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MoodyP's avatar

the financial walls were not created to keep Russia out of the financial system; the walls were erected in the Western zone to keep the dollar-based system locked-in.

The same way the Patriot Act was not designed to stop terrorism but rather to create a domestic surveillance system. So too were the “Russian Sanctions” not designed to sanction Russia, but rather to create the financial control system that will lead to a USA digital currency. The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA (dollar-based west), not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in.  The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, created the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.

H/T CTH

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Stuart Lee's avatar

Romanian dictator Ceausescu is another, who along with his wife, certainly received some brutal justice (I.e., receiving the consequences of your actions). And power corrupts? I have a copy of the Hawaiian historian R.J. Rummel"s sobering book "Death by Government", which i pick up now and then to remind me of what barbarism humans are capable of.

After reading this post, and regardless of what is happening now, I thought of the uniqueness of the founding of the United States, the Declaration, Constitution, founding fathers, 1776 and all that. Compared to all of History, an extraordinary event.

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The Silver Academy's avatar

funny that most Americans view the past as if they were savages, I'd say the ancient people we're more civilized in most ways compared to todays treatment of the masses. Slavery still exists, this is why the Southern border is open , corporatists need cheap hotel maids, roofers, while most of the farmers working the fields in California (example) are from Mexico putting food on clueless tables, great comment Mr. Stuart Lee, come into the room more often

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