The United States has been controlling all global Trade & Commerce, reserve currency, even the Petro dollar since the 20th Century! If they become competitive with you they'll have the power to devalue your currency to the stone age making you a poor state through its 1st world status and economic supremacy as all central banks & financial institutions are run by the West. See what happened to the USSR in the 90s. They opened themselves to western multinationals which siphoned all money out of the Soviet Union and communism was defeated by capitalism. And this could have happened again to the now democratic Russian Federation, but through its connections with China, Africa & Middle-East it continued to do business in their native currency. But the economic sanctions have taken its toll on them again. How will Russia survive again because Western domination pretexts for completely destroying Russians is weighing down on them. Will Russia survive this catastrophe within US embargos & sanctions? Time will tell, but the West wins!