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HAIPHONG: Welcome, everyone. Welcome to the stream. It’s Danny Haiphong, your host. As you can see, I’m joined by the renowned economist and author, Professor Michael Hudson. You can find his website in the video description. Please do hit the like button as we begin. That helps boost this stream. And, of course, you can find not only Michael’s website, but all the ways you can support this channel in the video description. How are you doing today, Michael?
HUDSON: Pretty good. It’s snowing here in New York, so I’m pretty much snowed in.
HAIPHONG: Yep. Yes, yes, it is quite bad out there today. But I am glad to have you here because there’s a lot of economic news. But you emphasize, and this channel tries to emphasize, the relationship between geopolitics and economics, geopolitical economy, as you, Radhika [Desai], and Ben Norton, and other great journalists have attempted to do.
And so I wanted to start, then, let’s talk about Ukraine first. Let’s begin there. There’s all kinds of talks about there being a quote-unquote stalemate with regard to Ukraine.
However, the realities, especially economically and on the battlefield, are a lot different. So, Michael, I’m just going to let you go on what you would like to comment on with regard to Ukraine, because the situation is not as hot in the news, but there are massive changes happening in this conflict.
HUDSON: Well, it’s the United States that’s saying that it’s a stalemate in Ukraine. What they mean is that the Ukraine counter-offenses have been utterly ineffective. Ukraine has lost the war.
And there have been almost all of the discussions that you get, for instance, on Judge Napolitano’s interviews, and the European press, the Russian press, the Chinese press, they all say, Well, the war is over. Russia can just continue to take however much it wants, but there is no point in Russia trying to take more land right now because Ukraine, or rather Mr.
Zelensky, is sending all of the Ukrainians he can find, especially the Hungarian Ukrainians, the Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and the Romanian Ukrainians, in the fight to get killed.
So, maybe we can convince Russia, Don’t mop up, don’t lock in your victory. Why don’t we just say it’s a stalemate and leave things the way they are since you’re winning so strongly?
Well, obviously, Russia has already said, We’ve already given the terms for our peace. Of course, we can negotiate anytime. Our terms are simple, total surrender. We’re going to get rid of Nazism. We’re going to make sure that Ukraine will never join NATO. And we’re going to make sure that the Russian speakers and Crimea are part of Russia. So anytime you want to negotiate, meaning, say yes to our terms, we’ll be glad to. But meanwhile, we’re just going to sit here. And if you want to send more and more troops in, that’s fine.
Now, the Americans think that, okay, if Russia isn’t taking any more land, it’s a tie. But it’s really not a tie because if you read President Putin’s speeches and Foreign Secretary Lavrov’s speeches, he says, Well, Ukraine is only the tip of the iceberg. We’re talking about the big picture. The big picture is, for instance, that Russia on January 1st became the lead administrator of the BRICS+.
And the United States is meanwhile losing the fight all over the world. It’s losing the economic fight against Russia and China. Russia is increasing its industrial production, not only military, but in the production of aircraft, automobiles. China is growing and the United States is not. And most of all, Europe is going into a depression led by the collapse of, or I should say, the destruction of German industry as a result of the sanctions against Russia. And also the sanctions that the United States are insisting that Europe impose against China.
The United States has told Europe, you really can only trade with us and our NATO allies.
We want you to reduce your trade with China to what the head of the EU, Mr. Borrell, has said. He said, Well, you know, China, we import a lot more from you than we export. It’s got to be even. And China said, well, there are plenty of things we’d like to import from you, Europeans, such as the chip-making etching machinery for ultraviolet etching that’s made by Holland. And Borrell says, Oh, we can’t, the United States won’t let us send you, sell you anything that potentially is used in the military. And China says, well, anything that can be used economically can be military because the military is part of the economy.
So I guess we’re quite happy to agree with you and have balanced trade between China and Europe. We’ll just cut back our trade with you to maybe the $100 a year trade that you have to trade with us.
So Europe is voluntarily isolating, limiting its trade and investment to the United States, cutting off the trade with Russia. And without Russian gas and oil, you’re going to have the German, French, and Italian manufacturing industry, chemical industry, fertilizer industry, and agriculture continue to shrink.
And so the stalemate that America is talking about really means we’re shrinking our allies in Europe. We’re losing the third world. And what is happening in Ukraine, fighting to the last Ukrainian, now looks like a similar fight in the Near East, where it looks like there’s a similar stalemate, which really has been inflaming the world’s global majority and the global South into thinking that all of a sudden this is something awful. I’ll get to that later.
But the important thing is that I think the Americans have already realized that they’re going to lose the war in Ukraine. And the problem, as you read the New York Times and the Washington Post, and especially the Financial Times, is if we lose the war in Ukraine, how will Biden win the election in November? Because he’s been pushing, his whole policy is we can essentially wreck Russia. Our sanctions are going to lead to the collapse of Russian industry. The Russian people will get so upset with the war, there’s going to be a regime change. They’ll overthrow Mr. Putin and we can get another Boris Yeltsin in who is going to really wreck Russia in the way that our neoliberal advisors were able to wreck it in the 1990s.
Well, that hasn’t happened. So what’s going to happen? Well, the public relations people of the Democratic Party have got together and they’ve all decided, Okay, what we want to tell the people is, it really didn’t matter in Ukraine. It doesn’t matter because we don’t have to win in Ukraine because America can fight [with] a kind of soft power. And we have other ways of dominating the world and maintaining America number one, even though we’re de-industrializing our economy. Even though we’re the largest debtor in the world, we’re going to be able to dominate. And the new Democratic Party public relations push is what’s called “soft power”.
And in yesterday’s January 15th Financial Times, there was a long discussion. They had
a whole page by a man who had been President Clinton’s advisor, National Intelligence Council advisor Joseph Nye. For a whole page. And it was Nye who coined the term soft power. A few decades ago, when he was arguing with Paul Kennedy, who was saying that the Americans were on the decline. And he came up with this idea to say, the United States can still be able to exert influence, but not of a military type, but of financial power, regime change.
And what he said, he gave five reasons why the United States would not necessarily be eclipsed by China or by Russia or by any other countries. And it’s hilarious to look at the five reasons that the Financial Times yesterday trotted forth for why there’s not going to be any threat to the United States.
The first reason he gave was geography and friendly neighbors. Well in the last few months, especially since the fighting and Israeli attacks on Gaza have occurred, America’s lost public opinion. And even Secretary Blinken has said that the fight in Israel is creating antagonism, not only against Israel, but America has lost its moral dominance as a result of backing the genocide and opposing any criticism of Israel within the United Nations. So it’s lost foreign support. There’s a growing anti-Americanism, not only in Asia, Africa, and the global South, but in Europe.
Well, the second reason that Nye cited was domestic energy supplies. America controls oil. Not only does it produce its own oil, but it’s just been able to block the rest of the world from importing Russian oil, and it’s been able to blow up Nord Stream. And now it’s pushing Israel to essentially act as another Ukraine. It’s pushing Israel to incite Lebanon and Iran into a provocation, into a military response to the Israeli attacks that is going to enable Israel to do what a Senate majority leader, the Republican leader, has been pushing for, and what Biden is pushing for, and what the neocons have been pushing for for 20 years, war with Iran to grab the oil reserves of what were Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Libya. And if it can control the oil reserves of the Near East and be able to block off their energy exports to all the other countries, just as it’s been able to block Russia’s oil exports to Europe, then it can control the industrialization of other countries because industry basically runs on oil and gas. Industry is energy, and without energy, you’re not going to be able to have your own industrialization independently of the United States. So the U.S. foreign policy, as we’ve talked before, I think, in our last show, for 100 years, the United States has used oil as an attempt to control the world’s economy.
Well, the third point that Nye points out is the dollar-based financial system. Well, it’s amazing that he could say that in yesterday’s Financial Times when the whole world was trying to de-dollarize. You’re getting one speech after another, not only from Russia and from China, but from the global South countries. And even in the Near East, they’re saying now that America has grabbed Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, $300 billion, all of the money that we’ve saved in our domestic monetary reserves are subject to confiscation by the United States. And they’ve already told Saudi Arabia that if they do not keep their international reserves from oil exports in the form of United States stocks and bonds, that would be treated as an act of war. So here in the Near East, you’re having Saudi Arabia and Bahrain under increasing pressure to support the Arabs being attacked by Israel, and yet they’re afraid to act because the United States is holding their dollars hostage. Well, very quickly, you’re seeing other countries move out of dollars as quickly as they can.
And finally, the fifth argument that Nye points out for why America cannot lose is demo-graphic and technological leadership. But that’s the one fatal Achilles heel of the United States economy. Its hope, its idea of technological leadership is to get monopoly power over information technology, pharmaceuticals, and other areas that it can dominate for intellec-tual property through copyrighting and through essentially suing countries that will adopt the technology that’s developed in the United States.
Prof. Hudson steps away for a minute.
HAIPHONG: That summary, Joseph Nye outlined it, and Professor Hudson broke it down, broke down the facade, or the reality behind the facade that the neocons spread. And what’s so interesting about this piece is that, I mean, Joseph Nye, I mean, he is a Carter and then
Clinton functionary, someone who served as an Undersecretary of State and Undersecretary of Defense for these administrations. And he is someone who actually has been considered less hawkish, but if we went through this article, you would see that what he is arguing with regard to soft power is actually regime change by other means.
And that regime change is heavily connected to the economic realm, as perhaps Professor Hudson outlined so eloquently. There is so many connections to be made. We have a lot of them I’m going to raise with Professor Hudson, including on Russia, Russia being now the biggest economy in Europe by purchasing power parity terms.
Also, the China collapse theory. There’s new news. There’s recent news about China actually surpassing Japan and leading the world now in car manufacturing and how its electric vehicle production is causing so much alarm.
Prof. Hudson returns
I wanted to now ask you about a development, given all that you outlined with regard to Joseph Nye’s assessment and analysis on soft power in the US’s so-called advantages. I wanted to talk to you about this story here. Vladimir Putin was just meeting with business leaders in the Far East, and he made a claim about Russia now being the biggest economy in Europe by purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, becoming Europe’s first economy, despite pressure from all sides.
And here’s what he said. He said, It seems that we are being strangled and pressured from every side, but still we are the largest economy in Europe. We left Germany behind and climbed into fifth in the world. China, the U.S., India, Japan and Russia. We are number one in Europe. And so there’s reports in that conversation with business leaders from the region that Russia is set to grow three percent year on year, and it’s likely to be even higher, maybe four and five percent.
Now, there’s also the news, you brought it up, but there is a huge stagnation going on in Europe. In an analysis also in Financial Times, there are 48 economists that talked about the eurozone set for weak growth this coming year. And the prediction was across these economists, zero point six percent on average, with many indicating less than that. And of course, some indicating more. But the vast majority said it was going to be less than half of one percent. So, Michael, your thoughts. How did this, how did this happen? And perhaps you can explain the economic intricacies on how this happened.
HUDSON: Well, we’ve discussed in the past how it happened. The United States, starting with President Clinton and actually with President Carter, decided to help American firms make higher profits by moving their labor force out of the United States, by trying to shift manufacturing first to Mexico, along the maquiladoras under Carter, and then under Clinton to China and Asia.
And the idea was to create increasing industrial unemployment in the United States to prevent labor’s wages from rising. And the theory that has guided the Democratic Party’s economists is, if you can cut wages, there will be higher profits and higher profits will lead to more prosperity.
Well, the reality is that you cut wages by moving your industry outside of the country, by de-industrializing. And that is still the policy that America has taken. And it has replaced industrialization with financialization to make money financially, hoping that the companies that have now moved out towards China and Asia and other countries are going to be able to have higher profits and essentially become more prosperous for the donor class to the Democratic and also the Republican parties.
But what President Putin was talking about was something much more. Russia already, along with China, have begun to produce their own airplanes. Take a look at the last week’s news, all about Boeing, yet again, having other accidents on its airplanes. Boeing used to be a technological leader in aircraft, but then it was merged with McDonnell Douglas and became a financial company. So it broke up the Boeing system of making airplanes and began to outsource to various other companies, all the little parts. And all Boeing is now is assembling diverse parts that it buys from various suppliers, very much like television sets are made. You buy different parts from different suppliers.
Well, the reason Putin is making his speech in the Near East is Russia and China are working together for an enormous industrial development to take place in eastern Siberia, which has been obviously underpopulated because of the bad weather for many centuries now, but also is now beginning to warm up. And the idea is to integrate Chinese industry and Russian industry and technology and to design entire cities that are going to be technological complexes producing all sorts of interrelated parts together, computer parts, airplanes, trains, automobiles. China is already the largest automobile exporter in the world. And so you’re going to have this whole new center of industrial growth in eastern Asia.
Well, the idea is that this is going to be a great increase in prosperity. And the way in which these cities are developing, when I first went to Russia in 1994, I stayed at the home of the professor who had designed Togliatti City, the city where they were going to begin producing automobiles designed by the Italians. And he explained how he designed the whole city together to combine the factories and production to workers’ housing, to workers’ entertainment, to workers’ health, and all of the different forms of supplying materials and parts of cars all dovetailed together. Well, he was basically an industrial engineer. And that is how Russia and China are developing the cities that they’re creating along with universities, training systems in East Asia and Siberia.
So essentially, Putin is saying to the world, if you’re a global south country or an Arab country, and you want to have your economy grow and trade more, who are you going to tie your economy to? The world is being split into two parts, the US-NATO “garden” and the rest of the world, 85% jungle. The jungle is growing. The garden isn’t growing because its philosophy is not industrialization. Its philosophy is to make monopoly rents, meaning rents that you make in your sleep without producing value. You just have a privilege of a right to collect money on a monopoly technology that you have.
But China and Russia are way ahead of the United States in most of the growth technologies that we’re talking about, not yet in the ultraviolet etching of computer chips, but in many areas.
So you’re having the whole shift of technological advance move away from North America and the United States, where it was ever since World War I, to Russia and China.
How is the United States going to cope with the rest of the world industrializing and not needing any contact with the United States?
President Biden keeps saying China is our enemy. Ultimately, our military says we’re going to have war with China within two or three years. We’re at war with Russia right now in the Ukraine. That’s our objective, war.
But the rest of the world, essentially, its response is not a mirror image of this, is not to say, well, we can go to war. We’re going to have Russia fighting Europe.
Just in the last few days, you had numerous American military magazines and especially European spokesmen saying, if we lose in Ukraine, Russia is going to march right through Poland and Romania, right to retake Germany. It’s going to conquer Europe, and maybe it won’t even stop in England.
Well, that’s just nonsense. The reality is that Russia and China don’t need Europe anymore.
They don’t need the United States. Whereas under the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright said, America is the unique country. It’s the necessary country.
The fact is that the rest of the world not only finds America unnecessary, but America and its NATO allies to be the major threat to their own prosperity. So they’re essentially splitting into their own world. And the BRICS group is expanding its trade relations, its investment relations, and especially its financial clearing and monetary operations to be independent of the dollar, de-dollarizing, and certainly independent of the euro, which seems to have no visible means of support right now, and going their own way.
Now, that is exactly what has led the United States to push Israel [essentially] to follow Netanyahu’s belligerence, because the United States says, We realize we’re losing power.
We know that it’s really not a stalemate. We know that we’ve lost the chance for world dominance. We may be re-elected by telling people, you know, it doesn’t really matter.
But we know that it does matter. The last chance we have to assert American power is military. And the main military prize is the Near East now, just as it was after 9-11, when Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld pressed for an invasion of Iraq to begin grabbing its soil and to essentially create America’s foreign legion in the form of ISIS and al-Qaeda Iraq. So now America has two armies that it’s using to fight in the Near East, the ISIS/al-Qaeda foreign legion (Arabic-speaking foreign legion) and the Israelis. The plan is—and America is willing to fight to the last Israeli, just as it’s willing—it’s trying to fight to the last Ukrainian in order to make this final grab of the Near East in fighting Iran.
This is a crazy idea, but it seems that that’s exactly what is being planned.
General Petraeus, who lost the war in Afghanistan, has said, we’ve got to conquer Iran. That’s going to be—we can regain all the power that we’ve lost by attacking Iran. And so now it looks like President Biden is hoping to make a political comeback by saying, Well, we may not have blocked Russia and Ukraine, but at least we’ve conquered the Near East.
But the way in which it’s conquering it [somehow has] become a catalyst to make the whole global majority, the whole rest of the world, especially Africa, South America, and South Asia, to think, Wait a minute, what’s happening in Israel and Palestine today is exactly what happened to us at our beginning.
In the United States, what did the Americans do? The White people came, the Anglo-Saxons and the other Europeans, and they killed 90% of the Indians, drove them out, isolated them, put them in basically concentration camps. And then when they found out that there was oil under these concentration camps, they essentially murdered the Indians there or drove them out to grab the oil.
Same thing in Latin America. When the Spaniards came to Latin America, they grabbed the land, drew up land grants, and these land grants created latifundia, which has been the great problem of Latin America for the last five centuries, because it’s prevented Latin America from growing their own food. It’s fought against the indigenous population feeding itself to turn the land into export crops, largely under World Bank guidance for all of this.
Same thing in Africa. They say, wait a minute, what is happening in Israel is what happened to us, with the colonizing powers. This is what Germany did in Africa. It’s what the Dutch did in South Africa. It’s Germany in Namibia, the Dutch in South Africa, the English through Africa, and especially the French in its territories. All of this has occurred before.
And all of a sudden, just as Americans go to the movies and mourn more for the Westerns, they’re cheering for the Indians against the cavalry. You’re having the rest of the world cheering for the underdog because the underdog is who they were. The underdog is them today.
And this idea is turning into a feeling of, Let’s throw off all of the barriers to colonialism.
Let’s start with French Africa, which we’re throwing off the French there. We’re not going to let French banks, French mineral companies, mining companies, French oil companies simply take all of our wealth because they conquered it five centuries ago. We can identify with the—we know what the Palestinians are fighting for.
And yet, in a way, they’re also saying, well, wait a minute, look at what Israel’s doing.
Israel says, God gave us this land. We used to have it. Well, the South Americans and Africans and Asians are saying, Well, this is our land, but we never left it. We’re still on the land. And even though we’re on the land, we’re still locked up, like Israel is treating the Palestinians. We don’t have to live this way. We can decolonize.
And the whole split of the world and the turning towards the China, Russia, Iran, BRICS
access is an attempt to reverse, undo, and roll back the whole colonial expansion that’s occurred over the last five centuries.
HAIPHONG: You just gave an incredible summary in breaking down the interconnections of these developments, and I wanted to, given that the Near East, West Asia, is so “hot” right now.
Iran just launched numerous strikes in Erbil, in Iraq, against a Mossad headquarters, as well as other targets locating certain terrorist groups that Israel supported. There are reports now of Pakistan, also in northern Pakistan.
There also is the situation with regard to Yemen, the Red Sea crisis that is ongoing. The Ansar Allah movement has just hit an American ship. There’s constant activity there. And of course, there’s still the conflict you mentioned, the fighting going on in Gaza, the brutal attack on the people of Palestine that has been correctly labeled a genocide.
And here’s what Joseph Nye had to say, and I’ll kick it back to you, Michael. He said it with regard to U.S. soft power. In that Financial Times article, he said, The U.S., even so, can seem powerless. It has failed to convince its ally, Israel, to act with restraint in Gaza. Could it have done so in the past? It’s not clear they could have done it 20 years ago. George W.
Bush intimated in 1991 that American aid could be cut and that they may have helped to stimulate the Oslo process, but that didn’t bring about two states. Israel is not only, not the only ally that has proved quite capable of resisting the U.S., pointing to Saudi Arabia and others. For the moment, Israel is hurting its own soft power and by extension hurting American soft power.
Kick it back to you, Michael.
HUDSON: This is the big lie that America is trying to promote. The idea that, the pretense that when Blinken goes to talk to Netanyahu, he says, when you drop the next bombs and kill the next 20,000 Gaza-era Palestinians, please be gentle with them. Please obey the laws of war and stop bombing the ambulances, stop bombing the hospitals.
That’s all public relations crap. The reality is that he’s telling Netanyahu to go forward.
It’s America. All these bombs that are dropping are made in America and sent to Israel to drop. Every week, America is saying, Here is a new delivery of bombs. Go to it. Here is billions of dollars more for you to get by while you’ve drafted your working population into the army. America is pushing Israel.
Beginning 50 years ago, I used to travel to work with Netanyahu’s main Mossad and now National Security Advisor, Uzi Arad. I remember, I think I’ve mentioned before on one occasion, we were going to Japan and stopped off in San Francisco for some discussions.
An army officer came up, threw his arms around Uzi and said, you Israelis are our landed aircraft carrier in the Near East. Well, that was 50 years ago.
Last week in the New York Times, I hear exactly the same phrase. Israel is our aircraft carrier. To the United States, Israel is America’s Ukraine in the Near East. It’s the United States that is pushing Israel to goad first Lebanon and then Iran into doing something that will justify a huge American attack, trying to do to Iran what Hillary Clinton did to Libya, utterly destroying it and destroying the population. In the process, grabbing its gold supply, we don’t know what’s happened to that, installing ISIS as its foreign legion in as much of Libya as possible and grabbing the Libyan oil supply.
In the New York Times, in the Wall Street Journal and on TV, whenever they talk about Hamas or Hezbollah, they don’t say Hamas and Hezbollah. They say “Iran-backed Hamas”,
“Iran-backed Hezbollah”. They don’t talk about the Yemeni army, the Houthis. They say the
“Iranian-backed Houthis”. There is a huge public relations push to convince the American population that Iran is the big enemy and President Biden says again and again that Iran is the enemy. The army, Petraeus, and the neocons have said from the very beginning, Iraq and Syria are merely the dress rehearsal for where we really want to go, Iran.
Their hatred of Iran stems from the fact that they overthrew the Iranian government of Mosaddegh back in the 1950s, along with British help as usual. And they’re sure that, well, we’ve hurt you so much that we’re sure you must hate us. And since we know you hate us because of what we’ve done to you, we’ve got to attack you because we’ve made you an enemy by overthrowing your government when we grabbed your oil and put in the Shah that ran a murderous torture regime for a few decades in Iran. Well, that basically is the 7
American policy that is goading it into a war that probably will be more disastrous for the United States than the war in Ukraine was.
At least in Ukraine, all the Americans lost were Ukrainians. And I guess they had a few mercenary troops that they hired over there. But in the Near East, they’re going to lose a lot more than it was at stake in just Ukraine. They’ll probably lose Israel’s role as a landed aircraft carrier. And in fact, they’re going to lose a lot of their own floating aircraft carriers that are near there. And they’ve already lost control of the Red Sea and the oil gulf, basically, between Iran and Egypt.
And there’s also a possibility that they’ll even lose the support of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Because even though in the Arab Spring, the Americans pulled a “color revolution”, Arab Spring, where they replaced the hated Egyptian President Mubarak with his own protege, Sisi, who is now running it. Sisi is totally in the US pockets. And yet, the Egyptian population, needless to say, being largely Arabic, is supporting Gaza, not the United States.
Similarly, in Saudi Arabia. Here, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine were in the process of making a rapprochement, actually an alliance with Israel, along sort of the same lines that Greece had been making with Israel for a Mediterranean military force. Well, now much of the Saudi population is Palestinian. They’ve found jobs in Saudi Arabia, and they’re outraged at Saudi Arabia’s trying to sit on the fence at the same time that it has joined the BRICS.
It realizes that all of its foreign reserves are held hostage by the United States. What’s going to be more important to Saudi Arabia? Fighting to protect the Islamic population under attack, or saving its own reserves that are kept in the United States, not to help Saudi Arabia at all.
Same thing with Egypt.
The population there, between Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, these were the main American bastions in the Near East. And now it’s in dan-ger of losing them if, in the case of war, they’re under tremendous political pressure and instability.
And further to the West in Africa, you have the former French colonies also being Islamic.
You can imagine, you know, they’re breaking away not only from France and supporting the rest of Africa, Central Africa, from breaking away from France, but essentially moving into an alliance with the BRICS countries, with Russia and China.
So all of a sudden, the American decision to go to war with Russia in Ukraine after the 2015
Maidan massacre and regime change, putting in the neo-Nazis, you’re having the fighting in Israel. And those two US-sponsored attacks have had the exact opposite effect of what the United States politicians promised. Just as they promised that Russia would break up and essentially the economy would crash under the sanctions and under the force of war, they believed that Israel’s army was so strong that it was going to simply be able to wipe out Hamas.
And the big fighting—there’s not a word of this in the United States press—but the big fighting is on the West Bank. Netanyahu is saying, well, here while they’re all looking at what we’re bombing the civilians and the hospitals and the ambulances and starving Gaza, we’ve distracted the world and we can now wipe out the Arabs on the West Bank and move right into Syria on the Golan Heights. And apparently the United States has promised Israel that it can take whatever it wants of Syria, which it’s still opposing.
We don’t know what Russia is going to do in all of this. Russia, China have been completely silent in all of this. And I can understand they’re silent. China has moved naval ships into the area because it’s itself is very dependent on the Red Sea and the sea lanes to oil in Saudi Arabia.
When the United States keeps saying, threatening, oh, the Yemenis are going to bomb ships there and block the trade, that’s what they want. The United States realizes that if they can goad Yemen and Iran into blocking the Straits of Hormuz and the Gulf, this will indeed stop the oil trade. And it’s true that as Yves Smith pointed out in Naked Capitalism today, the sea lanes to Saudi Arabia were closed for many years after the 1967 war. They were closed numerous times for many months. And it’s not unthinkable that they’re closed. But that was then.
Now, if you close them, it will be the main energy buyers in Asia, China, and other countries that are going to be hurt. And that is, from the United States point of view, that will give the United States even more power to control the oil supply of the world as a bargaining chip in trying to renegotiate this new international order.
So you’re having the United States basically play the only tactic that it can actually use.
It can’t use the tactic to say, We’re the growing economy and you want to trade with us, not with China and Russia, because they’re growing faster than the U.S. and Europe. They don’t really have anything to offer except the ability to disrupt foreign trade and foreign monetary and financial systems and agree to stop disrupting it if other countries will simply let the United States be the unipolar decision maker.
And I should have added the dimension before when we were talking about China and Russia and the Siberian development. The Eurasian countries have one great advantage over the United States and Europe. The United States and Europe have essentially privatized what was the whole public infrastructure system. And being privatized, they’re now natural monopolies. And they’re run in the way that, say, Thames Water is run in England. They’re run as monopolies that are under-investing and simply using a choke-hold to increase their monopoly rents, which they report as profits.
But China, Russia, Asian countries have kept the basic infrastructure—transportation, education, health care, communications—as public utilities. And they are investing, they are run by engineers, industrial engineers, not financial engineers. And they are run not only much more efficiently, but they don’t have the financial overhead and the monopoly rent overhead that plagues privatized infrastructure. So the cost of production in the non-neoliberalized world, I guess we can call it the world moving towards socialism, is so much more efficient than the neoliberal financialized West that you can see the magnetic pull of Africa and South America.
And as it happens, these are also the main raw material suppliers of the world. So if the United States and Europe don’t have raw materials, don’t produce their own oil, except what the Europeans have to pay enormous markups to American producers, you’re going to have Europe looking pretty much like post-Soviet Latvia and Estonia. The population is going to emigrate. They’re going to shrink. You’re going to have a flowering of interaction throughout all of Eurasia and Africa.
And essentially, the United States can try to stop this by triggering a new oil war in the Near East. But that’s really the last gasp. It’s very unlikely that this is going to lead Taiwan to say, Well, you know, we’re going to follow Ukraine and Israel and you can fight to the last Taiwanese, just as you’re fighting to the last Ukrainian, the last Israeli. I think that the United States is creating a turmoil that is demonstrating to the other world the need for essentially, I won’t call it an iron curtain, but for it to go its own way and for a break in economic systems.
And as President Putin has said again and again, this is a civilizational war. It’s a war to say in what direction is civilization going to go? Is it going to be towards neo-feudalism, back toward feudalism, which is the neoliberal rent-seeking 1%? Or is it going to be towards where industrial capitalism was originally evolving towards, towards socialism and towards raising living standards instead of imposing IMF financial austerity on the dollar block? So that’s the choice that America is seeing in the Near East and in other countries right now.
Are you going to have a future of austerity or essentially prosperity and economic growth?
HAIPHONG: I don’t think there’s a better way to connect all of those developments, especially with regard to what’s happening in the Near East, or what some call the Middle East, or what others call West Asia. I mean, the clashes are escalating. There’s clashes even between Egypt and Israel, which is almost unheard of.
With everything that you said, you’re saying that this is not going to work at all, that the United States won’t be able to wrestle control as it is seeking in the region. How do you see this playing out? Maybe we can close on this point, given that it’s not going to work.
And if it’s not going to work, then what other options do the United States and maybe the broader collective West have? Because you’ve outlined it perfectly, this is an economic war, this is a war for economic dominance and control. So will it just crumble on its own, or will the United States and whoever it can drag along with it, you know, escalate and maneuver in a manner that we should all be aware of?
HUDSON: The United States has one dynamic more than any other country of the world, and that is rage. That is the feeling that you have in Washington now. Not only rage, but as with most rage, it’s combined with fear. The Democrats fear that they’re going to lose the election and that Donald Trump is going to come in and clean up the FBI police state and to get rid of the CIA. That’s basically what he’s pledged to do, the deep state.
So the deep state is worried that it’s going to be, not that the United States is going to be left to stagnate, but that they themselves, their control of the United States will stagnate.
And the deep state is willing to destroy the U.S. economy. The Democratic Party, since Clinton, has the objective of destroying the U.S. economy in order to benefit the control of the 1% over the 99%. And it’s willing to use military war to fight, to escalate in the Near East, to escalate in Ukraine, and to escalate, presumably, in the China Sea to somehow provoke and essentially saying, Well, we’re going to go to war. We’re going to have a grab bag because who wants to live in a world that we don’t control?
Well, just, you know, this is like what Russia said when America was threatening to atom bomb it with its withdrawal from the arms agreements. Russia said, Don’t think that we won’t fight back. Who wants to live in a world without Russia? Well, the United States government is saying, who wants to live in America that we can’t control? That the banks and the military industrial complex and the pharmaceutical complex and basically the finance-monopolist sector can’t control. If we can’t control it, we’re willing to have the whole country go under. That’s really what it is. And they’re using the control of the press for any of this.
For instance, on Saturday and Sunday in Washington, there were huge demonstrations against the attacks on the Palestinians. Not a word of this in the New York Times or not a word of it on television. There’s not a word of what’s happening in the Near East or what President Putin and President Xi are saying in the news at all. It’s as if the world is already divided into a visible world, the deep state world and the invisible world, reality, of the 95% or 85%.
The fight politically towards November is, are people going to be able to really believe that the Biden administration is helping the economy instead of defending the CIA, the FBI, the national security state, the military industrial complex, the pharmaceutical complex, real estate, and Wall Street against the population by de-industrializing? Or has all this been a detour that’s made us poor? That’s going to be the question.
And the fact that you’re already having on social media, blocking of any criticism of Israel or the United States, you’re having a kind of control here that is a very similar control that you’re having in the Ukraine.
HAIPHONG: It really is mind blowing how quickly all of these developments have, in many senses, spiraled out of control. Even if we can look at this in years, but even in just the last few months, of course, with October 7th being another breaking point.
HUDSON: I think you should say October 2nd. That was the destruction of the attempt to destroy the mosque. It’s October 2nd that triggered all of this. It was the Israeli attack on the mosque that was intended to say, We are going to destroy the Islamic presence in Palestine so that it can be entirely non-Islamic. That was the declaration of war. So don’t be suckered into the New York Times saying it’s all October 7th.
It began the week earlier, just as in Ukraine. The Ukraine war did not begin with Russia moving to protect its population, its Russian speaking population in Donetsk and Luhansk.
It began not only with Maidan, but with the Ukrainian army shelling, bombing civilian apartment buildings and civilians in the Russian speaking territories and refusing to pay any social security or healthcare to the Russian speaking territories and banning the Russian language. Russia was the country under attack, not the attacker.
So again, you have to be very careful as when you date the beginning of this. And the Americans want to date all wars as when after it attacks and when other countries are protecting themselves. They call other countries protecting themselves an attack on the United States. Yeah.
HAIPHONG: October 7th, February 22nd, 2022. I mean, it’s a tactic. So it’s a great point that you brought up.
And maybe, Michael, we could close our conversation with China because China, you mentioned earlier in your analysis. And, you know, I believe China is the end game here. And there are a few developments. You mentioned China surpassing, in terms of car exports, car manufacturing, Japan, and becoming number one in the world. There and I’m going to pull up the articles as you speak.
There’s also the boards of the major auto manufacturers, the monopolies in a state of shock over BYD, the car manufacturer in China that has essentially taken over the world market with regard to electric vehicles. And there’s also reports that China is going to meet its 5
percent growth target. Despite the fact I’m sure you’ve seen this, Michael, there is collapse after collapse after collapse theory being bandied about in the mainstream media by the deep state. “China’s on the collapse. China’s economy is flailing. It’s declining. It’s crashing.”
So, Michael, I’m going to pull up the pieces as you go. But perhaps you can give your take, your reaction to this development and the notion of China being the end game for the neocons and the monopoly system of post-industrial capitalism, finance capitalism that you write and analyze so much about.
HUDSON: Well, there are a number of reasons why China is becoming the main car producer. This is led by the shift towards electric vehicles. And there’s one key dimension of electric vehicles.
Number one is they’re electric. You need electricity. How are you going to produce the electricity: with American oil, with Russian oil? How are you going to make it with atomic power? The other thing is once you get the electricity into the car, how are you going to get a battery to run the car and not have to keep stopping at the filling station even more often than you have to go to the bathroom?
Well, the answer is you need lithium for that. And China has been controlling most of the lithium sites. And you also need to have computerized vehicles. You need all sorts of materials that are cobalt, the rare earths that also are controlled with China. And China has gained control of most of the metallurgy, of the refining of the key metals that are needed for automobile production and for other industrial production.
So you have China as an integrated economy producing all of these. And you have the West becoming dependent on achieving these same metals. Now, let’s look at what could have happened back in 1990. Suppose there had not been a Cold War. Suppose that America actually in 1990, when the Soviet Union disbanded, America would have disbanded NAT and really had a mutual kind of growth with open, continued international trade.
Well, without the world splitting into the two parts, somehow there wouldn’t have been enough motivation for other countries to explicitly make the civilizational break from neoliberalism to socialism. There would have been a kind of social democracy in Asia, but it could have been the social democracy going the oligarchic way that it’s gone in, say, Sweden, which used to be called a great social democracy. And now it’s the most unequal country in Europe. You could have had slowly that development, but there would have been world trade and anybody could have bought the various metals, lithium, the rare earths. There would have been oil. There would have been continued trade and the whole world economy could have grown.
All of that was broken up by the American insistence that if we can’t control world trade, there won’t be world trade. If we can’t control world international finance and make the whole world use the U.S. dollar that we can print on computers and print and issue to finance all of the military spending to encircle the rest of the world with military bases, if we can’t do that, then there won’t be a world financial system because the United States believed that without the dollar, there couldn’t be de-dollarization because there was no alternative.
They’re tricked into the Margaret Thatcher type slogan. There is no alternative. And they really believe that the rest of the world could not prosper without using the dollar. They could not prosper without selling off and privatizing their public utilities and making natural monopolies that would be bought up by American buyers printing the dollars to say, we’ll print the dollars and we’ll buy your transportation system, your communication system and your factories. They couldn’t believe that there was an alternative to neoliberalism. And yet you’re seeing this. They couldn’t believe that if they simply bombed another country, that somehow the population of that country would say, Oh, we don’t want to be bombed.
We’re going to overthrow our government and support a government that supports you so that you won’t bomb our country anymore.
Instead, the effect of bombing a country when the United States does it is the same as bombing a country when any other country does it. It galvanizes the population together to oppose the country that’s bombing it and defend the country that’s under attack. So the whole image that the United States has is, there’s only one actor in the world, and that’s us. And we can smash other countries. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll upset the chessboard and just wreck the whole game.
So the United States is acting in the role of wrecker and other countries are in the role of builder. And the whole global majority is saying, What side do you want to be on, the wreckers or the builders?
And you can look at Ukraine as an example of how the United States would like Russia, China, and the Arab countries to exist. You would suspend elections once you have your guys, your president in there. You would become the most corrupt country in your region, as Ukraine has been. You will ban local languages and religions that are not Judeo-Christian.
You will essentially prevent strikes.
And you know the joke, the aristocrats. A stage group of actors talks about a family coming on and doing all sorts of horrendously devious sexual acts and incest, and it goes on and on. The producer who’s being offered this act and said, what do you call this act? And the answer is, the aristocrats.
Well, what do you call the Ukrainian act of suspending elections, banning foreign languages, assassinating critics? We call it democracy. Well, that’s hilarious. That’s indeed what America calls it. America has two models of democracy, Ukraine and Israel. Again and again in the press, it says Ukraine is the model of democracy that we want for what used to be the whole Soviet Union. And you have Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania clapping, and we want the democracy in Israel. Israel is the only democratic country in the Near East.
We want Israel to be the model for the Near East.
Well, what are they saying? That there won’t be any more Arabs in the Near East? That they’ll all be Americans with dual citizenship? This is what it’s all come to. We’re living in an Orwellian world is trying to deter people’s consciousness from realizing the reality of work and the dynamics that are at work. And how long can you convince people that they’re really not doing well just because the 1% is doing well? How can you convince the people that America is really a model leader when it’s trying to destroy the whole rest of the world instead of helping it, as at least it could pose to be doing back in 1945 when World War II ended?
You’re having really unwinding of the whole world system of the World Bank, the IMF, the United Nations, the whole diplomatic system of the world that was put together in 1945 is now being outmoded. And you could see the inability of the United Nations to cope with the war in the Near East, to cope with the war in Ukraine. This is the death knell of the old world. And you’re seeing a new world being created spontaneously, not ideologically, but basically spontaneously in an ad hoc fashion by China, Russia, and the 99%.
HAIPHONG: Yes. Yeah, yes, indeed, Michael. And, you know, final thoughts on the fact that given all that you said, and this reality, I mean, it’s this myth and reality, the myth, the idea, that China’s collapsing, you know, China’s economy is in decline. And yet you have not only these recent developments, but you also have these broader developments that you speak of.
So can you just give a sense, you’ve been to China, you’ve studied China’s economy very deeply. Just to close, help our audience here understand why China’s economy is able to industrialize like it is.
Europe is about to go through this probe. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, this probe of the, you know, Chinese auto manufacturing, especially around electric vehicles, because of these nefarious state subsidies. Can you talk about this, talk about China’s economy, how it works, and why Europe and the United States, of course, has been waging economic war as well, why they would resort to what seems to be counterproductive measures?
HUDSON: Well, the key to understanding the West is neoliberalism is privatization of basic needs and basic utilities. The most important public utility throughout history has always been the ability to create money and credit.
And what China has that no other country had was its central bank created the own money.
And when the government creates money through the treasury, spending money into the economy, it spends money in order to actually build things, mainly to build real estate, to house the Chinese, but also to build the high speed railroads, to provide an educational system, universities all over China, to build communications.
Other countries, such as the United States, don’t have this. Money is created, especially in the United States, by commercial banks, and they create money not to finance new construction of factories or new investment of any sorts. Banks lend money in the West against collateral that is already in place. You can go to a bank to get money to buy a building that exists, an office building, although the office building’s prices are all collapsing now. You can go and borrow money to buy a whole company. That’s what private capital does. It buys money to buy Sears. It drives it bankrupt, collapses it, and fires the [workers].
It can buy Toys R Us, drives it bankrupt, collapses it, and it’s gone. You can buy companies and loot them and essentially close them down and turn factories into gentrified buildings for the 1% of financial operatives who are doing the looting.
But banks in the West do not fund public utilities, and once you cut the taxes and force a government into deficit, you then finance the deficit by privatizing your roads, turning them into toll roads. You privatize your postal system. You privatize your health care system so that there’s not much health care anymore, as you have in England, for instance, the crisis that you’re having in English medicine and hospitals and privatization. You make the whole economy in the West look like England after Margaret Thatcher, where people who are actually wage earners can’t afford to live in London anymore. That’s for the foreign investors or the people who work in the financial sector. The wage earners have to live in suburbs to take privatized rail transportation.
In the United States, for instance, Greyhound, the bus system, was just bought out by private equity. They did exactly what Stagecoach, England’s largest bus company, did in England. They sold off the bus terminal that was in the center of the city that people would go to to catch the buses, and they sold it for gentrified real estate and told people, there’s now a parking lot we have on the outside of the city. You go and wait in the parking lot.
We hope it’s not raining or too cold or snowing, but we don’t have a terminal anymore. Well, you can just imagine this way of doing things. It turns into a race to the bottom.
Well, China, by [keeping control of] finance, really controls who is going to get the credit, and credit is really the economic planner. Neoliberalism in the West says the government shouldn’t do the planning. Wall Street should do the planning because Wall Street is what provides the credit that determines who is going to get the resources and what they’re going to do with it.
Well, Wall Street gives the credit to financial engineers that are trying to make money by increasing stock prices, increasing capital gains, and making money financially.
It’s true that China has made many billionaires. That was part of the Let 100 Flowers Grow, but now that it’s had that spontaneous growth, now it’s seen what forms work and what forms don’t work. Now it’s consolidating the economy to essentially create credit to finance tangible industrial growth, tangible infrastructure growth, tangible agricultural modernization, and general improvement of living standards.
The whole aim of the Chinese economy is growth, not looting and downsizing and a smash-up of corporate raiding. There’s no corporate raiding going on in China. There’s not going to be any financial interest that’s going to buy Huawei or the other Chinese developers. You don’t have the parasitical financial class that have become the central economic planners of the United States.
Because that’s what libertarianism is. Libertarians want a centralized economy, not run by government but run by Wall Street and the financial sector. The libertarians are essentially the advocates of what normally used to be called fascism, central planning by the wealthy financial and monopoly sector against the population at large.
You have the Republican and the Democratic Party both supporting a dismantling of government just with a different kind of rhetoric, but the same policies, the same military policies and the same anti-industrial policies. China, Russia and their now more and more BRICS countries are rejecting that whole self-defeating neo-feudal path of growth.
HAIPHONG: Well, Michael, you’ve been very generous with your time today. I really appreciate you giving this what was an incredible rundown of all the interconnections, all the developments geopolitically that have, at their base, economic roots. And so, Michael, thank you so much.
Where can people find you? I have your website in the video description.
HUDSON: My website is michael-hudson.com and there’s a Patreon list associated with that. But all my articles are on my website and the other sites that I publish on, Naked Capitalism and Counterpunch and other such sites.
HAIPHONG: Well, definitely check out his work. He has a number of books that are key reads. So, Michael, it was great to be with you. Thanks so much for joining me today and I’ll talk to you again soon.
HUDSON: Thanks for having me. We were lucky politically, but the whole world was at a turning point this week, it looks like.
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Slowly, the grand plan for Ukraine becomes clear every day. The full Machiavellian neocon construct: The below is my mosaic theory understanding of the grand-plan.
1) The sacrifice of Ukraine was a necessity to allow Netanyahu freedom from Russian meddling in Netanyahu’s mid-east ethnic redecoration project.
2) The sacrifice of Ukraine, has a double purpose in the form of being a hidden form of Ethnic cleansing within Ukraine itself, as the above transcript of Hudson says:
3) The sacrifice of Ukraine has a third benefit for the west: the complete monetization of the Ukraine. WItness that in the financial press there was hoopla at Blacrock having purchased an Infrastructure private equity firm, “Global Infrastructure Partners” (headlines all over the press hoopla). THis means Blackrock (an early player in dialogs with Zelensky) is now an open player in rebuilding Ukraine.
4) For blackrock to “profit” (the whole purpose of Blackrock) from INfrastructure it has to TOLL the use of hte infrastructure.
5) For Ukrainians to afford the (high capital cost) TOLLS, to profit Blackrock, they have to have a thriving economy. To this end, it’s imminent, the US will move all their Chinese factory production from China to Ukraine.
This represents the complete cooption of an economy. In the present case, at least China gets to keep it’s labor expense despite the fact that the marked up goods exported out of China get “imported” to US (actually a case of US importing from it’s own MNCs via tax havens….the money is still US money despite being called “imports”). In the Ukraine case, the cherry on the top, is that even the labor earnings of Ukrainians will be TOLLED for the infrastructure they use.
Of course there will be much celebration in the financial press at this new “achievement” of the West. 400K+ Ukrainian men RIP swept under the rug.
Hudson, I suspect, was raised in a pro-Socialist home, if not outright in support of Communism. It is to his credit that he has considered the data and promotes a moderate view, which balances free-market competition where possible and government oversight where there exists a natural monopoly.
In interview after interview, he returns to one point. Modern economies develop and reach a certain point, at which they can choose one of two options–either towards monopoly power and privatization, or else towards some form of Socialism.
When monopoly power and privatization take over aspects of the economy, it is often detrimental to those it is purported to serve. Financial engineers run public infrastructure projects for private benefit, rather than traditional engineers running the project for public benefit.
The alternative is for the government to take ownership of functions that benefit the general public, in situations where a free-market approach may not be helpful. Do we need multiple fire departments competing for our business? While fire protection may be an unambiguous public good, other functions of the economy are less clear cut and might benefit from competition, in areas such as transportation, phones, and energy.
This is a topic rich for conversation. Is the private sector always more efficient than government or is government able to produce better services in a finite set of circumstances? Is Socialism the inevitable outcome of capitalism? Hudson has argued that industrial economies tend to move towards nationalizing public industries, like healthcare, because it removes pressure from the employer to increase wages and reduces the cost of production for domestic industry competing in a global market.
Mr. Hudson raises questions that should be discussed. Many Americans were brought up in an environment where Socialism was anathema. But Hudson’s consistency on this one point urges us to consider whether or not there are specific functions of the economy that should be run by the government
Add also :
6) To deflect public opinion and interest from all coming consequenses to the main players of the Plandemic (the global gencide)
7) To start moving the next phace i.e. a war that U(sual) S(uspects) plan to make it as global as possible and also trying to make each country fight a civil war as well.
You see the invisible hand behind D(eep) S(tate/hit) and Banksters and the rest of the gang IS ONLY INTERESTED TO DESTROY HUMANITY.
And the only invisible enemy in Orthodoxy is SATAN.
During a discussion titled ‘Defending Truth,’ The editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal admitted to Davos elites that the legacy media no longer ‘own the facts’ and people are much more likely to question what they report as truth.
During the same discussion, Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission, complained about the rise of ‘disinformation’ being a “security threat,” noting “It was part of the Russian military doctrine that they will start information war, and we are in it now.”
Jourová has spent her Davos time meeting the heads of the likes of YouTube and Meta and ensuring they “play by the rules,” while her boss, Ursula von der Leyen called for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.
https://modernity.news/2024/01/19/wsj-editor-in-chief-tells-davos-elites-we-no-longer-own-the-news/
Davos 2024: Special address by Javier Milei, President of Argentina
Jan 18, 2024
This article is part of:
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Good afternoon. Thank you very much.
Today I’m here to tell you that the Western world is in danger. And it is in danger because those who are supposed to have to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism and thereby to poverty.
Unfortunately, in recent decades, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. Some have been motivated by well-meaning individuals who are willing to help others, and others have been motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste.
We’re here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do believe me: no one is in better place than us, Argentines, to testify to these two points.
Thirty five years after we adopted the model of freedom, back in 1860, we became a leading world power. And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years, we saw how our citizens started to become systematically impoverished, and we dropped to spot number 140 globally.
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https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/special-address-by-javier-milei-president-of-argentina/
Really appreciate your interview with Mr Michael Hudson. Really appreciate the broad perspective of Mr Hudson’s point of view on present geopol situation and how economy is central to all of this because the “big bosses” in the West are primarily financiers and for them succes is explained by money and power primarily and how they can “impose things” on “the sub-humans”.
Really want to keep in touch with Mr. Hudson. Thanks again for your contribution.
As a side question, does Mr Hudson have friends/partiners which we can follow to have comparable high level analysis ?
Thanks very much.
What is your argument here, @ me I’m Jojo? You post without commentary.
Does the US need more privatization? Are you advocating for roads, and police and fire departments to be sold to private, for-profit entities? Will things get better if we sell the US Army to BlackRock?
How long will Iran be allowed to send missiles to Houthis with impunity?
Mr. Hudson asks a question:
He answers it a bit later:
You start another war. Doing that will distract attention from the last loss, and all the excitement will make people forget about both Ukraine and the suffering of the non-humans in Gaza at the hands of the Murderous Zionists of Holy “Israel”.
Keep things stirred up through the election. Timing is the only critical thing here, and that could be a problem for Genocide Joe & Company, for they’ve demonstrated they don’t have the skills needed to run a 1-float parade.
In that case it might be necessary to do something else. There is always Yemen, or Taiwan, or Lord-Only-Knows what else.
Peace in the world will arrive when Russia & Serbia are destroyed..! No, it will be Russia that will be destroyed, NOT Ukraine..! How much $$$/Rubles/shekels is “Russia Today” & “ Sputnik”, paying U people..?
It appears meamjojo might be replying to this:
“…This is a topic rich for conversation. Is the private sector always more efficient than government or is government able to produce better services in a finite set of circumstances? Is Socialism the inevitable outcome of capitalism? Hudson has argued that industrial economies tend to move towards nationalizing public industries, like healthcare, because it removes pressure from the employer to increase wages and reduces the cost of production for domestic industry competing in a global market….”
Is meamjojo contributing to your requested discussion?, by posting Milei’s comments?
Is Milei pulling the wool over people’s eyes by refering to collectiviism implying it is only socialist? Milei’s program of privatization will result in private sector monopolist/cartelist collectivism. The result will be just as under Thatcher, the government will have to bail out the private sector to maintain services, and the government will have to take services back into the public sector get them working again after the inevitable fail of privatization.
Neo-liberal collectivism. More financialization, asset stripping. Milei is simply sponsoring neo-liberal collectivism. Or is there anything new there? A Thatcher clone.
Don’t think for even a New York moment that Russia will allow those greedy bass-turds in the financial sector, the agribiz gang and other private capital squeezers and grifters to take over Ukraine and turn it into yet another cash cow.
Dmitri Medvedev let the cat outta the bag just the other day that Kiev itself and all of Ukraine except those terminally deluded Uniate/Banderistas in Galicia to either (1. become an associated Slavic nation along with Belarus and Russia…or (2. to incorporate historical Kievan Rus back into the Motherland.
Mama Bear will take care of her cubs.
If Russian forces put the squeeze on the current regime in Moldova and kick out its bought and paid for government and also to allow Romanian, Hungarian and Slovakian ethnics, trapped within Ukraine SSR by Stalin to rejoin their ethnic brothers to the west…then Russia will have made allies of its southwestern neighbors…doomed the Galician nutcases to play tiddlywinks with Poland and the Baltic Chihuahuas …thus creating conditions that all will be quiet in their west.
Currently most economies in the world are overblown in the sense that they have become centralized, bureaucratized and consumerized. Urbanization on a massive scale has run its course. Our planet has limited resources.
Suburbs are an abomination in the nation.
Public services of all types should come under a form of national socialism…gasp. Free enterprise, genuine entrepreneurialism, is the absolute opposite of highly centralized highest finance capitalism, known as the FIRE economy…finance, insurance and real estate. That shit all has to go…or at least pared down to a shadow of their current parasitical reality.
In America the economy, now focused on the financial sector and its WarDefense industry, is in need of a total overhaul, beginning with massive reconstruction of the electrical grid along with high-speed passenger rail connecting all primary centers, along with feeder lines emanating from smaller towns.
Agriculture must return from its chemical warfare and monster-machine mega-farms. Farming villages where the people living in them own conjointly the lands around them. The aircraft industry needs to be grounded, with the exception of trans-continental and intercontinental lines.
Finally, most of the Ivy League business school assholes need to get their asses kicked, particularly the “legacies” such as Bu$h the Lesser. Return all schooling to the high standards which disappeared after WWI…by devious means of deliberately dumbing-down the American people.
And ultimately…bring the adults back into the room. Wokers can be sent up the Aleutian Islands to count the fish population or maybe to save the whales. Talmudists can join them.
Oh look it is Uncle Stupid again; death, destruction, chaos, and mayhem are all assured. There will be mountains of dead bodies but lots of profit to be made.
“Now, that is exactly what has led the United States to push Israel [essentially] to follow Netanyahu’s belligerence, because the United States says, We realize we’re losing power…. This is a crazy idea, but it seems that that’s exactly what is being planned.”
Absolutely this is their chief strategy for maintaining the dollar and precisely it’s where the BRICS will put a final stop to necon’s dream. Never for a second should we take for granted Russia-China will allow the US fulfill the dream of owning and controlling the entire world oil resources.
“Last week in the New York Times, I hear exactly the same phrase. Israel is our aircraft carrier. To the United States, Israel is America’s Ukraine in the Near East. It’s the United States that is pushing Israel to goad first Lebanon and then Iran into doing something that will justify a huge American attack, trying to do to Iran what Hillary Clinton did to Libya, utterly destroying it and destroying the population. In the process, grabbing its gold supply, we don’t know what’s happened to that, installing ISIS as its foreign legion in as much of Libya as possible and grabbing the Libyan oil supply.”
They’re (US-Israel-UK…) idiots if they think Iran is Libya and even more so if they think they could bribe Russia or China to stay out of the way for their final conquest of West Asia’s oil fields.
“Now, if you close them, it will be the main energy buyers in Asia, China, and other countries that are going to be hurt. And that is, from the United States point of view, that will give the United States even more power to control the oil supply of the world as a bargaining chip in trying to renegotiate this new international order.”
It seems in that case India should experience much bigger problems than China since the latter at least enjoys ground access to Russian oil/gas supplies until everything is cleared up.
That’s the Trans-Atlantic Masonic-Zionist Hegemony for you.
I respectfully disagree with PhD Hudson on his insistence that the 02Oct Jewish Riot over Al Asqua – already protected by the Israeli Police – had much to do with inciting the Hamas Incursions of 07Oct.
If PhD Hudson read up on Hamas’ Narratives, they had that planned over a Year prior to 07Oct; but was delayed in execution.
The proximity of both events were merely incidental.
The Hegemony tried their wares to subjugate Russia and China and control their Economies; but both managed to break free from Murica’s Subjugation Schemes; and are a few Milestones from being “Collectively Sufficient” apart from Murica and the U$PetroDollar.
It’s a matter of time, as BRICS+ are now enjoined by KSA, UAE, and IRN – that make the SARiyal, AEDirham, CN¥uan, ₽UBle, and IN₹upee the de facto “Inter-Group” Currencies and Physical Gold as the “Arbiter/Settler” Asset for National, Corporate, and Individual Trading and Wealth Accumulation Transactions.
Had Quaddafi invited CHN+RUS for protection prior to announcing his Gold-Dinar…
Semiconductor hindrances are now Academic – China have their R&D driving well, rolling out interesting Semiconductor Chips, and now have several €URoGarten Developers “Jumping Ship” to work with the CHN Economy.
JPN Next-Gen Execs are a few years from prioritizing the CHNese Economy as well. They’ll soon outnumber the Pro-Murica/Taiwan Bribery Monkeys to make sense with their largest Trade Partner and Major+Safest Hydrocarbon Producer. Economics prevailing over Murican DoomPron and Woked Marketing…
The Hegemony are tightening their Tentacles around the €UroGarten and the Americas – therein are the Cheap Labor Zones and Natural Resources – Sectioned Off enough from CHNese and Russian Economic “Co-Prosperity” Projects like the now defunct NordStreams and the BRI.
The Murican OpenBorders Advocates are allowing for Inexpensive Laborers to flood the Murican Labor Market; and the Migrants are now joining Local Law Enforcement Entities and the Murican Military. The Military “Green Card/Visa” Programs will replace the disdained Southern/Midwestern WASP+Secular Whites who no longer are staffing the Murican Military.
As I’ve been posting here, Murican Demographics are shifting. OpenBorder Advocates were demure in discussing hard Demographic Headcounts. European-White Muricans were numbering around 41% of the Population back in 2017, with the Numerical Majority Headcount of 50+% broken years prior (I wish I knew the National Demographic Trends Decades ago – I would have skipped moving out to California and headed Abroad much sooner).
More recently in Murica, around 4.3Million Hispanic and Hispanic-White Persons were added to the Population – mostly from the 2.7Million in Illegal Migrations, with Hispanic and Hispanic-White Births already outnumbering European-White Births. Births are the principal driver of European-White added Headcounts at around 1.2Million. Black Births were around 640K and around 11% of the Population (and diminishing comparatively to Hispanic and White increases).
Matter of time (20~30years) until Murica become “Majority Hispanic and Hispanic-White, Migranvader Blue Nation” – flipping Red States within in successive years.
They’ll become an Español-English Bilingual State; and after several Hispanic-White and Hispanic Presidential Administrations, may most likely establish an €URoGarten Schengen like “Americas Zone” sporting a Common Passport and/or Visa Free Travel+Residencies.
The Hispanic Murican Public will continue to lose interest in subjugating RUS and CHN as the OpenBorders and “Americas Zone” Economic Developments take interest – those are “Anglo-Gringo Games” played in the Capitol Beltway…
Will Non-Masonic/Non-Catholic/Non-Jewish/Non-Zionist Whites and East Asian Secede (where? Northwest via a Constitutional Convention and Land Swaps? Red States are isolated) or Emigrate En Masse? White Homesteading and “Standing their Ground” will last but a Generation.
Africa have been under the influence of €URoGarten Powers like FRA and their CFA(African Financial Community)_XOF/XAF Colonial Currencies for Decades. I wish them well in earnest efforts to improving their own living conditions.
Fortunately for the World, the CHNese and RUSsian Aristro-Bureaucrats are well aware of the possible misgivings of Privateering Civil Infrastructure Industries from past and foreign experiences; and hopefully would steer away from similar Scenarios.
Personally, I’ve several Months before leaving Murica first for Family Matters then for future Business Opportunities. From my limited perspective, I believe CHN, RUS, OPEC+, few RCEP-Asia, and a few European Countries have “what it takes” to prosper through these uncertain Hegemonic Influences of War and Economic Sanctions.
Best wishes to the earnest.
I’d been hearing “Iran is just weeks away from getting the Bomb” for so many years, I finally looked back to 2012 to find reasonable evidence Iran is not defenseless.
“North Korea tests show Iran already has nuclear capability, expert says.
“A German nuclear proliferation expert claims Pyongyang performed two tests in 2010 on Iran’s behalf, contradicting assertions by the US.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-iran-tested-nuclear-bombs-in-north-korea/
Do the Israelis not know that Iran has the bomb?
The U.S. Hegemon is run by oligarchs, but in Russia & China they put oligarchs in prison.
Neocons: War-with-everyone-everywhere-all-at-once!
World: How will this bring prosperity?
Neocons: Prosperity?
I was running out of the house, so neglected to add my commentary.
But did you forget your #2 post, where you bring in the subject of economies, socialism, communism, etc.? Did you not see the connection between what you wrote and this speech? Did you even read the speech???
Javier Milei is the FIRST libertarian ever elected to head a country! His WEF speech was amazing and all should read the complete speech.
Argentina is experiencing serious economic problems, which is why a libertarian like himself was even able to get elected. It will be interesting to see if he is actually able to successfully buck the establishment and implement true libertarian economic polices and if he can, will it lead to an Argentina economic recovery.
Many here point there fingers at capitalism as one of the roots of the world’s evils. And they are wrong. Embracing capitalism and the free market is what has helped Jews become the success that we are, as a race.
OTOH, if we look at the abject failure of the Palestinians to achieve economic self-sufficiency, it is easy to see that they rejected capitalism, and instead, lazy as they are, allowed themselves to become dependent on over 500 truckloads of free supplies from the UNRWA every day for the last 75 years and millions of $$ of free money ladled into Gaza and the West Bank monthly by oil rich Arab countries. With this free support, they overpopulated their little desert area and its limited water supplies but still they continued to pop out babies. Perhaps they were hoping to achieve even higher than 50%+ unemployment?
If Gaza does get the opportunity to rebuild itself (and I hope they do not), the Palestinians would be wise to forgo the free aid handouts and learn how to economically bootstrap themselves into a workable economy that could stand on its own two legs. They could best do this by embracing capitalism, the free market with perhaps, elements of libertarianism.
Argentina is such desperate straits that anything is worth trying. Due you have better ideas than Milei?
Very good point. It’s better to say either Iran already has them or is able to quickly assemble if needed. We should also say this is a quite irrelevant topic due to Iran’s geopolitical position in a fairly crowded neighborhood making her the last country to use them. So there’s no danger with Iran having nukes. However what’s more powerful than nuclear bombs is the emerging BRICS+ world order and it’s control over most of the world’s energy, mineral resources and commercial waterways: Bab el Mindab, Hormuz, Malacca, Suez, Bosphorus, Indian waters, North Arctic….
This speech shows Javier Milei has been watching too many Arnold, Rambo movies when growing up in Argentina.
“How long will Iran be allowed to send missiles to Houthis with impunity?”
How long will the USA (and the other NATO countries) be allowed to send missiles (and tanks and aircraft and shells and radars and vital intelligence and everything military) to Israel with impunity?
And to Ukraine and Taiwan (which is legally an integral part of China) and Germany and the UK and Sweden and Finland and the Baltics and Poland and Greece and Turkey and Saudi Arabia and all the Gulf states…
Let me guess… “Oh, that’s different!”
Iran is a sovereign nation and can send weapons and other products to anyone it likes. And that is no one else’s business – let alone the countries that are by far the world’s biggest arms exporters, warmongers and troublemakers.
Hudson again has it completely backwards because of his false priors. Amazing how otherwise intelligent people turn into total retards when it comes to Israel and Jews.
“Will things get better if we sell the US Army to BlackRock?”
Things would get distinctly better for BlackRock, its shareholders and executives.
Common Time, you seem deluded. Not to mention distinctly racist. Why Russia and Serbia? Do you wish to see all Slavs eliminated? Remember that has been tried before, with mixed results.
Ukraine is pretty much destroyed already – in the sense of a functioning state. The gang in Kiev are already sharpening knives for one another, and Zelensky is probably calculating how long he can leave it until making his getaway to Florida or Argentina.
The fighting in Ukraine is one-sided, with the Kiev people increasingly huddling in passive defence – a sure path to strategic defeat. Meanwhile more and more trained and eager Russian soldiers are converging on the front, supported by immense quantities of weapons, ammunition and supplies.
The only serious question is what will be left of Ukraine. From where I’m sitting, the answer is “not much”. Over and over and over the Russians have offered terms, and every time the door has been slammed in their faces. Every time, of course, the terms get less generous. But then the Kiev crew are not at liberty to negotiate freely; all they can do is echo what their Western masters tell them to say.
That is an understatement. Leon Trotsky was literally Michael Hudson’s godfather. Hudson actually gained the rights to much of the Trotsky estate after Trotsky’s wife died.
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Iran kills at least two american Navy Seal criminals. Hahahaha.
It must be a hybrid. Your car is Capitalism and the road you drive your car on is Socialism.
Some things are best kept out of the reach of parasites for the health of the populace.
With a few exceptions, I find the analyses Mr. Hudson offers in this interview very convincing.
I could cite a dozen or more passages and follow them with the comment “right on!” or “amen!”
However…
In this interview Mr. Hudson speaks about Israel and Africa. But he does not speak about jews or race.
Racial Korea is dying. Racial Japan is dying. Racial Italy is dying. White birthrates are plummeting throughout the West.
The ancestral white populations of Europe and the U.S. are being replaced, swiftly, by non-whites, largely due to the influence of the jews.
As Americans, as whites, this is the crisis we face. It is, obviously, an existential crisis.
We are being replaced and mongrelized at such a rapid pace that we will become irrelevant on the world stage within two or three generations.
The problems discussed in this interview will be irrelevant, too.
If “run by the government” means by the current concatination of whores to finance, the obviously not. If it means by government stripped of private, monopoly finance’s control and operated pro bono publico, then obviously yes. “Government” has two antithetical meanings.
I’ve only read the first thirteen comments but I already know this one is going to be my favorite!
GASP!
“Zelensky, is sending all of the Ukrainians he can find, especially the Hungarian Ukrainians, the Russian-speaking Ukrainians, and the Romanian Ukrainians, in the fight to get killed”
They are nothing but Zelensky’s hostages and his best leverage.
Perhaps the only solution for the russians might be to capture/kill the whole ukranian high command, Zelensky included.
How long the world standby and not respond to the illegal existence of apartheid Israel?
Free handouts from Germany and US have led to this monostrosity that Israel has personified.
from the article….
But banks in the West do not fund public utilities, and once you cut the taxes and force a government into deficit, you then finance the deficit by privatizing your roads, turning them into toll roads. You privatize your postal system. You privatize your health care system so that there’s not much health care anymore, as you have in England, for instance, the crisis that you’re having in English medicine and hospitals and privatization. You make the whole economy in the West look like England after Margaret Thatcher, where people who are actually wage earners can’t afford to live in London anymore. That’s for the foreign investors or the people who work in the financial sector. The wage earners have to live in suburbs to take privatized rail transportation.
I suggest Ireland is being de-Irelandized.
War actions cover so much chicanery, they are created purposefully. It stops when the big money wants it to.
Perhaps, as we have noted, the stress created by non-stop detrimental actions of the powerful become a factor in the health of our new borns THEN WE WILL STOP. A national IQ of under 100 seems to be the goal. The AIs will locate the few above, and collect them. An IQ below 100 will still generate the debt needed but only if employment is something more than caregiving.
Argentina is not a good analogy as to what can happen to a society that goes socialistic. For a long time Argentina was a rich country. What ruined Argentina was the goofy Perons – they and their oligarchic buddies looted the damn place. It wasn’t socialism that destroyed Argentina – it was pure greed – capitalist greed.
A better example is China. There you had centuries of “starve-to-death” poverty brought on by greed from above. Then in 1949, the socialists/Communists took over and the previously starving peasants became the owners of their own country. Since then, the Chinese have gone from one-foot-in-the-grave-starvation to middle-class comfort.
I keep wondering how long it is going to take America’s working-class peasants to realize what a smart move, the Chinese have made.
We know by observation that disinformation is defined by our ruling “elites” as the degree to which what any given person says disagrees or deviates from the official narrative.
Therefore, if disinformation as it is defined is a security threat, then any person disagreeing or deviating from the official narrative must also be a security threat because that person is disseminating disinformation.
And if the Russians are going to start a disinformation war, then anyone disseminating disinformation in alignment with Russian disinformation is not only a security threat in any case but also a Russian agent as well.
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So here they are basically announcing the ambush and what form it will take. Yet the citizenry will still sleep-walk right into it.
The logic and its implications aren’t that difficult to grasp.
Shut up and do as you are told. And don’t you dare question what we say. You will be severely punished if you do. Don’t you know yet – you little deplorable – that this is the new democracy?
In my opinión his main repeated theme is rather the one that Henry Ford was highlighting in 1920: A developed country can choose between continued industrial development (engineers and designers like Ford himself) or financialization (banking, credit, trading and speculation).
Ford saw finacialization as ruinous for US, and predicted that it would lead to the disatrous Jewish domination of the country. As it turned out, he was quite right.
The particularly nasty post WW2 twist was that the US financial elite succeeded in taking control of US foreign policy (more or less the military) plus corrupt foreign comprador regimes to allow them enforce their mafia style New World Order. Hence the non-stop US hegemonic wars and desire of the ROW (Rest Of the World) to get away from it all.
Milei is not a Libertarian . A tongue biter on a soiled pillow of foreign , proxies . A Profound Dog Lover with a , converted kennel in his deluded Holy Land of printed IOUs . All the usual suspects will claim his selling off of the last drools of the nation , will inspire economic resurrection… but the colony , will need more than a colonoscopy . Perhaps his vent against nepotism , will inspire his sister to poop scoop, the runt ? Let’s get the Generals back in Rainbow colours ! He is after all , behaving like the “Polak “( Argentinian slang for whore ) his investors in his project are requiring . Anyway , that’s the end of Argentina as a football nation , the foot is now in someone’ else’s hungry mouth , for they won’t be able to afford boots . As for Mr Hudson , your now hitting truth GOALS , right through the gate keepers myth ! Bravo !
Agreed on the quality of Micheal Hudson’s information/presentation. He tends to do long (but interesting) monologues that sometimes catch Danny out when he stops talking (Danny not paying attention). But still very good.
It’s interesting how Hudson puts the emphasis of Israel/ Palestine on US interest in taking the Iranian oil fields (actually all quite close to Saudi Arabia/ Persian Gulf) to regain control the world oil trade, rather than in aiding Netanyahu with his Greater Israel project.
IQ always has 50% below 100. I think you mean that the idea is to dumb down the problem solving and pattern recognition to points that would embarrass us all today.
In my opinion the Arab states are being threatened by US/Israel: For instance Saudi Arabia and the other Gulfies have huge investments, bonds, real estate and such [could be trillions] which can be frozen/stolen by the US – hell, they stole 300 billion dollars from Russian foreign reserves [and they have 6,000 nuclear weapons]. What can the Gulfies do?
Then we have the Iraqis who had to put all their oil receipts [some 100 billion] into the US federal reserve. This was a condition forced upon them by a committee made up of coalition members and Iraqi appointees. When Trump was in power the Iraq parliament voted to remove US troops and to conclude deals with China over some oil fields; Trump said no way, and warned them the money the government needed on a monthly basis to keep the administration going would be withheld.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iraq-warns-of-collapse-as-trump-threatens-to-block-oil-cash-kept-in-fed-bank/
These are some of the reasons the Arab states, whose citizens are so angry at the carnage going on in Gaza, are kept on a leash. The US are worse than the Mafia and would think nothing of killing anyone who interferes with its geopolitical machinations, especially when Israel is concerned.
Meaningless. Public corporation-run like private ones, in Singapore and Russia-are efficient and profitable, because the government is competent and honest. These are run are private corporation parameters, not a bureaucratic extension.
Meaningless generalization and foggy conceptualization. Sounds like a hippie proposition of the 1960s with a group sitting on the floor, with black lights and posters of Ravi Shankar.
At minimum three out of four.
A blueprint for the future.
Look out, it’s the wackiest ship in the Army. The British Navy shouldn’t be much of a problem for the Russians or Iranians. They’re obviously more of a danger to themselves than anyone else.
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No, the world does not work that way, in black and white. There are many “mixed” economies that are various combinations of varying constituencies. Russian economy for example. It’s rebound and strength, as acknowledged by the literati and nomenclatura from sanctions is due to the existence of the Russian economy being that of a market based, except in certain required industries. These kinds of misconceptions are made by people who spend all their time in removed abstract thinking and undertaking.
The problem is that “what works” is not used as the dominate criteria. By that I mean empirically. Too many people have ideological-related to status and employment to modify and guide enterprises to the greatest good, which includes efficiency, and the wider consideration on the whole of the nation.
The key word is “partly” owned by the State, which fluctuates based on economic conditions and formulas for particular blends. Most people oversimplify this approach by using abstract labels in place of analysis, data, observation, and cognition.
In this and any discussion, there are stupid cases and countries, and smart ones, like Russia and Singapore. This paper can be generalized to outline and provide an example of a smart country, where the right people of quality, talent, integrity, and patriotism overwhelming make the decisions.
https://www.russiamatters.org/analysis/what-states-share-russias-economy
When it comes to developmental economics, the role of public banking has not been sufficiently considered by academics. The one feature that is lacking in most so called “free market economies” is an infrastructure bank that should be equally owned by the government and the public with the number of shares allowed each potential investor kept as low as possible to allow for a very wide shareholder base.
Basically, the infrastructure bank would take deposits from clients like any commercial bank and would finance infrastructure projects through the issue of bonds related to specific infrastructure projects with a set interest rate and maturity. The bank would oversee the construction of the public projects, be it rail lines, roads, dams…and would charge fees or tolls for the duration of the time it takes to recoup the investment on each related project on a Build, Operate, Transfer basis, whereby the project becomes public property once the infrastructure bank has recouped the value of the investment. From the time the project is possessed by the government, the fees collected should be strictly limited to the maintenance of the project.
Private banking should play a role in supporting the creation of small business development. According to the German economist Richard Werner, the community banks in Germany are credited with the nurturing of small to middle cap companies in Germany with around 1500 such companies playing the lead role on a global scale in their corresponding sector. That compares with 300 American companies and 60 Chinese companies.
Infrastructure banks and community banks should not be allowed to invest in money markets and they should never engage in financing the government spending by buying treasuries.
Another form of banking that is totally ignored in capitalist countries, is the type of banking that takes a stake in the business venture rather than charge interest on the loaned capital. The bank then has the choice of keeping its part of the venture or selling it to new partners.
That leaves the big commercial banks for the financing of big business as long as they are forbidden from engaging in investment banking the way it used to be in the U.S. before the abrogation of the Glass-Steagall act.
And what about big government and big agro companies; both should be scaled down to the bare bone. Big government is the quintessential parasitic organism and big agro is the greatest danger to public health and safety.
Any economy that puts its best brains into industrial engineering geared towards producing real goods and services, rather than financial engineering, is bound to outpace the growth of the FIRE economies. The casino economy should be scaled down by banning derivative trading, naked short selling or buying and the myriad financial tools that allow Wall Streeters to perpetuate there ill gotten money..
These jews are homicidal. And as we saw in Gaza with the inside job Hannibal Directive, even towards their own tribe.
We saw the same out of this subset of Golden Calfers in WW2 (more human sacrafice of goyim and of their own on a vast scale). And all done for the alchemist Ponzi scheme of a global fiat currency controlled by their kosher psychopath/sociopath Zionist/Neocon ilk, to be run out of Israel.
Hiel da Chozen!
That isn’t so wrong. The US itself is controlled by a team of Zionist Jews as part of the bigger globalist financial deep state. Just to see how correct is Mr. Hudson, would it be possible for Israel to move into such a difficult situation facing billions of Muslims on its own without having firm support from US, UK and global financiers? In fact Israel is doing everything including genocide in full coordination with US and UK.
As usual a thought provoking presentation by Dr Hudson and good discussion by Commentariat, except zio trolls of course.
The idea that USUK etc miscreants, of which there are quite a number, have established israel as an unsinkable ME aircraft carrier to loot the world is misinformed. The idea that said miscreants have and are manipulating zionist Jews for their own purposes is laughable. The boot is on the other foot.
Zionism is a direct deadly threat to all non-Jewish human life on Earth.
Also to such Jews as oppose it as well as to the corrupt debauched and or naively misled shabbos that fight for it. Citizens of western countries, most of whom do not know their right hand from their left, suffer because their so-called governments are ZOG. Death toll since 1897 Herzl is literally uncountable.
The solution is not to waste more time, lives and resources on the agents (eg ukrainian soldiers) but to go for the 0.0001% Head of the Snake, which is already weakening. Everyone knows who they are and where they live. Not all are Jewish.
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Iraq and Iran have started to fight back american and british war criminals and have increasingly shot rockets, missiles and drones against american and british. War criminals is exactly what they are. Invasion of Iraq for example was an illegal invasion, occupation and robbing of Iraq, later Iran, Syria and Afganistan. They were all completely illegal invasions and terrorist operations. Trump since then became very open about what is it about: “We want the oil. The oil is ours. Keep the oil.”. Also, they have destroyed Israels/Rothchilds enemies before greater Israel-project.
Our american and british enemies will be defeated.
Mostly american and british have always had most control and yes, many jews have had very significant influence and power, but they have always mostly been only junior partners of local elites, who have had complete power. Until very lately, it has always been american and british themselves who have been responsible of most things in the big picture.
I can’t believe all the excitement over this unmarried Zionist getting to be President of Argentina. Picking up crumbs, folks. This “Libertarian” supports the World Bank and Israel’s genocide.
Some nutters in Washington might be thinking of invading Iran itself, for now bending down to their master, Israhell.
But even Whatifalthist, who is quite pro Jewish, is warning that conquering Iran would be way more difficult than Iraq and in case of an American invasion of Iran, instead of Iran collapsing, it is the US system which will end up collapsing with a US Government bankruptcy and a possible Far Right White Nationalist Revolution destroying the Satanic ZOG US Government. LOL.
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Who would Win a US-Iran War?
If that is the case, they would not have allowed non White immigration into the USA and the UK and flooded other White countries like Germany with Third World immigration, to destroy them. But that is not the case at all. Indeed it is Israel which deports Third Worlders ruthlessly but promotes Third World migration to Western countries including USA and UK. So, no, Jews run the show.
“And the theory that has guided the Democratic Party’s economists is, if you can cut wages, there will be higher profits and higher profits will lead to more prosperity.” NO!!! The Democrats NEVER believed that; they said it but they KNEW their “Reaganomics” was ALL about Wealth Transfer. The Democrats sold out their traditional Voter base in favor of their Wealthy Political Donors. Billy Boy Clinton admitted as much. When Bill was asked about selling out the Democrats traditional Voter base, Clinton sneered, “Where they gonna go?”. The Republicans always were Class Warfare Warriors, but, starting with ‘Jim-eh’ Carter, the Democrats decided to become Wealthy by becoming Class Warfare Warriors too.
Wow – the United States Empire has gall galore!
The U.S. Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell It to Israel at a Discount in Erbil by Steven Sahiounie!
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/01/22/us-steals-syrian-oil-and-kurds-sell-it-israel-at-discount-in-erbil/
The main oil field of Al Omar and Conoco in Syria are producing oil which is shipped in tankers by the U.S. Army and refined at Kar Oil Refinery in Erbil.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) claimed responsibility for missile attacks on an Israeli “spy headquarters.” Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and four of his family members were killed in the attack on their home on January 16 near the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR).
Dizayee was the owner of the Falcon Group, which is a business involved in oil and gas, agriculture and security. The IRG claimed its missiles targeted a “Mossad headquarters”.
The Oil business in Erbil
The oil business is thriving in IKR, and the Falcon Group was part of it. Kurdish oil has been exported to Israel, Italy, France and Greece through a secretive trade depending on pre-pay deals.
Israel buys much of its oil from Erbil, and Israel depends on the heavily discounted crude, making it a key customer. The oil is discounted to Israel because it is free, as the source is the stolen Syrian oil. 40% of Israel’s oil supplies were from IKR in the first three months of 2023, which doubled the amount in 2022.
Israel received its first substantial seaborne crude oil shipment from the IKR in 2014, which is the same time the U.S. occupation forces arrived in Syria. Israel was reportedly importing as much as three-quarters of its crude oil needs from the IKR by mid-2015.
“it will be Russia that will be destroyed, NOT Ukraine..!”
— Are you one of the Dancing Israelis?
“Israel, through its iron control over US foreign policy has been the driving force behind every war in West Asia since 1991:” https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/us-claims-no-alternative-to-larger-middle-east-war.html#comments
The tribe’s sordid (criminal) reputation matured enough for the tribe to be expelled from the western civilization. Holobiz museums of the profitable shoah memes, “Common Time?” It is obviously hard for your psychopathic tribe to wean from whining of “incomparable victimhood” and from the astonishing believe in the ” superior jewish morality” – in contradiction to the multitude of evidence of jewish amorality..
The world history shows unequivocally that jews can’t survive without leeching on other peoples’ civilizations. It would be so much better for non-jews if your tribe focused on its favorite pastime of talmudic studies and left non-jews alone.
“Palestinians would be wise to forgo the free aid handouts…”
— This is rich from the most famous welfare state, Israel, that has been parasitizing on the US taxpayers for decades.
“The US government has provided more aid to Israel than it has to any other foreign country since World War II:” https://news.yahoo.com/us-tax-dollars-supported-israel-101001221.html
Some other nefarious sources of profit in Israel are stealing other nations’ technologies, dealing in organ trafficking, and providing protection for pedophiles.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByBkeexEI
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3537146/us-company-sues-israeli-army-‘stealing’-military-technology-secrets
https://www.mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-09-20/ty-article/.premium/israel-became-hub-in-international-organ-trade-over-past-decade/0000017f-eab1-ddba-a37f-eaff05e70000
Zelensky did for the defeat of the ZOG-Nazified Ukraine more than any divisions.
The psychopathic profiteer has been emulating his psychopathic ziocon handlers in DC.
Ziocons and Banderites (neo-Nazis) united in Ukraine. They share similar supremacist ideology, and they are similarly possessed by rabid Russophobia — which drives both Ziocons and Banderites mad.
agree totally,
here’s a good view point from andrei martyanov, confirming what i have been saying for months, that the russian federation plans to take odessa and and land corridor to transnistria and then connect the russian border to hungary and now slovakia, that has completely reversed course on their sanctioning of russia and joined hungary as the only two sane countries left in the e.u., if this happens moldova, will see the writing on the wall like solvakia, if they don’t have a knife to their throat.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-magical-angle.html
here’s some interesting view points on solvakia, further confirming the collapse of the zato fourth reich.
https://www.rt.com/news/591003-nato-ukraine-world-war/
https://www.rt.com/news/591012-slovakia-cultural-cooperation-russia/
it’s just a matter of time now, immho.
This does deserve another repost: A quote from Nahum Goldman, the founder of World Jewish Congress. In 1915 Nahum Goldmann wrote a book called the “Spirit of Militarism.”
Well, Israel does not allow non-jewish emigration, why is this so? Why does this jewish manifesto of 1915 inflict so much pain to all decent westerners? — ” no tradition of any type shall be permitted to remain as sacrosanct, traditional social norms must only be viewed as a disease to be eradicated…” — That was a criminal design formulated by a supremacist.
Add to that the banning of Credit Default Swaps, money creation out of thin air, and the sales tax free selling of commercial paper.
If the tax payer must pay sales tax on a pair of shoes, a car etc. why should the FIRE sector be able to buy and sell commercial paper without incurring those taxes also?
Nahum Goldmann, a founder of the World Jewish Congress and president of the World Zionist Organization, wrote in 1915:
Nahum Goldmann was a typical jewish parasite on the western civilization:
Goldmann’s actions with regard to the extraction schema of ‘reparations’ (for jews only) should be applied to Israel with regard to the ongoing Holocaust of Palestinians:
Israel, “the oppressor and plunderer” of Palestinian property and lives, has to pay collective compensation for losses caused by the Holocaust of the defenseless civilian population of the Gaza Ghetto. Since the Holocaust of the Palestinian babies, toddlers, and women has been actively supported and encouraged by the major national and international Jewish organizations, these Jewish organizations must as well compensate Palestinians for the sufferings, maiming, deaths, and the material losses inflicted on them by the Israelis and diaspora jews.
For as long as Israel is armed to the teeth, turning them into the world’s 4th most powerful military using taxpayers’ money. Speaking of impunity, Iran is being sanctioned to death, while Israel is being rewarded for its genocide against Palestinian children. Besides, of course, Israel happens to be the sole nuclear power in the ME.
By the way, what is the going rate for wages of hasbara trolls?
Isn’t the privately-owned, fractional reserve, money-out-of-thin-air, interest-attached FED the issue? How did Germany pull itself out of the FED depression? Isn’t that really why they were the “enemy” of Wall Street/City of London and had to be destroyed/punished?
most americans don’t know the difference between iran and iraq and most likely couldn’t point to either on a map. unfortunately the political and military “leadership”, don’t seem to be able to tell the difference either.
the iraq war, is their one moment of glory, until it desended the quagmire, that lead to it’s demise as the monopolar hegemon of the world. having learned nothing from their mistakes, they refuse to admit they lost. the deflating former hegemon keeps looking for a fight it can win, first in ukraine and after 8 years of building the urkanazi fourth reich into the 2nd largest army in zato, they are toyed with like a cat with a mouse, by the russians who have totally humiliated them as well as their vassals and proxies.
so then they decided to find an enemy they can crush, like hamas, what can they do, as inmates in their concentration camp? well that didn’t go as expected, well maybe we can pummel yemen and get some street cred back…..
if there weren’t so many people being senselessly murdered, this would be hilarious.
I am sensing that Putin and Xi are very patiently waiting for the United States and NATO to stop shooting themselves in the foot and ankles and blow their own brains out.
The common people in Europe are catching more hell each day as prices go up and up and their leaders do nothing but kiss Uncle Stupid’s ass.
Regime changes are coming to the ” West ” as the Empire crumbles into dust!
It’s just a bit difficult for Europe’s war economy to collapse when they didn’t have a war economy in the first place. Hudson is an unserious man.
Its quite incredible the breath and depth of materials Michael covers in this interview. There ia not much to disagree on.
50¢ per post.
The US with one hand tied behind our back and standing on one leg.
ABOLISH NATO NOW
Simply put, NATO goes DODO when Germany gets nukes and the means to deliver them globally, and when Germany gets nukes, the US military will depart from Deutschland.
THE NATO DODO BIRD MUST BE TERMINATED
The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire controls NATO.
The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire attacked and destroyed the German-Russian natural gas pipelines in the Baltic sea.
The Nips and the Krauts have been targeted for energy resource destruction and industrial extortion by the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire.
Teddy Cruz and Rahm Emanuel are active international agents for the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire and for the various energy and financial organizations that operate globally.
Rahm Emanuel Makes The Nips An Offer They Can’t Refuse in the Wall Street Journal(December 2022):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/japan-can-move-quickly-to-avoid-an-energy-crisis-europe-russia-nuclear-wind-solar-batteries-alaska-lng-11670169782
Economy of Israel
Wikipedia
The economy of Israel is a highly developed free-market economy.[23][24][25][26][27] The prosperity of Israel’s advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability with a full nuclear triad, modern infrastructure rivaling many Western countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par with Silicon Valley.[23] It has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the United States,[28][needs update] and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the U.S. and China.[29] American companies, such as Intel,[30] Microsoft,[31] and Apple,[32][33] built their first overseas research and development facilities in Israel. More than 400 high-tech multi-national corporations, such as IBM, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Facebook and Motorola have opened R&D centers throughout the country.[34]
The country’s major economic sectors are high-technology and industrial manufacturing. The Israeli diamond industry is one of the world’s centers for diamond cutting and polishing, amounting to 23.2% of all exports.[35] As the country is relatively poor in natural resources, it consequently depends on imports of petroleum, raw materials, wheat, motor vehicles, uncut diamonds and production inputs. Nonetheless, the country’s nearly total reliance on energy imports may change in the future as recent discoveries of natural gas reserves off its coast and the Israeli solar energy industry have taken a leading role in Israel’s energy sector.[36][37]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel
Now let’s compare the “economy” of Gaza:
Here is a quote extracted from an NPR article on the subject of Gaza:
“Before the war, nearly six in 10 Palestinians were poor, and 80% were already dependent on aid, according to the World Bank. Unemployment stood at 45%. The average daily income was only $13 in 2022, the State Department reported.”
Hell of a comparison, eh? After 75 years of suckling at the nipple of the UNRWA, this is the best the Gazan Palestinians could muster? An income of $13/day? Sad…
I guess white cucks are not the worst.
Get a load of this cuck or chuck(chinese cuck).
The problem with government ownership is twofold, firstly that these enterprises are run by the inept bureaucracy and secondly they are highly unionized, the type that pushes for absurd wages and little work rather than simply a fair wage. Governments should not have unions as they pay fairly already, and secondly professional managers should be employed to run them efficiently. Then certain enterprises like utilities that are essential for society could be run well and at a minimal cost to taxpayers.
the “israelis” illegally occupying palestine are grifters and their ponzi scheme of a nation would collapse without sucking at u.s/e.u. tit constantly. unfortunately for you, the sow you suckle is near dead and will only give blood now, enjoy it while you can you lying dogfaced pony soldier.
nice speech… but admit it…… you like him because he is a fellow tribesman to you
The Zionists would be pleased to get cheap oil stolen from their Arab enemies, oil which would have rightfully belonged to the Syrians, with their American slaves doing the dirty deed of the actual stealing. The USA itself does not need that oil as the USA has it’s own oil now, but even then it has to serve it’s Zio masters.
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/how-canada-played-a-key-role-in-neo-liberalizing-ukraine
Read how Justin Trudeau supports Ziocons and Banderites confiscation of Ukrainian public property.
Privatizing public property was what occurred in Russia in the 1990s during the Yeltsin years.
Canadians are ignorant because they are intentionally misinformed. Their MSM is owned and controlled by Jews. The Canadian government permitted American corporations to own the controlling shares in Canada’s MSM.
The Globe & Mail is owned by the Thompson family. The Thompson family controls Thompson Reuters which is domiciled in the U.S.
Canadians are unaware that Canada is a U.S. satrapy. Which means Canada is not a sovereign country; not that it ever was.
Recently Joe Biden was feted in the Canadian parliament. He was applauded so often he could hardly get a word in. Same for that Ukrainian walking bundle of evil intent, Zelenskyy. These people; Trudeau, Biden, Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, are shit!
The deaths of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are on their heads. What is the matter with all of us that these scum are at large? Healthy societies confine psychopaths at the very least.
As a kind of, sort of, maybe, a little bit Marxist and a great admirer of what my Chinese comrades are doing, I like Hudson and China’s view of socialism very much! China is doing something called “market socialism.”
It uses the market as a tool for the development of the productive forces. However, the market is under the state and has to do what the state tells it to. This works great in China! On the contrary, here in the US, we have the market over the state. The market is not a tool for the development of the productive forces so much as it is a form of what I call “Politics” itself. And that definitely doesn’t work.
I like the idea of socialism that all over the responses to this post listed.
These words like communism and socialism don’t have any real meanings. Read Heidigger to figure that out. Words mean whatever the people who use them say that they mean. Words and even concepts don’t have any “pure” meanings in the Platonic sense. Communism was simply a theory, an idea. Marx had no idea if it would work or not. It was just an idea that needed to be tested in reality to judge the hypothesis.
I think Marx’s idea of communism isn’t going to work. Nor his idea of socialism. That’s why the very idea of scientific socialism is nonsense. Sure it was a scientific hypothesis, no problem. But what happened when we tested the hypothesis? It didn’t work very well.
One of the major problems with communism is that workers just don’t work very hard. A shift starts at 8 AM and they saunter in at noon. It’s pretty much impossible to fire anyone, so workers screw off and don’t work very hard. Sadly you have to threaten workers with being fired or punished in some way if they come in four hours late and work lazily. The workers say the system isn’t very motivating.
In the USSR, a lot of workers liked it a lot. They used to say, “We don’t have to worry about anything!” They had a job for life absent any terrible behavior on their part. And they could move to another lifetime job. The threat of homelessness and starvation hanging over a worker’s head is the terror that every worker in the US lives with every day of his working life. And if that idea doesn’t terrify you to your bones, you’re an idiot. It’s supposed to terrify you. That’s the whole idea.
In the same USSR, workers used to say, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”
If we define communism and socialism as whatever the Chinese are doing, I like it very much. I really think this is the “new communism.” The new communism is simply going to have to have a market. There’s no way around it. Sure it needs to be tightly controlled but it’s too dynamic a sector to kill.
I also like the idea of cooperatives and worker self-ownership. Although cooperatives operate on a profit model, they are considered to be a separate form of development. There is the capitalist form of development and the cooperative form of development.
The hallmark of capitalism is exploitation. The self-employed and family owned businesses are not really capitalist. The self-employed are just workers selling their labor power on the open market. In family-owned businesses, as in cooperatives, there is no exploitation. No exploitation, no capitalism. Real simple.
Blah blah.
Genocidal Israevil and its hasbara lowlifes like you are soul diseased scum of the earth. There is no redeeming you all.
Your final abode will be Hell.
Be ready.
I dont doubt a bit that Jimmy Lai and american and british share same values. Hes speaking the truth. Thats why american and british never get enough of tasting blood, controlling and subjucating others.
American and british arent even a bit better than what they claim jews to be. Its all about wanting to get all the power and benefits from many rich jews to american and british. They want to be the ones getting all the power and benefits.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/10163144/missing-navy-seals-identified-recovery-search/
Two dead american protecting a genocide of yemenese and palestinian.
No, it is 100% wrong. Hudson would have you believe that American strategists in the Pentagon want to use Israel as a proxy military against Hezbollah in the same way that they used the Ukraine against Russia. This is manifestly untrue and doesn’t even make sense for several reasons
1. Hezbollah exists explicitly to defend against Israeli aggression. The USA has no strategic interest and nothing at all to gain from trying to start a ground war in Lebanon with Hezbollah. Hezbollah doesn’t have resources and they don’t threaten American power.
2. Every move the USA has made has been an effort to prevent the war from spreading outside of Gaza and “deter” outside intervention. The USA is fine with a nice, clean genocide contained to Gaza, but they do not want to be dragged into Lebanon or Iraq or even Yemen (which is why they’re sitting far away shooting their limited supply of tomahawks at empty dirt instead of invading).
3. Israel would not allow themselves to be used as a proxy army by the USA. They aren’t retards like hohols are. Any analysis of the situation shows that it is Israel that wants to use the US military as a proxy, not the opposite.
If America were following its strategic interests, they would simply tell Israel to stop their genocide. The fact that they do not do that shows that it is not American strategists pursuing American interests making the decisions here, as Hudson claims. Hudson is wrong and his worldview, at least in regards to Israel, is stupid and flawed and cannot explain what is happening now.
There is UNSC resolution, Arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze empossed on Houtis (Yemen) and yes your dear Russia and China have voted for those resolutions!
agree! thnx
“No exploitation, no capitalism. Real simple”. You get it. Thanks for sharing.
Those Tomahawks are almost unbelievably expensive. That money, lavishly spent on the American taxpayer dollar, could be invested in the lives of struggling Americans in so many ways. However, the biggest moneymaker for the elites is the WarDefense industry…about the only viable one left in our ruptured republic. All those profits line the pockets of the filthy-rich…bandits in bespoke suits and thousand dollar neckties.
So those assaults on Yemen are essentially an excuse to fire off more overpriced missiles so the elites can get richer…more Gulfstreams, 300 foot yachts and extra vacation mansions.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Being made to live, basically, on reservations somewhat similar to what we in the US have kept Native Americans on for generations, without the same freedom to move around and interact and conduct themselves as they see fit the way the other tribe (if you will), the dominant tribe, has, that has nothing to do with it?
Donno for sure, but seems to me that many countries, including the US, have made a practice of “stealing” technologies pioneered by others.
According to Lawrence Wilkerson Israel’s desire for cheap (stolen) Iraqi oil was a major reason for the Iraq war
Except the US military isn’t even spending more money to replace them (and the USA doesn’t even really make tomahawks anymore- they just refurbish old ones). They’re just burning their stocks attacking the same dirt that Saudis did for 8-9 years. Even from a rich greedy weapon manufacturer perspective, it does not make sense. It makes even less sense when you realize that the economic damage caused by the Yemen blockade and shipping costs skyrocketing is going to hit the portfolios of all of these same rich greedy guys who hold interest in weapons companies. It only makes sense from the viewpoint of the USA being Israel’s bitch and bending over backwards to do whatever Israel wants them to do. Right now, Israel wants them to help facilitate genocide and ethnic cleansing, even if it costs the USA a lot of economic trouble and puts the USA in a much worse strategic position. That is the only explanation that accounts for what is happening now.
The leftist heuristic that tries to explain everything with “rich greedy guys doing stuff because they’re rich and greedy” often breaks down. Some of the cases it fails to explain are when ethnic interests enter the picture, like with Israel and the Jews who run the USA. In such cases, leftists become clueless, but they continue trying to maintain their untenable “rich greedy guys” line beyond the limits of its explanatory power.
You are correct. A number of Churchill’s musings/speeches pointed in that direction.
What really incensed Churchill and international bankers was the German initiation of government to government international trade. This shut out international bankers completely from profitteering off the work of others.
I think that was one of the major reasons the US got into WWII. The other reason was the almost limitless food and war material sales to the communist Soviet Union.
NATO Losing on Every Front | Andrei Martyanov
Video Link
«his whole policy is we can essentially wreck Russia. Our sanctions are going to lead to the collapse of Russian industry. The Russian people will get so upset with the war, there’s going to be a regime change. They’ll overthrow Mr. Putin and we can get another Boris Yeltsin in who is going to really wreck Russia in the way that our neoliberal advisors were able to wreck it in the 1990s. Well, that hasn’t happened.»
The USA sanctioned the USSR from 1949 to 1989 until it collapsed, and created a number of destabilizing events (hungarian uprising, guerrillas in in the 1950s in Lithuania and Ukraine, czech flower revolution, polish solidarnosc, afghan war, …) until it collapsed. Even a weak state like Ukraine took from 1993 to 2014 to become fully subverted by the USA.
The USA strategists never expected the sanctions and the wars in Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine, and the destabilizations in Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan to cause regime-change in a few months of a few years. Too bad for Biden, but USA presidents come and go, the oligarch class remains.
«The U.S. Hegemon is run by oligarchs, but in Russia & China they put oligarchs in prison.»
Someone said that when Obama has a meeting with the CEOs they spoke and he took notes, when Putin has a meeting with the oligarchs he speaks and they take notes…
As to oligarchs in prison, someone witty pointed out that the best proof that Trump is not a multi-billionaire like he claims is that he is being prosecuted :-).
«”With this free support, they overpopulated their little desert area and its limited water supplies but still they continued to pop out babies. Perhaps they were hoping to achieve even higher than 50%+ unemployment?”»
Their leaders spoke openly of a “demographic weapon” where they wanted their servant classes to breed as much as possible, regardless of poverty and desperation, to become an ethnic majority between “the sea and the river” to outnumber the jews.
«Being made to live, basically, on reservations somewhat similar to what we in the US have kept Native Americans on for generations, without the same freedom to move around and interact and conduct themselves as they see fit the way the other tribe (if you will), the dominant tribe»
There is an ancient roman concept called “deditio” where a defeated enemy surrenders and accept second class status, which is what the USA etc. natives accepted, and the israeli arabs accepted too, but the Gazans, the west bankers, and the refugees did not (but the germans, italians, japanese and other defeated WW2 governments accepted too; Merkel referred to that as being “pacified”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dediticii
They shoot off the old missiles for practice. Houthis are just convenient targets.
And Yemen land becomes even more polluted with ammo and residual chemicals spewed about.
If you want to be treated as adults with respect, you have to earn it, prove you are worthy. The Palestinians have failed this test. Thus, they get treated as they are.
Not that long ago,people were laughing thier ass
es off ridiculing Martyanov, Ritter,Escobar,and Saker .
They have proved to to be correct.
NATO is defeated .So is Israel who cant compete with rag tag “Goat herders”.
The poor Jewish people, plundered of all that gelt that they accumulated through sheer hard work and thrift. My, oh, my.
«Hudson would have you believe that American strategists in the Pentagon want to use Israel as a proxy military against Hezbollah in the same way that they used the Ukraine against Russia. […] Israel would not allow themselves to be used as a proxy army by the USA. They aren’t retards like hohols are. Any analysis of the situation shows that it is Israel that wants to use the US military as a proxy, not the opposite.»
Actually the “hohols” keep telling the americans to fight instead of them by demanding that the USAF create a no-flight zone over Ukraine (and Russia next of course :->).
«If America were following its strategic interests, they would simply tell Israel to stop»
A standard technique of empires is to create destabilization inside and near rival empires, and when the Balfour declaration was made the Ottoman empire still existed and it was not clear that it would end soon. The english idea was to put a few million zionist fanatics in the middle of the Ottoman empire and in the “near abroad” of its anatolian core with the expectation that the zionists and their neighbours would fight for centuries, destabilizing the whole area, which is also the “near abroad” of the arab and persian empires that have threatened Europe since roman times.
Looking at the geopolitical map the USA (who were taking over the english empire) strategists, obviously thought that was an excellent idea too, and Israel happened; the fanatical zionists in the Levant, like the fanatical ruthenians in Ukraine, are from the USA perspective just gullible proxy fighters destabilizing the near abroad of actual or potential USA rival regional powers. As destabilization goes Netanyahu has been a great asset to the USA, just like Poroshenko in Ukraine.
And little Tommy said “I didn’t want to eat all those cookies Mommy! The devil made me do it!”
But, of course, little Tommy is a 35-year-old. He has no shame!
As brilliant as Hudson is on economic issues, he seems corresponding clueless to Jewish power in America. Portraying Israel a victim of American foreign policy is just stupid. Israel is the one forcing America to support their genocide against the palestinians and war with Iran and the rest of the Arab world.
Tommy did not eat the cookies, Tommy fed it to the devil. The Devil hid behind Tommy and told everybody to blame Tommy. But Chao, Rajesh, Hose and Hamid who has some weird hatred for Tommy, loves this “blame Tommy”, it is prime grade homo masturbation material for them lot. Always will be.
But Hamid has some sense of the devil, some idea. We don’t know much in this respect about Hose but Chao and Rajesh, we know how they think. The Devil will whore out the mothers of Chao and Rajesh, them two will still blame Tommy. They cannot help it. It is in the DNA, it is in the soul. It is forever. Planet Earth may be no more one day, and Tommy or Hamid or Rajesh or Chao or Hose may cease to exist forever, but the souls of Chao and Rajesh will still hate Tommy. You can take that to the bank.
I would disagree.
Selfish childish behaviour is not in the “soul” and does not define a person for the entirety of his life.
Chao, Jose and Hamid have all “been there, done that”, and outgrown that stage and have no more desire to gorge on cookies.
I cannot speak for Rajesh though, he has not had his chance with the cookie jar yet.
Rajesh’s interest lies far beyond the cookie jar:
😁
American and british are just coward and stupid piece of shits that cant do anything. They are not even human, but animals.
LOL,
Unfortunately with that accent, Indians can never sound intimidating. Listen to Rajesh himself:
The first problem with your thesis is you think the US and Ukraine are winning. The next issue is Vietnam and Mexico are already getting the spillage in the form of Chinese companies setting up shop in them to export to the US. Ukraine wouldn’t be as viable. Especially not compared to Vietnam
Iraq is taking baby steps. 1) notice they aren’t really interested in cracking down on the militias attacking the US troops there. 2) they are forging closer ties with Iran 3) they are indeed letting China develop oil fields (they just took over one from Exxon in the last month or so) and they have a central bank currency swap agreement between the two countries
I just can’t believe what is happening in Gaza and Red Sea is just a coincidence. The Rest are acting to free themselves of the West. But they are doing it in slow spread out multi front way that keeps their oppressors blissfully satisfied that “no worries here, I am still king of the world”.
“Get rid of Nazism”???Ukraine is run by Satanic Jews who answer to yet another set of Satanic Jews with V.Nudelman as liaison.What Nazi’s?Just say Jews people.The same Jews who murdered millions of Russians,Ukrainians,Germans,etc.The same Jews who banned Christian churches in the Russian Empire are now banning them in Ukraine.The same Jews that let all Jews flee Ukraine in February 2022 whilst press ganging Ukie seniors,retards and children.I do not like Ukraine or its shitty people but Putin saying Nazi shows he is controlled by the Synagogue of Satan just like the rest of the world’s nations.Only Syria and Iran seem to not be.
This response is reasonable, but it reflects an American perspective. In the US, the World War Two narrative is dominated by the holocaust. The Russians, however, remember it as the Great Patriotic War, when millions died defending the Motherland against the invading Germans. It follows, then, that the Ukrainians would adopt Nazi symbolism, because it represents the previous attempt to fight the Russians. Likewise, the Russians portray their enemies as Nazis.
The battles that took place throughout the Eastern Front are seared into the minds of the people living there, as a fight to the death between Nazis and the Red Army. See this recent article commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad. (https://www.rt.com/russia/591373-no-more-nazism-putin/)
Perhaps you are correct that this indicates Putin is in agreement with Zelensky and Netanyahu. He seems like a very patient man, because the West has been blatantly trying to provoke him into escalating the war, yet he has not yet taken the bait. Time will tell where he stands
American and british have always been just bunch of sick, criminal morons full of themselves. They have always been incapable of real direct wars and this is why they became just terrorists and criminals.
American and british logic that has repeated for hundreds and hundreds of years. They are the ones attacking all the time and they are the aggressirs, but when somebody does something back, they pull out the victim card and will revenge.
American and british always have logic and thinking of a typical criminal. He can do what ever he wants, the world, people and enviroment is his to use and he will look to reach his goals with any means necessary.
And never-mind that the communist murderous Soviet Union was ready to invade Germany and western Europe, commencing 1 month or so after Germany struck peremptorily.
We all owe great thanks to the German soldiers and the German people who fought so valiantly to keep communists out of western Europe.
No thanks to the USA and Britain plus hangers-on that aided and abetted those murderous communist beasts.
The Red Army had plans to march straight through France and claim Atlantic ports, so all of Europe would have fallen behind the Iron Curtain. The German people made an incredible sacrifice to defend Western Civilization. Since then, the West has been living on borrowed time, because the Germans only delayed atheistic communism for 80 years. The threats we are currently facing are the same threats that were present back then. People living today must now decide whether to stand up against communism, or if we will allow our leaders to finish what Stalin started
Who do you define as the “communists”?
This is a fair question, because economic communism is non-viable after seeing the horrors of the twentieth century. It used to promote a conflict between capital and labor, but communism itself is simply an ideaology that pits members of society against each other through a narrative of the oppressed against the oppressors.
The purpose of communism is to gain power and control. Once this is achieved, the communists become the new oppressors and the oppressed remain oppressed.
Today, we see many forms of communism, such as the green agenda, wherein the earth is being oppressed by people who drive gas-powered cars and eat meat. Society is structured by a victim hierarchy, wherein White, heterosexual Christians oppress everyone else. Sexuality, gender, and abortion have been weaponized in this fight. Society was also recently disrupted by a conflict between mask-wearers and non-mask-wearers, and the vaxed versus the anti-vaxers.
Communism seeks big government to control society. It is, by definition, anti-freedom. Since it only wants power, communists don’t care about truth. Rather, they care about controlling the narrative, so censorship is their great tool.
Thank you, you have made your meaning somewhat clearer.
I am familiar with the term “communism”. I was only wondering what you define it as, and who the “communists” are, since the way that you used it differs from my understanding of it.
“…The purpose of communism is to gain power and control…”
“…Communism seeks big government to control society. It is, by definition, anti-freedom. Since it only wants power, communists don’t care about truth. Rather, they care about controlling the narrative, so censorship is their great tool…”
I agree; however, that purpose is the same for unbridled capitalism (financial capitalism). Only the means of achieving this power and control are different.
Recall the mantra of the globalists: “You will own nothing and be happy”. Sounds distinctly communistic to me.
Finance capitalism and communism are two paths to the same end. They achieve the Pharaonic system, as practiced by Joseph in Egypt. In preparation for 7 years of famine, Joseph stockpiled grain. When the famine arrived, the people willing sold themselves and their land into slavery, so the Pharaoh owned everything in exchange for food.
In the West, there is little concern for the health of the soul, because we have deficient ideologies. Our leaders care only for personal gain, and wealth and power here and now.
We are facing a philosophical problem more than an economic problem
I agree with your sentiments.
No system is perfect. All are vulnerable to corruption. To place blind faith in any one system is the beginning of trouble.
Belittling another system rather than honestly assessing the functioning of one’s own, is only a step away from blind faith in our own system.
How american and british have been sending the jackals, murderers and terrorists, to Yemen. Next phase, when the jackals failed with murders and terror, was to send the american and british war machine to kill yemenese together with saudis.
Whatever they once were, they are exactly that today without any redeeming facet.
Not really, no. They will never outgrow that stage, that is an impossibility.
Rajesh is in the same group as Chow on this one. Only that to the horror of Chow, Chow is a kind of Tommy for Rajesh. Same for Hamid, he realizes to his horror, he too is a kind of Tommy for Rajesh. Rajesh’s anti-colonial revolutionary mentality includes Hamid and Chow in his Tommy category.