if the Russians were to insist upon gold to as payment for oil & nat gas, would this not destroy the petro-dollar regime and gold (+ silver) price suppression? gold would have to be massively revalued relative to oil/nat gas, so as to get max resource value extraction from gold
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/when-normality-is-exposed-as-a-ponz