By Fabio Reis Vianna for the Saker Blog
Perhaps the maxim of the Brazilian thinker José Luís Fiori that “expansionism and war are two essential parts of the machine that produces power and wealth in the interstate system” has never been so pertinent and seems to be confirmed at the exact historical moment we are witnessing.
The extraordinary events that resulted from the Russian intervention in Ukraine, which began on February 24, leave indelible marks and confirm some of the perceptions that have already been mentioned in other articles by us.
The western-led international order is clearly being questioned in its hierarchy of power, and the war in Ukraine is a clear symptom of this questioning.
What really causes astonishment, however, is the perception that this war aims at something much bigger than it might seem at first sight, because it would not be a regional war, but a war of global proportions: a hegemonic war.
The paradigm shift represented by the Russian intervention in Ukraine consolidates, therefore, the path of a new international system, more fragmented, and where Western power is weakened. In this scenario, the tectonic plates of the international system are slowly moving in the face of the new, and unprecedented, world that is unfolding.
Therefore, like it or not, the elites of countries like Brazil, so subservient to the security strategy of the United States, are being pushed towards a consensual solution in the direction of the Eurasian experience through the BRICS. In this way, the brazilian military, so reactionary and obedient to Washington, is facing a new world, apparently already understood by the diplomatic tradition of “Itamaraty”, and even by the powerful Brazilian agrobusiness lobby.
In the opposite direction, the blindness of the European elites causes astonishment by feeding a game that plunges Europe back into what it has always been: the great stage of military interstate competition of the last 500 years.
Therefore, taking this terrible premise into consideration, the armistice that made possible the creation of the European Union, as well as the common currency, would have been a mere interregnum of peace, until the next war.
Retaking its tragic place in the classical international system, Europe is once again the scene of the old theater of death, and the maxim that “peace is almost always a truce which lasts for the time imposed by the expansive compulsion of the winners, and the need for revenge of the losers,” has never been more apposite.
In this context, the german humiliation represented by the American veto of the Nord Stream II gas pipeline is paradigmatic. On February 7, in the middle of the White House, and even before the Russian intervention in Ukraine, Joe Biden publicly disavows the newly appointed german chancellor Olaf Scholz, stating categorically that the Nord Stream II pipeline would be stopped.
This attitude could be considered the trigger for Russian intervention and the opening of Pandora’s Box for the new world that is opening. Besides representing, in symbolic terms, the humiliation of Germany as a sovereign country, it consolidates the definitive “Coup d’Etat” in the European integration project.
With Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky being a kind of spokesman of a script written in Washington – or, who knows, Hollywood – the repeated attacks on European leaders who have worked so hard for the normalization of Russian-European Union relations, as is the case of the recent attack on former chancellor Angela Merkel, indicate that the instruments of fourth generation war, already used by the United States in other regions of the planet, are intensifying in the heart of the western alliance.
Not only the maintenance, but the deepening of the continuous and unlimited reproduction and expansion of the American military empire is a reality that became even clearer after the first Russian tank entered Ukrainian territory, even if this meant destabilizing, or even destroying, old and loyal allies.
In this sense, the old premise carried by many scholars of the “realist” school of International Relations, as well as by great thinkers of the World System, that the concentration of global power in a single state would be an essential condition for lasting world peace, falls to the ground.
The “Hyperpower Paradox” is confirmed as a slap in the face of the enormous theoretical consensus developed since the mid-1970s of the last century.
In other words, since the first minute of the US bombing of Iraq in 1991, which followed the 48 military interventions of the 1990s, and the 24 interventions in the first two decades of the 21st century – which in turn culminated in 100,000 bombings around the globe – the International System is immersed in a somber process of permanent, or infinite, war, which contradicts the Kantian utopia of perpetual peace reflected in the idea of hegemonic stability.
Thus, it was a mistake to consider that the unipolar global power that emerged with the victory in the cold war could exercise its hegemony in the name of peace and global stability, assuming, therefore, a responsible leadership and in the name of a great global governance.
On the contrary, what we have witnessed over the last 30 years is the escalation of interstate competition, with the reaction of other states to the insane and inconsequential process of power expansion carried out by the American military empire.
As a result, we find ourselves before a world that seemed to belong only to the history books; where the national interests of the great powers return with the force that, as it turns out, they never stopped having, but were only dormant.
This new (old) geopolitics of nations, therefore, leaves its clearest mark with what Russia imposes in its intervention in Ukraine: contesting the primacy that only westerners have the legitimacy to impose their will through war.
This is the novelty that shakes the structures of the International System.
In the face of this imminent war of global proportions, resulting from the Russian challenge and the intensification of the arms race – with the alarming return of Germany and Japan to the game – we are inexorably heading for a deepening of the interstate systemic chaos, as well as the escalation of systemic social conflict, particularly in Europe.
As in other moments in the history of the World System, Europe is once again the nerve center of the global power struggle. And as in other tragic moments in history, the behavior of European leaders is once again irrational; in the midst of a negative-sum game. The Europeans lose.
Fabio Reis Vianna, lives in Rio de Janeiro, is a bachelor of laws (LL.B), MA student in International Relations at the University of Évora (Portugal), writer and geopolitical analyst. He currently maintains a column on international politics at the centennial Brazilian newspaper Monitor Mercantil.
All, self-appointed and credentialed, war analysts could benefit from a thorough digestion of this article.
Yes Agreed -things don’t always go as planned -for a start.
There was some really bad news I saw this morning here in Australia (14th April) & some good news albeit not on MSM. See below for Links worth looking at :
https://tinyurl.com/2p8n3wbc — Russia Confirms Black Sea Flagship On Fire, “Seriously Damaged” Off Odessa After Reported Missile Strike. The Ukrainians said earlier they struck the vessel with two Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles… See Video 4 min — – This is the Bad news
https://tinyurl.com/ymeyzy54 – – Chris Hedges: The Pimps Of War Excellent Anti War
https://tinyurl.com/2p9c5zxe — Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme. This is excellent. Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
Well at least if you look, a lot of web sites are telling it for real. But not the MSM !
Europe is not the nerve centre of the global power struggle. It only started with a bang here.
The real struggle will be in Taiwan and the Pacific.
After Europe falls, Taiwan will fall without a shot fired. The West is spent.
Pepe put it more eloquently when he said about a year ago that “Taiwan would fall into the lap of China like an over-ripe mango.
LOL! But a mango that fell off a tree in Hawaii actually dented the roof of my Honda Accord.
I’m just sayin’…
Taiwan has the magnificent museum of Chinese crown jewels brought by Chan Kai Chek (excuse my spelling) as ransom(so to speak) which they have threated to destroy if ever attacked. Most Chinese know that, and many have visited, I cant see China attacking unless they know for sure they will save those treasures..
“The fog of war and the global paradigm shift”
The notion of paradigm shift infers a shift from one paradigm to another paradigm ergo linear dynamics, not the transcendence of paradigms ergo inter-active lateral dynamics, as a component of the transcendence of coercive social relations by those based on mutual voluntary co-operation.
Hence the framing of the article and the headline limits its content, analytical methods, and logical flow, including limiting perceptions to linear extrapolations of the past, and hence emulates the initial paradigm which in present context is based upon tools of attempts to stop time by emulating/facilitating the present, whilst attempting to preclude perceptions and imlementations of strategies to facilitate the transcendence of all paradigms, thereby affecting social relations based on mutual voluntary co-operation.
The article and its headline are therefore potential tools of there-is-no-alternativeness, within which some are already immersed by their beliefs of the win/lose binary and other “analytical methods”..
So you are saying, I think, do not be defeatist. In fact the author writes “Russian intervention and the opening of Pandora’s Box for the new world that is opening”. This wording may be a subconscious and involuntary internalization of the Western mindset, demonstrating its power or it is a Freudian slip. You are pointing to a new paradigm altogether, “transcendence of coercive social relations by those based on mutual voluntary co-operation”.
” You are pointing to a new paradigm altogether,”
No, not a paradigm which is a constructed hoped to be linear closed system facilitating only a modified version of the present hoped to be constructed linear closed system.
The practice/proposal/purpose is a lateral process without pre-determinations and facilitators of emulations inherent in linear methods not being part of the lateral processes which are subconcious and involuntary subsumptions – not internalisations – of present tools of perception, since resort to paradigms only facilitates linear perceptions/reform; only quantative change not qualitative change.
” “transcendence of coercive social relations by those based on mutual voluntary co-operation”.”
That has been the purpose that has informed and been implemented/moderated since 1969 by a growing sum of some to facilitate the transcendence of the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The Soviet Union” by the Russian Federation as presently known, whilst simultaneously with different inter-acting trajectories and velocities, transcending the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The United States of America” – the 1990’s being a time of heightened opportunities – since both these mis-representations were qualitatively emulative/supportive of one another whilst presenting different forms – of the same genus if you prefer – limiting opportunities of the transcendence of each and both, by social re based on mutual voluntary co-operation.
The opponents foggily inuit that is the purpose of the Russian Federation and its associates, and may have had their intuitions further validated by Mr. Lavrov’s recent remarks in regard to the purposes of The Russian Federation and their associates.
However the opponents are of the rubbing sticks school of thermo-dynamics and have been increasingly so since 1971 – dumbing down and the aversion to “intellectualism/science/smart assery” and increasing enouragement of/reliance upon belief refers, increasing their odds/propensity of “screwing up” – and hence they have been, and continue to be, rendered complicit in their own transcendence with varying velocities through various trajectories/vectors.
Sorry, but this is word salad not even worth parsing.
Who knows, maybe it’s an AI -assisted algorithm that wrote this, or even one suited to a quantum computer. :-)
Nailed it again you did.
Thank you
Kent
Generally, people who wax lyrical tend to have a burning need to show that their vocabulary exceeds their own impression of their IQ.
All that needed to be said is that history never repeats, but it does rhyme.
Thanks, was starting to think I have been reading too much and my brain is overloading. Inuit instead of intuit. Yikes. Still a long quiet walk on our frozen river with no inputs that aren’t natural is pulling at me. Just wish it wasn’t -17c.
As for the article.
“The paradigm shift represented by the Russian intervention in Ukraine consolidates, therefore, the path of a new international system, more fragmented, and where Western power is weakened. In this scenario, the tectonic plates of the international system are slowly moving in the face of the new, and unprecedented, world that is unfolding.”
Here here! And not a day too soon!
since science is practiced by humans, it is inherently flawed in its pursuit and application. Too often the most non-linear thinkers are minimized, ignored, or robbed.
“Too often the most non-linear thinkers are minimized, ignored, or robbed.”
Not in all “cultures” and social relations based on mutual voluntary cooperation minimising attribution, thereby increasing the facilitation of interaction hence:
“the purpose that has informed and been implemented/moderated since 1969 by a growing sum of some to facilitate the transcendence of the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The Soviet Union” by the Russian Federation as presently known, whilst simultaneously with different inter-acting trajectories and velocities, transcending the coercive social relations self-misrepresented as “The United States of America” – the 1990’s being a time of heightened opportunities – since both these mis-representations were qualitatively emulative/supportive of one another whilst presenting different forms – of the same genus if you prefer – limiting opportunities of the transcendence of each and both, by social relations based on mutual voluntary co-operation.”
whilst
“”the opponents are of the rubbing sticks school of thermo-dynamics and have been increasingly so since 1971 – dumbing down and the aversion to “intellectualism/science/smart assery” and increasing enouragement of/reliance upon belief refers, increasing their odds/propensity of “screwing up” – and hence they have been, and continue to be, rendered complicit in their own transcendence with varying velocities through various trajectories/vectors.”
hence a probable cause of:
” Sorry, but this is word salad not even worth parsing.”
in the self-belief that such facility is an achievable task in interaction/coordination with moderation – another weakness of the opponents, the usage of belief to bridge doubt to achieve “the comforts of certainty”
Thank you for your co-operation. Enjoy your journey.
Or minimized, ignored and robbed, if they are lucky?
“Or minimized, ignored and robbed, if they are lucky?”
Not if lucky; generally if skilled in perception restriction of opponents, particularly in present context if they accuse you of being “American” and/or mad.
Quite useful for receiving plain bulkas from “nice” Jewish ladies who forgot the salt, since sernik with cinammon was probably reserved for “the elites”.
@ Mr. Bumble…
The headline you quoted and your subsequent comments are extremely contradictory and bewildering as I read them… and as such in stark contrast to this excellent article.
What could be more uplifting for humanity than the fact that a key component of the Mr Global hegemon is being exposed as the murderous opportunistic rapist? Surely the fact that a new multipolar world, both militarily and economically emerging is both inspiring and uplifting as this exciting new paradigm appears out of the mist.
And what could be more of a shift than what Mr Putin brings to the table. Definitely, it is the most important event since 1971/1973, arguably since 2013, and possibly in a best-case scenario, even for 2 millennia.
And why might this turn out to be such a cause for celebration? Well for starters because we have huge swaths of the world’s population joining up into a spirit of developmental, mercantile, and security arrangements that should be hugely beneficial to humanity as a whole. The global hegemon that has preyed on us for hundreds of years is being exposed and disenfranchised and will lose the funding base that once supported its global rape and pillage.
… quoted from what I wrote last week on this subject from a NZ perspective…
“THE PUTIN PUT
Certainly, it goes without saying that we all need an awful lot of patience in our freedom fight. However the developments in global finance/trade last week were huge. I see what some refer to as the “Putin Put” as absolutely massive… the most important development since the decoupling of the US dollar from the gold standard in 1971, and the subsequent creation of the Petrodollar construct which lasted almost exactly 50 years… this just died… last week!
IMO this is a completely new paradigm now in global trade practices, reserve currencies, and exchange instruments.
The biggest surprise might be yet to materialise and come from the unravelling of the gold and silver paper markets… namely Comex and LBMA. Given that right now there are ~300 paper claims for gold for every physical oz available, this is likely to develop into a huge game of musical chairs.
Volatility could be huge in PMs and metals in general. In just 2 days last week Nickel for example went up 250%. Also gold now appears to have a new solid floor at $1900 US… the highest-ever historical nominal price incidentally was in August 2020 at US $2023 per troy ounce.
Putin putting this put [LOL] was brilliant given that when he insisted on Russia being paid in Rubles he also announced that they would pay 5000 Rubles for a physical oz of gold… this offer lasts right through until 28/6/2022.
Because the Ruble immediately dipped in value this meant that the opening offer only amounted to ~$1450/oz in US dollars at that time. From that point on though the Ruble began to strengthen and the last time I checked his offer amounted to ~$1900/ US per oz. Purchasers of Russian goods will now have to purchase Rubles to settle trades or pay for their purchases in gold. IOW this stabilisation only took a few days!
Also, Putin’s move could hardly be construed as hard-ball economic war anyway. Global arbitrage will do most of the heavy lifting and dirty work in this new real market with meaningful supply and demand price discovery for gold. All that Putin is doing is what is perfectly legal and in Russia’s best interests anyway… without firing a single shot.
He is making his currency real [as opposed to Fiat] by backing it with gold and also in the pipeline by underpinning it with around 20 other commodities as well… this will eventuate in a new trade currency instrument that cooperating companies can join into. It will give this new instrument even more stability.
In reality, it will be a new version of the old IMF SDR system from 1969. These systems in theory are also a response to the limitations of gold and currencies as a sole means of settling international trade deals… IOW this is a new BRICS/Belt and Road version that any country can join if they can just play nice.
This new reserve currency system will be in stark contrast to the US $ which became completely dependent on a huge Ponzi credit scheme and of course blatant military intimidation.
Another loss for the US financial hegemon is in effect the loss of their status as the default currency… IOW the currency that most entities default to when financial events go tits up. This was what happened in the past even when the contagion was clearly centred in the US… IOW even in the Lehman systemic emergency most flight in currency was to the U$ dollar.
Now with the US fiat currency being exposed as nothing more than a blatantly vulnerable international Ponzi scheme it is hard to imagine it ever being used again as a serious currency default option. Surely other currencies that join in the new BRICS type currency group, where their currencies are directly backed by up to 20 tangible commodities, would be a complete no-brainer for any entity to use a default option that has tangible backing.
Basically, Putin copied the historical US blueprint from 1971/1973 when the dollar came off the gold standard and then subsequently supported the new currency instrument by the invention of the petrodollar. This was based on the new trade/sercuirity deal they struck with the key OPEC members . Last week’s development now makes the US$ and the Euro extremely vulnerable, as there will now be much less demand for these currencies as trade reserves and in trade settlement.
Also now the old system of protecting the US $ by manipulating the PM paper markets has effectively gone up in smoke too. Good luck with the Anglo/American oligarchs manipulating the paper markets from now on.
Remember too, that the US Repo market blew up back in Sept 2019 when it lept from 1% – 10% in just one night! From that point on the FED has had to put in $50-$100 billion every night just to stabilise the overnight money market.
This is really just more QE as it is technically reverse-repo… it is simply just the FED buying dodgy debt securities and putting them onto their balance sheet or hiding them in global SPVs. The real repo market that once existed is now completely dysfunctional and absolutely non-trusting of one another for overnight money deals… for very good reason too… just on their derivative books alone. So broken is this Bankster collective that the old repo system has basically collapsed.
Cumulatively the FED put out $28 trillion in QE in the early days of the so-called Covid crisis. Effectively the US financial system has been on life support ever since. Also, ever since the 2007/2008 financial crisis, the FED has never effectively tightened = life support for the US economy now for 14 years!
Also, watch this space with Britain and the Euro countries having a giant scrap over unallocated gold that is supposedly held in the Bank of England. Basically, a lot of gold has been stored in England since the end of WW2 in order to keep it as far away as possible from big bad old Russia. This could be a huge problem for Euro countries now wishing to repatriate their physical holdings. The UK could well use this situation as a bargaining point for settling unresolved Brexit disputes.
The other question is how much of this gold is still even there for these countries to uplift it. No reliable independent audits are ever done and no country ever gets their original bars back anyway… such is the shambles of physical gold storage with these thieving Central Bankers’ habits. This all sets the scene for even more division in Western Europe… watch this space too! ”
…end quote…
So yes lots of potential for squabbling by the different factions from the Mr Global collectives self-inflicted disintegration and a real potential for a return to the historically unstable paradigm of old Europe… but the rest of the picture looks rosey to me, with the distinct potential of the vast majority of the world engaged in positive cooperation and harmony, and the old hegemon unable to indulge his old habits.
And congratulation on the quality of Mr Viana’s writing and his great geopolitical nous. I thoroughly enjoyed his excellent concise writing style. I look forward to many more articles, especially when they brings [just like Pepe] that refreshing South American flair and perspective to the discussion table.
BTW that region, along with most of Africa joining up with the new trading alliance, will make the vicious old hegemon appear even more puny and irrelevant than ever… bring it on!
Cheers and warm regards from the south seas
Col
“What could be..”
Some ponder what is, whilst some ponder how to, cooperatively derive strategies therefrom, cooperatively implement/evaluate/modify these strategies, cooperatively facilitating part of what is that some ponder, thereby aiding the metamorphoses of Mr. Rove’s hopes in respect of “Empires” into organic fertiliser.
” hegemon appear” only in your imagination whilst amateurs think tactics, and professionals think logistics.
@MrBumble
Why is it that these words are ringing in my ears…
…”Its life Jim, but not as we know it”
Good on you Fabio Vianna… you are coping flak… I look forward to many more of your articles.
OK granted it’s pretty pathetic flak… but flak it is, nevertheless. Signs of even more desperation from the hegemon?
And now I’ll just STFU and stop ‘communicating’ with this thing… whatever it is. After all, is this not how they get paid.
“OK granted it’s pretty pathetic flak… but flak it is, nevertheless.”
Thank you for your illustration of another component in the petri dish of “The United States of America culture”
Perceiveing critique as attack not as cooperation.
respondeu, mas disse muito pouco, camuflado por uma pretensa erudição
Excellent summary! Reis Vianna provides a very illuminating analysis of world tendencies. Also, it is important to add the economic loss of international primacy by the US and its resort to hypermilitarization and financialization, and the resulting emergence of a double-headed challenger centered on China economically and militarily on Russia. The effort to prevent the integration of the World Island by again destroying Europe (and Western Russia: Ukraine) is at the same time detrimental to Washington, because Europe remains the main ally of the US!
We see it but it is still hard to grasp how irrational are the European elites. It seems nothing has changed in the last 500 years, only the other belief system is on. Still, the elite that was once infected with witch hunts and extermination of native peoples, Jews etc still needs an enemy.
“Europe is once again the nerve center of the global power struggle.”
The European nations are historically those nations who have pursued power and wealth with “expansionism and war”. They are the former colonial and imperial powers. In these countries the United States are seen as the last empire. We see the ideology of Atlanticism, whereby the subjugated Europeans worship America, which in turn worships the Golden Calf. In the Bible the Golden Calf is a false God associated with the adoration of wealth. Unipolarity was the last hope of those who pursue power and wealth.
Let us hope this will be the last hegemonic war. Russia is a European nation but it is also part of the Brics. Let us learn from the wisdom of the Brics countries.
fz-mod: please follow the moderation policy. e.g. no use of CAPITAL LETTERS (as this is considered SCREAMING).
VERY TRUE…
ITS A WAR BETWEEN TO CULTURES…
AND ITS A WAR FOR FREEDOM TO EXIST AS WHO YOU ARE…
THE 500 YEARS IS TRUE TOO THAT IS WHEN EUROPE TRAVELED OUT AND FOUND A VERY RICH WORLD AND THEY WANTED IT AND FREE… SO COLONIZED IT… DESTROYED IT…
EMPIRES COME AND GO… EASY LIFE ON THE BACK OF OTHERS HAS COME TO AN END.. THE 500 YEARS OF COLONIALISM HAS COME TO ITS END.
FROM NOW ON EUROPE AND USA WILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THE GOODS, THE REAL PRICE… AND AS WE SEE IN RUBBLES, YUAN AND OTHER LOCAL CURRENCIES… AND WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE NON WESTERN WORLD AS EQUALS…
THATS WHAT THIS WAR IS ABOUT….
THANK GOD FOR RUSSIA…
To reinforce fz-mod : I do not read anything after I notice a line of shouting.
Bente Petersen, your posts are usually interesting and edifying. Nevertheless, I did not read this one.
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From this moderator:
Now everyone, please get back on topic!
ThankQ
Hi Bente Peterson,
I’m unable to edit out your all caps… but I hope our very hard working moderators will let it pass just this once:
“EMPIRES COME AND GO… EASY LIFE ON THE BACK OF OTHERS HAS COME TO AN END.. THE 500 YEARS OF COLONIALISM HAS COME TO ITS END”
I’m writing from way out here in Nairobi, Kenya. And ain’t it just good being here at the Saker blog… giving my two cents worth as regards geopolitical insights as gleaned from out here at good old Horn Of Africa. Well, in spite of your comments being entirely in the forbidden caps, kindly allow me to commend you for being very spot on. As was the case with the Gulf War, the war in Ukraine has the rabidly parasitic European firms based here in Kenya suddenly on very high alert to make super crazy profits in the fog of this war.
In the past two weeks or so, European fuel companies have formed a cartel that has created a fantastic fuel crisis in Kenya. Yesterday saw the very worst lines of motorists queuing up to buy rationed fuel after these oil marketers hoarded millions of liters of petrol, diesel and other fuels.
But after handling these cartels with kids gloves these past few days (most financial sabotage by western multinationals operating in Nairobi, is widely believed to be organized at their Kenyan western embassies), the Kenyan president, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has moved to quickly deport Rubis Kenya Managing Director and CEO Jean-Christian Bergeron, a French National- thoroughly rattling Nairobi’s massive expatriate community. Rubis is a French company, and the third largest fuel importer in Kenya. You can read the whole story here:
https://www.citizen.digital/business/fuel-crisis-rubis-energy-ceo-jean-christian-bergeron-deported-over-economic-sabotage-n296482
The unmistakable warning here by the Kenyan president, is that no one, European or whatever, is going to go unpunished if they attempt to rip off Kenyans under the guise of some war in faraway Ukraine.
Additionally today, the Kenyan press is also asplash with newspaper stories screaming that the Kenyan government has rebuffed a direct request by Ukraine’s President Zelensky to address the Kenyan parliament.
You can read all about it here:
https://nation.africa/africa/news/nairobi-declines-ukraine-request-to-address-kenyan-parliament–3779598
spot on James, gtgs from Kinoo. Same is happening re data collection attempts, the latest being CKA doing the standard pre-election gig re SIMS re registering and Western cartels trying to gear up their presence further. All part of the pre-election Great Rest
“The Europeans lose.”
The Ukrainian neo-Nazis believe that Ukraine will be the starting point of the last crusade in their holy war to bring final victory for the white race, just like the jihadists believed that Afghanistan would be the starting point for establishing the Caliphate in this world.
It’s ironic that the Ukrainian neo-Nazis hate everything Europe today stands for. It’s tragic that the Western elite seems to be determined to let Ukraine drag Europe into WW3 to finish what was started in 1914.
Whatever happens in a nuclear exchange, Europeans will be the first to go.
OK…that is one view…but the REAL origin of all the recent trends is the challenge felt by the City of London to its absolute control over its global financial empire…. its own mismanagement through the introduction of casino-capitalism in the 1980s and its unwillingness to make a correction unless it is at the cost of others.
Now, ‘the others’ are making the correction and the UK, and USA will suffer the consequences of their mismanagement and lack of ethics.
I’m inclined to agree about the real origin. I recently came across a decades-old article about the real reasons for the US Civil War, at http://american_almanac.tripod.com/russcwar.htm .
I can’t vouch for the article’s veracity, but it made sense: Great Britain, that is to say City of London bankers, were increasingly threatened by not only the US, but by Russia’s friendliness WITH the US (“Here, take Alaska; and by the way, if Europe bothers you, we have your back.”) Also, Western Canada had made it clear they’d like to be annexed by the US; Mexico was friendly too. GB’s hegemony/colonialism was at risk.
So England helped create the civil war and supported the Confederacy in trying to permanently weaken the US. But overall, the US won. England’s next major step was the creation of the Federal Reserve, which as we know means the Bankers now controlled the US; then followed WWI which of course wasn’t fought over Ferdinand’s defenestration.
What I’m trying to get at is, the Rothschild empire moved its headquarters from City of London to America, then proceeded to let its European neighbors, friend & foe, deplete each others’ strength via WWI; and to further enrich their own coffers, they got the US into the war too, via the Lusitania false flag facilitated by Churchill.
Not long thereafter, England “lost” her colonies, the reason given being “the Soviet Threat in Africa.” LOL.
And ever since the creation of the Fed, aka the takeover of the US, Russia has been demonized TO Americans, to engender the cabal’s usual divide-&-conquer strategy. Most Americans don’t know the first thing about Russia; it’s insane to think there’s some inherent, generational hatred rather than simply massive brainwashing.
And this is what concerns me about the current scenario; with Germany et al being thrown under the bus, as are North Americans, and since the Fed’s 99-year contract expired nine years ago, I fear the banksters are just waiting to move their center to, probably, China… after all, they are said to have created the CCP, just as they created Bolshevism and subsequently the USSR.
Both Original Analyst & Anna are historically correct
There are 3 power centers in the world determined to achieve world domination (a very old concept, btw)
– the ‘spiritual’ the Vatican, esp given its infiltration after the death of Pius XII in 1958
– the financial centered on the City of London (the 1 sq. mile of banksters head offices) &
– the military-industrial complex, centered on The Pentagon
Whether the banksters created the CCP and are now about to jump aboard the Orient Express is still waiting to be verified – although it should be expected given their past behaviour.
Anna, the Fed lease expiring was quite interesting. What has happened since? Has the gov or whoever, rewritten the lease , or just carried on as if it is a still extant?
The author is brilliant but seems to write from an anachronistic understanding of the present nature of global power centers. Any analysis from a nation state perspective based on a 19th or early 20th century worldview is doomed to fail.
The City of London-Wall Street Globalist Cabal, together with thw elite of their illegitimate and unholy love child christened “Israel,” represent a kind of super structure whose power is based on extreme wealth concentration. This Cabal abhors the concept of a sovereign nation state functioning to represent the interests of its sovereign citizens. The Cabal seeks to destroy-eradicate-such sovereignty in order to consolidate Global domination over every living individual.
So to argue “America” this or that is to misunderstand where the power emanates from in the emerging New World Order paradigm. America is far from a functioning Democracy; all of her government apparati have been fully captured and controlled by the neocon front men for the Cabal. All. Executive, legislative, and judiciary. I challenge anyone to make a case that there exists a functioning and sovereign democracy anywhere in the western sphere now.
One can see the ugly forces at work already within Great Britain from before the 17th Century; here are the origins of the Rothschild’s power and control consolidated in Old England and France, and expanded throughout Europe via the blood relations of controlling royals in those countries and in Spain, Germany, and even Tsarist Russia.
These were the people who saw fit to hide their true family identities behind official titles to help obscure the true nature of their controlling influence which spanned generations and national borders.
A reading of the history of English Imperialism from the early 19th Century exposes the hidden hands of the Rothschild’s, Werner’s, Beits, Rhodes, Balfour’s and many others who engineered every war in the world even then, resulting in the deaths of millions of people in India, Africa, China, and elsewhere as those countries saw their resources stolen-including their domestic markets-and their leaders and peoples subjugated and murdered if they dared resist.
Perhaps the elite in China and Japan have been willing to forget the bloody gunboat diplomacy of the western powers. I hope their people will not.
To rest here, I agree Anna, that it is obvious and verifiable that western capital and intellectual property have already completed the mass exodus to China, which is why the controlled media continues to lay down cover for them by pretending that China is a serious threat to the people of the west. Elon Musk himself, the man now being groomed, marketed, portrayedbas the next saviour and warrior for truth, justice, and the “American way,” has not only moved most if his physical plant to China, but recently moved his data center there as well, even storing all his data on servers located in China.
People (and “nations”) are what they do, not what they say. The truth is there to be discovered despite the layers of lies upon lies.
The Cabal itself is and always has been the true threat to the people of the west, and whether they realize it yet or not, to all of the ordinary people of the world, including the Chinese and Japanese people themselves, who, sadly, have been sold out and betrayed by their own elites.
Since it appears verifiably true that China is not only fully onboard with the City of London-Wall Street Cabal, and indeed allowing itself and its long suffering people to serve as the next center of exploitation-for China and the rest of the world-one must reflect on the danger this may pose to Russia.
There must be some, but certainly not all, in Russia who are genuine and now acting in the best interests of the Russian people. Lets hope they understand the scope of what they are up against and how they-and Ukraine-may be used to further that other agenda. That’s a discussion for another time.
“Lets hope they understand the scope of what they are up against ”
Since change is a constant, scope changes laterally constantly with varying trajectories and velocities.
This is one of the reasons for not resorting to paradigms which are linear constructs based on past/present assumptions/beliefs, sometimes know as copy books or “plans”, which are regularly mutated into hopes and wishes which those resorting to paradigms regularly attempt to linearly modify/reform, thereby enhancing their “weaknesses”.
“Europe is once again the nerve center of the global power struggle. And as in other tragic moments in history, the behavior of European leaders is once again irrational; in the midst of a negative-sum game. The Europeans lose.”
1. Europe is not “the nerve center”. It is the theater of war upon which once again disaster will be rained. There is no such thing as a “European” identity. Coercive suprastatal, supranational and unelected organizations like EU and NATO seek to create the myth of its existence while imposing upon thoae nations measures designed to destroy national identity down to its smallest cell, the family.
2. The European leaders are mere tools, traitors to their respective nations who execute the globalist dictates, animated by nothing but greed and self-seeking personal “advancement.” The string pullers, however, who certainly do not identify as “Europeans” or belonging to any specific nation in which they happen to reside, are not crazy but true sociopaths, `and “crazy like a fox.” They envision their final victory as a complete destruction of the world as we still know it, so they can reassemble it by the Great Reset.
“There is no such thing as a “European” identity.”
But there used to be one. Before the monotheistic plague arrived.
https://youtu.be/Kp4SnPvaBMU
Ukraine asks Turkey for 20liter chem aerosol drones, gets turned down. Russia allegedly captures, displays handful of ~5liter Uk? drones.
Had to look up ‘Hyperpower Paradox’ and found this prescient article from 2002.
The Power Paradox
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-oct-06-op-layne6-story.html
It’s an ignored warning that has brought us to this moment.
Everything the US touches turns gangrenous. The flow of blood, oxygen, to the heathy parts ceases, causing decay and rotting flesh. Once these parasites are in your house/home and contrary to what the Hungarian Jew, Blinken says, getting rid of them requires a kinzhal in their maggot faces.
wtfud…he Blimken is ukrainian “jew”…i think nuland (cookie monster) too….
Yes, little Mr Binkey… hmmmm… is there something of a pattern here or are these nothing more fascinating coincidences…
Harvard Graduate
Father Donald Blinken was director/founder of NY Investment Bank E M Warburg and Pincus and Co. The current President of which is none other than Fmr US Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner
Great Grandfather Meir Blinken was born in Pereiaslav 95 km south of Kyiv in Ukraine
Grandmother Ethel Horowitz
Tony is a staunch supporter of Nazi lunatics in both the Maidan revolution and now in the current war.
Such strange bedfellows Jews and Nazis… move along, nothing to see here.
The EU is like Hollywood, a paedophilic closed shop.
The States within are bankrupt, hooked up to the Federal Reserve’s life support debt system and like a junkie’s withdrawals would lead to a collapse of the central nervous system.
The greatest concern is that a couple of billion westerners have signed up no questions asked for voluntary euthanasia.
Pathetic cowardly bar-stewards.
The States within are bankrupt, hooked up to the Federal Reserve’s life support debt system and like a junkie’s withdrawals would lead to a collapse of the central nervous system.
So true- as the beginning was of course the EURO/Euro dollar= baby fed note.
Removing and replacing the currencies removed the sovereignty of the countries-so much for autonomy.
The same style of currency replacement “back door”was placing some 800 US military bases all over the globe
and hence the Fed reserve note was incorporated into said country-pretty sneaky-all planned.
As an american I can appreciate the Putin put and Russia.
“….the repeated attacks on European leaders who have worked so hard for the normalization of Russian-European Union relations, as is the case of the recent attack on former chancellor Angela Merkel,….”
Don’t make victims out of those,all these people were put in place, exactly for the purpose of the current status. Especially Merkel was one, who took the torch from the empire to lay fire to the Ukraine. Remember where she was active personally or through servants? Maidan, Normandy format, Minsk, Klitschko and last but not least, she was the one, to force Bomber-Uschi vdL to the top off EU.
She was the one, to lay our constitution to eternal rest and made us prisoners in our own country.
So, as the, not so famous, band “The Only Ones” sang: “No peace for the wicked”
Not great analysis since the first 2 World Wars were between nations in Europe; and this present conflict is between the US plus Europe vs the rest of the world.
It would be more accurate to say that the colonial powers of the last 2 centuries are now finally coming up against the rising power of their erstwhile subjects: the rise of China and the economies of the 2nd and 3rd world, overall has changed the economic and thus military/political equation.
In the past, the billions in China and India were destitute beyond belief and could not hope to compete economically or militarily with the West.
The last 40 years of offshoring, however, has completely changed this equation. China now has a comparable purchasing power parity to either the EU or US, and dominates basic manufacturing and manufacturing inputs worldwide.
Russia in turn has expanded beyond just oil and a few metals – it is now a major fertilizer supplier and the largest natural gas exporter and wheat exporter.
Then there’s the actual military side. The US and EU militaries are clearly unable to compete against Russia’s right now and likely for at least a few years. China and Iran are both far more competitive than they used to be.
An honest question:
Granted, it appears that there is someone or something still holed up in Mariupol that the junta and its American masters really do not want to fall into Russian hands.
I have heard the theories that this “someone” may be NATO personnel, that there have been radio communications in at least six languages, etc.. I recall that at least two bodies recovered from an attempted helicopter rescue had French military ID.
But have any of the Ukrainian prisoners taken recently confirmed or denied a NATO presence? They ought to be in the best position to know.
I am watching in dismay as the state leaders of Europe acquiesce, at the cost of the citizens of Europe, to the bidding of the US/NATO (or whoever it is that truly is boss there).
There is a cynical joke that perhaps describes the situation: the sheep spends its life in fear of the wolf, only to be serially fleeced and ultimately killed by the shepherd.
Despite the differences between the imperialist model and the financial model of the beginning of the 21st century, the concentration of wealth and the means of production by the elites is similar: many effects are related and many symptoms are similar. When we systematically and materially analyze these processes, since the 1970s when these elites began to put their plans of domination into practice, we can point out that Europe was undermined to end the benefits that the Welfare State guaranteed the populations of that continent for about 2 decades, at least (we can’t forget the variables that allowed this after the 2 GM). When neocons shift industrial production to Eastern countries, particularly China, and comparable countries in terms of inequality and political centralization, such as Malaysia and Thailand, this has consequently generated the contradiction of their victory. We are approaching, if we have not already arrived, at the time when we are going to come up against the internal contradiction of this reorganization. The impoverishment of the former first world generates an objective limitation of the economy; the liberalization of the savings of the population of the rich countries in the 70s and 80s caused, at first, the development of a middle class in the 2000s in some countries of the former third world (playing with this nomenclature), where already in 2019 we ran into with clear objective limits: there was no value creation, even in the most capitalistically developed countries, such as China, which, if we look at it technically, has been in a recession since 2016 (stagnation). The measures taken by the western elites, especially in relation to the last 2 years, only accelerated this process of opening up a multi-polar world.
Btw, a good review and hugs from a Brazilian compatriot.
Anyone, who thought a single hegemon would bring world peace love and flowers, need only examine any declining empire. Rome, Byzantium, Ottoman, the impressive Chinese empires, were all hollowed out from within by greedy warring parasites, long before fortuitous barbarian passers-by saw opportunities to walk in and evict the previous tenants.
If you cannot find any honest history books, simply reflect on the american politics of the last few decades.
@otter
Try reading the “Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” by Paul Kennedy.
The US is next on the falling list.
Uniting whole Europe to NATO could be also be understood by the fact how relatively weak Europe is now compared to let us say 1913. Some of nations like UK has almost collapsed. It doesn’t produce now much. The clear evidence is its low electricity consuming, per capita 30 to 60% less than many other European nations with rather same climate. It’s not the fake story of moving industry to Asia. Europe just can’t compete. Now it’s just America owned vassal.
Lots to unpack and think about,,,,“the reaction of other states to the insane and inconsequential process of power expansion carried out by the American military empire.”
Quite so.
Thank you for the enjoyable article.
I think the author is correct. For the last 500 years or so global hegemony has been brewed out of European wars. After WW1 global power was in a way divided between a European nation (USSR) and USA. But USA is in reality Europeans who relocated.
Presently USA seeks to maintain its global hegemon by consolidation of European servitude to US and disengaging West Europe from Russian influence. As Mike Whitney argued in an article at unz.com US wins where Russia and Germany relations being it economic and political are severed. In theory US has won since EU is now totally anti-Russia and blindly following Uncle Sam. Problem is Uncle Sam cannot provide EU with indispensable commodities needed by EU. For example if USA was able to currently provide oil/gas to EU it would consolidate that market plus accruing benefits while at the same time isolating Russia. But we all know Uncle Sam talks too loudly but cannot provide. But the major point is that it’s a global struggle for global dominance taking place in Europe as central point as it has been for 5 centuries.
For China/US competition, same logic applies. In Americans thinking consolidating Europe would give US sufficient wherewithal to take on Chinese. But without Europe as obedient slave, US cannot project global power. There is an article by Michael Hudson on this blog that explains well.
So long as you folks around the world use the US Dollar, even if it’s only to calculate prices, you will continue to fund not only your oppressor but the oppressor of the American people as well.
A text about the end of the unipolar world, published in April 2016, in Brazil.
https://senhorx.com.br/o-fim-do-mundo-unipolar/
There wasnt really a nerve center on the European continent during the world war era.
It was all about the anglosaxons and in particular the british and their anglosaxon elite societies.
The nerve center was in that vampire of the continent
The vampire installed thinktanks in the US thereby displacing the nerve center a bit.
Its financial arm underwent a bifurkation as well.
But there were still no truly international financiers like many grassroots like to believe despite the continuing total dominance of the anglosaxons.
Since the victorious vampire also makes sure it can grab most compromising documents and totally rewrite history, the most striking examples of the vampires intellectual feats are largely hidden.
The invention of cults and revolutions abroad provoking conflicts which the typical observers never manage to connect to the vampire is part of its legacy.
And today the continent must be even more infiltrated and under blackmail and other forms of pressure.
Ulfkotte bore wittness about how much of a nerve center we may expect to find.
For example the McKinsey consultants originate(?) from a Rhodes Scholar, a lifelong servant of the anglosaxon elites.
They are invólved all over Europe pulling strings for the empire.
Hence no nerve center just puppets directed from abroad towards their own destruction.
American operatives watch very closely what is happening in Europe and especially now in France since there will be a run-off election. They are pulling strings there, just as they are doing worldwide, say in Pakistan, or when they prevented the election of François Fillon after he said that the CFR is running the West.
An operative can be a spy, a teacher at a university, an embassy official, a “fellow” in a think tank. Those in NGOs are often suspect. We have many accounting firms which advise businesses on US accounting practices. An operative can also be someone in Ramstein or another US base influencing the local social media, or someone in the US reading the E-Mails of European politicians, officials and business people.
His loyalty is to the US, he is networked and he pulls strings. It is important to raise the awareness of these goings-on and understanding how detrimental they are to the national interest and security of the nations concerned.
As far as France is concerned, it may well be that the French “Eurolemmings” will sense that there is something very fishy going on in Ukraine and will prefer Gaullist Marine le Pen over Emmanuel Macron. Macron is an improbable character. Everyone knows that. He is an Atlanticist, at times pretending to be a Gaullist.
“American operatives watch very closely”
whilst interpreting what they “see” very indistictly.
or an operative can be immersed in the ‘Peace Movement’ writing articles non-stop for the likes of ‘CounterPunch’ focusing on the corruption of Putin and Russia, getting us to hate the Russians. Not very Peace-seeking, indeed. This is the same role played by Trump, a la Professional Wrestling: we hate Trump, he likes Putin, we hate Putin…Controlled Opposition has a long and seedy history. i try to warn people about this, yes i am paranoid, but they think that the operatives have merely ‘fallen for the propaganda’ not realizing that they are the propaganda..
“Controlled Opposition has a long and seedy history”
Yes it is a useful tool and generally minimises blowback, since those so engaged are understood to pose no existential threat even to themselves.
Problems tend to arrive when the controlled opposition starts to believe that they have “independent agency” illustrating the process of – everybody is entitled to their own opinion unless they try to act on itness – which facilitates reactions such as creating Junta Coordinadora and being subjected to the Condor years – since tourists in war zone tend not to enjoy continued well being, or well, being.
“but they think that the operatives have merely ‘fallen for the propaganda’ not realizing that they are the propaganda..”
I would suggest that the following edit may prove more pertinent –
“but they think that the operatives have merely “fallen for the propaganda” not realising that they are their own propagandists, and to minimise blowback, in many cases should continue to be so,”
Going on demonstrations, buying tee-shirts, writing to “Stop the Empire’s War on Russia”, thereby assuming that they understand the purposes of the Russian Federation and potential strategies/tactics through which these purposes could be achieved, since self-evidently they are the audience to which representatives of the Russian Federation assign significance , to avoid doing harm to themselves and others.
.”We hate Trump, he likes Putin, we hate Putin”
If you want to understand underlying context and trajectories of such behaviours, listen to Leader of the pack sung by the Changri-La’s.
Is she really going out with him ?
I don’t know lets ask her
Betty is that Jimmy’s ring your wearing ?
Ah ha
Where’d you meet him?
I met him at the candy store
He turned around and looked at me
You get the picture ?
Yes we see
That’s how I met the leader of the pack.
in illustration of alienation attempting to be assuaged by conformance increasing alienation and pondering what is missing
“whilst interpreting what they “see” very indistictly.”
missing the letter “n”, whilst interpreting what they “see” very indistinctly as a function of not perceiving n but primarily perceiving themselves.
Try to remember Tell the truth since almost nobody will believe you – and that helps minimise blowback, whilst watching the culture in the petri dish.
“Hence no nerve center just puppets directed from abroad towards their own destruction.”
The concept/hope is based on an interpretation of “self-organising systems” attempting to imprecisely develop/mimic Gladio forms, as are interactions with other mercenaries, which in interaction are believed to facilitate qualitative improvement.
Excuse me “Russia imposes in its intervention in Ukraine: contesting the primacy that only westerners have the legitimacy to impose their will through war.” There is no war in Ukraine its a special military operation, don’t mix the two up. This a precision strike against Nazis, not all out war from Russia. Russia is holding its military back to save civilians.
Just to flog a dead horse, I looked up the penetration tables for the armor piercing projectiles from an Iowa class battleship. They will penetrate 8 meters of steel reinforced concrete with a velocity of only 2 times the speed of sound. I then extrapolated to a hypersonic missile of similar mass and sectional density. I presume that the hypersonic missile is launched on a lofted trajectory from a Mig 31 on a steep climb at a velocity of Mach 2 at an altitude of 10,000 meters. To maximize penetration rather than range, the missile delays igniting its rocket motor until it is descending and at about 10,000 meters. Presume that the solid fuel rocket motor is designed to burn during the duration of its dive. Ignoring air resistance as well as the potential energy of launching from 10,000 meters because they are probably about equal, we get an impact velocity of 8 times the speed of sound. The penetration depth is then about 16 times greater than the projectile from an Iowa class battleship or about 128 meters of steel reinforced concrete or hard rock.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/viU6jkCvG7MgCoSJ6
I just thought that I would share this astonishing arrogance by the US Secretary of Treasury.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
This is why a lot of truly patriotic Americans support Putin. A defeat for Ukraine will discredit the Biden morons.
So the Anglo-Saxon re-armement of Germany will baackfire. Makes sense
Thanks for the great article, Fabio.
I’m going to expand on your great description of events leading to humanity’s present situation and include in that expansion a commentary on the very recent Vineyard article entitled “WOKE in Tokyo. The US Nukes Cool Japan Out Of Its Existence”. I’ll do the latter first.
I’m absolutely amazed that a very informative article about Japan did not mention the declining population of Japan, which is presented by the powers that be as a grave threat to the people of Japan for the usual reasons.
Very unfortunately for the capitalist, money-profit-based system, in order for it to survive, the human population of earth must decrease in size, not increase. The environment of Mother Earth will over the long haul not support even the present population, let alone the one that continues to expand.
The “sound fundamentals” of a potentially hard-working, dedicated, productive, educated workforce are already in Japan and in many other Zone A nations right now, so what exactly is the problem that is preventing the Japanese population (and that of other Z. A nations) from “naturally” increasing – did the Japanese suddenly start to hate children or family? No.
The fundamental, unavoidable, ultimately-fatal problem is that investment-capitalism cannot function (cannot find enough “profit” for an ancient, historical build-up of investments in privately owned Large-Scale Capital Equipment, land, real estate, “wealth”, etc.) in an economy that has a stable, let alone shrinking population. Each member of an increasingly-impoverished, shrinking population bears more and more of the “burden” of providing a profit for the 0.01%’s investments.
The solution is not to force an increase the population (and, by so doing, increase “growth”), but to reject a money-profit-based system — a system in which a microscopic percentage (an oligarchic class) of any nation’s population “privately” owns or controls Large Scale Capital Equipment, land, wealth, natural resources, etc. that provide the vital necessities of life for the vast majority of the population for the former’s astronomical profit — and institute one that is suitable for a stable or, hopefully, shrinking population.
For a good example of what I’m talking about, again, just look at Japan — the “canary in the coal mine” of capitalism. The inhabitants of / participants in a properly-designed, non-privately-owned, technologically-advanced, highly-automated economic system in Japan would experience a Utopian lifestyle compared to that of those who are working themselves to death in present-day Japan’s non-growing capitalist system.
Add to that the unavoidable fact that the “chickens” that are the BoJ / government-of-Japan’s debt machinations over the past 30+ years will soon “come home to roost” in every Japanese home, onto the shoulders of every Japanese person, young or very old. IMO, that burden will be literally unbearable.
Just exactly WHERE does a capitalist investor, who wants to make a profit on his/her investment (to be able to “sell” that investment in the future for more than he/she/it paid for it), “invest” in an economy that has a shrinking population? Certainly not real estate.
Japan’s Growing Number of Ghost Towns and the Reasons Behind It
http://jpninfo.com/22498
In short, if Big Investors even for an instant think that the human population is going to remain stable or, heaven forbid, cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die, shrink!, the price of homes will become much more affordable for everyone very shortly thereafter. (After the Big Investors realize what’s going on, the term “hot potato” will instantly pop into billions of other human minds, sign-making businesses will do very well for at least a short period of time, and “bright fall colors” will be found on most residential streets even in the middle of summer!)
Yes, unfortunately, some excess wealth and money and investments that are owned by “somebody” are going to have to go somewhere to die before the profitable excess investments in war machines and perpetual war “accidentally” cause a nuclear Extinction Level Event.
Some how, some way, some where, “we”, and I mean “we, the people”, not “We, the Elite”, have to begin discussing among ourselves the specific features of a future world that we want to live in. But because we have been raised in a 24/7, all-encompassing Matrix of public education, MSM propaganda and “entertainment”, this will be a very difficult discussion/debate to conduct. We’ve been carefully trained to let “someone in authority” make those decisions for us.
For increasingly obvious reasons, we must not continue to allow the Central Bankers and their TBTF banks and their TBTF corporations to continue their self-serving, ruinous control over our lives.
Hard as it might be to realize, human beings do not have to go back to a subsistence, low-tech, hard-labor, non-automated way of life without the 24/7 control of an Elite, even though that’s exactly what the Elite threaten us with if the Elite lose control of our lives.
What future economic experiments are the 0.01% Elite going to force down our throats as a result of their next “financial crisis”? We must not wait for them to tell us. We must tell them what we are going to force them to do before their next crisis befalls us yet again. Hard as it is for us to believe, we have the political power to do so. But again, unfortunately, we have to know what we want ahead of time. That’s the tough part.
The movie “Tomorrowland” is one of the most important, “smartest” attempts made so far at “waking up” both the bewildered herd and its Elite to the ongoing, ever-worsening human crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi1rsHkpRLE
Here’s a transcript of Governor Nix’s complete speech near the end of that amazing movie.
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“Let’s imagine….. if you glimpsed the future; you were frightened by what you saw; what would you do with that information? You would go to…….the politicians, captains of industry?
And how would you convince them? Data? Facts? Good luck. The only facts they won’t challenge are the ones that keep the wheels greased and the dollars rolling in.
But what if… what if there was a way of skipping the middle man and putting the critical news directly into everyone’s head?
The probability of wide-spread annihilation kept going up. The only way to stop it was to show it—to scare people straight ……….because what reasonable human being wouldn’t be galvanized by the potential destruction of everything they’ve ever known or loved?
To save civilization, I would show its collapse.
But how do you think this vision was received? How do you think people responded to the prospect of imminent doom?
They gobbled it up like a chocolate eclair! They didn’t fear their demise, they re-packaged it. It could be enjoyed as video-games, as TV shows, books, movies. The entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted towards it with gleeful abandon.
Meanwhile, your Earth was crumbling all around you.
You’ve got simultaneous epidemics of obesity and starvation. Explain that one!
Bees and butterflies start to disappear; the glaciers melt; algae blooms.
All around you the coal mine canaries are dropping dead and you won’t take the hint!
In every moment, there is the possibility of a better future, but you people won’t believe it. And because you won’t believe it, you won’t do what is necessary to make it a reality. So you dwell on this, oh, terrible future. You resign yourselves to it for one reason…… because that future does not ask anything of you today.
So yes, we saw the iceberg and warned the Titanic ……but you all just steered for it anyway, full steam ahead. Why? Because you want to sink! You gave up! That’s not the monitor’s fault. That’s yours.”
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Do we want to sink? Do we find the prospect of an apocalypse appetizing? Are we that effing stupid? I hope not. I hope there’s another explanation. Because my life in my neighborhood is very happy because of good relationships with immediate neighbors, I believe that there are alternative explanations for why “things” are the way they are outside my neighborhood and only getting worse there – to the point where that will definitely affect my neighborhood very badly.
You know what’s so ironic? The bewildered herds in the US and in its vassal states are so unimaginably, repeat, unimaginably well brainwashed that they can not “figure out” that they will not be told of impending doom by their (in a different way) thoroughly brainwashed Elite.
The herds believe so much in the sincerity and, for lack of a better expression, the good will of “authorities”, along with the effectiveness of “the system” (the capitalist Matrix) in which they have been raised, they literally cannot grasp that the Elite and their great system could possibly fail catastrophically. The herds’ brains literally can not “see” reality, just like bulls in the ring cannot see what’s going on behind that strange looking guy’s red cape.
For example, just ask the dead who lived and killed in those trenches during WWI, or marched right into the “showers” in Auschwitz, what they would have said, prior to the wars, to those who told them what the future had in store for them. “Impossible!”, they would have replied. They could not “imagine” that such a future was possible. Likewise, we, today, cannot imagine that an even worse future is possible than the ones that the aforementioned experienced.
Even when hermits like me or movie producers try to explain it to “voters” through appeals to their imagination (in movies like “Tomorrowland” or “The Matrix”), because those individual human beings are not hearing or reading or seeing this terrible-but-accurate elucidation of the real world on their master-Elite’s newspapers or web sites or TV “news” shows, or reading it in the Elite’s public school classrooms’ Elite-approved textbooks, those individuals are incapable of reacting effectively to impending doom. In short, these individuals have to / expect to be told what to do and what to think by those who so effectively control them. They think, they hope that:
“If things were that bad, we’d hear about it in the news.”
Once again with feeling, no, we won’t!
Accurate descriptions of the real world; the possible “prescriptions” to repair the fatal flaws in the present system, and the “instructions” on how to behave for a truly better future will have to come <not from the Elite, but from ourselves. The Elite are incapable of it because the Elite remaining the Elite depends upon “this” remaining exactly as it is.
Even if we self-centered voters did somehow manage to overcome their brainwashing and see reality, because of our educations, we would still have, to put it mildly, great difficulty organizing and creating a plan of action, let alone implementing it. For example, we have great difficulty agreeing upon the meanings of commonly-used words. Imagine the day after the “out of the blue” collapse happens. Desperately trying to find a foundation-stone of a new system before the ensuing political chaos becomes uncontrollably, irretrievably widespread, we would almost certainly fall back on the fatally-flawed myths that inexorably led the present “system” that is about to collapse around us — the myths of the infallibility of greed and the myth that Growth Is God (the “GIG” economy?).
It is a testament to the power of propaganda that what should be obvious is completely lost on we who have been subjected to it every day of our lives. Even the intelligent producers of Tomorrowland, The Matrix, THX1138, Logan’s Run, The Time Machine, Soylent Green, Star Trek, etc. are, so far anyway, incapable of elucidating even a fictional-but-viable-looking “movie-solution” to humanity’s very real, increasingly serious conundrum. After the enemies in these prescient movies are vanquished or escaped from, “they lived happily ever after” is all we temporarily-relieved viewers take home to “munch” on.
So what is the foundation-stone of the post-systemic-failure going to be? For example, what is “Putin’s plan” for Russia after the SMO is over? Is it going to be “let the president become Napoleon”; “TBTF banks and their private owners know what’s best for us”; “stand up and do what comes naturally”; “last man standing”; “dog eat dog”; “might makes right”; “do what our gang says or we’ll kill you”? Or is it going to be “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”.
As Klattu, in the original “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, told those assembled in front of his flying saucer, and the audiences in the movie theaters and TV living rooms 71 years ago right up to today, “the decision rests with you”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFsUHaRVHA
The decision for humanity’s future does indeed rest with us, and we and our descendants will suffer the consequences of our decisions, just as we are today suffering the decisions of our distant and not-so-distant ancestors.
Thank you for your excellent excursion into the real issue: how can humanity survive under a system that necessitates an ever-growing expansion in a world limited by planetary borders. It can’t. Interplanetary migration does not help because the Martians are not there to be colonized.
The only alternative is a world of sharing equally the blessings of the natural world, human ingenuity and creation: end of domestic and international power politics, dismissal of the Thucydides trap myth.
“the behavior of European leaders is once again irrational” the Faith in a world organized by (a western white single superior) Reason is irrational. I hope that Western Civilization goes to its place in the “Mankind’s History”: the garbage can!
Great article.
Congratulations on your insightful text. And I must add that the Luciferian Empire will not give up on Brazil and India. I know, a large part of the Brazilian military came out of sleep and supported Russia. But the Cabal Empire has tentacles inside Brazil. The Brazilian south is called Latin Switzerland, and it is already dominated by the USA. As for India, make no mistake, the Psychopath Empire will not give up. We will see “serious things” in the BRICS – Brazil and India this year. The destruction of the BRICS is also a priority for obese Anglo Saxons!
A brilliant summary of where we are. The only thing I could add is that the Americans lose too as the EU and the US have the largest bilateral trade and investment relationship and enjoy the most integrated economic relationship in the world. So as the Europeans lose so do the Americans.
There are two phenomena over which the powers that dispute hegemony have no control: the increase in poverty and inequality in the world; and the permanent environmental deterioration, mainly in underdeveloped countries.
This will cause larger and larger migrations; increasingly violent social conflicts; entrenchment of developed countries and greater chaos in many countries of the global south.
Neither the United States, nor China, nor Russia, nor Europe, will be able to contain these problems, much less solve them, if they maintain the current political, economic, and military confrontation; and much less if all his power is focused on defeating the opponent, in a zero-sum game. The whole world will lose.
I wish to comment on the article above and some comments below.
Above: Russia will win this war because they have the means to destroy the entire Europe, and the floating US coffins somewhere. The reason why we wait to see the outcome of the eastern Ukraine is because the Ukrainian army has embedded themselves behind civilians.
NATO will not be so lucky, unless they employ the same tactics that they trained their Nazis in the Ukraine, and hide behind civilians, away from their bases, when thousands of missiles come reigning down on their heads. Please get this through your heads: if Zion USA/ NATO was so powerful, why did all of them keep running to Russia to talk?
It was because they foolishly taught that they could convince a more intelligent mind that they meant no harm to Russia. Why do you think that Russia entertained all of them, at a table that could seat 40 people? It was to show the world that we (Russia) did everything possible.
On the economic front, Russia can pull the plug on the entire west and see them completely disintegrate. Oil, gas, fertilizers and so many more essential minerals, agriculture to just friendly countries. That spells doom, but Russia is patient, just like China which leads me to comment below:
Below: The Chinese citizens are 90+ % behind Russia, and the hatred by the west is well known. No more students, paying exorbitant sums, and no more tourists. Taiwan is/ has been recognized by the whole world as being part of China, even by that consistent liar USA. People only listen to sound bites a week ago, at best. That the tune is changed, international laws broken has become the norm, but what else is new.
The Chinese military laughed at one of America’s general who said we had air power and can restrain China. The reply was” meet us in the sky”. China need not enter this, for Russia can take care of business, and they will. If they do you can forget Europe and North America, so “bring it on” as your hero bush Jr said, and so many more slogans of ignorance, arrogance and hatred. Well, ” build back better” ain’t seem to be coming anytime soon.
Brazil is full of white racist colonialists of all the stripes of Europe, controlling the power. Subjugating their people, much like the boss USA. At least Trump Jr. Bollsinario went to Russia to talk with Putin, despite the threats from Zion USA. Apparently, he knows which way the wind is blowing?
I can’t say much here on the Internet. Bolsonaro was captain of the army. The Brazilian military discovered that the US has a plan to take the Amazon away from Brazilians, with its gold and diamonds. The military has woken up, but the Dark Empire does not sleep and is determined to destroy the BRICS!
“and is determined to destroy the BRICS!”
Some conflate attempt with achievement and determination with facility.
There are reports of cruiser Moskva sinking near Odessa after being hit with two Neptuns. Can anybody confirm?
These are Ukrainian reports.
The Russian reports : https://www.rt.com/russia/553838-russia-cruiser-blast-black-sea/
The western vassal states of Europe so belligerent to Russia will be beggars at China’s door.