" Ukraine has been miserable these past few weeks", "but now is not the time to give up on Ukraine", Britain and the United States sang in harmony, expressing the true thoughts of Western countries: they want to fight Russia again one battle .
Based on this concept and in response to this strategy, the United States, Western countries and Russia each took new actions.
1. The United States: may deploy nuclear warhead in Europe.
" Nuclear threat " has always been Russia's strategic tool, but recently, Russian President Putin "revealed" that the United States is the country that truly creates nuclear deterrence.
According to a report from Global Network on June 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the United States has deployed ,200 tactical nuclear warheads and 257 fighter planes equipped with these nuclear warheads in six NATO member states in Europe. At present, the United States and NATO have not responded to Putin’s statement. The
nuclear warhead is also called the "payload of the ballistic missile ". It uses the installed nuclear warhead to produce a nuclear explosion in a timely manner. There are not many countries in the world that possess nuclear weapons. Among them, Russia and the United States account for more than 95% of the world's nuclear warheads, followed by France.
There are two possibilities for Putin to stand up and accuse the United States of deploying nuclear weapons.
First, , the United States has deployed nuclear warheads, and Russia indeed has core evidence. This incident revealed that the United States can fight back in the public opinion war, showing that Russia is not the only country that uses nuclear deterrence.
The second is . The United States did not deploy nuclear warheads, but deployed other non-nuclear weapons, which was "exaggerated" by Russia. The purpose of this is to make some neighboring countries that are wavering between Russia and the United States feel "fearful". If Putin takes the opportunity to win over, he will have allies.
In short, whether the United States may deploy nuclear weapons in Europe, whether it is true or not, the impact of this matter is actually beneficial to Russia rather than the United States and Western countries.
After all, Russia also has nuclear weapons in hand. Using nuclear weapons as an argument is a psychological warfare.
2. Europe: It’s finally gold’s turn. The
G7 summit is over, and gold is the next target.
According to a report from Reference Network on June 26, the President of the United States and the leaders of the Group of Seven reached an agreement on a ban on the import of gold from Russia. Previously, EU also stated that the focus of the seventh round of sanctions is gold.
The reason why Russia is sanctioning gold exports is because Russia is the world's largest gold producer. Biden said that this sanction will "bring unprecedented losses to Russia."
Regarding this golden ban, we have to look at it in two steps.
First of all, it must be clear that sanctions on Russian gold can indeed bring a blow to Russia.
Gold is one of the important ways for Russia to exchange for US dollars and euros, but after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, "this road was not smooth".
Because, the import and export of gold also requires capital investment and stable guarantee, but in the first six rounds of economic sanctions by Russia, gold transactions were forced to be suspended due to difficulties in payment methods and obtaining overseas assets. few. Now that sanctions on gold have been brought to light, it will be even more difficult for Russia to increase its foreign exchange reserves through gold.
However, from another perspective, the shock wave brought by sanctions on Russian gold to Russia does not seem to be large.
Because in the months of the conflict, the impact of sanctions on Russia's gold exports has been reduced. Although Russia has not yet introduced countermeasures to offset the gold ban, Moscow should have expected it. This also shows from the side that Putin has been mentally prepared to impose sanctions on Russian gold exports.
3, Russia: Thank you Belarus .
In terms of gold, Russia has not yet come up with a plan, but in terms of military, Russia is ready.
"revealed" that the United States has deployed nuclear warheads in Europe. This was actually what Putin said to Belarusian President Lukashenko to show the danger and tighten military cooperation with Belarus.
According to a report by Global Network on June 26, Putin proposed during his meeting with Lukashenko that the chiefs of staff of Russia and Belarus should discuss the security issues of alliance countries , and Lukashenko accepted this suggestion.
On the same day, Putin announced that he would provide the "Iskander-M" tactical missile system to Belarus in the near future. The special feature of this system is that it can be used as a conventional weapon and can also perform nuclear strike tasks. .
Accepting Russia's weapons deployment and military cooperation is Lukashenko's first new move of practical significance since he stated on June 12 that "Belarus does not rule out the possibility of participating in the war." Russia has seized the ally of Belarus this time. . What do you think of
in the end?
From the perspective of peace, the three "old weapons" of nuclear weapons, energy, and gold are once again in battle. is a naked blasphemy against modern peace. . Its actual effect is no longer as "effective" as before. In the back-and-forth sanctions, it is the civilians who end up being harmed!
Therefore, we still hope that the United States and Western countries can uphold the old concept of confrontation, recognize the reality, and restore peace as soon as possible!
