＜ Episode 338 >
“Is there any reason for the Russian Empire to join us?”
If the United States stops converting gold, Russia will be the only country in the world to maintain it.
This does not mean that the Russian ruble will occupy a firm position as the only reserve currency due to the self-destruction of the United States.
From the US point of view, Russia should also give up gold convertibility, but Russia is in a position to eat world supremacy if it ignores this.
However, the side effects would not be formidable. The reason that the burden on the United States was increased is that the dollar replaced the ruble due to the lack of circulation, and when the real value of the dollar fell below its nominal value, countries with Russia as their principal country started gold conversion and ripped out the gold of the United States. , because, after all, the U.S. gold reserves, which were smaller than their original history, reached their limit.
In addition, the military budget for Mexico and South America was not small, and the US budget for space development was not usually large. It is predicted that the cost of the Mars Gateway project alone would be enormous.
In addition, Kennedy’s welfare policy for the entire American people and a major domestic reform attempt also required a huge budget beyond the level of the Vietnam War. The layout was also a part that could not be given up.
But in any case, if the United States collapses, Russia, like it or not, will have to print more rubles to prevent the collapse of the global economy, and in addition to artificially maintain a balance of payments deficit to release money, which will reduce the real value of the ruble. Russia will have to devalue the ruble, implement austerity policies, or wander the world in search of gold mines, or one of three things to maintain its regime.
Of course, Russia has a lot of resources. However, in the long run, the ever-expanding real economy will be more valuable than the entire world’s gold reserves, so finding gold mines is impossible unless you find gold mines from space.
If the austerity policy was implemented, an economic recession would definitely occur in Russia, and the easiest way was to devalue the ruble.
The United States is not really going to try to stop gold convertibility, and it’s probably just a rant. In reality, the goal was to devalue the ruble and the dollar and introduce some floating exchange rates.
But if Russia really continues to press the US to get more, the US has other means.
The absolute power possessed only by the United States and Russia.
“If our people can’t get a satisfactory result. The government will be overthrown, and the one following us will be even tougher. Minister.”
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“Tell me to do it.”
“Yes?”
Irina had a slightly bewildered expression on her face, but I smiled.
“America’s nuclear weapons can annihilate an empire… It’s true, but our nuclear weapons can also destroy the United States. And vice versa.”
Only nuclear weapons that survived the first blow could wipe the United States off the map.
“Let me tell you a little bit about the Ogas Project.”
Ogas Project.
OGAS, an acronym for National Accounting and Information Processing Automation System (Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации).
When you hear the name, it sounds like some kind of e-government system, and it actually works that way. Except that there is no computerization, database, or ActiveX already implemented in the 21st century, it is a direction that is common in Korea in the 21st century.
Of course, in the 1960s, computers using integrated circuits have already appeared due to technological development, and it is said that one or two digital and at least analog computers are installed in every major government agency of the Russian Empire. It was clear that it wasn’t.
In addition, administrative computerization is only the primary goal, and furthermore, by developing high-performance artificial intelligence within 50 years, various data can be presented quickly during administrative affairs to increase the speed of decision-making and communication, and assist the State Duma in the legislative process. The goal is to introduce a system into the system, review the draft law, run simulations, warn of ripple effects, side effects, and weaknesses within the legal system, or provide examples of supplementary methods to rule out the possibility of the passage of bad laws or wrong laws. have.
The goal is to establish a system in which AI analyzes precedents and objectively analyzes legal provisions and evidence to even issue judgments, thereby eliminating the possibility of judicial distrust. In the first place, humans do not intervene in the decision-making process, so will artificial intelligence decide the sentence based on property or people?
Any judicial system should be based on trust.
Anyway, the basic goal is this, but what I’m telling you to shed is another part, and another key feature of Ogas.
A system called the Hand of Death in original history.
It is an automatic nuclear missile firing mission.
A system that indiscriminately fires all surviving missiles on all pre-entered targets automatically if the Russian command line is destroyed by an American pre-emptive strike.
It detects whether a nuclear explosion has occurred through radiation, earthquake, and atmospheric pressure monitoring, and when an unauthorized nuclear explosion is detected, communication is connected with the main bunker. Send the launch command.
In the long run, the plan is to link with the satellite system and the emergency unit command after the nuclear warhead is launched so that it can give more effective damage to the enemy, so that it can function as a command and control system for conventional warfare. The goal is to computerize the administration and establish a database… To be honest, the Internet installation and the automatic firing system for nuclear missiles will be the limit.
“But, far from being operational, Ogas is a system that is still laying down essential infrastructure.”
“It doesn’t matter, as long as they believe there is such a system. In addition, all strategic nuclear submarines are equipped with mission target cards that require nuclear retaliation if the connection with the home country is completely lost for a certain period of time, so even if an immediate counterattack is difficult, they can perform the same mission as a result.”
In other words, the United States must bear the risk of destroying itself the moment it uses nuclear weapons in a war with Russia, or destroying both countries at the same time. First of all, Russia will never die alone.
So the weapons of mass destruction are tied up and the conventional warfare is going on? We are grateful It’s over if we just defend, but we’re overwhelming with conventional power.
“Americans bled quite a bit in the last Chinese civil war,”
As veterans became drug addicts, the United States suffered quite a bit of social sequelae. Maybe that’s why, in order to avoid repeating the second mistake, the U.S. rarely used U.S. troops in the Japanese civil war and fought using Korean mercenaries.
Therefore, Americans do not have much antipathy for war. He said that he did not fight in the first great war, and ended up only playing an auxiliary role in the second, and in the Chinese civil war, he felt the aftermath of the nuclear bombing, but in other words, he did not have much burden other than instilling fear of nuclear weapons.
The bottom line is that Americans will favor war as long as there is guarantee that their country will not be nukes.
For those who have two oceans as a natural barrier, war is a business and an adventure.
Just before World War I, as many young people thought so.
‘I like war, war is like a great picnic.’
This is what a young British man said before entering the First World War. he was killed
“Americans do not know the concept of all-out war, war of annihilation. Even in Europe, war is a sport in which the nobility participates, a sport in which the aristocrats are unfortunately killed. However, compared to Europe, where such ideas were uprooted after being embroiled in two world wars, or in Asia, where such ideas were not present in the first place, the United States did not have a chance to correct them.”
I came to a conclusion.
“So, to make sure Americans feel that if any other country were to go to war with the Russian Empire, the result would be no better than indiscriminate genocide and mutual annihilation, and that civilians and soldiers alike. They will all be slaughtered together.”
So don’t cross the line.
“But there’s nothing good about pushing America completely. So, let me tell you that it’s okay to make a little concession that is enough to give you a breather. Instead, I’ll take something else.”
“If you say something else…”
“Schedule a summit meeting with the Arabian side.”
A large part of the reason that the US dollar was able to maintain its status as a reserve currency after the Nixon Shock was the existence of a petrodollar system in which oil could be settled only in dollars.
“The unit of setting the price of crude oil, the payment currency is set only in Russian rubles.”
“But the United States is a huge oil producing country……”
“So, in this agreement, we have to carry out the use of the ruble as the standard currency of the crude oil settlement market in exchange for moving like the United States.”
If you don’t like it, you can rip your stomach alone.
Of course, we cannot maintain gold convertibility for a long time in this situation, but
“To add one more thing, in fact, moving just us and Arabia can occupy a significant proportion.”
If you remember that the Petro-dollar system was originally signed with only one Saudi Arabia and was later expanded to all organizations of oil exporting countries, think about that the entire Middle East is in our palms, our body is Russia, and Northern Europe is also on our palms. If you look at it, you can move most of the world’s oil just by moving the Russian sphere of influence.
Now, at a time when oil is undervalued as nuclear omnipotence strikes the world, we have to keep it moving.
“Who did that? Will oil sooner or later remain a legacy like coal and have limited uses?”
Due to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, light water reactors cannot be built outside of the United States and Russia, but the thorium reactor is allowed to be freely researched as there is little possibility that the UN will use it as a nuclear weapon.
In the case of Russia, with the exception that it is still in operation for military use, research on commercial nuclear reactors is ongoing and there is no pure nuclear power plant yet, but the United States is also conducting various nuclear commercial operations.
However, this does not mean that the utilization of oil will never disappear.
So, you should aim for now.