Alex Lantier — Imperialism and the Ruble Crisis. “Economic Warfare”

The plunge of the Russian currency this week is the drastic outcome of policies implemented by the major imperialist powers to force Russia to submit to American and European imperialism’s neo-colonial restructuring of Eurasia. Punishing the Putin regime’s interference with their plans for regime change in countries such as Ukraine and Syria, the NATO powers are financially strangling Russia.

If this were to succeed and the Putin administration be replace by Western-friendly neoliberal oligarchs, the alarm to go to general quarters would sound in China, since NATO would soon be on its wester border, with the Seventh Fleet on its eastern border. They would it interpret it as the US making its move before China gets so strong as to be impervious to attack. 

Then the clandestine war with China would begin to effect regime change to China by fomenting a color revolution there, which could also involve economic warfare to isolate China from the global economy. Dispensing with Russia and China as adversaries would then open the way to closing the trap of neoliberal globalization under Western transnational economic interests that control Western governments through oligarchy "democracy." 

This is the US geopolitical and geostrategic dream. What could go wrong?

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Imperialism and the Ruble Crisis. “Economic Warfare”
Alex Lantier

Keiser Report: Ruble’s Baptism by Fire

Published on Dec 20, 2014

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert are joined by Liam Halligan of BNE.eu. They talk rubles, sanctions and diversifying the economy with some technology investments. In the second half, Max interviews Konstantin Gurdgiev about the ruble, the Russian budget and David Cameron’s take on the causes and consequences of the crisis and sanctions. They also discuss the ruble’s ‘baptism by fire’ as it only just joined the five trillion dollar per day forex markets.

Keiser Report: Ruble’s Baptism by Fire