The Financial Times is reporting {link here, paywall} that Finland and Sweden are likely to join the NATO alliance. According to the reporting {also in Reuters} the application from Finland is expected in June and Sweden shortly thereafter.
Adding Sweden and Finland would be a major escalation in both the western conflict and provocations against Russia, obviously, justified by western leaders as a consequence of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, in the big analysis, the global financial system appears to be the larger issue.
From the outset of the Russian military operation into Ukraine, it was obvious the western alliance was intent on an almost ‘all or nothing‘ confrontation with Russia. The only limits to what the alliance was willing to do was trigger a nuclear showdown through direct military action against Russia to protect the non-NATO country of Ukraine.
The NATO and western government response was a fast system of financial sanctions intended to cripple the Russian economy. However, Russia responded to those actions with countermoves on the trade front, beginning to establish the first ever non-Euro and non-dollar-based trade system. In essence, a financial trading system created by the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
Therefore, if we think about the current status of geopolitics and international finance, the NATO response now involves a priority of controlling and protecting the previously established financial structures of global trade. A NATO effort to avoid the cleaving is now underway as an outcome of the sanctions against Russia.
As one person put it, “This is a fight for the dollar as reserve currency. Imagine trying to maintain our debt when nobody wants treasury notes. If BRICS succeed, US collapses as an economic power. On the other hand, if we win, Klaus Schwab’s nutty world wins.” I tend to agree with this outlook because it parallels something we see domestically in the U.S.
In the United States, the people behind Biden and the extreme leftists are rapidly advancing their ideological quest toward the “Green New Deal.”
Coal, oil, and gas exploration/development have been slowed, stymied and halted as the administration chases clean renewable energy goals.
However, the current problem is there’s no intermediate system of energy production to support their push. This is driving energy costs through the roof, and that problem is magnifying inflation created by prior spending.
During their collective pandemic response, western governments all followed the blueprint laid out by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which was, in essence, to shut down human activities, lock down economies and then spend massively to fill the void. Almost all western leaders followed this exact advice and spent tens-of-trillions in direct subsidies to people and businesses during their lockdowns and COVID mitigation efforts.
At the end of this interventionist rainbow, the collective was instructed to “build back better,” where the economies they destroyed would be rebuilt through the priority prism of ‘climate change.’ However, just like the absence of any U.S. energy transition, the WEF program also did not have a mechanism to bridge the change from ‘dirty’ to ‘clean’ energy.
All of the western government spending during their COVID plan has created two big issues (crisis):
♦ First, massive inflation in every nation who followed the government spending approach. Not coincidentally, the national rate of inflation in every nation directly correlates to the scale of their spending in relationship to their GDP. Global inflation is raging amid the nations that locked down and then subsidized the missing economic activity with government spending.
♦ The second crisis is simple. All of that unsustainable spending has created massive government debt, that has to be paid back. The debt level within the western nations has skyrocketed.
However, if you take the outlook that WEF instructions were based on forethought this inflation and debt was going to be a natural consequence, a crisis created by following the plan, then it’s also likely the way out of the debt was going to be a global digital currency. How else could the World Economic Forum members possibly expect to pay for their: (a) current spend level, and (b) grand “build back better” agenda?
That global banking system and multinational financial outlook puts a very important context to how the west would look at the BRICS financial trade mechanisms as a threat.
Additionally, if this financial and banking issue is the true motive of western government, then suddenly a lot of our internal conservative political pro-Ukraine anti-Putin commentary starts to make sense.
People have wondered why folks like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and other conservative voices have been pounding the table demanding U.S. military involvement and more punitive actions against Vladimir Putin. In the U.S., people have wondered why suddenly a major section of the Republican establishment have aligned with the position of the WEF, UN, NATO, World Bank, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, etc.
If you accept the global banking system and international financial system is at risk, due to the strategies of Russia to avoid the sanctions, then suddenly the severe position of those voices makes sense. Follow the money.
Arguably, this global economic problem (debt and inflation) was directly caused by the collective western government response to COVID. However, now there’s another aspect that makes the debt and inflation seem small by comparison. If there was an alternative to currencies deliberately devalued by the collective western approach to government spending, wouldn’t you want to own that?
If the financial systems, central banks, and global financial mechanisms are fractured by an entirely new system to pay for trade, i.e. the BRICS approach, we end up with two distinctly different currencies (still undetermined) to pay for trade.
This outlook puts Sweden and Finland essentially in a position of choosing banking sides. NATO supporting the maintenance of Euros and Dollars, and the BRICS group, representing almost two thirds of the world population, fighting to go in another direction.
That is the bigger conflict.
WEF -vs- BRICS over trade currency….
…. is also NATO -vs- Russia
…. is also Climate Change -vs- Oil use.
…. is also Globalism -vs- Nationalism
…. is also Feudalism -vs- Freedom
We are screwed either way
… like a football bat .
Think of it as a pincer action. The United States of America and the ideals on which it was founded must be destroyed before it can be returned to the traditional world order of racketeering polygarchies competing for plunder and dominance.
The sanctity of the human individual as the central organizing principle of a properly enlightened human society hangs in the balance.
Perhaps for eternity. How many thousands of years must again pass before an opportunity like America returns to the world order and the human stage on which societies compete.
The great Treasonous threat was always criminal polygarchy. It’s two greatest weapons are duplicity and trivilization, to put reason to slumber so vanity and greed can awaken to do their thing unbothered by disclosure or accountability.
@glissmeister – This is a thesis statement!
Sundance and TCTH post/discussions offer up much of the reference material any person interested in the HONEST “state of our union” would need.
Its unfortunate that daily evidence of the loss of individual liberties doesnt assemble more wide spread reactions, protest and even rebellions.
Love me some Brother David Horowitz too:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/progressivism-as-criminal-enterprise.php
We’ll have a chance when someone colonizes another planet (or depopulates one here). America grew because it had land to grow, a new land to start something never tried before. Where we gonna go now that we’re being taken over?
There is hard…..and then there is harder. Ti.e to choose sides.
If Finland says they are beginning to think about joining NATO, we should believe them…
The Finnish people usually complete what they start. 🙂
salmon swim upstream to spawn and then die
In other words…World War III… and I don’t think that is overstating where we are.
You can’t throw a ball up in the air and expect it to never fall. At best, you can keep it up by kicking it back up each time it falls. But as good as soccer and jacket sack players are, the ball will eventually hit the ground.
That is our financial system.
We have been doing what every stupid country has done over millennia. Living on debt and inflating the currency. We are screwing ourselves.
Whether Russia and China knock the ball down, or Schwab steels the ball, we screwed ourselves.
BTW, the Schwab stealing the ball is pure inflation. Imaginary currency. As much as they want whenever they want it. Unhinged from any commodity. Electronic digits. Add a zero to Schwab’s balance and your balance can’t buy as much as it used to. Protest and they take zeros from your account.
And once they start playing with their funny money, nobody will want to be paid with it. Barter, Rubles, old silver coins, you will have to use whatever the people will take. Especially when they start denying you the use of your hard earned money.
We would be better off doing the standard cure. Yes, this problem has been solved time and again. It is hard medicine, but worth it. Restore a stable currency.
IMHO, Ammunition is the ideal currency; numerous denominations, intrinsic value, hard to counterfeit, and properly stored has an indefinite shelf life.
And, may well provide a definitive answer to those Idiots In Charge, attempting to promote their digital currency, as well.
Only problems I see is that there are too many types, and who will want to shoot them?
Bang. Guess I can’t buy lunch today.
And. These are .45’s I need nine millimeter.
Seems to be Gog of Magog vs. the Beast system vs. the kings of the South and the East.
I’ve long wondered if this would occur in my lifetime.
Now seems likely.
Ist that the way its
supposed to be in certain circles?
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!”
Mystery Babylon is about to get Destroyed!
Yup, kinda my thinking as well. We’re about to become irrelevant in world affairs–very irrelevant.
Or, after YEARS, DECADES, perhaps a CENTURY of being TREATED as “irrelevant” by TIIC (The Idiots In Charge, formerly known as TPTB) we may now have the opportunity to step up, and assert just how RELEVANT we actually ARE.
When I am holding the lever that operates the trap door on the gallows, or releases the blade on the Guiottine, I suddenly become VERY relevant.
Dismiss me at your peril, you Idiots In Charge.
Many in the establishment right say they’re religious people…Lol!
They only believe in the “Golden Calf”. They worship the calf. They start frothing like dogs when this is challenged.
They fully support neo-slavery, no countries, medical tyranny, imperialism and war, and all bow to an economic system that only focuses on the short term created by a sexual deviant pedo.
They are no different than demonic left and in some ways worse. All of them are progressing us off a cliff.
The worst are in plain sight.
So do the Mafia and the Drug Cartels. Never made sense to me. Maybe just after they Murder someone their asking for forgiveness?
Mere tentacles of the great money laundering Hydra that lubricates the global underworld.
Depends on who their god is.
Those who worship Satan have a religion.
Any “religous” person or entity that pushes safety before freedom, is of the devil.
Perfectly. Said. Where is ANY CLERGY, or IMAM (for equity of course) decrying the Totalitarianism Destroying Freedom and Liberty of Peoplekind (I’m from Blackface Canada). “They” (Every Religion Leader) should be caring for our soul, not worrying about our lungs.
The establishment right and the demonic left are both very religious people. They worship with vociferous passion unwavering loyalty to their god they call government.
We can deal with Klaus latter.
My money is on Russia/China/India.
Our crowd are idiots..
Russians believe ( rightly so) that this is a fight for their very survival.
Our crowd. Are worried about their Teslas, Starbucks and Netflix access.
Coincidentally our neighbourhood boasts first generation Sikhs, Muslims, Serbs, Croats,Greeks, Hungarians,Russians, and Bosnians.
It’s a terrific place to live, all value property and most appear to be family loving.
Sadly the majority have a negative view of the U.S. Government.
The “ Five Eyes” appear to be under some kind of evil spell.
Cheers!
As Cippola published, intellect and education do not correlate to stupidity. The intellectual and the educated are just as capable and just as vulnerable to behaving stupidly as any other human person.
Where there is great conceit (as in the Biden Administration) the most credentialed are often stupidity’s greatest champion.
Some people are educated beyond their intelligence……….
When you consider our side can’t figure out which bathroom to use, then yeah, I’d say the Russia / China / India already have a distinct advantage.
😂 👍👍
Getting tired of the word “renewables”. Can we take our language back please? There’s nothing “renewable” about a solar panel or a bald eagle smasher.
They are simply machines that breakdown over their short life cycles.
There is simply no renewing of anything related to them.
They are “unreliables”. You cannot count on them when you need them.
Exactly.
Green energy also requires storage and that storage requires materials that are not renewable.
What happened to the mandatory recycling pitch. Recycle your papers, glass, plastic,etc. When china stopped taking our waste it all went away. Folks in my neighborhood pay for the blue recycle cans. Still load em every week. And the trucks just dump them in the trench at the landfill.
And that Stu will spell our demise.
“False Moderns.”
They are truly False Moderns.
We are screwed. We will be living with limited food, rolling blackouts, and unable to travel more than a few miles. We will be slaves.
Heres another one; “Fossil fuels”.
Venus has an aptnosphere RICH in hydrocarbons; methane, propane, etc.
No one has ever suggested dinosaurs EVER inhabited Venus, so HOW exactly did all these “Fossil fuels” get there?
Because the theory that hydrocarbons derive from fossils, is as flawed as the “Hubberts Peak” theory, that the earth was about to “run out” of oil.
And, while no one is touting Hubberts peak, any more, people still refer to Oil as”Fossil Fuel” which it clearly ISN’T.
I think the outer planets have even more hydrocarbons
Try Shipping several megawatts of electricity across the globe. There is simply no more efficient way to transport readily available energy, to the location of use, than fossil fuels.
I have a solution to climate change.
We keep throwing libtards into the volcano till they are happy with the climate.
The mean of local weather: climate. Locality is a matter of scale and resolution.
The word climate has always meant “change.”
We need to bring back The Department of Redundancy Department to publish these things.
For the greater good of the good, of course; and the children of the children and their children.
Yeah.
I second the motion. All opposed……
The Ayes have it!!
The WEF can not be trusted. I, personally, do not want a digital currency/banking system as it allows governments too much control over my life. Freedom is not a commodity to be bought and sold on the whims of a global entity.
On your phone, dial *#O6#. They track you everywhere, that is your fingerprint. You’ll learn about it soon.
think cars as well. Everything.
You know, perhaps it should be actionably unlawful to monetize the identity or location of a human person without full disclosure, informed consent and compensation.
When acting lawfully and having not acted unlawfully, we should have the unalienable right to be left alone as an unalienable right arising from our sanctity of human being.
The individual is not to be interfered with. That principle should be enhanced and reinforced as it relates to the human commons. My rights end where your’s begin and vice versa. This seems an essential sophistication of civility in our emerging modern era. This represents a crucial hysteresis of mutual universal interest.
We already have digital currency. ATM / debit / credit cards, electronic bill pay, wire transfers, sweep accounts, etc. Even your checks get cleared digitally! Shoot even Wall Street, your 401ks et all. This is how most money changes hands in the modern economy.
The thing is, we have currency. Once that is eliminated you become just a number.
In the words of Scott Ritter… Russia has already divorced the United States, now they need to discuss child visitation rights.
excellent interview when you all have time.
http://thesaker.is/scott-ritter-and-gonzalo-lira-the-battle-of-the-donbass/
The site is a terrific source of another perspective.
Fascinating ( at least to me)
Reading here at TCTH and places like “ The Vineyard” ( Saker) are a pleasure.
MSM junk..is truly Sad!
When the “Saker” actually writes, I’d swear it’s Sundance. 😁😁
MSM=mental poison
Malignant Sycophant Media.
Monetizing Fraud Since 1853
They are not the cure. They are the disease.
This site is super . Another throughly detailed article from the other day.Recommended reading.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-7/
That’s the one…I have it saved as “ The Vineyard”
Cheers!
I hope our side loses.
My apologies to the rest of the world for how evil the American government has become.
maybe lets not say ‘our side’
maybe lets say the O’Biden illegitimate admin
MAGA
I know. I am torn. I hate how corrupt the government, the MSM, the education system and so many companies are.
There are so many good folks in the US who are only now realizing just how far down the path to hell we have traveled.
It is hard for the average person who only wants to be free to work and raise a family in peace to understand the depths of evil in the souls of so many in power.
But here we are.
It’s not the US against the world. It’s the average person against the demonic forces behind the evil which we behold.
It is a battle which can only be won on our knees.
The collective of those WEF satanists are relatively small in number. Somewhere within this small group is a weak point to be exploited. If a few of these pieces of human garbage started disappearing, it might just get the rest to turn against themselves.
The only solution to WEF is break Ted Kaczynsky out of jail!
I read a big thread this morning about how the world economies are splitting between our fake dollar economy based on FIAT and debt and another economy based on commodities and manufactured goods which Russia and China will be able to dominate going forward.
I laid it out in 4 parts. Sundance has my emails (Confirmed) and I’m sure he’ll explain it in his own way when the time is right.
”Own nothing be happy and the 20% unrealized gains tax connection.”
Looking forward to it!
Not good. Russia is backed into a corner. Almost as if SOMEONE wants an attack on America.
I’m not sure I’d care if it only involved certain zip codes.
… is also representative democracy vs democratic oligarchy
… is also taxation with representation vs taxation without representation
… is also our Founder’s revolutionary ideal of sovereign citizens with individual liberty with equal protection preserved by law vs the return to feudalization under European rule; the imposing of group identity immolating individual identity; and, the highly developed promiscuous agency of transnational corporate imperialism operated world over as an elite public-private partnership of insiders, financial elites and government insiders via predatory use of opportunistic syndicates and cartels pursuing and operating monopolies.
Meanwhile, they are doing absolutely everything they can to destroy the US Dollar as they are doing in other countries almost as if there were some sort of PLAN to tank the currency of every first world country… conspiracy theory right?
Eh, I disagree with the notion that BRICS is on the side of ‘freedom,’ due to the Governments of certain nations, i.e. China. Now perhaps you’ve got a different understanding of it than how I’m reading it, but it doesn’t seem like anyone’s barking for freedom here besides the people of the world. I also think the climate change BS is just so companies like Black Rock and Vanguard can tank oil/energy prices to where they can buy them cheaply and control them, and reintroduce them at higher rates/etc. Billoinaires buying up farmland to control food supply; China’s doing the same thing by the way. This is about control to globalist types; it’s just a matter of if it’s a Chinese/Russia led one or a European-led one. As it stands right now, I see very few standing up for the United States of America and more using it as a platform for globalist control.
Freedom at a national level. The Chinese don’t care how their trading partners or allies behave or organize their own land. They are a trading mercantile nation. They don’t insist or impose their political and social beliefs on an ally so that’s a significant improvement in my opinion.
I’ve been reading here and elsewhere thinking in terms of Tangible vs. Intangible.
So BRICS would hold currency value based on hard commodities-
Oil, coal, minerals…
making in my mind a WEF electronic banking system anchored to what exactly?
Wind chimes, Unicorns & rainbows?
Yeah you can tell me if my thinking is simplistic and silly,
Yet the paper or “bitcoin” they would issue is only as good as the hard assets it represents right?
And currently they hold debt. Ever growing debt.
And the curren “Green” economy is a subsidized failure.
The US has a lot of commodities; we just aren’t tapping them. Why? Dunno. It seems rather foolish that globalists would designate one country for one thing and other countries for other thins while every country has intrinsic value on their own. But I think them drawing down commodities in countries in order to control their logistical operations is what they’re trying to do.
I don’t think bringing down the dollar is going to help China in the near-term, either. We buy so much from them, that if we stop buying, either because we won’t or can’t, they’ll be affected, and so will whoever helps them make said materials; not to mention the food problems that will stem from that over there.
I currently view what’s going on in China as the most important story for this conflict. It shifts the ground beneath BRICS’ feet and could make the whole thing they’re trying for fall apart.
Russian debt to GDP is very small
Unicorn FARTS, which are even less tangible than Unicorns, but yes you have it right.
The WEF types have no physical or mental connection to REALITY.
And, they are not even acting in their own self interests, and can be seen to be acting in ways counter to their best interests.
These two qualities, taken together DEFINE Insanity, and normally when society observes an individual exhibiting both, society removes them, for their own safety, and that of others.
I agree that it’s not about freedom. Some of those BRICS nations oppress their citizenry.
I think it is about a choice between A) the government of whatever nation deciding financial policy for that nation vs B) central banks deciding.
If the government in question favors freedom, you get more freedom than when under the control of the World Bank. So for some of those countries things should improve for the citizenry.
I think that Russia is waiting to see if China and other oil countries will go along with paying in another currency or creating one. China wants there’s to be the currency and of course Russia wants it to be there’s. The opec countries can see they don’t win much either way. And most everyone can see that if they’re not careful a US collapse takes the world with it. And most likely brings on a world war.
Everyone’s on tippytoes and that’s why we see Obama traipsing around trying to create calm and confidence. Trouble is that half the country and a lot of world knows he’s just another puppet with better optics and control over his mouth cause he still has a working brain and is willing to be told what to do and say. Whereas Biden thinks he’s in control and knows what to do and how to do it and is contentious and old man cranky along with his brain melt.
I think they’re hoping for some changes in Nov. Everyone’s convince the Democrats are screwed. I’m not so sure of that and neither are they. They’ve managed to hold off much court proof of their steal of 2020 and if they can capture the right combo of states this year they might be okay and just have to keep things going till they can flush Joe and Kamala down the drain. And half the country is ready to blow if they try it. This is why the health emergency so they can control that under the guise of epidemic. But that too has been blown now as an excuse. They managed to get their scotus breaker on before the election which is something I’m sure they’re glad about.
As usual the GOP thinks they can keep doing the same ol thing and stay in office. I have my doubts. It all depends on how blatantly the Dems try to steal 22 and 24.
Uncle Sam is giving away billions of dollars in free munitions, paid for by US tax payers.
Get your free munitions! Join NATO today! Act now, and JoeBama will. throw in a free Patriot Missile Battery*
*Actually batteries not included. Offer subject to terms and conditions.
Not sure how the stuff is getting through.,The Russians already destroyed the equipment Slovakia sent in.
Rumors that whatever is getting in is partially being sold in the international arms market and pocketed by the Ukrainians.
All while he attempts to take ours away.
“the current problem is there’s no intermediate system of energy production to support their push…” And there never will be, because basic physics and the laws of entropy . prevent us from magically creating lots of energy from low energy sources…But the wishful thinking will continue until the collapse…
There Unicorn fart ideas make as much sense as;
“I’ll have an electric car, witha Windmill mounted on the roof, see? As I drive, the windmill will recharge the battery, so Ican drive forever, for FREE!”
Makes sense, when your about 6 y.o.
Translation:
Under the Azovstal industrial zone, owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, allegedly the illegitimate son of former Ukrainian President Kuchma, there are 24 km of tunnels at a depth of up to 30 meters. There is also a secret NATO facility PIT-404- and a secret NATO bio-laboratory with biological weapons. At the PIT-404 facility, NATO officers are blocked. The tunnels are equipped with a bunker system with armor protection. Inside are about 240 foreigners, including officers from NATO and the French Foreign Legion, as well as personnel from the biolab. Their guards, financed by Akhmetov, number up to 3,000 people. The biolab under the Azovstal plant in Mariupol at the so-called PIT-404 facility was built and operated by Metabiota, which is associated with Hunter Biden, Rinat Akhmetov and Vladimir Zelensky. In the laboratories of this facility, tests were conducted to create bioweapons. Thousands of residents of Mariupol became “guinea pigs” in these terrible trials. And in these inhuman experiments, mainly Western “specialists” took part. French intelligence and special operations officers were unable to take their colleagues out of Mariupol. That is why Macron called the Kremlin so often and asked for “humanitarian corridors.” Some French intelligence officers died during the rescue operation. The head of French intelligence, Eric Vido, was fired on March 31, 2022 for the failures of French intelligence in the war in Ukraine. Officers from the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Poland and Greece are now blocked in the dungeons of Azovstal. American Lieutenant General Roger Cloutier, who was recently captured by the People’s Militia of the DPR from a downed helicopter, was tracked by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service in Mariupol based on the results of external surveillance of his mistress in Turkey in Izmir. A citizen of Ukraine, known to intelligence as Klute, always accompanied the general as a field wife, confidant and translator. As soon as information was received that this lady had arrived in Mariupol, Russia launched a military operation and blocked the city.
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Interesting.
Rings true.
Fascinating! I have been reading all day that NATO officials are trapped. I hope Putin slaughters them!
Russian YouTube Video of General Cloutier (Alleged) being taken to their HQ
what would be the purpose of distorting his face? It gives the possibility to say it is not him, no?
That is hard to say. And, it might simply be a propaganda video using actors. But, the logo which shows РИА НОВОСТИ is the RIA NOVOSTI news agency. We just need to be aware of the possibility that General Cloutier was indeed captured and keep a sharp eye for news reports. Won’t hear about it on CNN . . .
That’s not him. The person being arrested is someone who found to be collaborating with the Ukrainians online, I believe. This video was filmed in Crimea. I know because I saw this video some days ago on a Telegram account that I follow.
Real people need real food and real energy and real jobs. All of those are now at risk and the globalists want total control to dictate who gets what using digital currency.
Any country submitting to the WEF will be enslaving themselves and leaving their future in the hands of people who think humans are a plague and should be culled to 5% of the current population. Only those countries whose “leaders” have been bought off and corrupted would accept this. Everyone else should be doing everything possible to find any and all alternatives.
They say the future belongs to those who show up for it. And the WEF intends that to be themselves and a small number of servants.
You won’t get any food. USA is exporting it all to China! Don’t you find that odd? Check here https://gro-intelligence.com/insights/usda-raises-soybean-exports-estimate-but-gro-predicts-demand-will-increase-further
Yes, China has a 5 year stockpile of food, according to reports…
The West is contending with existential challenges on two fronts, one internal and the other external.
Internally, the West is fighting off the delusional globalists who would sacrifice everything the West stands for, everything the West IS, in their mad pursuit of global power. Freedom, consent of the governed, rights endowed by God in every person, oh hell Truth Beauty and Goodness, are all obstacles in the way of globalist world domination.
Externally, Putin sees himself as a restorer of Russian Civilization contra The West. In that pursuit he launched an unprovoked and illegal invasion of a sovereign European nation for seeking closer ties to the West. That was bad enough.
But Putin also likely calculated that the only way his invasion could succeed would be to keep the West out of it. So he threatened to nuke any country that interferes in a way Putin doesn’t like. Essentially he threatened to destroy the world if the West interferes.
Who does that? One might expect such a brazenly offensive threat from an out of control mullah somewhere, or from some tin pot African strong man who got his hands on a nuke. But from Russia’s leader? It is so far outside the bounds of acceptable civilized behavior, so beyond the pale, that everyone was stunned.
The nuclear threat was Putin’s bridge too far. You do NOT do that. And the West will not just let that go by. What Putin misjudged is that a direct military response is not the West’s only option. Neither are sanctions. Putin has already lost, and probably doesn’t even know why or how.
Back on the internal front, the globalists present the West with a false choice: a globalist WEF West or Russia. There is a third choice: the West without the WEF globalists.
Trump 2024
The delusional globalists are the ones in charge. They are the ones overthrowing any country that stands in their way. They attempted this in Kazakhstan, did this just recently in Pakistan, did this in 2014 in the Ukraine. They also did this in the USA in 2020.
They are as you say in a mad pursuit of global power and you then proceed to ask why the Russians see themselves as being threatened by this delusional globalists setting up shop next door in the Ukraine.
The Russians see them as a threat for many of the same reasons you do.
Or you could view it as the US instigated the war intentionally.
Is there a third way to look at this? Tom Luongo at Gold Goats and Guns offers an interesting thesis.
Until 2022 the U.S. commercial banks all used LIBOR, the London Interbank Offer Rate, and interest rate set by…mostly European banks. The only U.S. bank represented on the committee that sets the LIBOR was Chase bank. So the U.S. market was controlled by this mostly European committee and the Eurodollar market pulled the strings on our economy…
After Jan. 2022 that all changed with the adoption of the SOFR rate, a rate used by U.S. banks. Different than LIBOR and marks a split between U.S banks and European banks…. They are in negative interest rate territory and we are increasing out interest rate…because now we can…because SOFR. No longer trapped and beholden to Davos and E.U.
Per Tom’s thesis the Federal Reserve is now going head to head with the “Davos” crowd and all that capital invested in Western European countries ( the E.U.) will come flooding to the U.S. draining the E.U. and the Davos interests of capital.
I don’t pretend to understand it…and it still all seems like the lesser of a bunch of evils..but anything that disturbs the “Davos” crowd is all AOK with me!
Hadn’t heard this, thank you! Didn’t VSGPDJT roll the Fed into the treasury?
Not sure about that…i think it was discussed but not sure it happened..
Finland and Sweden to join NATO.
I am sure this has Russia shaking in their boots.
Excellent map; purposefully leaving our backside exposed. Do these politicians really think they are going to control these illegals crossing our southern border?
NATO has become a political social club more than a strong military alliance. If only Russia would view it that way, they (and all of us) could relax. They should view it like the UN with uniforms. In other words, useless. Just parties, lunches, cocktails, talking, etc etc All for show.
And biolabs,….don’t forget the BIOLABS, 46 of the admitted to, and right on Russias border.
How would we feel if Russia had 46 bioweopons labs 10 miles south of our Southern border?
They weren’t just socialising in Ukraine.
Look at the second chart on this web page. It shows the data of the first chart (purchasing power of the US dollar since 1900) in logarithmic form. He explains why it’s important to view charts like the purchasing power of the dollar over decade and stock market prices in logarithmic form as opposed to linear charts.
When viewing the chart, keep in mind that the US dollar as reserve currency was established in 1944. Notice on the logarithmic chart that the steady decline in the purchasing power of the dollar starts right about then, funny that!!!
https://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/100-year-declining-value-of-us-dollar.html
We’ll continue to stumble along and screw everything up along the way, never avoiding serious mistakes, invoking conflict and war, and always paying a terrible price for our lack of wisdom and morals and honor. In other words, we’ll keep doing what we always do, adjust on the fly, reap what we sow, while the planet keeps turning. Every generation could have written a litany of world problems like this post. And if/when it gets existential enough for Russia, the gloves will come off. The US has not been a force for good for a very long time. We’re gonna reap what we sow too.
I am over NATO and want out.
Once again, I am convinced the Amish are wise to avoid this whole mess. I’m working on planting this year’s garden and considering raising chickens. I don’t much care for Putin, but I must say I trust gold more than I trust crypto currencies.
Sweden – a low population country that hands its children over to be raped by muslims. They are so close to not existing…
We can’t possibly win economically. Who is going to buy our bonds if it won’t be China? The “elites” are rich morons. Who ever though that “eat the rich” would have literal meaning.
So, Ukraine isn’t going their way enough to get us on board this “Russia is bad narrative”? So they are trying for 2 countries where the people look “more like those whiteys” since “we don’t know if them folks in Ukraine look enough like us.”
Multipolarity is here. What Klaus Schwab and the “Conservative Establishment”want is beside the point.
Multipolarity has always been here. Certain elements in the West deluded themselves otherwise, and set about a campaign to spread Western liberal values in places where there was no cultural foundation for them. The delusion has been around for quite a while.
We’re in the final stages of the “good old days”.
We are always in the final stages of the good old days. A proper interpretation of ancient cave paintings is probably “Kids today!”
Mussolini – We become strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for moral guidance.
With fascist values ascending like a rocket, the notion of friendship will be left in the dust.
Even the totalitarian Marxist Stalin could not believe that (his friend?) Hitler would totally betray him.
Fascism is a doctrine of power (nothing against the State). An egomaniac like Trudeau finds the worship of State power perfectly suits his needs. Right when I do it, wrong when you do it.
Might makes right, says Trudeau. And I’m not Mussolini, because I have better hair.
Russian spy chief ‘thrown in jail’ as Vladimir Putin ‘turns on security officials’ (telegraph.co.uk)
Or have the Russians found their mole?
I wonder if this is all part of a sinister plan or a series of escalating disasters, each the result of a ‘solution’ that rapidly became a problem. If the WEF are so good at forward planning why are they so bad at implementing their plans and why did they ‘forget’ their was no stop-gap between green energy and fossil fuels?
Sweden and Finlands decision to join NATO has just been accelerated by the Invasion of Ukraine, the Russians have become increasingly belligerent to both over the last few years and neutrality was becoming politically unpopular.
Finland, of course, shares a large border with Russia. Insanity!
And Lavrov is taking a very dim view of Borell’s recent inflammatory comments:
These maniacs are hell bent on getting us all killed.
I believe Patriots, want oil, freedom and nationalism. Have no use for the climate change hoax, or the failures of globalism.
Yea…..Still think our Republic is voting our way out of this????? Unfortunately, not a chance……as Sundance says…..’Live your best Life, Now’……
With all due respect to Sundance, I see the present situation quite differently.
In my opinion, this entire thing is a clash between a unipolar world view, conveniently (and only …) held by “the West” and its so-called “elites,” and a multipolar world view, the latter being what will actually take place and we are now beginning to see it.
“The West,” believe it or not, accounts for only about a third of the world’s population, and less than a third of its wealth. Yet it has a vastly-inflated perception of its own military might, and of its “inevitable right” to rule the planet … even though it is dependent upon “the East” for energy and, by its own choice now, for nearly all of its manufactured goods which it can no longer be bothered to manufacture.
“The West” also declares itself to be “impossibly rich,” the key word being, “impossible.” This wealth is based on “borrowing” which actually isn’t borrowing, and upon currency-exchange rules in international trade which no longer make sense. “The West” simply intends to use these things as a weapon. The only trouble is that none of these are things that cannot easily be replaced – or, bested.
BRICS is now going to do exactly what they’ve said, and there is nothing to stop them. It makes perfect sense to them, especially given “the West’s” recent activities. If the situation were reversed, you would do the same thing in a split-second.
No, the US Dollar will not “melt down,” but it will be forced to discard the role in world trade relationships that it never properly should have had. And, ironically, this might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to America. All of the sudden, America will be forced to remember that “the one place where a Dollar is still worth a Dollar is … right here.” Maybe the USA will be forced to go back to the gym to rebuild her prodigious muscles.
Yes. The uni-polar world that certain elements in the West had/have was always a delusion. It was this delusion that allowed the fever dream of a single world government that WEF globalists chase. The West faces this internal challenge to its values at the same time Russia’s 21st Century tsar pursues his own fever dream of a world dominated by Russian Eurasian Civilization, a Russian Reich, all of them racing Icarus to the sun.
I like this scenario…… and they only have themselves to blame.
The USA has since WW2 been using its bullying tactics and has once again been caught out with a bad take on a deal that they caused and react now….when in fact the Chinese and Russians have been working this out for many years.
The reason Russia offers such a good price for long term deals is they make it that you stop drilling and they have you by the groin.
The reason the chinese has a global road and are doing deals in every country in the world getting on all major boards is that their long term goal is sweeping across the western world by stealth and bribery… and will do it in less than ten years.
Finally the West and Nato wake up to the fact that they are defeated…… they up the ante and there is only one option for them…and that it seems to me …….is world war……….. thats how they got their privilege position before and they are trying to do it again…..
Russia started diversifying with sound money around 2015.
Maybe they were preparing for dollar devaluation? Chart…
jsmineset.com/2022/04/06/jims-mailbox-2822/
Say whatever you want about NATO still being “a mutual defense alliance,” but when I look at this map I cannot see it this way … and of course, neither can Russia.
Someone is playing a slow-motion chess game in preparation for some future pan-European (“world” …) war. They are using the Alliance as a decoy and a foil as they systematically position vast military forces directly on the border of … Russia. There can be no good end to this . . .
Color me blurred boundaries and hash marked solids on this map. The 7+ billion people on earth will need and demand cheap energy. All Europe is going to be trading with Russia. China is everywhere pumping oil and gas. And we are just a President away from once again becoming energy independent……if it doesn’t happen right after the midterms when the R majority picks up the mantle of a national security emergency and oil/gas production.
Regardless, the west is chasing a dream they do not have the infrastructure to support, or the people who can afford it. I can’t afford an electric car, and I don’t want one. I like my freedom (what I perceive).
I don’t want to eat 3D printed food made from recycled garbage, and I don’t want people like AOC telling me how I should live, think, or be.
I want Russia to win.
Hah. I just bought an “electric car”,….well SORT of.
A ClubCar electric golf cart, made around 1976.
Cost me $200, and already had 6-6volt deep cycle batteries, as part of my ‘off grid’ solar system.
End stage empire/capitalism resembles a pyramid scheme. Our savings,assets, investments and home value will be destroyed by inflation and we will be at the mercy of true evil. God is the only way out.
I can understand and rationalize this. Now they become a target. The western Carrot and stick influence, money, finance, protection, millitary complex. It certainly will widen the battlefield and fallout cloud. EU is a broke socialist society and the US is a dying super power, both might as well cuttle together to the end. Sad.
Read a comment today from someone wishing he lived in Russia rather than his home in Slovakia. Wow, that is a huge change! Someone else wanted to move to Hungary…People vote with their feet. So maybe US/EU isn’t winning the PR war after all…
IMO they have lost it!
The wife and I attended 2 PDJT rallies in 2016 in Washington State.
Several Freedom Rallies here in Greater Vancouver.
My Grandfather was on minesweepers in WW 2.
The wife’s Mum and Dad were in the Canadian Airforce.
I despise Canadian and U.S. governments. We certainly will not be fighting for either government 🤮
Our boys, and their associates 30ish are of the same mind.
We may be in deep sh*t.
Cheers!
“may be” certainly looks to be escalating to “will be”.
All too soon I believe.
Its the globalists’ plan for us.
… remember the WEF crowd also wants depopulation … start several wars, famines, pestilence, and millions die off quickly …
Despise the Canadian government and our government is your right, but what are you doing to correct the madness that has occurred in what was once known as the free nation of Canada? Are you involved locally to elect people who will run against the progressives/communists who now iron-fist rule Canada? We always get the government that we deserve by either voting it in or not voting it out. It seems now that free Canada is gone forever and the boy king will rule for life. Good luck up there and if you decide to move south then leave your Canadian attitudes in Canada just as we tell Kalifornians, Oregonians, and Washingtonians here.
Seriously? You chastised this person with a very snobbish rebuke. Why is California in such trouble? Is it because the citizens voted for it or because they lied and when they got into power cheated to stay in power. How exactly is that the citizens voting for the government they have? America didn’t vote for what we are experiencing today yet according to you we deserve what we get because we voted for it. Not always so my friend sometimes you get circumstances beyond your control.
These globalist warmongers just won’t stop pushing.
It doesn’t take much to see which nation all of those text-blocks conveniently cover up. This is not a “defensive” deployment. As Russia sees quite plainly, it is an “offensive”positioning of forces directly adjacent to … Russia.
What we are witnessing here is a slow-motion game of Chess, using the former Alliance as a cover and a foil. Military forces are being put into position in anticipation of a new pan-European (“world” …) war which will specifically target Russia – until the Alliance members inevitably also begin to turn against one another.
Through the EU, Germany may finally be seeking to exact revenge against the nation which caused her defeat in World War II.
In honor of Madeleine Albright, they (the leaders of NATO), can ensure the ultimate destruction of their own countries if they keep going this way!
Chess being played by idiots.
Remember when Trump met Putin face to face? All the usual CFR, DoS and other sycophants ran around with the furies like their hair was on fire, harping about Russia, Russia, Trump Trump Trump!!!!
Now we know why. A Trump-Putin alliance meant certain death of the WEF/Davos/City of London agenda and The Great Game of Mr. Global.
It also revealed what they were up to WAS NOT in America’s best interests. The fury of their bad faith antics revealed the truth and hardened intent of their now apparent conspiracy to conduct Treason against The People of the United States of America.
glissmeister, totally agree. That same though struck me and it explains all the Russia, Russia, Russia hysteria from the left.
Against the country that has traditionally won most of the world chess titles.
Putin will have to be removed, or die from alleged cancer they say he has, before any of the slow-moving chess game is brought to fruition.
What’s the chances that Germans get on the battlefield and run out of gas, again.
They intend to push us into WW3……
The Scamdemic, food shortages and famine won’t reduce the “surplus” world population fast enough.
A speedy global war is needed for destruction and death so Build Back Better can be applied worldwide.
To counter this, Norse, I would simply observe that: “they are a very different ‘they’!”
Important point!
The “they” that you are speaking of is a “Western ‘they.'” A unipolar ‘they.’
But the rest of the world … specifically including “Brazil, Russia, India, and China” among a great(!) many other nations … does not agree. “This other ‘they'” espouse a multipolar future which protects(!) them from these abuses. And ‘they’ certainly have the power and the capability to achieve it.
Remember: this “other ‘they'” represents more than two-thirds of this planet’s population, and likewise more than two-thirds of its material wealth.
Textbook Cloward-Piven in your face from the malignant playbook of the DSA and its sycophants.