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(02-01-2023, 05:47 PM)BlueTiki Wrote: (02-01-2023, 04:51 PM)rothschild Wrote: Germany's been dominated by the US since WWII ended, so your dissatisfaction should be directed at us.
Except with Biden and Nordstream 2.
BTW Piggy, nice job with the pipeline!
Except for the whole methane release thing and climate crisis.
I doubt the German gov't is all of one mind on that score. The ones that matter are unaffected by nationalistic sentiment, as is the case in all the nations that comprise the West, I think.
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Yeah . . . it's all "EU, EU, Uber Alles", now. "Yankee! Go home!"
Until they they need money or muscle . . . or the "Great Reset" becomes reality.
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All of the great powers of continental Europe were neutered as a result of WWII. Now it's America's turn. That leaves Russia, China, Israel, and possibly India, and I expect that the UN will soon become the primary globalist enforcer, governmentally and militarily, with the aforementioned nations taking on the role of permanent members of a greatly empowered Security Council, overseen by the World Economic Forum and BIS. It's a repeating pattern: military and economic deconstruction followed by reconstruction. Now deconstruction is being facilitated by emergency fiat, and the impending reconstruction has been dubbed "Build Back Better" -- which raises the question; better for whom?
Chaos represents opportunity for those who have the wherewithal to fill a socioeconomic vacuum. In a world where power is consolidated and capital flows are unregulated, sowing widespread chaos requires only marginal effort.
Consumerism lulled the masses into a false sense of security, while robbing them of meaningful freedom through indebtedness. Demand-side economics is the economics of indebtedness: of governments, corporations, and the civil sector. Debt, we are taught, represents opportunity, but most of the benefits accrue in the coffers of the lenders that comprise the Federal Reserve System. In fractional reserve banking, one dollar of debt represents eight revenue streams, as issuance far surpasses what is held in reserves, the requirements of whch are trifling. 10% to 15% historically, now probably zero. That's a very sweet deal, especially as debt is created out of thin air. When you rain down money on an economy the primary result is moral hazard. Economic behavior is altered in much the same way that alcohol effects judgement. Greenspan referred to this as "irrational exuberance", pretending it was the unintended result of his monetary policy. The media referred to him as "Maestro", neglecting to mention that the art he practiced was confidence fraud. When the inevitabl bust rolled around Bernanke bailed out the primary culprits, deeming them "too big to fail", and saved the day for the global usurists. There was never any question that he wouldn't.
