Putin: It Is Time to Play
Your Ace in the Hole
By Ron Holland
"You've got to
know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done."
"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers
December 28, 2014 "ICH"
- "Market
Oracle" -
The entire world is watching Putin play
poker with the Western politicians lead by
Obama and followed by Washington quislings
in London, Brussels and Berlin. America's
goal since the end of the Cold War has been
to weaken by financial, economic and, if
necessary, military means any real
competition to its global financial and
resource domination through the petrodollar
and dollar world reserve currency status.
The current trade and
economic sanctions against Russia and Iran
follow this time-tested action that is never
successful on its own, as we know from the
50-plus-year blockade of Cuba. But this
strategy can lead to opposition nations
retaliating by military means, often their
only alternative to end blockades etc.,
which are an act of war and allow the US and
other democracies to bring their ultimate
superior military power to bare against the
offending sovereign state. This worked for
Lincoln against the Confederate States of
America, by Woodrow Wilson against the
Central Powers before World War One, against
the Japanese Empire before World War Two,
Iraq, Libya – the list is endless.
Recently the US has
created the oil price collapse, working
closely with its client state Saudi Arabia,
in order to weaken the economic power of
both Iran and Russia, the two main nations
opposing US hegemony, foreign policy and
petrodollar policy. Yes, this will play
havoc with the US shale oil industry as well
as London's North Sea oil industry but oil
profits pale in comparison to the importance
of maintaining Western power over Russia and
China.
I hope Putin realizes the
US is not playing games here, as this is a
financial and strategic game to the death
for Washington and it's Western allies that
have foolishly followed the Goldman
Sachs/central banking cartel's deadly
sovereign debt recipe and for growth and
prosperity. The time is up; the debts can
never be repaid and sooner or later must be
repudiated one way or the other.
China is waiting in the
wings as the new world economic power and
while it is too big to challenge, US
strategy is to take out its top two allies,
Iran and Russia, to buy time for Wall Street
and Washington. The strategy might be a
competitive economic course of action but
the risk of military consequences and even a
third world war loom on the horizon and no
country has ever defeated Russia in a land
attack. This is risky brinkmanship just to
protect our banking and Wall Street elites
and their profits at the expense of the
American people, I might add, but the US has
done this before.
Is This Just
a Repeat of the Versailles Treaty,
Russian-style?
This has all happened
before. It's the same old game with
different players. I fear we are watching a
repeat of the Versailles Treaty,
Russian-style. If you look closely at real
history rather than the
establishment-directed propaganda dished out
to the public, you'll realize that the
Western financial elites and central banking
cartel seldom change tactics. Why should
they? Their financial empires continue to
grow during all major wars and financial
crises and if they should guess wrong, then
they get taxpayers to bail them out.
The Goldman Sachs,
Rothschild and Soros types control the
Western democracies as well as the financial
markets and use paid or blackmailed
cheerleaders and front men to advance their
best interests to the populace as acceptable
economic or political policies.
For example, Woodrow
Wilson's Fourteen Points statement given on
January 8, 1918, claiming the war and US
intervention was a moral cause to advance
peace in Europe after World War One, was one
of the leading reasons the Germans sued for
peace. In hindsight, we know that American
intervention was really instituted to
prevent an Allied loss or negotiated
settlement that could make it impossible for
French and British banks to pay back their
massive loans to the US banking
establishment and thereby bankrupting our
leading banks of the day.
Once the war was over the
platitudes about freedom, self-determination
and making the world safe for democracy
dissolved into the Treaty of Versailles,
probably one of the most vengeful and unfair
peace treaties ever forced on a defeated
foe. The entire Austrian-Hungarian empire
was totally destroyed except for the small
area of present Austria and Germany, which
was stripped of much of its territory and
subjected to a vengeful, unpayable war debt
comparable to America's current national
debt today. Sadly, the treaty created the
public anger and economic chaos that
eventually brought Hitler to power and set
the stage for the Second World War.
So Where
Does Russia Go from Here?
First, the US cable
pundits are suggesting that Putin might
retaliate by invading Ukraine. Why would
Russia want Ukraine? Except for substantial
agricultural resources that can be purchased
on the open market, this is a bankrupt
country with a long list of failed
governments. The country has become a pawn
in the battle between East and West, and its
people have already suffered so much. Now
Russia might move in the East to protect
Russian-speaking areas and could be willing
to suffer the additional economic
consequences of creating a land bridge to
Crimea but the military option appears quite
limited and counter-productive at best.
No nation will win a
shooting war between the US, UK and EU
versus Russia and China. The consequences
are too horrible to be contemplated but
Russia has an ace in the hole that can win
the financial and economic battle going on
today.
First, Russia should join
with China in a new gold, oil and natural
resource backed monetary union as an
alternative to the failed debt democracy
model pushed by Wall Street, the central
bank cartel and self-serving politicians in
the West. It simply does not work in the
long term to finance prosperity and improved
standards of living through mountains of
debt placed on future generations.
Washington has destroyed
every tax haven and bit of personal and
financial privacy in the world because of
its desperate need for revenue. Every
financial haven has caved, including
Switzerland, because they cannot hope to
prevail against the US, UK and EU. The US
intends to make Russia a pariah state and
cut it off from trade, funds transfer,
banking and Western credit markets. It will
not relent until Putin is overthrown and
Russia is compliant with and a supporter of
the New World Order. Next in line following
Russia will be China. Thus, a monetary union
could provide the needed support for Russia
necessary to guarantee the independence and
self-determination of China.
Second, Russia should act
offensively rather than defensively on the
financial front by creating corporate
tax-free/low income tax zones and welcoming
corporations, successful individuals and
entrepreneurs to take up residence and
create jobs and prosperity. The Hong Kong
model does work to create industry, service
industry and free-market prosperity and to
win, Russia needs far more than a
resource-based economy.
Russia needs more
population and a larger middle class and
should offer residency and citizenship
opportunities to productive and successful
workers, entrepreneurial businesses and
corporations etc. with the right of
reasonable financial and corporate privacy
along with the low tax benefits.
Canada, the wonderful
country I live and work in today, offers
permanent residency benefits and citizenship
to hundreds of thousands of foreigners
wanting to work and immigrate to Canada
together with low corporate tax benefits.
Russia can and should do
the same, although the market will require
bargain prices as Russia does not have the
long history of rule of law, security and
peace like Canada does. Russia should look
at good climate areas like Crimea and other
areas around the Black Sea and maybe
Kaliningrad in the north directly in the
middle of the EU.
Competition, free markets,
minimal regulation and low taxes are the
21st century solution to military
aggression, over-indebted and
resource-hungry empires. Putin said it best
in his news conference last week.
"They won't leave [the
bear] alone. They will always seek to chain
it. And once it's chained, they'll rip out
its teeth and claws. The nuclear deterrence,
speaking in present-day terms. As soon as
this happens, nobody will need [the bear]
anymore. They'll stuff it. And start to put
their hands on its Taiga [Siberian forest
belt] after it. We've heard statements from
Western officials that Russia's owning
Siberia was not fair." – Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin, now is the
time to play your ace in the hole. Russia
can win the financial and economic war being
waged against it but not by playing the same
old game of poker where cheating prevails.
Show the world that Russia is worthy of 21st
century leadership in a peaceful and
competitive manner by using the debt,
currency and banking weaknesses of the West
to defeat an opponent out to chain Russia as
it has the rest of the world into surrender
and serfdom.
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Ron Holland [send
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