Economic security/ Being in Putin’s shoes

Several recent articles breathlessly proclaim Putin's "Grand Strategy" of countering the West's -- particularly America's -- attempt to crush the Russian Ruble by flooding the market with cheap oil, is to buy up physical gold in record amounts.

This article, translated from the Russian original source: Investcafe, describes, accurately, how conventional military action against Russia will fail, as all other attacks against the "Bear" have failed in the past, and that nuclear preemptive strikes will also fail to take out enough of Russian counter-response capability, and that retaliation, possibly including other countries in Asia, will simply annihilate most life on Earth equally.

The article notes that America's favorite tool of "color revolutions" will not work as it has in smaller and much weaker countries like Libya, Georgia, and most recently (though not talked about in this article) Ukraine (still ongoing).

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