Paris, July 9 (EIRNS)—In an article published July 8 on the website of a high-level security association, the Cercle K2, Admiral Alain de Dainville, former French Navy Chief of Staff, explains how Russia’s defense against the Western sanctions and NATO’s military threat, “are helping to redirect the flows of globalization” and contributing to reinforce Russia’s rôle in the world. (https://cercle-k2.fr/en/etudes/quels-objectifs-pour-la-russie-3)
First, the disruption of financial exchanges provoked by the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT system has favored the emergence of competing systems, the Russian SPFS (Sistema peredachi finansovykh soobscheniy) and the Chinese CIPS (Cross-Border Interbank Payment System). SWIFT’s financial hegemony is under attack in a rivalry that will provoke tensions on the transit vector, i.e., the fiber optics on which the Russian Navy is, however well equipped.
Then, a new balance is sought in energy flows. … This reconfiguration of flows requires adapting infrastructures, refineries, liquefaction plants and opening new maritime routes to compensate for the inadequacy of oil and gas pipelines. It requires increased recourse to oil tankers and LNG pipelines, whose need and traffic are growing, increasing insecurity on maritime routes, especially in straits.
But the most sensitive point is the food crisis, caused by the difficulties of exporting cereals, a crisis of great gravity because it affects vital needs, destabilizes countries in the Middle East and Africa, and cannot be solved by printing money. It is increasing the pressure of the hungry to find a solution to this “war of the rich,” pitting the Russians back to back to the Americans, but especially the United States accused of abusing their dominant position on the cereals market....
Thus, Russia seems to have a double ambition, to create a defensive glacis and to increase its status as a power in globalization through its role in OPEC+ and in grain production.
