increasingly be snubbed for equally attractive regions such as the Persian Gulf Emirates , or the beaches of Southeast Asia from Singapore to Bangkok . Globalization , as we have seen with the corona virus crisis , has made the world interdependent , and it is absurd to think that sanctioning a leading country in the production of Wheat and oil , would have no impact on the rest of the planet . When in military juntas , economic sanctions can make capital scarce , which in turn , through a domino e ect , would cause the pay of soldiers in the barracks to dry up , soldiers who are essential for a junta , because they are paid to suppress any dissension of the local population ; in Western countries where economic growth is based on energy resources such as oil or gas , which often allows the enrichment of the middle class , a guarantee of the preservation of a certain social peace , the boomerang e ect of the sanctions against Russia will impoverish the Western middle class which de facto will no longer believe in its rulers , and which , as the history of the Western world reminds us so well , would strive to foment instability and populist coups commonly called revolution . Also , beyond the international crisis of confidence , a national crisis of confidence in the countries that sent fatwahs against Russia is not a figment of the imagination , but a reality already palpable in the volatility of oil prices . Similarly , when doing a witch hunt against the Russian oligarchs , the West thought , based on its model of thought , that the latter would foment revolutions , forgetting that almost all of them are fierce patriots who are often in a near or distant way linked to the Kremlin .
If the West , which represents less than 20 percent of the world ' s population , has since the time of the Templars lived beyond its means through an economic system tailored to its measure , the war in Ukraine is imposing a new economic paradigm , with a Russia which , despite the sanctions , recorded in the first quarter , according to the American magazine Business Insider , surpluses of 58.2 billion dollars in its current account , beating the records spread over 3 decades ; , with a currency , the Ruble which increasingly strengthens in times of war , it is logical to ask the question whether the war in Ukraine did not have as sole objective securing Russia by creating a bu er zone which implies the partition of Ukraine , but also and above all a redistribution of the economic cards on a global scale ?
Hubert Marlin Elingui Journalist
16 Flashmag ! Issue 128 April 2022