This just increases the incentive to find an alternative to the $US as the international currency.
The DC Globohomo Regime just accelerating its own demise.
to find an alternative to the $US as the international currency
I do not think that the sanctions were on state actors, but rather on Western companies that are in the G7.
So it only punishes our side, until they cough up a campaign donation or a loan ...
For these companies, they just add a few dollars to the invoice, pass it on and go on about their business.
It is almost like Yellen's controllers WANT the West to fail ...
(Not that we have ever thought that idea out loud).