A Mediterranean Battlefield - Syria

[David Guyatt]

more red

Yes, it's absurd.

But madness percolates through the veins of the elites in Washington - and has done for the last two decades, since the end of the cold war.

So The Madness started at the end of 1991?

News to me.

I've been actively protesting The Madness since 1972, so I dare say you're late to the party.

The US will would threaten and quite possibly engage in a world war against Russia and China to keep their financial franchise -- because if that franchise is dissolves - given the immense and unserviceable US debt - the US will sooner rather than later fracture and crumble.

Your comments betray a fundamental mis-appraisal of the American economy.

But don't feel bad -- its something no one over here gets either.

There is a huge black market economy in the US which doesn't show up in statistics.

For one instance among many: Any idea how much unclaimed drug money sits in US financial institutions -- drug money put there by narco-bosses who are either dead or incarcerated -- and will never be withdrawn?

It's likely in the trillions. It's why the banks didn't collapse in Sept. of 2008.

The underground economy employs hundreds of thousands and generates hundreds of billions of dollars and there is no accounting for it.

The above-ground economies of the US-China are deeply intertwined, btw.

A few might profit on this apocalyptic world war you imagine -- but it's a loser for the elites.

Why would the US go to nuke-war with the Russians and give up Caucasian dominance world-wide?

With the exception of the "Irish troubles", the break-up of Yugoslavia, and in the eastern Ukraine --since the end of WW2 white folks don't war on white folks.

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PS, this is not about oil, or drugs... it's far bigger than either of those.

It's G.O.D.

Guns-Oil-Drugs.

What is "far bigger," exactly?

Things changed in 1990/91 with the end if the cold war and the immediately broken promise by the US not to push NATO further east in exchange for the Soviets to agree to allow the then two Germany's to reunite. Peace was then possible for a change, but obviously was not wanted by the US elite. And so a commitment by the US and Germans was immediately and irrevocably broken that set the tone for the future. You have the Defence Planning document (have you read it btw?) a.k.a., the Wolfowitz Doctrine born out of that which set out the US's plan for world domination for the new century.

But to answer your question what is bigger than those three is the whole sack of repulsive shit rolled together which is coming under threat from China and Russia - US dollar hegemony...

in other words, currency is bigger than those three, as that is the medium by which they are alchemically transmuted into something other than what they are in essence.

If China, Russia and BRICS are eventually successful in establishing a competing reserve currency, and if enough nations switch out to that (and many who are sick and tired of US bullying tactics will switch) then the US dollar will eventually crumble and shatter.

And that tipping point - which is more or less imminent - the question will be whether the US elite will take a gamble with another world war in the hope they will be victorious again and come out of the ashes still in control, as they did with WWII.

The US is a nation where gambling is deeply embedded in the psyche. And the US psyche is trapped in its shadow and thus rational decisions are far from assured.

So the madness question is whether the US elite will say to themselves: "if we can't have it, then you sure as hell can't either".

"If the sun comes up tomorrow, it is only because of men of good will. That is all there is between us and the devil".
Kevin Costner playing Kenny O'Donnell in the film 13 Days about the Cuban Missile crisis.

Will someone care to show me where there are men of good will today please?