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February 17, 2026

Russian Move To Support American Dollar Shocks Europe Bankrupting Itself Supporting Defeated Ukraine

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting American, Russian, and Ukrainian delegations have arrived in Geneva-Switzerland for a crucial round of peace talks, says President Donald Trump told reporters on board Air Force One yesterday: “Ukraine better come to the table fast...That's all I'm telling you”, and top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning: “I don’t think we should expect any news today because, as you know, work is scheduled to continue tomorrow...We have no plans to make any statements or remarks”.

Also today, this report notes, the second round of indirect nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States has begun at the Omani consulate general in Geneva-Switzerland, and President Trump told reporters on Air Force One yesterday: “So I'll be involved in those talks indirectly, and they'll be very important, and we'll see what can happen”.

As the world waits to see if President Trump can achieve peace in his negotiations, this report continues, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned: “In one of his recent speeches, the American president said that for 47 years America has not succeeded in destroying the Islamic Republic...I tell you: You will not succeed either...We constantly hear that the United States has sent a warship toward Iran...A warship is certainly a dangerous weapon, but even more dangerous is the weapon capable of sinking it”—a warning joined by Ukrainian state media observing: “The Munich Security Conference painted a bleak picture of peace prospects for Ukraine, contradicting the recent optimism from U.S. officials...European leaders made it clear: the post–Cold War global order is ending — or at least undergoing profound change — and Europe can no longer afford to remain in Washington’s shadow”.

Following Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik grimly revealing: “Over the past week, Ukrainian Nazis' shelling resulted in 147 civilian casualties: 126 were wounded, including six minors, and 21 others were killed”, this report details, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced today: “In response to the terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian regime against civilian infrastructure facilities on Russian soil, the Russian Armed Forces delivered a massive strike with long-range precision-guided air- and ground-based weapons, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, at Ukraine's military-industrial complex facilities, energy infrastructure, as well as at production sites, storage facilities, and launch preparation sites for unmanned attack vehicles”.

In analyzing the crushing and relentless Russian strikes on Ukraine, this report notes, top Kremlin information analyst Sergey Poletaev assessed:

According to official reports, Ukraine currently faces an 8-10 GW power shortfall.

Considering the fact that the country needs about 16 GW, that’s a staggering 40-50% deficit, even as its nuclear power plants operate at full capacity, and according to reports, they will have to undergo large-scale maintenance this summer.

The cost of electricity for industrial consumers in Ukraine has doubled, reaching nearly 20 hryvnia ($0.46) for kilowatt per hour, which is almost four times higher than in Russia.

This means production in Ukraine will not only face energy shortages but will also become economically unviable.

Through a series of strategic strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Russia is pushing the country back into the 19th century.

Once a powerful industrial republic within the Soviet Union, Ukraine now risks devolving into a rudimentary agrarian society, akin to the poorest nations in Africa or Asia.  Recovering from this could take years, if not decades.

Obviously, an agrarian nation cannot have a strong military.  An industrially advanced neighbor will always have the upper hand, even when other conditions seem equal.

Russia’s goal is clear: demilitarization through deindustrialization.

A rival with a crippled economy poses a significantly lower threat and becomes a greater burden for any potential allies.  Moreover, rebuilding its military capabilities will require significantly more time.

This situation also serves as a strong warning to others considering conflict with Russia.

Unlike Ukraine, Germany’s energy sector lacks resilience, as evidenced by the recent blackout in Berlin, when climate extremists wielding Molotov cocktails plunged the city into darkness for almost a week.

While Russia continues to pound Ukraine back into the 19th Century, this report continues, world-renowned senior British diplomat Ian Proud most factually observed:

The reality of who is winning, or not winning, this war is in any case not about a slowly changing front line.  Wars are won by economies not armies.

Those western pundits who also tell you that Russia will run out of money tomorrow – it really won’t – never talk about the fact that Ukraine is functionally bankrupt and totally dependent on financial gifts which the EU itself has to borrow, in order to provide.

War fighting for Ukraine has become a lucrative pyramid scheme, with Zelensky promising people like Von der Leyen that it is a solid investment that will eventually deliver a return, until the day the war ends, when EU citizens will ask whether all their tax money disappeared to.

Russia’s debt stands at 16% of its GDP, its reserves over $730 billion, its yearly trade surplus still healthy, even if it has narrowed over the past year.

Russia can afford to carry on the fight for a lot longer.  Ukraine cannot.  And Europe cannot.  And that is the point.

The Europeans know they can’t afford the war.  Ukraine absolutely cannot afford the war, even if Zelensky is happy to see the money keep flowing in.

Putin knows the Europeans and Ukraine can’t afford the war.  In these circumstances, Russia can insist that Ukraine withdraws from the remainder of Donetsk unilaterally without having to fight for it, on the basis that the alternative is simply to continue fighting.

He can afford to maintain a low attritional fight along the length of the frontline, which minimises Russian casualties and maximises Ukraine’s expenditure of armaments that Europe has to pay for.

That constant financial drain of war fighting is sowing increasing political discord across Europe, from Germany, to France, Britain and, of course, Central Europe.

Putin gets two benefits for the price of one.  Europe causing itself economic self-harm while at the same time going into political meltdown.

That is why western leaders cannot admit that they have lost the war because they have been telling their voters from the very beginning that Ukraine would definitely win.

As the socialist European Union prepares for a beyond staggering €4 trillion Eurobond push to stave off bankruptcy because of its support for already defeated Ukraine, this report concludes, all of its leaders were shocked to their very core after Bloomberg revealed: “According to an internal Kremlin memo, Russia is reportedly considering a return to the US dollar payment system...After years of European sanctions, American embargoes, and exclusion from SWIFT, such a move would be a geopolitical shock of the first order — further isolating the European Union while potentially fueling secessionist tendencies, particularly in Eastern Europe”.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

 

 

 

 

 

February 17, 2026 © EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.

[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about  the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]

[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]

[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]

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