This is a syndicated repost courtesy of Money Morning. To view original, Click Here. Money Morning Editor’s Note: James G. Rickards is the New York Timesbest-selling author of The Death of Moneyand Currency Wars. Today, he’ll tell us about a new kind of global conflict – one that could wipe trillions in personal wealth off the map… Relations between the United States and Russia are now at their lowest ebb since the end of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991. The reset in Russian-U.S. relations that President Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped to achieve in 2009 is in tatters. The … Continue reading Mutual Assured Financial Destruction