James Rickards, ex-advisor to the directors of the CIA and the US National Intelligence Agency on financial wars and asymmetric conflicts, said that at the moment the world community is taking part in a ‘three-sided poker game’ between the superpowers, which are the US, China and Russia.
‘Today the world is participating in a three-sided game of poker. Russia, China and the US are the only real superpowers and the only three countries that matter in geopolitics. All others are either allies of the Big Three or minor powers,’ James Rickards wrote in an article for The Daily Reckoning.
According to the former CIA director’s advisor, the purpose of the ‘three-way poker game’ is that two players jointly confront the third in an attempt to take him out of the game. The author of the article specified that Russia and China work in such a way in confronting the US.
‘It is Russia and China that have formed a strong alliance to the detriment of the United States. Russia has supported China in trade wars, most recently supporting the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, which is facing serious US sanctions,’ the financier noted.
Earlier, the head of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said that the Russian Federation, having annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, as it was in 1783, strengthened its international position and returned the status of a superpower.
