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Post by Entendance on Mar 6, 2022 2:34:53 GMT -5
In his USAWatchdog.com interview just two weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong said, The New World Order’s so-called ‘Great Reset’ plan for humanity is ‘falling apart,’ and pointed out, “They are basically desperate at this stage. I don’t think they anticipated the amount of resistance they are getting.”
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is enormous resistance to the New World Order plans. Armstrong, who has new data from his Socrates computer analysis, is out with a fresh critical update. Armstrong explains, “It’s just total insanity. They are, really at this stage, completely collapsing the world economy. You have Apple and all these companies; there are over 300 American companies in Russia. Their assets are going to be seized. They are all now in a panic mode to get out, and you are going to see the same situation with China. This is insane. It really is insane, and you just don’t do this. I can’t believe these governments have listened to this sort of advice. It’s really, really disastrous. What creates world peace is not nuclear weapons. It’s economic, basically. As long as everybody benefits, then you are not going to bite the hand that feeds you. When you start cutting off trade on both sides, you are wiping out the global economy. That is what has provided world peace since WWII...By 2023, I don’t see this backing off. Once you have undermined the global financial economy, you have removed the benefits and then it does turn to war.”
Armstrong sees a “serious problem with a war cycle in early 2023” but hopes it does not go full nuclear. The financial war has already gone nuclear.
Before the end of this year, Armstrong’s “Socrates” computer program sees a “panic cycle” for the 2022 mid-term elections, mainly for the Democrats. Armstrong explains more about this in the interview.
Armstrong says inflation is here to stay, and it’s going to be huge in some areas. Armstrong sees gasoline rising to $8 to $10 per gallon sometime in 2023. Armstrong says buy everything you think you will need because it will never be cheaper, and it may not even be there in the future at any price. Food is high on Armstrong’s list, and he says have good old fashion cash on hand because of cyber-attacks and power outages that he sees coming in some areas. Armstrong also sees an average of 25% inflation by 2024. This, again, is according to his “Socrates” computer program. Armstrong says “the commodity cycle will take off in 2024.” Armstrong sees everything going up in price, and that includes gold and silver. Interest rates will also be headed up, and the stock market is not going to do well in a trend that sees interest rates rising.
Armstrong says communism is what the New World Order really wants. Armstrong says, “The globalists want communism, but the problem with communism is it does not work—period.” Armstrong blames the western world leaders for the mess the world is in today. Armstrong says, “It’s their fault...This is the worst crop of world leaders I have ever seen, and I have been consulting governments for 40 years...The level of stupidity on the world stage is stunning.”
Armstrong is also predicting the “civil unrest will not only continue, but “it will get much worse.”
The Jesuits are just as influential and menacing today as they were 500 years ago.Trudeau, Macron, Biden, Fauci, Clinton, Conte, De Mistura, Monti, Draghi, Elisabetta Belloni, Ciampi, Van Rompuy, Barroso, Rutelli, Mattarella, Jerome Powell, DeGennaro, Fassino, Abete, Montezemolo, De Rita, Padellaro, Sansonetti, Giampietro Nattino... & many others /tanti altri...***What do they have in common?
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Post by Entendance on Mar 12, 2022 7:28:52 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Apr 27, 2022 11:07:08 GMT -5
The Russians are a weird people. For some reason, known only to their bizarre selves, they object to German invasions of their country. And not only that: they have the inexplicable habit of strenuously opposing another such eventuality.
One might well have thought otherwise. After all, the Germans bring with them in their wake all sorts of salutary benefits: law and order, good government, peace (as long as their orders are followed), world class beer, wiener schnitzel, sauerkraut, great pretzels, luxury automobiles, magnificent music (it is hard to beat Johann Sebastian Bach!). What more could the Russians want?
Any rational country would be more than happy that the Germans offered them such benefits, not once but twice during the last century. Do you think the Russians were appreciative? No. They are a bunch of ingrates! Instead of being open for a third “visit” by the Germans, almost their entire foreign policy was dedicated to the principle of “never again.” It sometimes seemed that it consisted of little more than to preclude a third benevolent appearance across their borders of their friends, the Germans.
Thus, they tried to set up a cordon sanitaire, a buffer zone, between them and their German buddies to the west.
NATO was set up to confront supposed Soviet expansion in the westward direction. Yes, the USSR did engage in this defensive maneuver, aimed at keeping their German friends at bay. But then the Soviet Union ended. That would have been the perfect time to disband both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Instead, NATO kept creeping, sometimes jogging, in an eastward direction. Given its past history of invasions, the Russians strongly objected. They have not been behindhand in making this desire, this fervent wish of theirs (remember, they are a weird folk), explicit.
At one time the Ukrainian government was more or less friendly to its neighbor to the east. But then, thanks to a coup d’etat, organized by NATO (guess which country is a prominent member of that organization. If you said Germany, go to the head of the class) that democratically elected government was overthrown. It was replaced by one that had an entirely different attitude toward Russia. So much so that it applied to NATO for membership. This would have meant that enemy weapons of mass destruction would have been placed at the very doorstep of Russia. Patience finally wore thin and Russia said “no mas” to this policy.
If there were any justice in the world, Russia never would have entered the Ukraine. Instead, they would have declared war on all the member nations of NATO, all of them without exception. Thank God that there is no justice in this world. We should thank our lucky stars that Putin is a mensch. Otherwise, the very existence of the entire human race would have been put at high risk. Even now, the chances of a nuclear Armageddon are perhaps as strong as they ever were, since the Cuban missile crisis. (Amazingly, the US vociferously objected to the placing of enemy weaponry 90 miles from its shores.)
What has been the reaction of the US to the present blow-back against its decades-long policy? Unfortunately, both Democrats and Republicans, with but a few rare exceptions, have been rattling sabers; calling for all sorts of harm to the Russians. Do these people not realize what danger they place on all the rest of us, to say nothing of themselves, their children and grandchildren? Have they not yet learned the lesson that a nuclear conflagration can ruin our entire day?
What should happen now, if sanity is to return? Peace should once again reign, after a complete ceasefire. All troops should return to their home country. No other nation should supply Ukraine with weapons of any type or variety. This country should cease and desist from its attempt join NATO. That mischievous, nasty and malicious organization should be disbanded and salt sowed where once it stood.
I still have forebodings about the manner in which the Kremlin is conducting the Ukrainian operation. There is no doubt that the Russians had to come to the defense of the Donbass republics. Having done little other than to provide the republics with some weapons and intelligence, for eight years the Kremlin allowed the Ukrainian shelling of Donbass and the occupation of large areas of the Donbass by Nazi militias, while the US and NATO trained and equipped a large Ukrainian army to subdue the republics. As the year 2022 opened, the republics were faced with an invasion by 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers. The atrocities committed on the population by the Nazi militias would have been severe. The internal sense of shame in Russia could have eroded the ability of Putin’s government to govern effectively.
As the Kremlin had tolerated so much for eight years with no response other than a fruitless and pointless Minsk Agreement, it is possible that Washington was relying on Putin bringing about his own downfall by accepting yet another provocation, this time a highly shameful one. It seems that Putin himself understood this as he has said repeatedly that he had no alternative but to intervene to prevent the Ukrainian invasion of the Donbass republics.
That Donbass was the only target of the limited military operation is clear from the fact that Donbass is where the Russian forces and fighting are. The Ukrainian army and Nazi militias have been surrounded in Donbass. There are no Russian troops operating in Western Ukraine.
Despite Kremlin warnings that countries that hindered its limited military operation would be treated as combatants, the Russians have taken no steps against the NATO countries that have hindered its operation by imposing sanctions and sending weapons to Ukraine. According to some reports, there are even US and NATO military officers and intelligence services helping the Ukrainian forces. The inflows of weapons have forced Russia to widen its limited military operation to Western Ukraine where Russia has used precision weapons to destroy the weapon stockpiles and the means of transporting them. Thus, by sending weapons to Western Ukraine, NATO has forced Russia to expand its operations, thus widening the war.
The Western weapons come into Ukraine mainly from Poland, and Poland has been in the forefront of those demanding harsher measures, even military intervention, against Russia. Yet Russia has continued to deliver gas to Poland and her other NATO enemies and only cuts them off if they refuse to pay in rubles. Far from treating Poland as a combatant, the Kremlin treats Poland and the rest of her enemies as allies and business partners. It is the confused message that Russia sends, threatening one thing, but doing another, that is rife with peril.
Such a confused message, like acceptance of provocations, creates opportunity for miscalculation. My concern remains that Russia’s limited, weak or non-existent responses to provocations invites more and worst provocations until a red line is crossed that results in nuclear war. Apparently, the Russians have never read Machiavelli. They had rather be loved than feared.
The long drawn-out process of flushing out and destroying the Ukrainian forces in Donbass has created the opportunity for mounting provocations of Russia, supported by Western populations under the influence of war propaganda. These provocations can easily result in a widening of the conflict, resulting in more forceful actions against Russia until the situation explodes.
To prevent a drawn-out process rife with opportunities to pile provocation on provocation is the reason I have thought that Russia needed to act decisively and quickly bring the conflict to an end. It is this failure that is the real threat in the Ukraine conflict. By trying to save a few Ukrainian lives, Russia might be endangering the lives of hundreds of millions.
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Post by Entendance on May 10, 2022 9:46:51 GMT -5
Charts: “Massive Buyers’ Strike” for Tech; Bitcoin as an Inflation Hedge Exposed as a Bad Joke; Megabanks in Freefall
May 12, 2021
Nothing is more stable than "0", embrace stability (cryptodeath), lol
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Post by Entendance on May 15, 2022 10:05:21 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on May 17, 2022 9:40:25 GMT -5
"...Today we are very familiar with the two-faced language of power, which is constantly deployed to hide unpalatable truth from the public. Whether in the form of corporate greenwashing, warmongering “humanitarian interventions” or censorship disguised as “fact-checking”, this cynical misuse of words has long since surpassed the satire of George Orwell’s mendacious Ministry of Truth. The phenomenon is global now, but Britain can look back with pride at its leading role in developing this fraudulent double-speak..."
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Post by Entendance on May 22, 2022 3:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 11, 2022 6:00:50 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 19, 2022 11:24:06 GMT -5
There’s been a flurry of articles, news stories and headlines lately over the developments in the FOREX market, specifically over the moves of the EUR/USD currency pair. As headwinds on all levels, economic, geopolitical and social, got a lot worse in recent months for the Eurozone, the news-breaking, headline-dominating “parity” event finally came about, with the euro even breaking below parity on July 13, and it seems to have captivated global mainstream attention – for all the wrong reasons. The superficial story What parity really means
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Post by Entendance on Jul 28, 2022 4:28:12 GMT -5
People injured by COVID-19 vaccines may not realize it, but the pretense that post-vaccination injuries and deaths are just “sad coincidences” — far from being unique to the pandemic jabs — is a trick as old as vaccination itself...
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Post by Entendance on Aug 2, 2022 3:12:21 GMT -5
One of the outstanding features of Western media is its ability to have a collective memory loss...
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Post by Entendance on Aug 23, 2022 11:04:20 GMT -5
What comes next?
Despite Western attempts to flex its currency muscle via USD-driven sanctions, nations like Russia and China are now leading the charge from a one-currency world to a multi-currency world of import payments. The West has shot itself and the world reserve currency in the foot...
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Post by Entendance on Sept 9, 2022 11:16:06 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Sept 28, 2022 13:38:27 GMT -5
'...As I have warned would be the case, the Kremlin’s dilly-dallying over Ukraine has given Washington plenty of time for more mischief and widening of the conflict. The Kremlin’s emphasis on legalisms might end in nuclear war. The only safe way for Russia to deal with the threat from Ukraine would have been a blitzkrieg attack that conquered Ukraine before the West could react. The go-slow, limited, drawn out conflict has played directly into Washington’s hands. We might all die as the result. There is no doubt that the war has widened, and now the Kremlin is betting Ukraine and the West will not continue the war if it involves direct attacks on Russian territory, thus the referendums...'
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Post by Entendance on Oct 27, 2022 12:23:17 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Nov 14, 2022 3:47:50 GMT -5
On FTX And Crypto Generally
It's really not very complicated when you get down to it. First, all items in an economy respond to supply and demand. If there is zero demand there will be zero supply and thus no price. But for any amount of demand above zero there is a price, and to the extent demand exceeds supply price rises until equilibrium is established, either by it simply costing more or additional supply showing up as there's incentive to provide it. The opposite is also true.
The problem with so-called cryptocurrencies is that they have zero inherent value of any sort. That is, the fact that I can solve a mathematical problem and prove I did through a cryptographic signature doesn't have value; there is no utility, per-se, in doing that. Leaving aside that all such designs are inherently and intentionally ponzi schemes (that is, the "founders" always get the first of whatever it is at zero cost or nearly zero, then sell them to others at ever-higher prices) if anyone can use leverage without prior disclosure and thus become an emitter of credit into the stream they can move the price in either direction on command. Of course their benefit and thus, for most, their motivation, is to move it higher. But what if there the alleged "dollar" exchanged and thus which set the demand level doesn't actually exist?
If I can take a customer's "funds" and blow them on something else then until and unless I am forced to immediately remove that from the so-called "cryptomarket" where it was I have in fact emitted more dollars in the context of the cryptocurrency. The problem at its core is that I had no legitimate way to do that and thus the alleged "demand" -- and price response to it -- is a fraud. In the United States banks have an allegedly limited license to do this, that is, it is legitimate, and so does Congress through deficit spending. Nobody else, however, holds the power to do so in a legal fashion yet the common theme is that it keeps being exposed. You must therefore assume that all of the alleged "value" of said crypto "assets" is in fact nothing more than smoke.
Why? Because if it was possible to make a reasonable return running an exchange without doing this -- that is, the fees charged for the service covered costs plus a profit -- then those doing it legitimately would be VERY interested in finding and outing every scam immediately. The reason for that is obvious: The scammer operates with what amounts to a digital printing press and the non-scammer does not; ergo the honest operator cannot compete in such a market as they will always lose to the scammer. The facts, however, are that the so-called "mainstream" exchanges are not diligently looking for and exposing the frauds and the reason why not is transparent: They profit from it too even if they don't personally engage in it. But if you profit from a scam even if you don't engage in it then you must expect that there will always be said scam and worse, since during the time it is unexposed there's nobody interested in stopping it there is no pushback to put a stop to it and in fact that takes over as the largest, if not the only mechanism by which price actually moves.
In other words ex the scamming the "value" of said "token" is, for all intents and purposes, zero.
Oops. -Karl Denninger here
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Post by Entendance on Dec 16, 2022 11:42:49 GMT -5
'During its rise to world domination, the City of Rome had one major competitor, which was its equal in every way. That city was Carthage, located 370 miles away, on the South side of the Mediterranean Sea.
Carthage had been planting colonies around the Mediterranean and Atlantic for over a century before Rome was even founded. As Rome rose to power, these two Mediterranean cities fought two wars for control over the Island of Sicily, called the Punic Wars. Despite an admirable performance by Hannibal who managed to invade Italy twice and inflicted a terrible defeat on the Romans at Cannae, Carthage still ended up losing both wars.
At the close of the second Punic War in 201 BC, Carthage was conquered by Rome and placed under a special administrative status that disallowed it from fielding a navy or overseas military without permission from the Roman Senate.
Carthage was one of only three powers that ever managed to directly threaten Rome during the days of the Republic, the others being the Gauls who sacked Rome in 390 BC, and the Macedonian Greeks, who were defeated in 197 BC.
The Roman attitude and behavior toward Carthage then was very similar to the Anglo-American attitude toward Russia, today. The main “sin” of Carthage in the eyes of the Romans was that it was equal in power and influence to Rome...' Carthage Must Be Destroyed!
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Post by Entendance on Dec 24, 2022 8:50:05 GMT -5
Pentagon transferring biolab research in Ukraine elsewhere: Russia
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Post by Entendance on Dec 25, 2022 5:56:45 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 10, 2023 5:01:00 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jan 21, 2023 4:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Feb 1, 2023 6:52:10 GMT -5
Corruption Perceptions Index
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Post by Entendance on Feb 9, 2023 12:01:27 GMT -5
Back in 1937 there were Jews in Berlin who decided they could ride out the storm and stay put. There were others who took the first boats out, to England, to the US, to South America. All of us in the Northern Hemisphere now may be facing the same existential choice.
The pitiful Western peoples, so uninvolved, so unaware, so betrayed by their leaders. They have no idea what is coming at them.
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Post by Entendance on Feb 17, 2023 4:17:16 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Mar 15, 2023 4:57:59 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Mar 25, 2023 10:39:42 GMT -5
The Fed Should Be Fired as Bank Regulator.
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Post by Entendance on Apr 14, 2023 10:33:19 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on May 5, 2023 7:38:18 GMT -5
'...The Catch-22 scenario has been accomplished. Just like the lead up to the 2008 credit crisis, all the Fed needed to do was raise rates to around 5% to 6% and suddenly all systemic debt becomes untenable. Now it’s happening again and they KNEW it would happen again. Except this time, we have an extra $20 trillion in national debt, a banking network completely addicted to cheap fiat stimulus and an exponential stagflation problem.
If the Fed cuts rates prices will skyrocket even more. If they keep rates at current levels or raise them, more banks will implode. Most mainstream analysts will expect the Fed to go back to near-zero rates and QE in response, but even if they do (and I’m doubtful that they will) the outcome will not be what the “experts” expect. Some are realizing that QE is an impractical expectation and that inflation will annihilate the system just as fast as a credit crisis, but they are few and far between.
The World Economic Forum report for May outlines this dynamic to a point, but what it doesn’t mention is that there are extensive benefits attached to the coming crisis for the elites. For example, major banks like JP Morgan will be able to snatch up smaller failing banks for pennies on the dollar, just like they did during the Great Depression. And, globalist institutions like the WEF will get their “Great Reset,” which they hope will frighten the public into adopting even more financial centralization, social controls, digital currencies and a cashless society.
For the average concerned citizen out there, this narrative change matters because it’s a signal that things are about to get much worse. When the establishment itself is openly acknowledging that gravity exists and that we are falling instead of flying, it’s time to get ready and take cover. They never admit the truth unless the worst case scenario is right around the corner.' Establishment Economists Are Finally Realizing It’s Time To Pay The Piper
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Post by Entendance on May 19, 2023 5:29:13 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jul 25, 2023 3:26:36 GMT -5
Putin’s “limited military operation” is turning out to be a disaster for Putin, for Russia, and for the world as it seems to be leading to a major war.
Recently I listed some of the serious consequences for Russia of the limited operation: www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/07/18/does-putin-understand-that-russia-is-at-war/ and www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/07/22/another-consequence-of-putins-never-ending-war/
Another is Putin’s failure to take Odessa and close Ukraine from the Black Sea. As long as Ukraine has Odessa, attacks can be mounted from sea on Crimea, such as the recent attack by 28 drones. What is the value of a limited military operation that leaves the enemy every opportunity to continue its attacks on Russian territory?
Putin’s failure to quickly knock Ukraine out of the war gives the US and NATO the opportunity to establish Black Sea bases in Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, and possibly Turkey. In other words, Putin is allowing the possibility of the US and NATO to challenge Russia’s natural dominance of the Black Sea. It is difficult to imagine a more fatal error.
The US 101st Airborne Division is sitting in Romania. Why? Is it to cut off Russian forces in Transnistria and achieve the victory of a Russian surrender, or is it to provide “trip-wire” protection for US/NATO to complete the encirclement of the Russian Navy that has been achieved in the North and Baltic Seas as the result of Putin’s limited operation that sent Sweden and Finland into NATO?
What Putin and his pro-Western Atlanticist Integrationist advisors thought would be a reassuring-to-the- West “limited operation” confined to Donbass in fact gave the anti-Russian West the opportunity to turn the tables against Putin. He is now in a war for which he hasn’t sufficient conventional forces as he has not committed the necessary funds for a real army.
And he still refuses to abandon his goody two shoes posture that places the lives of Ukrainian civilians and their water, electric power, public transportation and every day convenience, all of which facilitates the fighting ability of Ukraine, above the survival of Russia and her troops in the trenches.
Putin after waiting eight years while Washington built up a Ukrainian Army that was about to slaughter the inhabitants of rebellious Russian provinces in Ukraine, people put into the Ukrainian Republic of the Soviet Union without their consent by Communist officials. This forced Putin’s reluctant hand, but he remained reluctant and limited his intervention to ineffectiveness that encouraged Washington’s neoconservatives who hate Russia to involve the West against Russia in a conflict that Washington cannot afford to lose. The two American presidential candidates capable of ending the conflict with Russia–Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., are both under fierce attack from the Democrat Party, the military/security complex, the US media, and fake prosecutorial charges. In my opinion, there is no prospect of either being permitted to become President of the United States.
Putin, the Kremlin, and the Chinese leadership do not understand that the West is no longer the West. 20th century Western principles possibly never existed in practice, but they did in principle. In Soviet Russia the propaganda of a free West played well. In the minds of the Russian intelligentsia, America became a potential liberator. When the Soviet Union collapsed when hardline Communists arrested Gorbavhev, Russians suffered loss of self-belief because of the economic hardships and political humiliations that followed. America’s shining light became a sign of liberation. The success of American propaganda in Russia might seal Russia’s doom.
Here is analysis from an Indian. www.indianpunchline.com/storm-clouds-gathering-in-the-black-sea/
Notice that it is not from an American or a Russian. India is a key determinant of how the future develops. Is India going to align with Russia and China, stay out of the conflict, or align with the West? India’s decision will have much to do with the stability of the world.
Do Putin and China understand the importance of India? Will we witness another Putin goody two shoes role in which the decision is left to Indian democracy, which means, of course, Washington’s money, or will China and Russia make the accommodations with India to avoid a CIA agent within the Silk Road?
In my view, perhaps mistaken, Russia and China are babes in the woods. Both governments think they are dealing with democracies whose governments are responsible to the people. Therefore, Russia and China defend themselves against accusations and act to show that they only want peaceful economic engagement.
But this is not what American Hegemony wants. The neoconservatives who have controlled US foreign policy for 30 years want the destruction of Russia and China, because both countries serve as constraints on US unilateralism.
It is extraordinary that neither the Russian nor the Chinese governments can comprehend this. -Paul Craig Roberts
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