"Leo Wanta?" Niam asked in surprise. Yang Jing could tell from his expression that this big shot who was also a well-known figure in the American financial world did not seem to know Leo Wanta.
Yang Jing smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, it's Leo Wanta. It's normal that you don't know him or haven't heard of him, because only a very small number of senior officials in Washington know him. Now he is responsible for a huge financial trap set up by President Reagan and President Bush. As long as the red giant steps into this trap, he will fall completely."
Yang Jing's words made Niamh gasp. He certainly knew how important it was for someone to be valued by two successive presidents. Not to mention, both President Reagan and President Bush entrusted the final step of dismembering the red giant to this stranger, which was enough to prove how powerful this person was.
Anyway, Niamh believes that he definitely does not have such ability and will definitely not be valued by both presidents.
Looking at Niam's face full of disbelief and shock, Yang Jing could only shake his head slowly.
Of course, he would not explain to Niam what earth-shattering feats Leo Wanta had accomplished. It was no exaggeration to say that it was this American man with a pair of myopic glasses who looked harmless who pushed the red giant that had stood in the West for more than 70 years into the abyss of no return.
Of course, the most important reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union came from the Soviet Union itself and Ronald Reagan. These two reasons eventually led to the predicament of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s. Leo Vantaa only pushed the red giant, which had one foot in the abyss, from behind, and then let the giant fall down.
But it must be said that if it weren't for this guy Wanta who formulated that series of financial plans and then got the full support of the entire United States and Western European countries, the red giant would not have fallen so easily.
In fact, Yang Jing also read a lot of information about Leo Vanta and the famous "Vanta Project" in the original time and space. Yang Jing also knew that these materials were more accurate than unofficial history. After all, the Western world's subversion of the Soviet Union was a top-secret file even in the United States, and it would take decades for it to be decrypted.
However, there are many capable people in this world. Based on a series of events that happened that year, they slowly deduced some results. In the end, all these events were attributed to Wanta, and Wanta was directly deified.
For example, Vanta's real identity was President Reagan's most trusted financial warfare expert. He was an agent and senior official of the U.S. Treasury Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1980s, Vanta was directly ordered by President Reagan to engage in a secret financial war aimed at subverting the Soviet ruble. He established the "New Republic Financial Group" in Wisconsin, USA. The company's operating capital was only 17,000 US dollars, but soon after the capital from the secret overseas accounts in the United States was injected, Vanta's business became bigger and bigger.
Legend has it, and it's just a legend, that in October 1990, Vanta bribed some Soviet officials with a large sum of money, and then used 5 billion US dollars to buy 140 billion rubles at a price dozens of times lower than the official exchange rate.
You should know that at this time, the official exchange rate of the US dollar to the ruble was approximately 1 US dollar to 0.6 rubles. The official value of the ruble was much higher than the US dollar and was comparable to the British pound.
Although the economic situation in the Soviet Union was very difficult at that time, 1 US dollar could even be exchanged for 12 rubles on the Soviet black market, but Vanta actually exchanged 140 billion rubles at a ratio of 1:28. It would be strange if there was no trick involved.
As a result, after Vanta exchanged these rubles, he held them for a year, and then began to sell them on the international market in October 1991, causing the ruble's exchange rate to plummet. Some international hot money and some hedge funds supported by Western countries took the opportunity to suppress the ruble's exchange rate, eventually causing the ruble's official exchange rate to plummet three times in just a few days, from 1:0.6 to 1:1.8.
The official exchange rate of the ruble was a joke at that time. In the Soviet black market, because of the plunge, one dollar could even be exchanged for fifty or sixty rubles!
Before selling the ruble, Vantaa shorted London gold in the London gold market in January and February 1991. After all, the main means for the Soviet Union to exchange foreign exchange were oil and natural gas, and the other was gold. But the Soviet Union's oil and natural gas had long been ruined by President Reagan. Now Vantaa was targeting gold, the only foreign exchange pillar of the Soviet Union. The plunge in international gold prices, coupled with the sharp depreciation of the ruble, finally made the red giant, which was plagued by internal and external troubles, unable to hold on any longer and collapsed...
In other words, if the entire Vanta plan is divided into two parts, Leo Vanta suppressing the ruble exchange rate and shorting gold is the first part. When Leo Vanta completed the first part, the Soviet Union was in a state of internal and external troubles, and eventually the red giant collapsed!
If the Vanta Plan only consists of the first part, it can definitely be called an "extremely powerful" plan. After all, this part alone was enough to bring down the red giant. Let us ask, who else in the world can do this?
However, the Vantaa Plan was later called by many people as "the most evil, most attractive but at the same time the most destructive financial plan", and was even hailed as the "second Marshall Plan". It could not be achieved by relying solely on the first part.
The truly evil, brilliant and cruel part of the Vanta Plan lies in its second part.
If the first part of the Vanta Plan led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, then the second part is how to use hundreds of millions of dollars to completely disintegrate the fallen Red Giant and completely drain the wealth of up to 27.5 trillion US dollars that originally belonged to the Red Giant!
For the Vanta plan, the previous collapse of the ruble is far from enough. If they want to drain all the wealth accumulated by the Soviet Union over the past 70 years, it is obviously not enough to simply devalue the ruble to one dollar to fifty or sixty rubles. Vanta needs to do more ruthlessly!
However, although he also formulated the second part of the plan and started to implement it a long time ago, Vanta did not enjoy the honor and benefits brought to him by the second plan. He was arrested by the U.S. federal government before the second part of the plan was about to be perfectly realized, and was imprisoned for more than 20 years...
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