Neo-Malthusian Economics By Another Name, And More
I won’t beat around the bush. The other name for Neo-Malthusian economics is Neo-Colonialism. Here’s what I mean.
Our Neo-Malthusian globalist mastersu believe that we inhabit a world of limited and declining resources, exacerbated by excess human baggage—excluding themselves, of course. Logically that means that economics in a Neo-Malthusian world ends up being a race for the resources. Grab what you can get before the other guy does or, better yet, harness the rest of the world to work for you while you work to reduce their impact on your world. That is simply a colonial framework. The older colonialism came to an end after WW2—not without some bloody attempts by Britain and France to keep it in place—but now a new form of colonialism is being attempted, on a cleaner resource extraction model.
You can see that dynamic at work through most of the post WW2 years, but the dilemma has become more acute, from a Neo-Mathusian standpoint, with the increase in global population and the increase in the need for advanced materials. What we’re seeing now is the collective Neo-Malthusian West attempting to establish a world order based on their Rules before the competition for resources eludes their grasp entirely.
One way to deal with competition in the pursuit of resources is to play monetary games that keep supplier countries in that position—milch cows, as it were. Recalcitrant countries may need to be taught the rules via “sanctions” of various sorts or through military force. We’ve seen this repeatedly in the post WW2 years, although the justifications for the use of coercion are usually framed in more high-sounding terms. Usually this is framed in terms of saving the planet in one way or another—whether from human caused climate changes or overpopulation caused pandemics or whatever.
The problem for the collective West at this point is that two main competitors—Russia, which is resource rich, and China, which has a huge economy that is resource hungry—threaten to displace Europe entirely, which is resource hungry and finding Chinese competition increasingly difficult to handle. That is a dilemma for the US, which has maintained its privileged position in the world economy largely by leveraging its NATO relationships in Europe and keeping Europe tightly bound to King Dollar through the petro-dollar system.
This, of course, is the background to the war on Russia, which was intended to be a prelude to the big war on China. The goal was to capture the treasure chest of Russian resources and then deal with Chinese pretensions. That hasn’t worked according to plan. The usual monetary and sanctions tactics have been attempted with regard to Russia, but have fallen flat. Or worse, they have backfired. The military option of last resort also appears to be backfiring in a major way. That places the American Empire is an extreme predicament, because the problem of China is becoming more acute as China has entered into a close strategic partnership with Russia that could prove to be a nut too hard to crack. Neverthless, the Neocons are floating their usual wild schemes.
Here are some examples. Note in this first clip that reference is made to Taiwan’s “sovereignty”. Even the US doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a sovereign entity. The countries that still do are such as Belize, eSwatini (formerly known as Swaziland), Guatemala, Haiti, the Holy See (the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church), Honduras, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tuvalu.
In this next clip, the Rep is suggesting that the US should simply unilaterally repeal the One China Policy. The implication is that the US intends to establish Taiwan as a loaded tripwire:
And here Tracy makes the eminently sensible point that “trying to separate China from Russia is a complete fantasy at this point”:
Now, I’m not suggesting that China is always a good neighbor—any more than the US is always a good neighbor. However, China is a reality, as is Russia, and neither can be wished away. To imagine that they can be erased from the earth by military action is madness:
The geopolitical ground continues to shift away from Neo-Malthusian ambitions to colonize the world with the Russia-China brokering of the resumption of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Both countries will almost certainly join BRICS, with huge consequences for the Neo-Malthusian West. We discussed this yesterday, but today you can read another thorough account here:
To end this, here are two tweets offering differing perspectives. First Doug Macgregor points out that our current economic dilemmas are almost entirely the fault of our ruling class. Fixing those problems through war is simply immoral—not that morality factors into Neo-Malthusian thinking:
Now watch this. What’s striking is that Congress is consulting a general regarding what should be a trade and diplomacy issue. The general suggests that China wishes to exploit Latin American countries for their resources, while making it perfectly clear that that’s exactly what the US intends for Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia. That’s just with regard to lithium—no doubt other countries will need to be colonized for other resources. For a general to be talking about such matters certainly suggests that military planning for such eventualities—including excluding China from the continent somehow—is in the cards. We already know what the US idea of aiding the “development” of these countries really means: Foisting the worst of our Woke ruling ideology on them. All of this without any say-so from the countries in question.
While Russia and China employ diplomacy, the US continues to bluster and threaten. This is a misguided approach that will only lead to grief. Hey—Doug Macgregor for POTUS.
Doug Macgregor for POTUS… about as likely as Carlo Maria Vigano for Pope!
I sort of remember a line from Brecht, maybe Mutter Courage, where the combatants complain the peasants just go on forever while we fight and die. Once again, the peasants will survive. The powermongers will compete, make and lose fortunes, try to get us all riled up, and now, more than ever in history, meet up with complete indifference, Let the aristocrats fight. Now they don't even bother to have kids, so what's the worry?