It is very curious timing in this article from Newsweek, containing massive geopolitical implications, using identified Saudi Arabia sources, would come in advance of Joe Biden’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Is this strategic geopolitical pressure from Saudi leader Mohamed Bin Salman (MbS) ahead of the meeting with Biden; or is this a genuine possibility that looms as likely? If the former, then Joe Biden is being geopolitically slow roasted by Saudi Arabia for his previous disparagements and ideological hypocrisy in his visit. If it is the latter, well, then the tectonic plates of international trade, banking and economics are about to shift directly under our American feet.
We have been closely monitoring the signs of a global cleaving around the energy sector taking place. Essentially, western governments’ following the “Build Back Better” climate change agenda which stops using coal, oil and gas to power their economic engine, while the rest of the growing economic world continues using the more efficient and traditional forms of energy to power their economies.
This article from Newsweek is exactly about this dynamic with Saudi Arabia now potentially joining the BRICS team.
NEWSWEEK – Finland and Sweden’s green light to join NATO is set to bring about the U.S.-led Western military alliance’s largest expansion in decades. Meanwhile, the G7, consisting of NATO states and fellow U.S. ally Japan, has adopted a tougher line against Russia and China.
In the East, however, security and economy-focused blocs led by Beijing and Moscow are looking to take on new members of their own, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, two influential Middle Eastern rivals whose interest in shoring up cooperation on this new front could have a significant impact on global geopolitical balance.
The two bodies in question are the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS. The former was established in 2001 as a six-member political, economic and military coalition including China, Russia and the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan before recruiting South Asian nemeses India and Pakistan in 2017, while the latter is a grouping of emerging economic powers originally consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) upon its inception 2006, and including South Africa in 2010.
Here is the money quote:
[…] “China’s invitation to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to join the ‘BRICS’ confirms that the Kingdom has a major role in building the new world and became an important and essential player in global trade and economics,” Mohammed al-Hamed, president of the Saudi Elite group in Riyadh, told Newsweek. “Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is moving forward at a confident and global pace in all fields and sectors.”
[…] “This accession, if Saudi joins it, will balance the world economic system, especially since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest exporter of oil in the world, and it’s in the G20,” Hamed said. “If it happens, this will support any economic movement and development in the world trade and economy, and record remarkable progress in social and economic aspects as Saudi Arabia should have partnerships with every country in the world.” (read more)
That would essentially be the end of the petrodollar, and -in even more consequential terms- the end of the United States ability to use the weight of the international trade currency to manipulate foreign government. The global economic system would have an alternative. The fracturing of the world, created as an outcome of energy development, would be guaranteed.
Keep in mind, in early June Federal reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated, “rapid changes are taking place in the global monetary system that may affect the international role of the dollar.” {LINK}
The western alliance (yellow) would be chasing climate change energy policy to power their economies. The rest of the world (grey) would be using traditional and more efficient energy development. The global cleaving around energy use would be complete.
This is not some grand conspiracy, ‘out there‘ deep geopolitical possibility, or foreboding likelihood as an outcome of short-sighted western emotion. No, this is just a predictable outcome from western created events that pushed specific countries to a natural conclusion based on their best interests.
You can debate the motives of the western leaders who structured the sanctions against Russia, and whether they knew the outcome would happen as a consequence of their effort, but the outcome was never really in doubt. Personally, I believe this outcome is what the west intended. The people inside the World Economic Forum are not stupid – ideological, yes, but not stupid. They knew this global cleaving would happen.
For a deep dive on BRICS, as predicted by CTH, {SEE HERE}. The bottom line is – the 2022 punitive economic and financial sanctions by the western nations’ alliance against Russia was exactly the reason why BRICS assembled in the first place.
Multinational corporations in control of government are what the BRICS assembly foresaw when they first assembled during the Obama administration. When multinational corporations run the policy of western government, there is going to be a problem.
In the bigger picture, the BRICS assembly are essentially leaders who do not want corporations and multinational banks running their government. BRICS leaders want their government running their government; and yes, that means whatever form of government that exists in their nation, even if it is communist.
BRICS leaders are aligned as anti-corporatist. That doesn’t necessarily make those government leaders better stewards, it simply means they want to make the decisions, and they do not want corporations to become more powerful than they are. As a result, if you really boil it down to the common denominator, what you find is the BRICS group are the opposing element to the World Economic Forum assembly.
The BRICS team intend to create an alternative option for all the other nations. An alternative to the current western trade and financial platforms operated on the use of the dollar as a currency. Perhaps many nations will use both financial mechanisms depending on their need.
The objective of the BRICS group is simply to present an alternative trade mechanism that permits them to conduct business regardless of the opinion of the multinational corporations in the ‘western alliance.’
The BRICS team, especially if Saudi Arabia, Iran and Argentina are added creating BRICS+, would indeed be a counterbalance to the control of western trade and finance. This global cleaving is moving from a possibility to a likelihood. If Saudi Arabia joins BRICS the fracture becomes almost certain.
I’ll take Dollar become Peso status for $ 200 Alex
Okay, you won 200 pesos. That is currently a little under $10. But it won’t be long before 200 Pesos = 200 Dollars.
The de-globalization (re-nationalization) of the USD will be an extrenely wrenching process to be sure. But one quite possibly with long-term positive effects for America
The End of the American Bretton Woods trading order is here. The Transition to the disordered world will be more painful than WWII.
Get on your knees and thank God that your children and grandchildren don’t have to Starve.
First we go through ” The Crucible “.
See the film ” The Postman ” for previews.
Or does this force the US to stop messing with other countries and become self-sufficient, which is easily achievable if we have the will. It’s an honest question. I don’t know what to think anymore.
Fair question. There are two ways to destroy debt, devalue it , or destroy the lender in war.
This may be why folks like Martin Armstrong have been saying – ” They need this war with Russia ”
USAWatchdog , a few weeks back.
Seems like a bad time to be firing 44,000 military for not taking the shot if we’re headed to war, doesn’t it?
No one ever thought Milley, Austin or Biden were the sharpest knives in the drawer.
They’re not knives at all, they’re sporks
May well be that America is not meant to win that war.
By removing the best of them, the same sorts that could find a victory in the face of hopeless odds, it is insurance for that eventuality.
I’m not sure we’re even a contender at this point
But China is our bank by and large, what does knocking down Russia do at that point? We don’t owe them like we do China
If we scrap with Vlad , Chyna has his back. So we hit China , and then POOF no more debt …….
of course , little will remain to go to the ‘winner’ , but WEF cares not.
Certainly the U.S. has what it needs to become essentially self-sufficient, but it will take a clean sweep throughout the federal government, in particular the bureaucracies. We are currently governed by the deceived, the deluded and the destroyers, and they will not easily be displaced.
Absolutely not. The WEF puppet nations have their collective heads way to far up their backsides to ever turn away from their disastrous global policies. They will drive the west including the US and Canada to something far worse than bankruptcy. All I can really say is if you’re able to grow your own food and defend it, you’re miles ahead of 90% of the rest of the population.
With Russian natural gas EU won’t survive next winter. Literally, they’re going to freeze to death on a massive scale. The WEF has overplayed their hand. Big changes are coming.
We must pray that God will continue to shed his grace on the USofA
Well G_d has partially answered our prayers on Roe V. Wade, after 50 years and many tears. So what we need is Revival in this country big time. WE NEED HIM! And, HE is just waiting to be asked to help. Despite ourselves, He has never stopped loving us, not for one second!
Rockefeller.
America was just another western country until the coming of Rockefeller.
The petroleum revolution, the industrial revolution, the economy of scale all culminated in the America of Rockefeller.
For leftists, who are superstitious and irrational people, America’s rapid rise after Rockefeller is luck, just luck.
Undoubtedly, when Americans are denied their oil and gas, the America that was will cease to be. And leftist superstition that America was a fluke will be confirmed.
Leftists continually argue: This is THE United States of America…. Then they say something about being able to do something based on this mystical chant, such as provide universal health care, make energy from unicorn farts, etc. California’s legislature voted to have mostly electric cars by the mid 1990s. How? Somehow! It didn’t matter how, only that they demand the outcome.
How will we heat our homes without fossil fuels? You just shall because they say so. They will continue to demand the impossible until we are all poor and starving.
The BRICS will not have these problems. That is why I fear war.
The America of Carnegie was the America of coal-fired steel plants.
The America of Edison was the America of coal-fired electrical plants.
The America of Ford was the America of gasoline-powered Model Ts, the car for the common man.
The neo-feudalist Left wants America to end, and by ending fossil fuels they will triumph.
The Africa of burning manure to cook your dinner, and the Africa of using mules to plow the fields is the world the Left intends for us. Because the most primitive of people live like this, the Left interprets this as “sustainable”: sustainable as long as leftist Westerners provide foreign aid. Ha!
Of course, this will end up with our nation splitting into “Two Americas” first.
And this will finally (and thankfully) close the books on our insufferable IC too, as they’ll have screwed the pooch for the last time!
So many turning points in America history..
Lincoln had no right, no Constitutional right, to start the civil war.
Except the border (the Mason-Dixon Line) would have become the DMZ, Only that.
So affluent northerners now migrate to the more desirable border states (Virginia, North Carolina, even Tennessee. So Californians wind up in Nevada or Arizona, even Idaho. And the rich have tax havens in Montana or Wyoming. Good on them.
DeSantis is a faint shadow of what is possible.
The gun control or abortion fanatics of the Left may show the way to what is possible.
And Donald Trump is not our John the Baptist. Focus..
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No. One weekend. All those involved with treason arrested. Trials and executions to follow within 30 days. One America, one country for We The People. It’s our country. Nov 2020 fraud managers, prison or execution.
Corporations to be charged billions and broken up RICO laws for being partners with a country we are at war with, CCP. How many American deaths needed by Chi-Coms to hold those accountable? Just ask Fauci.
Understand this: it is their goal, and has been for decades, that this country should become poor, dark, cold and hungry. They have been serious about this for all of my now rather long life.
BRICS will be fighting amongst themselves in short order given the nature of their style of government. Russia will not abide by the belt and road philosophy.
My guess is China is facilitating the Demise of the West with purchased US politics while at the same time encouraging the very thing that will destroy the US dollar.
That is a very interesting comment JMClever.
You could be right about China using the BRICS group to further their growth world take over.
China may have underestimated the strength and intensity of Russia and how much Russia intends to hold its own in this group.
This group, BRICS, may just blow it’s self apart as those countries fight among themselves for control.
Once all the pieces are in place, China will stab Russia in the back in a heartbeat. China plays the long game. CCP won’t play second fiddle to anyone for long. It’s all about the party.
Even to those who think the CCP is playing along with the WEF, if they are, guaranteed they’re only using the WEF to get what they want, then stab the WEF in the back. It’s what they do. CCP is on the CCP’s side, first, foremost, and always.
And, back in the 60’s, we called RINOS “Rockerfeller Republicans”, and hated them as much as they disdained us,…and one of the main ones was ROMNEY, Mitts Dad.
THATS how long WE have been betrayed by these globalists, at LEAST 60 years.
Dutch:
The Rich Republicans, call them RINOs , will forever betray us.
Extra costs for food or fuel? They can pay.
Extra taxes? They can pay.
You (not you) have hopes and dreams of changing the mind of Liz Cheney?
We need a third party because we have no other choice. Call it the No Other Choice Party to make it stark and clear. Even Miss Lindsey on Hannity will struggle to bullsh*t that one.
Untill someone/something ” drills baby drills again “.
Fossil fuels are the largest sources of energy for electricity generation
Natural gas was the largest source of U.S. electricity generation in 2021. Natural gas is used in steam turbines and gas turbines to generate electricity.
Coal was the second-largest energy source for U.S. electricity generation in 2021. Nearly all coal-fired power plants use steam turbines. A few coal-fired power plants convert coal to a gas for use in a gas turbine to generate electricity.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php
FUBAR.
TARFU.
The enemy is within!
Let ‘er eat .
The hubris of our American Bolsheviks will be their downfall. I really hope this speeds it up.
I like MBS and what he wants Saudi to become.
Bolsheviks?
Where is the Anti-Masonic Party these days?
My Whig Party newsletter never seems to come any more..
The west will never learn by their own demise. Idiots never learn from their mistakes, they always persist until it’s too late to back down.
So True!! Their failures are ALWAYS chalked up to someone else not doing something right. They refuse to admit that it was, in fact, THEIR plan which failed, as they were repeatedly warned that it would!
“When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.” Thomas Sowell
We have had 40 years of nearly uninterrupted prosperity. This has provide fertile ground for the ascension to power of very stupid people.
This.^^^^^^^
“The west will never learn…………….”
from “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” by Kipling:
…………As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
FJB and the entire uniparty. We need MAGA more than ever.
I’m not sure another pronoun for Republicans is going to help much.
It’s great for leading the masses right back to the empty vessel Republican party. But that’s just political business as usual.
Until we learn to break up that cabal we’re stuck.
We’ve been slowly engaged in that very process. The Republican Party wasn’t built in a day, and won’t be broken in a day. Imo we are making progress though.
Saudi Arabia:
Just another BRIC in the wall 🙂
The USA will have the same place in history as Pax Romana.
There is no coming back to what we were even 2 yrs ago.
That might even be a good thing.
A good thing?
Does the term dark ages mean anything to you?
No more 300+ lb land whales at Wal-Mart?
AOC, is that you?
Perhaps we will stop sending our son’s to die to enrich the arms makers and stop killing people have done absolutely nothing to be killed by us?
You win the words of the day!!
“Personally, I believe this outcome is what the west intended. The people inside the World Economic Forum are not stupid – ideological, yes, but not stupid. They knew this global cleaving would happen.“
My question is, how do they think they would benefit from this? Aren’t the Western leaders and the WEF crowd just weakening their own standing and influence in the world?
There’s an anecdote that the butler of one of the Vanderbilts died.
This butler had been bringing this Vanderbilt his tea before bedtime, for many years.
The butler hated his boss, and made a point of peeing in the tea.
The Vanderbilt was asked how he like his new butler. He complained that his bedtime tea just didn’t taste the same.
The glory of America is that America is the country of the common man (call it the middle class in current parlance). The elite do not represent, can never represent the common man.
America is the land of the common man. And elitists have loathed America, from the beginning. Start there.
No, too few understand that debit is the new currency.
Toss what you think you know about economic positions and look at it from that perspective.
My question exactly! I thought the WEF wanted a “one world order”. How do their plans come to fruition with the cleavage between the global corporatists and the anti-corporatists protecting their sovereignty?
Pretty sure that they will settle for a 1/2 world order in the short term, and work on the other half later.
I think the globalists are so blinded by their ideology, their religion of the Green Power, that they believe they will conquer Russia and more.
Where the manpower will come from to perform such a delusional feat is not answered.
For those that believe the people in the WEF are not stupid, I would like to remind them that stupidity does not correlate with any other personality trait. You can have Einstein level intelligence and still be stupid.
Example – Germany’s 30 year EnergieWende policy that has only tripled their electric prices and made them more dependent on Russian gas imports – without providing one tangible benefit to their society.
Idealogical – AND Stupid.
( See also: Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity ).
Macron did try to tell the old man at the G7 whose arm he was holding and whose mouth was gaping open in that way that says he’s not “at home” that the Saudis were at full capacity
And now Russia has announced they will demand payment for their grains for export in Rubles.
Is the Biden Saudi begging trip still on?
The rest of the world isn’t stabbing the United States in the back. It is a full frontal assault. How the mighty have been felled. Third World, here we come.
He was simply claiming the oil for the EU/ UK cabal if you didn’t catch the drift.
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Here’s a thought. Try engaging the ideas instead of hurling insults.
I appreciate a diligent Admin. monitor here at the Treehouse.
Amen, aDoozy.
I sometimes post controversial comments.
Have at me. I love it.
But calling me stupid? Where do we go from there?
We go like so many other sites on which civility and intelligent discourse over those differing opinions is completely absent.
I, too, appreciate the eagle eyes of Ad rem. Personal invective has no place here.
There are standards.
Nobody….I mean NOBODY puts our Betsy in the corner! 😀
👍 👍
Same here!
Explain how this piece is dumb?
Socratic method…I like it.
Hey guy, “better to be thought a fool, then open your mouth and remove all doubt” (Mark Twain). BUT I personally appreciate your comments because by outing yourself I will not have to read your posts in order to discern if there is anything worthwhile, contained within.
Exactly 💯 💯
Let’s see 👀 those rude folks comments so we can disregard any of their future posts 📫.
✅️ Self imposed “red flag”🇨🇳 via such rude or foolish”comments”.
I did not see the original comment, but I am fiercely opposed to all responses about stupid or dumb comments.
You disagree with all who disagree with you? Duh, and the sky is blue.
Why, why are they wrong? If you cannot answer, then look inward..
The biggest and best economy the world has ever seen cant run on hopium and unicorn farts
Thank you Ad Rem!
They aren’t “stabbing the U.S. in the back”, so much as saying “paybacks a bitch! You have been bullying other countries, bribing, coercing, threatening and overthrowing their governments, for a LONG time, and we are Fed up to HERE with your crap, and we ain’t gonna take it any more!”
Chickens/roost, you know the thing!
I do, Dutchman. That’s why I said they aren’t stabbing us in the back, but rather while we are looking at them square in the eye.
Payback it is for the Empire of Hate and Lies. How long must they have waited for this moment, I wonder. The world’s overbearing, loud mothed bully has finally been called out
The US have been stabbing world in the back for decades
The American people are in the dark by not being informed, warned, educated for the past decades of this economic battle to destroy the dollar. Our government has been stuck on stupid for a long time. It has not only abused and enabled….but was ill prepared.
The people have no idea what is coming, nor how bad things will get for us.
Great and we have an idiot in charge.
Russia Now Demands Rubles For Grain As World’s Largest Wheat Exporter
Excerpt:
After threatening to do so for a couple months now, Russia has pulled the trigger on expanding the list of commodities for which it demands payment in rubles to now include grain exports, effective Friday per a government legal website.
So now grain, sunflower oil and extracted meal are the next to follow the March decision to charge clients from “unfriendly” countries – including major customers in Europe – in rubles for natural gas instead of the normative dollars and euros.
On top of this move, recently Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev announced that Russia’s agricultural products will go to “friendly countries” only, and according to “who needs it most” – a hugely significant statement sure to continue sowing uncertainty and chaos for the global food supply.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/russia-will-now-demand-rubles-grain-worlds-largest-wheat-exporter
Nothing the U.S. Government hasn’t done, for decades, including refusing to sell to some countries, thru sanctions “friendly countries only”.
They are giving it back, good and proper.
Great News!
And sadly I sort of mean that and it’s sort of facetious.
Western elites may not be stupid but they are overflowing in arrogance.
They have come to expect passive compliance from the world as they have achieved passive compliance from the so called political “opposition” in their own countries. They expected to force China and Russia and Saudi Arabia to kneel to their tried and tested methods of corruption, blackmail, and force (“color revolutions”).
Fortunately for the world, not every country is run by the likes of the GOP.
In the ensuing cleavage of anti humanist Gaia worshipping western governments from the real world of brick and mortar and oil and wheat, maybe the destruction of their financial pyramid scheme will finally weaken the leftist institutions of the media, education, and Hollywood so that unrepresented conservatives can finally find room to actually wage a real opposition at home.
Arrogance. Yep. 🙄
At a certain point, arrogance and hubris are indestinguishable from stupidity, and I respectfully disagree with Sundance;
They are overeducated idiots, delusional, stupid and dangerous.
And no, BECAUSE they exist in a bubble, I really don’t think they have anticipated, or “surely known” what some of the consequences of their actions would be.
They are calling audibles, they are making misteps and fumbles, most aren’t even “forced errors”; they are doing it to themselves.
I think you might be right Dutchman.
Watching this struggle for economic dominance now reminds me of how hundreds of years ago the Western European world fought for dominance with their powerful Navies.
Britain, France, Spain and Portugal went back and forth fighting each other with their navies to control the oceans in order to control the shipping which was what gave them economic wealth and power at the time.
These western countries also spread out and developed colonies through out the world to control the growth of crops and mines and other nations products.
Their own with armies were installed in these foreign countries to help take what they had to offer by force and then sell to enrich themselves and drain the nation that they were taken from.
These western power houses never ever thought that one day they would be small nations over shadowed by our own USA which rose up and became a world power.
I think our own leaders do not understand that we can have the same thing happen to us if we are not careful.
They are so full of them selves they think control, power and all they have now will continue to fall from the sky.
Arrogance and hubris will breed stupidity and then comes the downfall.
They are pampered princes and princess just like the old ones who lost their own world dominion over two hundred years ago in Europe.
Royalty who thought their monarchies, which had stood for hundreds or thousands of years, would go on forever.
And I also don’t believe they’re smart.
Stolen elections have consequences. Everything that was fought for since 1776 will be destroyed by Bungles Biden and his gang in less than 2yrs. I read where they are going to stop new drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific. Their plan to destroy our economy is all by design.
This is a century in the making, but congrats on finally understanding what’s in play!
How will Soros play this?
You’re watching his play.
He will short the dollar for sure!
The cleaving of the world in to “Smokers” and “Greenieweenies” much like the awful movie “Waterworld.” BRICS will be the Smokers with all the oil. Greenieweenies will be the smug, but poor casualties with dotards for leaders.
I seem to recall that the dead were recycled for their nutrients in “Waterworld”. Soylent Green…..!
In the clips we saw of ” Reich Chancellor ” Klause Schwabbie at the W.E.F forums, there looked to be several Saudis in the audience looking on as he said — ” VEE VILL Shape Zee Future “
Saudies and Putin aren’t stupid. If your enemy is stupid enough to invite you to forums where they openly discuss their plans to destroy you, why WOULDN’T you attend?Its called recconasance.
Sadly no Americans were that smart
Even I fell for the Petrodollar talk, that’s what happens when we parrot how we were taught.
All these claims that the “petrodollar” is going to collapse are just a total joke. Oil is less than 10% of world trade. These people are living in the ’70s. Hey, cut the hair and get rid of the bell bottoms. It’s 40+ years later!
There is not even an attempt to offer a true honest analysis of the subject. Just look at the figures. The oil and gas drilling sector make up between 4.6% and 6.5% of the global economy. The FX market DAILY trading volume is about $5.3 trillion which dwarfs the equities and futures markets no less oil and gold.
The support behind the dollar is (1) it can be used worldwide without permission from the USA as is the case with the Japanese yen. It is a single currency with a single federal debt market where BIG money can park – that is not the case for the Euro, Ruble, or Yuan. The Iranian Rial has gone through major inflation. It will be devalued and called the “toman” despite the aliollah Seif, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), who confirmed that the CBI has sent a bill to the government requesting the removal of a zero from the currency to reflect the public’s use of the term “toman” to refer to 10 rials. Any revaluation must wait until inflation has stabilized. And this is the currency that will dethrone the dollar? Give me a break!
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/foreign-exchange/usd/is-the-dollar-really-a-petrodollar-anymore/
What happens when the dollar is all used up by the BRICS+ countries because of no demand anymore or by sanctions from the US/EU?
That’s why it’s important to understand what the BRICS nations, ASEAN nations, EAEU, New G8, SPFS (equivalent to SWIFT) basket of currencies/commodities, are doing.
The world has sized up FJB.
Now we get to watch a humiliation where the humiliated party is unaware of his humiliation.
Trump is a genius. Recall how he was treated in Saudi Arabia.
Imagine the Saudis will just send a Uber for Biden. 😉
More like doing the “green” thing and sending a rickshaw.
biden will have to use the escape rope from the flight deck to get off AF1….the belly stairs use power, and we cannot have that, can we?
🙂
And remember PART of his agreement was to sell them billions in arms,..in alliance with Israel, which the Abrams accords set up, they can not only keep Iran in check, but also keep the WEF’ers out.
After the ‘color revolutions’ I doubt the middle east has any illusions about “Joe and the WEF’ers”.
President Trump is a diplomat who knows how to get along with country leaders who do not match his worldview or belief system.
A country can make peace and have an amiable relationship with another if there is respect, if boundaries are understood, and if communication is kept open and honest.
This is what we had with Donald J. Trump.
His visits with foreign leaders, both here and abroad–no matter which leader–were amicable and respectful. Solid agreements and relationships were made.
PEACE was possible, and at our doorstep.
So very very true aDoozy.
I spent a bit of time in the middle east and they do have a very different way of life and looking at things.
As a female working and living there in the early 70s it was, well extremely different shall we say.
Some of my American friends would ask me, when they came to visit, how I could stand it.
I would say, their country their culture their laws.
We can not just go out in the world and boss people around, I have worked and traveled to a lot of places and it is very much their country not mine.
Pres Trump understands that and is respectful.
Not everything in the world is our business and our problem and need us to bustle in and change it.
They used to call those people the Ugly American.
Yes! I’ve lived in many foreign countries, and the one thing that’s the most repulsive, and embarrassing, is the ugly American. Yep, they exist.
BRICS gold backed. USA fed note NOT.
This new form of exchange going forward will be based on a basket of currencies backed by each countries commodities values, production, agricultural, etc, etc.
There is not enough gold in the world to accommodate the money printing so we will never see a gold backed currency again.
‘Physical’ Gold can form the foundation of the entire global and local trade systems at the right price. Up to the discovery of cheap fossil energy, the flow of physical gold in your local currencies price is what adjusted global trade flows in a free market.
The global real growth rate enabled by fossil energy (+10%) is why we needed to temporarily (+100 years) decouple from that +5,000-year-old monetary system (+2% gold mining rate). Now that cheap fossil energy is in the past the system will recouple to physical gold once again. We will go back to storing wealth in real things again, and not see currency and IOUs as anything but a temporary place to store excess purchasing power.
You also need to get the idea of ‘backing’ out of your head. The ‘ratio’ of physical gold in terms of real goods and currencies is how the future system will adjust the relative value of all things. Thus gold doesn’t go up or down in value. Think of 1-foot ruler.
Any currency or debt IOUs you hold as ‘wealth’ is always a transaction half made. Even now, to hold it long-term is very foolish.
Gold destroys the Fed…
“You can debate the motives of the western leaders who structured the sanctions against Russia, and whether they knew the outcome would happen as a consequence of their effort, but the outcome was never really in doubt. “
Yes, it isn’t easy, in this area and well as so many others, to determine with certitude whether their actions are born more from their stupidity or born more from their malevolence.
And Walter says…….wut..???? Come on, man!
The dollar losing it’s status as a global currency could negatively affect our economy, but would be worth it to see the WEF and World Banks take a bigger hit. Which is what I think would happen. That being sad, how do we prepare?
I’m thinking of things like trying to get out of debt. Avoid using digital dollars when possible. So cash or barter. And I’m reading / listening to what Catherine Austin Fitts has to say, since she seems to have a good understanding of the financial system and how it’s being used against us.
What am I missing? On how to prepare for if/when the US dollar ceases to be used as a global reserve currency?
In theory? Find a new home country (through lots of research) and move. Apply for citizenship. Move your cash assets. Renounce US citizenship. Convert US Dollars to other currency(s). Easier said than done because we don’t know how quickly the rest of the crash is going to take place. It’s one option.
Never!!! I’ll fight it out and if I live I’ll rebuild right effing here surrounded by Patiots!!
Great. God bless.
There are different methods for different mission objectives but exploring the alternative economy is a good place to start.
Today I filled the back of a pickup with bricks. I would’ve been happy with a drum of diesel fuel in trade but cash worked for now. I do prefer direct barter.
I don’t like fiat currency and have none more than a buck or two in any bank or financial institution and the bare minimum on hand. I like hard assets. Bricks have been doing pretty good lately. Steel. Aluminum. Bronze. Goods and parts from decades of having a business in industry. Dirt. Don’t underestimate dirt. They’re not making more of it and it is defensible and can provide habitat for food animals and growing crops.
Be creative. Think outside the box. d
Exactly 💯 💯
✅️Thanks for the starter list 👌👍
Excellent advice Dunes.
I would think that developing a skill to trade on would be a good idea also.
Knowing basic skills like carpentry, plumbing, masonry, sewing, medical, gardening etc would be good to brush up on.
Skills can be traded as well as hard assets.
Thank you
For an example from history, look at Britain.
The pound stering was the reserve currency, up until WW1-WW-2,..when the Dollar took over.
“Losing world reserve currency status” did not end England, but it did coincide with the end of the british empire.
So true.
The Roman Empire died but now Italy is still there.
The descendants of the Romans are now Italians.
You can visit their Roman ruins in the lovely cities all over Europe.
The Roman Empire was vast and left many decaying ruins all over the place but the world moved on and now we can go and look at what they left behind, lots of old broken down stuff.
The people that were left after the political structure fell rebuilt and modern Europe is what became of it.
No one is crying over the fall of the Roman Empire now.
There is no other country with a fiat currency that comes close to the power of the U.S. dollar currently. Sure some would like to be, and a couple have even begun the long process of stabilizing their currency, establishing a bond market, and a dozen other important factors to maybe one day attempt it. The biggest problem the two main contenders have is government control of the currency and trust. I see it as a decade off at least before this becomes a potential issue.
The biggest problem the U.S. has is debt; with the last decade of ridiculous spending we (the FED and the State) have painted ourselves into a corner that will be painful to get out of. Normally the FED will raise interest rates to stop inflation… that is no longer possible because just the 75 points recently raised has blown our debt service so high the government can’t keep up. That really on leaves us one option imo…let inflation run until it burns out (thus cheapening the debt we have to pay/ and destroying the citizens)
I hope this helped in some way….hang on, it’s going to get plenty rough! God will win out!
Good for the Saudi’s and “git er done” quickly. I’d like to see the countries of the world sort out which side they want to live with sooner not later as there are decisions to be made. Such as where we go to live the balance of our lives. And, from where I stand, I’m looking for a home turf that runs on good old fashioned oil and petroleum byproducts, loves farmers and God. Not sure I need much else.
Pick a place and go. Hurry, be gone now. I wish you a nice long peaceful life.
As for me. I’ll be staying where I need to be, paying my respects to my father, grandfather, all those that fought and died for this country, and what it means. To run away is to disgrace their legacy and everyone who helped build this country. I’ve had a good life, but that life is over now as far as I can see. I’m prepared to do what it takes so that those coming after me, can possibly experience a little of what I had been given. It’s the least I can do.
Great. God bless.
I feel I should share this. I expect others here to write as you have. Over the four years of Trump I fully expected and was prepared for war against the government and willing to die. Only waiting for the signal to come. I used my time then to talk to many of my Vet friends. All retired and at various stages of life. I asked their advice on where would I fit into the fight.
I was told unanimously, all in separate conversations that, due to age and lack of military experience my best role would be to stay home, participate in the organization of a neighborhood defense pact with like-minded neighbors. Just secure the home front and family as best as possible. That I’ve done.
When I asked about joining a militia I was advised that no militia worth its weight in salt would take a person of my age and especially lacking a military background. That I would be as much a threat to a serious militia as an enemy and any that would accept me could never be trusted.
One of my dearest friends, an ex-Marine of Vietnam vintage, as heroic and patriot as they come, admitted similar. He said that, even for him his fighting days were gone but that if he could help others with his knowledge, for instance making claymores he was willing.
Another friend of multiple tours in Iraq explained that he and a small number he served with have a secret pact. But, as he advised, they would never consider anyone from outside.
So I recognize the urge and the will. It’s an emotion. It’s very American to speak and feel that way. And like any other here or elsewhere who feels similar, God speed to you.
multinational corporations do their production of finished goods in developing countries. so, what happens, eventually? USA continues to receive manufactured goods from offshore. Even hi tech work can be off shored. I see the US becoming a vassal state. no money, no jobs, no honor….all taken from us by ‘librul pigressive’ BS that was sold to naive Americans more weasily than a 2 dollar whore.
I see this as a positive if it results in the US dollar being removed from the abilities to manipulate on the world stage.
Mutually assured destruction didn’t mean a like for like launch… It meant equally tied economic fallout. Guess who’s pulling out of that deal finally.
I officially withdraw from the Axis of Evil. Love the Constitution and the United States of America but what we have now represents neither.
Instead of watching Tricker on Fox maybe people should watch some youtube videos from John Mearsheimer and a few other people. There is a whole genre on the future of the world /US in this century that discusses a bilateral globe.
Could you provide a couple of good links regarding a bilateral globe?
Does this mean African nations will be able to develop their own gas and oil to produce energy and fertilizer? G7 may have shot themselves in the foot or preferably a bit higher.
I guess it can not be treason if the actions destroying this country are done by the president and his deep state advisors?
Funny part is, IF AND WHEN a patriot assumes the office of the Presidency we have the the “Royal Flush” (poker parlance) of massive amounts of oil and gas.
In the meantime, we are screwed.
Well it looks like any possibility of President Trump getting reelected for a third time will come too late to effect this juggernaut coalition!!! All the good President Trump did in the Middle East is now gone due to the demented fool in the White House and his bogus, globalist climate change hoax of an energy policy!! Well we won’t need Saudi Arabia soon anyways as we “transition” off fossil fuels completely to clean energy aka not enough energy to run the economy of Haiti!! Sundance just put another nail in the coffin of what was once called America – land of the free and home of the brave!!! Can we take anymore hits?? God help us! Hosanna!
The Americans were fortunate to be in the right place at the right time and a few extra dollars……
In WW2 they were good enough to make loans to the friends as well as adversaries and make a considerable amount off both …..remember its only this last few years have Europeans actually clear the debts of our ‘friends’
Then of course an opportunity to use Oppenheimer’s knowledge as well as most of German ingenuity for their own gain.
Today we see the yanks cheat all including themselves because they believe they (because of the Petrodollar) can do whatever they want when they want and now it would seem some would prefer to change that pompous arrogance and put them back in line.
Fact is they are no longer ahead….. Musk can put up as many rockets as is needed…cheaper and more efficient…..AEGIS was condemned by congress three years ago as being next to useless and only a 1 in 3 efficiency……… It cannot shoot down anything.
This last week has seen the USA Hyper-sonic failure for the fifth time….. but Russia..China….NK…..Iran has the ability to send the weapons anywhere on the globe and AEGIS has not been tested against Hyper-sonic and the success rate is gonna be less than one in six…. or the loss of five cities to save one……… by weapons we are outclassed with while we worry about LGBT issues.
Now with the dollar getting routed you better start talking nice to people.
When you think about it , really sort of ironic – this new US version of “Communist Lite” leftist / socialism which is driving the current American official policy is being out- maneuvered by the hard -headed realism of “ former” communists of Russia. But we have ideologues and academic idiots in charge so that result is not unexpected…
Let’s see. The commodity that has lifted more people out of poverty than all others combined you (Leftism – West or the moronic parasites) want to eliminate the only resource we have as a valued asset.
Gee what a shock the Saudis are bailing. Maybe it is time to support the people of Yemen. The Saudis going to BRICS side is an IQ test, not a real decision.
End of American prosperity if this happens. Effectively the beginning of the end of reserve currency. 90% of Americans will be shocked by a sudden third world status, most significantly the utopian leftists that support this. Then, the shtf. Buckle up.
“No, this is just a predictable outcome FROM WESTERN CREATED EVENTS that pushed specific countries to a natural conclusion based on their best interests.”
My caps above. This is a transnationally-directed segue into the Eurasian Century. Western leaders are being instructed in this transition. Look at the caliber of them across the board, truly the thinnest of empty suits
They create no events. This is not the demise of the west so much as it is the equilibration of the world.
“ Personally, I believe this outcome is what the west intended. ”
This is the real fact.
All this is created so all the suffering which will be imposed on us by our own leaders will be blamed on BRICS, Russia, etc. our leaders are creating external “devils” for us to fight and die while going broke.
The corporations will still deal with everyone through corporate shell games but we will be broke while our leaders get obscenely rich.
Welfare will become renamed as the universal income creating communnism for the new poor.
Why would Saudi Arabia — whose only meaningful global commodity is petroleum— pitch in with the “green new deal – build back better” bloc, consisting of climate change worshipping, oil energy hating, self-destructing economies?
The outlook is much better for a major petroleum exporter among the BRICS nations, whose oil consuming populations dwarf those of the Illuminati-hijacked ones.
Five Black Eyes.
The red states should form an alliance and join BRICS.
✅️Sounds like a good plan 👌 👍
The results of such a move should please Obama, Biden, Soros and all of the NWO types. Third World countries will still be plundered, just by different, perhaps less occasionally benevolent entities. The West will decline.
Not a day goes by where he does not threaten someone
Another money quote from the big guy
Unless things have changed markedly, the pump islands are the way to attract people to the profitable areas of the business, in the old days the service garage and today the mini-mart/sandwich shop/last chance bric a brac.
Where I live they still have to pay pump attendants to pump the fuel, gasoline anyway.
If retailers get a fuel tax holiday will they pass that along? IDK. Competition is usually pretty stiff. Only exceptions in my area are the far flung one station towns where there is no competition.
Good thing the communist mercenaries had cheap PDJT gas to fuel their violence and incendiary attacks on America back in 2020. Seems like a lifetime ago. I doubt all those mobile home owners along I-5, hundreds of them, who got fried to a crisp that summer think it’s a lifetime ago. FJB.
I guess that our once great Republic was more fragile than many of us thought.
👉At first glance it looks like it…but really it’s been the ungodly corrupt and antiConstitutional Globalists, Marxist and Fascists over the last 120 years give or take.👈
👿☠️Now we reap the bitter fruit🤮😵💫
TBH, I’m seeing more resolve in Canada. More unity. Here, it seems everyone is out for themselves; nothing new there.
We have so much power if we’d only put aside our proclivities to climb over and undermine each other to personally gain from the suffering of others. It is what it is.
However, my experience is colored by being a seven decade California native. Brutal state.
Ever since Sundance began posting articles on “the great cleaving”, with the same map as is up above, I ASSUMED SA would be aligning with BRICS, and against the WEF’ers, cause the Kingdom ain’t STOOPID.
The WEFers are all out at war with Russia, NOT primarily as a distraction.
They can not possibly achieve their unrealistic to everyone but them goal of One World Government, and Zero carbon, with countries that are “Nationalist” or “anti-globalist”, especially if they are powerful, and major oil producers.
In other words, as SA watched events unfold in Ukraine as a lame excuse for destroying Russia, they HAD to know they would be next.
Mexico too is an oil producer, and AMLO is ‘leftist’, but he’s also Nationalist, I suspect Mexico is already tied to BRICS, whether its official or not.
On multiple fronts, it seems to me the WEF’ers “War plan” is experiencing “first contact with the enemy”, and they are terrible at “having a plan “B”, or adapting.
The WEF’ers CAN NOT succeed, and they WILL NOT succeed, the only question is how much damage they will do, before their whole crazy scheme collapses.
WEF’ers are kind of like that Alice Cooper song :
‘ I feel that man has ruled this world as a stumbling and demented child king long enough !
and as his empire crumbles , my precious Black Widow shall RISE , as his most fitting successor ‘
George H.W. Bush was absolutely right about the lynching in the streets part that then follows.
I see this thru a different prism
Dianne Marshall published this in March 2022.: https://diannemarshallreport.com/the-alliance-does-it-exist/
She shows an Alliance – Putin, Xi, Kim, Modi, Bolsonao and Bin Salmani. In the center of the Alliance pictures is Trump.
According to Dianne, Trump is part of the Alliance – BRICS?
If you follow Slag – and I do – this: https://slagfa.substack.com/p/the-wartime-presidency-part-ii
The Wartime Presidency Part II – The Government in Exile.
Quote: Just like the government-in-exile of the Phillipines did 80 yrs ago.
Slag thinks a case can be made that Trump is still President, and he is managing a government-in-exile. He also presents his thoughts on Trump’s return to the Oval Office – how and when that might occur
As good as Ripley’s Believe it or Not …..
✅️🤔 Hopefully you’re accurate in this assessment
Someone told me about this last week. In the telling I heard, Trump returns to the presidency is 30 days.
No clue how that would be possible.
All I can say is that it gives me hope.
There is not much hope elsewhere.
Frank Sinatra
Next time you’re found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around
Just what makes that little old ant
Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can’t
Move a rubber tree plant
But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time you’re gettin’ low
‘Stead of lettin’ go
Just remember that ant
Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant
When troubles call, and your back’s to the wall
There’s a lot to be learned, that wall could fall
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought he’d punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin’ that dam
‘Cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time you’re feelin’ bad
‘Stead of feelin’ sad
Just remember that ram
Oops, there goes a billion kilowatt dam
All problem’s just a toy balloon
They’ll be bursted soon
They’re just bound to go pop
Oops, there goes another problem kerplop
I’ve heard the “return to the Presidency in 30 days” about 8 times over the last year and a half. If it was going to happen it would have happened already. Don’t overdose on hopium, the trip is nasty.
and you can read this: https://slagfa.substack.com/p/the-wartime-presidency-part-iii
to find out how this might come about
Thank you.
At this level of trade and economics there is effectively no America. On the western side, all the corporations driving economics and policy are global in function and interest. There is no “America” to identify with or root for.
This is going to sound obtuse, but who *do* we root for, the WEF globalists or their new rivals?
Exactly 💯 💯
President Trump won 🏆✅️
👉The antiConstitutional enemies are currently successfully executing their plans for the destruction or enslavement of our Constitutional Republic Citizens 👈
I need a sticker of that!
My better half looks at me like I’m a lunatic when I say the GOP will not win the midterms because the left will cheat better than ever.