Moscow doubles down on Washington
Pepe Escobar Edited time: 16 Oct, 2015 20:03
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/318753-moscow-washington-war-syria/
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=171083#171083
History may eventually decide the ‘New World
Order’ started on September 28, when Russian
President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack
Obama had a 90-minute face off at the UN in New York.
Irrespective of spin – “productive” according to
the White House, “tense” according to a source
close to the Kremlin – facts on the ground accumulated almost immediately.
Putin did press Obama for the US to join Russia
in a real grand coalition bent on smashing
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. The Obama administration, once
again, relented. I detailed here what happened
next: an earth-shattering game-changer in the
‘New Great Game’ in Eurasia, straight out of the
Caspian Sea, that caught the acronym fest of US
intelligence – not to mention the Pentagon - completely off-guard.
So this was Putin’s first message to Washington,
and the Pentagon/NATO combo in particular; your
fancy ideas of stationing tactical nuclear
weapons or expanding missile defense to Eastern
Europe, or even Asia-Pacific, are just a mirage.
Our cruise missiles are capable of wreaking real
effective havoc; and soon, as this piece argues,
there will be more hypersonic, high-precision
long-range missiles added to the mix.
Old habits don’t die hard – they remain in a coma
forever. The Pentagon’s response to the facts
launched from the Caspian Sea was to conduct an
airdrop of light weapons to “a select group of
vetted leaders and their units,” as in those
famously non-existent Syrian “moderate rebels.”
The weapons will inevitably be captured by
assorted Salafi-jihadi goon outfits in no time.
Then the British government was forced to deny a
Murdoch-controlled Sunday Times “report” that
British Tornadoes in Syria are now armed with
air-to-air missiles to counter potential Russian aerial “attacks.”
READ MORE: UK MoD denies tabloid reports RAF
'ready to shoot down' Russian planes over Iraq
And to top it off, the proverbial “military
experts” infesting US corporate media started
spinning that we are only 30 seconds from World War III.
The Glazyev nuclear plan
A still apoplectic Pentagon will take time to
absorb the new military facts on the Syrian
ground – and skies. That will add to the utter
desperation displayed by the ‘Masters of the
Universe’ in the Washington/Wall Street axis –
itching to break the China-Russia strategic
partnership by all means necessary. Quite a feat
when the Pentagon is still fighting World War II,
with its weapons, ships and monster aircraft
carriers displayed as sitting ducks against Russia’s new batch of missiles.
But then there’s also Putin’s second – silent -
message to Washington, which didn’t even have to
be delivered in person to Obama. US intel though
may have a hint about it, as they closely follow Russian media.
It’s about Sergey Glazyev’s (presidential aide)
plan for Russia’s immediate economic future here
is a summary of the plan, in Russian. The plan
was formally proposed to Russia’s Security
Council. Here is a very good summary on how Russia’s Security Council works.
There are at least three absolutely key points in
Glazyev’s plan. We may summarize them like this:
1. If the emerging trend of freezing private
assets of Russian legal entities and individuals
continues, Russia should consider full or a
partial moratorium on the servicing of loans and
investment from the countries involved in the freezing.
2. The amount of foreign currency assets of the
Russian Federation located in the jurisdiction of
NATO countries accounts to more than $1.2
trillion, including short-term debt of about $800
billion. Their freeze may be partially offset by
retaliation against NATO assets in Russia, which
amounts to $1.1 trillion, including over $400
billion long-term. So this threat would be
neutralized if Russian monetary authorities
organized a timely withdrawal of Russian
short-term assets in the US and the EU.
3. Glazyev is adamant that the Russian Central
Bank continues to serve the interests of foreign
capital – as in the financial powers in London
and New York. He contends that the high interest
rates practiced by the Russian Central Bank led
Russian oligarchs to borrow more cheaply from the
West, making the Russian economy dependent, a
debt trap which the West used to slowly squeeze
Russia. Then the rigged Western oil and ruble
collapse increased the pressure as debt service
in ruble cost and interest doubled.
So what Glazyev proposes, essentially, is that
Moscow must gain total control of its Central
Bank, preventing speculators to move their credit
around for non-productive purposes; Moscow should
also establish currency controls; and must create
a central organization of technological research
to replace the loss of Western technology,
imitating the US methodology of rolling out from
its centralized military research those
technologies that can be commercialized for the consumer market.
The fact is Russia has lost access to Western
credit and cannot roll over its debt with the
creditors. So Russia will have to pay the
principle and the interest as it comes due. That
is a trillion dollars plus interest. Russia also
cannot import anything from the West without
paying double for it. So arguably the country
may be now in the very position it will be if
Moscow opts for default. Thus, Russia would have
nothing to lose by a default - as the damage is already done.
A shock to the system
Essentially, once again, a Russian default on a
$1 trillion-plus debt to private Western parties
remains a possible scenario discussed at the
highest level – assuming Washington will persist
in its anti-Russia demonization campaign.
It’s clear the squeeze Russia is feeling has less
to do with sanctions than the grip maintained by
Western financial powers over the Russian Central
Bank. The Russian Central Bank did create a debt
trap by maintaining high interest rates in Russia
while the West was lending at low interest rates.
Needless to add, such a default, if it ever
happened, would collapse the entire Western financial system.
One should never forget the Big Picture; the
Syria/Ukraine/sanctions saga runs in parallel to
Russia-China and closer BRICS integration
shifting the balance of geopolitical power. For
the ‘Masters of the Universe’, this is beyond
anathema. Enter, for instance, the use of cash
settlement through their Wall Street proxies to
raise the A shares of China to hysterical highs
and then try to crash their entire stock market
by a reverse cash settlement rig as in 1987.
China is moving toward their own SWIFT payment
system, not to mention a whole new Chinese-led
set of international institutions independent of
US control. Russia, for its part, recently passed
a bill that would allow the seizing of foreign
assets if Russian assets in the West are seized.
As Glazyev pointed out, investment in Russia by
the West are more or less equivalent to investments of Russia in the West.
The ‘Masters of the Universe’ may keep insisting
on using financial weapons of mass destruction.
Russia, silently and with a few key facts in the
Caspian Sea, is letting them know it’s ready for
whatever scenario they can come up with.
A less apocalyptic ending may be healthy. So
here’s a popular joke in Moscow nowadays, as told
by William Engdahl. Putin is back in the Kremlin
after his meeting with Obama in New York. He
tells an aide he invited Obama for a game of
chess. And then he tells it how it works: “It’s
like playing with a pigeon. First it knocks over
all the pieces, then it shits on the board and
finally struts around like it won.”
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