A nation's hegemony is based on the strength of its economy and what it can produce. The GAE with its fiat money and its gross overspending and debasing of its currency is already dead. The GAE, looking for quick profits, farmed its productive capacity to China. It is an empty shell. China, Russia, and India are already looking for alternatives to the dollar and the SWIFT interbank clearing system. Once the dollar loses its reserve status, the GAE will be officially dead. And that will be very soon unless the elites in DC wake up. It's on life support now.
My entire career involved designing and building industrial and chemical process plants in the US and abroad. Over this time, it became obvious that there were two drivers that caused owners to pull up stakes and move over seas. 1) Unions and consequential high labor costs 2) Environmental regulations and the high cost of compliance
Yep, NIMBY transition to in somebody else’s backyard. That too is the mind set but the bottom line is always the bottom line. Another influencer is “end of pipe” limits on emissions versus “front of pipe”. We were always challenged to limit the formation of pollutant’s in the process rather than cleaning them up at the end. Today, humans are viewed as the process and the best way to limit pollutants is by not creating them in the first place by eliminating the creators, that is humans. Ergo, virus, vaccines, war, starvation , etc,.
I'll take you at your word. I don't think unions are anything but maybe proximate causes. Most European countries are more heavily unionized than the US is/was, and yet aside from Britain most of them have retained more industry than the US.
The problem is that in order for an American worker to afford to live on their own, they have to be able to afford the horrendously expensive assets in the American market. It's not as bad as Tokyo in 1980 with respect to property values but clearly real estate is more sensitive to inflation/money printing than industrial goods or wages. Everything is more expensive in the US/Canada/Australia/etc, you pay more tax, by the time you get your wages you are looking at losing maybe 40-80% of your wages in real terms (to taxes, management, diversity taxes, etc). It should be obvious but apparently is not that if a company hires a black who does 2 hours of half assed work in a 10 hour shift, but who is paid a full and normal 10 hour wage for that position, their wages are coming out of the actually productive workers.
Certainly. But moving our industrial production to China was also based on greed. Now the same multinationals who exported our productive capacity are all-in on the massive waves of unskilled, low-wage immigrants pouring over our southern border. They want to flood the zone with cheap labor and inflate their balance sheets. The goal: turn the US into China and establish an authoritarian police state. That's also the goal of the GAE.
Hi Will -- Here's a fantastic article by Alasdair Macleod about the current trend toward commodity backed currencies. I think with a little sanity by policy makers we can still turn it around.
Your conclusion is exactly as predicted by the authors of the "The 4th Turning." A total reworking of the political and economic system with a high likelihood of total war. Ironically one of the authors, Howe, was recently interviewed on YouTube and argued FOR one of the reasons the GAE stands to loose its position (by 2030 he says). And that is: why wouldn't we want to print more money if we can keep interest rates low, even if it does leave unserviceable trillions in national debt? Not doing so would make us like the "Grinch". Of course in his world, the rich get the presents and the rest of us are left holding the bag. But he's pretty confident that he has done his part to make the Great Reset happen, however the chips may land.
Was Yarvin's point that the GAE would remain the globally dominant power through the 21st century? Or was it rather that the cathedral's woke religion would remain the dominant ideology within the GAE's sphere of influence? It certainly doesn't seem plausible that Western hegemony can continue - all indications are that it's already done. On the other hand, as it decays into global irrelevance, it will retain nuclear weapons, meaning foreign powers will remain reluctant to engage in a direct military confrontation. At the same time, speech and thought controls can keep the home population in line for some time. A scenario where America becomes a 21st century Ottoman Empire - a vast decaying husk too weak to threaten other states, but perfectly capable of keeping its home population subjugated - seems unfortunately very plausible.
The two rival foreign powers also have nuke, one has more than the GAE. But, the number of nuke are irrelevant. The delivery system is the driver. The GAE does not have the capacity right now. The Slav nation can hit the US with theirs. The other one can destroy the GAE's economics as they are doing right now. So, it is done. Live with it if we survived the mushroom cloud. These bastards don't care about killing millions of people.
Absolutely. GAE can't attack the other great powers; at the same time to other great powers now have the capability to neutralize the GAE economy, no nukes needed. But militarily, they're likely to leave the GAE alone on its own turf. Dated nukes or not, nukes are nukes, and no one wants to go there.
It still is strong. What caused this mess was a rigged election that many refuse to talk about. The American voters didn't put these puppet masters in charge corruption did. Soon it will be shown..
It is NOT the USA dollar but rather the USA Constitution that secures the dollars dominance. No other country offers a constitution like ours. While we are not immune to the disruption of corruption at least our Constitution allows a path to right outcomes. That is why the left always h*tes the constitution.
We should revert back to Monroe Doctrine geographical influence, focus on Latin America and Canada. It’ll reduce illegal migrant and drug influx. Then Africa will naturally join in due to historical cultural ties from slave descendants today. That leaves Europe and Asia to compete in an endless quagmire like before: EU flooded with migrants, Russia drained of people and natural resources, China bogged down in myriad ways, India playing favorites with everyone, Mideast endless rivalries, Israel mastering self-defense. But what Oceania and Antarctica?
A nation's hegemony is based on the strength of its economy and what it can produce. The GAE with its fiat money and its gross overspending and debasing of its currency is already dead. The GAE, looking for quick profits, farmed its productive capacity to China. It is an empty shell. China, Russia, and India are already looking for alternatives to the dollar and the SWIFT interbank clearing system. Once the dollar loses its reserve status, the GAE will be officially dead. And that will be very soon unless the elites in DC wake up. It's on life support now.
My entire career involved designing and building industrial and chemical process plants in the US and abroad. Over this time, it became obvious that there were two drivers that caused owners to pull up stakes and move over seas. 1) Unions and consequential high labor costs 2) Environmental regulations and the high cost of compliance
Save the butterflies by killing the ones in China 🤭
Yep, NIMBY transition to in somebody else’s backyard. That too is the mind set but the bottom line is always the bottom line. Another influencer is “end of pipe” limits on emissions versus “front of pipe”. We were always challenged to limit the formation of pollutant’s in the process rather than cleaning them up at the end. Today, humans are viewed as the process and the best way to limit pollutants is by not creating them in the first place by eliminating the creators, that is humans. Ergo, virus, vaccines, war, starvation , etc,.
I'll take you at your word. I don't think unions are anything but maybe proximate causes. Most European countries are more heavily unionized than the US is/was, and yet aside from Britain most of them have retained more industry than the US.
The problem is that in order for an American worker to afford to live on their own, they have to be able to afford the horrendously expensive assets in the American market. It's not as bad as Tokyo in 1980 with respect to property values but clearly real estate is more sensitive to inflation/money printing than industrial goods or wages. Everything is more expensive in the US/Canada/Australia/etc, you pay more tax, by the time you get your wages you are looking at losing maybe 40-80% of your wages in real terms (to taxes, management, diversity taxes, etc). It should be obvious but apparently is not that if a company hires a black who does 2 hours of half assed work in a 10 hour shift, but who is paid a full and normal 10 hour wage for that position, their wages are coming out of the actually productive workers.
Certainly. But moving our industrial production to China was also based on greed. Now the same multinationals who exported our productive capacity are all-in on the massive waves of unskilled, low-wage immigrants pouring over our southern border. They want to flood the zone with cheap labor and inflate their balance sheets. The goal: turn the US into China and establish an authoritarian police state. That's also the goal of the GAE.
There seems little can be done to remedy the situation and many Americans are already fully.on board so long as the bread and circus continues
Hi Will -- Here's a fantastic article by Alasdair Macleod about the current trend toward commodity backed currencies. I think with a little sanity by policy makers we can still turn it around.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-commodity-currency-revolution
Summary of the article on my blog: https://kjmaclean.com/wordpress/?p=2041
John Glubb- an average empire lasts about 250 years. So, the latter hypothesis is about right.
Your conclusion is exactly as predicted by the authors of the "The 4th Turning." A total reworking of the political and economic system with a high likelihood of total war. Ironically one of the authors, Howe, was recently interviewed on YouTube and argued FOR one of the reasons the GAE stands to loose its position (by 2030 he says). And that is: why wouldn't we want to print more money if we can keep interest rates low, even if it does leave unserviceable trillions in national debt? Not doing so would make us like the "Grinch". Of course in his world, the rich get the presents and the rest of us are left holding the bag. But he's pretty confident that he has done his part to make the Great Reset happen, however the chips may land.
Was Yarvin's point that the GAE would remain the globally dominant power through the 21st century? Or was it rather that the cathedral's woke religion would remain the dominant ideology within the GAE's sphere of influence? It certainly doesn't seem plausible that Western hegemony can continue - all indications are that it's already done. On the other hand, as it decays into global irrelevance, it will retain nuclear weapons, meaning foreign powers will remain reluctant to engage in a direct military confrontation. At the same time, speech and thought controls can keep the home population in line for some time. A scenario where America becomes a 21st century Ottoman Empire - a vast decaying husk too weak to threaten other states, but perfectly capable of keeping its home population subjugated - seems unfortunately very plausible.
The two rival foreign powers also have nuke, one has more than the GAE. But, the number of nuke are irrelevant. The delivery system is the driver. The GAE does not have the capacity right now. The Slav nation can hit the US with theirs. The other one can destroy the GAE's economics as they are doing right now. So, it is done. Live with it if we survived the mushroom cloud. These bastards don't care about killing millions of people.
Absolutely. GAE can't attack the other great powers; at the same time to other great powers now have the capability to neutralize the GAE economy, no nukes needed. But militarily, they're likely to leave the GAE alone on its own turf. Dated nukes or not, nukes are nukes, and no one wants to go there.
It still is strong. What caused this mess was a rigged election that many refuse to talk about. The American voters didn't put these puppet masters in charge corruption did. Soon it will be shown..
We HOPE that soon it will be shown
It is NOT the USA dollar but rather the USA Constitution that secures the dollars dominance. No other country offers a constitution like ours. While we are not immune to the disruption of corruption at least our Constitution allows a path to right outcomes. That is why the left always h*tes the constitution.
We should revert back to Monroe Doctrine geographical influence, focus on Latin America and Canada. It’ll reduce illegal migrant and drug influx. Then Africa will naturally join in due to historical cultural ties from slave descendants today. That leaves Europe and Asia to compete in an endless quagmire like before: EU flooded with migrants, Russia drained of people and natural resources, China bogged down in myriad ways, India playing favorites with everyone, Mideast endless rivalries, Israel mastering self-defense. But what Oceania and Antarctica?
We are a Republic and I have no desire to promote an Empire