Geopolitical Update, Good Friday 2023

Let’s go from the specific to the general. We’ll start with Tom Luongo’s translation of an Italian language tweet that summarizes the EU/French pilgimage to Beijing this past week. The Italian tweeter compares this event to clearing the decks for a new Yalta. For reasons unknown to me, Substack no longer allows me to embed tweets—No, it’s the other way round:

https://twitter.com/TFL1728/status/1644314295965036544

Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch)

@TFL1728

"The Euro-French-German visit to Xi was to save the EU. Too bad it didn't work: the big three agree to abolish the EU in favor of a new tripolar Yalta, between Moscow, Beijing and Washington (With France close to social disaster)"

I agree. This was a watershed event.

Obviously, the Neocons are being dragged to this moment kicking and screaming, but I have to agree with Larry Johnson’s assessment that the more we learn the more we realize that American influence in the world is plummeting—which may be a good thing. In this sub 2 minute video clip, Johnson points out that incorporating Finland into NATO, far from being a sign of vitality, is a sign of weakness, a sign of NATO’s ineffectuality. Johnson’s remarks begin with his takedown of America’s moral bankruptcy:

They act like [what’s happening in Ukraine] is a game, and they ignore the human cost, the blood that’s being spilled.

Americans are too preoccupied with their gender games to care about the death and destruction we, as a nation, are inflicting around the world in the name of maintaining our empire:

I have never seen the unraveling of American influence take place so rapidly.

Meanwhile, Americans assume that life as we know it will simply continue with little or no inconvenience:

Now, the pièce de résistance—Doug Macgregor. This video is 26 minutes long. It starts slowly, but gets better and better, reaching a climax of sorts toward the end as Macgregor deconstructs American national myths—including American military competence. Listen to him describe World War II from the perspective of a military professional. Sample, after describing how MacArthur’s and Marshall’s pleas for reorganization before the war were ignored:

DM: We came in late, we didn’t have to fight for long, we didn’t have to face the Japanese armies on the continent [Asia] which, on the whole, were better than what we faced in the Pacific. The Japanese navy fell apart because we sank most of it in an attrition war that we fought. So we got away with it in the Pacific.

The war of attrition he’s talking about was largely fought in the SW Pacific—the Solomons and New Guinea. It was brutal, but we could replace our losses and Japan, in the end, couldn’t replace or upgrade at the rate we were able to.

In Europe it was a long, slow slog. We took a lot of casualties—and we covered it up! One of the things you find out about the Bulge, we said, Oh the Germans had 200k casualties and we had 70k. When you look at the actual figures, just in the Bulge, the Germans had 11k men killed and some 18k total casualties. And we were at 78k. Far more than the Germans. So, when in doubt, Lie! We lied a lot during the Second War and Stimson, when the war was over, he wanted to conduct investigations against Eisenhower against Bradley, against a number of people. It was all dropped [because we won].

In Korea, Vietnam, things were different. and we didn’t win. And we didn’t win in Iraq, although I keep pointing out the futility of occupation and trying to export democracy at gunpoint.

Tony: Back to Ukraine, because so much of what you said applies to Ukraine. There’s a complete dismissal of the facts. I would argue that our strategy has been to throw money at it [$113 billion].

Sun Tzu said, Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

How is it that we're so far apart v. what the media is saying is going on?

Read this next part carefully. This is why we went to war with Russia. There was never a debate about this policy, because the DC Establishment and the Ruling Elite all agreed on it—the Uniparty. They were all on board with the Globalist Great Reset agenda, and—no matter what reservations we might have regarding Trump’s performance—he had to go because he was the only national figure standing against what was coming, and what our Rulers all knew was coming.

DM: People in Washington don't think--they emote. As soon as this began everyone emoted and said: Oh, this is a wonderful opportunity to wear down and harm and punish Russia. And ultimately we can force a regime change. We can destroy their economy. So we'll sweep Russia away--the last obstacle to denationalizing Europe, opening borders, importing migrants from Africa the Middle East and elsewhere, we can totally destroy Russia as we have had so much success destroying much of Europe and--oh, by the way--our own country. Now you're asking them to step forward and admit: Gosh, we were wrong! No one in Washington ever admits that they're wrong. They hope that ultimately when this fails, and it will, and it falls apart, that we'll walk away. The media, that's obedient to their orders, will change the subject and hope that the American electorate forgets. Because Americans are very good at forgetting what they don't care to remember.

Tony: So much of what you just laid out is policy that will result in catastrophic failure not only of our military strategy but of our economy, because the more you pay to a third country you're devaluing the dollar. Doug, I don't think people understand how much all this money printing is damaging their own wealth.

DM: You realize, Tony, that that effectively happened after the Vietnam war. LBJ managed to do the same kind of damage, and the damage was so severe that Nixon took us off the Gold Standard. If we had remained on the Gold Standard we would eventually have had to default. So he took us off, which allowed us to "print money". But we were also a different nation [back then]--we had a large manufacturing base that we had not yet exported overseas, we had a large population of skilled labor, and we had people who wanted to work. And we were very homogenous and still very nationalistic. Let's look at the United States today. That country is gone. We live in a very different country. The problem now is that we are going to confront financial collapse. It's coming. It's nearer than most Americans realize. And when it happens, suddenly everything happening beyond our borders will become meaningless.

Now, I would argue that Macgregor is kidding himself about the state of the country back in 1967, although he’s undoubtedly correct that we were still far better off as a nation. The people behind LBJ who did so much to destroy what remained of good in America are, as it happens, the same people who have attempted to destroy what is good in humanity on a global scale.

I heard the other day that Putin confronted out new ambassador in Moscow and lectured him on how the American Empire is to blame for all the death and destruction that has been inflicted in Ukraine. This is something I’ve always wondered about: How does Putin feel about this personally? Yes, he has repeated that he knows that many Americans do not support this insanity, that they are not Russia’s enemies. Putin knows who Russia’s enemies are in the collective West, and he knows that Russia’s enemies are also the enemies of normal Americans—whether or not Americans remain largely oblivious to this fact (here in IL election turnout was in the teens!). Still, Putin also regards Ukrainians as “Brother Slavs”—for good cultural and historical reasons. I can’t help but think that Putin and many Russians feel enormous bitterness toward the American Empire’s ruling elite for what it has forced on Russia. Macgregor says that when this latest military adventure falls apart, we’ll just walk away. One thing’s for sure: Russia won’t forget.