I have long since given up on any possibility of maintaining our privileged economic position in the world. Our feckless leaders squandered that long ago and we have been in a steady decline for years.
We are going to go through a difficult adjustment (i.e. lower standard of living) to the reality that we no longer have global hegemony. No petro dollar; no reserve currency; no control of world wide banking.
But, there is a silver lining in the cloud we find ourselves in. We have ticked off so many countries that they have been exploring forming competitive power blocks (multi-power blocks) at an escalating pace and this recent Ukraine episode of mind-numbing bullying under Biden appears to be “the last straw.”
These new multi-polar entities will kill the globalists plans for global centralized government under the elites/oligarchs/corporate fascists and offer us our only hope of taking back our own government (of the people; by the people; for the people.)
We have got to stop interfering in other countries’ policies, elections, etc. We have got to start respecting the decisions other people choose to live under. We are not the world’s policeman, nor the world’s ruler.
I am cheering for Russia’s defeat of NATO which will end “the new world order.” It can’t come too soon.
Post of the day.
It is way too late for Biden’s desperate attempts to have us emerge on top of the coming new world order.
Iran, Argentina, are also applying to join Brics.
The west is shrinking like a raisin.
The US is about 4% of the world's population. The notion, whether from the political right or the political left in the US, that we can "maintain" our "privilege" -- recall Biden said the US has to lead the new world order -- has been delusional. And delicious fodder for the neocons and neolibs who seem to love military spending today, in the midst of a debt of over $30 trillion and growing by leaps and bounds.
Having shut off SWIFT from Russia, the fuel for a competing alliance and "basket of currencies" in which the non-Western world can have a say without being beholden to SWIFT and Biden and the "Nuland/Obama" war makers, this is compelling to them. The stupidity of the current crop of Dems has added impetus and speed to a new order which leaves the US with a significant competitor. And with markets of billions of people and free from the "sanctions" restraint of NATO and Biden and the EU.
Worth reading their own marketing plan. for that is what it is.
https://www.nato.int/strategic-concept/
And the URL for the PDF is"
https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2022/6/pdf/290622-strategic-concept.pdf
Scary post. Probably accurate (except the last sentence). I feel a giant global shift getting ready to occur. The west won’t and can’t afford to fight another global war. No children.
Sad times but I think we will all be amazed at the speed of decline and the efforts of the elite to maintain power.
Think how many nukes that got lost in the USSR breakup and who ended up with them. DS will light the fuse to start wars to maximize carnage. Beyond the giant city areas that can’t feed themselves in the west/east the future will be globally destructive.
I always go back to the concept of serving in heaven or ruling in hell. The western leaders will chose the later. Good luck everyone.
“I am cheering for Russia’s defeat of NATO “
You’re nuts.
“I am cheering for Russia’s defeat of NATO which will end ‘the new world order.’ It can’t come too soon.”
We knew who you were all along. But it’s nice that you finally admitted it.
Bravo, no way to say that better. This planet was not made to be ruled by fops and wankers...
Be careful what you wish for, you may get it. Life under Chinese rule will not be joyous.