If Vasily Kashin's analysis seems to me interesting and in certain aspects clarifying, your commentary on it seems even more interesting. From it I extract two quotes that I consider significant:
(1) “The forever wars that were sparked by the 911 false flag have bankrupted the federal government, although they’ve certainly aided the Zionists who helped plan it.”
The weight of Zionism in the domestic and foreign policy of the Outlaw US Empire has been and remains decisive. The support of the powerful lobby for Trump is not unconditional, nor does it have MAGA politics as a priority. The lobby will do everything in its power to establish the priorities of the Empire according to its own interests.
(2) “What Europe needs is a return of “left” political parties to confront the EU-Globalists: There’s plenty of room for a Nationalist Left to fill the current political vacuum.”
One of the main missions entrusted to the CIA after the Second World War was precisely the destruction of the European left, specifically its then powerful communist parties, most of which were pro-Soviet. In Spain, but especially in Italy, this clandestine anti-communist struggle reached authentic terrorist levels on the part of the CIA. Today we can see that it was not so much about fighting communism as about keeping Europe separated from the USSR, that is, from Russia.
The problem of the Outlaw US Empire is the same, or similar, to that of a huge oil tanker: both to dock and to set sail properly, the tanker needs the support of tugboats to support and correct the force of its enormous inertia. These "tugboats" are called Diplomacy and reliability: the Outlaw US Empire has lost both.
"the world's best geographical location, a huge domestic market, high resource endowments, developed industry and the world's largest technological potential."
Only the second item is true. But is worthless if that domestic market can't afford even the basics.
The third is correct; high but not huge compared to Russia for example.
Yeah, I didn’t want to call him out on too many of his errs. I see the Canadians are standing up and pushing back as well. Many of those resources are gone, extracted already. And as with the 1890s Plutocrats, today’s have no need for industry when their rents pay so much.
THIS was a very interesting desertation... yes Trump is definitely carrying out a revolution in the US foreign policy... USAID being the example... and THANK GOD for that... Skeletons are falling out of the cubbards... so the revolution is at home too... and good.. that it is a revolution who would know better than a Russian ))).
Re Greenland ... me being Danish... all up to the Greenlanders... time to get their independence from colonial Denmark... and from there well Greenland and USA will come to some understanding ... a new era for Greenland... full of both good and bad... no doubt many lessons to learn.
Re. Europe, GOD HELP US.... anyway God helps those who help themselves... so better times for Europe will not be tomorrow and possibly not in my lifetime (I am 84)... We need some courageous NEW leaders to dismantle EU and NATO... each of the European nations can then take the decisions best for them... Germany and France will possibly be at each other's throats as they always were...
Germany will no doubt winn as France lost their extra income from the vasals in Africa.... but thats for another day...
How will the 3 superpowers get along ... No there wont be a military war China vs USA... there will be trade wars... The best the 3 can do is agree on Spheres of Influence... and each one make their own Sphere as prosperous as they can...
Thanks a lot Karloff for publishing the desertation done by someone who really know his subject....
For some time I've been struggling to understand what is meant by 'left' and 'right' in governance.
'Left', for me, means comprehensive welfare government. A government entrusted with providing welfare for all its people: ensuring that everyone, whether individual, in family, community, or distinctive social sector receives what they need to live well, and isn't deprived of any of these goods. This is not impossible. In Britain after the war we built a welfare state through public services, which has only been demolished through neoliberal Thatcher's reign. China has built it over the past 40-odd years years. The ideological manifesto of left is based on "Help each other out, don't do each other down". Internationally pursuing mutual sovereign respect, cooperation and friendliness. Unfortunately disregarding sovereign internal ethnofascist social institutions of inequality. National evils are none of our business.
'Right', I find more difficult to comprehend. It seems to follow the injunction: "fight each other". Divide and rule so that the identified distinctive social group strives to win against the excluded rest. It embodies ethnofascism: we, the privileged people, rule, punish (corporally and capitally), and deprive you, the unworthy. And we practice 'keep-rule'. National Securities R Us.
In national and international behaviour, 'right' comprises the intention and practise of mortal belligerence of the putative ruling group towards everybody else. Wherever in the world mutualist, socialist governance has emerged and been effective, the Anglo-American Imperialists have destroyed it, more than 50 times since the Second World War. Recently, it seems, mutualist governance has begun surviving the viral rabidity of rightist global forces.
I'd be interested in others' characterisation of 'left' and 'right', in operational terms.
As for 'Trumpthink', I need more thought and analysis before venturing an essay.
"I'd be interested in others' characterisation of 'left' and 'right', in operational terms."
Q: What do : USSR, E.Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Mongolia, plus a dozen or so African nations over the years... all have in common?
A: All former socialist states.
Today, only China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and N. Korea remain, and China and Vietnam are arguably socialist in name only, while N. Korea is some kind of weird personality cult.
As with all the failed Capitalist nations globally, what it tells me is good governance is hard when your system isn't organized properly. Clearly as history shows, what works best is a mixed economy like the hybrid political-economies of Russia and China.
"...good governance is hard when your system isn't organized properly."
I agree. I also agree on a mixed economy. Some things are better done by private enterprise, others by government. That said, the fly in the ointment of any social system is human nature, which is fundamentally self-seeking. Regardless of how you organize your society, there will always be a tendency towards nepotism and self-dealing, if not outright corruption. In Game Theory this is described by the Prisoner's Dilemma.
WTF is your problem? If you disagree with me, then state your reasons. Don't give me that tired old up your meds cliche. That's about as unoriginal as it gets.
What passed for the combined west has only a single plan, the WEF/Davos/Bilderberg reset via techno feudalism. As there is no other plan and the pendulum swings against them we'll have more Trumps with erroneous policies that may provide psychological relief for supporters but result in continued deterioration. Both sides may double down on failure, and then we'll reach the point of outright hostilities with violence.
demoRats destroyed scAmerica, but at least ScKamala Harris could not steal the election.
But she stole my Grasshopper taxi business forevermore, and gave me solitary isolation when I ran for mayor against Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom. Jail was my reward.
In fact America is mostly a jail .
I don't see anyone smiling, but the indoctrinated hatred of all things Russian. Has not ceased.
Thank you for all your fine work.
I noticed a while back that the so-called protests are staged and scripted ...
The evidence is simple, there has not been even one protest against the American war against Russia in these fascist states
I mean, America is killing me, but maybe that is what twas all about, the dammm hokey pokey.....
I don't know Grasshopper, here in Limey-Land, I've opened all the windows in my house and blasted out the Russian National Anthem at 7am every morning since the beginning of the SMO and the neighbours have stopped calling the police.
In the beginning there was the odd brick through a window and hate mail but I do feel they're coming around.
Thank you for this interesting piece and your thoughts on it.
I find the following interesting:
'The confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence of the United States is of the same nature as the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as chairman of the KGB of the USSR in August 1991—she will have to forever change or dismantle the supporting structure of the "deep state".'
I know little about the nature of the changes within the Russian security state following 1991 though presumably the forced demolition of the union of states led to a loss of certain capacities to meddle in the periphery of the post-Soviet space. What does seem clear is that the current Russian government would not be what it is were it not for long standing members of the security apparatus at that time (the siloviki).
It is unclear to me at least whether such a deeply cultured set of securocrats exists within the current (or indeed any recent past) US security infrastructure.
I thought about engaging with that assertion, but recall August 1991 was just prior to the USSR’s final dissolution. Bakatin thus became a man with no position. Former KGB member Alexander Mikhailov told the following to TASS upon Bakatin’s passing in 2022:
“Under Bakatin the names of KGB agents were declassified, secret and confidential materials were made public, many lives were ruined, principles of secret service work were broken and our allies were betrayed.” https://tass.com/society/1487489
I doubt Gabbard will do any of that. She may dispose of many yes men and yes women within the intel community that’s fed false info to presidents for years. But the USAID revelations are doing more damage of the Bakatin-type than anything Gabbard’s likely to produce.
There is a fair amount that feels a little off key in this piece (the comment about the Arctic felt like it lacked recognition that Russia is the pre-eminent power in that region). I guess we don't yet know the precise significance of the USAID revelations - I would have assumed that most countries knew precisely what their role was and so externally at least it feels like a bunch of non-US citizens loosing an easy paycheck rather than the outing of assets. Presumably there are still plenty of dubious channels left for US capital to fund their interference ops.
You can look at the EU to see very clearly that many nations knew nothing of what USAID was doing. The massive resistance to foreign agent laws is but one sign that those trying to enact them had some idea, but that wasn’t pan-European at all. When the flim-flam’s been ingrained for several generations, it sinks-in and is very difficult to root-out.
This shows the Russian commentariat to be very clear eyed about Trump and his policies. In the late nineteenth century the US was a rising industrial power, now it is a declining post-industrial power. The next four years will turn into a somewhat unplanned imperial retreat, as the inability of the US to better China and split it from Russia becomes evident.
The world that faces the next president in 2029 will be quite a different one.
Your comments have hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I don't see the Us domestic situation as being in any way stable. Social degradation, and economic inequality have progressed too far for too long. No one among the powers that be can or will acknowledge this. If you are getting billions, it's much easier to think: it's all earned; it's much easier to live in exeptionalist fantasy. Trump 1 once patted himself on the back for inflating the stock market, pointing to the gains that all the 401K holders had made in their portfolios. How many people have portfolios that will carry them through? We're not all Microsoft millionaires. Social Security and what's left of our social safety net are not entitlements, but are the social contract! That is, this is what the powers that be have to pay "we the people" to be governed by criminal fools like them. ( Also 401K plans are not tax free, they are tax deffered. This means that at the end of your days if you need your money for a pressing issue, it is taxable.)
Domestic political pushback so far isn’t well directed as it’s not just Trump policies at work here but Plutocrat, Money Power policy goals that have existed for generations—forces that never wanted to see any sort of social contract extended to the American worker. The forces that gathered at Blair Mountain to kill the miners still exist but operate in a somewhat different manner—they don’t directly massacre people as they did then.
Trump admin will be ideological where it owes well defined favors to political sponsors (eg Heritage foundation, techbro new money like Musk, or Israel lobby). Outside of those situations, they will indeed attempt a mercantilist realpolitik. In Trump's high-drama bang-on-the-table style.
But I think we're starting to see, with the Tariffs program, how the attempt at some kind of US industrial renaissance is already in trouble. The country-by-country targeting and rapid flip-flopping undermines the goal of stimulating domestic investment. Why would a manufacturer invest in the US when there's no way to know if an a more economically productive ally gets an exemption? It'll end up as a regressive tax, which might offset upcoming round of Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. The one thing they can and probably will do, is force a relocation of strategic EU business to the US.
Cutting domestic science funding is also, in the long run, something that'll undermine the US position. Grudgingly have to admit it's for the better, globally. But surely not what Trump team intended. File this under the category of "domestic political rivalry driving strategic decisions".
As a tool to squeeze out mid sized concessions from already friendly countries tho, Trump admin so far has been bringing out big guns (funding cuts and tariffs again). These are way overkill. The empire of Biden's time, for all their gross incompetence, did have smoother ways to manipulate allies. Won't make a difference with the poodle class EU leadership Biden's curators left behind, but US allies in the far East will also see this and factor it into their calculations.
Iran's recent statements indicating total distrust are spot on I think. They know the real centerpiece of Trump's policy is going to involve favors to Netanyahu in some form. Russian analysts politely set this aside, which I suppose is understandable given their own ambivalent relationship with Israel and the Gulfies. But the global majority will again see 4 years of US being evil without even pretending otherwise.
before adding my 10 cent I like to congratulate the Special Forces of Russia on their successful Kursk mission yesterday, Operation 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', it's a gas gas gas.
Regarding US future plans and Europe's forced reality check Russian & Chinese business leaders should be penning a list of short, medium and long-term projects for JV with Trumplethinskin, buttering him up, guest at BRICS. Nuclear Arctic Ice-breakers LNG projects. A Stake in the Northern Sea Route with it's time/cost saving advantage over Suez/others. A 25% stake in developing the Iran-Qatar largest gas field in the world using American high-tech recovery would be win/win all round keeping Energy Prices low. We're talking trillions right there. The rare earth metals project in Ukraine peanuts. China already has a monopoly in this market and why trash Ukraine's rich dark soil?
Larry Fink/Bill O'Gates at satanic Blackrock/Foundation will cease investing in Biolabs and go where the long-term investment is heading. Hell the high priest himself Rothschild will have to succumb in the end.
If Vasily Kashin's analysis seems to me interesting and in certain aspects clarifying, your commentary on it seems even more interesting. From it I extract two quotes that I consider significant:
(1) “The forever wars that were sparked by the 911 false flag have bankrupted the federal government, although they’ve certainly aided the Zionists who helped plan it.”
The weight of Zionism in the domestic and foreign policy of the Outlaw US Empire has been and remains decisive. The support of the powerful lobby for Trump is not unconditional, nor does it have MAGA politics as a priority. The lobby will do everything in its power to establish the priorities of the Empire according to its own interests.
(2) “What Europe needs is a return of “left” political parties to confront the EU-Globalists: There’s plenty of room for a Nationalist Left to fill the current political vacuum.”
One of the main missions entrusted to the CIA after the Second World War was precisely the destruction of the European left, specifically its then powerful communist parties, most of which were pro-Soviet. In Spain, but especially in Italy, this clandestine anti-communist struggle reached authentic terrorist levels on the part of the CIA. Today we can see that it was not so much about fighting communism as about keeping Europe separated from the USSR, that is, from Russia.
The problem of the Outlaw US Empire is the same, or similar, to that of a huge oil tanker: both to dock and to set sail properly, the tanker needs the support of tugboats to support and correct the force of its enormous inertia. These "tugboats" are called Diplomacy and reliability: the Outlaw US Empire has lost both.
Thak you for your excellent work, Karl.
"the world's best geographical location, a huge domestic market, high resource endowments, developed industry and the world's largest technological potential."
Only the second item is true. But is worthless if that domestic market can't afford even the basics.
The third is correct; high but not huge compared to Russia for example.
The last two are not correct at all.
Yeah, I didn’t want to call him out on too many of his errs. I see the Canadians are standing up and pushing back as well. Many of those resources are gone, extracted already. And as with the 1890s Plutocrats, today’s have no need for industry when their rents pay so much.
"Yeah, I didn’t want to call him out on too many of his errs"
Yeah, I'm a picky bastard. But we have to be as factually wrong statements sometimes stick and are repeated as fact forever.
Yes, I’d be stricter on a Russian site.
THIS was a very interesting desertation... yes Trump is definitely carrying out a revolution in the US foreign policy... USAID being the example... and THANK GOD for that... Skeletons are falling out of the cubbards... so the revolution is at home too... and good.. that it is a revolution who would know better than a Russian ))).
Re Greenland ... me being Danish... all up to the Greenlanders... time to get their independence from colonial Denmark... and from there well Greenland and USA will come to some understanding ... a new era for Greenland... full of both good and bad... no doubt many lessons to learn.
Re. Europe, GOD HELP US.... anyway God helps those who help themselves... so better times for Europe will not be tomorrow and possibly not in my lifetime (I am 84)... We need some courageous NEW leaders to dismantle EU and NATO... each of the European nations can then take the decisions best for them... Germany and France will possibly be at each other's throats as they always were...
Germany will no doubt winn as France lost their extra income from the vasals in Africa.... but thats for another day...
How will the 3 superpowers get along ... No there wont be a military war China vs USA... there will be trade wars... The best the 3 can do is agree on Spheres of Influence... and each one make their own Sphere as prosperous as they can...
Thanks a lot Karloff for publishing the desertation done by someone who really know his subject....
what a treat.
Very interesting and informative.
For some time I've been struggling to understand what is meant by 'left' and 'right' in governance.
'Left', for me, means comprehensive welfare government. A government entrusted with providing welfare for all its people: ensuring that everyone, whether individual, in family, community, or distinctive social sector receives what they need to live well, and isn't deprived of any of these goods. This is not impossible. In Britain after the war we built a welfare state through public services, which has only been demolished through neoliberal Thatcher's reign. China has built it over the past 40-odd years years. The ideological manifesto of left is based on "Help each other out, don't do each other down". Internationally pursuing mutual sovereign respect, cooperation and friendliness. Unfortunately disregarding sovereign internal ethnofascist social institutions of inequality. National evils are none of our business.
'Right', I find more difficult to comprehend. It seems to follow the injunction: "fight each other". Divide and rule so that the identified distinctive social group strives to win against the excluded rest. It embodies ethnofascism: we, the privileged people, rule, punish (corporally and capitally), and deprive you, the unworthy. And we practice 'keep-rule'. National Securities R Us.
In national and international behaviour, 'right' comprises the intention and practise of mortal belligerence of the putative ruling group towards everybody else. Wherever in the world mutualist, socialist governance has emerged and been effective, the Anglo-American Imperialists have destroyed it, more than 50 times since the Second World War. Recently, it seems, mutualist governance has begun surviving the viral rabidity of rightist global forces.
I'd be interested in others' characterisation of 'left' and 'right', in operational terms.
As for 'Trumpthink', I need more thought and analysis before venturing an essay.
"I'd be interested in others' characterisation of 'left' and 'right', in operational terms."
Q: What do : USSR, E.Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Mongolia, plus a dozen or so African nations over the years... all have in common?
A: All former socialist states.
Today, only China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and N. Korea remain, and China and Vietnam are arguably socialist in name only, while N. Korea is some kind of weird personality cult.
Doesn't that tell you something about socialism?
As with all the failed Capitalist nations globally, what it tells me is good governance is hard when your system isn't organized properly. Clearly as history shows, what works best is a mixed economy like the hybrid political-economies of Russia and China.
"...good governance is hard when your system isn't organized properly."
I agree. I also agree on a mixed economy. Some things are better done by private enterprise, others by government. That said, the fly in the ointment of any social system is human nature, which is fundamentally self-seeking. Regardless of how you organize your society, there will always be a tendency towards nepotism and self-dealing, if not outright corruption. In Game Theory this is described by the Prisoner's Dilemma.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
IMO, culture can overcome those negative traits, but culture takes many generations to work and is easily disrupted.
I remember you ebear, weren't you also shillin over at Z/H or MoA?
I see you didn't take the general advice on upping the meds!
WTF is your problem? If you disagree with me, then state your reasons. Don't give me that tired old up your meds cliche. That's about as unoriginal as it gets.
Good try shill
At least your nonsensical articles are much shorter here
Not my problem if you can't understand them, and no one's forcing you to read them. Out of respect for Karl this ends here.
What passed for the combined west has only a single plan, the WEF/Davos/Bilderberg reset via techno feudalism. As there is no other plan and the pendulum swings against them we'll have more Trumps with erroneous policies that may provide psychological relief for supporters but result in continued deterioration. Both sides may double down on failure, and then we'll reach the point of outright hostilities with violence.
Excessive use of violence in the apprehension of the perpetrators of regime-change/colour revolution has been approved.
demoRats destroyed scAmerica, but at least ScKamala Harris could not steal the election.
But she stole my Grasshopper taxi business forevermore, and gave me solitary isolation when I ran for mayor against Gruesome Gavin Gruesome Newsom. Jail was my reward.
In fact America is mostly a jail .
I don't see anyone smiling, but the indoctrinated hatred of all things Russian. Has not ceased.
Thank you for all your fine work.
I noticed a while back that the so-called protests are staged and scripted ...
The evidence is simple, there has not been even one protest against the American war against Russia in these fascist states
I mean, America is killing me, but maybe that is what twas all about, the dammm hokey pokey.....
I don't know Grasshopper, here in Limey-Land, I've opened all the windows in my house and blasted out the Russian National Anthem at 7am every morning since the beginning of the SMO and the neighbours have stopped calling the police.
In the beginning there was the odd brick through a window and hate mail but I do feel they're coming around.
Thank you for this interesting piece and your thoughts on it.
I find the following interesting:
'The confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence of the United States is of the same nature as the appointment of Vadim Bakatin as chairman of the KGB of the USSR in August 1991—she will have to forever change or dismantle the supporting structure of the "deep state".'
I know little about the nature of the changes within the Russian security state following 1991 though presumably the forced demolition of the union of states led to a loss of certain capacities to meddle in the periphery of the post-Soviet space. What does seem clear is that the current Russian government would not be what it is were it not for long standing members of the security apparatus at that time (the siloviki).
It is unclear to me at least whether such a deeply cultured set of securocrats exists within the current (or indeed any recent past) US security infrastructure.
I thought about engaging with that assertion, but recall August 1991 was just prior to the USSR’s final dissolution. Bakatin thus became a man with no position. Former KGB member Alexander Mikhailov told the following to TASS upon Bakatin’s passing in 2022:
“Under Bakatin the names of KGB agents were declassified, secret and confidential materials were made public, many lives were ruined, principles of secret service work were broken and our allies were betrayed.” https://tass.com/society/1487489
I doubt Gabbard will do any of that. She may dispose of many yes men and yes women within the intel community that’s fed false info to presidents for years. But the USAID revelations are doing more damage of the Bakatin-type than anything Gabbard’s likely to produce.
There is a fair amount that feels a little off key in this piece (the comment about the Arctic felt like it lacked recognition that Russia is the pre-eminent power in that region). I guess we don't yet know the precise significance of the USAID revelations - I would have assumed that most countries knew precisely what their role was and so externally at least it feels like a bunch of non-US citizens loosing an easy paycheck rather than the outing of assets. Presumably there are still plenty of dubious channels left for US capital to fund their interference ops.
You can look at the EU to see very clearly that many nations knew nothing of what USAID was doing. The massive resistance to foreign agent laws is but one sign that those trying to enact them had some idea, but that wasn’t pan-European at all. When the flim-flam’s been ingrained for several generations, it sinks-in and is very difficult to root-out.
This shows the Russian commentariat to be very clear eyed about Trump and his policies. In the late nineteenth century the US was a rising industrial power, now it is a declining post-industrial power. The next four years will turn into a somewhat unplanned imperial retreat, as the inability of the US to better China and split it from Russia becomes evident.
The world that faces the next president in 2029 will be quite a different one.
A fascinating analysis. And it's not just Europe that could use a return of actual 'left' political parties.
In the US, the more things change, the more they stay the same
Your comments have hit the nail on the head, pretty much. I don't see the Us domestic situation as being in any way stable. Social degradation, and economic inequality have progressed too far for too long. No one among the powers that be can or will acknowledge this. If you are getting billions, it's much easier to think: it's all earned; it's much easier to live in exeptionalist fantasy. Trump 1 once patted himself on the back for inflating the stock market, pointing to the gains that all the 401K holders had made in their portfolios. How many people have portfolios that will carry them through? We're not all Microsoft millionaires. Social Security and what's left of our social safety net are not entitlements, but are the social contract! That is, this is what the powers that be have to pay "we the people" to be governed by criminal fools like them. ( Also 401K plans are not tax free, they are tax deffered. This means that at the end of your days if you need your money for a pressing issue, it is taxable.)
Domestic political pushback so far isn’t well directed as it’s not just Trump policies at work here but Plutocrat, Money Power policy goals that have existed for generations—forces that never wanted to see any sort of social contract extended to the American worker. The forces that gathered at Blair Mountain to kill the miners still exist but operate in a somewhat different manner—they don’t directly massacre people as they did then.
Good find, and a good analysis!
Trump admin will be ideological where it owes well defined favors to political sponsors (eg Heritage foundation, techbro new money like Musk, or Israel lobby). Outside of those situations, they will indeed attempt a mercantilist realpolitik. In Trump's high-drama bang-on-the-table style.
But I think we're starting to see, with the Tariffs program, how the attempt at some kind of US industrial renaissance is already in trouble. The country-by-country targeting and rapid flip-flopping undermines the goal of stimulating domestic investment. Why would a manufacturer invest in the US when there's no way to know if an a more economically productive ally gets an exemption? It'll end up as a regressive tax, which might offset upcoming round of Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. The one thing they can and probably will do, is force a relocation of strategic EU business to the US.
Cutting domestic science funding is also, in the long run, something that'll undermine the US position. Grudgingly have to admit it's for the better, globally. But surely not what Trump team intended. File this under the category of "domestic political rivalry driving strategic decisions".
As a tool to squeeze out mid sized concessions from already friendly countries tho, Trump admin so far has been bringing out big guns (funding cuts and tariffs again). These are way overkill. The empire of Biden's time, for all their gross incompetence, did have smoother ways to manipulate allies. Won't make a difference with the poodle class EU leadership Biden's curators left behind, but US allies in the far East will also see this and factor it into their calculations.
Iran's recent statements indicating total distrust are spot on I think. They know the real centerpiece of Trump's policy is going to involve favors to Netanyahu in some form. Russian analysts politely set this aside, which I suppose is understandable given their own ambivalent relationship with Israel and the Gulfies. But the global majority will again see 4 years of US being evil without even pretending otherwise.
before adding my 10 cent I like to congratulate the Special Forces of Russia on their successful Kursk mission yesterday, Operation 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', it's a gas gas gas.
Regarding US future plans and Europe's forced reality check Russian & Chinese business leaders should be penning a list of short, medium and long-term projects for JV with Trumplethinskin, buttering him up, guest at BRICS. Nuclear Arctic Ice-breakers LNG projects. A Stake in the Northern Sea Route with it's time/cost saving advantage over Suez/others. A 25% stake in developing the Iran-Qatar largest gas field in the world using American high-tech recovery would be win/win all round keeping Energy Prices low. We're talking trillions right there. The rare earth metals project in Ukraine peanuts. China already has a monopoly in this market and why trash Ukraine's rich dark soil?
Larry Fink/Bill O'Gates at satanic Blackrock/Foundation will cease investing in Biolabs and go where the long-term investment is heading. Hell the high priest himself Rothschild will have to succumb in the end.
A fascinating and clear-eyed perspective from Mr. Kashin. Thanks Karl!
What kind of American Empire is the Trump regime building?
The same kind of American Empire that the Biden regime was building--albeit in a cruder hamfisted manner.
That is, an American Empire that devours even its own allies (or vassals) in order to sustain itself.
The image that comes to mind is that of an vampire that attacks its own brood in order to slake its increasingly insatiable need for blood.
America is dispensing with its "liberal democratic" mask and resorting to more nakedly aggressive threats.
America Über Alles!
Yes, the parasitism is becoming more brazen, which is SOP for declining empires.
Powerful stuff. Big Picture stuff.
So many angles to engage with - think it best if I leave them all settle for the mo ...
Very thoughtful reading .... Thanks for introducing it.