Art Of The Deal In War & Peace

Will Trump overcome the globalists?

Nov 03, 2024

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Borders, demography, debt, default and inflation - suicide brings on many changes
Continents in play, Western countries and peoples on the hook in a proxy war
Gains go to the asset managers and corporations cutting deals in Kyiv
Anglo-American Establishment shows its hand as it fears a Trump victory
We parse the comments of CFR/Chatham house, centuries-old motives emerge
Desperate to retain wealth, they struggle to shed imperial world view
Financiers maneouvre as the banking crisis deepens
Ditching dollar is not a contest with the global south but central banks vs retail
The People are caught in the gears of a transition to a new monetary system

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Nov 3, 2024

The Economist makes clear where the banking-intelligence nexus of the City of London stands.

The writing style is to-the-point and persuasive, the format concise, anonymous and uniform —Reader’s Digest for those whose day job requires a world view.

Its headline declares “A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks.”

“By making Mr Trump leader of the free world, Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace…”

… as opposed to the centrists who locked down the world for a coronavirus, mandated the “safe and effective,” pursue war in Eurasia and west Asia (Mid East), have set their countries on a path of energy shortage and de-industrialisation while importing unskilled migrants for whom they have no jobs — conspiring to defy the voice of voters who dissent en masse. Centrists…

But we digress.

The Rothschild-Agnelli magazine shares views close to Chatham House, which advises the British Foreign Office on policy. Full name the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), it is better resourced than the FO.

Then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton called its sister organisation, the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, the mother ship.

Shoot friends and influence people

In the United States, the Cheney, Bush, McCain and Romney families are backing vice president Kamala Harris. The war party has never been more obvious.

In a string of articles this year Chatham House and the CFR became more vocal as a second Trump inauguration seemed increasingly plausible. It insists:

This administration would not be moderated by so-called “grown ups in the room,” the national security advisers and secretaries of state and defense from his first term…

Trump gives voice to an isolationist/nationalist tradition, yet the world has changed: it is no longer possible to think, as in 2001, of Russia and China becoming “responsible stakeholders….”

He has made the Republican party hostile to the Western establishment, suggesting it has destroyed working-class communities while sending American youth to fight unwinnable wars…

British vice

Sir Richard Dearlove, former chief of the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service, said in January that the greatest threats to British national security were the Russia-Ukraine war, China’s possible threats to Western interests and Taiwan and the potential re-election of Trump in the U.S.

Britain's Integrity Initiative and the Russiagate hoax, run by British intelligence operatives, came close to paralysing Donald Trump's first administration. Its loudest media voice was Rhodes Scholar Rachel Maddow on Microsoft-NBC. MI6 operative Christopher Steele's “pee pee dossier” was financed by the Clintons (Bill, not Hillary, is the Rhodes Scholar).

So it is not a wild guess to expect more of the same as Trump closes in on a second term.

Empire days

RIIA adopts a parochial view of Ukraine, as if it were a region of Britain, while it argues over who should fund the local constabulary, NATO. It is worried that the U.S. under Trump won't foot the bill.

Yet RIIA takes a colonial view of the U.S., outraged that its former dominion should consider placing a 10 per cent duty on imports regardless of origin. It is the mother country's right, after all, to impose duties as with tea in 1773.

As a former naval power, RIIA is worried for loss of the seaways. Rivalry with China could compromise trade routes to South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.

The British empire fought two wars to pry China open to business, and a third to limit its manufacturing, backing Mao's communists over Sun Yat-sen's successor Chiang Kai-shek. Time was not ripe.

It was 100 years later that the Anglo-American establishment decided to shift manufacturing to China. Now that's under threat from Trump's plan to impose a 60 per cent duty on Chinese goods.

The world is under stress, says RIIA, as if it was a disinterested observer pretending not to know its fellow chaos agents.

War in Europe is entering a third year with little end in sight, it says, forgetting that former British prime minister Boris Johnson scuppered the peace talks…

Trump would be an appeaser if he tried to make a deal with Putin — whom Americans have come to hate which has nothing to do with the establishment's hold on the media…

It salivates at the prospect of cornering Trump so that he has to INCREASE military support to Ukraine to force Putin to the negotiating table.

War in west Asia (Mid East) is shaped by pipelines and gas fields but the London-centric commentary of Chatham House says it is Trump's friendship with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that could stoke war with Iran…

Nothing to do with Tehran's juicy oil and gas fields — commodities essential to refinancing the West's tottering banks and financial system.

It admits that rules are unfair — the West supports statehood for Ukraine not Palestine, ethnic-Albanian Kosovans not ethnic-Russians in the Donbas — and that the West imposes tough economic rules on those least able to protect themselves.

It acknowledges that Russia and China are setting the pace with infrastructure projects and lending in Asia, Africa and South America.

The West has made "mis-steps" through the colonial era and the Cold War, and the Western project has tough years of adjustment ahead…

Realpolitik play

To help Chatham House with its analysis, let's straighten out a few things.

The Western project, since at least the British empire, has been mercantilist. Trade routes and resources are controlled in order extract value and send money home to the motherland. The periphery, whether that is the PIGS of southern Europe or the global south, is expected to open its waters and fields, and mineral mines, and work cheap labour to the bone, and if they refuse then BlackRock and Co will “force behaviours.”

Consider the Jones Act, a 1920 law that requires any maritime vehicle transporting goods between two American ports to be built, owned and crewed in the US for security reasons.

That is what they mean by free trade: neo-liberalism for the colonies, while the mother ship protects its interests through control of the monetary system and bodies that regulate trade, set international laws, and impose by military means if necessary the "rules based international order."

This is now under challenge.

Trump's cards

Would a Trump administration solve the problem?

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