What would be the first thing to happen if China and the US ever go to war?
Today, one of Putin’s advisers Sergei Glazyev gave us an indication. China would immediately dump $1.3 Trillion in the US Treasury at market. Many other nations would follow immediately (sell first, ask questions later) making the US insolvent and bankrupt overnight. Surging interest rates, collapsing equity markets and devastated economy would be the immediate result. Surely, the FED would try to backstop any such action but they will be powerless given the volume.
In fact, this action would probably cause more economic damage than any nuclear weapon could.
It is unfortunate that the US finds itself in such a situation, but that is the price we have to pay for today’s “fake prosperity” through monetary policy, credit infusion and speculation. Even though Sergei Glazyev is being silenced for the time being, today, he gave us a clear indication of how future wars will be fought by suggesting that Russia should dump all of its Treasure holding if the US is to impose sanctions.
MOSCOW, March 4 (RIA Novosti) – An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that authorities would issue general advice to dump US government bonds in the event of Russian companies and individuals being targeted by sanctions over events in Ukraine.
Sergei Glazyev said the United States would be the first to suffer in the event of any sanctions regime.
“The Americans are threatening Russia with sanctions and pulling the EU into a trade and economic war with Russia,” Glazyev said. “Most of the sanctions against Russia will bring harm to the United States itself, because as far as trade relations with the United States go, we don’t depend on them in any way.”
Glazyev noted that Russia is a creditor to the United States.
“We hold a decent amount of treasury bonds – more than $200 billion – and if the United States dares to freeze accounts of Russian businesses and citizens, we can no longer view America as a reliable partner,” he said. “We will encourage everybody to dump US Treasury bonds, get rid of dollars as an unreliable currency and leave the US market.”
According to US Treasury data from the end of 2013, Russian investments in US government bonds total around $139 billion out of a total of $5.8 trillion of US debt held in foreign hands.
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday warned that Russian military interventions in Ukraine, which have been justified by the Kremlin as protection for residents in heavily ethnic Russian-populated regions, could result in “serious repercussions” for Moscow.
“Unless immediate and concrete steps are taken by Russia to deescalate tensions, the effect on US-Russian relations and on Russia’s international standing will be profound,” Kerry said.
Kerry mentioned economic sanctions, visa bans and asset freezes as possible measures.
Former deputy energy minister and lively government critic Vladimir Milov slammed Glazyev’s remarks, saying they would put further downward pressure on the ruble, which was pushed down Monday to a record low of 36.5 against the dollar amid fears about the possible outbreak of war.
“That idiot Glazyev will keep talking until the dollar is worth 60 [rubles],” Milov wrote on his Twitter account.
A high-ranking Kremlin source was quick to distance his office from Glazyev’s remarks, however, insisting to RIA Novosti that they represented only his personal position.
Glazyev was just expressing his views as an academic, and not as a presidential adviser, the Kremlin insider said.
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Dear Alex, let me ask you something: what do you think would happen to you if you travel tomorrow to Moscow and start writing articles full of criticism about Putin’s involvement in Ukraine in the same manner you’re criticizing USA and Obama? Do you think you’ll survive the end of the week? Look, this conflict is not a question about who’s bigger,stronger.. it’s the question about two ways of living – american and russian (putin’s way). With the fact that you’re living in USA and writing in English I think you prefer the first one. USA & Russia would never confront directly but through smaller nations in an endless game. Losers? The ordinary people, not the elite for sure.There are many supporters of Putin in my country, but their savings are in euros&dollars, not rubles and they all want to emigrate to the west. Hm, I wonder why? What’s your savings, by the way? 🙂
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very good analyses about the real estate, if this goes down then the stock markets are toasted, too.
Thanks Bobby. I agree with you. My beef with the US is as follows. It is slowly moving the same direction as Russia. Our freedoms are being taken away at the cost of security.