Karl, excellent and extensive compilation and commentary. In case you missed it, the FT (8-8-23) reported that Saudi Aramco is proceeding with its announced investments in China despite 38% drops in second quarter 2023 profits. There had been hope by the west that SA would step back.
Thanks for your comment. Any reason cited for the drop in profits? Over its almost 80 year association with the West, aside from the royal family, Saudi Arabia has benefitted very little.
The alignment of rhetoric, stated intentions and later results is a very persuasive track record, now going back several years. The Mandarins pulled the Imperial Court back from active engagement with RoW in the 1430's. Now six hundred years later that tide is finally turning and the world center of gravity is moving back to World Central Island and it does indeed seem to be happening without the usual accompaniment of widespread conquests by war.
Of course some might say we are now in a form of geopolitical 21st century siege war of attrition, and that might be true, but that doesn't make it not a far cry from old-style military mayhem. Perhaps, ironically, we can thank the existence of nuclear bombs and M.A.D. since they make conventional military conquest anathema. So for once in world history we may be witnessing profound geopolitical restructuring without widespread World War.
If all the West can do is thumb their noses at repressive domestic legislation in countries like Uganda, and ruin Eastern Ukraine with a gratuitously aggressive border dispute, not to mention long overdue widespread malaise among the complacent, molly-coddled citizenry in the developed West, well that's pretty darn good.
Thank you for so consistently chronicling this. As you know I have doubts that all this seeming good may prove too good to be true, but I certainly hope such doubt proves wrong. And in any case: the momentum you chronicle is indisputable, and its ramifications viz the role and reach of The Hegemonic Cartel is of epoch-making significance. Keep it up!
(A few more dates at the beginning would have clarified the reading experience at first, but no matter.)
Thanks for your comment. There's a lot in the pipeline related to developmental pathways that are already embarked upon within different nations. The West's fundamental problem is the ruination of its human capital whereas the RoW is promoting its human capital, which is a point I've noted before. There's a great deal of material at my VK I'd like to republish, but that would crowd out new material. So far readers seem to accept this rather different information and its sources likely because readership's global. One month is complete.
‘If all the West can do is thumb their noses at repressive domestic legislation in countries like Uganda, and ruin Eastern Ukraine with a gratuitously aggressive border dispute, not to mention long overdue widespread malaise among the complacent, molly-coddled citizenry in the developed West, well that's pretty darn good.’
To your list of violent US harassments and interventions in other countries, you could add agitated scaremongering of RoW, in particular the African, concerning climate change
As for the new sexual ideologies, trans brainwashing etc, not sitting well in Uganda, one can consider this -as all manifestations of the US élite- hostile to the host, a program initiated on their own peoples, then spread to contaminate the remainder of the world
Karl, excellent and extensive compilation and commentary. In case you missed it, the FT (8-8-23) reported that Saudi Aramco is proceeding with its announced investments in China despite 38% drops in second quarter 2023 profits. There had been hope by the west that SA would step back.
Thanks for your comment. Any reason cited for the drop in profits? Over its almost 80 year association with the West, aside from the royal family, Saudi Arabia has benefitted very little.
Average 2Q 2023 per barrel price was $78 versus $114 comparable period 2022 (versus current $85).
Thanks. Plenty of profits, however, just not as many.
The alignment of rhetoric, stated intentions and later results is a very persuasive track record, now going back several years. The Mandarins pulled the Imperial Court back from active engagement with RoW in the 1430's. Now six hundred years later that tide is finally turning and the world center of gravity is moving back to World Central Island and it does indeed seem to be happening without the usual accompaniment of widespread conquests by war.
Of course some might say we are now in a form of geopolitical 21st century siege war of attrition, and that might be true, but that doesn't make it not a far cry from old-style military mayhem. Perhaps, ironically, we can thank the existence of nuclear bombs and M.A.D. since they make conventional military conquest anathema. So for once in world history we may be witnessing profound geopolitical restructuring without widespread World War.
If all the West can do is thumb their noses at repressive domestic legislation in countries like Uganda, and ruin Eastern Ukraine with a gratuitously aggressive border dispute, not to mention long overdue widespread malaise among the complacent, molly-coddled citizenry in the developed West, well that's pretty darn good.
Thank you for so consistently chronicling this. As you know I have doubts that all this seeming good may prove too good to be true, but I certainly hope such doubt proves wrong. And in any case: the momentum you chronicle is indisputable, and its ramifications viz the role and reach of The Hegemonic Cartel is of epoch-making significance. Keep it up!
(A few more dates at the beginning would have clarified the reading experience at first, but no matter.)
Thanks for your comment. There's a lot in the pipeline related to developmental pathways that are already embarked upon within different nations. The West's fundamental problem is the ruination of its human capital whereas the RoW is promoting its human capital, which is a point I've noted before. There's a great deal of material at my VK I'd like to republish, but that would crowd out new material. So far readers seem to accept this rather different information and its sources likely because readership's global. One month is complete.
‘If all the West can do is thumb their noses at repressive domestic legislation in countries like Uganda, and ruin Eastern Ukraine with a gratuitously aggressive border dispute, not to mention long overdue widespread malaise among the complacent, molly-coddled citizenry in the developed West, well that's pretty darn good.’
To your list of violent US harassments and interventions in other countries, you could add agitated scaremongering of RoW, in particular the African, concerning climate change
As for the new sexual ideologies, trans brainwashing etc, not sitting well in Uganda, one can consider this -as all manifestations of the US élite- hostile to the host, a program initiated on their own peoples, then spread to contaminate the remainder of the world