Re <<alternatives to SWIFT is a direct threat to democracy in the world >> oops, posted the wrong videos just a moment ago, here below be the news re what might be driving PMs, and that be all PMs, because it is nearly that time between 2026 and 2032, on this side of 2042, and hard-stop 2049 with the waiting do you remember what Putin and Xi said to each other when last met in Moscow? If do not remember, here be reminder ...VIDEO 2024 MoscowVIDEO VIDEO ... guessing the boyz had been working on whatever they were talking about since 120 months ago, and a few days ago ...VIDEO at 6:24 mark, during BRICS+ meeting, a private sidebar that ended in a handshake and agreement. Watch the body language to end. Pay no attention to meaning captions re whatever the meeting's speaking was intoning about. Unclear whatever was agreed are documented in any readout. Call in the lip readers of CIA and MI6 I am guessing the impolite but serious dialogue was about PMs. Watch to end of the dialogue in so far as body language goes, smiles and handshake, and attention back to the regular meeting where whoever was speaking would make far less difference I am guessing -Xi: You draw in Team America and lackey Europe into the Ukraine, get Iran to draw in Team America into the Middle East I look the other way whilst you supply the gears to N Korea to de-fang S Korea and to de-ball Japan Putin: You liberate Taiwan, and I am willing to help knowing full well you do not need my help Believe your DF-21, DF-26, and YJ kits are perfectly good to take apart a whole aircraft carriers Your J20, J31, J35, JH26 together with my S400 gives you full spectrum air dominance Your manufacturing and my blue prints for S500 gives you and I both dominance all the way to cis lunar space I invite you to be near-arctic state, and you back me up to develop Siberia and into arctic domain Xi: ... and together we do the moon. Putin: Fabulous. Xi: Oh, and one more item, given that the Shanghai Gold Exchange is fully operational, and also we have been stacking a whole lot of silver, and I see that the Russian Central Bank had announced last week that silver shall become an additional reserve asset together with gold and fiat Yuan, it is probably as good as any time for you to announce formation of Russian Precious Exchange to regulate price discovery for all precious metals, them be gold, silver, and never forget palladium, that which Russia produces the most. After this session, over drinks, let you and I powwow with South Africa's Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa to tally in platinum. The four metals together ought to help change the world. Putin: Deal. It shall all be very good. Xi: Deal. You are right. We shake to change the world. Putin: Maybe we second our bodyguards to the Trump Team? Xi: Sleep on it and decide over tomorrow. Putin: Yes, let's celebrate new era plan over dinner reuters.com Russia in talks with BRICS over precious metals exchange October 25, 202412:38 AM GMT+8 Updated 2 days ago MOSCOW, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Russia is in talks with other BRICS members about creating an international precious metals exchange to ensure fair pricing and trade growth, the country's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in a statement on Thursday. Leaders of BRICS countries, which account for 37% of the global economy, gathered in the Russian city of Kazan this week to discuss initiatives aimed at creating alternatives to the Western-dominated financial and trade infrastructure. "The mechanism will include the creation of price indicators for metals, standards for the production and trade of bullion, and instruments for accrediting market participants, clearing, and auditing within BRICS," Siluanov said. The BRICS precious metals exchange would rival Western trading platforms, such as the London Metal Exchange, and would protect trade from sanctions imposed by the West on BRICS members Russia and Iran. Earlier, BRICS leaders expressed support for efforts to increase trade in precious metals among the group's countries in a joint communique issued on Oct. 23. Russia is the second-largest global gold producer, and one of its biggest companies, Nornickel, is the world's largest supplier of palladium, with a 40% share of global output. All major Russian gold producers are under Western sanctions, which have also hampered Nornickel's operations and its palladium exports, although the company itself is not under direct sanctions. Nornickel and the country's largest gold producer, Polyus, declined to comment on the initiative.