A collective West “led” by unspeakable mediocrities looks at the Russia-China strategic partnership as if it was something like a double-headed Anti-Christ. Xi, for his part, seems not to be impressed.
By Pepe Escobar: posted with permission and widely cross-posted
The virtual, special address by President Xi Jinping to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Davos Agenda exhibits all the elements of a riddle inside an enigma.
At first, it certainly could be interpreted as a simultaneous message to the Empire of Chaos and global public opinion.
Much more than prescribing “effective doses against unilateralism, decoupling and ideological antagonism” – not so subtle allusions to the usual suspects – Xi most of all positioned China as the indispensable driver of Globalization 2.0.
The address was simultaneous to the announcement of China’s GDP growth at 8.1% in 2021 and commodity trading reaching new highs: the center of global manufacturing is the world’s biggest exporter for the 8th consecutive year.
The implementation of the word’s largest free-trade zone, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) across Asia-Pacific, will just solidify the trend.
Trade with the myriad partner nations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increased by 23.6% – and that essentially means increased Global South trade. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China increased by 20.2% in dollar terms: once again, as in 2020, China was the top FDI destination on the planet.
The whole trade/commerce landscape should even improve in 2022 when the China-EU Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) is fully ratified. France, currently presiding the EU Council, is manifestly in favor.
Compounding the trends, China’s GDP per capita has reached $12,551, crucially above the notorious “middle income trap”; above the global average GDP per capita; and now entering “high-income country” territory, as defined by the World Bank.
Xi’s key message, when it comes to addressing “Davos Man” – the trademark WEF audience – was unmistakable: China is and will continue to remain the safest of havens for global Capital. The Masters of the Universe – from BlackRock down – duly nodded their approval.
But then, there are “countercurrents”. And that ominous, imminent global economy crisis.
Take me to the river
Now we enter the deeper enigma of how interpenetrated Xi’s vision and the Davos agenda may, or may not, be.
Xi’s main theme is multilateralism. And that’s the context in which he introduced his rich “countercurrents” metaphor. Xi de facto held the collective West as “countercurrents” in the river of History – incapable of stopping its inexorable flow to the sea.
Yet these “countercurrents”, as Xi defines them, are not merely trying to stop the flow of economic globalization. He leaves it subtly implied they are trying to stop the flow of Globalization 2.0 as led by China: a very strong economy working in tandem with an arguably successful “zero Covid” policy.
He didn’t even have to refer to the West. He just needed to suggest that China forged its own way to tackle the current challenges. And the Chinese way beats the West’s.
The global economy is being confronted, across the board, by manpower shortages – from harvest workers to truck drivers to supermarket cashiers. Costs for everything from raw materials to container shipping went through the roof. Supply chains are horribly over-extended and in many cases broken.
The hegemonic narrative blames exclusively the proverbial Covid-19 variants for the very real possibility of causing the mother of all supply chain breakdowns that may hit most of the planet in 2022.
In contrast, variants of guerrilla analysis sustain that the global economy is being deliberately being driven over the cliff. The supply chain breakdown is being facilitated by the multi-restriction “war on Covid” – which directly subverts production, trade and services.
Global Capital would never allow a comprehensive public debate about the toxic role of the financial system – which has been kept under artificial respiration since 2008, with central banks unleashing storms of helicopter money, inflating real state markets, stocks, precious metal prices. In real life, what’s nearly inevitable next in the horizon is the bursting of a massive stock and real estate bubble all across the West.
A de facto collapse of the global economy would provide the ultimate “opportunity” (Klaus Schwab’s terminology) for the WEF’s Great Reset – which remains the real Davos Agenda. But according to the hegemonic gospel, that would happen because of Covid – not because of the implosion of the financial casino.
For nearly two years, we have been living through the progressive enshrinement of techno-feudalism – one of the overarching themes of my latest book, Raging Twenties.
In lightning speed, the techno-feudalism virus metastasized into an even more lethal, wilderness of mirrors variant, with cancel culture enforced by Big Tech all across the spectrum and science routinely debased as fake news across social media.
The average citizen remains discombobulated to the point of lobotomy. Giorgio Agamben defined the whole process as a new totalitarianism.
What does Capital really want?
It’s open to debate to what extent Xi actually endorses the ultimate “opportunity” offered by Covid-19: a Great Reset that essentially refers to the replacement of a dwindling manufacturing base by automation, in tandem with a reset of the financial system.
The concomitant wishful thinking envisages a global economy that will “move closer to a cleaner capitalist model”, as embodied, for instance, in the delightfully benign Council for Inclusive Capitalism in partnership with the Catholic Church.
It was up to William Engdahl to ask the crucial question: Will the Federal Reserve Crash Global Financial Markets As a Means to Implementing Their “Great Reset”?
Xi using Davos as a convenient P.R. platform does not necessarily mean China subscribes to the Davos Agenda. Davos, after all, has nothing to do with multilateralism.
Last December, the WEF actually postponed Davos 2022 from January to early summer. It remains to be seen whether this may have something to do with the advent of Cyber Polygon, a cyber pandemic gamed by the WEF in July 2021.
Herr Schwab himself defined it as “a comprehensive cyber-attack [that] could bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The Covid-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber-attack.”
So our current – global – predicament may be just a “small disturbance” compared to what comes next. And has already been gamed.
No one, from Zeus to Shiva, knows what comes next – apart from NATO expanding to outer space. Yet it’s very telling that the distinct possibility of a global economic crash – while Xi promotes Globalization 2.0 led by China – is happening simultaneously to
NATO provoking Russia into war and the US demonizing China to Kingdom Come.
A collective West “led” by unspeakable mediocrities looks at the Russia-China strategic partnership as if it was something like a double-headed Anti-Christ. Xi, for his part, seems not to be impressed: watching the river flow, like a Taoist Bob Dylan, he has just dismissed these mere “countercurrents” with a wave of his hand.
The collective just cannot handle second place!
Reading President Xi’s speech, and seeing his calm delivery (almost smug demeanor), we can see that he – and the CCP – have assumed leadership of the world. No stupid insults, no ranting, no speculation concerning motives – just a somewhat metaphorical description of political reality, plus maybe a call for a real ‘Reset’ of international relations.
Thanks Pepe for the Davos analysis of President XI Yinping’s speech, who of course does not miss the world stage to present his alternative to the Great Reset of the WEF to the executioners of the West and the world.
While most commentators on this blog still adhere to the old Western secular thinking and paint the world black or white, both the West and the East have moved on to the Cyber Physical World.
The double-headed Antichrist is a nice metaphor by Pepe, who has a good sense of how to interpret Xi Jinping’s speech.
Basically, Xi Jinping’s speech is a warning to the people of the West. And of the fact that the world, our planet Earth, is breaking down into two opposite poles. The West is ushering in the Dark Age of Hunger Games, while the East is turning to the energy of the sun. More precisely, it is the departure into two meta-worlds, that of the West and that of the East. In continuation of the Christian Western metaphor, such as the story of the brothers Cain and Abel. The West will enter the Age of Darkness, see Harvard example – darkening of the sun, heralding the beginning of modern enslavement led by GAFAM, following the Hollywood model Hunger Games and Realplayer One, but less glamorous, versus the East continuing the settlement of the technological and human-centered age, humane, bright and energetic (China Science example, Artificial Sun), etc.
I disagree with the common opinion that there are mediocre driving the West. There are unscrupulous people, but not idiots. And these people are desperate. The West seeks in every way to bring down the global economy, so the game will be ended and will have to start over. It is a sordid idea, but devoid of reality: the other side of the world is growing, and very, and fast. China, which was supposed to have its economy totally damaged by Covid, cut the evil in the bud and stepped on the accelerator, to such an extent that it closed last year with 8% growth. This goes against the whole scheme! The new Silk Road has brought several actors to this virtuous movement, and while the West is bankrupt, the East is moving fast. Unless the vampires decide to finally hand over the points and work honestly like everyone else, a conflict is inevitable. It remains to study each dirty move and counter it an effective and victorious action (and it seems that Putin and Xi know how to do this very well).
Precisely. Worth noting also that Russia has 23% debt to GDP, mostly in Rubles. No more USD on the balance sheet. Russia is not vulnerable to a debt crash in the same way that the West, and China! are.
This is one of the underlying themes in China’s speech here. Gov’t stability is predicated on increasing prosperity, but China has hitherto avoided the inevitable contractions associated with debt fueled growth.. hence the ‘the show will go on message’. China needs the current global system to continue to avoid a very nasty crash (they will rebouind faster than any western nation). The west is, obviously, critically overleveraged, but China’s speech to me is an ‘interesting’ blend of admonishment (to Russia as well) and a plea to keep the game going a little bit longer.
Russia has positioned itself to be the ‘I don’t care’ player. China has built possibly the largest debt bubble in human history, and knows that it must crash and rebuild, but only cares about stability… thus the giant foreign reserves from the structural trade surplus not being distributed but used to protect critical structures and institutions.
Where did President Xi gave you the idea that he was ‘admonishing’ ‘Russia as well’? Additionallt, from what decision you infer that Russia is a ‘don’t care player’?
You don’t understand the fundamental difference in China’s handling of debt compared to the West and its satellites. China owns its own debt and avoids debt accumulating in the system simply by writing it off as needed. At the same time China makes a show of following the Western model by keeping the debt ‘on the books’ – this is what confuses Western finance journos and feeds their wishful thinking about a grand China crash.
Western finance is about debt and the manipulation of interests to benefit the banks (their owners). Western finance is about usury.
I always enjoy Mr Escobar’s articles. In the present one, however, I cannot understand how China would singlehanded stop the incoming catastrophic “great reset” (I should underline that my knowledge in Political Economy is, at best, elementary).
Thanks for your time
perhaps they don’t have to stop it, just deflect it, make sure they’re protected. The economy is energy and Russia has plenty of it, China are the manufacturing powerhouse. The West has always been reliant on the east to steal their energy. You can print as much money as you like but without energy a million dollars for everyone means nothing. The green energy and renewables suicide is a fiasco, just look at Germany but I assume that will all be a part of the kill the system putsch.
Western political thinkers are always looking backwards and not forwards, they want to repeat their ‘hegemony’ their empires on which the sun has already set. No good, you can’t stop time, you can’t bring the past to life again. I think Pepe and Xi are correct, mediocrities with no new ideas, Eurasia runs rings round them, all the West has left is dirty tricks but they will not work. Putin and Xi always work in real time, the West is constantly hampered by the anchor of the past.
To Boris
Thank you very much for the sound arguments in the 1ar paragraph
HEARTLAND
Xi demonstrates China’s vision, and points out its wisdom for dealing with the coming centuries. We live to see the turn of the world order. The Anglo Zionist empire wants to continue with the first place. The West has forgotten Russia’s great work in the 16th to 18th centuries that ended the threat the Mongol invasions posed to Europe.
Russia meant the expansion of Europe to the East, while Spain and Portugal meant the expansion of Europe to the West, sponsored by the early Zionists.
Russia has the largest territory in the world, but it is a relatively sparsely populated country with Muslim minorities.
In the medium term they will be competing for hegemony in Asia.
Russia, India and China are the powers that will clash in the 21st century, or will have to mature the relationship and realize the challenge. This is the second biggest challenge of the 21st century. I believe that naturally China, as Xi demonstrates, will lead Eurasia, but the Russians will be part of that lead, and with that the West will inevitably come second.
we live in the age of railways, land power is on the rise, it is no longer maritime power. And Russia is the heart of this context, of terrestrial power. This is the stage of the world. The great territory of the world is Eurasia.
The parts that are talked about are 70% of the world which is Asia and Africa because they are very close.
That is, if you control Eurasia, you will control the riches of Africa, and…
The quest of the West and the whole world is to control Heartland.
“Russia, India and China are the powers that will clash in the 21st century, or will have to mature…”
Absolutely no reason for them to clash.
India is not a factor, nor is it in the picture, nor will it be accepted by the world at large, Its house is not in order, there is looming civil war with alienation of 230 million muslims, India is an illusion that has already been fractured a few times and new states have emerged, i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc. India is all set to be fractured again with 11 officially recognised internal separatists insurgencies and Kashmir a burning Issue with Pakistan which is currently in a Lock-down fro over two years with the highest concentration of troops against civilians on the entire planet. A doomed country.
“Russia, India and China are the powers that will clash in the 21st century, or will have to mature…”
As far as I can see, the great maturity of the leadership of both Russia and China foregoes any clash of cultures, or societies or resources. With the collapse and replacement of SWIFT the usual reasons for wars will be eliminated. So I strongly disagree with this statement.
Western people being herded compliantly into the showers by western finance and media. No hope to be found here anymore. Medioctrity isn’t the word. Nonentities.
The Globalists aren’t lead by mediocrities. The mediocrities are merely their front men. They aren’t interested in globalism 2.0 with China because it was never about GDP or profit, it was about control. The West will dip, but when it comes back if the Globalists get their way it will be stronger than ever. It will be a hellhole for us peons, but it will be far more tightly controlled than the USSR.
That is one possibility. The West is its own bubble, its own predatory economic system fending off the rest of the world.
But it won’t last long- a decade at most.
“”But it won’t last long- a decade at most””” I very much doubt it will last even a decade; I recently travelled Europe and the US; Every thing looks worn down, the infrastructure, the people, there was no spark anywhere, Pardon my analogy but Europe looked like an old working woman of the night, aged, wrinkled, but still trying some cakes of makeup to look somewhat presentable but in essence just moving on past glory; the western crash is imminent going by the signs I saw.
I think that the proposition that human imagination is one of the most, if not the most, powerful forces on planet earth can be proven by very easy arguments. I’m typing on one right now and you are able to read what I’ve typed through/on another. So let’s employ what may very well be the most powerful force on the planet for a very few minutes right now.
Imagine first that every human being outside of US borders suddenly ceases to exist and that the “nation” called the USA expands to encompass the entire surface of planet earth.
Also imagine that the present whatever-you-want-to-call-it system in the US in which the vast majority of wealth and LARGE-SCALE capital equipment is owned by a microscopic percentage of human beings for their own astronomical profit REMAINS THE SAME.
Imagine that both “labor” (the working class) and “management” (the ruling class, or Elite) can organize, as they supposedly can in our present so-called democracy. But now, because nobody is alive outside of the former US borders, the owners of large-scale capital equipment no longer have the option to move their capital equipment to other former nations on the planet where there used to be desperately poor people who were “willing” to work for food, water and a place to sleep on the factory floor.
Imagine that US environmental, labor, etc. regulations apply, now, everywhere on planet earth (again, because the US is the only nation on planet earth).
Just exactly HOW are the roughly 330+ million “Americans” going to “go it alone” when America’s presently-designed economy needs a great number of immigrants (of a certain economic type) each and every year from now to eternity?
Just exactly WHO is going to buy all of the “excess” natural resources, oil, farm products, manufactured goods, etc. that a small percentage of working Americans can very efficiently produce, but can no longer export? NOBODY.
To have available the relatively small amount of warm-weather items that America now imports, Americans will venture forth to those places, AS AMERICANS, and produce and send those products back home. Naturally, those American workers working on other parts of the globe outside of FORMER US borders will be paid a wage that also applies to the rest of the American labor market and, again, the American regulatory framework will also apply to those workers and facilities and places of production, as well as those workers being able enjoy America’s social benefits.
ALL of the work that is presently being done in America by “temporary foreign workers” and other temporary workers who harvest crops, put roofs on houses, cook food in restaurants, take care of the elderly in nursing homes, etc. will have to be done by Americans who will be paid by other Americans.
Automobiles, trucks, TVs, toilet tissue, etc. will now have to be produced by Americans, for Americans. In other words, absolutely any thing and any service that Americans need/desire will have to be produced by Americans and, again, Americans will have to pay these other Americans to do that — enough payment so that these hard-working Americans will make enough profit to save enough money to be able to “retire” when they inevitably become physically decrepit.
Here’s the most important question of all. WHO is going to play the role of enemy that is necessary to maintain the need, the justification, for the present economically-necessary military industrial complex? Answer: NOBODY. How are the tens of millions of people either directly or indirectly employed in that MIC and all of the government “security apparatus” going to be employed after the disappearance of those “threats to national security”? (How are they going to behave, what are they going to do, in order to literally survive, especially those living in the large cities?)
How much is the above arrangement (again, an arrangement in which only Americans inhabit the planet, and in which the vast majority of wealth and large-scale capital equipment is owned by a truly microscopic percentage of the population of America for their own astronomical profit) going to cost average Americans? Will/would average Americans be able to afford that system, that arrangement (the one we live in now)?
NO, they would not.
When I recently asked my brother in law why the American government finds it necessary to import vehicles, TVs, etc. from other countries, his reply was that “if they were produced by Americans in America, they would be too expensive”. (This coming from a man who hired a temporary foreign worker to give additional care to his elderly mother who was ALREADY living in a nursing home).
So now to my point. Just as it is for the vast majority Americans now living in our present multi-national globalized world, Americans living in an America-only world could NOT “afford” what they need and what they want under the present economic arrangement in which the vast majority of wealth and large-scale capital equipment is owned/controlled by a microscopic percentage (and getting smaller by the day) of the population for their own astronomical profit.
THIS is why under the present economic system desperate slave labor is needed to provide what Americans need.
THIS is why when the US Elite conquers other nations’ military forces, it does not make those nations new States of the USA; and instead installs in those places puppet governments made up of, essentially, US State Department employees who bleed their citizenry and their land-mass dry of anything valuable, to be used by the US Elite as a means of obtaining ever more profit.
THIS is why Americans can not afford to have enough children to maintain the present population and, therefore, immigrants of a certain economic status have to be imported from other nations (usually the ones being bled dry by US corporations) into America each and every year from now to eternity.
THIS is why trade agreements such as NAFTA between international corporations are needed to exploit the most desperate people on the planet for the greater benefit of a much smaller percentage of the population.
Again, what Americans desperately need TODAY is an economic system in which ALL Americans, not just a microscopic percentage, own/control LARGE-SCALE capital equipment COLLECTIVELY, and collectively provide the LABOR (by “divvying up” the necessary labor among ALL citizens) to operate that large-scale capital equipment.
By providing THEIR labor to run THEIR capital equipment, farm THEIR land, take care of THEIR sick and elderly, etc., ALL Americans will have EARNED the right to consume all of the goods and services produced by THIER large-scale capital equipment and THEIR labor. In other words, ALL Americans will get to “profit” from THEIR large-scale capital equipment and THEIR labor, not just a microscopic (and getting smaller by the day) percentage of the American population for their own astronomical profit.
(Now imagine the same hypothetical situation for Russia. And then for China. In other words, how would those nation’s present economic arrangements fare in a Russia-only world and a China-only world.)
As far as a Great Reset goes, for that to happen four IMO impossible outcomes will have to be guaranteed.
First, after the Great Reset, the Western Oligarchic Transnational Elite Collective (WOTEC) that presently controls the West will, of course, have to REMAIN the WOTEC that controls the the West.
Second, after the Great Reset, the gangster US will still have to be able to conduct perpetual war on the world in order to provide itself with anything it needs. How is it going to pay for the military forces to conduct that perpetual war — raise taxes to amass $800+ billion each and every year from here to eternity? What are the victim-nations of the world going to say about this, or are they once again going to have no say in the matter?
Third, after the Great Reset, the US Treasury’s IOU’s that are currently owned by other nations of the world (especially China) will either become instantly worthless, or they will have to be “voluntarily” returned to the US Treasury with “something” given by the US to those nations in return. That something certainly won’t be gold, so what exacty will that something be?
Fourth, just exactly WHO is going to create or “issue” the wonderful new “money” that is going to be used by all the people of the world the day after the Great Reset — the BIS? the Federal Reserve? the ECB? the PBOC? the BoJ? the BoE? the IMF? the RCB? the RBI? the SBP? the Banxico? etc. etc. etc.? Talk about a squabble (schwabble?).
Please stop using capitals – as per the site rules – it’s like screaming. Mod.
Nice Isha.
The four multinationals that currently own most of the stockmarket will continue to rule from behind the curtain.
After reset no more MIC.
China bought those IOUs @ approx US$ 128,000 per US citizen in return for credit to get stuff from China a long time ago.
The money is Chinas social credit digital system updated to a biometrical id credit implantable chip as Sweden is implementing now.
The MIC, Congress and supports, millions, hundreds of millions will not be considered as evidenced using the metric governments and covert ops rely on.
https://astediscovery.com/
The beast welcomes you.
One more thing. Precedent in the French courts, presently on appeal to a higher court. A mans widow was rejected for compensation by the insurer for , ‘knowingly taking an experimental drug.’ In respect to the mandates, the insurer ruled his death a suicide. (Goes to deagal link above).
@Ishka: “Here’s the most important question of all. WHO is going to play the role of enemy” ?
The enemy will be what it always was: everyone except the top alfa breeding pair; it will be all those “useless eaters” and “the surplus population”. The world became “overpopulated” when there were fewer than twenty people on the planet but Cain slew Abel for infringing Cain’s property.
I’m waiting for the U.S. to kick Russia out of SWIFT – and then have Europe and the U.S. suffer as the US$ collapses on itself. Further, if they stop Nordstream 2 as a sanction, German industry will suffer as will the general people of Europe. In essence, the U.S. is losing leverage – or has already lost leverage over Russia and China – but will certainly go on trying/crying to change their own trap.
Pres Xi’s address sounded more like one which Herr Schwab might have written for him.
There’s a lot of reading between the lines and wishful thinking in this article if you ask me.
Until such time as China, or Russia for that matter, makes an overt move to disempower the devils and put an end to this charade of invented crisis’, I can not believe it.
China’s wealth is trade dependent and its philosophy is compatible with the WEF imaginings.
Russia’s military superiority has yet to resolve Iraq or Syria or Libya or Palestine or Yemen etc.
Meanwhile the MIC’s of all the main players get larger and richer and more important to their economies.
The lies told to sustain them get more convoluted and repressive and unbelievable.
I need a sign!
Everything the west has been doing to sustain itself is unsustainable.
Martin Armstrong’s between-the-lines interpretation of Xi’s speech:
“Chinese President Xi Jinping has a request for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell — do not raise interest rates. “If major economies slam on the brakes or take a U-turn in their monetary policies, there would be serious negative spillovers. They would present challenges to global economic and financial stability, and developing countries would bear the brunt of it,” Xi said during the virtual Davos meeting.
The Fed indicated that they will gradually raise rates this year after failing to combat inflation through artificially low rates. Rates have been low for quite some time and “slamming the breaks” isn’t exactly the situation here. Poor countries risk facing a spike in debt repayments, but that is likely not Xi’s main concern.
Xi realizes that China will be forced to abandon easing policies when the Fed raises rates. China is burdened with debt, namely in the real estate sector, and developers such as Evergrande cannot currently climb out of its financial grave. China’s GDP fell to 4% year-on-year in Q4 2021 and advanced only 1.6% on a quarterly basis. The People’s Bank of China cut rates by ten basis points on Monday, but they’re going to need to change their strategy once the Fed does.
Capital will begin to flow from China to the US once it becomes an increasingly attractive place to park money. If America decreases the demand for imports, Chinese exports will feel the brunt of the burden. China heavily relies on its top trading partner, with over $463 billion entering the US through November.
“We will build a unified, open, competitive and orderly market system where all businesses enjoy equal status before the law, and have equal opportunities in the marketplace,” Xi said. Well, that is not how the world economy functions. The Fed will not abandon domestic interests in favor of foreign ones and Powell knows he needs to act soon to control runaway inflation.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/chinas-president-xi-begs-the-fed-not-to-ease-rates/
Regarding the Fed’s not abandoning domestic interests I am kind of skeptical, unless Armstrong means domestic political interests.
@Taffy
I read about economics as it is the fundamental reason for the present conflicts. However, it is not my field and, thus, I have more questions than answers.
I understand that the economics of the US corporations is unique. These firms merge to overcome petty competition and they can get all the money they need from the banks to do so as they are owned by them. If they are expected to pay back, are they doing so? It doesn’t seem they are… Isn’t the FED printing money for the banks so they will not crash, will keep liquidity? For how long won’t the corporations be able to pay back their loans?
And why would inflation be of concern in this circumstance? Why to worry if Powell is not able to control inflation? Aren’t there many more serious problems to consider? They certainly know that there is too much money inflating the system, and, like a bubble, it will burst. But, it seems obvious that there is nothing they can do to avoid it.
precious metals prices have deliberately been suppressed by the paper contracts to hide the true value of gold and silver in order to make things look normal and to keep capitol from running to the precious metals and show their true value and how week the dollar really is….
“Cyber pandemic”… As someone with more than a little knowledge about computer security, let me be clear: “That ain’t gonna happen.”
Certainly a lot of damage could be done by a nation-state devoting its entire hacking resources to attacking critical infrastructure systems on another particular nation, no one doubts that. But “a comprehensive cyber-attack [that] could bring a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole…” Nope. People who don’t understand the difficulty of hacking a particular target over-estimate the ability of hackers to bring down systems across a wide range of industries – even allowing for “waterhole” attacks and the monoculture of Microsoft Windows in world corporations. It simply ain’t that easy to scale hacking, even given a nation-states’ resources.
Therefore one must conclude that if a complete halt to systems is being engineered, it’s not being done via computer hacking, but by some other means.
I think the weather is going to win this collapse, economic death by a thousand storms.
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Sun Tzu
Portuguese translation at
https://resistir.info/p_escobar/xi_davos_19jan22.html
Pepe almost gets it.
What Xi has done is to present the Chinese worldview using Davos words.
I believe that we are living in the most important time in human history. When Russia entered the war against Syria, and militarily defeated the west, the world order changed. It was the begining of what we see today. Without Russia, the present, as it is, would have been postponed.
The USA and its pleasures of an imagined absoluteness
If I am the life goal of other people in the sense that they want to have power over me, then I have a problem: it is the problem that Russia has with the USA. They have a very close – mental, psychological – bond with Russia, but unfortunately one that denies its autonomy: the USA has its identity, self-esteem and meaning not from feeling a unity with other people, states and the cosmos, but from a division, separation, demarcation. In this respect, the ideology (worldview) in which they live is identical to the Jewish one.
The USA sees Russia as part of its life – in a certain sense as the goal of its life – but not as an independent being, but as something that has to be subordinated: By reducing the other to an object of power, their feeling and thinking is not the feeling and thinking of their – own – being, but the feeling and thinking of the other in a limited way. That is, the USA feels great and superior to the rest of the world, but reduces its own being to a mere observer of a limited reality (in the form of a world reduced to an object of power). The USA’s way of life – its ruling class actually seems to be completely imbued with Jewish ideology – is about the principle of ‘wanting to be without being’ (definition of perversion): feelings of superiority and uniqueness (exceptionality) are achieved by splitting up, reducing the other to an object of power, that is, degradation. In other words, the USA – insofar as it is permeated by Jewish ideology – does not derive its identity from a unity with being, but from a splitting up in which it – the chosen – faces a mass to be dominated.
Does the USA enhance or hinder the prosperity and well-being of the people of the world? The USA promotes what intrigue, manipulation, violence and coercion can promote – that is, an existence as portrayed in the Old Testament. Satan – whose business is intervening in other people’s lives, always in the name of good – is self-destructive in that he is a parasite that destroys the host.
It was all set out in the Wolfowitz Doctrine and the PNAC philosophy. There have been further elaborations such as R2P and adoption of the Caroline Principle, but this remains as the essence of USA foreign policy.