Good. This country has wielded that influence like a cleaver for decades.
I'm happy to see it end.
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America losing it's economic monopoly would be the greatest thing to ever happen to democracy & mankind & guess what ?
FREEEEEEDOM
It is always cringeworthy to hear Americans call themselves "the world economic anchor" Or the "world police" Fucking manifest destiny, national narcissistic exceptionalism is one of the main reasons for the collapse of the US empire. At some point in the future they will need to pull their heads out of their own asses to learn some humility and humanity.
I'm afraid we are only going to learn the hard way. I pray that as few innocent's are hurt as possible.
Regardless of how you may feel about it, that's how the governments of most other Western countries saw it. This is evidenced by US bases all over the world, low investment in national defense by most NATO countries, the dollar being the world's primary reserve currency, etc.
The diminishment of global influence and power is not because of those things, but because of domestic affairs: in the richest country in history, businesses broke the social contract with workers, the cost of health care skyrocketed as hospitals became for-profit business, and half the country was too brainwashed by consolidated media conglomerates to see what was really happening.
Basically, the libertarian values that have always been the underpinnings of American society finally reached their apotheosis at the same time the Internet and propagandist entertainment news caused the cultural fabric of society that had formerly acted as a counterweight to begin to unravel. Every man for themselves writ large. The chickens came home to roost.
The expression “world economic anchor” is meant literally and factually: the United States are the world's strongest consumer market and therefore drive demand and economic activity like no other, and, more importantly, the US dollar and Treasuries serve as a reserve currency and asset, respectively, for both central banks and private investors. This arrangement is unfair, in its own macroeconomic ways that have nothing to do with exceptionalism, manifest destiny or cultural superiority, to both the rest of the world, who end up funding the United States, and common US denizens, who suffer from inflated assets.
I was talking about the comments under article as well as the article itself. The arrangement of the dollar as global currency did not came by coincidence or a strategy to victimize the poor wittle amewican citizens; it was policy. So much so that this policy was imposed in many parts of the world. There is a reason why te United states is so afraid of Brics And de-dollarization. It is good news for the world That America is loosing grip on their empire, It is good news that countries around the world are choosing to drop the dollar as reserve currency and it is especially good news that America could be weak enough to stop dictating economic and political policy. Particularly an economic policy that benefits them.
We need other economic blocks and options when it comes to banking and investment. We need to stop a country from dictating other countries who they should do business with or deciding what country should be isolated like it's happening to Cuba. I welcome less american control and they can take their victim butts behind their borders and close them down if it means they will stop meddling with the world.
Well, the Brits still retain a large chunk of the arrogance that came with the Empire they no longer possess. So I wouldn't hold my breath. #1 baby!
A powerless arrogant at least we can laugh of. And I do like myself some British comedy. as for #1 keep telling yourself that as the empire crumbles.
"Leader of the free world" is so arrogant and cringe
"..what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal GLOBALIST Western hegemony"
Released in the 90s, and became Russian intel agent required reading. That's just one highly relevant quote. Check the "content" section for a few eye poppers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Feel free to google "Project Russia" next, as that was the successor to FoG.
In all reality, if the world before 2016 matters to you at all and you understand Russia has been waging a psychological war against us since the 90s and never stopped fighting the Cold War, the picture is very clear. The evidence isn't even tangential. It's blatant and it's everywhere.
We just live in post-truth... which is exactly how Russia and China live. That's why you can't talk about certain topics in China involving tanks. (Tbh I'm just tired and too lazy to google the spelling...) Russia is literally in the midst of brainwashing children its kidnapped from Ukraine.
We have traitors in office pretending Russia is our ally and directly spewing kremlin propaganda, while attacking and damaging the United States only to hand cash to their rich buddies while we are implementing a mass deportation campaign of even legal immigrants, shipping them to horrific prisons overseas. This story never gets better at this stage without getting much worse.
Wishing everyone the best... very scared for what's to come. :-)
Great post, brother.
I have been writing about the Foundation of Geopolitics for years, and always wondered what he meant by "its special services within the borders of the United States." Then HitlerPig comes on the political scene, and it all becomes clear.
HitlerPig made his first trip to Moscow in 1987, where they were pleased to see that he could be manipulated by even the most insincere flattery, and was given the code name Krasnov. After a decade of laundering money for emerging Russian Mobsters/Oligarchs, he is being referred to as a "special service" in the Russian playbook for world domination in 1997.
And today, he is President again, a political mulligan which he intends to exploit just as much as he does on the golf course.
It is Russia's greatest victory, and they didn't have to fire a shot. They just needed a Manchurian Candidate, and HitlerPig volunteered.
Thank you, I appreciate the positive response. I am pounding the drum as loudly & clearly as I can as time is running out. People need to see the bigger picture, instead of the 4chan reality that's overtaken the world. It's like everyone (those that don't/didn't vote or are MAGA) forgot what reality & history was like before 2016. Trump's firehose of never ending scandals and our failure to punish them fully enable this to happen.
I will say that I think that Russia planted many seeds. They in fact tell us this; in previous decades they sponsored left wing groups. However, it just so happens this time they made connections with the right wing billionaires who are willing to sacrifice our global alliances (and harm the millions of lower class people) to reshape North America in their vision. It is the perfect storm of many traitors within our government sharing a similar ideology and vision of how the country should run (oligarchy/right wing authoritarianism) & our enemies abusing this perceived shared vision to harm our democracy.
Just to hammer the point further - certain Fox News hosts (rhymes with Yucker Marlson), are known to take Russian money - as are several twitch broadcasters (primarily gamers), really emphasizing their reach. The "big think" link I provided really spells out that they used propaganda over decades to help nudge our ideology even further right, which likely just put gasoline on the fire of our failure to punish the confederates, the failure of reconstruction, & our later acceptance of Nazis (and the Nazi culture that temporarily was prominent in America.. Ford the most prominent example)
It's happening in every democracy.
Pollieviere in Canada. (Forgive spelling, again?)
Marine La Pen in France
AfD party in Germany
Bolsonsaro in Brazil
Brexit happening in the UK (also called for in FoG)
Someone else mentioned Romania, though I can't speak on that as much. I'm sure there's many more.
Propaganda to destabilize western democracies is the main weapon of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. And Trump thinks he gets along with all of them, except maybe Xi.
I'll say once more for now: anyone denying this is a fool or a traitor. The connections aren't happening just in the US, they're happening everywhere. And the billionaire network states plan says that's exactly the point - if they can destabilize the US, they think they can do it to every democracy. What a treasure for China and Russia.
"How do you replace the current elite? You make new countries." - quote from one of the right wing billionaires showcased in "DARK GOTHIC MAGA" by Blonde Politics on YouTube. Go listen to him say it if you don't believe me. (And correct my phrasing if it's slightly off)
Not saying Trump's presidency will Balkanize the US. The tech bros think longer than 4 years. But they absolutely are working toward creating their own city states and want to Balkanize the US. Trump said it out loud -- he wants to offer up federal land for billionaires to bid on as "freedom cities." Video is easily searchable on Google. They will be run by tech billionaires, AI, surveillance & automated weapons. (See Peter Thiel's Palantir & Anduril companies, and Thiel's decades long goal of seizing power for a billionaires/monarchy. Kinda like how Thiel and Musk grew up under apartheid. Must remind them of home. Huh?)
I am going in a bunch of different directions here so I will just end on that while I strongly advocate we are directly at war with Russia and this is largely the result of decades of our enemies promoting propaganda against us, it's also only possible because of various factions of internal traitors too.
I probably could go on. The Russian connections are EVERYWHERE and I'm only able to detail certain ones in America.
Maybe I'll clean up what I'm saying here after I wake up some more. 🙃
Awesome stuff. I was with you on the political stuff but the Tech Balkanization stuff is new to me. Now I've got reading to do.
I've been getting to know Theil a bit, through his supervising of Vance, and it has opened my eyes to a new trend among Sociopathic Oligarchs - they all want a pet politician they can keep on a leash. Its exactly the kind of thing these monsters love. They can treat them like highly expensive collectibles, human Pokemon cards, with the most valuable ones being the most powerful ones. Skum has HitlerPig on a leash, Theil has Couchfucker on a leash, Crowe has Thomas on a leash, etc. I'm sure they're all scrambing to get a collar on someone, and I'm also sure many are stretching their necks to receive one.
I'll bet they all envy Skum for being on top right now, but Theil is certainly scheming to get his pet into the Presidency. I'm expecting a 25th amendment issue at some point (if not an outright assassination).
People will cheer HitlerPig's ouster, but Couchfucker will be making moves while everyone is celebrating. He's just as dangerous as HitlerPig, maybe even more, because he won't be so erratic, or as profoundly despisable.
CouchFucker is directly tied into Thiel/Musk (Thiel dumped like 15mil into Vance's senate campaign), who all promote the Curtis Yarvin "dark enlightenment" ideology, which is as I already described, a movement to return the US to monarchy, and ultimately, multiple monarchies led by corporations. I know my words sound fucking nuts and like a conspiracy theory to people who aren't familiar with it... but the Blonde Politics video I referenced in the previous comment is my favorite presentation of a lot of this information.
While the title of her video can sound a bit conspiratorial, she does a great job of presenting to you actual clips of what they're saying without it being out of context. You hear THEM say that their plans are.. exactly multiple things I've said. It made me sick to my stomach the first time I watched it.
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He doesn't have the charisma, but he is smarter, and has way less ego. He's less dangerous in the short run, more dangerous in the long.
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in honesty, this is what PUTIN wanted with america, to weaken it so they cant distract russia from thier internal/foreign policies.
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Good.
Now the world can be anchored by the great equalizer:
Kryptokurrency!