Washington chose the government of Ukraine.The British people, or a majority of them, gave Washington the bird.

But the fight is not over. It has barely even begun. Here is what the British can likely expect: The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, and George Soros will conspire to attack the British pound, and terrorize the British economy. We will see who is the strongest: the will of the British people or the will of the One Percent.

Leave supporters such as Boris Johnson say there is “no need for haste” in exiting the EU. They are wrong. The British economy is about to be attacked, and the longer it takes for the British to escape from the authoritarian EU, the longer Washington and the EU can inflictRussian government can invite in the foreign company to come and get the gas. The foreign company divides the profits with Russia, and the profits are denominated in a foreign currency.

Roberts calls the Russian central bank “a bunch of neoliberal idiots.” This is a different topic, and I agree with him to a point. The Russian central bank is focused more on serving the Russian financial economy than on serving Russia’s real economy. But it’s not as bad as Western central banks.

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: All the Russian central bank has to do is finance the government. The money will be created anyway.

EH: Again, this only applies to domestic transactions. The Russian government and economy need rubles, but they also need foreign currencies, which the Russian central bank cannot