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Russia's Corridors of Stability and Prosperity

By Stanislav Krapivnik

Vladimir Putin gave Trump an inaugurational present for the 20th January by signing a mutual defense and development pact with Iran.

This in turn has had a braking effect on the main regional arsonist and war criminal of the Middle East: Netanyahu. Any Israeli attack on Iran would now involve Russia and any further aggression against Russia would involve Belarus and N.Korea. The stakes for Israel and its military and financial vassal America just got much higher.

This is the same stabilizing effect that happened with regards to S.Koreea and Japan, when Russia signed a similar agreement with N.Korea.

But the real power of these agreements is not the military portion but the economic and financial. The financial excludes the dollar and euro from bi-lateral trade, allowing a high level of stability in financial dealings, to which DC and Brussels have few if any levers of interference.

Then there is the economic development that is assisted by the financial stability. With no dollars involved, the US looses what little leverage it had on any kind of economic activity in these corridors. The biggest blow to the US foreign policy of isolation of N.Korea and now Iran is the very essence of prosperity. These two nations are now part of a large economic block with Russia.

Russia, by PPP, is the 4th largest economy globally with leading ties in BRICS and the Eurasian Economic Union. The increase in trade amongst these four nations increases the economic activity of N.Korea and Iran and thus the stability factor.

This, of course, will not stay at four. Indeed, partially through Russian efforts and partially through Western stupidity led by the US of Sanctions, the block of four is set to continue to expand.

While China would be a logical next addition, it will not be until there is nothing on its horizon but kenetic war with the US. To the very last minute, the chinese will wobble and try to work something out with DC.

The next key nations to join will be Georgia and Afghanistan. The US has already declared an aim to launch a full scale sanctions assault on Georgia for refusing the honour of being an American vassal and for not opening a suicidal second front on Russia. This will of course push Georgia firmly into Moscow's orbit and will ensure strong economic and political cooperation, which will greatly enhance the g
Georgian economy.

Afghanistan is another special case and will sponsor the expansion of the corridor to several up and down stream nations. Russia has alrrady tested and in the Kazan Forum 2025 will sign a deal with Afghanistan for the transfer of Russian LNG via tanker convoys. Where today there are tankers, tomorrow there will be gas pipelines. These in turn will earn the Afghan government badly needed hard currency and will provide energy needed to rebuild their economy. But that is not all.

Indeed, while at first, the LNG will go to Iran for re-export to other markets, it will eventually create knock on effects.

The biggest customer for LNG and pipeline gas in the area is of course India. However, the route to India goes through very unstable Pakistan. The American puppets just handed Khan a 14 year sentence.

Pakistan, since the ouster by the US backed military, of the legally elected and extremely popular president Imhar Khan, has becomd very unstable. Economically, Pakistan is in trouble, militarily also, having a hot on and off conflict with both Afghanistan and Iran and a hot peace with India.

Considering what is at stake, it is not hard to imagine that between Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and India, a counter coup could be handled in Pakistan with the return of Khan to power. What would follow next is the opening of Russian LNG routes through Pakistan to India and the prosperity that would follow would seriously lower the tensions in the area. Why war with your neighbours and threaten your own cash flows? Cont...

I call this the Trump Effect.

The kindness is this video is so heartwarming. ❤️ Russia!

Truth or fiction?

American Daniel Martindale, who served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces for two years and passed intelligence to the Russian army, told RT in an interview that the Ukrainian military never checked his phone, despite covert measures.

“I carefully made sure that all my Telegram correspondence was deleted and cleared the cache,” he said.

He was surprised that the Ukrainian Armed Forces never checked his phone. Martindale assumed that he had escaped suspicion because of his American passport and his good attitude towards the residents of the Donetsk People's Republic who suffered from the fighting and whom he was helping.

"I was friends with people there who were really waiting for Russia to come, and they, in turn, were friends with the local authorities. So I had good connections," he said.

On November 2, it became known that Russian security forces removed US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping the Russian army, from the territory of the DPR controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces .

The American had been on Ukrainian territory since February 11, 2022. The man himself contacted the Russian military and for two years transmitted them the coordinates of enemy military facilities. The information he transmitted repeatedly helped to strike at infrastructure, equipment, and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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