US desperate as Russia and China collapse Bretton Woods system

Imposing sanctions on Russia turned out to be a desperate move having nothing to do with Ukraine.

Russian and Chinese persistent supplanting of dollar as a reserve currency may reach its aim in the nearest future.

Thus, the Bretton Woods system established since 1944 will be collapsed.

On Tuesday it was announced that Russia and China are expected to use the ruble and yuan in payments for gas supplied using the western Altai pipeline. The proposed pipeline will export 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from Russia's Western Siberia to North-Western China.

"As a sales contract is not signed, then, of course, the currency of payment has not yet been determined," said Gazprom Export CEO Elena Burmistrova. "However, the Chinese side and the Russian side are discussing today and are in intricate negotiations on the possibility of paying in yuan and rubles."

The announced plan followed an October 2014 deal signed between Beijing and Moscow that will strengthen the yuan and ruble and reduce dollar and euro dependency.

Prior to this, the Russian oil company Gazprom Neft agreed to export 80,000 tons of oil from the Novoportovskoye field in the Arctic via the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline and will only accept payment in Chinese yuan.

"The Chinese and Russians are working together against the Americans, and there are many countries that would be happy to join them in dethroning the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency. This historic gas deal between Russia and China is very bad news for the petrodollar," Marin Katusa wrote for Forbes last May.

Another woe is an alternative development bank announced by BRICS, the governments of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

"It's long been obvious the BRICs are coming," Liam Halligan wrote for the Telegraph last August. "The total annual output of these four economies has spiraled in recent years, to an astonishing $29.6  trillion (£17.3 trillion) last year on a PPP-basis adjusted for living costs. That's within spitting distance of the $34.2 trillion generated by the US and European Union combined."

A move by Russia and China out of the dollar will ultimately undermine the the Treasury market in the United States and result in the collapse of the global elite's astronomical and continually spiraling $17.5  trillion of dollar-denominated debt, an imposed obligation that translates into $53,000 for every person in the United States.

The response by the global elite to the threat is playing out in sanctions and increased military aggressiveness on the periphery of Russia. The threat of war between the nuclear superpowers has not been this bad since the Cold War.

Domestically, severe measures are likely to be imposed after the dollar system collapses.

"I believe Washington will become sufficiently desperate to enforce the radical measures that governments throughout world history have always implemented when their currencies were threatened-overt capital controls, wealth confiscation, people controls, price and wage controls, pension nationalizations, etc.," writes Nick Giambruno of Casey Research.

"And there's more," Giambruno adds. "The destruction of the dollar will wipe out most people's wealth, leading to political and social consequences that will likely be worse than the financial consequences."

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