I think Tara Reade did the right thing, staying in Russia rather than returning to the US to be tortured, spied upon, and possibly prosecuted and locked up for being a Joe Biden's sexual assault victim who spoke out. If my ancestors hadn't come to this continent over 40,000 years ago, I wouldn't want to stay here either. I want these fascist, warmongering genocide-supporters to get out of my country NOW.
And one of the main points of this excellent article has always been right in front of everyone’s eyes, though amazingly obscured at times by incessant propaganda: that’s how corruption coupled with western manufactured internal strife pitted Ukrainians against each other, leading to self-destruction of a nation manifested first by the murders in Odessa and the Donbas. We forget that this is Ukraine vs itself rather than Russia, just as the west tries to foment conflicts and chaos by creating myths of Sunni vs Shia, or Arab vs. Persian, etc.
Out of curiosity, how does one just move to somewhere like Russia or China? I had to get a visa to the place I am now and there was an age limit on who can apply for it. If and/or when it runs out, I am back to Europe which is no bueno. I'm guessing it's being a skilled worker or having lots of money.
Someone else was thinking along those lines: America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
I’m glad Nima has had Orlov on his program quite frequently. In Reinventing Collapse Orlov also explores the way in which the racketeers who ran the late Soviet industries were enabled, with western help, to assume ownership over state assets built by the soviet people. Therein lies the origins of the Russian oligarchs. Pretty much criminals every one. Same for Ukraine, but with one big difference: Ukraine has further fostered its oligarchic corruption whereas Russia had the good fortune of having this Putin fella shut them out of politics (a long and ongoing process).
Regarding the domestic culture of the USA, the quotable Orlov refers to the current generation of citizens as a bunch of “mollycoddled nincompoops” lol.
America is just Israel on steroids, as they have both have the same Sampson mentality: If we go down, we will take down the world with us.
The Israelis are threatening to detonate a regional war as their society collapses, while their American allies are tacitly threatening to detonate a world war as their own society collapses.
It wasn't always this way. A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.
Like Israel, America has always been founded and based on a messianic (read: psychopathic) national religion that conceived of their nations as divinely inspired by God.
This US national ideology is specifically derived from the Puritans and asserts that the USA is the "New Jerusalem in the New World."
Whereas Zionism claims that Jews are God's Chosen People, Americanism claims that America is God's Chosen Nation, which was divinely selected as the Shining City on a Hill.
This messianic fanaticism is what will lead both nations to embrace their apocalyptic End Times nuclear fate.
As you say this has been a long-term situation in the usa. Over time dominance has moved back and forth. It seems we are seeing a Jacobin wing of the Puritans in ascendancy at the moment. A key date 22NOV63! The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
Ian Welsh, (https://ianwelsh.net) a long time blogger, has for years predicted the collapse of the United States. He is not alone, but his takes and predictions about contemporary events are frequently accurate. Julian and Ian have some advantages over others in that their points are made more succinctly than say Greer or Orlov for the time pressed.
What I think will be the paramount political battle in the U. S. is the following: How to deal with the aftermath of the asset class inflation bubble our lovely financial wizards have created that has allowed them to suck up even more assets. Forget about the money! It is those assets that need to be clawed back. To achieve this claw back is going to precipitate new thinking about property rights in the U.S. Those property rights headwinds will be tough to overcome.
I think that the future of the U.S. does not have to be horrible. The U.S. is not entirely stripped of natural resources. Labor arbitrage is not a Natural Law. Within decades life here can be very pleasant. It will require however a dedication to conservation and an abandon of the get crap delivered fast ethos that pervades our social structure today. Step one, to me, is eliminating the Republican and Democratic parties' lock on ballot line access.
Quite right the future the US does not have to be horrible – or rather, the future of North America does not have to be horrible but the American and Canadian unions are obsolete. As you so correctly point out I think that assets and property rights are the issues. It is interesting that the American constitutional system was based in part on misperceptions of how the Six Nations governed themselves. Maybe what Canadians and Americans need is just to ask the Mohawks what to do! LOL.
I think Tara Reade did the right thing, staying in Russia rather than returning to the US to be tortured, spied upon, and possibly prosecuted and locked up for being a Joe Biden's sexual assault victim who spoke out. If my ancestors hadn't come to this continent over 40,000 years ago, I wouldn't want to stay here either. I want these fascist, warmongering genocide-supporters to get out of my country NOW.
And one of the main points of this excellent article has always been right in front of everyone’s eyes, though amazingly obscured at times by incessant propaganda: that’s how corruption coupled with western manufactured internal strife pitted Ukrainians against each other, leading to self-destruction of a nation manifested first by the murders in Odessa and the Donbas. We forget that this is Ukraine vs itself rather than Russia, just as the west tries to foment conflicts and chaos by creating myths of Sunni vs Shia, or Arab vs. Persian, etc.
Out of curiosity, how does one just move to somewhere like Russia or China? I had to get a visa to the place I am now and there was an age limit on who can apply for it. If and/or when it runs out, I am back to Europe which is no bueno. I'm guessing it's being a skilled worker or having lots of money.
If you wanted to start a farm in Eastern Russia, you would get land almost free and all sorts of help. However, you would have to learn Russian.
Hmmm. Well I am still young enough, bit of a change going from acting to farming though 🤔
The project that is the United States of Israel has commenced its natural death, by its own hands.
Someone else was thinking along those lines: America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud
America is a political neurosis. Locked in at the anal stage.
Perhaps, a Jacobin stage?
I’m glad Nima has had Orlov on his program quite frequently. In Reinventing Collapse Orlov also explores the way in which the racketeers who ran the late Soviet industries were enabled, with western help, to assume ownership over state assets built by the soviet people. Therein lies the origins of the Russian oligarchs. Pretty much criminals every one. Same for Ukraine, but with one big difference: Ukraine has further fostered its oligarchic corruption whereas Russia had the good fortune of having this Putin fella shut them out of politics (a long and ongoing process).
Regarding the domestic culture of the USA, the quotable Orlov refers to the current generation of citizens as a bunch of “mollycoddled nincompoops” lol.
Tabular, visual, and textual breakdowns and summaries of the discussion with Dmitri Orlov linked above:
https://complexiathesinker.substack.com/p/llm-over-russias-strategy-as-war
America is just Israel on steroids, as they have both have the same Sampson mentality: If we go down, we will take down the world with us.
The Israelis are threatening to detonate a regional war as their society collapses, while their American allies are tacitly threatening to detonate a world war as their own society collapses.
Psychotic minds think alike.
It wasn't always this way. A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.
John F. Kennedy 22NOV63 was a catastrophic day.
Like Israel, America has always been founded and based on a messianic (read: psychopathic) national religion that conceived of their nations as divinely inspired by God.
This US national ideology is specifically derived from the Puritans and asserts that the USA is the "New Jerusalem in the New World."
Whereas Zionism claims that Jews are God's Chosen People, Americanism claims that America is God's Chosen Nation, which was divinely selected as the Shining City on a Hill.
This messianic fanaticism is what will lead both nations to embrace their apocalyptic End Times nuclear fate.
As you say this has been a long-term situation in the usa. Over time dominance has moved back and forth. It seems we are seeing a Jacobin wing of the Puritans in ascendancy at the moment. A key date 22NOV63! The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
Gore Vidal
Ian Welsh, (https://ianwelsh.net) a long time blogger, has for years predicted the collapse of the United States. He is not alone, but his takes and predictions about contemporary events are frequently accurate. Julian and Ian have some advantages over others in that their points are made more succinctly than say Greer or Orlov for the time pressed.
What I think will be the paramount political battle in the U. S. is the following: How to deal with the aftermath of the asset class inflation bubble our lovely financial wizards have created that has allowed them to suck up even more assets. Forget about the money! It is those assets that need to be clawed back. To achieve this claw back is going to precipitate new thinking about property rights in the U.S. Those property rights headwinds will be tough to overcome.
I think that the future of the U.S. does not have to be horrible. The U.S. is not entirely stripped of natural resources. Labor arbitrage is not a Natural Law. Within decades life here can be very pleasant. It will require however a dedication to conservation and an abandon of the get crap delivered fast ethos that pervades our social structure today. Step one, to me, is eliminating the Republican and Democratic parties' lock on ballot line access.
Quite right the future the US does not have to be horrible – or rather, the future of North America does not have to be horrible but the American and Canadian unions are obsolete. As you so correctly point out I think that assets and property rights are the issues. It is interesting that the American constitutional system was based in part on misperceptions of how the Six Nations governed themselves. Maybe what Canadians and Americans need is just to ask the Mohawks what to do! LOL.
"Food for thought. Cognitive nutrition..."
The world needs more of that!
And chocolate!
Orlov says for those who live in the margins using cognitive thinking will be fine in the coming Neoliberalism Collapse.
Good news for those reading this article about the use of cognitive thinking !