The $US is slipping as global reserve currency, which allows the financial empire to extract value from the rest of the world. All the oil, especially Saudi oil, being sold for $US was good collateral, but is now called into question. The Bank of England, and other City of London financial interests, like BlackRock, were heavily "invested" in overthrowing Russia and stripping Russian assets again, like the good-old-days of the 1990s. That didn't work out at all, and their "holdings in Ukraine", rich farmland, gas, coal and lithium deposits, are "unrecognized losses" due to now being located in Russia. Trump said, and is to be believed, that he will play hardball to keep the $US as global reserve currency, because it is the basis of the entire western financial system, which is the current form of colonization and wealth extraction in the world. Can he save London and BlackRock?
I think Trump was going for a disorienting shock-effect when he talked about taking Canada as a US state, but he probably wants to mark "his" territory against Chinese organized crime, which is suddenly very powerful there. He is also warning China away from the Panama Canal.
I think this is MAGA gone wild and love every minute of it. Musk torturing Starmer and Sholz is another set of cherries on top. Greenland would become a territory, like Puerto Rico, I assume.
I think we’re seeing the beginning of Daniel’s 10 toes with the break up of the world into multipolarity. There’s long been talk of the formation of 10 regions.
I guess if your plans to rule the entire globe don't seem feasible...just control the western hemisphere. Maybe its the Reader's Digest version of the MacKinder theory; if you can't control the "world island" then become the western world island. When I look at a map: The US, Canada, Greenland....land, abundant resources. Control what is connected to you and what is strategic in your near abroad. Then again, I could just be an old lady who spends too much time on the internet.
The $US is slipping as global reserve currency, which allows the financial empire to extract value from the rest of the world. All the oil, especially Saudi oil, being sold for $US was good collateral, but is now called into question. The Bank of England, and other City of London financial interests, like BlackRock, were heavily "invested" in overthrowing Russia and stripping Russian assets again, like the good-old-days of the 1990s. That didn't work out at all, and their "holdings in Ukraine", rich farmland, gas, coal and lithium deposits, are "unrecognized losses" due to now being located in Russia. Trump said, and is to be believed, that he will play hardball to keep the $US as global reserve currency, because it is the basis of the entire western financial system, which is the current form of colonization and wealth extraction in the world. Can he save London and BlackRock?
I think Trump was going for a disorienting shock-effect when he talked about taking Canada as a US state, but he probably wants to mark "his" territory against Chinese organized crime, which is suddenly very powerful there. He is also warning China away from the Panama Canal.
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/politics-chases-reality
Some interesting points. Chinese OC is a world that few in the West are aware of. When I was still working I made a bit of a study of it.
I think this is MAGA gone wild and love every minute of it. Musk torturing Starmer and Sholz is another set of cherries on top. Greenland would become a territory, like Puerto Rico, I assume.
I think we’re seeing the beginning of Daniel’s 10 toes with the break up of the world into multipolarity. There’s long been talk of the formation of 10 regions.
I guess if your plans to rule the entire globe don't seem feasible...just control the western hemisphere. Maybe its the Reader's Digest version of the MacKinder theory; if you can't control the "world island" then become the western world island. When I look at a map: The US, Canada, Greenland....land, abundant resources. Control what is connected to you and what is strategic in your near abroad. Then again, I could just be an old lady who spends too much time on the internet.
Imagine the unimaginable + (America's hat).
"We have no visibility to our north presently at all - zero."
INCORRECT !!!
The old DEW line radars were superseded by the NWS (North Warning System) in the 1990's.
And the older BMEWS system is currently the Solid State Phased Array Radar System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_State_Phased_Array_Radar_System
How useful are the existing radars for detecting Hazelnut missiles? My guess is; probably not very useful at all.
Thanks! I did wonder about that, but ...
Zhou could only dream of ice cream, Trump of icebergs and icebreakers!