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Vladimir Putin’s close economic aide and the main architect behind the Eurasian Economic Union, has outlined how the White House is trying to provoke a Russian military intervention in Ukraine by using the Kiev coup and ongoing conflict as bait.
The numerous advantages gained by bogging Russian down in a conflict on its borders, while building a new “Berlin wall” between Europe and Eurasia are explained by Zerohedge:
Firstly, it will allow the US to introduce new sanctions against Russia, writing off Moscow’s portfolio of US Treasury bills. More important is that a new wave of sanctions will create a situation in which Russian companies won’t be able to service their debts to European banks.
According to Glazyev, the so-called “third phase” of sanctions against Russia will be a tremendous cost for the European Union. The total estimated losses will be higher than 1 trillion euros. Such losses will severely hurt the European economy, making the US the sole “safe haven” in the world.
Harsh sanctions against Russia will also displace Gazprom from the European energy market, leaving it wide open for the much more expensive LNG from the US.
Co-opting European countries in a new arms race and military operations against Russia will increase American political influence in Europe and will help the US force the European Union to accept the American version of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a trade agreement that will basically transform the EU into a big economic colony of the US.
Glazyev believes that igniting a new war in Europe will only bring benefits for America and only problems for the European Union. Washington has repeatedly used global and regional wars for the benefit of the American economy and now the White House is trying to use the civil war in Ukraine as a pretext to repeat the old trick.
If you dismiss Glazyev’s claims as to why all this Ukraine drama is happening so suddenly, then keep in mind, that so far this man has a pretty solid track record of predicting geo-political strategy and economic outcomes…
Putin advisor Sergey Glazyev, the same person who in early March was the first to suggest Russia dump US bonds and abandon the dollar in retaliation to US sanctions, a strategy which worked because even as the Kremlin has retained control over Crimea, western sanctions have magically halted (and not only that, but as the Russian central bank just reported, the country’s 2014 current account surplus may be as high as $35 billion, up from $33 billion in 2013, and a far cry from some fabricated “$200+ billion” in Russian capital outflows which Mario Draghi was warning about recently).
Glazyev was also the person instrumental in pushing the Kremlin to approach China and force the nat gas deal with Beijing which took place not necessarily at the most beneficial terms for Russia.
Maybe the fight for Ukraine is not a fight for Ukraine at all, but America’s play for absolute control and influence of today’s European market.
Ukraine = smoke and mirrors???
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