"US Sanctions Stupid, Illegitimate" | Putin Flaunts $240B Russia-China Trade, Vows Oil-Gas Pipeline 

Wow as a Chinese this is the first time I saw President Xi hugging a leader of another country.

Germany does not want Russian energy while China does want Russia energy. We will see what happens to each economy as a result of their decisions.

USA jealousy at its highest...😂

BRICS is in good hands. Well done

Wow! Congratulations Russian and Chinese for this great bond!!! We love both!

They should thank America for uniting the two giants who perfectly complement each others needs in the most respectful way!

Well said the USA is fucked.

now america is so envy of $240 Billion trade income for Russia. america is wasting money in ukraine while Russia is earning double the amount america had spent for ukraine 😂😂😂.

The way Xi embraced and hugged Putin @ 0.58, tells all the story

Long live two big brothers. ❤

Russia and China have not always seen eye to eye. But thanks to the US pushing them both in the same corner, now they are making a strong bond in their politics, as well an economy and commerce.

Why can't the US work with these people and learn, instead,it prefer war, guns, kill, kill, kill, , it's sad

That hug caught Putin by surprise

Russia and China shares border so no chance of USA blowing this one up 🎉

Russia And China Are Best Friends !!

I love the confidence of Vladimir Putin, as in this term of his Presidency he won't take nonsense from anyone - as a result, Russian Federation will be a force to reckon with in this six years of Putin

I love the hug part. Two strong leaders fighting against the west Bully policies

Viva Rússia, viva China. Brasil

Putin ❤

China needs oil and gas - and cheap that is easily transportable without fear of any foreign ships blockading her - for her industries and national security (where have heard someone else used this term many times before?). Russia is a next door neighbor able to offer China what she needs and so, why not? What right does someone else has to prevent two neighbors from buying and selling to each other in free trade while it cannot offer the same - except more and more hostile trade sanctions?

The hug is telling US..we both country will challenge you and your ally if you dare to cross the red line.

Lord Putin the wise has spoken and let those who have ears listen well

I don't know about you all but these two nations are on another level ❤ god bless their people from greedy Americans!

It is a strategic partnership between two superpowers, including both military and trade , China and Russia 🇷🇺 bolstering ties to counter western hegemony.

🇺🇸 Politicians are pooing on the streets of Manhattan by seeing and hearing this

EU：We lost a gas station.😭 China:I get a gas station.🥰

Dragon and the Bear ❤ 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 Unmatched combo. Salute to President Putin and President Xi. God bless the great nations China and Russia and may our peoples prosper together. ❤ 🇨🇳 🇷🇺

Zelensky : I wants more money

Former US grand strategist Zbignew Brzezinski said: "It is IMPERATIVE that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America". Because the US has just 4% of the world's population, and it's isolated from the Eurasia continent which has 70% of the world's population, or 87% with Africa included. Defensively, it's an advantage to the US, but economically, it's a handicap. That's why economically, Eurasia is a competitor to the US and the Euro is a threat to the dollar. How does the US with an isolated and just 4% of world's population maintain its position as the world's biggest economy? The dollar must stay as the world's reserve currency. This allows the size of the US economy to be highly scaled up, instead of being sized according to the fundamentals. To be the world's reserve currency, the dollar must be circulated in the world. The US created a huge consumption-based economy and shifted manufacturing outside, so that dollars flow out of the US to product suppliers like China or Japan. To make products, China and Japan need energy. The US created the Petrol-dollar scheme, so that dollar is circulated to Saudi. With the US stock and financial market much more lucrative than other countries, the dollars from Saudi are attracted back to the US. Money printed in the US to exchange for goods from outside eventually ends up with the Wall Streets, where the rich gets richer. And that completes the cycle of circulation of the dollars. The American Dream attracted top talents around the world to strengthen the US' science and technology sectors, and a technological gap is maintained between the US and other major economy like China, so that the US benefits from highly lucrative high-tech product/patent exports, while low profit manufacturing sector is outsourced to China and Vietnam. This is why world leader in 5G, Huawei, are banned in 2019. If China or Japan bring back all the dollars and exchange to their local currencies, it inflates the local currencies, making their exports expensive. So, China and Japan use some of the dollars to buy US debts (treasury bonds). That's why the US, a rich country, is in-debt to China which has just 1/5th of the US' GDP per capita. And by holding US treasury bills, China and Japan have to support the US dollar, for if the US dollar collapses, their hard earn money would become worthless. After Obama's "Pivot to Asia" in 2011, which aimed to contain China, China introduced the Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in 2013 and diverted some of the dollars into it to reduce the risk of putting all eggs in one basket, and hoping that after these countries are developed, China would have a wider trade market. With a huge population, if Asia and Africa develop rapidly, the share of the US' economy shrinks, then the Euro could replace it as the world's reserve currency. When that happens, the US would no longer be able to print money out of nothing without a hyper inflation like Venezuela. Then the size of the US economy has to fall back to the fundamentals, which today is quite a lot smaller than the inflated economy. That's why no country in Eurasia is allowed to catch up with the US' economy. When Japan was catching up fast on the US in the 1980s, they were knocked down to a three decade stagnancy by appreciating the Japanese Yen. And in the last 30 years, the US created conflicts, wars and color revolutions in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa to destabilise the Eurasia-Africa supercontinent. When the US prints a lot of money, other countries' foreign reserves in dollars shrink in value. Furthermore, to prevent exports to the US becoming expensive, these countries have to print money too, which devalues the savings of the people, and causing inflations in these countries. It's estimated that our savings devalue by 6-9% per year after the abolishment of the gold-backed Bretton Woods system, after which the US prints money based on just the creditability of the dollar. North America is relatively easy to defend, yet the US has a military budget more than the total of the next 9 countries in the top 10, to protect the dollar with its 800 military bases worldwide. For the record, the US had no mercy on threats to the dollar: In 2000 Saddam Hussein said he would start selling oil in Euros not Dollars. 
> Saddam was hanged by the US. In 2009 Gaddafi made Libya export oil in Gold Dinars, not in dollar or Euro. 
> Gaddafi was killed by US-backed NTC. Syria had an independent Central Bank NOT under Federal Reserve controlled Bank of International Settlements. 
>> Obama attempted to overthrow Bashar al-Assad. Iran has been trading oil in currencies other than US dollars since 2011. 
> Iran was being sanctioned by the US. After being sanctioned in 2014, Putin started to trade in non-dollar. In 2019, Putin completely ditched dollars in oil trades, sold almost all the US treasury bonds, is now the forerunner in de-dollarization. 
> The US tried to topple Putin by supporting Alexei Navalny. And now the Ukraine war to weaken Russia China (1) introduced the BRI in 2013 which helps many countries to develop and speed up the integration of Eurasia, (2) used non-dollar in oil trades with Iran and Russia, (3) introduced the CIPS, an alternative to the West's SWIFT system which has been weaponized by America, (4) China's economy and high technology are catching up fast. >> China has become the US' #1 target. If a country supports the dollar, it's being looted; if a country doesn't support the dollar, the government is changed by the US. This is financial slavery. The Fed has printed 80% of all US dollars in existence since Jan 2020. There was $4.02 trillion dollars in circulation at the beginning of 2020. The number reached $20.08 trillion by Oct 2021. This amounted to an astronomical 34 trillions debt. Coupled with a global rising urge to diversify into non-dollar reserves caused by the US' sanctions to 39 countries, the dollar is in a creditability crisis. This is the major development which shapes geopolitics in the world today. The US cannot have direct wars with Russia and China because they are nuclear armed. Proxy wars put the battlefields outside of the US, and the US would looked like an outsider. Remember in the 1980s, the US supported the Afghan Mujaheddin in a proxy war against the USSR. Russia and China have clearly defined their redlines. Us would use its collaborators Zelensky and Tsai to push across the redlines to trigger the wars, and it would sell weapons to its allies in NATO and AUKUS, and get them to support the wars. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, US President Bill Clinton had two choices: to integrate Russia into Europe and abolish NATO, OR, to slowly alienate Russia to keep Russia and Europe divided. Clinton chose the latter, because if there's no more Russia "threat", there would be no more NATO to control Europe. As the first NATO Secretarv General. Lionel Ismav described the military role of NATO: "To keep America IN, to keep Russia OUT, to keep Germany (Europe) DOWN". NATO also allows the US to place missiles in Europe, so if a war break out in Europe, missiles would be flying between Moscow the East and Lisbon in the West, while the US remains safe across the Atlantic. And politically, the EU is an American creation, as much as a European one. It's much easier for Washington to control ruling elites at Brussels than having to control all politicians in Europe. The EU is used an ally or a sacrificial depending on the geopolitical needs of Washington. The proxy war in Ukraine: 1.Divided Europe from Russia and divided Eurasia. 2. Killed Nord Stream Il gas pipeline and German firm Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg has signed up for gas from America Venture Global LNG for 20 years. The US gained control over energy supply to Europe. 3. Created continuity for the Military Industrial Complex after pulling out of Afghanistan. 4. Most importantly, the war strengthened the dollar. Dollar against Euro is now the highest since NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in Mar 1999 (happened two months after the official launch of Euro as the currency of the EU, which threatened the dollar). A strong dollar together with the Fed's interest rise in 2022 cause capitals from all over the world to flow into the US' economy, while collapsing other economies, like Sri Lanka. Else where, two months after ignoring a warning from Washington against his visit to Moscow, highly popular Imran Khan was ousted from the PM post of Pakistan on 9 Apr 2022. A month after ignoring Biden's demand to increase oil production, secretary-general of OPEC, Mohammad Barkindo died unexpectedly on July 6 2022. The US isn't relinquishing its privilege to loot. Remember after WW II, Europe and Asia were devastated, but the US emerged as the world leader and the dollar became the world's reserve currency.

The hug. Genuine, sincere. Couldn't be better than this. Wow!!!

❤So sick of the word SACTIONS .Who has this obnoxious monopoly to wag a finger n draft SACTIONS on other countries.Who defines who is in the wrong who is fooling who

Bravo Russia , bravo Putin

The time has come for change!

Love this, absolutely wonderful done 🇸🇪

If the west doesn't want to buy Russian oil, the east will.. and the east thanks the west for the cheaper price 😂

Ok Bro i got your back, it was what that hug meant

Saw the embrace ? Xi and Rasputin ? What a profound love !!😂😂🤣😅

It's so heartwarming to see two great presidents hug each other. Slava Russiya & China.

Money isn't everything. I wait God to teach everyone lesson ✍🏻

I pray President 🙏 is taking the best care of his health through these stressful times. May God be with him and keep him well. ❤️👍🇨🇦

South Africa approved of this trade.. as a Brics Member

When the Bear and Dragon became unlimited and unstoppable .

The truth is, it was the US that got sanctioned. We are adorable.

China-Russia joint statement, for the first time this time, with NO ambiguous, use wording "USA", saying it creates geopolitical military tensions.

He's a rock star.

That hug makes me smile and gives my hope

US sanctions STUPID, ILLEGITIMATE.... People cant stop laughing over this, hahahaha 😅,very well said Mr.President!

Great

Biden peaking through wall: "Are you sure about that?"

Excellent

Best combo

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼beautiful absolutely beautiful seeing two of the greatest president showing their respect for each other, I love it especially when they hug each other.

When I remember Western media said N.Korea will collapse in 3 days after being sanctioned😂 I wonder they are still available up today, now they say at march russia will be using stones in Ukraine due to heavy sanctions but it is the opposite 😂

Very good

EU's energy from Russia will now go to China and support Chinese economy and trade between Russia and China. EU can now pay 10 times more for LNG from America (which comes from Russia) and simply re-sold to EU at extortionate price.

👏☺️Bravo! Great stuff!

😂 mean while sleepy joe licking ice cream watching news: “what ? Wait what ? This is not my chocolate!”

Xi and Putin.. Both of them are Great Leaders that love their Country and People's... ❤

I am confident this alliance will usher in a well deserved period of peace unto the human family. Our world deserves it.

The USA tried its best to push Russia and China together.

God bless Russia God bless China

What happened to that tunnel between china and russia? 🔥

Sanction imposed by USA must be necessarily violated / ignored to make USA understand and realise its mistake .If USA and its Allies create any problem or imposes any restriction on any country's day to day functioning, international trade or any other commercial activity the countries like china ,Russia and North Korea must jointly take appropriate action against USA and teach such a lesson that in future it doesn't even dare to interfere in the affairs of other countries.

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How it our problem, Us Israel UK good luck 😅😅❤

Well done china russia

USA.... IT'S TIME 2 WAKE UP & CHANGE UR ATTITUDE.

That hug looked awkward yet wholesome, it’s like watching a nerd hug a girl for the very first time, LOL.

Love Putin and Xi

Everyone needs a friend!

Imagine America fronting Sleepy Joe ,China Xi and Russia fronting putin 😂😂, where do you place your bet

Ita dosent matter if you cant buy high high tech with the money, you cant spend yuan or rubles in taiwan or the netherlands for cnc machines and semiconductors you cant buy american tech which backs the american dollar

Mr.xi jinping ıs leader of the world and China ıs the most powerful country of the world.

I LOVE THESE BOTH COUNTRIES

A multi polar world and a win win for humanity,God bless Putin and xi

Mearsheimer:There are three great countries in the world:usa,Russia and China.😂

they still quote their trades in DOLLARS! not yuan funny BRICS CURRENCY🤣😂

China and Russia really complement each other needs well. Together with many other nations in the BRICS alliance, they will be a major pillar to maintain peace and security for mankind.

Mongolia, once they collected tribute from all of Russia now oil and gas will be flowing through their country how the mighty Fall

Horrible friendship

Every Nation must establish direct trading as much as possible WITHOUT influence of any other..Look AFTER own country and citizens best interest peacefully..Smart Moves

WILL BIDEN AND WASHINGTON BLOW UP THIS PIPE LINE TOO?

Bring back Trump to the office

World Wise intelligence people think about asking china Russia and lran also north Korea must stop wicked crimeless doing against to this world, ? The whole world didn't get peace from this 4 nations ? If U.S uesd sanctions to this country's God understand?

Russia also sold a lot of oil and gas to India and Turkey which in turn resold to EU and US. Why the US never mention India and Turkey? Why did the US and EU buy oil and gas from them despite knowing the source of it was from Russia?

Why no sanctions to Israel?????

Pootin running around like a headless chicken begging 😂😂😂😂 . He

Two dictators responsible for crimes against humanity and hated by their own people.

This is how the world leaders should behave so that every one can enjoy the benefits of each other's wealth. Instead there are some leaders who thinks they own every body and all the countries wealths, that type of behavior is irresponsible and selfish and is causing chaos around the world.

Through friendship will always prevail only in a taste of time, This two leaders are pragmatic example in the world,

This is what I call RIDE TO DIE!!! Loyality is very important. I wish the US could understand this.✌️

This two leader are the man of their words, you don't mess around with this kind of people, long live China and Rusia.

India was so proud wen they announce that they safe about 7 biljon dollars sinds they started to buy russian oil in the last 2 years. And they were so proud at here russian friends. With this oil an gaz deal between china and russia how many tens of biljons of dollars discount russia is giving to its brother china?.

As a big and super power country , america is stupid with their sanction and sanction , .....

Mr Putin could talk for a whole day non stop 😊

2 mighty giants of the universe are amazing and unstoppable ❤

Russia goes from 20% to 80% .. that's a Win.

Two border-neighbour countries are "mutually" increasing their trade with each other for mostly focused on energy, and look at the comments... it perfectly shows how much lost the people are by the influence of the big capital who wants to control all trade in all regions. Their own problems aside, still a good step for a self-determined national presence for both sides.

That big HUG FROM XI SAYS EVERYTHING, FULL 100% FRIENDSHIP & TRUST EACH OTHER'S FOR A LONG TIME WORKING TOGATHER!!!💖💖💖👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 US DONE A BAAD STEPS ON THE CHESS BOARD, WHIT THER ARROGANT, NASTY, BLACKMAILING, POLITICS WORLD WIDE !!!

We Indians say that our PM has done a lot of foreign diplomacy but in reality we have achieved nothing