European intelligence learned about the Kremlin’s plans to undermine the influence of the dollar and destroy the world financial system - The Washington Post

Over the past two years, the Kremlin collected meetings several times, where he discussed ways to undermine the influence of the dollar as a global reserve currency. This was written by The Washington Post with reference to European intelligence data, at the disposal of which the documents of the Russian Security Council were at the disposal.

The ultimate goal, one of the documents says, was the destruction of the global financial system created after the Second World War, and the power that it gives to Washington.

“One of the most important tasks is to create a new world order,” the document dated April 3, 2023 says. “Western countries, led by the United States, are trying to impose their own structure based on their dominance.”

Another document refers to the need to expand cooperation between China and Russia in the field of artificial intelligence, cybersisters and the Internet of things. The document was written by the Secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Nikolai Patrushev. He offers the creation of a new financial system and an Eurasian digital currency based on alternative payment systems such as blockchain. The declared goal is the bypassing of the Western dominance in world financial transactions.

The Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov in the commentary of The Washington Post denied that Russia “seeks to undermine the dominance of the United States in the global financial system,” writes the publication, but admitted that its goal is to create alternatives. According to Peskov, the actions of the "collective West" undermine trust without any help from Moscow. The Kremlin “carefully monitors the situation and creates a new system of economic neurons, because the previous system turned out to be unreliable, false and dangerous,” Peskov said.

According to Moscow, the US invasion of Israel has undermined the authority of Washington in many countries of the world. The totality of events led to a surge in optimism regarding the global positions of Russia, writes WP. Officials in Moscow note the growth of trade with China, military cooperation with Iran, diplomatic work in the Arab world and the expansion of the BRICS group, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, due to the inclusion of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Ethiopia.

The expansion of the BRICS demonstrated the “growing authority and the role of the group in world affairs”, and its work will be concentrated on “sovereign equality”, said Russian President Vladimir Putin in a statement of January 1, when Russia adopted the chairmanship in the group. The Kremlin began to call itself part of the "global majority."

Russian billionaires, such as Oleg Deripaska, who first publicly opposed the war in Ukraine, saying that it will lead to an economic crisis in Russia, now describe Russia gap with the West as a catalyst for changes in global economic models, WP notes.

“Alternative payment systems and debt markets will be created: in China, a yuan, and in India and the Middle East, based on cryptocurrencies,” Deripaska wrote on January 20 at Telegram. “After a few years, sanctions will cease to be a brake for world trade and investment.”