“We have to understand this in the larger global context, which is that this essentially is yet another signal of the rise of the multipolar world that is colonized countries taking out the colonizer,” Noh said. “They no longer want to be colonial or neocolonial vassals of France, regardless of how the French characterize it. They want to shake off those colonial shackles.”

“They got frog-marched out of Niger, and Mali and Burkina Faso. The nickel that they want from New Caledonia is just part of the green energy jam where they're trying to sell people a sustainable future built on, you know, harvesting all the rest of the minerals out of the ground and destroying the planet in the process,” the analyst clarified.

"Everything points to Berlin's desire to 'hush up' an uncomfortable issue as soon as possible," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told Sputnik.

"It is a wise decision to diversify away from USD and to hold physical gold in your own country instead," Claudio Grass, an expert in monetary history and economics and an independent precious metals consultant based in Switzerland, told Sputnik.

"For example, gold outperformed USD Bonds by 75% since 2021. In addition, the USD is being used for decades already as a political weapon and with the arbitrary confiscation of assets due to pressure from the US government, the Chinese seem to be aware of the risk that their property could also be confiscated at any time," the expert said.

"In addition, there is the BRICS alliance which is gaining track and challenging the current world order. Also emerging markets are buying up the gold because of these geopolitical changes and uncertainties," the expert said.

"It is obvious that the Western Civilization is being destroyed by their own corrupted and rotten political system and its rulers. The renewed politically enforced separation of the East and the West will lead to turmoil and chaos," he said.

“The Australian troops themselves joke and laugh and say that they use humor to train the Ukrainian troops. It's completely not serious. And it gives a false sense of hope to these poor Ukrainian recruits who have been kidnaped, arrested, dragged off the streets, sent to a third country, sent to the UK, trained by Australians and sent back into combat.”

“The Australian instructors are seeing these terrified Ukrainian mobilized men who don't want to be there and of course, what can they offer them? They can't offer them patriotism. They can't offer them hope. They can't offer them direction or a goal or a common goal even. They can't promise them they're going to live. They can't promise them they're going to win. There's nothing to look forward to.”

"The things he said about Ukraine and the origins of the war in Ukraine went far beyond anything Viktor Orban has said. Viktor Orban has simply made it a pragmatic issue, saying it has nothing to do with Hungarians... But he never really got into what really happened in Ukraine - Fico did. When you say things like that, you're clearly antagonizing powerful forces," Dr. George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at The Global Policy Institute, tells Sputnik.