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Because the sanctions against Russia went so well (Germany deindustrializing, Europe spiraling into full-blown economic crisis, Russia now self-reliant and with a newly reinvigorated and growing industrial manufacturing economy), the geniuses in Berlin and Brussels are preparing to sanction the central economic engine of the world, an economy at least ten times the size Russia's and upon which they themselves are even more dependent, at a time when Germany and Europe are maximally uncompetitive.
The problem is that the multi-national bourgeoisie of globalization looked down to national interests when they stood in the way of the profits. They thought that they could rely on the strength of the dollar (and US sanctions) and on the imperial military interventions forever.