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So that's why Israel moved its reserves out of dollars and into RMB last year! Thank you.

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Israel doesn't *deserve* respect.

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Jan 4, 2023·edited Jan 4, 2023

The key info in this article is that Ukraine was provided $100 billion in 1 year, versus $3-4 billion a year to Israel since 1967. That might explain Israel's defiance of US pressure, even though its regional 'hegemony' and ongoing theft of what little remains of Palestine in Palestinian hands would have been impossible without the US's unilateral support in the face of almost universal global condemnation of Israel.

But it is folly to imagine the 'anti-Russia lobby' achieved the $100 billion allotted to Ukraine - this was the decades old 'Grand Chessboard' plan to destroy Russia using Ukraine as pawn, recently updated by the Rand Corporation.

The genocidal, racist warmongers in Washington and Langley resurrected this plan following Putin's rise and stoppage of the 1990s looting of Russia under Yeltsin, and his obstruction of US crimes in Syria.

That last bit is what guaranteed the 2014 Maidan coup and everything that followed, including the duplicitous diplomacy of Hollande and Merkel to con Vladimir Putin into thinking peace might be achieved via the Minsk agreements. 'We now now' the truth.

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As the third Obama administration grinds to a halt, it is worth remembering how the Kenyan candidate disrespected Bibi a few years ago. Will we see a confrontation between Israel and the 4th Reich in the next two years?

We live in interesting times.

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