Originally published on The Cradle Tectonic shifts continue to rage through the world system with nation-states quickly recognizing that the “great game” as it has been played since the establishment of the Bretton Woods monetary system in the wake of the second World War, is over.
Appreciate all your articles. They should be on the desk of every member of Congress. The MSN has its own agenda dictated by the neocon Trotskyites. They serve their own interests, not that of Americas.
"held together by little more than chewing gum and heavy doses of delusion"...buttressed by lots of hot air, I would add, not necessarily referring to roads melting. People hunger for just equitable solutions, not the Schwab / Gates of hell.
Thanks for bringing this to the forefront of the dried up West.
"held together by chewing gum..." and chewing gum wrappers! As Putin calls the imperial currencies. Your opening Matt, is about sanctions being a political blunder because they hurt Western citizens more than Russia. On your last post, I responded to Shoshana Maynard with an article that shows that may have been the intent, not a blunder:
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/: "The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America’s fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia...
"A major aim of today’s New Cold War is to monopolize the market for U.S. shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG). Already under Donald Trump’s administration, Angela Merkel was bullied into promising to spend $1 billion building new port facilities for U.S. tanker ships to unload natural gas for German use. The Democratic election victory in November 2020, followed by Ms. Merkel’s retirement from Germany’s political scene, led to cancellation of this port investment. This left Germany without much alternative to importing Russian gas to heat its homes, power its electric utilities, and to provide raw material for its fertilizer industry and hence the maintenance of its farm productivity. So the most pressing U.S. strategic aim of NATO confrontation with Russia is soaring oil and gas prices, above all to the detriment of Germany."
As many people are pointing out, Europe seems to be the big loser in all of this. The current generation of Atlanticists will probably have to give way to a new generation of Eurasian realists before we can turn things around -- and what will be left by our industrial economies at that point? I shudder to think. By the way, Europe could have been a part of this, Putin extended an invitation in 2010 that was rejected by Merkel and co.:
I don't wanna live here, where evil men run us into hell. I want to be part of progress, of building, of new, and better ideas to make the world a better place... Can't we just dump these loser psychos and join with the builders?! I know, over-simplified, but... I want to RISE and BUILD a good thing.
Thank you Matt. I love the logical ideas being presented and worked towards. A bit of hope in a raging sea of fear-porn!
Appreciate all your articles. They should be on the desk of every member of Congress. The MSN has its own agenda dictated by the neocon Trotskyites. They serve their own interests, not that of Americas.
"held together by little more than chewing gum and heavy doses of delusion"...buttressed by lots of hot air, I would add, not necessarily referring to roads melting. People hunger for just equitable solutions, not the Schwab / Gates of hell.
Thanks for bringing this to the forefront of the dried up West.
"held together by chewing gum..." and chewing gum wrappers! As Putin calls the imperial currencies. Your opening Matt, is about sanctions being a political blunder because they hurt Western citizens more than Russia. On your last post, I responded to Shoshana Maynard with an article that shows that may have been the intent, not a blunder:
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/america-defeats-germany-for-the-third-time-in-a-century/: "The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America’s fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia...
"A major aim of today’s New Cold War is to monopolize the market for U.S. shipments of liquified natural gas (LNG). Already under Donald Trump’s administration, Angela Merkel was bullied into promising to spend $1 billion building new port facilities for U.S. tanker ships to unload natural gas for German use. The Democratic election victory in November 2020, followed by Ms. Merkel’s retirement from Germany’s political scene, led to cancellation of this port investment. This left Germany without much alternative to importing Russian gas to heat its homes, power its electric utilities, and to provide raw material for its fertilizer industry and hence the maintenance of its farm productivity. So the most pressing U.S. strategic aim of NATO confrontation with Russia is soaring oil and gas prices, above all to the detriment of Germany."
As many people are pointing out, Europe seems to be the big loser in all of this. The current generation of Atlanticists will probably have to give way to a new generation of Eurasian realists before we can turn things around -- and what will be left by our industrial economies at that point? I shudder to think. By the way, Europe could have been a part of this, Putin extended an invitation in 2010 that was rejected by Merkel and co.:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/from-lisbon-to-vladivostok-putin-envisions-a-russia-eu-free-trade-zone-a-731109.html
I don't wanna live here, where evil men run us into hell. I want to be part of progress, of building, of new, and better ideas to make the world a better place... Can't we just dump these loser psychos and join with the builders?! I know, over-simplified, but... I want to RISE and BUILD a good thing.