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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (83371)11/18/2011 10:23:14 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 217792
 
It is 2020: Europe has been taken over by Russia. It started with rich businessmen achieving with Rubles what Tanks T55 did not.

Buying up swatches of business in tumbling Eastern Europe. The winter did the trick as Russia cut gas supplies to Europe. Poland Slovakia and Czech Republic were forced to cut all ties to NATO. Germany followed suit.

Started 2013, the US started referring to what was happening in Europe as Finlandization*.

The US president tried to do a Reagan, kick starting economy growth via military build up. That forced the US to cut entitlements.

A revolt ensue and the US became isolationist. “The line is drawn in Alaska.”

China proposed a basket of currencies as the new world reserve currency. The RMB, The Ruble, the USD and the BRL and the Yen. With the promise of making the Ruble one of the big currencies in the basket of world reserve currencies, Europe accepted the Ruble to replace the Euro.

Only Switzerland remains neutral.

*Finlandization is generally considered to be pejorative, originating in West German political debate of the late 1960s and 1970s. As the term was used in Germany and other NATO countries, it referred to the decision of a country to not challenge a more powerful neighbor in foreign politics while maintaining national sovereignty. Commonly in reference to Finland's policies vis-à-vis the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but could refer to similar international relations, such as Denmark's attitude toward Germany between 1871 and 1940, and Taiwan's relation with China since 2008. [1]

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