Well written. But I would say that while its good for *some* of the powerful special interest groups that comprise much of the American national center and much of the global center of the Liberal World Order, its also sucking them down a path that may very well lead to their diminishment, degradation, or even dissolution (depending of which group and even which elements within groups) and that in the future, some of them, in retrospect, will wish they'd "lost" here in the sense that they couldn;t move forward with this...
Thank you for writing what I would have liked to have written but you do it better than I could. Also nice to hear Gonzalo Lira remembered, something that has not happened in the MSM. The US war on Europe is also seldom mentioned. Most Americans seem unaware of it and too many Europeans seem oblivious to it as well.
For the European leaders to allow what everyone else can see is happening to their countries, are they corrupt? stupid? both? ....... forget I asked, just a rhetorical question.
Will be looking forward to reading it, because I really can't make sense of all this batshit madness. My current approach for anticipating their actions, is to listen to sensible economists and political analysts’ recommendations, and expect the leaders to do the opposite.
There was also this interesting piece in the UK Telegraph some days ago, in which was is basically an invasion plan, was presented as a "defensive" one:
In that article and some other elsewhere, what we see is that basically the US expects that Russia would successfully bomb the military logistics networks of the NATO countries, along with the NATO transport bases and the US military bases......so.....the NATO "genius" plan, is a series of bilateral agreements in which the US can at any time commandeer entire regions - huge corridors- of NATO countries, declare those regions to be defecto US territory, impose US martial law on the people there and use it as military logistics infrastructure.
So that's a batshit insane plan, because what is means is these countries will allow the US to turn civilian areas and the people there into....military targets.
To give you a further example a couple of years ago, like 2-3 years, I read that in one of the NATO countries, I believe it was Norway, a new law was undertaken by the parliament that allowed the government to commandeer civilian vehicles at any time. Now at the time I read that, it didn't make much sense - these are countries with sufficient military infrastructure and as fas I knew they wouldn't and couldn't invade anyone and need all the vehicles in the country.
But now it makes sense: it's part of the plan released in the Telegraph - they will use civilian vehicles to conduct military operations. Which would make every moving civilian vehicle on those planes, de facto military targets.
Who does this to THEIR OWN PEOPLE? On purpose, planned years in advance?
This is a good article. In fact you are probably hedging too much on some assumptions such as the 2nd to last paragraph about de-industrialization of Europe being intentional.
Because In fact US foreign policy doctrine is to weaken all large nations such that it can be the sole hegemony within each region.
Add to that, the fact that the US has undertaken several strategic moves to weaken others, including Europe in order to boost US domestic re-industrialization.
One such move is the US's misleadingly named "Inflaction Reduction Act" of 2022:
This legislation deliberately seeks to shift industrial activity into Asia and does so at the expense of of "allies" (aka vassals) in Europe and Taiwan.
At the same time, the US is also forcing Europe to commit to self-harm by blocking trade links that are mutually beneficial to US and China. One example is the recent electric vehicle tariffs that the EU slapped on China, after the US also did it. What that does is actually to increase inflation in Europe and to harm the income of European companies abroad in China.
This is a good article. In fact you are probably hedging too much on some assumptions such as the 2nd to last paragraph about de-industrialization of Europe being intentional.
Because In fact US foreign policy doctrine is to weaken all large nations such that it can be the sole hegemony within each region.
Add to that, the fact that the US has undertaken several strategic moves to weaken others, including Europe in order to boost US domestic re-industrialization.
One such move is the US's misleadingly named "Inflaction Reduction Act" of 2022:
This legislation deliberately seeks to shift industrial activity into Asia and does so at the expense of of "allies" (aka vassals) in Europe and Taiwan.
At the same time, the US is also forcing Europe to commit to self-harm by blocking trade links that are mutually beneficial to US and China. One example is the recent electric vehicle tariffs that the EU slapped on China, after the US also did it. What that does is actually to increase inflation in Europe and to harm the income of European companies abroad in China.
"..The Germans, under a cry of “Deutsche, wehrt Euch!! (Germans, fight back!), protested vigorously, because they knew that if it came to war between the U.S. and the USSR, all Germany would be turned into a “sea of glass”.."
Here it is shocking to see the contrast today, where both the Scandinavia mis-leaders and their masses, are all whipped up into a jingoistic NATO-fest. And we have seen two Scandinavian ex-prime ministers from Denmark and now Norway, leading the militarisation of their own countries, which were previously peacemakers and not war mongers, in NATo wars of aggression in Libya and Afghanistan and Syria. Sy Hersh recently even revealed that the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, had been a long term asset of the US spooks for decades spying on his own colleagues in the Norwegian Labour Party and ensuring that the government policy was that of the foreign masters in DC and Langley.
But the fact is that NATO sees Scandinavia was an expendable zone, a forward staging battle ground, and NO ONE in these countries seems to grasp that they have been set up as staging points for a US invasion of Russia, and that the Russian military strategy would have to be to nuke them, in order to hold off a NATO invasion.
The lack of understanding of self-interest within Scandinavia, is at shocking levels in current times, its like they all lost their minds due to the barrage of propaganda.
Already these countries are being destabilised, as the far right wing makes gains in these societies that are now split by cutting social welfare and spending money on weapons and spending money on marketing macho warfare. Now they have a fast growing Neo-nazi movement, and the US just this week banned a Scandinavian neonzai group, the "Nordic Resistance Movement":
It was one of the side points he made in his first Nord Stream piece. The point was little understood, because many people did not understand that Stoltenberg was from a political family dynasty in a country where the political parties had highly active youth wings including high school age kids. Future politicians typically come from the ranks of those who were active from a young age. So what he probably got started on was early reconnaissance of which teenage politicians (ie future political leaders) had "anti-American" (aka anti Vietnam war and anti-war) views. It's really nasty stuff, spying on your teenage mates and helping to build Stasi -type lifetime dossiers of them.
Stoltenberg is himself a political legacy nepo-babies. His father Thorvald Stoltenberg was a major Norwegian politician and ambassador to the United Nations, and well as minister of Defense, and a member of the Trilateral Commission among other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Stoltenberg
All of that took place in the era when Norwegian politics saw the ousting of real social democrats and the rise to power of "centrists" who were basically US tools. Also the father was known be a "friend of America" in Norwegian political circles, as he consistently advocated for what today we would go ahead and call vassalhood and self harming. But Stoltenberg
I think I will have to make a separate "NATO is a Farce" instalment just on Jens. He is after all such an upper-class twit, a warmongering stick insect who has proven himself time and again to be an absolute idiot, a product of Nordic-aristocratic inbreeding, I guess. Do you mind if I take what you have written here and expand on it?
Yes, he is a farce. It's quite revealing that when he became prime minister, some of the commentary from people who knew him in high school was that he was a dim bulb intellectually, but a big social networker. Typical grifter stuff.
America may be "winning" but in the end all of us are "losing" when this Ukraine nightmare is all said and done. Great article and thanks for your excellent research. (RIP Gonzalo.)
Well written. But I would say that while its good for *some* of the powerful special interest groups that comprise much of the American national center and much of the global center of the Liberal World Order, its also sucking them down a path that may very well lead to their diminishment, degradation, or even dissolution (depending of which group and even which elements within groups) and that in the future, some of them, in retrospect, will wish they'd "lost" here in the sense that they couldn;t move forward with this...
Thank you for writing what I would have liked to have written but you do it better than I could. Also nice to hear Gonzalo Lira remembered, something that has not happened in the MSM. The US war on Europe is also seldom mentioned. Most Americans seem unaware of it and too many Europeans seem oblivious to it as well.
For the European leaders to allow what everyone else can see is happening to their countries, are they corrupt? stupid? both? ....... forget I asked, just a rhetorical question.
I think I may need to write a third instalment in my "NATO is a Farce" series to address what seems to be a 31-member "suicide pact"-!!
Will be looking forward to reading it, because I really can't make sense of all this batshit madness. My current approach for anticipating their actions, is to listen to sensible economists and political analysts’ recommendations, and expect the leaders to do the opposite.
It is indeed a suicide pact on Europe's part.
There was also this interesting piece in the UK Telegraph some days ago, in which was is basically an invasion plan, was presented as a "defensive" one:
https://mronline.org/2024/06/14/nato-developing-land-corridors-to-rush-u-s-troops-to-frontlines-in-event-of-war-with-russia/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/06/04/nato-land-corridors-us-troops-european-war/
In that article and some other elsewhere, what we see is that basically the US expects that Russia would successfully bomb the military logistics networks of the NATO countries, along with the NATO transport bases and the US military bases......so.....the NATO "genius" plan, is a series of bilateral agreements in which the US can at any time commandeer entire regions - huge corridors- of NATO countries, declare those regions to be defecto US territory, impose US martial law on the people there and use it as military logistics infrastructure.
So that's a batshit insane plan, because what is means is these countries will allow the US to turn civilian areas and the people there into....military targets.
To give you a further example a couple of years ago, like 2-3 years, I read that in one of the NATO countries, I believe it was Norway, a new law was undertaken by the parliament that allowed the government to commandeer civilian vehicles at any time. Now at the time I read that, it didn't make much sense - these are countries with sufficient military infrastructure and as fas I knew they wouldn't and couldn't invade anyone and need all the vehicles in the country.
But now it makes sense: it's part of the plan released in the Telegraph - they will use civilian vehicles to conduct military operations. Which would make every moving civilian vehicle on those planes, de facto military targets.
Who does this to THEIR OWN PEOPLE? On purpose, planned years in advance?
It's insane...
This is a good article. In fact you are probably hedging too much on some assumptions such as the 2nd to last paragraph about de-industrialization of Europe being intentional.
Because In fact US foreign policy doctrine is to weaken all large nations such that it can be the sole hegemony within each region.
Add to that, the fact that the US has undertaken several strategic moves to weaken others, including Europe in order to boost US domestic re-industrialization.
One such move is the US's misleadingly named "Inflaction Reduction Act" of 2022:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
This legislation deliberately seeks to shift industrial activity into Asia and does so at the expense of of "allies" (aka vassals) in Europe and Taiwan.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/why-us-inflation-reduction-act-has-europe-up-arms-2022-12-05/
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/how-europe-should-answer-us-inflation-reduction-act
At the same time, the US is also forcing Europe to commit to self-harm by blocking trade links that are mutually beneficial to US and China. One example is the recent electric vehicle tariffs that the EU slapped on China, after the US also did it. What that does is actually to increase inflation in Europe and to harm the income of European companies abroad in China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-08/germany-warns-against-trade-barriers-as-eu-readies-ev-tariffs
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/12/cars/europe-china-ev-tariffs/index.html
This is a good article. In fact you are probably hedging too much on some assumptions such as the 2nd to last paragraph about de-industrialization of Europe being intentional.
Because In fact US foreign policy doctrine is to weaken all large nations such that it can be the sole hegemony within each region.
Add to that, the fact that the US has undertaken several strategic moves to weaken others, including Europe in order to boost US domestic re-industrialization.
One such move is the US's misleadingly named "Inflaction Reduction Act" of 2022:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act
This legislation deliberately seeks to shift industrial activity into Asia and does so at the expense of of "allies" (aka vassals) in Europe and Taiwan.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/why-us-inflation-reduction-act-has-europe-up-arms-2022-12-05/
https://www.bruegel.org/policy-brief/how-europe-should-answer-us-inflation-reduction-act
At the same time, the US is also forcing Europe to commit to self-harm by blocking trade links that are mutually beneficial to US and China. One example is the recent electric vehicle tariffs that the EU slapped on China, after the US also did it. What that does is actually to increase inflation in Europe and to harm the income of European companies abroad in China.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-08/germany-warns-against-trade-barriers-as-eu-readies-ev-tariffs
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/12/cars/europe-china-ev-tariffs/index.html
And on this point
On this point:
"..The Germans, under a cry of “Deutsche, wehrt Euch!! (Germans, fight back!), protested vigorously, because they knew that if it came to war between the U.S. and the USSR, all Germany would be turned into a “sea of glass”.."
Here it is shocking to see the contrast today, where both the Scandinavia mis-leaders and their masses, are all whipped up into a jingoistic NATO-fest. And we have seen two Scandinavian ex-prime ministers from Denmark and now Norway, leading the militarisation of their own countries, which were previously peacemakers and not war mongers, in NATo wars of aggression in Libya and Afghanistan and Syria. Sy Hersh recently even revealed that the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, had been a long term asset of the US spooks for decades spying on his own colleagues in the Norwegian Labour Party and ensuring that the government policy was that of the foreign masters in DC and Langley.
But the fact is that NATO sees Scandinavia was an expendable zone, a forward staging battle ground, and NO ONE in these countries seems to grasp that they have been set up as staging points for a US invasion of Russia, and that the Russian military strategy would have to be to nuke them, in order to hold off a NATO invasion.
The lack of understanding of self-interest within Scandinavia, is at shocking levels in current times, its like they all lost their minds due to the barrage of propaganda.
Already these countries are being destabilised, as the far right wing makes gains in these societies that are now split by cutting social welfare and spending money on weapons and spending money on marketing macho warfare. Now they have a fast growing Neo-nazi movement, and the US just this week banned a Scandinavian neonzai group, the "Nordic Resistance Movement":
https://www.state.gov/terrorist-designations-of-nordic-resistance-movement-and-three-leaders/
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/usa-terrorklassar-nmr
https://www.di.se/nyheter/usa-terrorklassar-nmr/
Great stuff! Do you have a link to the Sy Hersh piece?
It was one of the side points he made in his first Nord Stream piece. The point was little understood, because many people did not understand that Stoltenberg was from a political family dynasty in a country where the political parties had highly active youth wings including high school age kids. Future politicians typically come from the ranks of those who were active from a young age. So what he probably got started on was early reconnaissance of which teenage politicians (ie future political leaders) had "anti-American" (aka anti Vietnam war and anti-war) views. It's really nasty stuff, spying on your teenage mates and helping to build Stasi -type lifetime dossiers of them.
Stoltenberg is himself a political legacy nepo-babies. His father Thorvald Stoltenberg was a major Norwegian politician and ambassador to the United Nations, and well as minister of Defense, and a member of the Trilateral Commission among other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Stoltenberg
All of that took place in the era when Norwegian politics saw the ousting of real social democrats and the rise to power of "centrists" who were basically US tools. Also the father was known be a "friend of America" in Norwegian political circles, as he consistently advocated for what today we would go ahead and call vassalhood and self harming. But Stoltenberg
I think I will have to make a separate "NATO is a Farce" instalment just on Jens. He is after all such an upper-class twit, a warmongering stick insect who has proven himself time and again to be an absolute idiot, a product of Nordic-aristocratic inbreeding, I guess. Do you mind if I take what you have written here and expand on it?
Yes, he is a farce. It's quite revealing that when he became prime minister, some of the commentary from people who knew him in high school was that he was a dim bulb intellectually, but a big social networker. Typical grifter stuff.
Do expand, I don't mind at all.
America may be "winning" but in the end all of us are "losing" when this Ukraine nightmare is all said and done. Great article and thanks for your excellent research. (RIP Gonzalo.)
the Military Industrial Complex is not "America" -
America is not winning
The murderers and the billionaire parasite class are winning
They live all over the world and are stateless