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vanessa_ca

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12. Does the US really expect Russia and China to allow us to cut them off at the knees?
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:55 PM
Friday

After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and the US created the New World Order, we put ourselves in charge of global pricing where we'd decide the value of everything.

At the bottom, we assigned Russia with "Resources"
Then China with "Manufacturing"
Then Europe with "Knowledge"
and at the top, the USA with "Finance".

That's the current unstable system in place.

If we think for one moment that China and Russia are going to allow us to knock them out of the game, that's foolish wishing. Russia's invasion of Ukraine put that whole system in jeopardy because Russia and China will call the shots thanks to control of many resources and manufacturing. Someone should ask Trump who's going to manufacture a lot of the stuff he needs to keep fighting Iran. Jiang calls what's going on now the "Game Reset".

He explains it much better than I tried to. FastForward to 39:00 but the whole lecture is fascinating.




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