I’ve been seeing Kissinger’s quote all over social media:
“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
What people fail to appreciate however is that if a nation controls the food and energy, it does not matter who controls the money. Food and energy are real resources. They are real leverage.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/risk-versus-parcheesi/
“‘Putin’s anti-elite power play. Here is the Ph.D. thesis paper penned by Putin in 1997 that explains his resources-govern theory of power: “minerals and raw materials is to be understood as the guaranteed provision of economic security to the country through the creation of a reliable mineral and raw materials base.’”
The West is finding this out in real time. Sanctioning Russia’s resources of food and energy is killing Europe which is so heavily dependent on these commodities. The West’s sanctions are not crippling Russia’s economy. The Russian Ruble has strengthened, and Russia’s exports of energy are continuing to flow increasingly to the East.