DOGE Offense Bypasses Deep State Defenses
The astounding revelations of corruption and treachery that have been revealed in Treasury and USAID are hardly the tip of a few of a fleet of icebergs. The inconceivable wreckage of the Constitution that the Deep State has wrought has been mapped with tools crafted for the purpose at any expense before the President was sworn in. We hear about Big Balls, but not the hundreds of personnel supporting the DOGE team's leadership.
My understanding of what has been ongoing since Jan. 20, 2025 was wholly inadequate. The speed and thoroughness with which DOGE has managed it's geas is incomprehensible to career governmental officials. A little taste of what was done, and how it was done, can be sampled here in less than 15 minutes, and perhaps you will marvel at the Deep State's extinction overnight as I did.
It's not without repercussions, and the enemies of truth, justice, and the American Way aren't without brutal weapons that are being brought to bear. We haven't heard of anything out of the CIA, FEMA, HHS, and many more criminally corrupted agencies of the USG, and while that doesn't mean nothing is happening, the ominous silence from these obvious vectors of tyranny remains screaming of danger to the President, his team, and America. Right away we saw terrorism in NOLA and Vegas, and the players in the crosshairs haven't even begun to wrestle with DOGE. The coders have been doxxed. The Elon has been massively financially attacked, and the Left, scrambling at top speed to spin it, has managed to spit out a curse today (~5 1/2 minutes). They blocked me, LOL. Silenced there, I can still address their shortcomings here, elsewhere, and otherwise.
My comment they would not let me post there:
"While it is easily disparagable, it is undeniably courageous, as it could not have been unanticipated. The loss of wealth the Elon has suffered not only expended by his hand supporting the Donald, but has had inflicted on his commercial enterprises is staggering, yet he has not mentioned it. Not one word. Not only courageous then, but utterly altruistic to the point of, as you note, infuriating pathological profiteers. He has proved he is the opposite of intent on aggrandizing himself financially, of which I have never seen any example so probative. It is perhaps demonstrative of the utter devolution of progressives to vile pandering to wealth and power that today exemplifies the left more than any other trait but degeneracy, that you do not note it.
"I am not a fan of his MIC endeavors, and the surveillance I anticipate to result from Starlink, Starshield, and Stargate commercial business is unconscionable IMHO, but it is ridiculous to say he is telling Trump what to do in the face of Trump's ending Tesla's primary source of income from green subsidies. Blatantly, obviously fake news is all you bring, and you let down all of us that need a voice to counter what will easily become every bit as destructive of the Constitution as your ilk has been. You have become the Neocons you once decried and abandoned altruism you once proclaimed. How true has been the caution about fighting monsters you have become."
They didn't want to hear that, and because of it fall the deeper into the pit they have dug themselves, more a grave every day.
I have long known it would be necessary - and likely the very success of the DOGE team will exacerbate censorship despite the proclamation by President Trump it will end - to prepare fake accounts that pander to the vile in order to continue to hear what they're up to. We have seen how X has pretended to promote free speech, at least I have, still unavailed a voice there. Rather than the comparatively blunt force censorship, bans, and propaganda wielded previously, Linda Yaccarino wields a cat of nine to delicately, almost surgically, sever reach of speech X does not wish to be heard.
Hive has an open door before it. If only we weren't ourselves fraught with censorship and corruption every bit as awful here as the USG has been, we could pounce through it to rise just as fast to prominence as the Deep State has fallen from it. Don't even bring blatantly false denials that unrestrained taxation of dissent is censorship, or that lack of accounting isn't dodging accountability for fraud. I've heard enough fake news from every direction for the day.
I can barely hear myself think the truth through it. I hope you can hear it from me.
It will be interesting to see how far it goes. If it is deconstructed, Congress will likely cut Department budgets, and it will take some time before that apparatus can be reconstituted.
I have a memory of Regan remarking back in the 1960s that the Federal Government had grown so large that oversight was almost impossible.
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By 1980 Reagan had been won over by the monster he battled, and doubled the national debt while retaining the old rhetoric contrary to what he actually did. There is some question if he even knew what was being done by the VP and his cabinet, including men like Cheney and Rumsfeld, who actually did it. Reagan was senile, and almost Bidenesque by the end of his presidency, with Nancy handling his personal affairs and schedule by then. When he testified about the Contras, his claimed failure to recollect so much of those events was probably truthful.
The terrifying events coming are necessarily prefaced by the desperate creation of Trump's cult of personality, and purges coordinated with blackouts in the night will seek to eliminate resistance to Zionism that the jabs haven't nominally effected. Be prepared to scuttle into a safe place when they begin. Be preternaturally aware, because they will be covert, and the alternative media has been captured to a degree unprecedented, and largely unrecognized. Watch those that speak out against genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the development of Gaza Lago by the King of Israel, because they will be the canaries.
It's going all the way to Jerusalem, the capitol of the world. As we've seen the Trump team move fast. Be faster or be too slow.
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I was talking with a colleague at work today and she was upset and appalled at the progress of DOGE. I asked why was it offensive? They have been horrifyingly corrupt for years, what do we care if we rip the bandaid off and expose the sheer magnitude of the problem to fix it? She unfortunately was still exasperated that people would do such a thing as expose corruption. I couldn’t quite figure out why, as she’s a middle class woman but sadly quite far on the progressive stance.
It was an interesting interaction in the mind of a progressive!
Back in 2011, the progressives were the enemies of the neocons, pro-free speech, anti-propaganda, all the good things, they thought. In the succeeding decade their movement became the neocons. She today supports censorship, progaganda, war, genocide, and fascism, because her group she joined because it proclaimed all the right things changed into it's former enemy, becoming the monster it had set out to oppose, but she has no idea why, or how her beliefs have all changed.
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That there is a deep state within the state is, in my opinion, due to the fact that people prefer to be lied to rather than truthfully experience a government that does not conceal its hostility towards other states.
Someone who is a child of the mind that one should not show such things, i.e. open hostility, is incapable of recognizing that it is only the open unloved word that could cause the addressed to counter this open hostility by wanting to and being able to resolve it by means of the resulting possibility of talks (diplomacy, dispute resolution). Only when a conflict is publicly acknowledged can one begin to resolve it.
Let's take a married couple as an example. Husband and wife separate. There is a lot of resentment between them. The wife, however, claims not to harbour any such feelings. On the contrary, she denies the conflict.
She tells her mutual friends that she only has good intentions and is only trying to help her ex to improve. She sells her true intention to take revenge on him as a good-hearted concern for their children. She uses the children's loyalty to her as leverage - even in court - and says that she has no ill intentions towards their father, but that the children are afraid of him. She wants him to undergo a violence prevention programme so that everyone will be better off in future. She speaks to her friends with great compassion about her ex's psychological problems. She is involved in social organisations such as ‘Violence in Marriage’. When asked whether she hates her ex, she either reacts with indignation or is ‘very sad’ that she could be misunderstood in this way, etc. etc.
By denying her hostility, by denying that she is capable of this hatred, she builds up a wishful construction of herself as a good person. In doing so, she deprives her ex of any opportunity to resolve this conflict, as she is in no way interested in the conflict ending (!). She needs her ex as a permanent enemy so that she can continue to live out her projections and experience herself as a victim rather than a perpetrator.
The ex-husband is condemned by her to keep her in his attention for the rest of her life.
In doing so, she damages all relationships with the ex-husband, her own, those between the children and their father as well as those between him and the family or circle of friends.
In the same way that the wife enlists others to harm her ex-husband, that is, to use her ‘government’ covertly rather than publicly, and if she manages to keep the ex-husband unaware that his ever-increasing difficulties are the result of his ex-wife's actions, without her ever coming out publicly and admitting that it is she who helped for friends breaking up with him, him getting into trouble at work, etc., she has managed to procure proxies to fight her battle for her. But saying "What? There is no battle."
The woman squares the circle by completely cutting off contact with her ex-husband and never speaking to him herself in person, even making it impossible for her friends to stay in touch with him (through begging, crying, luring = emotional blackmail) and instead having them expressing open hatred towards him as her proxies. So that she needs not doing that and have her vest polished in that regard.
This example between man and woman shows that it is of course much more difficult to organise a proxy war on her part and to conceal her involvement in it than it is with the deep state. It was only for illustrative purposes.
So when Trump shows his obvious hostility to heads of state or governments, this is a nasty openness for people who prefer to be lied to. But only this openness - as nasty as it comes across - is an occasion and opportunity for the recipient of hostility to analyse/react to it. By enabling the recipient to meet prejudice diplomatically. To reduce the emotional party's fears and paranoias, to meet its insecurities through giving reassurances that the addressed does not harbour the very exact emotions themselves.
Now, if the recipient is as insecure or insincere as the sender of hostility, problems really pile up.
To end corruption, the people below (using this term for a lack of a better one) need to become truthful to themselves and to see their own deeply rooted corruptible character. If someone invites you to dinner and then talks all evening about the ex, you better pay for your meal yourself, and tell the person that he or she shall come to peace with themselves, instead of fighting a war against someone onto whose life one has voluntarily ended ones influence by separating table and bed.
The officials, like Trump and Putin, better say to the public that they are aware of the deep conflicts they had been either promoting or denying themselves, and that the future relationship between them will be a tough challenge to both of them. That it will be difficult instead of easy, but that they are welcoming to learn from such difficulties and come out cleaner than they entered. That none of them needs and wants proxies.
Not for me. I'll be single from here on out.
All of the present conflicts I am aware of are certainly, or may be, depending on how you look at them, proxy wars, and this dramatically proves your point. Turkey has HTS acting as it's proxy governing Syria, while Israel seems about to take over backing Kurds from the USA as it's proxies against Turkey, while the US is about to take possession of Gaza from the Palestinians and develop it for it's proxy Israel... or is the USA Israel's proxy there? After a while the incestuous nature of proxy wars makes it hard to properly identify who's whose proxy.
You have well put the point to the matter, and I agree with you that issues which are openly discussed by the principals tend to be more easily resolved. The USA and Russia using the Ukraine as their proxy could hardly better illustrate the principle, as the EU factions involved seem close to shattering Europe over it, with Thierry threatening to coup Germany (and France) as they did Romania, seem to have done to Poland, might have tried to assassinate Robert Fico of Slovakia over, and turned Meloni for, while Orban of Hungary decries the war, and is determined not to be dragged into it, which all the peoples of all these republics actually vehemently agree on, regardless of their politics - none of them want to die in ditches over it. Odd that the EU turns out to be the deadly enemy of Europe because of this proxy business. Best to follow Trump's lead, DOGE the EU into submission, and send migrants back to fix their own countries while ya'll tend to yours.
I reckon Trump will move Zelensky off to the ~$40M mansion in Miami that Volodomyr paid for with military aid swindled from Biden for the purpose, carve up the Ukraine with Putin, Tusk, and Iohannis, and puts an end to the matter by summer. Perfidious Albion will do everything in it's power to bollux the deal, because they want to profit from weapons sales, and Trump will convince Starmer (if he lasts) that selling weapons to the KSA (supported by Indian troops and US mercs) to slaughter Iranians with is even more profitable than killing Ukrainians, because there's oil in it. That'll leave Israel to handle Erdogan, which needs doing, frankly, keep Russia fixing up the Ukraine and Putin off the IDF's back long enough to turn Syria into Greater Israel along with Gaza Lago Trump Resorts and Casino, where the new King of Israel will redomicile.
Or maybe the whole thing goes off, adds China in Taiwan and N. Korea tackles S. Korea, Pakistan and Afghanistan jump in on Iran's side, N. Africa pops off because the Palestinians really don't want to become Egyptians, Libyans, and Cypriots, but mostly because (((they))) really want to kill us all anyway. I read it on the internet. Why would anybody lie on the internet?
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HaHaHa!!! :D I like your humor!
Indeed.
Very odd, yes.
Since there is no EU identity and Europe is not one big nation state, unlike the USA, where a large proportion of the people see themselves as patriots, this patriotism does not exist here in Germany. We are too ashamed to be German. It looks like the locals in Western European countries feel the same way. That's why - at least in Germany at the moment - it's not possible to achieve the kind of majority you have, the electorate doesn't get over fifty per cent.
As always, the realities will decide later on.
I think you are overestimating Israel's ability to go it alone with the US and underestimating the alliances that are forming against it. Iran - again quoting the analysts - will not be defeated by Israel and Turkey seems to be positioning itself as its enemy, which has its own plans in the region.
They will all grit their teeth at the fact that they have created a non-Syria and not a real change of government, as was probably the actual intention. Now the country has no government and it functions according to anarchist rules. Yes, HTS has no nationalist interest, they are bought mercenaries and don't care about cultural identity and an orderly run nation. Anyone trying to establish their means and military there now seems to be facing a rapidly changing dynamic.
I don't see a Mara Gaza nor a great new Israel. I repeat what others are sending out as interpretations and estimations of the geopolitical happenings. So, I am just a parrot. LoL
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You may be interested in this:
I was watching materiel production during the last couple years, and Russia produces more artillery shells in a month than the rest of the world produces in a year. I haven't seen anyone besides Russia ramping up production of war materiel, and most of Europe lost a lot of it's artillery, cavalry, and ammo in the Ukraine.
I think France literally has no artillery shells left, or very, very few.
Since you can't get all of Europe set on a national policy, Europe really needs to shed the EU, because it's a worthless layer of parasitism on production that no nation in Europe today can afford, without providing any useful services the majority of Europeans need - and it's couping your nations to turn them into cash cattle for NATO, and Europe won't long survive that corral.
The economic resilience of Russia has vastly outperformed EU states, and they weren't at war. I used to troll Poles by telling them 'You're next!' because they were all in on the NATO propaganda about the 3 day conquest of Kiev and were falling for the propaganda that Russia was losing, which, of course, they weren't and aren't. I was mad for a bit that Russia had actually got to Kiev in a couple days and the war was effectively over, but somehow Kiev talked them into withdrawing and BoJo talked Zelensky into reneging on the surrender he'd negotiated. That has cost ~1M lives, and that made me mad.
I do expect Trump to be able to resolve the war by parting out the Ukraine to end the problem that the USSR created when they cobbled it together out of bits and pieces of their neighbors. I think the neighbors would be happy to get their clay back they lost in WWII in order to leave Russia what it's won fair and square, and Trump has the power to make NATO do it.
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The EU is backing off the Romanian coup now. Iohannis has resigned and Georgescu is really looking like he's about to become the President, and he'd snap that deal up in a hot minute, which signals the direction the EU is going to fall. Too often bad people succeed in concentrating power they've always dreamed of having, like Von der Leyen just has, and when they do they so undercut the entity they conquer that it loses what made them want it to begin with, and that's what I think has happened to the EU since Von der Leyen consolidated power.
She's so concentrated power over the EU in her hands, the EU is losing it's grip on it's member states, and Romania is just the first to slap her dirty mitts off. Germany and Poland are next. The people of Europe don't want to die in ditches, and I think they know if they don't break free of Von der Leyen's control, they will.
What do you mean by that? Is it, that after the fall of USSR those parts of mixed speaking countries like Ukraine and the Baltics, who always had a high number of Russian speaking folks found themselves misplaced then and there?
It's quite a difficult situation, given the history and the long dating back of mixing people. My own ancestors were amongst those Westerners (Germans), invited by Katherine the Great, to settle in the vast lands of Russia, which for us was Ukraine. My mom and dad both were born there, as well as the grandparents from my moms side (my fathers side I am not sure about). They lived there for more than a hundred years before they were robbed by the Bolsheviks and chased off their property and the mill, my grandpa was running at that time. Which happened around 1929.
If it was not for these petty thieves, backed up by the red army and their revolutionist atrocities (murdering the Tsars family and killing whom they found to be too wealthy), calling it the "rise of the proletariat", while in fact all who took advantage of such allegedly grass root movement were lazy greedy thieves and murderers themselves, things may be different.
In my view, the revolution had nothing to do with our race but with low character traits of those who took advantage of unrest and chaos. Not seeing that my family and their fellow German people were not associated with aristocrats but as much peasants and hard working people as the Russian peasants. But no brotherhood is to be found between creators and thieves of such creation.
It doesn't fit into my brain - coming back to the present time - that my German fellas cannot make such distinction and even defend the existence of the EU. I guess, we Germans will be the last, not amongst the first, to break away from it, once we will be very close to the ditches, and only the bravery of the Eastern European nations will show us that it can be done. ... Maybe, after our total defeat in WWII, we Germans became a cowardly folk, wanting to cozy up with our victors in the West (the good daddy) and fearing those in the East, wanting to besiege them, after daddy told us they are evil. I don't know. I never had such negative emotions towards the US and Russia, since I think of people and not of terms.
Thank you for the archive excerpt.
Lenin created the Ukraine in the 1920s.
Dmowski was a prophet.
Germany has suffered more than I can conceive, honestly. I see the rise of the AfD against the will of the 'seasoned, rational voices' as indicative of Germany's recovery from the incomprehensible wounds it's been dealt for more than a century. It is because the EU cannot abide the AfD that I see it as preferred option of the Machiavellian masters of manipulation seeking to implement not the EU, but the NWO.
If they don't accommodate decentralization they can't achieve global technocratic totalitarian tyranny, oddly enough. Imperial polities like the EU and the US need to follow in the footsteps of the USSR, IMHO.
Not sure if I understood:
Can you explain? Do you mean we have to hit the ground hard before we can leave La-La-Land? I would agree, I am afraid.
Yes, AfD is the option which will maybe get things changed. There is a need for new kids on the block. They first have to deliver though, and I would be curious if they could. At least, give it a chance. All else means non governing and being over rolled by reality, as McGregor puts it.
If a big gang wants to take over a new neighborhood, but there's some smaller gangs already holding that turf, the big gang must first get the smaller gangs out of the way. If one of the smaller gangs refuses to be folded into the larger gang, but can't be taken out by violence easily either, then the big gang can either give up, or turn to harder violence. What they cannot do is succeed at taking the new turf with that smaller gang in place.
The NWO is taking over the world. The US and EU need to either be absorbed into the NWO, or destroyed, for that to happen. Several states member in the EU, such as Hungary and Slovakia, are quite intent on resisting certain of the EU's policies, such as unrestrained immigration. The AfD's stated policy is against such immigration. Poland's PiS also has a strong anti-immigration streak, as do others. These Eastern bloc polities may well break the EU, but if not will make it considerably easier to break, with their concerted policies, and this will make the NWO's job easier, because a weaker EU will be an easier EU to absorb or destroy.
I see.
It is correct what you say, if you think in friend and foe patterns and make the world a map and its peoples its figures.
For my part, I do neither believe in a world order, nor in a new world order, since the world cannot be ordered by central means for an indefinite time, it's too big of a chunk. Though I do think that there are always forces at work which want control and those who want to resist such control. If resistance shall be neutralized, eliminated, destroyed, you must erase all of it, otherwise it will come back in one form or the other. Since this cannot be achieved in the long run, because if you kill or harm resisting individuals or groups, you produce at the same time their successors who want to take up the baton.
Which doesn't mean that you or I won't be negatively affected or that our children will be part of a resistance.
The place that each of us occupies, the influence that we as individuals exert on others, may be small and insignificant in comparison, but that is what matters nonetheless.
I do believe there is an serious effort to create a global technocratic totalitarian tyranny, and that it's principals are not capable of suitable reticence, despite their competence to aggrandize themselves. My understanding of the brutal banksters is that they have succeeded in the extant order of the world, which does exist with shortcomings notwithstanding, because of pathological features of their neurological functioning, that has made them capable of committing atrocities healthy people are incapable of.
I agree with you that they cannot succeed, perhaps for somewhat differing reasons.
Our parts we play in what is to come are all we can effect, and you are also correct that this is what we must attend to.
Following up my former comment, I add some screenshots to my given view as whom has to prove good intentions first and the most, which is the US:
Russian bases in comparison:
While I cannot verify these given information and I dislike the graphic presentation in forms of colors; meaning that the Russian bases should have been also given in red dots. Also, I wonder if the Russians do not have such bases in the very east of their country. So that leaves some question marks.
There may be no such need anymore, since we have been told that Russia developed hyperbolic missiles such as the Oreshnik, that overcomes great distances at mach speed, no matter where its basis sits.
So far, Trump himself, as well as part of his team, seems to show a behavior that is not fully prepared to call their troops home, but instead I have the image in my mind where a monkey, to free its hand from the hole in the tree, where it holds tightly onto the treasured salt, is incapable to relax its fist. The monkey is desperate and caught between its desire for the salt and its fear towards a possible predator.
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I am happy to see you citing Sachs, as he has proved a fearless and lucid commenter on matters geopolitical, from my view.
I fear Trump is a lifelong adherent of Zionism, and am completely confident he will advance Zionism afore all else, regardless of any other matters whatsoever, like his father before him. Whatever the Zionist preferred policy is, that will be Trump's policy. A glance at his cabinet is confirmation, as every single ministerial position is taken by a Zionist.
So, you can predict Trump's, and America's, foreign policy if you know Israel's.
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As far as the military and geopolitical analysts are concerned, Israel is defeated, just as Ukraine is defeated. Insofar as the US continues to pursue a policy that refuses to let go of the salt in its fist, it will leave both itself and Israel to a fate that isolates them. Where both countries have overextended themselves through wars and war spending respectively, and where the morale and economic situation at home has reached levels of impoverishment and brutalization, their rigid actions only cause the rest of the world to conduct and strengthen relations among themselves to the exclusion of the US and Israel.
As I understand the analysts, the only sensible thing for the US to do would be to withdraw all troops worldwide, since the Americans (as they say, the whole of NATO) firstly could not win a single peer-to-peer war and secondly need their forces at home. Sowing enmity has had its day because other powers see through it and are no longer impressed by it. US foreign policy has proven to be repetitively untruthful and its internal problems too obvious.
History is about to change and if the US misses this window of opportunity, it will make the situation worse for Israel and itself. Israel as a battering ram in the Middle East is seen by analysts as a failure. Too many enemies have been made. It caused chaos and within a state of chaos, no one can really plan or predict anything.
The fact that Trump helped Netanyahu to stay in office can be assessed differently, according to analysts. In their view, it means that Trump has secured Netanyahu's political office, but that his party will not survive the damage. That the ceasefire was all Trump wanted and that his admittedly inane statements regarding Gaza would be a consistent Trump strategy that manifests itself in Trump either making impossible demands that he knows from the outset the addressees cannot possibly fulfill. So that the rejection of the demands must inevitably take place due to the real conditions. Take Trump's demand that the EU states should spend five percent of their GDP on the military. They cannot. Nor is there a political will to do so.
One said: “If NATO had really been (or is) convinced that Russia is serious about expanding westwards, all NATO troops would have been on the ground in person long ago. The fact that they weren't shows that they don't really believe in this intention. They never believed in it because the real intention was to harm Russia and bring both Ukraine and Russia itself under control.
You can call it a messed up kind of thought process that wants to make those addressed realise the realities because of Trump's ridiculous statements and not because of their intelligent content. A resettlement of the Palestinians is practically impossible because there are over a million of them and because they don't want it. The neighbouring states don't want it (which Trump knows), so his crackpot statements ‘We own Gaza’ etc. are not really to be taken seriously. Since reality speaks against them.
Following the analysts and their judgement in this regard, I am not convinced that Trump is willing to pursue unconditional support for Israel at all costs. It seems to me that he actually does not want the killings to continue and that this is in conflict with other, less noble character traits of his.
It remains to be seen whether his reign will worsen the geopolitical situation or not.
I quite agree.
I also agree with that.
I was discussing this with another Hive user earlier, pointing out that Netanyahu created and funded Hamas since before Israel assassinated Arafat, and the IDF were war criminals, isolated, and had exactly one ally and ~200 enemies. He said this.
Part of my response follows.
I think you and I have the right of it, and Israel is probably not going to survive long except as Trump Resorts and Casino Tel Aviv: Boystown, or something. I completely agree that the US needs to pull in it's horns, as the disastrous foreign anti-policy of the four measly years of the degeneracy administration has managed to outrage and disgust just about every polity on Earth, and I don't think that was an accident. Because it wasn't accidental to strip the USA of international support, I think that suggests China is going to make a move, and that means you're absolutely right that the USA needs it's troops at home.
Don't think that's on Trump's playlist though. I'll be happy if he gets troops out of Syria and keeps them out of Gaza. It'd be a great idea to get them out of Africa and give China something else to do than occupy BC and Alaska, too.
I agree. I think he is wrong and does not take into account that the world is much bigger.
The US is the most modern bad example of proxy warfare and bad influence on the whole world through its aggressive foreign policy. I do not expect China and the other BRICS countries to want to follow this bad example. Not because the rulers are such good people, but because a certain peace and balance in the world is seen by them as good for business. However, I trust them to have retained a certain nationalism/patriotism and not to want subsequent generations to live within their national borders under the short-term profiteering that results from an overly unreliable trade policy, but rather to favour a diverse mix of economic activities. There is a difference between building a large pipeline between two countries, which, due to its physical fixation, aims to ensure the mutual livelihood of the countries involved for decades to come, or whether one favours more physically independent trade relations (shipping LNG, for example), which are per se more susceptible to excessive price fluctuations. This is a matter of intentional trust if Russia and China rely on physical pipelines, I think. Because, after all, you want to trust someone in the world.
But the longer their recently acquired wealth lasts, the more they too will be tempted to adopt imperial airs and graces similar to those of the fading US empire. At the latest when the people who grow up to become new political figures have forgotten the stories of their people or no longer have any vivid memories of a life with fewer luxuries. Which means that the people themselves have forgotten and no longer attach any importance to their own history. Just like us in the West.
Do you think that China will become active military wise at your border? Because that is what I hear from you.
That is the development I least desire, so that is the expectation of my inmost fear.
Rationally, I agree that isn't what the BRICS will benefit from.
Hm. I wouldn't have thought that.
We may be well advised to remind ourselves that to have fear in a dark street where dubious businesses are going on is justified, or a killer coming towards us, or fearing the criminals who traffic humans and their children through open borders, who then build up their networks in our very neighborhoods.
I understand that Russias SMO in Ukraine might be dealt by your mind as something that was so much provoked by the US, that the Chinese might copy that reaction. But since US does not chase and murder Chinese or Chinese speaking people within your country and does not treat them their official enemies or worse, Untermenschen within its own spaces, I would not think of the Chinese government to undertake a similar SMO. It is not enough to treat them as adversaries in foreign politics, I think. Since they are anyway stronger.
Another McGregor Video where he also touches the subject of China a bit:
China's history is long and bloody. There are forces that yearn for global conquest, and the US has been terribly lamed by recent events. I do not want my sons to die in war. I do not want war. Inscrutable China may not bring an SMO, but a genocide.
I was once saved from a Cambodian's violent attack, whose family had suffered terribly, unknown to me, as a result of US actions in the Vietnam war, by two little Vietnamese girls, whose racial enmity was stronger against the Cambodian than against me, the American.
I was at first astounded by this, still a child unfamiliar with racism or the toll of war on innocents. As time went on I discussed this event, sometimes with E. Asians. When I spoke of it to them, they were not surprised, and pointed out that E. Asian peoples had been waging war with each other for millennia, and had built up mutual ethnic hatreds that were cultural fixtures for many generations, while Americans had only just jumped in and out of Asia, hardly long enough to be properly hated.
Racism is never just, never necessary, but is a powerful impetus to war nonetheless, and many Chinese have affirmed to me that China is a very nationalist nation, supremely confident in it's superiority to others, and that many there particularly revile Americans, for the weakness the last decade and a half has imbued us with. If you scroll through interactions between Chinese and Americans on Red Note, which recently suffered a sudden influx of Americans looking to replace Tik Tok, you will see many such comments to that effect from the Chinese disparaging Americans.
Personally, I do not blame them. Propaganda and indoctrination are potent reins by which to control a people, and I doubt the US or Germany far surpasses the Chinese in their subjection to such goads to hatred, that the extraordinarily demoralizing weakness of certain Western demographics have made ubiquitously known to the Chinese peoples. Not only Chinese people, but across Asia, Africa, and S. America I have read many comments to the effect that eradicating Americans would spare us further degradation and degeneration.
We are not the nation Mao feared to attack because there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass, anymore.
Thanks Obama! /s
I see it differently. I assume that the comments and the mood you are talking about come from an extreme section of the population who are only too happy to join in the propaganda. As it is always only the loudest people who are heard, this gives the impression of a general majority conviction and mood. Of course, if the respective governments themselves want to believe that their people are supporting an aggressive act, they will certainly do what they intend to do. But since we do not really know the intentions, but are on speculative ground, everything remains theory until it becomes practice.
You raise an important point: The hatred between geographically closer peoples that is kept alive by cultural heritage. In fact, I agree that the inherited and unprocessed hatred is strong and rooted in real experiences such as the death of family members and the loss of property and rights.
... There is all the less reason for the Chinese to genuinely hate Americans since there is no bloody history between them going back centuries. When neighbouring peoples fight each other, it is often the perceived fraternal pain that causes them so much trouble. It is not so much the differences, but what actually makes people similar that causes anger and grief. You hate what is familiar to you.
The same applies to intimate relationships in a family. Pain suffered is blamed on the divorced husband or wife for years, even decades, and bitter enmity exists between relatives, between parents and children, often for the rest of their lives. It is unusual to hate with the same intensity those with whom there is no such historical connection.
Despising a people is completely different from attacking and wanting to destroy them out of hatred.
Someone who already sees that a nation is fundamentally weak will also be able to see that it is enough to watch it ruin itself (the crucial question is here: Is that really wanted? Is it be recognized that the fall of the US would, after all, be no benefit to anyone in the long run?).
Such ruin no longer needs to be helped by military means, because China's superiority already speaks for itself. The US may threaten and shake its fists, but it is clear that this is a threat that, if carried out, will fail to have the desired effect; though it will cause troubles unwanted.
War is not started because of economic sanctions, as I see it, especially not when they can be assumed to be too weak in advance. Wars are waged out of fanaticism, unlike SMO's. Which, of course, always harbour the danger of a war developing from them.
I want to add that the conflict in Ukraine never would have gotten so out of hand, no matter the US's hands in it, if the Europeans would not have strong emotions against the Russians. If Europe - the single governments - would have said "no" to the US plans, there would be no SMO. But the US took advantage of by them supported Russophobia. And one might ask oneself, if this big and little brother alliance actually did infect each of the brothers with hatred, and that the initiator was European political and otherwise figures in the first place (I assume mostly British ones) who made Russia the most important enemy of gullible America. They never fought a peer-to-peer army battle in such dimension as the Europeans did. But remained in their belief, that they could.
Relationships between countries and their heads of government are not so much different from relationships between individuals. Those who enter into a co-dependency, such as alcoholics and their spouses, for example, feed this co-dependency through a rescuer and to-be-rescued principle. The non-alcoholic partner pretends wanting to save the addict, while the addict willingly exposes himself to this. Both profit from this alliance because they feel confirmed in their roles.
One wants to be pitied and cared for like a baby, the other wants to suffer along and perceive himself as a nurturing parental figure. He is dependent on being needed. Of course, both are weak and insecure personalities who are largely guided by the victim-perpetrator mentality.
This is a mutual exploitation of weakness and therefore the opposite of encouragement to take responsibility for one's own life. A compassionate counterpart would advise the addict to do more of the same and drink themselves to death, or they would ask: What would you have to do to make your situation absolutely worse? And would not provide the answer. He would continue to ask wonder-questions, like: "If you'd be sober by tomorrow through a fairy tales magic action, what would you do with your life? Who'd benefit from this in your family? Who'd be stripped off of the benefit? Who else? What might your dead father think of it? What would your colleague/neighbor/doctor say?" etc.
Such questions aim towards the insight, that becoming sober from one day to the next can strip the alcoholic from what was profitable to be an addict. If he does not receive any sympathy being an addict but receiving it through his virtues, when his existence as a poor addict no longer takes up the main part of his daily life, he has to ask himself what could replace this hitherto pleasantly experienced profit instead. And devote himself to more constructive tasks. However, as long as the co-dependent environment reinforces the alcoholic as a petty victim and everyone else reaps the same benefits from unhealthy peoples, everything remains the same.
A nation with such helpers-syndrome meets the immature part of a populace which welcomes victim status and feeds the syndrome, expressed in slogans "bringing democracy", "feeding the poor", "helping the sick" and thinking of its aid-programs as un-selfish. Since such attitude often also comes with strings attached (I fulfill your need, therefore you fulfill mine) two nations may become addict buddies, not letting the other become free of such co-dependency.
That would be my psychological take on it.
Sorry, if I do bother you with too much comments, I am having a flow. LoL
You raise many good points, and the alcoholic dependence is a good analogy for the addiction profiteers have to war. I have no interest in profits taken from suffering. I rather revile them that do.
It is my hope that war that has fed such profits is ended, and honest commerce and trade, that builds our nations up instead becomes the profitable business of the nations of the world.
As to the weakness that has afflicted the US, the majority of Americans have not sought nor welcome any of it, and this is why Trump was welcomed by so much of America. Despite my intransigence and suspicion of Trump, no less than of any other politician, I find it difficult to restrain my giddiness at the uncovering of egregious fraud and waste in USAID and the profligate bureaucracies that have too long fed kickbacks to vile criminals, and hope sincerely these agencies can be cut to the barest of bones, that the insane debts can be put behind us.
One of the signal achievements Putin managed was paying down Russia's national debt, and I would welcome that same achievement if it can be done in America.
It is also my hope that the leadership of China, and the rest of the world, sees more benefit from a revitalized engine of industry America has been and can be, than to seek to profit from war and conflict. It is my expectation that this will be the best option, that war is not desirable for anyone but the worst pathological powers in the world, and will not be forthcoming.
Peace brings true dividends to nations and peoples vastly more profitable than the profits of war that destroy and degrade them. We are perched on a precipice of good fortune, if we but seek to profit one another in commerce and industry instead of allowing bansksters to pick our flesh from our dead bones. Prospects of inconceivable wealth I have waxed on ad nauseum regarding are potential from the celestial resources awaiting our development, and have too long been left fallow instead of blessing civilization.
off topic, or maybe not so off: the European 'leaders' are freaking out about USA stepping out of project Ukraine. Talking about an "emergency of national scope that gives us Germans the opportunity to give more aid to Ukraine" (run up even more debt)? Confusing statements, pathetic statements, I don't want to even watch them all, since they make me cringe. I will listen to second hand reporting who analyse them, so I need not to see them directly.
I don't consider that off topic, but rather the imperative necessity to the polities of the European continent to prevent those globalists sucking at the teat of the NATO faction that only feeds on war and deaths in ditches from continuing their malevolent coups and projection of power on the peoples of Europe. Those outrageous demands of more money are the desperation of that NATO faction of the EU and it's intention to be the faction that brings the NWO to fruition that the financial power of the USA has been conquered by the freshly conquered relic Republican Party the OG Democrats led by Trump are today DOGE'ing into that faction's grubby little fingers.
This is the opportunity Germany, Poland, France, Italy, and all European nations have to swat away those grasping parasites - and hopefully avoid the new grasping parasites that are replacing them.
God help us all.
In her ivory tower, cut off from real ground, she fears and hopes for good news that her brother from overseas has finally defeated the dreaded enemy. When he comes with bad messages, it only makes her angrier and more stubborn.
Now her brother says: ‘Enough is enough. From now on, you will have to deal with your situation yourself. I am not going to play along any more, I replaced our deluded uncle. Your neighbour's army has been defeated. There is nothing left for what could fall for us in their battle. Your enemy, whom we considered our enemy, has inflicted a terrible defeat on us.’
But she screams: ‘Then I send more gold and take my people into army service! I declare martial emergency!'
‘There is no gold left, we've spent it all. Your'e and, by the way, my people are weak and fat and old. Our fields remain uncultivated, our waters unfished, our houses and roads untended, so do yours. I have to make a deal with what maybe is left for us to get back. I am afraid, you will not be a part of the negotiations, sister. Your gold now is in the hands of those who betrayed their peoples, and also betrayed us by fighting a weak battle, while the enemies in our own ranks stuffed their pockets with gold that had not been used for needed arms, but circled right back to them. From now on, we are no longer a united kingdom but separate. You can handle a sword? Go and try yourself.’
But the princess closes her ears with both hands. 'You're so mean! That is so unfair! I am not saying yes to this!'
Her brother shrugs shoulders and enters the door, leaving her behind: 'Well, little sister, do as you please. Gather your angry court ladies with their powerless husbands and their numerous relatives from the neighbouring lands, who hate each other and go for each other's throats at the first opportunity. Good luck with that.’
To be continued.
Right on! at least there is always hive where u can speak your mind! 😎👊
As long as we do speak our mind, we might be able to keep it that way.
Thanks!
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