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newssails1 · 8 months

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The Geopolitical Game: How Russia's Financial Power Shapes Global Relations

Russia's financial power plays a pivotal role in shaping global relations. In this blog, we'll explore how Russia wields its financial influence on the world stage, impacting geopolitics and international dynamics.

**1. Energy Dominance: Russia is a major energy exporter, particularly in the form of oil and natural gas. Its energy resources give it significant leverage over energy-dependent nations and play a crucial role in its foreign policy.

**2. Energy as a Political Tool: Russia has not hesitated to use its energy resources as a political tool. Gas disputes with Ukraine and Europe have highlighted the geopolitical dimension of Russia's energy exports.

**3. Economic Interdependence: Russia's economic interdependence with Europe and Asia has far-reaching consequences. Trade relationships, investment ties, and energy partnerships have deepened its influence in these regions.

**4. Military Expansion: Russia's financial power enables it to invest in military modernization and expansion. This has implications for its geopolitical influence, particularly in regions like Eastern Europe and the Arctic.

**5. Sanctions and Countermeasures: Western countries have imposed economic sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine and other geopolitical disputes. In turn, Russia has sought to develop alternative financial systems and partnerships to mitigate the impact of sanctions.

**6. Currency and Financial Alliances: Russia has pursued alliances with countries seeking alternatives to the U.S. dollar-dominated financial system. These efforts include currency swaps and agreements to settle trade in national currencies.

**7. Influence in Multilateral Organizations: Russia is a member of various multilateral organizations, such as the United Nations and BRICS. Its financial power allows it to influence global policy debates and negotiations.

**8. Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: Russia uses cultural diplomacy and soft power initiatives to enhance its global image and strengthen its influence. These efforts include media outlets like RT (formerly Russia Today) and cultural exchanges.

Conclusion: Russia's financial power is a significant driver of its geopolitical influence.

Its energy dominance, economic interdependence, military capabilities, and responses to sanctions all contribute to its role in shaping global relations.

As Russia continues to navigate the geopolitical game, its financial strategies and alliances remain central to its pursuit of influence on the world stage.

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realhankmccoy · 4 years

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The Real Racists Are On the Left

““Что мешает американским педикам сильнее всего? "Какая. В самом деле. Получает. Их. Жесткий?” (What gets America’s faggots harder than anything? “What. Really. Gets. Them. Hard?) said Vladimir Putin, chuckling, face tight as he’d recently had a new round of plastic surgery. German and Russian were his strong suits, but nothing quite amused him more like parodying the deranged, deformed English that had been arising in America due to leftist power struggles on Twitter. Ever since Making America Great Again had risen to power on Twitter, even more leftists than ever before were flocking to the platform. All knew their scraggly, lowly, position in comparison to the titans, as much as they felt moral supremacy inside. Yet, knowing the nation was rebuilding itself, wanted to claim a piece of social power for themselves -- leftist as it may putatively be -- on the platform of Trump’s choosing anyway. Like cats flocking to a farmer, they knew Trump provided the milk. And they were thirsty.

“Well,” Dr. Plushenko said, considering the analytics charts he’d been combing over. It seems, by their own admission, America’s leftists bone the hardest for fantasies written by men who vote for Trump. They really love the notion, more than anything else, of a right wing, silent majority male writing a transformation story that takes a gay man and makes him straight. This is due to how they -- not even very far deep down -- hate themselves, know their own sexuality is sick, and know that they’d be improved if they were straight. They also love to see a racial fantasy, in which a white man becomes a thick, long-dicked black man, Indian, Middle Eastern, etc., the white racist stereotype of a crude, racially subordinated man who can barely control his raging straight sex drive. This is their very favorite, as it is flush in line with the plantation sexuality that has long driven the original Americans to wipe out, use, rape, and subordinate American minorities. Mr. President, they even love a good conversion of a faggot into a tough, take no shit Russian straight man, because this is flush in line with Tucker Carlson and the right-wing agenda to make America ally with Russia, all in our white power move to dominate the future of earth from a stance of conservative values. That’s the position these fantasies are all written from, when the right-wing authors over there get to work. That is why they resonate so strongly in the nuts of their cucked, subordinate left-wing readership. The left-wingers know their place and cannot help but leak and jizz uncontrollably for the future they really want to see: a straighter future of white supremacy, in which turning straight is seen as sexually hot and kicking a person of color back down into its traditional role as a drooling, dumb sex beast is seen as hot and desirable as well. Society in the real world then falls in line with this fantasy becomes far more flush in line with it all accordingly. It’s working wonderfully, thus far. Minorities have less power and are getting weaker. These white cucked leftists are fueling it all. There is no way they can fight the truth nature of their testicular desires, and, dare I say it, the true nature of their very souls. As long as the left remains on the bottom, we’ll continue to be on top, and have so much winning that we almost get sick of winning...

“VЭто очень верно,” Putin said, stroking his chin, thoughtfully.

“Yes, so that is true,” Plushenko continued. We traditional conservatives just capitalise off the desires of the rabble, which is how, despite the rabble purportedly being leftist, they always fall and submit to real men like us in the end. We always win many more elections than our population represents in raw numbers. They eat it up. They love us. The desires are coming from their genes and their nutsacks, to put it crudely, but it is indeed the truth.”

Plushenko droned on and on at length, as he was wont to do. Putin was looking out the window, perhaps considering something else. “Look at this Lady Gaga, as this one calls herself. She went with Kong Kong tropes. Her fans desired old racist tropes to be part of her sexuality, her fans wanted object of sexual desire to be transformed into a lumbering, brainless black beast to affirm white supremacy as ‘the cerebral ones’, and so she merely cashed in on it. Many black leftists were outraged, and rightly so, but they were unable to cancel her and she still thrives because leftism IS white supremacy, and blacks simply weren’t large enough a group to drown out all the white supremacy-desiring leftists in states like Iowa, Vermont, Indiana, Rhode Island and Maine:

“отвратительный“ Putin responded.

“So how do we respond to this?” Plushenko asked. “I have not determined yet. Certainly, if we could degrade these know-it-alls and give them new lives in Magnetogorsk as engineers, they would learn a thing or two. Perhaps installing them in upgrade bodies -- leftists being such a putrid sort -- and learning to serve as rentboys right here in Moscow would be a start. There remains a Russian... appetite... for the male body, as while we Russians have been trying to stamp out homosexuality, it still exists, unfortunately. “Beastial new Russian lives, however, unlike their right-wing fantasy of becoming straight and conversative, faggot-stomping Russian men, the sort of superior men they could only dream of becoming.... this gets them very hard, yes, but we must do something more leftist for them, being that they are leftist in thought -- if not soul, genes and groin. We will force them to becoming drooling sex beasts, faggot sex beasts, obsessed with their own thick dicks, meant only to serve the superior Russian fagstomping male. If they see a hairy asshole, they will become hopelessly overcome with lust, falling onto hands and knees like animals, leaking precum all over themselves, licking it out, as randy as a dog and a goat at all times, humping each other’s asses, probing and tonguing each other’s anuses, stroking the silky fur of their legs while just hanging out and laughing their idiot laughter. “Uhh, man, I uh... kinda, remember when we were from, like, America?” If they see a hairy armpit, they will not be able to look away, drooling at the tongue for how they might be able to serve and get a whiff. I can picture it now, their IQs lowered to the point of their own stereotypes against sexy subordinate dick-controlled people of color. Only they will be white, here in white Moscow, the tables having been turned on their racist lives.”

“And they will serve the great men of the Russian empire instead now. Due to the Oriental flaw, a reconstituted American male, after being put through proper sexual brainwashing, bennies and stupidification procedures, and forced to pump iron in the gym... such a male will ultimately strengthen our gene pool. That is, if these faggots are ever allowed to be sperm donors, which is not likely given the inferiority of the sick and subordinate gay man in Russian society in general. Trump wants to offload a lot of them abroad until the election is over to ensure his re-election, as who knows who they’d vote for, sick creatures as they are, and simply electroshocking them and retraining them won’t go over as well in the currently overly leftist political climate of America. But with collusion and collaboration between our two empires, we’ll be able to maintain a high level of secrecy after these racist gays are rounded up, thrown into vans, and flown in from New England. President Trump mentioned routing them through LaGuardia, as nobody would suspect...you can practically waltz through security there as it is now, and with the Feds opening up a hallway for us in the back, the only hard part will be the arrests at gunpoint. We can worry about more intense plans after reelection is secured for President Trump, but for now, this should all make for a nice reorientation vacation for them -- call it a permanent vacation, haha -- and be a lovely, high quality sexual enhancement to downtown Moscow. We should find this hotbed of American sex beasts right in the core of our premier city to be quite a luxurious improvement, male gigalos anxious in the nuts and underneath the skull to hopelessly, helplessly, eager serve our superior Russian male. This will be more than healthy for a growing Russian revival as we work with America to strengthen the position of rightist whites.

“перфект,” Putin responded, seeming bored, wondering if something might be wrong with Plushenko. He’d have to watch this scientist most carefully. But he was compliant with the request, and it would be enacted. ‘выполнить план.’

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socialsf · 4 years

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#ifitssunday it’s #meetthepress w/ @chucktodd #firstread 5 million #covidcases 160,000 #deaths over the past #twoweeks we’ve #suffered roughly #onedeath from #covid19 every 77 #seconds #executiveorders #unemploymentbenefits #nodecision #fullpanel #mtp #datadownload #endgame #russianinfluence @joebiden #vppick #welcometosunday #understandingmatters #themoreyouknow https://www.instagram.com/p/CDriyLth-CP/?igshid=o56nlw0gl9ph

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taktstockist · 5 years

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#russianinfluence (at Zenkov's Cathedral) https://www.instagram.com/p/B21ExkvgboUbqzxzrqBuRGEPZusD3C5IDmjuSk0/?igshid=1t28s28id3qat

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thedivinemsem · 4 years

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And so it begins. Last election there were some Trump signs in the neighborhood....not unexpected considering the area, but I decided not to “be political” and didn’t put a sign out myself.

But this time around I want everyone to know where I stand, because I’ve spent too much of my life being quiet instead of speaking out.

I’m guilty of not recognizing and dealing with my own biases and assumptions about people who don’t look like me. I’m guilty of accepting the racism of others in silence.

No more. This truly is a turning point for our country, and I still believe that the majority of Americans are good people who don’t just mouth the words “with liberty and justice for all”; they want to live them as well.

We’ll see in a couple of months if I’m right.

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cstonepost · 7 years

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First 100 Days of Trump: I’m Rethinking the Bush Years

By C. Stone Brown

After watching a member of congress calmly spew white supremacist ideology to a national audience without any fear of reprimand from members of his own party, I have to admit, I long for the ‘good old days’ when a republican, such as George W. Bush would stand up in opposition to overt racism by a member of his party.

Indeed, I never thought I would utter these words: I want to ‘Make America great again’ like the George W. Bush years, I think.

Trump’s America has brought me to rethink the Bush years, especially after reading the tweet of Iowa republican Rep. Steve King, who took to twitter to let the world know he aligns himself with white nationalist Geert Wilders, who lost his bid to become Dutch prime minister. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” King tweeted. “We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.” No, that wasn’t a David Duke quote, but from a current member of Congress.

Apparently, King couldn’t wait to get an opportunity to explain himself on CNN’s Chris Cuomo show the next morning.

Pulling from Trump’s playbook, King didn’t apologize. In fact, he doubled-down.

“Well, of course I meant exactly what I said as is always the case. And to expand on that a little further, I've been to Europe and I've spoken on this issue and I've said the same thing as far as ten years ago to the German people and any population of people that is a declining population that isn't willing to have enough babies to reproduce themselves. And I've said to them, "You can't rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies. You've got to keep your birth rate up and that you need to teach your children your values. And in doing so, then you can grow your population and you can strengthen your culture, and strengthen your way of life. That's not happening in any of the western European countries.”

Before I get jumped on by progressives for the blasphemy of putting “Great” and “George W. Bush” in the same sentence, I’m not attempting to re-write the history of the Bush years.

In fact, there are no “alternative facts” that would change the Bush administration’s fabrication of Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction,” the illegal secret prisons overseas, the innocent lives lost from drone strikes – creating more terrorists, the massive tax cuts for the top 1 percent, the Wall St deregulations that put our economy on the brink of a depression, and the millions of Americans who lost their homes to foreclosure. I could go on.

But as an American, and 60+ days into the Trump presidency, I don’t ever recall questioning Bush’s loyalty to America. And as an African American, I never wondered if the country elected a racist demagogue, sexist and xenophobe to live in the White House. And if given the choice, I would take the personal flaw of Bush’s arrogance, over Trump’s narcissism because the latter puts us all at risk.

I’m comfortable with this assessment because I observed Bush for eight years. And while I didn’t agree with most of his polices or world view, he didn’t have a white nationalist (Steve Bannon) advising him every day. In fact, I watched Bush select blacks, Hispanics and women to powerful positions in his cabinet- a cabinet that resembled America.

I also remember his forceful statements and press conferences to the American people that despite our military actions in Muslim countries, Muslim Americans – are Americans, and should be treated with the same respect as any other Americans.

Bush also faced a similar “Steve King” moment during his presidency, when he was faced with the Trent Lott controversy. It underscores a common refrain repeated in political commentary that the “republicans” of today, aren’t really “republicans.”

In 2002, Lott, the Mississippi Senator was majority leader when Bush took office. While attending the 100th birthday party of good friend Sen. Strom Thurmond, Lott gave a speech praising Thurmond’s 1948 segregationist platform presidential campaign.

''I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either,'' said Lott [who then dropped the mic].

That “mic” drop echoed throughout the halls of Congress. For weeks, both Republicans in the House and Senate were feeling the heat to make a statement condemning Lott, while civil rights leaders were calling for Lott to resign. Kweisi Mfume, then CEO of the NAACP was one of them, calling the remarks (NYT 2002) the ''kind of callous, calculated, hateful bigotry that has no place in the halls of this Congress.'' Ultimately, it wasn’t civil rights leaders or Lott’s colleagues that would determine his fate; it would be the leader of the Republican Party. Would Bush give Lott political cover or rebuke him?

While speaking in Philadelphia, Bush addressed the controversy. "Any suggestion that the segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive, and it is wrong," said Bush. "Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized, and rightly so.” What was most striking about Bush’s comments is he mentioned Lott by name, which is unusual in Washington. The lack of support from Bush would ultimately lead to Lott stepping down.

When Trump was asked why he supported King in 2014, he had nothing but praise for the congressman. “I’m here to support Steve King—a special guy, a smart person with, really, the right views on almost everything."

Although we will never know, I can’t help but wonder how George W. Bush would have handled Steve King.

#Trump Bush Obama NAACP Trentlott Russianinfluence #steveking #gop

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