The old former hegemony of now bankrupt Western powers is still struggling to forestall their implosion, but it's pretty clear, the psychological threshold has been broken. A dying horse will muster the last ounce of its strength to fool itself it is not dying before it draws its last breath. Just the same, to no avail. The hegemony simply ran out of tricks. The Eurasian Century has arrived.
Actually, the bankrupt Western powers have been shoved into a trap one after the other. On the ground, Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose sharp mind I've been admiring more and more by the day, has cornered the Western villains into ditches where they can only bleed their bankrupt selves some more.
1. The Ukraine fiasco is becoming a rib-tickling sitcom. An anti-democratic coup d'etat of an elected President by the usual Western evil schemers, this has turned into a hilarious riot instead. A bankrupt Ukraine is thrown into the bankrupt arms of the EU, which has to find now the billions to prepay the gas supply of the Ukrainians or the Russians will cut off that gas .. which will force the Ukrainians to steal the EU supply from the pipes running through their territory (like they always did in their previous spats with the Russians). The Russians would have no recourse but be forced to cut off even that, endangering the supply to the EU which could freeze the American lapdogs to death.
2. Ukraine now is totally bankrupt and it will need constant infusion from its bankrupt Western backers who must be exasperated they can't suck the country's blood comfortably, like they usually do after regime changes, like in Iraq and Libya (Well, they've actually carted away the gold right after the coup d'etat so they must have had a short party, but then here comes the hangover). It's very obvious now that the war in Eastern Ukraine was actually a trap: the Ukrainians thought the Western evil schemes had intimidated Putin that they could attack without a hindrance so they attacked, exhausting their already dwindling resources, only to find the Pro-Russian rebels chasing them in the end. A hilarious humiliation in the battleground, a more hilarious bankruptcy where it counts.
3. It's obvious the final act of Putin's traps is to wait the villains out to a certain total bankruptcy in the ditches he created for them. Or even to force that bankruptcy, which, in concert with the Chinese and the BRICS, is accomplishing just that through an accelerating "De-dollarization" campaign. As confirmed by many books from Western authors (The End Game by John Mauldin, The Big Reset by Willem Middelkoop, for example), the US is actually in a very precarious financial situation because its gargantuan debts and accelerating economic irrelevance are encouraging emerging new powers to openly attack its hegemonic pretensions. The dollar which the US used to spread its tentacles is now becoming redundant in the new reality and is becoming its main Achilles heel. The ascendant power, China, which is the number one banker of the US, can actually incapacitate the US immediately if it dumps the American treasury bills from its hoard.
Of course, the Western villains have been anxiously crossing their fingers that the withdrawal of the QE by the American Fed would create the "expected" explosion of the emerging markets, including China. One of their many wishful thinking in their last days as hegemon, which expectedly didn't materialize. The accompanying color revolution which should have stoked a supposed social explosion, the Umbrella revolution in Hong Kong, fizzled because it became a comedy instead. But that's just the recent pattern, all the recent color revolutions like in Turkey and Venezuela fizzled because the script has become too hackneyed. So, apart from subsequent tries to create hyperinflation through intrigues and currency attacks (all familiar tricks which can now be actually checked, like their now easily quashed color revolutions), their basket of options have shrunk tremendously.
Actually, I have this suspicion that the Dollar-Ruble devaluation that has become the primary anchor of desperate Western propaganda (that they still are hegemon), is also played around by the Russians, just like in faking they were "intimidated" during the Ukrainian Nazi attack in Donbass , only to rout the Ukrainians in the end. It turned out they actually drove down the Ruble just so they could buy back discounted shares of their companies in the West, the Ruble value returning to a more comfortable level immediately after they have done so. While this is a signature Putin move, his well-known judo maneuver (pretending to be on the receiving end, only to overwhelm the opponent in the end), this had an unintended psychological impact, as shown by the supposed hyperinflationary panic in Belarus which was squeezed to the hilt for maximum propaganda mileage by the desperate Western media (again, that they are still powerful... getting laughable really). This is part of the supposed Psywar of an over-the-heel hegemony (that everybody should still fear it... ), and while this may be laughable to the Russians, it should not be forgotten there are still innocents around like the Belarussians (remember, the enemy attacks the neighbor, like in the involvement of Cambodia in the Vietnam War. For maximum chaos- Shock & Awe, remember?)
It's turning out now that the Russians may be playing around the low oil price too, just so the American shale oil producers are destroyed. They are not rushing to increase the oil price (they are unaffected because the Dollar-Ruble devaluation ensured they get the same Ruble value. Besides the low oil price is killing the Petrodollar, the currency of American hegemony). The Russians secretly in concert with the Saudis? Who knows? They benefit so there's the motive (the only downside for them is Western propaganda use that as a basis of their "we are still powerful (knock on wood)" narrative). The world geopolitics is in a flux, obviously because many are feeling the changing power dynamics from West to East. Suddenly, the Middle East is not looking like an American energy dominion anymore- despite the military bases there. The rapprochement of Turkey with Russia was a game changer. The sudden dropping of the South Stream pipeline which should have run through the Western Balkans and the announcement of the start of the Turkish Stream instead has clearly changed the picture. Turkey is projected by the Modern Silk Road of Eurasia as the entry point to middle Europe. As it is turning out now, with Russian gas at hand through the new Turkish Stream, Turkey doesn't have to kowtow anymore to the wishes of Qatar to remove Assad of Syria so the Qatari pipeline could reach Turkey. Turkey, wishing as the gas hub between the East and the West, can transport all the gas it wants from Russia, Central Asia and Iran. Another clue to the new reality behind the events: China is already the biggest market of Saudi oil so the Saudis have all the motive to destroy the American shale producers.
But it is already obvious the declining Western powers have met their match. Amusingly, what Marlin Katusa described in his book Colder War, as Slavic Warrior, it is turning out now, is actually toying around his bankrupt opponents. Apart from the danger of a nuclear war, this has become a comedy store.
More importantly, the cards of the main players are showing . During the recent devaluation attack wherein the desperate Western propaganda media went to town, China unexpectedly entered the picture. It announced it will support its "irreplaceable friend" and that it has a ready Yuan-Ruble swap fund to support the Russians. That's the ultimate mother of psywars.
Unexpectedly, this was muted by the Western press, but this has practically squashed all the Psywar pretensions of the bankrupt West- no, you can't mess around with the East anymore.
Obviously, everybody doesn't want wholesale destruction as the world enters a new monetary system. But it's obvious, the end of the unsustainable dollar is in the cards, it's wanted by everybody except the American elite and their poodles. That was precisely the raison d'etre of the BRICS, that the world reserve currency shouldn't be left in the hands of an irresponsible player like the US which lived off everybody else, if not outright intimidating and murdering others so it can perpetuate such abuse of privilege. Everybody wants a reserve currency not under the control of one country. The IMF is supposedly removing the veto power of the US after IMF reform was not again tackled by the US Congress, but the IMF itself has a dubious reputation after being a party to the debt enslavement to many Third World countries including the Philippines. The Eurasian leaders might be better off creating fresh platforms altogether.
All the pieces are in place for a Eurasia-centric world. The old dispensation should just retire. But of course, we know they will rather destroy the world than destroy their dream of New World Order. Oh, there will still be a New World Order, though it won't be what they envisioned it to be. They are too bankrupt for that.
De-dollarization continues. We know how this will end. The Eurasian Century lives on. A New Eurasian World Order.
The Philippines is still in the Dark Ages but somehow, that is not so surprising anymore. But realization will be fast. Filipinos, by nature, want to settle for the best. No way they will fool themselves for long to stick with bankrupt masters.
Actually, the bankrupt Western powers have been shoved into a trap one after the other. On the ground, Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose sharp mind I've been admiring more and more by the day, has cornered the Western villains into ditches where they can only bleed their bankrupt selves some more.
1. The Ukraine fiasco is becoming a rib-tickling sitcom. An anti-democratic coup d'etat of an elected President by the usual Western evil schemers, this has turned into a hilarious riot instead. A bankrupt Ukraine is thrown into the bankrupt arms of the EU, which has to find now the billions to prepay the gas supply of the Ukrainians or the Russians will cut off that gas .. which will force the Ukrainians to steal the EU supply from the pipes running through their territory (like they always did in their previous spats with the Russians). The Russians would have no recourse but be forced to cut off even that, endangering the supply to the EU which could freeze the American lapdogs to death.
2. Ukraine now is totally bankrupt and it will need constant infusion from its bankrupt Western backers who must be exasperated they can't suck the country's blood comfortably, like they usually do after regime changes, like in Iraq and Libya (Well, they've actually carted away the gold right after the coup d'etat so they must have had a short party, but then here comes the hangover). It's very obvious now that the war in Eastern Ukraine was actually a trap: the Ukrainians thought the Western evil schemes had intimidated Putin that they could attack without a hindrance so they attacked, exhausting their already dwindling resources, only to find the Pro-Russian rebels chasing them in the end. A hilarious humiliation in the battleground, a more hilarious bankruptcy where it counts.
3. It's obvious the final act of Putin's traps is to wait the villains out to a certain total bankruptcy in the ditches he created for them. Or even to force that bankruptcy, which, in concert with the Chinese and the BRICS, is accomplishing just that through an accelerating "De-dollarization" campaign. As confirmed by many books from Western authors (The End Game by John Mauldin, The Big Reset by Willem Middelkoop, for example), the US is actually in a very precarious financial situation because its gargantuan debts and accelerating economic irrelevance are encouraging emerging new powers to openly attack its hegemonic pretensions. The dollar which the US used to spread its tentacles is now becoming redundant in the new reality and is becoming its main Achilles heel. The ascendant power, China, which is the number one banker of the US, can actually incapacitate the US immediately if it dumps the American treasury bills from its hoard.
Of course, the Western villains have been anxiously crossing their fingers that the withdrawal of the QE by the American Fed would create the "expected" explosion of the emerging markets, including China. One of their many wishful thinking in their last days as hegemon, which expectedly didn't materialize. The accompanying color revolution which should have stoked a supposed social explosion, the Umbrella revolution in Hong Kong, fizzled because it became a comedy instead. But that's just the recent pattern, all the recent color revolutions like in Turkey and Venezuela fizzled because the script has become too hackneyed. So, apart from subsequent tries to create hyperinflation through intrigues and currency attacks (all familiar tricks which can now be actually checked, like their now easily quashed color revolutions), their basket of options have shrunk tremendously.
Actually, I have this suspicion that the Dollar-Ruble devaluation that has become the primary anchor of desperate Western propaganda (that they still are hegemon), is also played around by the Russians, just like in faking they were "intimidated" during the Ukrainian Nazi attack in Donbass , only to rout the Ukrainians in the end. It turned out they actually drove down the Ruble just so they could buy back discounted shares of their companies in the West, the Ruble value returning to a more comfortable level immediately after they have done so. While this is a signature Putin move, his well-known judo maneuver (pretending to be on the receiving end, only to overwhelm the opponent in the end), this had an unintended psychological impact, as shown by the supposed hyperinflationary panic in Belarus which was squeezed to the hilt for maximum propaganda mileage by the desperate Western media (again, that they are still powerful... getting laughable really). This is part of the supposed Psywar of an over-the-heel hegemony (that everybody should still fear it... ), and while this may be laughable to the Russians, it should not be forgotten there are still innocents around like the Belarussians (remember, the enemy attacks the neighbor, like in the involvement of Cambodia in the Vietnam War. For maximum chaos- Shock & Awe, remember?)
It's turning out now that the Russians may be playing around the low oil price too, just so the American shale oil producers are destroyed. They are not rushing to increase the oil price (they are unaffected because the Dollar-Ruble devaluation ensured they get the same Ruble value. Besides the low oil price is killing the Petrodollar, the currency of American hegemony). The Russians secretly in concert with the Saudis? Who knows? They benefit so there's the motive (the only downside for them is Western propaganda use that as a basis of their "we are still powerful (knock on wood)" narrative). The world geopolitics is in a flux, obviously because many are feeling the changing power dynamics from West to East. Suddenly, the Middle East is not looking like an American energy dominion anymore- despite the military bases there. The rapprochement of Turkey with Russia was a game changer. The sudden dropping of the South Stream pipeline which should have run through the Western Balkans and the announcement of the start of the Turkish Stream instead has clearly changed the picture. Turkey is projected by the Modern Silk Road of Eurasia as the entry point to middle Europe. As it is turning out now, with Russian gas at hand through the new Turkish Stream, Turkey doesn't have to kowtow anymore to the wishes of Qatar to remove Assad of Syria so the Qatari pipeline could reach Turkey. Turkey, wishing as the gas hub between the East and the West, can transport all the gas it wants from Russia, Central Asia and Iran. Another clue to the new reality behind the events: China is already the biggest market of Saudi oil so the Saudis have all the motive to destroy the American shale producers.
But it is already obvious the declining Western powers have met their match. Amusingly, what Marlin Katusa described in his book Colder War, as Slavic Warrior, it is turning out now, is actually toying around his bankrupt opponents. Apart from the danger of a nuclear war, this has become a comedy store.
More importantly, the cards of the main players are showing . During the recent devaluation attack wherein the desperate Western propaganda media went to town, China unexpectedly entered the picture. It announced it will support its "irreplaceable friend" and that it has a ready Yuan-Ruble swap fund to support the Russians. That's the ultimate mother of psywars.
Unexpectedly, this was muted by the Western press, but this has practically squashed all the Psywar pretensions of the bankrupt West- no, you can't mess around with the East anymore.
Obviously, everybody doesn't want wholesale destruction as the world enters a new monetary system. But it's obvious, the end of the unsustainable dollar is in the cards, it's wanted by everybody except the American elite and their poodles. That was precisely the raison d'etre of the BRICS, that the world reserve currency shouldn't be left in the hands of an irresponsible player like the US which lived off everybody else, if not outright intimidating and murdering others so it can perpetuate such abuse of privilege. Everybody wants a reserve currency not under the control of one country. The IMF is supposedly removing the veto power of the US after IMF reform was not again tackled by the US Congress, but the IMF itself has a dubious reputation after being a party to the debt enslavement to many Third World countries including the Philippines. The Eurasian leaders might be better off creating fresh platforms altogether.
All the pieces are in place for a Eurasia-centric world. The old dispensation should just retire. But of course, we know they will rather destroy the world than destroy their dream of New World Order. Oh, there will still be a New World Order, though it won't be what they envisioned it to be. They are too bankrupt for that.
De-dollarization continues. We know how this will end. The Eurasian Century lives on. A New Eurasian World Order.
The Philippines is still in the Dark Ages but somehow, that is not so surprising anymore. But realization will be fast. Filipinos, by nature, want to settle for the best. No way they will fool themselves for long to stick with bankrupt masters.
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