Your analysis is correct. Allowing the United States to excuse her guilt and blame Ukraine or Europeans will only guarantee another conflict in the future. The evidence is already in the public information space. Nuland and Pyatt, They have no immunity and they broke international law. Start there.
Only I will concede that no discussion about any negotiations for SVO have started yet and will not for a long time, so root causes of conflict could be witheld until then.
Martyanov said something interesting in today's video about how reliance on the Empire's flying frying pan, the F-35, has destroyed Europe's aerospace-defense industry which lacks the expertise to produce a 5th generation jet and certainly not a 6th generation jet, thus disarming EU/NATO. There're other military systems too that have proven inferior to Russian systems. IMO, Europe needs to think peace since it cannot wage war. I estimate it would take 20 trillion euros just to reach Russia's 2020 military level, not counting nukes, and by then it would be 2040 and even more expenditure would be needed--the arms race cannot be won by EU/NATO and likely not by the Outlaw US Empire either.
Peace is the only viable path for Humanity, but the West has yet to awaken to that reality.
They all have the same problems, acting as adjunct expeditionary forces to various US interventions. Be it Iraq and Afghanistan or other hot spots. Many of these vassal states have seen themselves as a sub-imperial power and have been shocked that they're in fact exactly as Ukraine - an object to be used. The Brits have seen themselves as the master manipulators via the black arts of finance/terrorism/subversion and now find the psychological hold of the "special relationship" is nought. For me it's interesting that the Australian PM hastened to London with an offer to Starmer for Australian forces to participate as part of a peace keeping force. It was Australia's intelligence services that participated in framing Trump. One wonders what payback will ensue.
It may well die anyway. Going by other such projects costs will rise unacceptably, weapons systems will be so complicated that they won't work except on a steady, dust and moisture-free shore base, and finally, the US has a shortage of trained ship-builders, and even fewer shipyards, a condition which may well get worse in future, especially if Musk finds them too expensive. There is a lot of info on US weapons technology failures at
Leaving AUKUS and the QUAD would be even better and would certainly end the sub deal. The current silly sucking up to the British plan speaks volumes about the colonial mindset via Parliamentarians oath of office to the Crown as the UK cannot meaningfully project force in any direction. I look forward to Trump’s response to Albo’s nonsense.
I look at some pictures, videos from different times. English, Europeans and even American they could not see their land decline, it looks terrible and why did they not see but allow many different governments to do this? They cannot afford to put street lights anymore, ours looks like a carnival when the sun disappears. Anyway as an example the English they cannot even make steel, how many agreements were signed for loans that guaranteed America has no competition, for generations they sold the country, traitors and the Europeans generally did it. We also drove into this trap, almost destroyed civil aviation and then denied by sanctions. Will not happen again. It is funny, not for laughing but England believes it is exceptional, makes a tank, but it does not and cannot make the barrel for the cannon. So what do they make, some type of armoured truck because this challenger without German barrels does not fire anything. Anyway everything in England is owned by foreign corporations that do not even like them. There are many things wrong with the US empire but I dislike the English ruling class more.
There's an excellent book that will teach a lot about the English and how they influenced the culture that arose here in the USA. I won't call it an enjoyable read given what it reveals. It can be read at The Archive online library for free when you join, which is also free, "The Many Headed Hydra," https://archive.org/details/manyheadedhydras00line
"I dislike the English ruling class more" You can't dislike them as much as I do - I have to live in the same country as those chinless reptiles. (Apologies to real reptiles).
So many earnest readers and commenters who seemingly don't understand the criminal mind. The West (UK, US, EU) as the dominant economic and military powers repesented the richest target for exploitation.
It's all vey simple and trivial; volumes have been written about the fall of past civilizations from the same exact processes of infiltration, corruption, decline and collapse.
It always start and ends via divide and conquer. The most fundamental divisions of class, race and religion are exacerbated via the techniques we see employed in real time today.
The end is inevitable - there is no avoiding the collapse. The only variable is how severe and whether recovery is possible. Russia and China pulled off their respective returns; Trump is trying his hardest to manage a turnaround without completely destroying the Union.
Managing the decline of an empire is not an easy task, particularly when you won't or can't admit it's in decline, which is the Outlaw US Empire's current dilemma--it's in denial. Looking at the several major bubbles--asset prices and debts--we 're now seeing asset prices contract. As for genuine economic growth, the Empire's been in recession since the Dot.com bubble bust in 1998-9--the only sector seeing "growth" is the Rentier Sector, which isn't productive but extractive and is thus a cost burden to the genuine productive economy. To rid itself of the Rentier Sector, the US economy will need to be altered structurally, which also means altering its political structure. And the former can't be done without first dealing with the latter.
"At the same time, we must be aware that there will be a large number of political forces trying to undermine the peace process, whether in Europe, in the United States, or within Ukraine." - who might they be?
And BTW - While the American people did NOT want any part of either WW I or WW II, both Presidents Wilson and FDR did - guess what? HISTORY! Is Trump the exception?
There's the used car salesman selling you a dud that loses a third of it's value leaving the forecourt and then there's POTUS, selling you a dream, a good yarn, while tent cities spring up in former good neighbourhoods.
"Now, the restoration of Russian-European relations depends entirely on whether the European ruling elite can make pragmatic and rational decisions." The present lot are incapable. Sadly.
Main lesson that I take from this interview: a long and slow road ahead but on the road at the moment.
"Emphasis was placed on Trump’s lack of patience and wanting to resolve issues quickly."
Well, as a fellow citizen, I'm sure you're very aware of just how precarious the US economic and political situation is at present.
Over the last few days, both Bessent and now Trump have hinted at the looming recession; as this event actually turns into a depression (you cannot magically erase $10T+ of spending, whether stolen or invested, without incurring a banking collapse), the political situation will continue to deteriorate.
As you know, I keep prodding B @ MoA to begin focusing threads on the current (cold) civil war. Already there have been casualities and it will most certainly continue to escalate as the contest between nationalists and globalists begins nearing a critical mass before it breaks out into actual open conflict.
In this context, you can sense the artfully hidden alacrity behind many of Trump's moves. While it's true he's transactionally oriented, what is happening on both the domestic and global fronts demands that Trump resolve critical decisions *right now* before we lose control of events altogether.
I addressed some of this in my reply to your first comment. Stagflation's a very real possibility with Trump's tariff policy. Trump also appears blind to the fact that for MAGA to be realized the working class must be re-empowered; otherwise, nothing will be built.
Trump thinks building protectionist walls as was done in the 1890s will to the job. No, they won't. What the Empire needs is protection from its internal parasites and vast reinvestment in the publicly oriented economy beginning with healthcare, transportation, education, and energy, while removing rent seekers and their hooks. The last bastion needing to be surmounted is finance--it must be removed from Wall Street and made into a public utility along with the previous four mentioned. None of that can be accomplished via executive order. The big issue with Trump is he wants to do the Heritage Foundation's work and destroy the administrative state, meaning all the regulatory agencies, which is moving in the opposite direction of what must be done if MAGA or managing Imperial decline's the goal.
Was hoping to read the skeleton of how the gas-pipeline combined arms operation went down.
No. of drones involved, watching them turn off the numerous radar stations, cutting communication channels with the ensuing panic, hysteria, hardware involved.
I noticed when the troops dispersed along various routes, treelines and such, coming under heavy fire (no one of good stock likes to see this). What I'd love to know is, how long did it take for Russia command to identify and eliminate that threat, firing positions? Footage of secondary explosions. The blowing up of bridges, exits, logistics, main arteries in and out for the Ukrainian convoys.
Cauldrons!!!!
They say 800 best of the best Russian Special Forces, 20 Trojan Horses worth. Achieved more in a week than in 6 months liberating Kursk. However, we know that a decision was made to allow them in through corridors various and this deep then chew them up in a grinder.
I wonder if Putin, Gerasimov, Medvedev and Generals/Officers various were praying for Zelensky to cut the gas, alleviating suspicion if cutting themselves. This operation could have been in the pipeline for months so to speak because if you had a map of every nook and cranny of the area, updated plans, gas pipelines would stick out like a sore thumb on any blueprint. Especially as this is not the first time such methods have been used in this SMO. From Special to Spectacular Military Operation.
Even MI6 will be most envious of this dastardly plan.
That same pipeline was used in a 1987 Bond film, “The Living Daylights.” I read a very good item describing all the preparations but can’t recall where. They had to remove gas from the pipe then flush it with oxygen before it could be entered without special breathing apparatus. Food, water, latrines, and such all had to be emplaced prior to the troops who ended up sitting there for more than a day—the exact time varies. Eventually a full report will emerge. When they exited, havoc immediately ensued and the Ukies immediately broke. The pipe was then used as a trail for more troops to enter the battle. One report I read said the Ukies lost 1/3 of their area over those 48 hours. Back in the day when I war gamed, the cities had sewers through which you could move, but I haven’t heard of any of that happening, just tunnels and pipes.
Yeah there was some recent, fairly recent Hollywood action film hero and sidekick honey trap made their way pursued by the Mafia through the Odessa tunnels, the bowels, a real underground labyrinth.
This is why Odessa will be a tough nut to crack. You can store your Himars and other stuff there. Unless the citizens revolt and it's taken through negotiation.
Political economist Mark Blyth was talking about "Global Trumpism" before Trump won the 2016 election, which he predicted along with Brexit and the rise of "far right" political parties in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSS4GCA__As
His part is a little under 6 minutes and contains a lot of interesting nuggets of information, especially his last one.
For whatever romantic or sentimental reasons an Union of Europe was dreamt up after the war, the EU's configuration/conception in 1993 to the birth of the common currency the Euro in 2002, its main purpose was easy access by Big Tech-bankers-globalists-unelected has-beens to the chords- chains-machinery of government departments, treasury in particular, with Goldman in particular exercising exotic instruments to get economic basket-case Greece into the monetary union. Hell there should be a PhD course on how Goldman achieved this in every university!
Control Control Control Mario Dracula Draghi - Whatever it takes . . . . . to fiddle the books
ONE VOICE , and it's Not Yours, Hungary dissents and it's Agreed Loans disappear. Borrowing requirements rise until you're on life-support, see Yanis Varoufakis's trials and tribulations with the new Greek Socialist Government who turned Fascist overnight for access to the reality of Financial Markets. A.U.S.T.E.R.I.T.Y
Cherry picking weaker country's Assets/Industry like Romanian post-Soviet Chemicals, Heavy Industry, King Charles's Organic Dairy Farm with his Hungarian partner.
Who cares about Europe? Maybe the 5000 bureaucrats stripping its vital organs on behalf of the aforementioned.
Macron's handlers for example must be having kittens with him overseeing the Independence of former resource rich West African States . . . coming to a cinema near you in the rest of the West.
It's dog-eat-dog in Europe now for the carcass and new Markets must be built where important resources exist as The War On Terror was the US/EU placing their faux-Al Qaeda jihadis/Lords of War at the Mouth of every Mine Dick and Quarry.
China build bridges in Africa whereas the US/France built Drone bases. There's a reason Russia-Iran-China-Russia-Iran-China signed decades long Economic & Military Agreements, importantly 'on an equal footing', all SOLVENT unlike the West and its handful of GRIFTERS.
There's 250 million Nigerians alone who yearn for high speed rail after centuries of resource plunder.
Not a PhD course; a mandatory prerequisite class to go further. But the universities are no better than the banks—look how they cracked down on pro-Palestinians. I thought it was the 1960s all over again.
Freeland received a degree in Russian Studies from Harvard and possibly practical hands on experience goosestepping with the Bandera diaspora in Canuckistan
This guy is spot on. The only point I dispute (and contest Karlof1's POV on the same issue) is that some think Trump/MAGA don't "get it".
On the contrary, I think they more than get it; I believe it explains their urgency of action quite clearly. Hell, Musk constantly refers to how we could go bankrupt.
We shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking we're the only ones who understand the simple equation of $USD = MIC = Energy. The Empire was built on this foundation, and Trump's balancing act is to effect a transition to multi polarity without crashing the entire system.
The US Empire was built well before modern energy systems and the MIC were created. Its main asset was and remains the land stolen from others. Trump and Musk don’t get it because they’re within the parasitic Rentier Class. The biggest criminals in the USA are the collective financial system. What’s being eviscerated now are services that commonfolk depend on, like the VA and Social Security and grant funding for rural community services. New crazy requirements for food stamps., etc.
The linked enumeration has some merit—the Empire’s decline is clearly being mismanaged. What’s missing is the realization that the US isn’t competitive because of the super high cost of doing business here thanks to Conservative/Neoliberal policies that have driven up those costs. Supporting the global empire of bases now costs about $1.2 Trillion yearly (not to be confused with the MIC, which is a separate overhead cost), an overhead cost that would easily pay for single-payer healthcare that would eliminate the 15% overhead cost fo health insurance and other related health costs. That could’ve been done back in the 1930s but was defeated by Conservatives and their insurance company buddies along with the AMA’s doctors.
Yeah, there’re many trillions in waste that could be redirected into productive uses, but Team Trump is blind to them. It’s very closely following what the Heritage Foundation demands, and that’s only good for the top 10%.
Your analysis is correct. Allowing the United States to excuse her guilt and blame Ukraine or Europeans will only guarantee another conflict in the future. The evidence is already in the public information space. Nuland and Pyatt, They have no immunity and they broke international law. Start there.
Only I will concede that no discussion about any negotiations for SVO have started yet and will not for a long time, so root causes of conflict could be witheld until then.
Martyanov said something interesting in today's video about how reliance on the Empire's flying frying pan, the F-35, has destroyed Europe's aerospace-defense industry which lacks the expertise to produce a 5th generation jet and certainly not a 6th generation jet, thus disarming EU/NATO. There're other military systems too that have proven inferior to Russian systems. IMO, Europe needs to think peace since it cannot wage war. I estimate it would take 20 trillion euros just to reach Russia's 2020 military level, not counting nukes, and by then it would be 2040 and even more expenditure would be needed--the arms race cannot be won by EU/NATO and likely not by the Outlaw US Empire either.
Peace is the only viable path for Humanity, but the West has yet to awaken to that reality.
They all have the same problems, acting as adjunct expeditionary forces to various US interventions. Be it Iraq and Afghanistan or other hot spots. Many of these vassal states have seen themselves as a sub-imperial power and have been shocked that they're in fact exactly as Ukraine - an object to be used. The Brits have seen themselves as the master manipulators via the black arts of finance/terrorism/subversion and now find the psychological hold of the "special relationship" is nought. For me it's interesting that the Australian PM hastened to London with an offer to Starmer for Australian forces to participate as part of a peace keeping force. It was Australia's intelligence services that participated in framing Trump. One wonders what payback will ensue.
Kill the Aussie sub deal.
It may well die anyway. Going by other such projects costs will rise unacceptably, weapons systems will be so complicated that they won't work except on a steady, dust and moisture-free shore base, and finally, the US has a shortage of trained ship-builders, and even fewer shipyards, a condition which may well get worse in future, especially if Musk finds them too expensive. There is a lot of info on US weapons technology failures at
https://militarywatchmagazine.com
Look up US missiles, ICBM's, F-35, Zumwalt, Littoral Combat ships, etc.
Leaving AUKUS and the QUAD would be even better and would certainly end the sub deal. The current silly sucking up to the British plan speaks volumes about the colonial mindset via Parliamentarians oath of office to the Crown as the UK cannot meaningfully project force in any direction. I look forward to Trump’s response to Albo’s nonsense.
I look at some pictures, videos from different times. English, Europeans and even American they could not see their land decline, it looks terrible and why did they not see but allow many different governments to do this? They cannot afford to put street lights anymore, ours looks like a carnival when the sun disappears. Anyway as an example the English they cannot even make steel, how many agreements were signed for loans that guaranteed America has no competition, for generations they sold the country, traitors and the Europeans generally did it. We also drove into this trap, almost destroyed civil aviation and then denied by sanctions. Will not happen again. It is funny, not for laughing but England believes it is exceptional, makes a tank, but it does not and cannot make the barrel for the cannon. So what do they make, some type of armoured truck because this challenger without German barrels does not fire anything. Anyway everything in England is owned by foreign corporations that do not even like them. There are many things wrong with the US empire but I dislike the English ruling class more.
There's an excellent book that will teach a lot about the English and how they influenced the culture that arose here in the USA. I won't call it an enjoyable read given what it reveals. It can be read at The Archive online library for free when you join, which is also free, "The Many Headed Hydra," https://archive.org/details/manyheadedhydras00line
I will look, thank you very much.
"I dislike the English ruling class more" You can't dislike them as much as I do - I have to live in the same country as those chinless reptiles. (Apologies to real reptiles).
Starmer is very dangerous person.
Yes, with other people’s lives.
So many earnest readers and commenters who seemingly don't understand the criminal mind. The West (UK, US, EU) as the dominant economic and military powers repesented the richest target for exploitation.
It's all vey simple and trivial; volumes have been written about the fall of past civilizations from the same exact processes of infiltration, corruption, decline and collapse.
It always start and ends via divide and conquer. The most fundamental divisions of class, race and religion are exacerbated via the techniques we see employed in real time today.
The end is inevitable - there is no avoiding the collapse. The only variable is how severe and whether recovery is possible. Russia and China pulled off their respective returns; Trump is trying his hardest to manage a turnaround without completely destroying the Union.
Managing the decline of an empire is not an easy task, particularly when you won't or can't admit it's in decline, which is the Outlaw US Empire's current dilemma--it's in denial. Looking at the several major bubbles--asset prices and debts--we 're now seeing asset prices contract. As for genuine economic growth, the Empire's been in recession since the Dot.com bubble bust in 1998-9--the only sector seeing "growth" is the Rentier Sector, which isn't productive but extractive and is thus a cost burden to the genuine productive economy. To rid itself of the Rentier Sector, the US economy will need to be altered structurally, which also means altering its political structure. And the former can't be done without first dealing with the latter.
"At the same time, we must be aware that there will be a large number of political forces trying to undermine the peace process, whether in Europe, in the United States, or within Ukraine." - who might they be?
And BTW - While the American people did NOT want any part of either WW I or WW II, both Presidents Wilson and FDR did - guess what? HISTORY! Is Trump the exception?
Besides - who asked you - you're irrelevant!
Read - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/10/when-all-else-failslets-have-us-war.html?m=0 - and when you're done reading, you can word search 'DaSynagogue of Satan' for more - reading never ends.
Trump stoked the flames of wars in several locations and isn’t innocent. Nor is he innocent today either.
Trump likes to talk, a lot. One needs to watch the actions not the talk.
Ukraine has always been part of Russia, always will be.
I doubt the whole concept of peacekeeping.
Security guarantees are best insured by economic realities, as Trump told the frankenstein monster .
France and the screw UK ought to be removed from the sic security council post haste as clear dangers to all of Womanity,
Talking is a prerequisite of a salesperson.
There's the used car salesman selling you a dud that loses a third of it's value leaving the forecourt and then there's POTUS, selling you a dream, a good yarn, while tent cities spring up in former good neighbourhoods.
Useful insights from another Russian mind. Ta.
"Now, the restoration of Russian-European relations depends entirely on whether the European ruling elite can make pragmatic and rational decisions." The present lot are incapable. Sadly.
Main lesson that I take from this interview: a long and slow road ahead but on the road at the moment.
Yes, Gromyko was optimistic, but IMO that’s a trait of all good diplomats. I want to know more on his dual decoupling thesis.
"Emphasis was placed on Trump’s lack of patience and wanting to resolve issues quickly."
Well, as a fellow citizen, I'm sure you're very aware of just how precarious the US economic and political situation is at present.
Over the last few days, both Bessent and now Trump have hinted at the looming recession; as this event actually turns into a depression (you cannot magically erase $10T+ of spending, whether stolen or invested, without incurring a banking collapse), the political situation will continue to deteriorate.
As you know, I keep prodding B @ MoA to begin focusing threads on the current (cold) civil war. Already there have been casualities and it will most certainly continue to escalate as the contest between nationalists and globalists begins nearing a critical mass before it breaks out into actual open conflict.
In this context, you can sense the artfully hidden alacrity behind many of Trump's moves. While it's true he's transactionally oriented, what is happening on both the domestic and global fronts demands that Trump resolve critical decisions *right now* before we lose control of events altogether.
I addressed some of this in my reply to your first comment. Stagflation's a very real possibility with Trump's tariff policy. Trump also appears blind to the fact that for MAGA to be realized the working class must be re-empowered; otherwise, nothing will be built.
Trump thinks building protectionist walls as was done in the 1890s will to the job. No, they won't. What the Empire needs is protection from its internal parasites and vast reinvestment in the publicly oriented economy beginning with healthcare, transportation, education, and energy, while removing rent seekers and their hooks. The last bastion needing to be surmounted is finance--it must be removed from Wall Street and made into a public utility along with the previous four mentioned. None of that can be accomplished via executive order. The big issue with Trump is he wants to do the Heritage Foundation's work and destroy the administrative state, meaning all the regulatory agencies, which is moving in the opposite direction of what must be done if MAGA or managing Imperial decline's the goal.
I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Very interesting! Cheers, Karl.
Was hoping to read the skeleton of how the gas-pipeline combined arms operation went down.
No. of drones involved, watching them turn off the numerous radar stations, cutting communication channels with the ensuing panic, hysteria, hardware involved.
I noticed when the troops dispersed along various routes, treelines and such, coming under heavy fire (no one of good stock likes to see this). What I'd love to know is, how long did it take for Russia command to identify and eliminate that threat, firing positions? Footage of secondary explosions. The blowing up of bridges, exits, logistics, main arteries in and out for the Ukrainian convoys.
Cauldrons!!!!
They say 800 best of the best Russian Special Forces, 20 Trojan Horses worth. Achieved more in a week than in 6 months liberating Kursk. However, we know that a decision was made to allow them in through corridors various and this deep then chew them up in a grinder.
I wonder if Putin, Gerasimov, Medvedev and Generals/Officers various were praying for Zelensky to cut the gas, alleviating suspicion if cutting themselves. This operation could have been in the pipeline for months so to speak because if you had a map of every nook and cranny of the area, updated plans, gas pipelines would stick out like a sore thumb on any blueprint. Especially as this is not the first time such methods have been used in this SMO. From Special to Spectacular Military Operation.
Even MI6 will be most envious of this dastardly plan.
That same pipeline was used in a 1987 Bond film, “The Living Daylights.” I read a very good item describing all the preparations but can’t recall where. They had to remove gas from the pipe then flush it with oxygen before it could be entered without special breathing apparatus. Food, water, latrines, and such all had to be emplaced prior to the troops who ended up sitting there for more than a day—the exact time varies. Eventually a full report will emerge. When they exited, havoc immediately ensued and the Ukies immediately broke. The pipe was then used as a trail for more troops to enter the battle. One report I read said the Ukies lost 1/3 of their area over those 48 hours. Back in the day when I war gamed, the cities had sewers through which you could move, but I haven’t heard of any of that happening, just tunnels and pipes.
Yeah there was some recent, fairly recent Hollywood action film hero and sidekick honey trap made their way pursued by the Mafia through the Odessa tunnels, the bowels, a real underground labyrinth.
This is why Odessa will be a tough nut to crack. You can store your Himars and other stuff there. Unless the citizens revolt and it's taken through negotiation.
Political economist Mark Blyth was talking about "Global Trumpism" before Trump won the 2016 election, which he predicted along with Brexit and the rise of "far right" political parties in Europe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSS4GCA__As
His part is a little under 6 minutes and contains a lot of interesting nuggets of information, especially his last one.
I see he had an essay published in Foreign Affairs and that search yielded many more papers. Thanks for the prod!
For whatever romantic or sentimental reasons an Union of Europe was dreamt up after the war, the EU's configuration/conception in 1993 to the birth of the common currency the Euro in 2002, its main purpose was easy access by Big Tech-bankers-globalists-unelected has-beens to the chords- chains-machinery of government departments, treasury in particular, with Goldman in particular exercising exotic instruments to get economic basket-case Greece into the monetary union. Hell there should be a PhD course on how Goldman achieved this in every university!
Control Control Control Mario Dracula Draghi - Whatever it takes . . . . . to fiddle the books
ONE VOICE , and it's Not Yours, Hungary dissents and it's Agreed Loans disappear. Borrowing requirements rise until you're on life-support, see Yanis Varoufakis's trials and tribulations with the new Greek Socialist Government who turned Fascist overnight for access to the reality of Financial Markets. A.U.S.T.E.R.I.T.Y
Cherry picking weaker country's Assets/Industry like Romanian post-Soviet Chemicals, Heavy Industry, King Charles's Organic Dairy Farm with his Hungarian partner.
Who cares about Europe? Maybe the 5000 bureaucrats stripping its vital organs on behalf of the aforementioned.
Macron's handlers for example must be having kittens with him overseeing the Independence of former resource rich West African States . . . coming to a cinema near you in the rest of the West.
It's dog-eat-dog in Europe now for the carcass and new Markets must be built where important resources exist as The War On Terror was the US/EU placing their faux-Al Qaeda jihadis/Lords of War at the Mouth of every Mine Dick and Quarry.
China build bridges in Africa whereas the US/France built Drone bases. There's a reason Russia-Iran-China-Russia-Iran-China signed decades long Economic & Military Agreements, importantly 'on an equal footing', all SOLVENT unlike the West and its handful of GRIFTERS.
There's 250 million Nigerians alone who yearn for high speed rail after centuries of resource plunder.
Not a PhD course; a mandatory prerequisite class to go further. But the universities are no better than the banks—look how they cracked down on pro-Palestinians. I thought it was the 1960s all over again.
Freeland received a degree in Russian Studies from Harvard and possibly practical hands on experience goosestepping with the Bandera diaspora in Canuckistan
https://x.com/balajis/status/1899373219297321017
This guy is spot on. The only point I dispute (and contest Karlof1's POV on the same issue) is that some think Trump/MAGA don't "get it".
On the contrary, I think they more than get it; I believe it explains their urgency of action quite clearly. Hell, Musk constantly refers to how we could go bankrupt.
We shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking we're the only ones who understand the simple equation of $USD = MIC = Energy. The Empire was built on this foundation, and Trump's balancing act is to effect a transition to multi polarity without crashing the entire system.
The US Empire was built well before modern energy systems and the MIC were created. Its main asset was and remains the land stolen from others. Trump and Musk don’t get it because they’re within the parasitic Rentier Class. The biggest criminals in the USA are the collective financial system. What’s being eviscerated now are services that commonfolk depend on, like the VA and Social Security and grant funding for rural community services. New crazy requirements for food stamps., etc.
The linked enumeration has some merit—the Empire’s decline is clearly being mismanaged. What’s missing is the realization that the US isn’t competitive because of the super high cost of doing business here thanks to Conservative/Neoliberal policies that have driven up those costs. Supporting the global empire of bases now costs about $1.2 Trillion yearly (not to be confused with the MIC, which is a separate overhead cost), an overhead cost that would easily pay for single-payer healthcare that would eliminate the 15% overhead cost fo health insurance and other related health costs. That could’ve been done back in the 1930s but was defeated by Conservatives and their insurance company buddies along with the AMA’s doctors.
Yeah, there’re many trillions in waste that could be redirected into productive uses, but Team Trump is blind to them. It’s very closely following what the Heritage Foundation demands, and that’s only good for the top 10%.