Eurasia note #36 - Beyond War: Containing The Fallout

We are all chattels in the globalists' war to gain control of the world's resources

Joe Biden warns we’ve seen “nowhere near the chaos… things are shifting” to a NWO.
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The first virtual model of a slave ship. Credit: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Tbilisi, Mar 24, 2022 (UPDATED, Mar 25, 0500 GMT (Biden NWO quote, Poland map).

The proxy nature of the war in Ukraine has never been so clear. The United States drags China into the penalty box and threatens India. With every passing day the sanctions on Russia become a suppurating sore for the West. The target is us.

It may look like the U.S. is blowing up the world order, while it wires itself for demolition. But those with their hands on the plunger are not citizens like you or I — they have dispensed with the nation state in which we live.

The target of this assault is not Ukraine or Russia but our world. There are signs of the dismantling of America, borders and all, the starving of Europe of energy and with it manufacturing. And if China is dragged into it, the Far East, too.

This did not begin with this war or even the last. It seems to be part of a much broader strategy, going back a century or more.

Sanctions self-destruct

Having ratcheted sanctions against Russia to the max, the U.S. this week turned on China.

The U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken placed visa restrictions on Chinese officials on Mar 21 accusing them of implementing “genocide and crimes against humanity” in Xinjiang.

The same Monday afternoon a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 was flying at 29,000 feet (8,800 meters) when it nosedived into a gap in the mountains outside the southern city of Wuzhou.

Wild-eyed commentators on state corporatist media urge cranking the dial: the U.S. to suspend payments on debt held by China. This was discussed in 2020 at the height of president Donald Trump’s assault on Chinese exports.

Halting coupon payments on U.S. Treasuries, of which China is a major buyer, holding about $1 trillion worth, would effectively constitute default. That would be a serious shot in the foot by the U.S. and would be the final confirmation that country is completing its 9/11-style demolition.

Paramount leader Xi Jinping has anticipated such a move. According to his Common Prosperity plan announced in Aug 2021, companies face limits on raising money abroad; property developers face lending quotas; citizens are urged to work less and put their efforts into society. If push comes to shove the Chinese people can probably withstand an economic tug of war. They would teach the West the meaning of NATO’s favourite word — resilience. [1]

Russia’s retaliation to Western sanctions has been muted, so far. On Tuesday it announced it will demand payment in roubles only for new contracts for gas sales to “unfriendly countries.”

Nuclear option

What will the West do? Will NATO get involved and push for a No-Fly Zone.

The U.S. has no reason to risk escalation. It can absorb the “shame” and blame it on the Bidens who are being prepared to take a fall anyway — assuming the significance of the New York Times acknowledging Hunter’s laptop.

The outlier is the messianic strain of neocons and their paymasters which is already leading them to speak of nuclear war. Would they take down the American empire and the world with it?

There is no desire among the French or Germans to drive the European autobus into a ravine. Prior to the invasion, Berlin and Paris tried (not every effectively) to build bridges but there’s no sign they’d support a No-Fly Zone.

Britain is almost as volatile as the neocons. Its political class still wets its bed during post-imperial dreams of grandeur.

The UK prime minister Boris Johnson drew a parallel between the people of Britain “choosing freedom” and those of Ukraine. In contrast, Britain's bureaucratic establishment talks openly about burying the shame of Brexit — The Financial Times argued that war in Europe puts an end to the post-Brexit “lofty dreams of a tilt to the Indo-Pacific.” [2]

Aristocratic adventurism

Britain's defence arrangements tell another story and here we glimpse the proxy nature of the war in Ukraine.

We know that the Brexit negotiations were misrepresented because while Britain was supposedly exiting the EU trade bloc it was conducting parallel negotiations, which got little attention in the press, but which involve it in a European defence agency.

And yet Britain delivered sharp cuts to its military last year — only months before Germany announced its rearmament. The UK’s European ambition was further clouded by the announcement of AUKUS, the so-called Pacific tilt. Could there be a link?

Following the rule that little happens in politics by chance, we see a scenario or two.

Britain has withdrawn from the European theatre just as German might roars back. There are diplomatic and historical reasons for not having too many chefs in the kitchen — especially not these two.

If the U.S. is being collapsed from within — and it's just given its near-entire military the clot shot — then it can't be long before the U.S. leaves Germany in charge of Europe and Britain sets sail for the South Pacific or seeks to rekindle its pipe in Canton.

The petrodollar deal under president Richard Nixon tied the U.S to the Mid East, in which the U.S. was guaranteed oil in return for protecting the Saudis, while the Saudis granted the U.S. first dibs and — most importantly — agreed to reinvest their oil profits in U.S. Treasuries, thereby keeping the dollar mighty.

At one stage the U.S. was probably looking for a similar deal with China: outsourcing its factories in return for the Chinese propping up the greenback.

Something went wrong with the deal and China gained the upper hand. That may be because Saudi growth is limited by customer demand and what it is able to pump out of the ground.

With the apparent real-time collapse of the petrodollar, the U.S. would no longer have the ability to finance its military adventure. Surely the families and corporations behind the U.S. and Britain would not vacate the stage to China?

The interests of the aristocratic and banking elite diverge from those of the broader population. That should be obvious after two years of pandemic when democracy has been exposed as a fig leaf for oligarchy.

If one drew a map of the world this elite occupies, and included the source of their wealth, the “common man” would think he was looking at a different universe.

First, the U.S. rust belt and the British midlands have been de-industrialized. It matters to you whether there is a shoe factory in Northampton. It doesn't matter to them.

Second, the central bank money printer is about to implode. When they seek to secure their wealth in assets, do you think the rich are looking at your hollowed out city with its crumbling infrastructure and insolvent pension scheme?

Order out of chaos

They raise their binoculars — or more likely, deploy their satellites — to scour the minerals and resources, land, food and water anywhere, belonging to anyone. And what puts that in play? Chaos.

One doesn’t often hear of chaos as a policy objective, though president George W Bush did say in 2003, “It will take time to restore chaos.” [3]

Strangely, president Joe Biden echoed those words on Mar 21 at Business Roundtable’s CEO Quarterly Meeting. He said the world had seen death before — in the two World Wars, for example — “but nowhere near the chaos… and now is a time when things are shifting.” Here is Monday’s quote in full:

“You know, we are at an inflection point, I believe, in the world economy — not just the world economy, in the world.  It occurs every three or four generations. 

As one of — as one of the top military people said to me in a secure meeting the other day, 60 — 60 million people died between 1900 and 1946.  And since then, we’ve established a liberal world order, and that hadn’t happened in a long while. A lot of people dying, but nowhere near the chaos.

And now is a time when things are shifting.  We’re going to — there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it.  And we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”

Bush senior was more loquacious in 1990 after the first Gulf war:

”There is the very real prospect of a new world order…. A world where the United Nations, freed from cold war stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.”

Read those words closely: “freed from cold war stalemate” — sound like peace or a land grab?

Take aways: Biden has a habit of blurting out what he’s been told. The suggestion is that chaos will characterise an increase in great power rivalry and that this new world order will not have a one world government.

Trade in this new order will not depend on factory towns and suburbs. And if they have stripped out the manufacturing, they will do the same to schools and hospitals — which is exactly what they are doing, if you pay attention to the policies being imposed under cover of Covid.

Britain’s National Health Service is being privatised and its elderly “euthanized” with Midazolam while the bloody fools of a population until recently stood in the streets and walloped pots and pans in appreciation.

UK prime minister Boris Johnson's Global Britain means something very different to this elite: they are back on the high seas, riding their slavers and cutters along the spice routes, putting the Silk Road out of business, or its new iteration, the Belt and Road.

Scenarios for Ukraine

If you listen to the mainstream media, victory is within Ukraine’s grasp, Russia is in a quagmaire and there’s no need to worry about the economy. The fact that you’ve read this far suggests you are not convinced.

Ukrainian patriots hope for their nation to retain its integrity but it could be in play and not only the eastern region of Donbas.

Russia has not openly discussed carving up Ukraine but it is being discussed on regional television, including in Poland (see below).

When in future you go out to eat in the Ukraine’s largest western city, will it be Plov in Lvov, Vareniki in Lviv or Barszcz in Lwów — it is no longer beyond comprehension that it could be carved up.