By Batiushka for The Saker blog
Introduction: The Old Queen
I recall some forty years ago meeting an elderly English lady, a farmer’s wife called Mrs Dove, who had been present as a schoolgirl at the funeral of Queen Victoria. ‘When the old Queen died all those years ago’, she reminisced nostalgically, ‘everything was draped in black and everyone was dressed in black’. Now Victoria’s great-great-granddaughter, the new ‘old Queen’, is dead, the news announced beneath a rainbow over Windsor Castle. This is the town whose name the Queen’s grandfather, George V, had adopted as the family name, instead of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The Windsor name was officially adopted on 17 July 1917, just after the British-orchestrated Russian ‘Revolution’ of 1917, one year to the day before the Tsar and his Family were murdered in Ekaterinburg, on the very frontiers of Europe and Asia. The Russian Tsar had been betrayed by his look-alike cousin, King George V.
Whatever you say about Queen Elizabeth II, she personally had modesty, she had dignity, she had presence, she actually believed in something, she had all that her descendants seem utterly to lack. Perhaps her end was hastened by the behaviour of her son Prince Andrew, her grandson Prince Harry and the imbeciles who inhabit 10 Downing Street, the latest of whom she had to appoint Prime Minister only two days before she died. Why live any longer? She must have been fed up with it all. This is the final, final end of the Protestant Empire of Great Britain (1522-2022) (1), whose collapse began exactly three generations ago in 1947 in India. Perhaps the decline will go swiftly now under the disliked King Charles III (called in Russian Karl III) (2), who finds himself without Queen Diana, the only one who could have saved him. Expect the break-up of the UK to be rapid.
The 96 year-old Queen Elizabeth II died in Scotland, in Victoria’s castle at Balmoral, a relic of the 19th century and its British Empire. Her curious, clipped Germanic accent – no English people talk like that – betrayed the Queen’s foreign origins as the last of the rulers shaped by German Protestantism, imported by the City of London merchant and financial class just over 300 years before. However, it is not only her, it is the other leaders of the Western world, relics of the 20th century, who are dying out too. They are gerontocrats. In the USA Biden, born in the first half of the 20th century and soon to be 80, should really be in an old folk’s home. It is cruel to keep parading him in front of the media like that and asking him to remember things. As for Pope Francis, aged 85, he can hardly walk and says that he too might go early, like his predecessor, still alive at 95, a relic forced to serve in the Hitler Youth.
Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front
After the humiliating debacle in Afghanistan in August 2021, when the Americans were kicked out and NATO was routed, the Asian century arrived. While Queen Elizabeth II was dying, senior representatives from sixty-eight countries were gathering at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast, a centre of the new multipolar world. They were there to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific after the fall of the obsolete unipolar Western Empire. President Putin declared: ‘The new world order is based on the fundamental principles of justice and equality, as well as the recognition of the right of each state and people to their own sovereign path of development. Powerful political and economic centres are being formed right here in the Asia-Pacific region, acting as a driving force in this irreversible process’.
The Russian future is marked by the development of the Russian Arctic and of the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic. On the Northern Sea Route the emphasis is on building a powerful, modern fleet of icebreakers, some nuclear-powered. There is a long-term plan up to 2035 to create infrastructure for safe shipping navigation and a transformation in Arctic navigation and shipbuilding that has been under way for the last few years. A second development for Russia is the International North-South Transportation Corridor with one of its main ports in Chabahar in Iran. Now for the first time India will be directly connected to Central Asia. An Iranian shipping line with 300 vessels which link to Mumbai is taking part in the development of this Transportation Corridor. The creation of such a transport corridor is also leading to the integration of national transit systems in several countries.
In one week’s time the Samarkand Summit of the multipolar Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) will take place. Apart from the current full members – Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and now Iran – no fewer than eleven more countries wish to join, including Afghanistan and Turkey, making potentially twenty in all. The SCO Summit is to examine economic cooperation with the aim of solving health, energy, food security and poverty reduction issues. India too wants an Asian century, for which close cooperation between India, China and Russia is necessary. For now India is not competitive and needs to diversify to obtain improved access to Eurasia, thanks to logistical help from Russia. Russia will also play a vital role in the Indian Ocean with the need for close co-operation between ‘The Big Three’, Russia, India and China.
We must recall that Asia alone has over 25% of the world’s GDP and 50% of the world’s population. Asia is no longer a series of countries subject to colonisation by Europe and the USA, but the agent for planetary change. The Asian century is here. There is also a global movement to join the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), including Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and Argentina. It all means that the Global Majority is no longer the US/CA/UK/EU/AUS/NZ and a few US colonies like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It is Afro-Eurasia-Latin America, 87.5% of the world. Someone is going to have to find a snappy new name for this alphabet soup, EEF, SCO, BRICS, perhaps something like G2022 or simply ‘The Alliance’? All trade in it will be in bilateral currencies, not in the dollar. The centre has passed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Atlantic is becoming a backwater. This is a New Age.
Meanwhile, on the Western Front
The Eastern Economic Forum showed how most Asian nations are ‘friendly’ or ‘neutral’ towards the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in the Ukraine. They know that the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian State had been seeking peace and protection for those of Russian speech and culture in the Ukraine for eight years. The Operation was imposed on them by the incredible belligerence and arrogance of the West. Recently the US-backed and mercenary-led Kiev Armed Forces launched a counter-offensive to the south and east of the Ukraine towards Kherson and took many casualties for minor success. Kiev has been trying to compensate for that counter-offensive, where they lost two motorised brigades and over 300 tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery, with strikes to the north-west of Kharkov. But here too Kiev has been suffering such heavy losses that they have had to send reserves. The Allied forces have trapped the Kiev Army and its mercenaries in the open. Do not believe the absurd propaganda that Russia is losing.
According to a document signed by the Commander of the Armed Forces of the Ukraine, General Zaluzhny, by the beginning of July 2022, 76,640 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed (ten weeks on, it must be nearly 100,000). With the seriously wounded generally at a ratio of 1 to 1, this means that up to 200,000 Kiev troops may have been put out of action permanently. And that does not include deserters, captured and missing in action, which could make another 50,000. This confirms earlier reports that total Kiev casualties, those permanently out of the fighting, are a horrendous 250,000. In any case Ukrainian hospitals are overflowing, as friends from the Ukraine on Telegram and Whatsapp tell me every day. Indeed, a great many wounded have had to be sent to hospitals in Poland, which are also crowded, at least in Eastern Poland.
On the other hand, in all the Allies appear to have lost about 10,000 killed, most of them from the Donbass militias. This could mean up to 25,000 out of the fight permanently on their side. That is one tenth of Kiev’s casualties. With such huge Kiev losses, many are suggesting that Zelensky and his puppeteers in Washington and London are in fact guilty of war crimes. Nobody in his right mind sends his troops to the slaughter like this. Hitler proved that. Most analysts and observers consider that the conflict could end towards the end of next year or it could be slowed down till early 2024. By then the Allied Armed Forces could have liberated the nine provinces of Eastern Ukraine and demilitarised the nine provinces of Central Ukraine. This would leave the seven provinces of Western Ukraine, the real ‘borderlands’ (the meaning of the word ‘Ukraine’), 20% of the whole, to be returned to other countries, with five provinces going to Poland, one (Chernovtsy) to Romania and one (Zakarpat’e) to Hungary.
The New Ukraine, or whatever it may be called, may well become a Russian Protectorate, as may Belarus after Lukashenko (it already is in effect just that), and also Kazakhstan, which needs Russia, if only for military and economic reasons. We believe that the three collapsing and heavily depopulated Baltic States will also end up the same way, once their American puppet elites have gone. We would expect that Serbia, Serbian Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbian Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia, though remaining fully independent, will also loosely ally themselves with the Russian Federation, if only for energy reasons. And we would say the same of Orthodox Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Cyprus, and perhaps also of Catholic Hungary. Such an alliance in a very loose Confederation is what Stalin failed to do in 1945. In such a context we foresee the collapse of EU tyranny.
Conclusion: The Eurasian Future
Time is running out for the Combined West as a United World Power. It is formed from a parasitical elite and the peoples, zombified, hoodwinked and betrayed by that elite’s lying propaganda (remember that Goebbels too was a Westerner). All its front organisations, the UN, the EU, the G7, the G20, NATO, the WEF, the IMF, the World Bank etc, have failed. Today, the USA is bitterly divided, some would say, it is on the brink of a Civil War. Australia has become China’s mine. Most of the bankrupt EU and UK look like failed states. Japan is also bankrupt. Taiwan is inevitably returning to China. Korea will be reunified.
The only future for Western Europe is in an alliance with its natural partner, Asia, or rather Eurasia, which means Europe eating humble pie and going through Russia and accepting its leadership and respecting its culture. After reintegrating with Asia, from which it had artificially cut itself off in history, and coming out of its arrogant, navel-gazing isolation, Europe will next have to integrate Afro-Eurasia. This is the sense of the three generations of immigration to Western Europe from Asia and Africa. For Europe it is all about reintegrating the world and realising that it is now on an equal footing with it.
What a time to be alive! I remember so very well the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and all that followed in Romania, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union soon after. That was a turning point, 50 years after 1939 such a one as happens every 50 years. However, that was just the first part of a much greater change, that which is happening now. For what we are living through now via the Ukraine is a turning-point that happens once every 500 years. And the death of Queen Elizabeth II is the very symbol of this huge sea-change as we move with hope away from the Western mistakes of the past towards the next 500 years.
14 September 2022
Notes:
1. It is true that if we are to give a date to the English Reformation, then 1533 would be more exact. That was when the Pope of Rome excommunicated Henry VIII, who had made himself ‘Head of the Church’. However, we use the date 1522, because that was when Anne Boleyn arrived at the English court as a maid-in-waiting to the sonless Spanish Queen Catherine of Aragon. That was the start of it all. By 1533 Henry, who had been infatuated with Anne for years, was secretly married to her and she gave birth to a daughter in that same year.
Meanwhile, the London Parliament had passed an Imperial Act, which outlawed appeals to Rome on Church matters and proclaimed that: ‘This realm of England is an Empire (our emphasis), and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same, unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of Spirituality and Temporality, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience’.
2. In Russian tradition, Karl, the German form of the name Charles, is used. The name Karl is taken from Charlemagne, in German, Karl der Grosse, who gave rise to the Slavic word for king (kral, kral’, kráľ, król, korol’).
Something more than the 500 years West was lost with the racism and the greed. That “kill, enslave and rob the whites” of Pope Rodrigo Borgia, sealed the path of white European civilization and the failure of Christianity.
Dear Liborio, thank you for giving us references to Rodrigo Borja’s order ordering people to be killed. Alexander VI could never order innocent people to be put to death because it is radically contrary to the teachings of Christ. Explain how it is possible that after the death of Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borja) the Bull SUBLIMIS DEUS was published, which was a bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on June 2, 1537. In it, the Pope established the right to freedom of the Indians of the Indies, the prohibition of subjecting them to slavery and the advisability of preaching the Christian doctrine among them. Said bull served so that the missionaries could anchor their struggle in defense of the human rights of the indigenous people.
All the countries that have done the worst things over last 2000 years are Christian.
Religion means nothing. Christians have been the most destructive religion in earth. The British spread Christianity so did the Germans and Americans and Spanish.
In my view the pre Christian religions of Europe were better.
Culture is far more relevant in determining behaviour than religion.
Violent societies adopting Christanity remain violent.
Non violent societies adopting Christanity through conversion as in Africa become violent. Old traditions and systems are broken.
Why people in Africa follow Pope’s presiding over mass paedophilia and sexism or the Protestant church headed by the British monarchy is because they were colonised and brainwashed in a psychop to think their religions and cultures are inferior. When actually many of the philosophies and principles were better. But they are brainwashed in thinking they go to hell of they don’t follow the white man’s religion. Complete stupidity that unfortunately continues to this day.
Only the Quakers and Gnostics really created anything positive in my view.
The Russian Orthodox Church is our family one. I like the tradition but more importantly the neutrality of the institution and fac it reflects the culture of Russia as Christanity was adapted.
But I don’t practice Christianity. So i don’t have the feeling others do.
“All the countries that have done the worst things over last 2000 years are Christian.”
just stop for a second and think about this statement — it is bizzarely wrong.
TO: Florian
Instead of just asserting that some statement is, in your words, “bizarrely wrong,” prove to your targeted commenter that it is wrong according to such and such evidence. Show the factual basis for your claim.
no soleii, i dont have to do that. because you are well capable of stopping for a second in order to think about this abolut statement yourself.
were i to give an example, then you might indeed disagree with me. so i would not have proven anything.
were i to give 3 or 4 examples you might still disagree with me on all of them.
but others would agree with me.
and even if for whatever reason you were to disagree with me an each and every example i would give you, others would agree with some of them.
so for most peope the statement that “all the countries that have done the worst things over last 2000 years are christian.” would be wrong. because it is an absolute statement.
and all i wanted to say is: stop and think for yourself about this statement — in its absoluteness it is wrong, isn’t it?
TO: Florian
No
Thank you for your response. I appreciate the opportunity to respond.
First, you are correct that you “don’t have to do” what I suggested; viz., to provide your reasons that support your belief that Truthseeker’s post contained a false or an incorrect statement. One needs to do that only if one wants to learn or to teach something or to engage in productive communication. That is how understanding occurs.
It is the essence of due process under law — to be “heard” based on your reasons and your facts. It is how people learn that they are holding a false or an untenable belief or discover that they are clinging to a belief for the wrong reasons. It is the very essence of intelligence: to be able to examine ones beliefs and opinions (and those by others) so that one arrives at the place where one believes true statements and for the right reasons.
Second, I would not have made my suggestion to you if I had not read a multitude of posts by Truthseeker. He (or she) has a respect for truth and, as is evident in his many posts on this very article, he provides intelligent reasons for many of his claims. He is not, as the expression goes, just blowing wind. He is therefore teachable — unlike some who post here on this blog.
Third, you tell me that, “…even if for whatever reason you were to disagree with me an each and every example i would give you, others would agree with some of them.” Agreement or disagreement is not the point. The point is to ask: Do I (or Truthseeker) have sound reasons for the claim I am asserting? Am I understanding the claim at issue correctly?
Allow me to give an example of the latter. Some months ago I was exchanging posts with someone at this website about a difficult subject (what lies ahead for residents of this country) and part of his response was the suggestion to pray. Another commenter interjected and responded to this suggestion with a vulgar comment, taken from a george carlin performance, wherein he degraded prayer as useless. I responded that said vulgar comment may have been ok in the context used by Carlin but that it was inappropriate in this context. I told him that he did not know what my friend meant by prayer, so he had no basis to denigrade it as useless. I pointed out that some people may engage in t’ai chi as a form of prayer, etc. My point was that one has no basis upon which to judge another in absence of first making sure that one understands what one means by their comment.
This brings me to a fourth point to share with you. Natural language is inherently vague by its very nature. As such, people often misunderstand each other. And this brings me to my 5th and last point.
In your reply to Truthseeker, you stated only the command that he should think about what he said but you gave neither guidance nor clarification. But in your post to me you gave more information: you argued that universal statements (absolute ones) are wrong “in its absoluteness.”
You are correct that universal statements, where one quantifies over an entire class or category, are typically false and subject to refutation by counterexample. But again, ordinary language is inherently vague, inherently imprecise.
You can correctly state to Truthseeker that his proposition, “All [of] the countries that have done the worst things over last 2000 years are Christian” is surely false because he may not have examined all countries. There could be a counterexample that would undermine his claim logically — just as the claim, All swans are white, is undermined by the occasion of one black swan.
But because natural language is inherently vague or imprecise, Truthseeker would have a valid response to your point: namely, “What I meant by ‘all’ was all of the ones I have studied and they were numerous.”
So, to judge or to first understand, in one we can choose to be slower.
“All the countries that have done the worst things over last 2000 years are Christian. ”
Perhaps, but not because they were Christian, but because they were Human and because they could!
“Kill them all. God will know his own.”
“In my view the pre Christian religions of Europe were better.”
All slave states, read history of Rome, or Athens, or Attila the Hun, or Genghis Khan.
of course since Enlightenment era when humanist are in charge we had guillotine, Gulag, concentration camps
“since Enlightenment era when humanist are in charge we had guillotine, Gulag, concentration camps . .”
Funny you mention those three, as they were all ‘humane’ improvements on what went before. The guillotine stopped clumsy swordsmen hacking away at you with a blunt sword, and concentrations camps was the civilised response to just slaughtering the civilians or running them out their farms to starve. Maybe not the Gulag though, I believe slave labour wasn’t unknown in ancient times.
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 2 (Summer 2019) full issue.
The Cost of Enlightenment by Daniel Ajamian
As Hans Hoppe (2018) offers, “According to the proponents of this theory,” of which he mentions Francis Fukuyama and Steven Pinker, “what makes the present age so great and qualifies it as the best of all times is the combination of two factors.” Hoppe offers first, the highest levels of technology and natural science in human history—to which he raises no objection; and second, the highest level of human freedom—which Hoppe considers “a historical myth.”
N. T. Wright offers: “Any movement that gave us… the guillotine as one of its first fruits and the Gulag as one of its finest cannot simply be affirmed as it stands.” (Wright 2008)
The “bads” of the Enlightenment are not so readily admitted by its proponents: communism, eugenics, racial purity, selective breeding, National Socialism, Fabianism, Progressivism, fascism, egalitarianism, modern democracy, freedom from all intermediating governance institutions, the ineffective separation of church and state, the American Revolution, the French Revolution.
Regarding the two revolutions: The America that came out of the Revolution is described by Ralph Raico as “…the model liberal nation, and, after England, the exemplar of liberalism to the world.” This “exemplar of liberalism” didn’t survive four-score-and-seven years, ending in 1861—and if you prefer to make a case for 1846 or even 1812, you will get no argument from me. Whatever one believes regarding liberalism, staying power certainly cannot be considered a meaningful characteristic.
https://mises.org/library/cost-enlightenment-0
Christianity largely survives because Peter (and Paul) requested no direct confrontation with the Roman (or, now,, “Civil”) authorities. This may have been largely due to the theory that Christ was going to return within weeks or months.
To refute the above attempts at absolutism about the evils of Christianity (or any other religion) simply pause, and ask oneself what the world would be like if the average Christian (or any religionist) actually lived even a bit closer to the tenants of their belief structure.
Racism started from around 1830-1850
In the 19th century, many scientists subscribed to the belief that the human population can be divided into races.
Religion discriminate by faith –not by race.
Laurence M. Vance:
Discrimination is not a dirty word. Discrimination is not necessarily something bad. Discrimination is not something inherently evil. To discriminate is simply to distinguish, differentiate, or make a distinction. Discrimination involves choosing between or among options. We used to say that a man had discriminating taste.
To discriminate against someone is not an act of aggression against him.
To outlaw discrimination is to outlaw freedom of thought and freedom of association.
While this view by the author has some merit if the “west” re-organizes into a better state of affairs then it can deal and trade amicably with the Eurasia block.
The EU needs to have dual approach. Trade in a balanced way with US and Eurasia
The number one requirement is though all corrupt politicians and entities in the US EU & UK need to be cleaned out as soon as possible. Those wanting conflict.
To Santiago
RE: “this view by the author has some merit [only] if the “west” re-organizes into a better state of affairs then it can deal and trade amicably.”
Will a mosquito ever decide to behave like a fly?
Can a sociopath ever wake up one morning and decide to act like a compassionate moral being?
Saint Paul [of Tarsus] was a relentless murderer of Christians. On the way to Damascus, he fell off his horse and was converted.
He died Saint and Martyr.
As you can see, God can do everything, and he usually chooses the worst for his work.
China’s top weapons scientist says nuclear fusion power is 6 years away
Peng Xianjue unveils plans for combined fusion-fission reactor that could make China world’s first to achieve the elusive viable energy source
No country has so far managed to build a facility that generates more power than it uses in the fission process
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3192435/chinas-top-weapons-scientist-says-nuclear-fusion-power-6-years?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage
Whether ignition can be achieved, one thing is certain, the facility will be a “mega lab” for cutting edge research on everything from Big Bang physics to new weapons.
Great article spanning 500 years short, not easy!
Europe will have to accept that it’s on an equal footing with . . . . how come? Europe’s bankrupt and has minor energy & mineral/mining assets? After being at America’s beck and call (poodle) since the Federal Reserve Bank named it the EU, with a common currency, the Euro, and a proxy in Brussels to launder its pickings.
The EU will be a long way down the queue in terms of economic activity as its money laundering operation has been severely curtailed. City of London I expect, will take an 70% haircut.
Hal Turner
ARMENIA INVOKES ARTICLE 4 (COLLECTIVE SELF DEFENSE) OF CTSO TREATY – THE WORLD NOW HAS SECOND WAR FRONT
Wednesday morning, the country of Armenia invoked Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) which calls for all member countries to come to the military defense of Armenia as neighboring Azerbaijan commences military attacks against Armenia. The world now has a SECOND war front, after the ongoing Ukraine front.
If one of the Member States suffers aggression (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty), it will be considered by the Member States as aggression (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty) against all the Member States of this Treaty. Article 4 of the CTSO is akin to Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.
In case of aggression commission (armed attack menacing to safety, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty) to any of the Member States, all the other Member States at request of this Member State shall immediately provide the latter with the necessary help, including military, as well as provide support by the means at their disposal in accordance with the right to collective defense pursuant to article 51 of the UN Charter.
The Member States shall immediately inform the United Nations Security Council on the measures taken on the basis of this article. When implementing these measures, the Member States shall adhere to the relevant provisions of the UN Charter.
(the article is as amended by the Protocol on amendments to the Collective Security Treaty of May 15, 1992, signed on December 10, 2010)
Azerbaijan commenced artillery shelling and mortar fire into Armenia about 48 hours ago. Several hundred Armenian troops and Border Security force are already dead.
Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan stated the Armenian side has 105 killed in action with hundred more injured including civilians.
GEORGIA REFERENDUM ON WAR WITH RUSSIA!
Adding to the troubles, the country of Georgia is holding an actual public referendum on whether or not Georgia should re-open its war with Russia!
The leadership of Georgia can organize a nationwide referendum and ask the question: do the Georgians want a war with Russia.
Giorgi Kobakhidze, chairman of the party, made such a statement at a briefing in the office of the ruling Georgian Dream party.
“Let the people say whether they want to open a second front in Georgia against Russia,” Mr. Kobakhidze emphasized.
He promised that the authorities “will act as the people say.”
(HT NOTE: At the time they spoke about this, the situation in Armenia did not yet exist, so Georgia was speaking as if THEIR country would become a “second” front. Now, with the situation in Armenia, if the people of Georgia vote to open a new war with Russia, that will be a THIRD war front!)
The politician expressed hope that the Georgian people “will bring clarity, whether he agrees with the statements of Ukrainian politicians about the need to involve Georgia in the war or with the position of the authorities of his country.”
This is how Irakli Kobakhidze responded to the statement of Fyodor Venislavsky, representative of the President of Ukraine in the Parliament, who advised Georgia “to take concrete steps to liberate Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”
Earlier, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, as well as advisers to the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak and Oleksiy Arestovich, publicly addressed Tbilisi with similar advice.
“They all directly said that the opening of the second front in Georgia is highly desirable,” the head of the Georgian Dream recalled at the same briefing.
Hal Turner Analysis and Editorial Opinion
All of this is the underhanded work of the collective West: in particular, the European Union and the United States/NATO. Turkey backs Azerbaijan. So does Israel. Turkey is a NATO member. Israel being a welfare client of the United States, has to do what the US tells it or they lose their $3 Billion+ a year in free U.S. money and their little country, that can’t even sustain itself, fails. So The trouble with Azerbaijan and Armenia is a direct result of Turkey and Israel doing what NATO and the USA instruct them to do.
Through Turkey and Israel, Azerbaijan got told to re-commence war attacks against Armenia BECAUSE Russia backs Armenia. The US and EU __want__ to bog Russia down in multiple wars. As such, what is now taking place is all deliberate. It is all the deliberate exacerbation of old grievances, into war.
Step by step, the US and EU are deliberately inciting, fomenting, and facilitating what will very soon become World War 3.
I have a suggestion: Maybe some of the people who are doing these things, should become victims of their own war? They know who they are . . . and so do we. Maybe it could be like Seth Rich; they become a mugging victim that no one investigates?
The theater is about to be set on fire, turn off the tv and cover your ears, there is going to be a bumpy sound wave.
Georgian guy now says it was all sarcasm.
Não tenho nada contra a velha rainha pessoalmente mas, contra o que ela, como um “selo” de carta, representou – como moeda também.
Um Estado terrível que achacou e matou muita gente, isso basta.
Uma boa semente gera bons frutos, não é bem o que assistimos dessa prole.
Semana passada, um comentário num site russo, li isso:
– A velha morreu de desgosto quando viu quanto custaria para pagar as contas de aquecimento dos seus palácios… Resolveu se aquecer no inferno…
Infelizmente não concordo muito com toda essa pujança da Ásia, estou vendo aqui no Brasil os chineses despejarem seus dólares comprando ativos, isso não vai acabar bem…
A tendência nos próximos 40 anos será reestatizar a economia de base e algumas outras coisas destruídas pelo Neoliberalismo, me ouçam!
Um novo mundo está pela frente, sim!
Mas, essa ganância em se livrar dos dólares dos chineses comprando ativos em outros países entrará em conflito com as gerações futuras.
Tradução Google:
I have nothing against the old queen personally, but against what she, as a letter “seal”, represented – as currency too.
A terrible state that has slaughtered and killed many people, that’s enough.
A good seed generates good fruit, this is not exactly what we see from these offspring.
Last week, a comment on a Russian site, I read this:
-The old woman died of grief when she saw how much it would cost to pay the heating bills for her palaces… she decided to warm up in hell…
Unfortunately, I don’t really agree with all this strength in Asia, I’m seeing here in Brazil the Chinese pour their dollars buying assets, this is not going to end well…
The trend in the next 40 years will be to renationalise the basic economy and some other things destroyed by Neoliberalism, listen to me!
A new world is ahead, yes!
But, this greed to get rid of Chinese dollars by buying assets in other countries will conflict with future generations.
To Tec
RE: “…this greed to get rid of Chinese dollars by buying assets in other countries will conflict with future generations.”
I believe that the important point you are making here is better conveyed by stating it in the following manner:
This decision by the Chinese to deplete their stock of US dollars (before the USD crashes and loses all value) by using them to purchase hard assets (like land & real estate or businesses) in other countries will have profound consequences for future generations of the indigenous populations.
Soleii:
Sim!
Foi exatamente o que quis dizer!
Tirei essa observação empírica de duas fontes próximas.
Uma, a viagem que fiz com minha patroa para Santos-SP (Estado de São Paulo-BR) onde vi muitos chineses donos de estabelecimentos onde antes haviam portugueses e naturais brasileiros – a oito anos não viajava na área, me surpreendi!
A outra observação foi feita por um colega meu que é chefe da segurança de uma grande rede de supermercados aqui em Goiás-BR.
Desde que os chineses compraram uma mineradora em Catalão-GO-(BR) de Nióbio, os seguranças do Supermercado não tem sossego muitos furtos.
Os parentes desses chineses estão adquirindo todos os comércios que podem comprar na cidade (que está numa região estratégica entre Brasília e Uberlândia – veja no mapa.
Residi nessa cidade por seis anos, conheci ingleses que eram geólogos que trabalhavam nessa mineração, lecionei para os filhos de alguns deles numa escola particular.
Hoje moro em outra cidade do mesmo Estado, essa informação do amigo sinceramente, surpreendeu.
Depois disso, é só ligar os pontos.
Minha formação de Geógrafo é das antigas, do tempo que observações empíricas eram levadas em conta.
Hoje em dia, na minha área, só levam em consideração os números.
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Soleii:
Yea!
That’s exactly what I meant!
I took this empirical observation from two nearby sources.
One, the trip I took with my boss to Santos-SP (State of São Paulo-BR) where I saw many Chinese owners of establishments where there were Portuguese and Brazilian natives before – I hadn’t traveled in the area for eight years, I was surprised!
The other observation was made by a colleague of mine who is head of security for a large supermarket chain here in Goiás-BR.
Since the Chinese bought a mining company in Catalão-GO-(BR) de Nióbio, the Supermarket’s security guards haven’t had peace of mind with many thefts.
The relatives of these Chinese are acquiring all the businesses they can buy in the city (which is in a strategic region between Brasília and Uberlândia – see the map.
I lived in this city for six years, I met Englishmen who were geologists who worked in this mining, I taught the children of some of them in a private school.
Today I live in another city in the same state, this information from the friend honestly surprised me.
After that, just connect the dots.
My training as a Geographer is from the old days, from the time when empirical observations were taken into account.
Nowadays, in my area, they only take into account the numbers.
A nation is not sovereign if its sells its land to foreigners or allows foreigners to settle on its lands. Any country with its borders open to foreign human resources and foreign capital can’t exist as a sovereign nation as its people will have no cohesion. The whole purpose of Globalization is to destroy sovereign nations and peoples so that the New World Order with its One World Government can arise. China is the biggest beneficiary of Globalization.
In ancient Greece even the great Aristotle could not own land in Athens nor vote in the assembly because he was not Athenian. The ancients had more brains than people these days.
The concept of property exists only if people respond to it and respect it.
How are people in China, 12,000 miles away to enforce their property rights in Europe and the Americas, if the people geographically proximate to the property in question decide those rights are null?
To Alex
RE: “How are people in China, 12,000 miles away to enforce their property rights in Europe and the Americas, if the people geographically proximate to the property in question decide those rights are null?”
The indigenous people, it would seem, would have no rights here provided that everything was in order legally. The only people to question property rights are the ones in power. Note that BillGates has purchased large swathes of farmland all over the world (and recently in Turkey/Turkiye). And Monsanto has done the same in Ukraine.
US dollars cannot be spent in China, so what else are they supposed to do with the $1 trillion in US Treasury Bills they still own, down from $2.3 trillion a couple of years ago.
Sim Capricórnio e, não vejo ninguém falando sobre isso, nem aqui nem em lugar nenhum!
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Yes Capricorn and, I don’t see anyone talking about it, not here or anywhere!
“But, this greed to get rid of Chinese dollars by buying assets in other countries will conflict with future generations.”
I agree! How else could it evolve but in Chinese economic domination and comprehensively exploitative financial scamming?
The 500 year Shift would be fundamental only with popular revolution from the ground up eliminating class society/at least elitist/minority governing of society, social governance TAKEN over by the people and run in their interest, by the governing structures they create on the ideological bases generated by their interest varied by cultural differences globally which were structured by their natural conditions from the start
That is what I mean when I emphasize the taking over aspect for that is where the ideological aspect comes in that makes the fundamental difference, the basic social change because these ideologies the people generate in taking over, creating the new ways they, underpinning these new ways wipe away lying, corrupting, mentally sabotaging controlling elitist ideologies that dominate up to currently
Western capitalism is obsolete, old and in decline being replaced by Asian elitism which represents a more youthful energetic capitalism which will soon resemble western capitalism. The rise in living standards could represent a rise in popular capacity to act collectively in revolutionary ways and that may mean the real future hope…
I am not optimistic about Chinese capitalist investments globally, regardless of the nature of those investments…like in practical transportation systems that uses trains instead of individual cars etc. The investments are still to generate a profit that will lead to more investments more profits and the same capitalist difficulties which ultimately will require the same resolutions we now face
“Nobody in his right mind sends his troops to the slaughter like this. Hitler proved that”
Both performing the same service for the same masters?
We’ve got plenty of people here who would sign up to fight the Russians, no war crime, just plane insanity.
To LittleBlackDuck: Exactamundo!
“The only future for Western Europe is in an alliance with its natural partner, Asia, or rather Eurasia, which means Europe eating humble pie and going through Russia and accepting its leadership and respecting its culture.”
Before this happens, the USA will destroy he EU, or, a least, its most industrialized nations: Germany, France, Italy. And I mean by any means possible.
The myth is the West has done this in the name of progress but really its for profit, Empire and global domination. (Yugoslavia 1st) The Media uses God, Country and King to justify this regime change In the West merely controlling the mainstream media is enough to define what is true, not true, what happened and didn’t happen? The West writes the history Conformity is society’s most powerful control mechanism. Those who don’t go along to get along can pay a very heavy price. Just ask Malcolm X, JFK, RFK, MLK and many other like Allende, Mandela, Milosevic, Hussein, Kaddafi and so on
The US will destroy Europe, at least its most industrialized regions with the help of the German Green Party, i.e, Habeck and Bärbock; both of them were trained to be young global leaders by the US.
https://www.anti-spiegel.ru/2022/das-originaldokument-ueber-die-zerstoerung-der-deutschen-wirtschaft-durch-die-gruenen/
Thank you Batiushka
Future NWO will be build on German-Prussia and it’s peculiar drive to dominance. We the Poles decoded it like enigma. You guys seem don’t know the ideology of WWI, WWII, German-Prussian philosophers and their ideologies. It won’t be easy for Russia to deal with it. Acle Joe Stalin was very surprised on June 22 1941 and you might be as well. “Accepting Russians leadership and respecting it’s culture “- you’ve got to be kidding. You seem to be confident of your many agents placed in western Europe and German-Prussia and I say to you you shouldn’t it’s a trap like in 1941. Thanks to angle Joe Stalin he declared great home land’s war and general Frost on his site. To declare Euro-Asia from Lisbon to Wladywostock you should have had nuked German-Prussia first otherwise you would be eaten up piece by piece like Leviathan does.
Asia is so far ahead of “The West” technologically it is not even funny. A but one minor example in Asia holographic projections:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4N0Ewb_OVsU
are used for entertainment and advertising. Obviously it has other uses for good or ill, but by comparison the English speaking world is in the stone age.
All those centuries of trying to save a King or a Queen, and not one of them survived to date.
What happens when the citizens start out living the Kings and Queens and don’t need no god to save them, they’ll save themselves and some.
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood
Who you gonna call?
DAMBUSTERS
If there’s something weird
And it don’t look good
Who you gonna call?
DAMBUSTERS
I ain’t afraid of those Dams.
I wonder if!!!! Ze rowed the boat ashore, in time, hallelujah.
“All trade in it will be in bilateral currencies, not in the dollar.”
All trade already is in bilateral currencies. When a Norwegian fish farm ships salmon to a grocery chain in Turkey, the price is negotiated based on the Eurodollar. This is not because either countries’ domestic currencies are “worthless”; it is because the “dollar” is the mechanism by which the fish farm and the grocery store each avoid the credit risk of not being paid or not receiving the shipment.
There are always two economies everywhere: (1) the one within a set of borders where people can be confident that they can use “the law” or their nephew the enforcer to make sure that the deal gets done AND (2) the one where the “law” and the nephew are of no use. Banks – both private and central – only exist because there is no other way for people to participate in economy #2.
I defer to the rest of you about all questions about the future; I have no confidence that I can predict what prices will be tomorrow. But, I think your predictions might be helped by understanding that the United States’ currency is the unit of account for world trade not because of the Marine Corps or the manipulations of the deep state but because the U.S. Treasury’s IOUs are – for now – the one kind of financial collateral that banks are willing to accept in making deals with one another. Russia is going to be a wonderfully wealthy country in the future not because the ruble will “replace” the dollar but because there will be more and more bilateral trade between Russia and other countries. It will not matter if the collateral for those transactions continues to be U.S. Treasury bills. It does not matter that the actual bilateral trade going on between Russian and India and China right now is using T-bills for collateral. The United States continued to use the Spanish milled dollar as the unit of account for trade with Caribbean and India and China for half a century after the end of the American revolution. That did not give Spain any “power” over the U.S. The use of T-bills now does not give Congress or the President or the CIA any “power”. They have no more control over where the collateral is used than Spain had over its silver once it left the mint.
“the United States’ currency is the unit of account for world trade not because of the Marine Corps or the manipulations of the deep state but because the U.S. Treasury’s IOUs are – for now – the one kind of financial collateral that banks are willing to accept in making deals with one another”
So the Dollar is the unit of account because it is a financial collateral that banks are willing to accept. That’s sort of circular though, since it is accepted as collateral precisely because it is the unit of account for world trade. It is also ahistorical. The reason why the Dollar is the reserve currency of the world – still – is because of the international agreements made at Breton Woods in 1944. Though Nixon tore up the Bretton Woods agreement in 1973, the US Dollar remained as reserve currency of the world and the international trading currency, giving enormous and unprecedented advantages to the US economically and politically.
Once the Dollar is just one out of many currencies with no special status, all those advantages will disappear.
This situation reminds me of that old classic Jimmy Cliff song (I recommend the 3.50 min recording/version on you tube), If I wasn’t 7/10ths computer illiterate I’d provide a link!
‘Many Rivers To Cross’
Many rivers to cross
But I can’t seem to find my way over . . . .
“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.” Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The Menace of the Herd by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
The nationalistic “patriots” were necessarily anti monarchical, because monarchy in Europe is a basically international institution. The wrath of the nationalists in the French Revolution was mainly directed against the foreign-born queen, and her trial, a worthy forerunner of the staged trials of the Bolsheviks, goes down as one of the greatest villainies of all times. It is characteristic that it is practically always the queen or empress who has to bear the whole brunt of revolutionary hatred. This is largely due to the strict marriage laws of most continental dynasties which force the princes to marry into foreign ruling families. The alien origin of the ruler’s wife acts upon the nationalistic herdist like a red fabric on a bull. We see the same attitude of the masses toward the last empress of Russia, toward Empress Zita of Austria, Marie Antoinette, Queen Elena of Spain, Queen Henrietta Maria, and others.
The masses were little aware of the fact that rulers almost had to be “foreigners” in order to rule wisely and objectively. Apart from the fact that intranational marriages of rulers prevented the total war, their inner detachment from the nation for which they had to care, served as a real advantage.
Yes, George V was his cousin, but then again, so was Kaiser Wilhelm, and we all know how that went! Just because you are kin doesn’t mean as much to allot of people obviously as it does to you. I once was friends with a retired estate attorney, and the stories he used to tell me made my blood run cold. For allot of people, that “family thing” goes right out the window once large sums of money are involved. People who thought they were in a will or trust, and set for life, find out one day they aren’t {or at least as much as they were told they were} and that someone close to them is instead. The legal battles go on for years, and the family members never speak to one another ever again. No one is immune to this, from King to pauper.
This realm of England is an Empire (our emphasis), and so hath been accepted in the world, governed by one Supreme Head and King having the dignity and royal estate of the Imperial Crown of the same, unto whom a body politic compact of all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of Spirituality and Temporality, be bounden and owe to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience’.
“By 1850, the House of Rothschild represented more wealth than all the royal families of Europe and Britain combined.”
Any wonder or know why home base England and further with such power you have to wonder don’t you if the patriarch ever thought to himself if his face shouldn’t be the one adorning the money of Europe? Or actually given the Federal Reserve the entire world? And on the flip side their world courthouse in Jerusalem for the settling of the worlds legal problems? Talk about a one world government and O the frustration and anger in seeing it not fulfilled must be terribly infuriating!?
Imagine something like this that at the end of WW2 you had academics, politicians and bankers conspiring together to build a one world government? How exactly did they even begin to envision such a thing? By empowering communism to begin with. They really hoped it would take over the world.
Adlai Stevenson in a speech to the United Nations Correspondents Association August 1970 said:
Interpret us… as puzzled, yet aspiring men, struggling on the possible brink of Armageddon.”
Alas no but I bet their hopes now hinge on a social credit system and score as developed by way of technology. QR Code everything and then ration. Indeed imagine if this technology was available to the likes of Stalin and or especially Lenin the look of glee and happiness on their faces would be telling.
If any invention in all of mankind has done more to damage a society, it has been “The Pill”. For the first time in recorded history families went from having many children to just a couple. Now it is even worse. I’m speaking of developed countries here. Russia’s biggest problem isn’t the west but one of it’s own making: A steadily declining birth rate, one of the worst in the world. Today’s friends are tomorrows invaders. Hopefully recent efforts by the Russian government will stem this decline, but no government can force a couple to have many children. Only a strong spirituality and nationalism can do that.
I totally agree with you, that is Russia’s biggest issue. But let me add that along with “spirituality and nationalism” (or patriotism) is the need for young people to have faith that their future will be better. An economy that gives people faith in their future lends to a predilection to bring children into that future. If Russia can solve the population issue,she will have a great future ahead.
I think the over all concern in Russia is longevity and quality of life.
If one can take care of themselves and their products longer, lets say much longer, fewer people are needed to take care of the disabled and aging (b/c there are fewer of them), and fewer people are needed to make all the products b/c they last so much longer.
This might be a new concept in the west, although the dream still privately exists here, but once it dies (the private side of the Federal Reserve), God does not try to save the Fed like the inspiration of a king or queen gets overseas.
@ TheObsoleteMan
And still they need abortion!!!!!!!!!!!
Further womans suffrage got the bankers more tax dollars for their war machine!!!!!!!
Why blame the pill?
What about condoms or you think STDs everywhere are ok?
Culture has changed. People don’t get married to one woman or man with no previous.
It would be disasterous if producing children could not be controlled by women.
It kills women in childbirth if they can’t stop having kids.
Far better to understand why couples dont have children. Yes both are involved!
First small apartment cost a lot.
Second kids are expensive.
Third both work to survive.
Fourth grandparents may work or be elsewhere so no easy childcare options.
It is a silly cop out in my view to blame women.
I may be part Russian and rarely there but even I know from my grandmother the drinking habits of Russian men. It is the women who are left caring for drunk men and children in many areas.
Let’s also get the men everywhere to step up. Show women you can provide, behave well and be responsible and they will feel secure to have kids.
To Truthseeker: Great post. Good job. Well done. Thank you.
To ObsoleteMan
To attribute the causation of fewer children to choice alone may not provide the full picture. Fertility rates are down. This is about capability. This has nothing to do with a woman’s choice or a family’s economic situation or “the pill.” Fertility is affected by biological factors and the eating of gmo foods certainly plays a role, as does the drinking of water that has all kinds of trace chemicals and medications in it.
In its general lines the configuration of the future ‘Russia friendly’ confederation was predicted in a largely forgotten (and misread and misinterpreted when remembered) book by the naturalist, economist, ethnologist, philosopher, historian, Nikolay Danilevsky ”Russia and Europe. A look at the cultural and political relations of the Slavic world to the German-Roman (Россия и Европа. Взгляд на культурные и политические отношения Славянского мира к Германо-Романскому)” published in 1869.
We must remember also the ‘Greek Project’ of Catherine the Great and Potemkin.
“it is the other leaders of the Western world, relics of the 20th century, who are dying out too. ”
This is something that seems to go unnoticed most of the time in the West, maybe just because we’ve become so used to shriveled-up old prunes being in important positions. The average age of Senators in the US is 64, the average age of congresscritters is 59, with 13 over 80 and 7 over 85, and the next presidential election is shaping up to be a battle of men hurtling towards ninety!
And that’s just government. There are plenty of places high up in which this scelrotic old farts are firmly entrenched and refuse to leave until Death forces them out. No wonder it seems like Cold War fantasies are once again being acted out by the fools “in power”.
“This is the final, final end of the Protestant Empire of Great Britain (1522-2022) (1), whose collapse began exactly three generations ago in 1947 in India. … It is true that if we are to give a date to the English Reformation, then 1533 would be more exact.”
Nice article. With grand, sweeping date-lines it is inevitable there will be some quibbles. Here’s one — collapse of the Empire started in 1922 after Ireland fought its way out of it. But I prefer 1915, when Churchill’s cannon-fodder were slaughtered by Turkey at Gallipoli, leading eventually to Turkey’s defeat of Britain (or its Greek proxy) in 1923.
Er, I think Henry Hewitt – aka ‘prince Harry’ – is actually Diana Spencer’s love-child with James Hewitt, after she was finally estranged from Charles Windsor. William Windsor is pretty certainly Charles’ son; Henry not. The internet is full of comparative pictures of Charles and William together, contrasted with James and Henry together. The truth couldn’t be much more obvious.
I think that all the Windsors know this perfectly well, as do the professional manipulators of the English-raj class who run the Non-Stop Windsorbollocks Circus, as the propaganda machine that it is.
I think that they tried to get rid of Henry, as a young hero prince, dying in the defence of justice, democracy, apple pie, etc., in Afghanistan. But he survived. The circus managers are now trying to disappear the Hewitts as minor actors in the tinseltown idiocies of the US sleb-scene. Trouble is, both Hewitts, husband and wife, can’t seem to button lips and stay diplomatically out of sight, the way Edward Windsor and his sister Anne Laurence (nee Windsor) do.
Eventually, I suspect, something unfortunate may happen to one or both of the young Hewitts. Or maybe they’ll learn in time to keep it buttoned. Compared to the truly wretched of the Earth, they’re being well paid off, after all.
To Rhisiart: A very interesting post. Thank you for this contribution.
Is it true that Henry Hewitt first met Diana about two years after the birth of Harry?
Oops, sorry, I meant James Hewitt.
Quite an encouraging prospect. Doubt I’ll live to see it all happen, though.
The events Batuishka describe are almost inevitable except for one possibility:
the USA, refusing to accept the end of their empire, launches first nuclear strikes against Russia and China. This will cause human extinction because after 99% of humanity die following the nuclear winter, the rest will also disappear, because the loss of the ozone layer will cause cancers and infertility.
There actually are psychos in the USA who believe they can “win” a nuclear war and who contemplate first strikes (both Russia and China have pledged never to launch first strikes). They are called Neocons.
So how can we prevent nuclear extinction? Isn’t the answer obvious?
Is this point in history, bait prepared for world elites, or chess player itself swallowed this bait?
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/bombshell-classified-rand-corporation
For me, the cosmic significance of Elizabeth’s death as a marker for the end of the Anglo Empire is cemented by the fact that her passing fell on the 100th birthday of Lyndon LaRouche, who famously identified the Windsor dynasty as the world’s #1 crime family, and whose “Eurasian Landbridge” project inspired the BRI.
I would not place any hope in Iran’s future role. Iran has been castrated by Russia and China when they agreed to Chapter 7 UN resolution and sanctions on Iran. Iran was forced out of desperation to fall into the JCPOA trap in which it has been checkmated and will remain disable d until the US and/or Israel collapse (I would not hold my breath given Russian weakness and Chinese passivity).Just as the US will suffer the consequences of weakening its allies in EU, Russia will suffer the consequences for having disabled Iran (effectively wheelchair bound economically and politically). China and Russia wanted to please their Western masters by punishing Iran in Ahmadinejad era, and now they will get a taste of their own medicine. I cannot sympathize with either Russia or China since they are backstabbers, they deserve to be crushed by Empire. Iran has no future because of past and present mistakes. Whether US collapses or Russia collapses they will both deserve it.
I’m afraid that this article is hopelessly optimistic. The West is far ahead of it’s rivals in so many different ways that it’s hard to know where to begin. The US, UK, EU and Japan account for *half* of the World’s GDP yet only 13% of it’s population. London and New York are the uncontested financial capitals of the World, with no other city coming close, and there are trillions of dollars stashed away in UK tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. The World’s biggest investment funds, Vanguard, State Street and BlackRock, with combined assets of $22 trillion, are all based in the USA. The Anglo-Zionists also control 99% of the World’s central banks, the only exceptions being Iran and North Korea; even the Chinese central bank is a member of the all-powerful Bank of International Settlements. Furthermore, the US military is by far and away the World’s most powerful, with 700 bases scattered around the World, significant fleets of stealth fighters and bombers, the World’s most advanced nuclear submarines and, of course, ten gigantic aircraft carriers that patrol the World’s various oceans. And US government bonds are still seen as the ultimate “safe haven” investment by all of the World’s central banks, who thereby finance the war machine that keeps their respective nations under the US American jackboot.
Then there is the West’s “soft power”, the power to hypnotise the masses of the World with Hollywood, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, jeans and t-shirts and mindless pop music. From Manila to Mexico City and from Cape Town to Cairo, everyone yearns for that magical US American “middle-class lifestyle” of the MacMansion with a two-car garage, a TV in every room, a carefully-tended lawn and a white picket-fence. In the Chiapas region of Mexico, mothers will give Coca-Cola to their infants because they believe that it’s the “modern” thing to do, and the wealthier the country, the more likely it’s people will adopt the junk food that so characterises US culture.
As for standards of living, the average US American worker earns about $65,000 a year; the average Chinese worker has to make do with one-tenth of that figure – if he’s lucky. This whole “decline of the West” meme is getting irritating because it is based on reassuring delusions rather than hard facts. Come back to me when the Chinese land a rover the size of a small car on Mars and fly a helicopter over the planet’s surface, then I’ll reconsider my opinion.
Yes, indeed, what exactly are the facts on which the author’s “optimism” is based? On MSM propaganda? But these are not facts.
In addition, it seems that the author is a supporter of realism with its state-centrism. When States are considered actors, as “political organisms”.
But isn’t there a logical error in this reification of abstractions imposed by those in power through propaganda with its ideologems?
All these “West”, “East”, “Russia”, “USA”, “Ukraine”, “government”, “state” are speculative abstractions, behind which there are concrete and real people.
It’s easiest to juggle abstractions. Here “Russia”, there “USA”, here “China”. The “USA” is about to fall apart. No need to strain your brain, as if you had to think concretely.
The philosopher Hegel even has an article “Who thinks abstractly?” (“Wer denkt abstrakt?”), where he writes: “An uneducated person, not an enlightened one at all. In a decent society, they do not think abstractly because it is too simple, too ignoble (ignoble not in the sense of belonging to the lower class), and not at all out of a vain desire to turn up their noses in front of what they themselves do not know how to do, but because of the inner emptiness of this occupation.”
The modern philosopher of Frankfurt has a small treatise “On Bullshit” on the same topic.
@repsinec is a purveyor of AngloEuroZionist Koolaid garbage whose every point made is easily rebutted. All those US financial and military illusory “advantages” will vanish when the US petrodollar is knocked off its International reserve currency perch by the BRICS+ countries. Nobody trusts US treasury bonds / security deposits as a “safe” haven any more, dumbass. US so-called superior military is bloated with over-priced faulty weaponry and corrupt generals, only brave enough to use foreign terrorist proxies to fight (and lose) for them. Their expensive aircraft carriers are easily sunk by cheap hypersonic missiles. In direct fights, US lost against Vietnamese peasants and Afghan goatherders. US no longer has access to cheap energy and has pissed off every country that has remaining high EROI energy, which alone guarantees the collapse of the AngloEuroZionist bloc, as you will soon see with the impending collapse of the German economy. In any case, just a matter of time before USA descends into civil war.
Only concern is whether, before US collapses due to its own internal rot, they decide to launch their nukes.
I beg to differ, respectfully:
First of all, ad hominems will not win you an argument.
If the BRICS+ are so serious about unseating the dollar, then why is the Yuan tied to the latter at a fixed exchange rate? Why also is China the second-biggest foreign holder of US government bonds, with almost a trillion dollars’ worth? Finally, the dollar has been doing *very* well recently, gaining significantly against the euro, the pound and the yen, how come if it’s supposed to be “on the way down”?
Concerning the “lousy” performance of US military assets, I assume you’re talking about the F-35, but if you cannot spot one on a radar (and you can’t, it’s got the radar cross-section of a golf-ball), then it can take you out in no time, regardless of how fast or agile your 4.5-generation aircraft is (and the Su-57, with it’s sub-standard engines, is no 5th-generation aircraft).
As for cheap energy, the US happens to be the World’s biggest oil producer with plenty of legacy fields still yielding millions of barrels of that light sweet crude, as well as being a major exporter of LNG, especially now to it’s European vassals.
I am not saying that any of this is actually good news – on the contrary, it despairs me – but facts are facts, end of.
To use your own words, Western GDP is a “reassuring delusion”, built, as it is, on financial derivatives, rehypothecations and other financial chicanery. Remembering that the ‘P’ in GDP stands for Product, under what circumstances can these contrivances be considered an actual product?
In Britain, much is made of the domestic housing and commercial property markets in GDP, yet there is no new product, just transactions involving an already existing product. Similarly with the secondhand vehicle market, the product already exists. At best, GDP should be renamed as Gross Domestic Turnover, or less charitably, Gross Domestic Rate of Churn.
Anyone using national or regional GDP as a comparison of strength is already lost.
For all those who assert the worst things in history to Christianity, let’s get some perspective. There are several factors…. beginning with this question: Are We Governed by Humans? – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2020/11/are-we-governed-by-humans.html?m=0 – and that reference is just the starting point for our research.
Then there is the question: Do you mean Christianity or Churchianity? You can research that question in the same archive library as the above query.
Just to give you hint where this is going, in order for DaMasterDeceiver (Satan) to rule over humanity, his first order of business is to infiltrate and corrupt the church……the rest is easy peasy.
Worldwide that is basically mission accomplished, except for a few outposts here and there – notably Catholic Abp Vigano, the Russian Orthodox church and a collection of small independent congregations around the world, including the US.
God ALWAYS has a remnant which carries on te work!
Batiuska: I look forward to reading your pieces when they appear. It’s really good to have your enlightening essays .
As a follower of the most high it is wonderful to me to see a christian who is a true believer.
I confess that even though I am ethnically of the english tribe I don’t really understand them — I don’t get why after Oliver arose , a real hero in the Carlylean sense, the english tribe would reinstate the monarchy with Carl II. My suspicion is they too feel they are a chosen people…
I’ve always had a bone to pick with Henry VIII…
Peace ! As I say to my wife and others I love…
Brother Blue Iconoclast
Thank you, Rector, for the etymologies and fresh lights on corners of history. In honor of which, allow me to offer an update on an hoary nursery rhyme:
Vicki Nuland took an ax,
And gave the Ukie’s forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her country forty one.
no .. we had a mod not show up today so we were 40 comment behind .. may be posted … herb
Moderator! Looks like I have been locked out of this forum!
No problem! I am always off-topic anyway.
And I am wrong about Putin! That was harsh yesterday
and I take it back
All considered the Saker is an excellent forum and Putin is not a Zionist pawn. I am done and gone!
Ben Sampson
A few ideas came to mind after reading this essay:
(1) “Expect the break-up of the UK to be rapid.”: The breakup depends upon several factors, such as the Grim Reaper finishing his work on most 20th century British believers in “Rule Britannia” and “God Save the King” (the national anthem, more or less, I have read). Breakup depends also on the presence of large numbers of aliens with no emotional attachment to Great Britain other than as an object of religious and racial conquest. Muhammadists probably want, however, to capture the UK whole and to establish an Islamic republic or monarchy. From their perspective, a permanent breakup is something to avoid.
(2) Charles III, who will be about 84 in 2033, is positioning hisself to be the executioner of the UK. His eldest son would be the funeral director. Maybe William, as king of England, will be killed or exiled during an insurrection or civil war which finishes off England and the CoE, too. I think, however, that another republican fiasco is in the British future. This won’t be a breakup, and when the republic fails, a monarchy with a new house will be restored.
(3) The United States must withdraw or be expelled from the eastern hemisphere for there to be anything like a stable Asian century, but, as commenter Babak Sayar noted, China is passive, and Russia weak (and wavering).Who will carry out the eviction if the USA doesn’t experience a timely collapse?
(4) If the nations and countries of Asia can avoid major wars, there could be a series of Asian centuries, though I think this unlikely. The cultures and religions are too different for a lasting harmony. Competition for resources is likely to intensify. The new united nations is too defensive, and it’s contaminated by a toxic way of life. It’s an anti-West which is trying to become more Western.
(5) A new united nations is coming into being, but it’s not the “true United Nations” announced publicly in 1962 by David Ben-Gurion. So it won’t be tolerated if it can’t be subverted to suit Israel’s objectives. If it’s subverted, there won’t be an Asian century.
(6) Frequent tumult and numerous wars in Asia are assured if (i) the State of Israel remains and (ii) the remnant of Israel’s tribes remains unassimilated into the other nations. The vision set forth in Isaiah 66:22-24 explains in part why this is so. The remnant is incorrigibly devoted to supremacist nationalism and unipolarist collectivism. It doesn’t even matter if the leaders are atheists like Ben-Gurion, who as PM declared his vision for the world in 1962 by predicting, among other things, a “federation of the continents” and a “Supreme Court of Mankind” in Jerusalem. So Israel must go extinct, at least in the eastern hemisphere, for there to be an Asian century. It’s by the way here that a worldwide extinction will drain Islam of its vitality and desubsidize toxic forms of “white” nationalism such as Hitler’s and the Ukronazis’. A few people in India, for instance, must be figuring this out by now, but Indians lack the cunning and the boldness to render moot Exodus 19:5-6.
(7) Declarations for “multipolarism” are tacit declarations of war against Abrahamism, esp. the remnant and its nationalism. I doubt that most people who are nodding in agreement to “multipolarism” have been thinking much about this implication and what it entails.
(8) Destruction of the United States of America, or at least a fracturing into several partial confederacies, no doubt squabbling, would provide another of the necessary conditions for a series of Asian centuries. (And for a Latin American century, too.) This seems like a possible outcome given rising contempt in the law schools for the fake supreme law called the Constitution, though the schools don’t yet recognize it as fake. Given trends, however, I think it’s as likely that the Constitution will be replaced with something worse and more intensely centralizing than was the Con. as first published in 1787. This would surely foment a secessionist reaction and maybe another war between the states during which “Progressives” crush the reaction.
(9) To rid the western Pacific Ocean of hostile, provocative navies, China must think in terms of liberating Japan, Korea, etc., or at least in terms of helping liberation movements which aren’t hostile to China. Not so obvious is the need to colonize Hawai’i (pop. less than 5m) and to evict Anglophones and everyone sympathetic to the USA, UK, etc. Australia, too, would need some sort of reckoning to uproot its British legacy.
(10) The West has a headstart in rhetoric, psychology, and techniques of manipulaton, and centuries of experience, too. The reactive postures and crude messaging of Russia and China this year w.r.t. Urkaine and Taiwan suggests to me, at least, that Asia remains on the starting blocks. So Asia will remain exposed to subversive activity while having little power to engage in subversive action against populations of the West.
Trump was our last hope. As foolish as that egomaniac was, he realized we were better off with good Russian relations, rather than thrusting them to the East.
China will be ascendant again. (It was, several times in the past -See Histomap.) But it will not be necessary for China to destroy the West, we are doing that very well on our own, thank you.
China will simply slowly become the most successful economy in the world, when they learn how to manage public demand.
During several of my Chinese trips, friendly middle-class professionals said that, as long as the CCP slowly built the middle class, allowing them to prosper, the economy would prosper. Note that the west has spent 50 years decimating the middle class while enrichening the family and corporate oligarchs.
Awesome read. Thank you. Here i am in a failing nation staging to rightfully claim my beneficiary standing and SS Trust account. Very interesting times and unique to the total scheme of time.