In an event that was barely covered in the western media last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a 2-day visit to China to meet with his counterpart, Chinese President Xi Jinping. A lot of the western media coverage seemed to be infatuated with the fact that the two of them hugged each other in public, which was allegedly unprecedented, and that spawned dozens of articles of corporate media conspiracy theories about what it was that made them so happy with each other. But details of the meeting are now beginning to emerge, especially as some sources have begun translating Russian and Chinese versions of descriptions of what happened during the meetings into English. And if these English reports are accurate, it is no wonder as to why the two were so happy, as it appears that the U.S. Dollar's supremacy as the world's reserve currency is on the way out as the rest of the non-western world is rapidly abandoning the U.S. Dollar, which spells doom for the United States, and the ultimate end of the U.S. Empire as the world's most powerful nation. And now add to that the news of the suspicious death of Iran's President that happened this weekend after I started to write this article, and perhaps we now can see clearer into the future to understand what is about to happen next. It's not a pretty picture, at least not for Americans.