The state of the states
The world doesn’t work as we pretend or imagine it does. Too often, we are led to believe it is a structured, ordered system defined by clear rules and patterns. This is the meme at the crux of the Rules Order narrative. The economy, apparently, runs on supply-and-demand curves. Politics is a science. Human beliefs can be charted, plotted, graphed – and by using the right regression and enough data, understand even the most baffling elements of the human condition. This is a stripped-down, storybook version of reality. Brian Klaas.
Even in its death throes, Western mass media uphold the Official Narrative, while a new world is struggling to be born.
America is leading the West in a death spiral. Its greatest entrepreneur, Elon Musk, is a Western media punching bag1, once-mighty Boeing and Intel are bankrupt, its economies are in recession2 and its foreign policy is decided by Israel. No Western leader, and neither American Presidential candidate is fit to run a business, let alone a country whose economy is collapsing as its debt reaches Weimar Republic levels.
Marginal returns are declining across many spheres of Western society. America can no longer build roads, subways or ships, nor manufacture anything competitively. Food, shelter, cars, trains, education, cinema and politicians all cost more and yield less. Though the Pentagon’s budget is 60% higher today than in 1975, the Air Force has 5,000 fewer aircraft and the Navy, which had 559 active ships then, has 296 today–fewer than 55 of which are combat-capable. (200 of China’s 362 newer ships are combat capable and Russia’s fleet is much more powerfully armed).
After a string of losses dating from their 1951 loss to China in Korea, the West is losing two more wars simultaneously. Ukraine destroyed the credibility of Western armaments and embargoes.
Just so, the war on Palestine is bankrupting Israel while elevating rival Iran to regional military and moral leadership. Says Alon Mizrahi, “If Iran can come up with serious air defenses–as they appear to have done, then Western powers are in much worse shape then they imagined. And if Iran can deliver a serious blow to Israel (which has all the world’s air defenses working for it), as it has done, the US will know what to expect for its military bases throughout the Middle East. The American public will also, potentially, start to ponder the implications of taking on Iran militarily”. Like Ukraine’s Jewish led Nazis, Israel’s Jews have lost on all fronts and lied to their own people and the world about their losing.
China & Russia
China and Russia have never been so powerful, prosperous, united, or well led. Despite sanctions and embargoes, China’s economy will grow more this year, by $1.6 Tn., than in all but three years in its history. Russia’s economy moved up from sixth to fourth in the world while it was humiliating its enemies. Their joint founding of the SCO defense alliance and the BRICS cooperation platform–much more extensive than our media let on, and the subject of tomorrow’s post–have changed the world’s trajectory.
Let the wild rumpus begin..
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