I am German and I can only wonder what moves our government to drive us visually against the wall. your analyses are the best I have read so far, simply explained and easy to understand, and also absolutely well-founded, because the information can be found everywhere. here all the pieces of the puzzle are put together. please continue, it is so important what you are doing.
As I lived for 30 years in Romania - 20 under communism and 10 under “new capitalism” I can correct you that western capitalism didn’t just sit around waiting for the former factories to fail and shut down - no sir! - they “bought” them at scrap metal prices or less (trough corruption and bribery) and dismantled them.
This served 3 purposes with huge win only for the west:
1) eliminated competition
2) created unemployment so those skill workers immigrated in west creating cheap labour for the west
3) created a new market but the people were poor by western standards so they facilitated the sales of everything second hand, used, obsolete or substandard in the west - clothes, TVs, cars, appliances, electronics - all freeing the western population of used goods so THEY in the west woukd buy the new car or appliance.
Bonus round - the west benefited from skills of doctors engineers and other skilled laborers, paying them cheap AND the west didn’t had to pay / subvention their schools, colleges and universities.
So you see it was a deliberate campaign by the west to destroy Eastern Europe economies and lifestyle and the ability to sustain themselves. The east Europeans had no choice but to borrow more from….western banks (FMI).
This is the equivalent of looting performed by the western corporations akin to Genghis Khan hordes.
I admit Insider read it all - Buț this is a big issue for the east Europeans and the west didn’t even want to acknowledge it.
Calin I am glad you put this "new capitalism" in quotes. Still it does give people the idea that the sort of thing that went on in your country (financial rapine) is at least 'sort of' capitalism. It is not. It is MERCANTILISM. Which leads to SERFDOM not independent, sovereign individuals keeping the results of their work as wealth.
When you say that wages are high in the west, that is only true to some extent. For the largest percentage of people wages (in the west) are pushed down by (forced) immigration. They see their purchasing power decline year after year.
What you write about the west is valid for say.. the upper 5% of earners. Another 15-20% are doing very well indeed, but for the remaining 70-75% you are getting to the level where they struggle to make ends meet.
I don't want to detract from the main point you made, which is certainly true. I do wish to point out that when you talk about "the west" it is mostly the upper echelons of those nations that do the profiting. The west is internally divided, and increasingly so.
(Extra: It even seems like it that the upper echelons actually WANT to decrease the consumption of the lower tiers, but that is an entirely other subject)
One last thought: Like in most contemporary economics you leave out the question of motivation. I.e. the motivation to perform work. And of course the related work-ethics. The Germanic and Scandinavian tribes seem to have lots of it. I don't really know about others that might be as deep into it as they do.
I feel like this should have a place when talking about world economics, but I don't know how to fit it into the discussion.
For example; a people with a high internal motivation to perform work and do it well, cannot be kept down. It is simply not possible. They will always re-emerge when beaten down. (Maybe that is the reason for immigration and white-hate?)
I should have completed the article before firing off my earlier response, mea culpa. You mention/hint at stuff I commented on later in your article.
Towards the end you even hint at a certain group of people that wants to stay in control. A group that is largely already in control for a few hundred years. A nameless entity but one that almost must be there given the effects we see on the world.
And -imo- this is the true fight. The only one that matters. Either we win, or they do. A free human spirit, or ...
In the end, even armageddon might be preferable over a win by them.
Reading this made many "pennies drop" for me, thank you Aleks. I do wonder if the pandemic and climate alarmism is interlinked, fabricated to control or occupy the global population whilst the world resources are being harvested, split, stolen etc until the outcome of the uni versus multi polar system battle is established. Do you have an opinion on that at all?
Hi Pedro. Thanks for your comment. Well, I will cover some pieces of your question in my article about Germany. But in principle, I wouldn't be afraid too much about such topics. Yes, there might be such plans in certain groups. But they have always been. If you read history, always some group or some people tried to do exactly this. With improving technology, there are new ways, yes. But the idea is old. Very old. In fact just like the humankind. I wouldn't lose my sleep about such people. They will always fail, even if they try.
Thanks Aleks, I liked your answer i think you are right about that. Maybe technology will give the insidious an edge this time. I'm encouraged by the people who see through the agenda so if it gets worse as some people think we are better informed and in good company. I will look forward to seeing your next articles.
"They won’t need to sustain an empire and a ridiculous huge and expensive military."
That is ultimately the question... will a multipolar world be free of forceful intimidation? Remember, the US Navy was formed because we got tired of pirates on the Barbary Coast. The history of Central Asia is replete with aggressive "toll booths"... I enjoyed your analysis, I hope you're right. As an American I would rather be equal in the world instead of, somehow, over it (hegemony).
A slight quibble with respect to “the heartland.” Overland transportation is far less efficient than waterborne transportation (it’s just physics) so the availability and orientation of inland waterways are a constraint. Heartland powers will still likely need ocean access and correspondingly strong navies to facilitate and protect shipping, if only along coastal destinations among heartland nations.
But the gap is narrowing. in January 2018, a Chinese cargo convoy made it possible to get from Beijing to Rover in 18 days, while it takes 21 days by sea route. Train transportation is reducing the costs of operation, while also helping bost hubs and nodes of the BRI network.
Not if cargo is transported by high speed rail. Seaborne transportation can’t move at 300km/h and usually have to take much circuitous routes whereas train tracks can go through mountains and over valleys.
You need an editor who has excellent English skills. I do that sort of editing and as I read thru your essay I was mentally making notes on all of your errors - beginning with COMMAS! You have NO idea how to use commas! :-) Overall an excellent beginning. I'll look forward to the next section (although not the horrible commas! I will dread them)
Great article. I would like to ask something regarding control of sea trade (and generally trade routes) since I heard this so many times but newer fully understood mechanism of control "forcing the world economy to trade most resources and goods by sea, and in the same time having control over the sea, the Western powers had the control over the world trade and economy as well." What would be practical example of such control in everyday life? I imagine other market players would avoid developing their trade over rutes where their trucks or ships could be attacked or confiscated etc?
See, it is very efficient to transport huge amounts of goods via sea. But if the sea routes are controlled by unfriendly states, your trade can be disconnected whenever these unfriendly states want. We see it, when the Americans confiscating ships or tankers of states, that do not comply to their "rules based international order". Best example are the seizures of Iranian vessels either directly by the US or on their behalf by other countries. Recently by Greece.
The alternative would be to transport these goods via land. This would be possible if the whole heartland would be united. Hence, you see the efforts of the Chinese, to develop the new silk road. Or the "Belt and road initiative". Here the Chinese will be able to trade with the whole heartland, without the fear, that their commercial vessels could be interrupted in case of conflict with America. Nevertheless, such land transport routes are not the most efficient ones. They can be, if by rail. On road it is rather less efficient. That's why many new rail routes are being built as well.
America of course kept the whole heartland, for many reasons, this is only one of many, in a constant state of conflict, war and suffering. To make it impossible, to trade between the East and West heartland and thereby forcing the East and West powers, to trade via sea, which is controlled by the biggest fleet on earth. The US Navy.
Is it still the biggest fleet? Maybe. Maybe the Chinese are already bigger. You see? China is gearing up, to protect its trade routes. I will cover this in more detail in my article about Asia, which will be released sometime during 2023.
The purpose of wars is not necessarily outright victory as we are taught. The goal can be to change the balance of forces. Many people think the Nazis lost WW2 but they didn't. Not if you think of the 'Nazis' as the elites that funded the Nazis and pointed them at the USSR. They first deciided to betray their funders (US/U/K) but eventually they turned East and inflicted enough damage on the USSR and killed enough important leaders that revisionist appeaser Khrushchev was able to take over and rot the USSR from inside. Same story for Vietnam. US did enough damage that sanctions could asphyxiate the nation post-war and force it to make market reforms, allowing capital accumulation by a bourgeoisie class which would serve as an internal ally to the US. The war against Russia and the coming war against China will provide similar opportunities to combine external pressure with internal sabotage. The Western rich don't want to destroy Russia/China. They just want to be able to export their capital there and control production.
Very good observation and articulation of the dynamics how THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN operates ... HEGELIAN DIALECTIC in its purest expression. And the hapless MASSES usually fall for it believing in the "cause"/LIE (as others have perfectly expressed/analysed in this thread already)... which is why the country leaders having seen "through" this tactic, of other factions of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, are trying to "protect" their country/asses by putting laws in place to prevent "colour revolutions", latter being nothing but steered up emotional wrecks - alá GRETA THE DELUDED - trying to get a piece of the action, while pretending to fight for a just cause - I call it THE GREAT DELUSION. As NO-ONE would be able to convince them otherwise with logic, as the truism states "you cannot convince someone of the opposite by logic, if he got into the current conviction by emotions alone". There have even been breeding "experiments" on a monumental scale (anyone interested in further exploration of this topic please consult Fritz Springmeier) trying to instil emotional triggers in order to control them. It is just mind-blowing what THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN is ready to apply to get its way.
Aforementioned leaders are in for a rude awakening as they are equally bound to GOD ALMIGHTY'S LAW OF ETERNAL LIFE which prevents ANY HUMAN MIND - no matter what the technology or control mechanism applied is - to get CONTROL over ANYTHING that pertains to GOD ALMIGHTY ALONE - ALL CREATION!
Well, you certainly oversimplified a lot... :) If I had to sum my complaints into a single sentence, that sentence would go something like this: "sometimes, shit happens all on it's own, without any malice or even incompetence". :) Sort of like 2008 Great Recession. Yes, you can point to a large number of causes and 60% of them will be derivatives (ha!) of malice... however the overall shitshow had no overarching goal, purpose or guidance. And it's the exact same thing with transferring of industry from USA to China. Shit just happened all on it's own, without a guiding intellect.
The 2008 Great Recession has a special place in my heart. For one, it was the first practical showing of my conviction this system is bad and due for a wipe. In addition, it was the thing that gave me the impetus to really study economics, finance and "how the world works". Much of what I know in those fields is derived from the Great Recession.
Would you be down to discuss it? I'm not saying we'll discover some deep truth or change each other's opinions, I'd just like to open the box once again and see what's inside. And I'm also very very curious about that other destination you hinted at. :) What destination is that?
I would gladly accept your invitation to share with whomever might come across any of the thoughts leaving my mind.
I am not entirely sure about what destination was meant in my comment, but as far as I am able to recollect my understanding it is hinting towards something beyond man's understanding.
Which - as anything I might utter - doesn't mean that there is any specific destination - in the usual sense of the word - to travel towards, apart from traveling by THE TRUTH. Especially towards oneself.
Moreover, I take it as a hint what you wrote about 2008 being an inflection point, finding the courage - taking the time - to look deeper or closer to what it is what THE MAJORITY pretends to know about REALITY in all its facets, that sometimes it needs a push from above to go down a path one already knew is the right one, but it looked to dark and thereby uncomfortable - mentally, THE HUMAN MIND likes bubbles - to travel down such a rabbit hole.
Paying attention to the "economic" system is certainly not a bad place to start this journey. Nevertheless it might be a bit intimidating for THE MAJORITY as it is overwhelmingly complex.
Which means the intellectual set up of each of GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATIONS limit the number of individuals even able to get a grasp on so many even tiny aspects of the whole SUPERSTRUCTURE one can only call GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION.
One more thing, grasp - intuition might be another word for it - is a real good description of how I have come across the most astounding "insights" of what is actually going on, once the VEIL OF self-DECEPTION has been lifted from THE HUMAN MIND. Staying humble and truthful, by not fearing hardship, ridicule, and giving up on comfort - mental above all - THE LIGHT comes as it looks for humble pure hearts.
Let me know what is on your mind and heart by firing away!
I would agree with everything except your percentages at the end of the article. 10% and 20% are both far too high. We should always remember that the elites of the Western world are going to stay extremely wealthy, whatever happens to their poor deteriorating nations. Why would they want to push a button that destroys all that for them? I would put the chances of Armageddon at 1-2%, or even less. As for a 20% chance of the US hanging on to its hegemonic role, that is totally unrealistic and inflated. US military power is crumbling far more rapidly than most predicted, and as that is the ultimate guarantor of hegemony the trajectory of empire is plain. One indicator is their total inability to keep Red Sea shipping lanes open, a complete embarrassment for a supposed maritime power. Another is their bowing to Niger's demands for a swift exit. At one time, they would have eaten poor nations like Niger for breakfast. I could go and on with examples, as they are legion, but you get the point. As for the real reason why US power is declining precipitously, it is because it is decaying from the inside out. That is why it will not be reversed - at least not for a generation or two, by which time it will be far too late.
"How were they kept underdeveloped? By blackmailing, bribing, corruption, threats, and military action. Some few exporting nations, most of them Western, benefited from globalization."
This notion couldn't be more wrong. Does it mean there was NO "blackmailing, bribing, corruption, threats, and military action" involved. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Anyone arguing otherwise would have to be declared insane. So then, what is wrong with this notion?
This notion stops short of THE TRUTH! And thereby omitting the crucial part. Half-truths are more "powerful" lies than outright lies. As anyone with half a brain will recognise that if there is a partial truth in something then it cannot be disproven as some truth always remains and can be ARGUED for. Harry G. Frankfurt pointedly called it BS. Which is something you - THE HUMAN MIND - have (been) convinced yourself - over millennia - to be true, while actually you have simply hidden the INCONVENIENT TRUTH (how ironic this comes up writing about THE TRUTH, which probably is simply point in case that THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN turns everything upside down).
The main fallacy being here, that there is no homogeneous group/cartel/ FORMAL conspiracy that is carrying out all these "acts". THERE I A LITERAL CONSPIRACY, though not formal but COMPLETELY INFORMAL. (Mass Formation as defined by Mr Desmet probably resembles it most accurately of what I am aware of) MEETING OF THE HUMAN MINDS would be my definition. It is "simply" THE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN MIND trying to get ahead in "life" by confusing "life" with LIFE. There is no such thing as "life" that remotely resembles LIFE - it is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE - HELL/DEATH - as one would expect dealing with THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
THE FIAT CURRENCY/CBDC PONZI SCHEME is the supercharger of all of this. ATHEISM/SCIENTISM are simply symptoms of the root cause.
Which is REFUSING GOD ALMIGHTY and HIS SON JESUS CHRIST and THE HOLY SPIRIT!
" After centuries of exploiting the world, Europe seemingly has decided to roll back all its achievements and to equalize itself with the rest of the world. The process will, however, be very painful for its citizens. As long as Europe persists in its ideological hatred of the Heartland, it will not have access to cheap resources from the emerging multipolar integrated markets. Instead, it will be dependent on resources provided by a higher price within the much smaller American-controlled economic sphere."
This "logic" seems to assume - despite the opposite "logic" being applied somewhere else in the article - that anything is static. While everyone with half a brain knows it is not. And using "Europe" and other such placeholders every step of the argument it rather blurs REALITY than it truly brings LIGHT into THE DARKNESS!
Which is by no means to say that such arguments are invalid or useless, nothing could be further from the truth. But taking them to rigidly it leads one deeper into THE CONFUSION than it helps to understand the conundrum the world is dealing with.
There is no "Europe", "America" ... or the like. It is all fiction created by individuals that believe creating a little lie to get ahead is beneficial, although the contrary is true. It leads deeper into THE DARKNESS! There are just INDIVIDUAL MEN AND WOMEN that are acting based on their belief/faith. And if your faith is not rock solid everyone knows what happens sooner or later!
THE LIE - THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - has been going on for so long that no amount of "diplomacy" will change the outcome. As the outcome of THE WAR men and women are fighting is with GOD ALMIGHTY not with the world. It only shows up in the world after it has accumulated enough sin that it erupts in the material.
Bearbock, von der Leyen, Macron, Scholz ... and all the other EVES AND ADAMS have been lured into the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN that marching alongside THE DICK SWINGING CLOWN/DEMENTED CLOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC (which are both equally beholden to the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN as well) is the only way to go. And this has been in the cards of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN for a long long time, planning included.
No continent, no nation, no country, no town, no village, no people not even any family is an homogeneous entity BUT EVERY GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION and acting/analysing upon this FALLACY/FOLLY is leading insidiously
deeper into THE DARKNESS as it looks all very logical and insightful on the surface, while the real HARBINGER of THE TRUTH is being hidden in plain sight!
I am German and I can only wonder what moves our government to drive us visually against the wall. your analyses are the best I have read so far, simply explained and easy to understand, and also absolutely well-founded, because the information can be found everywhere. here all the pieces of the puzzle are put together. please continue, it is so important what you are doing.
Many greetings from germany
Oh, thank you very much. Or, how do you say? Vielen Dank!
Very kind comment.
Of course there will be further articles. Especially about economics as well.
As I lived for 30 years in Romania - 20 under communism and 10 under “new capitalism” I can correct you that western capitalism didn’t just sit around waiting for the former factories to fail and shut down - no sir! - they “bought” them at scrap metal prices or less (trough corruption and bribery) and dismantled them.
This served 3 purposes with huge win only for the west:
1) eliminated competition
2) created unemployment so those skill workers immigrated in west creating cheap labour for the west
3) created a new market but the people were poor by western standards so they facilitated the sales of everything second hand, used, obsolete or substandard in the west - clothes, TVs, cars, appliances, electronics - all freeing the western population of used goods so THEY in the west woukd buy the new car or appliance.
Bonus round - the west benefited from skills of doctors engineers and other skilled laborers, paying them cheap AND the west didn’t had to pay / subvention their schools, colleges and universities.
So you see it was a deliberate campaign by the west to destroy Eastern Europe economies and lifestyle and the ability to sustain themselves. The east Europeans had no choice but to borrow more from….western banks (FMI).
This is the equivalent of looting performed by the western corporations akin to Genghis Khan hordes.
I admit Insider read it all - Buț this is a big issue for the east Europeans and the west didn’t even want to acknowledge it.
Calin I am glad you put this "new capitalism" in quotes. Still it does give people the idea that the sort of thing that went on in your country (financial rapine) is at least 'sort of' capitalism. It is not. It is MERCANTILISM. Which leads to SERFDOM not independent, sovereign individuals keeping the results of their work as wealth.
When you say that wages are high in the west, that is only true to some extent. For the largest percentage of people wages (in the west) are pushed down by (forced) immigration. They see their purchasing power decline year after year.
What you write about the west is valid for say.. the upper 5% of earners. Another 15-20% are doing very well indeed, but for the remaining 70-75% you are getting to the level where they struggle to make ends meet.
I don't want to detract from the main point you made, which is certainly true. I do wish to point out that when you talk about "the west" it is mostly the upper echelons of those nations that do the profiting. The west is internally divided, and increasingly so.
(Extra: It even seems like it that the upper echelons actually WANT to decrease the consumption of the lower tiers, but that is an entirely other subject)
One last thought: Like in most contemporary economics you leave out the question of motivation. I.e. the motivation to perform work. And of course the related work-ethics. The Germanic and Scandinavian tribes seem to have lots of it. I don't really know about others that might be as deep into it as they do.
I feel like this should have a place when talking about world economics, but I don't know how to fit it into the discussion.
For example; a people with a high internal motivation to perform work and do it well, cannot be kept down. It is simply not possible. They will always re-emerge when beaten down. (Maybe that is the reason for immigration and white-hate?)
I should have completed the article before firing off my earlier response, mea culpa. You mention/hint at stuff I commented on later in your article.
Towards the end you even hint at a certain group of people that wants to stay in control. A group that is largely already in control for a few hundred years. A nameless entity but one that almost must be there given the effects we see on the world.
And -imo- this is the true fight. The only one that matters. Either we win, or they do. A free human spirit, or ...
In the end, even armageddon might be preferable over a win by them.
Reading this made many "pennies drop" for me, thank you Aleks. I do wonder if the pandemic and climate alarmism is interlinked, fabricated to control or occupy the global population whilst the world resources are being harvested, split, stolen etc until the outcome of the uni versus multi polar system battle is established. Do you have an opinion on that at all?
Hi Pedro. Thanks for your comment. Well, I will cover some pieces of your question in my article about Germany. But in principle, I wouldn't be afraid too much about such topics. Yes, there might be such plans in certain groups. But they have always been. If you read history, always some group or some people tried to do exactly this. With improving technology, there are new ways, yes. But the idea is old. Very old. In fact just like the humankind. I wouldn't lose my sleep about such people. They will always fail, even if they try.
Thanks Aleks, I liked your answer i think you are right about that. Maybe technology will give the insidious an edge this time. I'm encouraged by the people who see through the agenda so if it gets worse as some people think we are better informed and in good company. I will look forward to seeing your next articles.
Be safe!
"They won’t need to sustain an empire and a ridiculous huge and expensive military."
That is ultimately the question... will a multipolar world be free of forceful intimidation? Remember, the US Navy was formed because we got tired of pirates on the Barbary Coast. The history of Central Asia is replete with aggressive "toll booths"... I enjoyed your analysis, I hope you're right. As an American I would rather be equal in the world instead of, somehow, over it (hegemony).
A slight quibble with respect to “the heartland.” Overland transportation is far less efficient than waterborne transportation (it’s just physics) so the availability and orientation of inland waterways are a constraint. Heartland powers will still likely need ocean access and correspondingly strong navies to facilitate and protect shipping, if only along coastal destinations among heartland nations.
Thanks for your contribution. Yes, I agree with you.
But the gap is narrowing. in January 2018, a Chinese cargo convoy made it possible to get from Beijing to Rover in 18 days, while it takes 21 days by sea route. Train transportation is reducing the costs of operation, while also helping bost hubs and nodes of the BRI network.
Not if cargo is transported by high speed rail. Seaborne transportation can’t move at 300km/h and usually have to take much circuitous routes whereas train tracks can go through mountains and over valleys.
You need an editor who has excellent English skills. I do that sort of editing and as I read thru your essay I was mentally making notes on all of your errors - beginning with COMMAS! You have NO idea how to use commas! :-) Overall an excellent beginning. I'll look forward to the next section (although not the horrible commas! I will dread them)
OMG, you destroyed me hahaha
But yes, you are absolutely right.
I speak English fluently and I never have been in the situation, to write large articles.
Only some business emails. (I'm a Serb)
Now I'm confronted with large articles and I do not have time for correcting/editing, since I'm occupied almost 24/7 with business and academic work.
If you are interested to join the team voluntarily, for editing, just write me an email.
bmanalysis@substack.com
Great article. I would like to ask something regarding control of sea trade (and generally trade routes) since I heard this so many times but newer fully understood mechanism of control "forcing the world economy to trade most resources and goods by sea, and in the same time having control over the sea, the Western powers had the control over the world trade and economy as well." What would be practical example of such control in everyday life? I imagine other market players would avoid developing their trade over rutes where their trucks or ships could be attacked or confiscated etc?
Very good questions. Thanks.
See, it is very efficient to transport huge amounts of goods via sea. But if the sea routes are controlled by unfriendly states, your trade can be disconnected whenever these unfriendly states want. We see it, when the Americans confiscating ships or tankers of states, that do not comply to their "rules based international order". Best example are the seizures of Iranian vessels either directly by the US or on their behalf by other countries. Recently by Greece.
The alternative would be to transport these goods via land. This would be possible if the whole heartland would be united. Hence, you see the efforts of the Chinese, to develop the new silk road. Or the "Belt and road initiative". Here the Chinese will be able to trade with the whole heartland, without the fear, that their commercial vessels could be interrupted in case of conflict with America. Nevertheless, such land transport routes are not the most efficient ones. They can be, if by rail. On road it is rather less efficient. That's why many new rail routes are being built as well.
America of course kept the whole heartland, for many reasons, this is only one of many, in a constant state of conflict, war and suffering. To make it impossible, to trade between the East and West heartland and thereby forcing the East and West powers, to trade via sea, which is controlled by the biggest fleet on earth. The US Navy.
Is it still the biggest fleet? Maybe. Maybe the Chinese are already bigger. You see? China is gearing up, to protect its trade routes. I will cover this in more detail in my article about Asia, which will be released sometime during 2023.
Thanks much for your explanation Aleks!
The purpose of wars is not necessarily outright victory as we are taught. The goal can be to change the balance of forces. Many people think the Nazis lost WW2 but they didn't. Not if you think of the 'Nazis' as the elites that funded the Nazis and pointed them at the USSR. They first deciided to betray their funders (US/U/K) but eventually they turned East and inflicted enough damage on the USSR and killed enough important leaders that revisionist appeaser Khrushchev was able to take over and rot the USSR from inside. Same story for Vietnam. US did enough damage that sanctions could asphyxiate the nation post-war and force it to make market reforms, allowing capital accumulation by a bourgeoisie class which would serve as an internal ally to the US. The war against Russia and the coming war against China will provide similar opportunities to combine external pressure with internal sabotage. The Western rich don't want to destroy Russia/China. They just want to be able to export their capital there and control production.
Very good observation and articulation of the dynamics how THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN operates ... HEGELIAN DIALECTIC in its purest expression. And the hapless MASSES usually fall for it believing in the "cause"/LIE (as others have perfectly expressed/analysed in this thread already)... which is why the country leaders having seen "through" this tactic, of other factions of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, are trying to "protect" their country/asses by putting laws in place to prevent "colour revolutions", latter being nothing but steered up emotional wrecks - alá GRETA THE DELUDED - trying to get a piece of the action, while pretending to fight for a just cause - I call it THE GREAT DELUSION. As NO-ONE would be able to convince them otherwise with logic, as the truism states "you cannot convince someone of the opposite by logic, if he got into the current conviction by emotions alone". There have even been breeding "experiments" on a monumental scale (anyone interested in further exploration of this topic please consult Fritz Springmeier) trying to instil emotional triggers in order to control them. It is just mind-blowing what THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN is ready to apply to get its way.
Aforementioned leaders are in for a rude awakening as they are equally bound to GOD ALMIGHTY'S LAW OF ETERNAL LIFE which prevents ANY HUMAN MIND - no matter what the technology or control mechanism applied is - to get CONTROL over ANYTHING that pertains to GOD ALMIGHTY ALONE - ALL CREATION!
Well, you certainly oversimplified a lot... :) If I had to sum my complaints into a single sentence, that sentence would go something like this: "sometimes, shit happens all on it's own, without any malice or even incompetence". :) Sort of like 2008 Great Recession. Yes, you can point to a large number of causes and 60% of them will be derivatives (ha!) of malice... however the overall shitshow had no overarching goal, purpose or guidance. And it's the exact same thing with transferring of industry from USA to China. Shit just happened all on it's own, without a guiding intellect.
ABSOLUTELY - well sort of!
If one stops at the destination your train of thought arrived - but I can assure you it's certainly not the final destination!
The 2008 Great Recession has a special place in my heart. For one, it was the first practical showing of my conviction this system is bad and due for a wipe. In addition, it was the thing that gave me the impetus to really study economics, finance and "how the world works". Much of what I know in those fields is derived from the Great Recession.
Would you be down to discuss it? I'm not saying we'll discover some deep truth or change each other's opinions, I'd just like to open the box once again and see what's inside. And I'm also very very curious about that other destination you hinted at. :) What destination is that?
I would gladly accept your invitation to share with whomever might come across any of the thoughts leaving my mind.
I am not entirely sure about what destination was meant in my comment, but as far as I am able to recollect my understanding it is hinting towards something beyond man's understanding.
Which - as anything I might utter - doesn't mean that there is any specific destination - in the usual sense of the word - to travel towards, apart from traveling by THE TRUTH. Especially towards oneself.
Moreover, I take it as a hint what you wrote about 2008 being an inflection point, finding the courage - taking the time - to look deeper or closer to what it is what THE MAJORITY pretends to know about REALITY in all its facets, that sometimes it needs a push from above to go down a path one already knew is the right one, but it looked to dark and thereby uncomfortable - mentally, THE HUMAN MIND likes bubbles - to travel down such a rabbit hole.
Paying attention to the "economic" system is certainly not a bad place to start this journey. Nevertheless it might be a bit intimidating for THE MAJORITY as it is overwhelmingly complex.
Which means the intellectual set up of each of GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATIONS limit the number of individuals even able to get a grasp on so many even tiny aspects of the whole SUPERSTRUCTURE one can only call GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION.
One more thing, grasp - intuition might be another word for it - is a real good description of how I have come across the most astounding "insights" of what is actually going on, once the VEIL OF self-DECEPTION has been lifted from THE HUMAN MIND. Staying humble and truthful, by not fearing hardship, ridicule, and giving up on comfort - mental above all - THE LIGHT comes as it looks for humble pure hearts.
Let me know what is on your mind and heart by firing away!
I would agree with everything except your percentages at the end of the article. 10% and 20% are both far too high. We should always remember that the elites of the Western world are going to stay extremely wealthy, whatever happens to their poor deteriorating nations. Why would they want to push a button that destroys all that for them? I would put the chances of Armageddon at 1-2%, or even less. As for a 20% chance of the US hanging on to its hegemonic role, that is totally unrealistic and inflated. US military power is crumbling far more rapidly than most predicted, and as that is the ultimate guarantor of hegemony the trajectory of empire is plain. One indicator is their total inability to keep Red Sea shipping lanes open, a complete embarrassment for a supposed maritime power. Another is their bowing to Niger's demands for a swift exit. At one time, they would have eaten poor nations like Niger for breakfast. I could go and on with examples, as they are legion, but you get the point. As for the real reason why US power is declining precipitously, it is because it is decaying from the inside out. That is why it will not be reversed - at least not for a generation or two, by which time it will be far too late.
Reading your part about The Heartland and then looking at a map explained in part why the West is giving Israel the backing it is....
Only now got time to start to read this. It's great and explains a lot economic wise.
cheers from Slovakia! ...
"How were they kept underdeveloped? By blackmailing, bribing, corruption, threats, and military action. Some few exporting nations, most of them Western, benefited from globalization."
This notion couldn't be more wrong. Does it mean there was NO "blackmailing, bribing, corruption, threats, and military action" involved. ABSOLUTELY NOT! Anyone arguing otherwise would have to be declared insane. So then, what is wrong with this notion?
This notion stops short of THE TRUTH! And thereby omitting the crucial part. Half-truths are more "powerful" lies than outright lies. As anyone with half a brain will recognise that if there is a partial truth in something then it cannot be disproven as some truth always remains and can be ARGUED for. Harry G. Frankfurt pointedly called it BS. Which is something you - THE HUMAN MIND - have (been) convinced yourself - over millennia - to be true, while actually you have simply hidden the INCONVENIENT TRUTH (how ironic this comes up writing about THE TRUTH, which probably is simply point in case that THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN turns everything upside down).
The main fallacy being here, that there is no homogeneous group/cartel/ FORMAL conspiracy that is carrying out all these "acts". THERE I A LITERAL CONSPIRACY, though not formal but COMPLETELY INFORMAL. (Mass Formation as defined by Mr Desmet probably resembles it most accurately of what I am aware of) MEETING OF THE HUMAN MINDS would be my definition. It is "simply" THE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN MIND trying to get ahead in "life" by confusing "life" with LIFE. There is no such thing as "life" that remotely resembles LIFE - it is EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE - HELL/DEATH - as one would expect dealing with THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN.
THE FIAT CURRENCY/CBDC PONZI SCHEME is the supercharger of all of this. ATHEISM/SCIENTISM are simply symptoms of the root cause.
Which is REFUSING GOD ALMIGHTY and HIS SON JESUS CHRIST and THE HOLY SPIRIT!
" After centuries of exploiting the world, Europe seemingly has decided to roll back all its achievements and to equalize itself with the rest of the world. The process will, however, be very painful for its citizens. As long as Europe persists in its ideological hatred of the Heartland, it will not have access to cheap resources from the emerging multipolar integrated markets. Instead, it will be dependent on resources provided by a higher price within the much smaller American-controlled economic sphere."
This "logic" seems to assume - despite the opposite "logic" being applied somewhere else in the article - that anything is static. While everyone with half a brain knows it is not. And using "Europe" and other such placeholders every step of the argument it rather blurs REALITY than it truly brings LIGHT into THE DARKNESS!
Which is by no means to say that such arguments are invalid or useless, nothing could be further from the truth. But taking them to rigidly it leads one deeper into THE CONFUSION than it helps to understand the conundrum the world is dealing with.
There is no "Europe", "America" ... or the like. It is all fiction created by individuals that believe creating a little lie to get ahead is beneficial, although the contrary is true. It leads deeper into THE DARKNESS! There are just INDIVIDUAL MEN AND WOMEN that are acting based on their belief/faith. And if your faith is not rock solid everyone knows what happens sooner or later!
THE LIE - THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN - has been going on for so long that no amount of "diplomacy" will change the outcome. As the outcome of THE WAR men and women are fighting is with GOD ALMIGHTY not with the world. It only shows up in the world after it has accumulated enough sin that it erupts in the material.
Bearbock, von der Leyen, Macron, Scholz ... and all the other EVES AND ADAMS have been lured into the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN that marching alongside THE DICK SWINGING CLOWN/DEMENTED CLOWN ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC (which are both equally beholden to the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN as well) is the only way to go. And this has been in the cards of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN for a long long time, planning included.
No continent, no nation, no country, no town, no village, no people not even any family is an homogeneous entity BUT EVERY GOD ALMIGHTY'S CREATION and acting/analysing upon this FALLACY/FOLLY is leading insidiously
deeper into THE DARKNESS as it looks all very logical and insightful on the surface, while the real HARBINGER of THE TRUTH is being hidden in plain sight!