relationship with Biden – in the UAE they ignore his calls with requests to produce more oil. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, plans to sell oil in yuan, questioning the fundamentals of the 50-year-old petrodollar system.
Another victim of the sanctions wars is Sweden. Local farmers expect at least a halving of harvests in 2022 due to a shortage of fertilisers coming from Russia. Global food prices soared by almost 30% last year – this year the UN expects an increase of at least 20%. This threatens social unrest and a further breakdown of the liberal world order.
At the same time, attempts to shift the blame for the woes of western economies onto Russia have so far come to nothing. Even Obama’s former political strategist David Axelrod, a former top Democrat Party spokesman, was outraged. He stressed that the voters are not stupid enough not to realize that inflation and the fuel crisis started much earlier than the Ukrainian crisis.
And the British press has unexpectedly leaked the confessions of British mercenaries who have tried to get involved in the Ukrainian conflict. They accuse the Ukrainian authorities of using them as cannon fodder. Without any training and without issuing the right weapons they were sent to the front line. Many of these mercenaries were destroyed during a missile strike on a base near Lviv, but some still managed to get home – where they share the details of their adventures in Ukraine.
And European countries continue to dutifully ask the US for new weapons, for which they are now willing to spend more money. For the US military industrial complex, Ukraine has become “manna from heaven” – its shares are rising, and further chaoticisation of the world order means more and more super profits for it. Therefore the US military-industrial complex’s lobbying efforts will continue to force the U.S. to plunge headlong into the Ukrainian crisis.
Malek Dudakov