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Weaponized Sanctions – Big Mistake…

This situation does not matter what you think about Iran, it is what is legally and morally correct:

“No country but the United States has had the courage and conviction to put forward a resolution. Instead, they chose to side with the ayatollahs,” said Pompeo….the USA Secretary of State

I’m certain that the US will begin slapping Russia, China and EU with sanctions. In the event that that occurs, the EU should begin working with Iran once more. They will be rebuffed by the USA whichever way. So they may in any event get something for it….it is a damn if you do and damn if you don’t situation…

Side thought about the EU and the Euro: I still think that this allows a perfect opportunity for the Euro to at least stop-gap the Dollar, since the Dollar has been weaponized. When Sveta and I travel the world, we use Euros and it works very well in all countries we travel to….Euros it is what the world should temporarily turn to, until they decide what to use as a world currency…

US left the arrangement (US withdrew and reinstated economic sanctions in 2018.) so it has no power to reimpose UN sanctions. It would need to persuade and drive each signatory to do as such, however this won’t occur. US request has no legitimate premise, and will be disregarded. In 30 days, US loses, for this last time. Since the ban augmentation didn’t pass, it’s down & over for the US system….if that is not what happens, then we are at a dead end with the world the way it is now…

The actual inquiry is more along the line of:

Will they decline and leave it to Russia and China to project a veto, or will we see some history in the UNSC with the UK and France projecting their veto’s along China and Russia should the US power an UNSC vote?

What the US administrator is doing resembles sitting on a tree limb pouting and attempting to saw it off next to the tree trunk, we will observer more thrashing and embarrassment from the novices who call themselves legislators and representatives of America, who can do only compromising and threatening aims to make a move against nations in reprisal for rebelliousness with their requests of cheating, taking, lying and making life hopeless against individuals/countries who don’t accept and think like them!

I came to the conclusion after watching literally everyday a new sanction thrown about like candy tossed from the parade float to children, that: Instead of listing who is under sanctions?

Maybe the list would be much easier to read through, if we simply listed who is not being sanctioned? & I mean all countries that are forced through sanction upon other countries that they do business with. Eg…Nord Stream 2 with Germany and Russia….is a perfect example…

Okay I looked around…

Who is not sanctioned in some way by the USA?

No One!

Who is sanctioned by the USA?

The whole world!

There is no one who can do business with everyone they want to….no one, no country, no body. Everything has a sanction tied to it and if you sell something to a country, you better look over your shoulder. For even if the US has not said, “You are sanctioned!” you still have a business or other country you deal with that is sanctioned. Uncle Sam is trying to tell you who you can buy from, sell to, make deals with and sit and have a drink with. Better not shake hands….they may get cut off…

Wake up world and just say, “No” to the bully…

WtR

Roads are paths and the roads we take are the most important decisions we make as we go through life. Nails are anchor points on these paths…

But the road to where I am at right now was strewn with terrible decisions and stupid moves and many of them tried to bury me…

It is interesting to think, or at least I think it is:

Many times I say to myself, “If I did not do that when younger and if I had just not gone that path and if and if and if!” I realize that I would never had found Sveta. Everything that happened in my life had to follow the path I took and I had to do all the stupid things I did to get on this path that I am following.

It does make you think about what, who and how our lives are controlled and how our decisions as we live our life affect how our future will unfold. If you married so and so, instead of so and so? Would you be where you are today?

I became understanding that everything I do and did up to this very second is shaping the future as I live life. Change one thing in your past (Who you married, that job you took, that beer you drank, that, that, that and so on.) and very likely your future would be (Actually without a doubt would be.) unrecognizable to you…

Life is like a nail to hold that board in place:

I use to drive a nail and act like it was final. I drove it all the way and set it into the board with that final dimple imprint deeply and solid. Somewhere along the way; I saw the error of my ways. If I drove that nail half way and looked a bit harder, I could easily adjust what I was doing. Was the board in the correct place? Was it going to be level? Lots of whats…

Youth has a problem driving nails and we like to hammer at the nail until it does not have a chance of being removed easily, or without doing a bunch of damage…

How many nails have you bent as hammering and find that they are useless?

When I chose a path now:

I might walk it a hundred meters and then stop to listen to the birds and smell the flowers. If that path is silent and the flowers are all dead. Maybe turning around and going back to the fork in the road is the best option?

I believe that we have to take the wrong paths when young. We have to drive the nail too deep into the wood. We have to make mistakes. For when we are older, we have all those mistakes to draw upon and chose the paths and ways with more caution and smarts. The fragility of old age demands such a method of living…

The paths I chose are based upon that knowledge and fragility that I now face each day. But, I use to walk paths that no one else did and or tried to walk. I was young and invincible and could power my way through anything and I did…

A path has to include not just yourself, but the ones who love you and are by your side….when we walk a path and forget that there are others….that is when we find ourselves isolated, no birds singing and the flowers all wilted and dead…

Life is like a nail: (Drive it smartly.)

It is how we use that hammer and how far we drive that nail that really determines who and what we are. It determines where we end up and it determines how happy and content we are with our lives…

You yourself are that nail. How you use the hammer and how we allow others to hammer us and how deep we allow the nail to be driven into the wood is what it is all about. Some like being driven into the wood and never be able to be pulled out. Others like to just be a nail left in the box and never be used…

Me?

My nail, has been driven too far, pulled out, straightened, re-hammered and washed and repeated so many times that I have no idea how it can still be used. But Svetochka seems to know how and for that I am thankful…

Yet she has never driven an actual nail into wood in her life:

For that I am thankful also, I am tired of driving nails deep into the wood…

WtR

Apple Inc. has become the first publicly traded U.S. company in history to be worth $2 trillion.

Source: Apple is the first U.S. public company to be worth $2 trillion – CBS News

The only sense it makes is that it is all inflation and while the real worth is in the millions of dollars, we are seeing the beginning of the Zimbabwe/Wiemar Syndrome at work…

Enjoy it while it lasts…

It makes no “common sense” is a better way to put it…

WtR

Said the Grasshopper…

End of July 2020: Okay, the UK says Russia stole their Coronavirus vaccine. Then the US said that China stole their Coronavirus vaccine. Well okay they tried and it has set back the development terribly far into the future…

Russia a week or so ago (Middle of August, 2020.) developed the first virus vaccine and a week later China got their vaccine done…

So we are to believe that Russia and China stole the UK and US vaccine and then got it out first?

~~ Good thing it was stolen, it would have never made it to the market! ~~

Hmm….what can I say. No matter how you try to play that information. It makes the UK and the US look weak and whiny all the way around…

Most likely it went like this:

The US/UK: OMG China and Russia are about ready to get the vaccine done! We have been too busy stumbling over our own feet. What do we do? I know!

The US/UK: They stole it from us and set our research back almost a year!

Russia/China: Ah little grasshopper…

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. – Khalil Gibran

Look Over There Squirrels….oh I mean Grasshoppers!

WtR

Never under estimate the power of a cookie and a hot beverage….I believe strongly that if everyone had a half hour daily to sit and enjoy a cookie & sip a cup of coffee and or tea, the world would be a more cheerful place!

I know that stopping and sipping my coffee, while munching a favorite biscuit of mine, makes things fall into place better….I go from “Grouchy” to just grumpy!

WtR

Why would anyone leave freedom for repression? Why would anyone leave Russia for the USA?

The remarks seemed to be a shift for President Trump, who repeatedly called Mr. Snowden a “traitor” and “spy who should be executed” in the years before his election.

Source: Trump Says He’ll Look Into a Pardon for Edward Snowden – The New York Times

I have talked about Snowden several times here on the website. I am not a fan of his and do not, as I have said about Assange also, believe that they are exactly what we are lead to believe about them…

Yet, I do know that Snowden, Assange and Manning have been messed up royally and Snowden will only mess his life up even more if he trusts the country that he tried to get information out about….information he deemed to be important enough to change his life over!

Everyday I wonder about Julian Assange, Manning and or Snowden…

But Snowden can do what he pleases and if going back to America is his dream? More power to him…

I have been in Russia since 2006 and I know Russia and the Russian people. Snowden has been treated very good and has had a very free life here in Russia. In fact, the fact he would even leave Russia is just one more thorn in his side as to his true intentions and what he is all about…

So seriously, from someone who lives in Russia and is an American, why would you destroy your life and try to go back to the demon pit that you so despise so much that you had to cause a scandal and steal data from?

Me, pardon me, but I will stay right where I am at. Thank you for the pardon, but I would not trust anything that the USA said was happening…

We will see and as always, it will be exactly the opposite of what we are being told right now!

WtR

MOSCOW, August 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone conversation with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Sunday confirmed Moscow’s readiness to provide assistance in solving problems based on the treaty on creating the Union State and in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Kremlin press service said.”Russia confirmed readiness to provide necessary assistance in ironing out emerging problems based on the principles of the treaty on creating the Union State and also if needed in the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization,” the statement said.The two leaders continued discussing the situation in Belarus after the presidential election, “including given the external pressure on the republic,” the press service said.

Source: Putin confirms readiness to help Belarus based on Union State Treaty – Russian Politics & Diplomacy – TASS

Moscow is very much more forgiving than Washington…

Yet, all people must sometimes be allowed to touch that frying pan and burn their fingers…

Lukashenko is getting a taste of being “Friends” with the West, especially US and UK

Don’t play one against the other: Turkey did it (Russia warned of coup attempt.) and almost lost its head, Ukraine ignored it (They believed the cookies from the USA.) and did lose its head, Belarus will be another Ukraine, if they ignored it…

Russia will have Belarus’s back now. Lukashenko and Putin have communicated!

I was watching what Lukashenko would do?

WtR

https://sputnikvaccine.com/

Russia: The White Knight to save the world… 🙂

Currently there are about 165 different vaccines for COVID-19 being developed around the world. The main types of vaccines include: viral vector-based vaccines, virus-based, nucleic acid-based and protein-based vaccines. Russian adenovirus vector-based vaccine was registered by the Russian Ministry of Health on August 11 and became the first registered COVID-19 vaccine on the market. The announcement created a so-called “Sputnik moment” for the global community. In 1957 the successful launch of the first space satellite by the Soviet Union reinvigorated space research around the world. The new Russian COVID-19 vaccine is therefore called Sputnik V. This website has been created to provide accurate and up-to-date information about Sputnik V and to combat the misinformation campaign launched against it in the international media.

Source: About Vaccine

I have to admit they have caught my attention…

Nothing like Sputnik for a name to inspire and instigate the inner Western Psychotic Simpletons. I call it Trolling the West. Right back into their faces, is what Russia is doing!

The hate being spewed by the west over Russia getting the vaccine first is amazing. All the while Russia says we want to work together on this and we will help you anyway we can….that just infuriates the west!

It just gotta make you smile… 😉

WtR

PS: On the website above is a very large video also about the production of the vaccine Sputnik V. Got time? Worth a watch. I simply downloaded it and will look at it in more detail….770 MB

It is not just China and or Russia that gets only the fear being exuded from the USA….it is the whole world right now and it is very very obvious as you sit on the outside of the USA…

Two perfect new examples and I mean perfect, as they fit perfect to what is happening. Did I say perfect?

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok.

Source: Trump Says Looking at Pressuring Other Chinese Companies After Bytedance – The New York Times

And nothing says fear and scared of losing power as this next link…

The Trump administration will be following up on its promise to “stop at nothing” to extend an arms embargo on Iran, said the US ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, said after UN Security Council voted not to adopt a resolution that aimed at prolonging the blockade. “Under Resolution 2231, the United States has every right to initiate snapback of provisions of previous Security Council resolutions,” Craft said in a statement on Friday. “In the coming days, the United States will follow through on that promise to stop at nothing to extend the arms embargo.”Resolution 2231, addressed by Craft, endorsed the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, from which the Trump administration unilaterally withdrew in May 2018.

Source: US to Follow Through on Promise to ‘Stop at Nothing’ to Extend Iran Arms Embargo in Coming Days – Sputnik International

Except I still remember that the USA is the one who pulled out and reneged upon the Resolution 2231….not Iran and not the other members and I remember that the other members asked many times for the USA to quit playing games….now we still play games and we are the ones who walked away!

So we act like Iran is and are terrorist, when we actually “fit the bill” much better as terrorists, and we are trying to sever ties with more huge Chinese companies:

It is all fear, fear of competition, control and losing…

“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always … so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.” ― Yann Martel

I think that sums up America pretty good….fear is not always a good driving force. Fear causes us to sometimes go around the true fight and showing what you are made of. Not looking very good right now….fear has taken over America…

Somewhere I lost the plot and or the USA lost the plot:

I think it is a bit of both. I woke up and grew up and the US went to sleep and regressed. Then something woke the US up and they went into panic mode. Instead of meeting the issues being laid out in front of us legally, morally and methodically. We chose the low road of fear and definitely allowed greed to guide that fear…

Fear can be used to better yourself and facing fear is a good thing. I have had to face my fears many times and do what is right and not walk a path around those fears…

I just faced a big issue for me. I had to repair the roof of our barn and I am here to tell you that I am scared to deaths of heights. I mean so scared that I get weak and shake uncontrollably. I have to meet this fear head on and while it will never go away, I have to embrace it and hold its hand while I do what has to be done. I am fixing the roof of the barn and yes, fear of heights, has made my work harder. But I am taking it one step at a time and using it to accomplish what I have to do….I am almost done fixing the roof…

There is a right way and a wrong way:

There two ways to deal with things in the world. As a country like America, they can either follow the rule of law and allow competition, other countries and people to be what they want to be and to fight square on face to face. E.g. – Amazon is losing to Alibaba, then Amazon needs to do what it can to be better than Alibaba. If GM cannot compete then GM needs to change. If Iran does not bow down and kiss your feet? Then you need to reassess how you approach them. Always look at how you are creating the situation first, then maybe you will see the errors you have made. If Russia wants to work with you? Then look in the mirror and see how the hate you are spewing is clouding your judgment. This is on and on with millions of things daily around the world…

The other way we can do things with the world is, “Act like we are the cat’s meow!” and treat everyone like crap…

Looks like we have decided that, “Treating everyone like crap!” is the answer:

That is the way to isolation, which leads to more fear and more fear applied the wrong way….leads to more decisions that lead to more isolation and more fear. Not even greed of money can stop the inevitable decline of our country…

Everyday, the distance between the USA and the rest of the world gets farther and farther. Every attack upon a company by the US Gov shows the world what we are about. Every sanction applied illegally, shows who we are in face value. Every treaty we break, every handshake we break, every country we attack, every sanction we apply? All lead to a cumulative effect and the end result is one of total lost trust in the USA…

I am telling you that fear and greed are huge deterrents to a good life and right now they both rule America and her actions around the world…

Something changed in the USA and well maybe it was always there? I guess I chose to ignore it for a very longtime. Yet so did the whole world and now I watch the world waking up to what the US is really about…

WtR

What is causing the US disquietude against the world?

Don’t need no damn cell phone. Got bear and rifle…

~~The Great Dictator Putin of Russia is doing fantastic job of dictating the whole world, but….without using worthless social media….exempli gratia (e.g.) – Facebook and Twitter!~~

My God, how is that possible? Is it possible? Obviously it is!

From what I read, Putin never carries a mobile phone of any type?

AS THE PRESS-SERVICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION TOLD us, V. Putin does not have his own mobile phone. But if suddenly VVP needs a mobile phone, he can always use one of the presidential security personnel. This is exactly how the press service commented on last year’s photo, which was at the disposal of the AiF, when Putin, during a break between events, decided to take a walk in his hometown, spoke to his family on his mobile phone and greeted a little girl on the street. In general, according to the observations of journalists of “AiF”, not far from Putin there are always silent people with small black suitcases in their hands. Two of them are naval officers with a nuclear button in their briefcase. And one more has a secret telephone number. The president uses it in full on business trips.

That link above is the one I like to read. Tabloids have their purpose and they get your imagination going….e.g. “nuclear button in their briefcase”

Oh yes, Putin does it all and he does not even use a mobile phone of his own…

Like in Hollywood; just grab the one being held in hand by one of the many admirers and beaming faces of the peasants surrounding him….or grab the one from the business man talking as he walks by….Jason Bourne does it all the time…

Hollywood has got to be thinking of making a movie one day about this guy?

I know, “The Dictator Who Loved Me!”

WtR

PS: Seriously, the man does not ever Twitter…