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I've heard that Russia has been busy paying off all it's debts so it can (maybe) create a new debt free monetary system and get out from under the thumb of the international money elites. This is why it has suddenly become enemy #1 for the the west.

Russia is having a hard time trying to remain enemy #1.

Putin is doing everything just to retain power. He is the one who needs an enemy, also he needs some way to explain why people in the west are better off than his own subjects, to keep them loyal.

Putin needs to be the enemy of the west but is having a hard time being relevant. I mean what atrocities would he need to perpetrate for the west to properly take notice?

All the west does is talk (and some economic sanctions).

What do the west do? You mean apart from waging war across the middle east and trying to oust Russia's ally in Syria on trumped up charges?

Both "the west" and Putin are up to no good in the middle east, that is easily an ugly draw. Watch Turkey implode next.

Read up on "Russia's ally in Syria" if your stomach is up to it.
But then if you support Putin in any way you are probably used to that kind of stuff.

That said US foreign policy is... hard to understand sometimes.

Oh and debts on state level dont work the way you imply, but i understand the propaganda viewpoint. Russians have been trying to be economically independent from "the west" for a hundred years now. Maybe if they tried to be responsible partners it would be better for everyone.

And Im not saying the west should or indeed can do something about Putin. All I meant was that Russia is enemy No. 1 in rhetoric only. Not that important at all.