Sweden and Finland joining NATO besides being a provocative act towards Russia, precedes an inevitable financial collapse of the current international system
By Guilherme Wilbert for the Saker Blog
The Nordic entry into NATO, in the middle of a war, is clearly an act that does not help the peace negotiations that could be underway, but acts as the opposite, putting more wood on the fire for “military-technical” measures (to paraphrase Shoigu, Russian Defense Minister who uses the term when talking about responding to Western provocations).
With the entry of Finland and Sweden barred initially by Turkey, it shows that even a NATO member cares about enemies of its national interests. In Turkey’s case with the PKK, which is a Kurdish political organization seen as terrorist by Ankara and some countries, yet they were (until then) operating freely throughout the Nordic countries with active members of the official Kurdistan party holding protests in public squares in Helsinki and Stockholm.
Just for level of knowledge, Kurdistan is a region that would be home to the Kurdish ethnic group, taking part of Turkish territory up to the North of Iran, which explains Erdogan’s concern with a possible disintegration of Turkish territory if the Kurds were to gain prominence on the battlefields (which in real data would be very difficult since the Turkish army is the strongest in NATO for example).
But this provocation, which will surely be responded to by Moscow, proves the warmongers’ concern with continuing disputes and wars around the world, using Ukraine, which is the most recent case at the moment, as a kind of proxy to weaken Russia, serving only as a spearhead of the American objective, since Zelensky himself and his cabinet acknowledge that they will never join NATO and possibly not even the European Union, if you consider and draw a parallel with the case of Turkey itself, which has been waiting since 1999 for a resolution whether to join the bloc or not.
So, the entrance of the Nordics into NATO does not help Ukraine at all and can even make the situation worse with military-technical measures applied by the Russian Armed Forces perhaps in the decision centers in Brussels or in the Baltics, which would lead us to a nuclear catastrophe since the mentioned countries (Belgium and the Baltics for example) are NATO members and could invoke article 5 of mutual aid in case of “aggression” (See that aggression here is interpreted by Westerners (in an exercise of deduction) as only after the military-technical measure, ignoring what provoked the decision to do so).
Coupled with the desperation to provoke more wars, Western leaders get lost in the real global objective: economic integration and the fight against hunger
The recent cases of inflation in Western Europe or even in the US precede a global financial collapse that has several causes, with some analysts citing the sanctions on Russia but personally I would go further and cite all of the last 10 years of at least NOTHING-backed dollar printouts that were used to give a supposed liquidity to the economy after the 2008 crash that was a scare felt around the world.
Economics, unlike some sciences, is not as if it can receive arguments and opinions, the theories are very clear and explanatory: by printing too much of your currency, you devalue it. But surely American economists know this and they also know that the coming collapse would affect the entire Globe because unfortunately after World War II, American hegemony was also monetary, with countries to this day using the dollar as an international reserve. In other words, in addition to the overprinting and national devaluation of the currency on American territory, it also devalues in the coffers of the countries that use it as a reserve and this will cause a cascading effect that will further force realpolitik into play and cause more haste in the emerging countries to get rid of the coming bomb.
Unfortunately war-hungry Western leaders are blind to what is coming and is already happening in some parts of the world, either because of irresponsible sanctions or the natural course of the very sequence of American economic mistakes. Because it is very different to sanction Russia compared to sanctioning Iran for example. And this does not mean that Iran deserves to be sanctioned in any way, because I believe that every country should have the right to its nuclear program, at least for peaceful purposes, and this cannot be used as a pretext for sanctions that crush already small economies, such as the example of Iran.
In the case of Russia the conversation is different for numerous reasons, be they military at the nuclear level or at the economic level, because Russia is part of a global production chain which acts as an active player on the macroeconomic stage. For example, the raw material called antimony, which is used in the global defense industry for military equipment of various kinds, is rightly found in excess in Russia and parts of Asia. This is to cite a simple example of an element that is not on the average citizen’s table, for example. In addition to the many important productions that Russia is responsible for.
So, given recent events and the inference for the disastrous future, the international scenario for the Global South forces them towards long term solutions of American de-dollarization and decolonization in the various ways, either by American NGOs that operate in several countries or by the very US culture exporting technologies that function as small fiefdoms of thought, the case of Facebook for example. But the latter is a little more difficult to achieve because it involves a collective societal thought that would require a national unity for the development of regional cultures.
Having said that, a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia with the Ukrainian loss of the territories that comprise New Russia needs to happen and sanctions against any country need to be lifted for the sake of multipolarity.
The world cannot be guided by one diplomatic corps and one government only because the international scenario is not a movie of one actor, but of several, with several potentials to be developed in different parts of the Globe.
Guilherme Wilbert is a Brazilian Bachelor of Law interested in geopolitics and international law.
As usual … Erdogan changed his mind…
Al Jazeera, 29 June 2022: “Why did Turkey lift its veto on Finland and Sweden joining NATO?”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/29/why-did-turkey-lift-its-veto-on-finland-sweden-joining-nato-explainer
Croatia and Hungary didn’t lift their veto, and their’s came before Turkey! Strange that we have heard nothing of this development; as if it was just a bad dream that came and went in the night!
@ eddie
Yes, you are right – indeed: what happened with Croatia’s and Hungary’s previously announced vetoes?!
The problem is they didn’t cast a veto. They just mouthed off about going to do that. Neither of them dared to do that. They hoped that Turkey would do that (I never did really think they would) instead. NATO is a death cult that punishes its servants when they defy them. Any hope that Croatia (of all countries) or Hungary (they already walk a tightrope with NATO) would go against them was a pipedream. Once Turkey got their “swag” and voted yes,it was all over but the crying.
Croatia was bought off with quick entry into Schengen Zone and sealing of the Euro adoption both on 1.Jan 2023
I used to tune into Al Jazeera — albeit a long time ago. They are a Not to be trusted MSM source especially after what they did to Julian Assange. That article may be correct – – but – — – – just saying.
Nothing else irks the West like Russian anti-money :)
Turkey has interests in keeping Ukraine situation going ..?
February 3, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Ukraine and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. They signed an agreement on military-financial cooperation.
Reznikov said Ukraine and Turkey are continuing work to build a joint Baykar plant in Ukraine to locally build drones, an agreement that was signed before the war.
“Ukraine’s plans to buy Bayraktar are also large-scale,” he said. “Since 24 February only, the Ministry of Defence has armed our military with up to half a hundred ‘airplanes'”.
Reznikov added that Ukraine has already signed a memorandum of understanding for more drones, which were expected to be delivered in July.
“We have also received a new request from the command of the armed forces of Ukraine and thus, in the near future, almost all capacity of the Baykar Makina plant [in Turkey] will be focused on meeting the needs of the armed forces. It’s about ordering dozens more drones,” he added.
Ukraine and Turkey have close defence industry cooperation, a relationship that has flourished in recent years.
Ukrainian companies also produce the Baykar’s engines, and Turkey was known to have sold more than 20 Bayraktars to Kyiv over the course of the past two years. Reznikov’s information significantly increased that number.
plus Turkey has signed contract with Lithuania with same.
“Unfortunately war-hungry Western leaders are blind to what is coming …”
I disagree on this one Guilherme. This Psycopaths/Criminals KNOW very well what is coming.
You got a point!
Guilherme, sou brasileiro, do Rio Grande do Sul; fico positivamente surpreso de ter um brasileiro, claro, além do Pepe Escobar, escrevendo aqui no Saker.
Uma pergunta: não entrando em questões ideológicas, mas, de forma bem pragmática, você acredita que um novo governo do Lula pode fortalecer a posição do Brasil nos BRICS e, com isso, haver algum tipo de espernça pra nós nesse novo mundo multipolar que se desenha??
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Guilherme, I am Brazilian, from Rio Grande do Sul; I am positively surprised to have a Brazilian, of course, besides Pepe Escobar, writing here at Saker.
A question: not getting into ideological issues, but, in a very pragmatic way, do you believe that a new Lula administration can strengthen Brazil’s position in the BRICS and, with this, create some kind of hope for us in this new multipolar world that is being designed?
fz-mod: please, no semi-private conversations in the comments
Olá Marcelo! Tudo bem? Acredito que o Brasil com Lula seria pró BRICS, mas também acredito que com Bolsonaro o bloco econômico não ficaria de lado, mas algumas integrações mais a fundo demorariam a acontecer visto a insistência do governo federal atualmente em ser pró Washington.
Hi Marcelo, how are you? I believe that Brazil with Lula would be pro BRICS, but I also believe that with Bolsonaro the economic bloc would not be left aside, but some deeper integrations would take time to happen since the federal government currently insists on being pro-Washington.
From what it seems, the cornered white racism tries to gather all the possible forces to maintain its privileges as it won them, killing; it only remains to be seen how he will solve the cases of those who have nuclear weapons and cannot be killed with impunity.
White racism? President Putin is as white as any white American. Is he a racist? Obviously, this notion of racism is found in all races…without exceptions.
It’s not really about the skin color.
Did you not hear from the Ukrainians that they are the real white/arian people and the Russians’ blood is “dirtied by Mongols”?
It’s rather about the perception of whom this world and the world reign free pass belongs to. And Russia is not part of it.
It might have been better by Liborio to say “colonialism”.
The SU and Russia have both been fighting colonialism by supporting liberating movements in Africa. So, that’s why Russia is not part of the colonial beneficiary society.
There are two kinds of white. Russians are white, but they are not White. Slavs as a whole aren’t White in the eyes of Europeans but they can be graded with the Russians having the least potential for becoming White. Russians have tried to join the White club more than once and been denied entry every time.
Being White isn’t about skin color but worldview and how you treat others who aren’t White. I won’t print most of the Black American names for this phenomenon, but “house negro” should indicate what I’m talking about. For example, Obama was as White as the day is long. A coconut if you will: brown on the outside, White on the inside. The Ukrainians tried it in WWII, claiming to be pure Aryans. Hitler essentially told them that he’d consider them the Whitest Slavs so long as they did a good job killing the other Slavs. Same way the Irish – originally persecuted in the US – gained favor: they became enforcers for Whiteness at a time when Slavs weren’t considered white. Even Italians weren’t white people. Certainly not White people. America’s melting pot is that everyone has to become White or they’ll be treated like second class citizens.
@Lex.
A fair sketch of the Anglo racism of my youth. Even in South Africa it was already beginning to fade in by 1950; partly because some Christians and most Communists preached equality as an ethic; and mainly because Anglo Zio Capitalists like Oppenheimer began to preach that the black man’s dollar is as good as the white man’s dollar.
That is just another description of how the world beast system works, either you get rid of your conscience and moral hinderances and go with the modus operandi or you get flushed down the shitter. This has nothing to do with skincolor, who sold their fellow man in to slavery? Or claim the other side is nonhumans? About every ethnic demographic on the planet when in majority.. at least thats my humble opinion.. if i live in a corrupt «demonocracy» and dont support any of the corrupt honeypot blackmailed leaders am i a «white supremacist trying to keep my priviliges? When my «selected puppet» political murderpoodles decide to steal my hard earned wages to fund wars all over the planet and takes away my every right and then try to poison me with experimental insanity shots that they claim are safe and secure does that make me a white supremacist? I find no logic in this, only brainwashed zealotry for the «other side» of the coin. It never seize to amaze me how fast people fall into the same pattern of black and white ( no pun intended)
Racism is hard coded into Western Civilization from the get go when the Biblical-Project took over, where a demonized tribe received the order to conquer the world, to serve them – the chosen ones – and feed the demon with the pain of the subjugated. It is written in very straight forward words in the old Testament.
Of course it’s easier to kill a wrong colored neighbour than the 0.0001% who steer the whole out from the shadows – they had roughly 2500 years to fine tune the methods of control and subjugation into a higher art form.
But they now fail either and any way, because a new chapter of history has been opened where the machinations of this demonic entity are no longer tolerated because it has reached the limits of it’s systemic boundaries – not of it’s choosing but by means of new requirements from higher levels in the unfolding universe of God, becoming a true global civilization inhereting all accumulated civilizational truths – the Three is the starting point, because the number 3 is and symbolizes infinite advancement 1 / 3 = inifital advancement. From the three the new One will be generated.
Get rid of the woke yoke , remember truth can set you free if u let it…
White privilege eh? Very woke and on western narrative. Some simple observation reveals it is actually wealth privilege not white, tell those living in a trailer park about their privilege. My kids are mixed, in both countries where they attended school they both made good friends and encountered racism, yes in a non white country as well. Racism is a tribal attitude.
Seen plenty of Russians holidaying here, they and their blond haired kids sure look white to me.
interesting interview with a Polish General concerned that Madrid statements are just symbolic and Nato has command organisational failures
https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114884,28631163,gen-mieczyslaw-gocul-szczyt-nato-ma-nas-przekonac-ze-wygramy.html#s=BoxOpMT/
has eng option
I was directed there by a comment on moon of alabama ostro123 who surely deserves credit for posting the long translation and picking it up. Perhaps worth an evaluation by Martynov??????
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/06/another-zelensky-lie-debunked-white-house-says-ukraine-must-give-up-territory/comments/page/2/#comments
extract
“Gen. Mieczysław Gocuł: the NATO summit is to convince us that we will win the war with Russia if, or rather when, it breaks out
I am very concerned that the NATO summit in Madrid is going in the wrong direction. Instead of looking for ways to win peace, because this is the essence of the problem of the eastern flank, the summit is to convince us that we will win the future war if, or rather when, it happens – says Gen. Mieczysław Gocuł, former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army.”
etc
To win a war you need an army, to get an army you need a draft, to draft the army today, you get a mountains worth of strawman and load of promises that can’t be kept.
In this country, I would not want to be a woman today, or a young person today, or an old person today, or be gay or black, or on the shore, or in the city or too far in the country, near a river or a slope, nor flatland too.
Nope, just no where to go anymore in the world, and I sure hope I find a right place enough to satisfy me, that will be all I need, after the wars over naturally.
JJ – that interview is illuminating. It describes utter chaos inside NATO command and control.
The Final Crisis Is Here.
The “inevitable financial collapse” Guilherme Wilbert touches on in his article barely scrapes the surface. However in all fairness it would take more than one article, essay, or series of essays to even begin to fully explain how the world arrived at this juncture of political economic and social crisis.
Why crisis?
The world’s largest debt-based monetary system ever created in history is about to collapse and Russia built upon it’s alliances with China and the other BRICS nations because all are aware of this fact. Putin and Xi especially have been planning to avert the collapse of the West since 2009.
Now all Russia needs to do is wait until something triggers the real beginning of the crisis. A crisis unlike any other the world has ever experienced.
You can’t have complex societies grow to a point where many of the world’s 7.8 billion live comfortable lives, based on debt, which is based on easy cheap energy, then suddenly take those two away, and expect order out of chaos, and life to continue as if nothing happened.
The only thing worse would be total global thermonuclear war. Which is probable, but not inevitable. On the other hand a global credit seizure and monetary collapse could happen suddenly and at any moment, such is the fragility, complexity, and interconnectedness of the financial system.
Even words like “crisis”, “collapse”, and “catastrophe”, do not convey the gravity of the situation now unfolding.
What could be worse than no credit, banks closed, no way to pay for food, heating or shelter, no medical care, no transportation of any kind? Everything taken for granted in a modern civilised society will suddenly vanish.
Won’t happen?
It already is. Most just haven’t seen it in their neck of the woods, yet.
The Final Act, the death of the EU and the remaining Western civilised industrial societies is imminent. How imminent ?
I’m looking at the debt market that has the greatest potential to bring down the whole Western financial edifice.
Meaning catastrophic rising bond yields in the US, ECB, BofE, and BoJ. And destruction, respectively, of the US $, the €, The £, and the ¥ .
By my reckoning this will occur before the year 2022 is out. Why?
Because these currencies are based on nothing. And their time is up by any measure. Bond yields. Central bank interventions to no avail. Rising inflation. All fiat currencies throughout history last an average of 35 years. All have failed. The Federal Reserve issued USD is over 109 years old and measured against the only true money, gold, has lost 99% of it’s purchasing power or “value.”
Everything exists in modern civilisation because of:
1. Energy
2. Credit
You don’t have to be Einstein to know these two critical elements underpinning the modern world’s standard of living are being both destroyed and depleted simultaneously. Credit can only exist because of energy.
Take energy away and there is no credit because credit is a claim on future energy performing work in a real economy to enable debt to be paid back. Creating debt to pay for the cost of money, or interest, in the current system of growth without restraint comes at a cost. Now there is nothing any person or government or central bank in the West can do to stop credit from seizing. Or stop their currencies from collapsing to zero. Their death was written in stone since their birth.
Russia and China are the best placed to weather the coming cataclysm. Why?
Preparedness over decades. Stockpiling energy. Food. Finished goods. A new monetary system. To name just four elements in their respective leader’s plans for a new way to organise and govern their complex civilised societies.
This article goes over some of these truisms. https://www.thepickaxe.xyz/single-post/no-supplies-for-unfriendlies
There’s thousands of such articles, more or less read, most unheeded.
It is a universal law, known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that the total entropy in a system tends to increase over time. An increase in chaos, or in scientific jargon, entropy, means the devolution of a system as we are witnessing now.
As this essay warned way back in 2009 here https://web.archive.org/web/20090116171042/http://dollardaze.org/blog/?post_id=00568 the global monetary system has reached the point of bifurcation, and the snowflake that starts the avalanche could be anything at anytime.
“As this essay warned way back in 2009 here”
¡Muy interesante ensayo! Gracias por compartirlo 🤗
I have a saolboat suitable of circumnavigateing around the world. When the SHTF I will observe it from some comfortable distance.
Ok, but watch out for pirates, Carl!
Same here, Carl. I think all the time of shoving off from the dock, giving up my Internet and AC connection, and going for an explore. In my dream, I round Cape Horn and become the first American yacht to visit the PRC.
first off: “small fiefdoms of thought, the case of Facebook for example”. great phrasing. especially since facebook is “worth” (like tesla, through overvaluation) more than the GDP of some countries.
it’s always odd to see people say “financial collapse in the west” since “collapse” implies the destruction of a solid structure. it’s more like “blowing away a smokescreen” since the entire FIRE sector is based on smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand scams aided by materialist overreaches like HFT and crypto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_flash_crash#Early_theories
as this author (and putin and every economist who isn’t a twat) mentions, the financiers who run the US have given the impression they want to cause weimar II and won’t be happy until people are using wheelbarrows full of cash to pay for a can of beans (see also: zimbabwe).
my first experience with “commodities” was as a kid buying comic books. even at that young age i realized there was a reason “action comics #1” was worth tens of thousands of dollars while “adventures of derpman and tardboy #347” was scrap paper; not just because of superman’s first appearance, but also because most copies were destroyed in WWII paper/pulp drives while the other had 6,000,000 issues printed.
such is the fate of the dollar. just a coaster to set your drink on.
as for turkey – no surprise. erdogan is just a slimy sultan who thinks he’s clever but will soon learn he most certainly is not. at all.
There is always chance of other collapse : the Russia itself. Poor demographic forecast and large country having 90% of areas hardly populated at all. If China-India-Africa is future mainstreet it doesn’t mean Russia is part of that world trade leading axis.
Western racist sour grapes opinion.
China doesn’t want to take over Russia and spread its population to the borders of Europe. No, it would be horrible having the Ukraine as a neighbour.
What’s the demographic forecast for NATOland ?
The average citizen of post-Christian EU-rapia is triple vx-ed, supports the former Ukraine, gay with 2 dogs flanked by Muslim neighbours who have 9 kids on average. So the future for EU-rapia is green but Muslim green which I support because one can have a dialogue with a true Muslim whilst the average EU-rapian is not agreement capable.
I live in Sweden and think joining NATO is a very bad idea. After two hundred years of peace the treacherous politicians are going to drag us into war.
Well, do something. I remember you as proud Vikings and a big part of your culture and tradition is screaming so.
Nowadays you seem, especially Sweden, a weakened and fearful country. It’s time to unbury the hatchet, Scandinavians!
Do what? Even the well armed American public are not doing anything while Dementia-Joe are destroying the country. So neither heritage nor current armament seems to matter that much.
This is hardly a done deal. NATO requires ratification by all members. Slovakia and the Czech Republic are going to be under heavy pressure. Erdogan may renegotiate in a bait and switch.
In any event it is clear that the US military complex (and all its subsidiaries: “intel”, politicians, financiers, etc. as well as their resource arm [the energy complex]) is driving this war to ever greater depths for ever more massive profits.
The USSR was defeated by indirect economic attrition – simply put they went bankrupt trying to match the US military 1:1. Apparently the geniuses in the west think they can do this again.
What they don’t seem to realize is that the US bankrupted itself at the same time (with massive debt and crushing social austerity). They also fail to see that Russia – with less than 1/10th of the obesely bloated U$ super-lux military budget – is effectively applying the west’s own strategy against them.
The expansion of NATO and the stationing of additional U$ troops in Europe is not to face off with Russia (they would be obliterated in 24 hours), it is to keep the European colonies in line.
Russia was never a threat to Sweden and Finland. In fact there is strong potential for them to be win/win trading partners. Now that they are NATO, the Empire of Lies will be strongly motivated to interfere more deeply in Sweden and Finland’s domestic affairs with a view to weaponizing them against Russia and of course Russia will respond. If any Swedes and Fins think they are making themselves safer with this undemocratic sellout by their top officials they are wrong. Being an unfriendly country to Russia will win then no economic or security benefits, most likely the opposite of that.
The U$ has been balls-deep in Sweden for a long time – just look at the bogus rape charges against Assange that resulted in his temporary protection in the Ecuador embassy in London.
Let’s hope the Kurds wise up and turn back to their only proven friend – Syria.
The West has never been interested in hunger…the West is run out of Washington which in turn is run by a shadow cadre of elites.
So you have a tiny fraction of humanity controlling the vast majority?
Whose fault is that…the criminal elite…or us?
Russia is doing the right thing…because if you don’t fight you lose…like the 99% of Americans.
I think that Finland by joining NATO is creating an existential threat to herself. Whenever NATO attacks Russia Finland will be the first casualty. Then if NATO loses Russia will take all the Northern part of Finland to herself and Finland will end up as inconsequential as Estonia. A pretty bad move by Finland.
Why Russia Doubts NATO’s “Good” Intentions.
https://sonar21.com/why-russia-doubts-natos-good-intentions/
Did i miss the referenda in sweden and finland re joining NATO? Naturally, such a huge decision about these countries futures will have needed ratification by popular vote. The results must have been lost in all the false flag fuss about the mall fire in ukraine
Obviously Sweden and Finland see a $ or two in this.
But it will end up badly I suspect.
I think the claims of this post are “rather premature”: the USA are still rich and their “protection” still attracts many local elites, who don’t mind sharing a portion of the profits of looting their populations with USA corporation.
As to why most elites like USA “protection”, consider regime changes in the past 30 years: the vast majority have been organized and funded by the USA, and those most have succeeded after a few tries; only a few have been nationalist (e.g. Bolivia and Venezuela) and the USA is working to quash them (and successfully quashed that in Egypt), none — NONE have been “sponsored” by the Russian Federation (in Syria the Russian Federation barely managed to prevent regime change, in Lybia it is not winning). In effect the entry of Sweden and Finland into NATO are soft regime changes too. The swedish and finnish elites have come to love neo-liberalism and neo-conservativism too, and seem to hope that NATO and the USA will “protect” from any return to the social-democratic egalitarianism of previous decades.
As to the financial collapse of “the west”, this has been happening to the working and lower classes of the “the west” since Reagan and Thatcher, but for the top 20-30% of the population of “the west” the past 40 years have been years of booming wealth and living standards, only briefly interrupted by the 2000s crash.
The working and lower classes of “the west” can continue to be sueezed for at least another 10-20 years more, there are zero chances of them pushing back, see how the large “yellow vests” movement in France has been repressed and ignored.
Looks like NATO has formally declared Russia its enemy and is making its final preparations for war.
Looks to me that NATO is going to attempt to choke Russia at strategic points and stop its shipping. The inclusion of Finland and Sweden in NATO and the move against Kaliningrad point in this direction.
I think this article does a pretty good job of explaining the importance of the Murmansk corridor….
“Karelia, Kola Peninsula: the importance of northern territories for Russia”
“From Finland, NATO forces would be able to threaten Russian military infrastructure in the Kola Peninsula and the arctic region, estimated to be one of the most nuclearized regions of the world.”
https://eastwest.eu/en/karelia-kola-peninsula-the-importance-of-northern-territories-for-russia/
Now if you took time to read this article you should be able to get a better picture of how serious the Madrid NATO conference is for Russia. It is just short of a declaration of war and in the end it all but means war with Russia.
This is a very important development.
Border to border, only 33 nautical miles separate Finland from Estonia. This means that NATO could make up some pretext, whereby it would be necessary to invoke article 5 to protect it’s members from “Russian aggression ” and block the gulf of Finland and access to the Baltic Sea.
This would prevent both ferries from supplying Kaliningrad, and the Baltic Fleet from reaching international waters.
Also at risk is Karelia with its Murmansk Corridor, the Kola peninsula, with air and naval bases, as well as the silo for RS 24 YARS, a thermonuclear missile with a range of 6,800 miles, and across the White Sea, Severomorsk, base of Russia’s Northern Fleet. The Arctic navy is home to numerous nuclear powered submarines and surface warships. Murmansk is the base for Russia’s nuclear powered icebreakers.
Putin has just announced a plan to improve Northern infrastructure by 2024.
Did Turkey sell out for F-35s?
I hope to see Erdogan chased out of Syria in the near future.
Yes! I am so happy to read your comment. Sometimes I think nobody really understands how serious this development is and the strategy behind it. I also would like to see Turkey chased out of Syria. The Bosphorus Straits and the Rota naval base might also come into play for NATO in a war with Russia. Perhaps the Poseidon was partly designed to destroy an aircraft carrier group for this reason.
“block the gulf of Finland and access to the Baltic Sea.”
The EU / NATO would never dare to do such a thing. Even now, Germany is starting to put pressure on Lithuania to withdraw any ‘sanctions’ on access to Kaliningrad. It’s a non starter.
Observations on the Ukraine War
2022-06-28
I’ve watched a LOT of drone footage from this war. I’ve seen, from a bird’s eye view, the construction and logic of the field fortifications Ukraine constructed, with US guidance, over the course of eight years.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1541780685937332224.html?fbclid=IwAR2G8hwVWataR_p3kAstLeYyNe1drmtoE0jZOLTrr9Dy9x8Q2z_hEk-JbZQ
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/06/29/turkey-drops-opposition-to-sweden-and-finland-joining-nato-biden-approves-f-16-sales-to-turkey/#more-234631
The most amusing part is at the end of thr article.
“Unfortunately war-hungry Western leaders are blind to what is coming and is already happening in some parts of the world, either because of irresponsible sanctions or the natural course of the very sequence of American economic mistakes.”
These are not mistakes, these are measures perfectly understood as the mechanism by which the current USD and all associated economies, will be taken down. The scheme has been afoot at least since Putin took office. They’ve levered up the debt, stolen all the assets, and are now preparing to initiate the west into an occult technocracy, ala Judeo-Masonic oligarchic republic. The current sanctions are calculated, along with the destruction of food manufacturing, inflation, and the fomented civil unrest, to genocide as many people as possible. This is well calculated Malthusian coup in which the whole world is a stage, Russia is playing its role. This is the apogee of monopoly capitalism combined with technological capacities we cannot imagine, mind control technology – keep in mind these are weapons we cannot see, being deployed enmasse – to the degree we require new vernacular to describe. The 4th Reich obsession with corporate capital and technocratic feudalism, eventually the Azov battalion or something very much like it ala Gladio will be directed at Americans for extermination. Judeo (Sabbatean-Frankish) – Satanic order.
Interesting article. Still too much in the old narrative, one based upon simple economic causalities that no longer exist. For example, the Crash of 2008-09 was stopped in free fall by the FED and Central Banks (new narrative); instead of letting the free market and the economy find its own level and correct from there.
Another example. Since 1913 the value of the USD had fallen between 96- and 98-percent. The Crash of 2008-09 wiped the remaining 4- or 2-percent of value away. Since the Crash of 2008-09 the USD has been worth nothing. The world has been living a fairytale, a delusion whereby money used to materialize value, but since 2010, value has been non-existent, based upon habit and dependency, but not completely.
An “inevitable financial collapse of the current international system” is so old narrative. Even the idea of the other shoe falling is so-o-o-o old narrative. To start, think that final “full faith in credit” moment, and when it arrives.
Not sure what you are saying. The 2008-9 bailout by the feds was to the banking system. Many many thousands of Americans lost their homes.
The real estate crash in China resulted in America hailing china’s collapse. Months of bull sh.t, as I remember.
The real estate company was instructed to look after the people who bought homes first, not the investors or banks.
Such is the difference. We don’t hear anymore about that, just like the tennis player, Uyghurs and whatever….
This time there will be no bailout.
the U$ has been printing trillions steadily since the Great Stick-up of 2008. There was litte consumer inflation until this year. This seems very suspicious, as in contrived and conspired. Obviously some of the $$ went to the over-valuation of stock prices; it would sem alot was parked off-shore until released in a tsunami of housing speculation. This is orchestrated, and not related to the ‘supply-and-demand’ type explanations of price hikes.
Agreed. The collapse of the USD is imminent. Days ago, the G7 pronounced their intention to cap the price of all Russian crude and gas exports. In other words, arbitrarily manipulating supply-side economics in the world. Russia can easily afford to reduce outputs by say 5%, or divert to China. Such reduction cannot be easily nor quickly filled by other producers. The very real inelasticity of crude and gas will create a very great price increase for the remaining world supply. US prices at their pumps will not be $5, but rather $10/gal. The economic effects of this are sure to cause a world depression, even though producers like KSA stand to gain. But KSA knows the USD paper is worthless, and so KSA is cutting deals privately with Russia, China, India.
Compounding the foregoing is the EU decision to increase their contributions to NATO to reach the mandatory 2% of GDP. Governments today do not create wealth: they consume it. Thus the 2% can come from either of only 2 sources: increased taxes upon those who do create the wealth; or increased printing of paper currency. Increasing either or both are recessionary factors. So the +300,000 increase in troops will accelerate the economic decline.
As poverty increases in the EU, people will resort to theft, extortion, violence to find any means to survive. It will start with purse snatching, then shoplifting, then fuel siphoned from cars, then car thefts, then property break-ins and thefts, then mobs invading and taking possession of entire housing blocks. As the numbers and violence grow, the police will be overrun. Military needed to defend from Russia will instead be turned upon its own people. At some point, even the military leaders will see the futility of their actions: after all, they must face their countrymen when the end comes. Then the collapse.
None of the foregoing will be caused by Russia or China. They will remain within their borders and observe the circus of the insane unfold before them.
Europe was once a glittering group of Nations. They destroyed themselves in WW1. When that destruction was yet incomplete, they did it again in WW2. Now they will complete their final destruction again by war against themselves. Clearly, Europeans are insane. We, in the rest of the world, can only hope no insane European presses the big red button.
Finland & Sweden were already de facto NATO members, and have been for the last twenty years.
They are now going to sign the treaty, and expand their collaboration with NATO, which has been pretty much active without membership. They have been holding join military exercises, sharing intel, and preparing for war against Russia, but lacked the umbrella provided by Article 5.
That’s all it will add to the equation.
Not to worry, Comrada Sarmat is up and ready for them, in case they want to play war against Russia.
One Sarmat would certainly cool their enthusiasm.
Lone Wolf
Erdogan is a whore. He will do anything for money. Russian intelligence agencies literally saved his life a few years ago, and this is how he pays them back. (Removed language that violates the blog rules,MOD)
One day the truth will be told about what really happened back in the 1998-2007. Wholesale criminal financial fraud was done on the part of the Wall Street banks with the blessing of both the US government regulatory agencies {who looked the other way} and CONgress {repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act}. They knew the taxpayers {suckers} would be “on the hook” for their losses. Henry “Hank” Paulson was the CEO-Chairman at Goldman-Sachs when all of this ponzi scheme was being initialized, and conveniently he was the US Treasury Secretary when it all came apart. His infamous “tanks in the streets if the banks don’t get this bailout money” still rings in my ears. Notice the connection? Tells you who owns the US government. Too big too fail. They sold the same loan tranches {CDOs} over and over {100-1}. That’s fraud by any definition. When the house of cards came down, the global economy came down with it. It has been on life support ever since {near zero interest rates for the last 14 years}. When has that ever happened before? Never. It’s been a zombie economy since. Add to this all of the money/credit creation, and I am amazed it hasn’t crashed sooner. And no one went to jail, let alone charged with any crimes. Wall Street bankers, their US government lackeys and Ben Bernanke blew up the world, and there is no putting it back together again. A new system is coming, and it is tyranny on steroids.
For the Turks all conditions need to be met by agreeing parties, it’s not a binding deal until than, consider it
as really another blabber mouthing Nachos episode for the viewers.
Foolish Erdogan,you actually believed that after you agreed to let Finland and Sweden join NATO you still had any blackmail leverage. There is no way the Swedes (especially) or the Finns will do this. Their streets would be filled with violent rioting mobs if they tried it. And those mobs ,would not be afraid to kill if needed to get the point across. Poor,pitiful Erdogan,believing in Western promises:
The price of the values of democracy.
The Turkish Justice Minister said Ankara will seek the extradition of 33 people suspected of terrorism from Finland and Sweden. This will be done within the framework of the agreement reached in Madrid on the accession of these countries to NATO.
Previously, Finland and Sweden have repeatedly refused to extradite these people to Turkey because they do not consider them terrorists.
https://t.me/sputnik/7651
As I recall the collapse of the USSR under Gorbachev and his West worshipers. Was what caused so many of the problems we now face. During one of his last meetings with Bush1 he gave away Germany to NATO. He had the chance to insist that a reunited Germany be neutral. But instead he agreed to let Germany join NATO. His military advisor (Marshal Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev ) tried to warn him against that but was ignored.
Had he insisted on that neutrality NATO would have been rendered impotent in Eastern Europe. And with the powerhouse of the EU,Germany, as a neutral state. The dual EU/NATO team would not have been able to operate. And NATO would most likely have been abolished.Had Gorbachev known that his “new friend” Bush’s Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady spoke clearly and unequivocally about: “The strategic task of the United States is to see Russia as a third-rate country that will not have a powerful military-industrial complex capable of providing full-scale military operations”. He might have had second thoughts,but I guess he never did.
During the attempted coup in Moscow the next year. The far sighted Marshal Akhromeyev killed himself,leaving a note saying ,“I cannot live when my fatherland is dying and everything that has been the meaning of my life is crumbling. Age and the life that I have lived give me the right to step out of this life. I struggled until the end”. As Putin said the collapse of the USSR was a tragedy for Russia. And I would add for the world too.
Speaking of collapse … The US holds the worlds lead in the ratio of money given to the Ukraine NAZIs in proportion to the number of its own citizens living on sidewalks.
https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2022/06/collapsing-new-people.html
According to РИА НОВОСТИ, https://ria.ru/20220630/nato-1799344976.html :
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Erdogan has put forward a condition for considering the applications of Finland and Sweden
Turkey will not consider the applications of Finland and Sweden for NATO if they fail to fulfill their obligations
ANKARA, 30 June — RIA Novosti. Ankara will not consider in parliament the approval of applications from Sweden and Finland to join NATO if they fail to fulfill their obligations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a press conference following the summit in Madrid.
“This is (the membership process. — Editor’s note) a long process, we will monitor the implementation of the guarantees and assurances given to us. In case of non-compliance, we will not send to the Parliament (a proposal for the ratification of applications. — Editor’s note),” the head of state stressed.
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Bets, anyone :-? ….
Michael Hudson shows in his ‘Super Imperialism’ how the US since the Korean War accumulated trade imbalances due to its military adventures which it first covered by its gold reserves, then by issuing Treasury bills. So that US soldiers spent dollars overseas which foreign governments then exchanged for–not commodities, not anything real–T-bills, essentially IOUs. Not able to spend the T-bills, they used them as their reserve currency. Now, there are trillions of outstanding T-bills that do pay interest, but otherwise are just dead assets, what Marx called ‘fictitious capital’, assets that only exist on paper. As the world governments lose faith in or access to these assets, Treasuries become less and less valuable, less and less able to perform their function of allowing the US to run a perpetual trade deficit. The war on Ukraine and sanctions on Russia have accelerated an inevitable process.
https://michael-hudson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/superimperialism.pdf
Whats up with the woke invasion here in commentary field atm? Wokeism is opposite to truth. Wokeness is one of the main factors to the collective stupidity in the west. There are no 170ish genders only 2 and the failure to grasp basic biology should disqualify people from having any say in a serious discussion about anything tbh. Ofc people are entitled to any opinion, but if you deny basic biology facts thats a very telling indicator that your world is based on a wishful thinking dreamworld not a factbased reality. If you believe feelings and consensus are the same as facts and real»science» then you should not be allowed to be on tv as an expert just as little as if you are a corrupt lackey of big pharma.