[SIZE=5]SITUATION REPORT: THE STATE OF THE WORLD[/SIZE]
Wadau,
Many of you might not even be aware, but World War has been ongoing for very close to 30 years now—ever since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1990. It was preceded by the Cold War, which ended when Mikhail Gorbachev surrendered to the West, causing the USSR to dissolve in confusion. Despite his surrender, the West never abandoned its plan to destroy, conquer and dismember Russia itself.
Although the West pretends to be battling Russia, that is pure fantasy. Russia’s defensive posture is such that no military strategy against it is even plannable. Russia’s military doctrine states that no more wars will be fought on her soil. If invaded, it will immediately take the fight to the enemy using precision long-range weapons that have global reach and by using nuclear weapons if necessary. And so the Pentagon, with NATO, no longer even dream of attacking Russia.
Instead, the effort is to “counter Russian aggression”—which doesn’t exist. Russia simply isn’t interested in invading anyone; it already has all the land and all the natural resources it could ever want. Having proven itself in Syria, Russia is now cutting its defense spending in favor of domestic social programs.
While pretending to battle Russia, the West has been attacking and destroying countries around the world-Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya now lie in ruins. The only kind of “hot” war between the West and Russia is in the area of economic sanctions, and here Russia is very grateful. These sanctions have been most valuable in stimulating import replacement, providing a much-needed impetus for de-dollarization, developing alternatives to Western finance, and reviving Russian agriculture.
Bloomberg Businessweek
[SIZE=7]How an Oil Giant (Russia) Came to Dominate Wheat[/SIZE]
13 November 2017
Russia, a leading exporter of crude oil for decades now, is increasingly dominating another critical global commodity. Its output of wheat has surged in recent years as good growing conditions boost farmers’ profits, allowing them to reinvest in better seeds and equipment.
Since the sanctions were imposed at the insistence of the US but have largely harmed the EU, they furthered the cause of Western disunity.
In short, Russia couldn’t ask for a better enemy: impressive only on paper and always eager to pound the ball into its own net.
But all good things must come to an end eventually, and even World War can’t go on forever. This realization is slowly sinking in, resulting in treasonous behavior within the European camp as various recently conquered states turn restive. Moldova’s president Dodon is on record stating that its EU membership will not jeopardize its good relations with Russia. The textbook colored revolution in Armenia resulted in the supposedly pro-Western new president in a rush to reassure everyone that Armenia will remain a loyal ally of Russia. The new Italian government has called the 2014 Ukraine revolution “fake” and “foreign funded”.
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic Ocean, the various fraudulent financial schemes that have allowed the US to spend itself into oblivion, are showing visible signs of breaking down. Tariffs on countries with which the US runs trade deficits is intended to force production to shift to domestic producers. But there is a reason why these products have been imported: the US is a relatively high-cost producer. De-offshoring production will therefore drive up inflation. And since a lot of US debt is indexed to inflation, interest payments will quickly swallow up the federal budget. The only solution is for the US to start adding to its mountain of debt at an even faster rate, but then de-dollarization is proceeding apace around the world and demand for US debt is dropping.
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France and Germany are refusing US demands for increased defense spending. They have realized, in spite of their own rhetoric, that this is a waste of money. It is gradually sinking in that Russia’s new defensive and offensive weapons systems have made most Western armaments obsolete.
Consequently, Russian weapon systems are in high demand around the world. Turkey, NATO’s second-largest member, is looking to acquire several S-400 air defense systems, in spite of American protests. Saudi Arabia, a staunch American ally, is looking to do the same, having realized that the Raytheon-made Patriot missiles it had acquired are worse than useless.
PART 2 to come…
