After twenty years of an utterly failed occupation of Afghanistan, which cost the US government about US$2.3 trillion (part of the US$8 trillion cost of the post-9/11 US imperial wars), the US retreated in an utterly demeaning fashion.
Living on the west coast of Canada watching the last of the forests gone for industrial extraction leaving the local populace to deal with its aftermath.
Rural towns are impoverished with massive tax subsidies to the oil/ gas industries amounting to billions of dollars we never voted upon
Th politicians are well meaning but haven’t the wit to realize this hegemonic game being played out against our duly elected to represent us.
Watch the assassination from here of the political assassination of Jeremy Corbyn
And any democratic principles the UK had. It looked like a military deep state coup of the UK’s parliament to myself.
Their role in the Julian Assange abduction for the Americans reinforces this view.
So I’m with the other 7 billion people watching this show go down into oblivion instigated by the Proxy Ukraine War.
As one who lives in the west I never voted for the Wests elite agenda or given any opportunity to discuss it. It backfires within the populace now I’d say this colonial extraction of resources leaving those who live here with nothing in the end but lies of the past.
Yep, with the overseas extraction activities being reduced the Western elites have turned to domestic extraction. The UK seems to be in the lead with this, with the gutting of the parts of the state serving the many during over a decade of "Austerity" while Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) loot the state coffers off to tax havens and wide open immigration keeps wages down.
All started way back though with the Blairite Labour government, for example in 2001 the tax office sold off its properties (sales and lease back) to an offshore company managed by George Soros at what seems to have been a knock-down price (and of course property prices have exploded since then)! They have no shame. It has now been calculated that all the hospitals built with PPP money would have been much cheaper to have just been built and financed by the state. And what does Starmer want to do? Lots of PPP of course.
The political assassination of Corbyn will go down as a massive turning point in British politics, nearly on a par with the turn to the IMF and neoliberalism by Labour in the late 1970s (just as the North Sea oil revenues were starting to roll in!) which created the Winter of Discontent and the Thatcher victory.
the seemingly unstoppable Trump machine..to focus on what he sees as the main enemy: China.
Not quite. Trump is, in word and deed, a big China fan. And he's also a realist: even the combined West cannot compete with China, especially when it comes to governance, as our once-and-future President observed, “People say I don’t like China? No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. And we can’t sustain ourselves like that. It’s like playing the New England Patriots and Tom Brady against your high school football team.”
Trump is a business man, so when he sees other highly competent leaders he can acknowledge that. That's very "old-fashioned" 1950s style leadership (or 1970s with Nixon and China), rather than the name-calling BS that started up again with Reagan. I also don't see him being so stupid about Taiwan either, he is not a warmonger.
It doesn't mean that he wont take actions against China though, as with the China tariffs, the kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou, the attempt to destroy Huawei, and the limits on technology exports. He is now talking about additional tariffs, seemingly attempting to ape some of Hamilton's industrial policies. More a covetous observer, looking for weak points and accepting the need to consolidate at home to rebuild the domestic economy.
His ideology will always get in the way of success though, and the Establishment will constantly be pushing him in other directions, as during his first term. He may now be less naive about some so-called friends and allies, but the Establishment is also even more committed to limiting his impact upon them.
2025 may be even more interesting than 2024, I can easily see the finance bubble being kept going until the election (by then it would be significantly bigger than 2000 or 2008) and then dropped hard once its obvious that Trump will be president (i.e. before he gets into office in January). He would then have his hands full with an economic, financial and possible US govt debt/US dollar emergency, and he would get to eat the blame for the crash by the mid-terms.
And who knows what the state of the Ukraine War (Ukraine would do Trump a huge favour by collapsing before he takes office) and the Zionist genocide will be. I am sure that the Establishment will try to store up as much trouble as possible for him in these two theatres.
Living on the west coast of Canada watching the last of the forests gone for industrial extraction leaving the local populace to deal with its aftermath.
Rural towns are impoverished with massive tax subsidies to the oil/ gas industries amounting to billions of dollars we never voted upon
Th politicians are well meaning but haven’t the wit to realize this hegemonic game being played out against our duly elected to represent us.
Watch the assassination from here of the political assassination of Jeremy Corbyn
And any democratic principles the UK had. It looked like a military deep state coup of the UK’s parliament to myself.
Their role in the Julian Assange abduction for the Americans reinforces this view.
So I’m with the other 7 billion people watching this show go down into oblivion instigated by the Proxy Ukraine War.
Nice summary of what reality has presented to us.
As one who lives in the west I never voted for the Wests elite agenda or given any opportunity to discuss it. It backfires within the populace now I’d say this colonial extraction of resources leaving those who live here with nothing in the end but lies of the past.
Yep, with the overseas extraction activities being reduced the Western elites have turned to domestic extraction. The UK seems to be in the lead with this, with the gutting of the parts of the state serving the many during over a decade of "Austerity" while Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) loot the state coffers off to tax havens and wide open immigration keeps wages down.
All started way back though with the Blairite Labour government, for example in 2001 the tax office sold off its properties (sales and lease back) to an offshore company managed by George Soros at what seems to have been a knock-down price (and of course property prices have exploded since then)! They have no shame. It has now been calculated that all the hospitals built with PPP money would have been much cheaper to have just been built and financed by the state. And what does Starmer want to do? Lots of PPP of course.
The political assassination of Corbyn will go down as a massive turning point in British politics, nearly on a par with the turn to the IMF and neoliberalism by Labour in the late 1970s (just as the North Sea oil revenues were starting to roll in!) which created the Winter of Discontent and the Thatcher victory.
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/britains-tax-office-hmrc-sold-600-state-owned-buildings-offshore-property-company/
the seemingly unstoppable Trump machine..to focus on what he sees as the main enemy: China.
Not quite. Trump is, in word and deed, a big China fan. And he's also a realist: even the combined West cannot compete with China, especially when it comes to governance, as our once-and-future President observed, “People say I don’t like China? No, I love them. But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders. And we can’t sustain ourselves like that. It’s like playing the New England Patriots and Tom Brady against your high school football team.”
Trump is a business man, so when he sees other highly competent leaders he can acknowledge that. That's very "old-fashioned" 1950s style leadership (or 1970s with Nixon and China), rather than the name-calling BS that started up again with Reagan. I also don't see him being so stupid about Taiwan either, he is not a warmonger.
It doesn't mean that he wont take actions against China though, as with the China tariffs, the kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou, the attempt to destroy Huawei, and the limits on technology exports. He is now talking about additional tariffs, seemingly attempting to ape some of Hamilton's industrial policies. More a covetous observer, looking for weak points and accepting the need to consolidate at home to rebuild the domestic economy.
His ideology will always get in the way of success though, and the Establishment will constantly be pushing him in other directions, as during his first term. He may now be less naive about some so-called friends and allies, but the Establishment is also even more committed to limiting his impact upon them.
2025 may be even more interesting than 2024, I can easily see the finance bubble being kept going until the election (by then it would be significantly bigger than 2000 or 2008) and then dropped hard once its obvious that Trump will be president (i.e. before he gets into office in January). He would then have his hands full with an economic, financial and possible US govt debt/US dollar emergency, and he would get to eat the blame for the crash by the mid-terms.
And who knows what the state of the Ukraine War (Ukraine would do Trump a huge favour by collapsing before he takes office) and the Zionist genocide will be. I am sure that the Establishment will try to store up as much trouble as possible for him in these two theatres.
Brilliant. Thank you for this.