Monetize then legalize

Leaders' self-interest can still benefit the people

Escalation in Sudan

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❗️US Dips Back into its Special Petroleum Reserves

The move - to increase inventory - is the first time it has returned to the reserve since January 2023.

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The US balks at thriving UAE-Russia relations

The leak of classified documents suggesting Emirati-Russian intel against the US has caused uncertainty about the future of US-UAE relations amid significant shifts in the geopolitics of the Persian Gulf.

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"Indians in Bahrain-Gulf are treated with all respect whilst they earn their bread/butter in Muslim countries but our Muslim brethren in India are being persecuted and it’s unacceptable."

Russia and Bolivia dump dollar, euro to settle in local currencies

Russia and Bolivia agreed on a new trade transaction system to drop the US dollar and euro and carry out international commercial transactions using the Russian ruble and the Bolivian bolivianos instead.

The agreement was reached by Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as part of his Latin American tour.

"Financial operations can now be carried out using national currencies. Direct correspondent accounts in rubles and bolivianos were opened between Gazprombank and Union, the largest Bolivian state-owned bank," Russian Ambassador to Bolivia Mikhail Ledenev said.

This will facilitate the work of Russian firms in the Andean market, which includes Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, he added.

Russia's 2023 Foreign Policy Concept, in effect earlier this month, makes specific reference to Latin America as a region of focus.

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After following US policy for over 30 years, and consistently seeing real-world outcomes that contradict the public rationales for the policies that caused them; I recognised quite some time ago that the official rationales have nothing whatsoever to do with the intention behind any policy. However, because the outcomes regularly bear no resemblance to the stated policy objectives, you will often see critics lambasting the US for incompetence. This characterization either reveals the incompetence of complicity of such critics. In other words, they are either so naïve as to believe that the outcomes of a policy are genuinely mistakes – in which case they are incompetent as critics, or, they are knowingly deflecting blame for malicious intent by writing it off as foolishness on the part of policy makers – in which case, they are complicit.
And this keeps happening. I am seeing so many commentators talking about de-dollarization, about the fall of the dollar, about the economic free fall of Europe, all as unintended consequences of the sanctions against Russia; and they are either cheering about it because they fancy themselves champions of the Global South, or they are lamenting it as a dangerous decline of US hegemony. But either perspective seems consistently to assume that no one could have possibly seen this coming, or that it was otherwise unintended. This, in my opinion, is absurd. These outcomes were not only entirely predictable, they were predicted; by myself and surely by others. What is happening with the dollar, what is happening to Europe, is exactly what was intended to happen.

The OCGFC do not have an ideology, or anyway, ideology does not guide their decisions. However, states and populations do have ideologies. This is where think tanks come in. Think tanks function to translate the pursuit of narrow self-interest by the OCGFC into ideologically and philosophically justifiable policies that can camouflage their actual purpose, because most people – including people within the so-called “deep state”, cannot endorse policies that blatantly serve the wealth accumulation and power consolidation of the OCGFC.
Most normal people, including people in government, have some form of moral belief system, some form of ideology; be that religious, nationalistic, or what have you. Therefore, the greed and lust for power of the owners and controllers of global financialised capital must be clothed in moral or patriotic rationales. That is what think tanks do; whether it is the Heritage Foundation, Brookings Institution, or the World Economic Forum. These organisations do not set policy, they simply translate the desires of the OCGFC into the language of policy.

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Saudi Arabia acted promptly as the first foreign country to evacuate its diplomats from Sudan. The embassy convoy traveled to Port Sudan, where the evacuees were safely picked up by the fleet.

Additionally, the Sudanese army has confirmed that an agreement has been established for the military aviation evacuation of citizens from the United States, France, and China.

BRICS De-Dollarization Push Gaining Momentum – Jakarta

Indonesia is following the lead of the BRICS group in its policy of shifting away from the US dollar in trade and financial transactions, and has introduced transactions in the local currency to settle cross-border trades, according to the Bank of Indonesia.

Indonesia has already implemented the practice with a number of countries, such as Thailand, Malaysia, China, and Japan. It also plans to sign a cooperation agreement with South Korea regarding local currency trading in early May.

The BRICS economic bloc – comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – claims to be working on establishing a joint payment network to cut reliance on the Western financial system, and on the dollar in particular.