Germany always was super proud of being an export world champion and being build by Nazis being National Socialists from the core up hiding as democrats they did not understand that this ment they would not get enough back from other economic enteties in exchange. They only looked at money, but were never capable of understanding in their Übermensch base attitude the overall siutation being incapable of taking advice from lesser beings.
At some point after joining with their European neighbours into a common currency they even started to give out credits to other economic terretories to keep the exports up.
Just recently they turned last in Europe and obviously it was the Russian fault and in no way possibly their own, even so Russia is a perfect example.
Russia sold Gas to Germany. Russia received Euro Bank Notes for that. They either swap Euros with another currency to buy abroad or they spend the Euros in the EU. The Russians started already way before the Ukrainian Secret Service war that lead to the current conflict to try to have the EU understand that they start having problems with the Euros they receive finding products they like. I guess, they did not mention that Pablo Escobar had the very same problem in Dollars, just even worse, in 50ies and 100es in cash. Truck loads of cash.
Imagine you sit in the Columbian jungle and hence you cannot buy any tools, building materials, Pick-Up trucks suitbale for the area anymore, or Computers and just have no need for three TVs and five watches at all like all others about 300 kilometers all around you, you have to wonder where to build cargo style warehouses for rich assholes banknotes money to be stored until....no one knows.
Putin just had a digial record on a screen or maybe a print out paper balance sheet. Does not realy change the problem...
And yes. The West attacked....both.
Money is a bad exchange medium in trade between economic terretories. The actual real value of goods can be realy different from the price tag, like a hammer when there is no hammer, but a nail needs to be punched into a piece of wood in your workshop or you cannot continue at all, while your neighbour did not use his three hammers for two years and they take on dust. Imagine Homer next to Mr Barns instead of the allways helpful weirdo, starting with Mr Barns: "You need a hammer!" and "The one you cant even lift!" is no argument in the negotiation to understand Germans or Confeds in business. FARC, IRA and Co took the hammer anyway and used it on Mr Barns to check tool safety and functionality. Just saying.
Having pulled all money off another good, such as gold than can be turned into something of more value than its coin weight, made it worse and all those that have responsibility for that having happened have one thing in common: Guys like me are arrogant or crazy...and they are the authority, beside hard drug use.
Again: FUCK YOU!
If Russia has 10.000 unsold sitting Pick-Ups throughout the country and it is granted that they will be hard to sell, but Burkio Faso is in desperate need of these vehicles, there will be no deal, if everybody only looks at the exchange rate instead of other goods or services Burkino Faso can give in return that Russians have a hard time finding even they are in desperate need or just badly want that.
When the most successful stock market trader sais that the stock market is the only industry in which intelligence does not matter to make profit.....what could possibly be the reason for that what separates us from Monkeys, please? You Burgshire Terrier from Hass a Away.
