America loses her #1 power of influence over Russia….The Russian economy moves beyond the US ability to influence it through oil/gas market manipulation

America loses her #1 power of influence over Russia….The Russian economy moves beyond the US ability to influence it through oil/gas market manipulation

An employee looks out over the illuminated petroleum cracking complex at the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery, operated by OAO Lukoil, in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014. Crude slumped 18 percent last month as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries maintained its output quota, letting prices decrease to a level that may slow U.S. production. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images

This is definitely a sign of the fall of American power and influence on others. She use to be able to manipulate oil, gas, and commodities to cause large gulfs in nations’ economies to either destabilize them, cause a color revolution, or push for total economic implosion.

This is not the case today. Some of the unintended consequences of imperial hubris are starting to blowback in her face. Her sanctions on Russia to weaken it’s economy has backfired.

It has caused Russia to look within and produce things she once would import. Russia now has a good economic base. She is no longer dependent on oil or gas as the stabilizer and engine of her economy.