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Sep 13Liked by Andrew Korybko

TL;DR:

1. Russia does not expect the dollar or the financial system to collapse soon, and would be in big trouble if they did.

2. Much of alt-media and their followers live in a fantasy world.

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I have been hearing that the dollar is going to collapse soon since 2008 from when the conspiracy movement started to become populair. Plot twist: you can't collapse if you control the game.

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Such predictions have been an alt-media staple since before I was a kitten.

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Sep 13Liked by Andrew Korybko

'Slowly, softly, catchee monkey!'

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/softly,_softly,_catchee_monkey)

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softly, softly, catchee monkey

Proceed cautiously or gently to achieve an objective.

Capture a target without startling it and causing it to run away.

See also

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"See also..."

What?

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Sep 13Liked by Andrew Korybko

Interesting and a bit surprising, but it makes sense. Thanks!

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Very interesting. Converting IMF into a positive role in the world financial architecture, I do believe Mr Putin along with other BRICS leaders have a plan and they know how to make it happen. I’m looking forward to it -it can’t be worse than Christine LeGard being in charge, can it? 😁

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I thought earlier that the saber-rattling over long-range missile strikes in Russia was related to the short-range missiles Iran recently delivered to Russia. "The Christian Science Monitor" had an article which seemed to support this thesis. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0912/iran-ballistic-missiles-russia-backfire

Then, I remembered reading last night about an Israeli assault on an Iranian missile facility in Syria--done by Israeli special forces flown in by helicopter. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-819803

The U.S. first announced their recognition of the missile delivery to Russia on Sept. 6-7, and the Israeli raid occurred Sept.8.

These countries signal each other all the time and are involved in an intricate dance. Doesn't, therefore, surprise me that BRICS are IMF affiliated. It's all Kabuki Theater. One need only look at the heavily armed ME's lack of response to Gazan genocide...over a patently orchestrated "Israeli Pearl Harbor" on Oct. 7 last year. No one gives a damn about people. Simple and true. Israel and the NWO want the land for The Great ME Project, and they will have it with their high techno-culture shunting Arabic culture, which just wants goats and olive trees, aside.

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There's a difference between conceptualizing and truly grasping realities. The rush to have BRICS "save the day" & create an ideal world as we watch the video is simple-minded. Of course, nations everywhere are tied to IMF & the global trade structure, not to mention saddled with U$a military bases. After 80 years or more of growing interconnectivity, we cannot expect to suddenly break "free."

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As usual, a very reasonable article from Mr. Korybko.

While it might apear to be "sobering", reality is what it is and one needs to participate in order to change it. Probably Russia still remember the big fail during the Korean War, when, because USSR boycoted UN, the US was able to create the internationally "sanctioned" mission to insert itself in the occupation of Korea and changing the popular will there. If USSR would have stayed on, they could have vetoed such an intervention...

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Closer cooperation with the IMF would also lessen the likelihood of a default by the US, which, if it happened, would be a disaster for the world.

The shift to multipolarity has to be done slowly and meticulously or else we're in a vacuum. Rome, as they say, wasn't built in a day.

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In reality the IMF is coming to Russia ahead of the BRICS summit in October to beg and plead with BRICS member states to not dedollarize as even the IMF is shocked at the current trends of dedollarization. It was NOT Russia that decided this route but the illegal unilateral sanctions and Russia’s stolen foreign assets. Way to go Genocide Joe. You will forever be known as the president (in name only) that turned the dollar into dust.

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How cutting off trade by russia can be an act of war against NATO when NATO/ EU imposed so many sanctions?🤷🏼‍♀️

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