East-West conflict – a staged event? What the financial world reveals about it

East-West conflict – a staged event? What the financial world reveals about it

More than a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the old East-West conflict between NATO and Russia has flared up again in full force – not least because of the West’s massive arms deliveries – and there is a real danger of a third world war.

Western governments and media paint a black-and-white picture of this conflict: On the one hand, the good West and, on the other hand, the evil Russia, which must be put in its place with military might.

But is this really the case, or are we just being presented with a spectacle on the global political stage?

Brandon Smith, an U.S. economic and geopolitical analyst, is convinced that this is the case.

Putin and Russia, he says, are merely pieces on a chessboard set up in a grand theater against the West to distract the masses through chaos.