Life is changing so fast here is most of the western nations that it has gotten difficult to keep track of all, except for the “Woke” crowd. A major problem is the state propaganda here, and the main stream media not covering any of it because they are dependent on state subsidy which obliges them to portray what is acceptable and what is not.

The geopolitical shift and the changing of global balance of power is happening right now which, according to experts is going to crash all the fiat currencies in the world. The only ones that might survive appear to be Russian ruble and the mechanism that is supposedly being put in place by the BRICS+ nations with a commodity backed currency. I am not sure exactly how that will work except for the Russian ruble.

Russia is already more or less out of the petrodollar based fiat system due to sanctions and having been kicked out of the swift etc. It has survived thanks to safeguards it started putting in its finances many years ago, including internet. I do not know enough of what the Chinese have done because they are straddling both systems. But the Yuan with some sort of multi commodity backed multi currency is being worked on its way The third country is India, which to me is very similar to China in the sense that it has its attachment with the fiat because of extensive trade with usa as well as Indian born diaspora earning in dollars and the pro-US bias by the Westernised half of the population, and same time its wish to be non-aligned and be able to trade outside of the western circle. America has set two different kinds of target on China and India, for refusing to stay within the petrodollar world.

I feel convinced now that the root issues behind the Ukraine war is the key to decide if the west (meaning the US followed by its satellites like Canada, Australia, Europe will survive unscathed or we are seeing the inexorable decline of the west – to be replaced by yet poorly defined Multi-polar system.

The Saudi-Iran realignment is a watershed event for the oil bearing middle east. It is geared to move the entire middle east away from US manipulations. And this detente happened, for the first time, by Chinese mediation and USA was not even invited into the discussion. This is a geopolitical bombshell. It is hard to imagine how the US will react. Saudis have already started selling their oil in currencies other than the dollar. It is hared to imagine the petrodollar will survive. And if it does not, then all other currencies and banking systems linked to it, including the world bank and the IMF may go and the currencies other than the ruble may collapse, at least partially. CBDC (central bank digital currency) might become a reality in most of the world.

For many of these reasons I had been focussing more on getting the news from within Russia, and having a real hard time getting through to the educated people there. I did not know Russia has so man layers and half of them are controlled, at least up to a point, by the US directly of indirectly. This is why the US can whisper about Regime change and/or assassination of Putin.

Russians know about that, but the reaction is not uniform. The urban english speaking population has a powerful section that is anti-Putin. They are in the academia, Judiciary, Parlament, Banking and NGOs. Furthermore, the Russian constitution was created with American help where they cleverly inserted clauses that prevent Russia for doing what is in their vital interest against US or outsider control. In 20 years of post Yeltsin control by Putin, he has not been able to remove the most difficult clauses within its constitution, like article 13, 15 and 75, despite trying a few times already.

But overall, Putin has over 80% public support and realization is dawning among the people that Russia cannot afford to lose the Ukraine war, because if they lose, there will be no Russia.

Meanwhile, the west has seriously underestimated Russian resilience in all spheres. It considered Russian economy to be seriously degraded – which was correct at the turn of the century, year 1999-2000. But the impressive revival of its industry, education, agriculture, science and technology has gone largely under the radar of the west. Only because of the Ukraine war that the west is discovering that the Russia Ruble an economy is insulated from the west and cannot be hurt by Sanctions. It is finding out that Russian science and technology in many sphere has leapfrogged the west. And Russia is not just a gas station – It has become the biggest food exporter in the world etc etc.

I am beginning to realize that the reason the western institutions so grossly underestimated Russia is because the western method for calculating stuff like economy, GDP, science, military status – all are based on fake speculations and theories. And thus, the US initiated a war it now cannot back out from and cannot win. Cannot back out because Russia for many reasons has gotten to hold maximum resources that the west must control in order to maintain its hegemony. And this is a war the west cannot win because it depended on faulty assumptions of Russia’s preparedness to withstand US sponsored proxy war between Russia and NATO through Ukraine.

And the silent revolution has started in Russia, where the anti-Putin elements are slowly being weeded out.

The biggest benefit for me has been discovering the Vedic link between India and southern Russia – going to a phase of Vaishnavite movement linked with Vishnu and his avatar Krishna, and the common roots of old Russian language with early Sanskrit. I had learned about the India-European language group linking Indian and west European languages, but the slavic languages were excluded from the group by western linguists two hundred years ago. Now I suspect this happened through an anti-Slavic bias by the western European linguists of the time.

Arrival of orthodox Christianity around 1000 AD complicated the story because, like the Muslims, the early Christians were engaged in destroying temples, and scrips. Only now, some of it is being rediscovered.

I came to know a few Russians that are practicing or experimenting this path again – mostly through a revival of the ISKON movement. They are more forthcoming to me regarding what is happening inside Russia today with regard to resisting US hegemony on one side, and promoting a multipolar world on the other.

These are keeping me pre-occupied because all of this is outside of much of the media. Even in India, only a small section is engaged in it, hut superficially according to me. The Governemnt, if they are aware and I suspect some key segments of it is aware, but they are not talking about it. And the media is, while diverse, completely out of it, and the public are, like in the rest of the world, exposed only to the western version of the goings on.