April 11—The trans-Atlantic nations, as NATO and its “allies and partners,” are ravaging the world’s economies, including their own, and including subjecting hundreds of millions of people to the threat of famine, in order to “weaken” and “crush” Russia and its partnership with China. Their leaders, instructed by oligarchs of the City of London and Wall Street, seem almost to welcome the severe austerity they are imposing on their own peoples, as some sort of talisman of victory in what can easily become a world war with nuclear weapons. The “weaponized” U.S. dollar is being discredited as the international reserve currency it has informally been since the 1970s destruction of the Bretton Woods monetary system.