Santiago Capital & Russian GoldI thought he once tweeted that at $1800 gold Russia pretty much had their currency backed by gold. It is so hard to go back and find old tweets. He said the US and China would need a much higher gold price, but I cannot remember what the collar amount he mentioned.
I guess Russia has another payment system they are using outside of SWIFT.
Another person on Twitter said who will trust the US and the SWIFT system if they can sieze your nation's money.