Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Is the US finished as the major world power?
#1
Jacques Attali, the former president of the European bank for Reconstruction and Development thinks so.

One thing I was surprised to learn, if Attali is correct, and I assume he is, is that China will soon exceed US defence spending.

The below is from his blog via the horrendous hacking machine called Microsoft Translate:

Quote:

When America sleep

Published in the Express . Published in geopolitics - 16 February 2015. React
For long, raising the relative decline of American power, it is fascinating to observe his recent acceleration.
Certainly, it is possible to allow themselves to be blinded by the triumphant statistics of the American economy, these last months; It prevents: real unemployment is double what say official agencies, even the President of the Fed; "the economic system there is very widely doped by the mass of currency that there flows the Central Bank and senseless speculation of ' shadow banking' that reinvents every day benefit subprime Follies; and the concentration of wealth is such that democracy is almost more than a masquerade.
The diplomatic reality is, it's more clear: since August 28, 2013, president Obama has the ultimate second, refused to trigger reprisals against Syrian president who had to make use of chemical weapons against his own people, nobody in the world takes more seriously the American commitment. On any front. And effective drones strikes Americans to the Yemen and Pakistan provide further evidence: no human involvement.
Thus explained many things: the price of oil lower, decided, without fear, by Saudi Arabia against the will and American interests. the refusal of the Egyptian president to purchase American aircraft, yet their official supplier for 50 years; the compromise agreed in Minsk, against his will, by the president of Ukraine, when he realized that he could not count on a real American military support, despite the irresponsible reels of (U.S.) officials of the organs of military command of NATO in Europe. Finally, as a symbol blinding this disengagement, the absence of the American president and other senior representative of this country, to Sunday, January 11, 2015 market in Paris after the attacks.
If this continues, the world will understand US power falls asleep. Odinga then the dollar decline, China take control of the China Sea, North Korea advance his pawns and the Japan seek to arm themselves.
It is possible that the next president, be it a Bush, a Clinton (who can win that distancing himself from Obama), or any other, tries to restore a role of superpower America. This is not the first time. But this will probably only be a final burst, because it is too late: the Chinese military budget, as its GDP, will soon exceed widely their U.S. counterparts.And the American people, in contrast to the french, Russian, Chinese, and many others, people are more willing to risk the lives of its soldiers in a theatre of operation.
Then, the perspective is clear: the American empire will disappear. It will not, as was the British Empire, replaced in the conduct of the Affairs of the world, by a rival empire, but most certainly, as was the Roman empire, by a multipolar chaos in which part of the neighbours will want to resume their account American lifestyle, and another will want to fight it, for religious reasons, in organizing themselves in theocracies. And even if another empire, at the end, replace the American at the top of the world, it would not, for the first time in human history Western.
The West is therefore, for the first time, defenceless. And nothing is more dangerous, particularly for us, Europeans, to see our enemies cease to be afraid of us. It is time to realize that no one that we will defend our values, our way of life and our freedoms.Also, without waiting for a next US president may understand the importance of being strong, and agrees to share the direction of the Affairs of the world with Europe, it is up to us to us Europeans, to learn to live and to defend ourselves without America.
j@Attali.com
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
Reply
#2
Christ, let's hope so. What an empire of bullshit and cruelty.

The end can't come quickly enough.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

Joseph Fouche
Reply
#3
Maybe given David Rockefeller's love of the Chinese system this should be too surprising.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
― Leo Tolstoy,
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  India and the new BRICS world order? David Guyatt 1 3,422 09-02-2015, 12:40 PM
Last Post: Magda Hassan
  The Perpetual Threat to World Peace Is: David Guyatt 0 2,849 08-12-2014, 12:12 PM
Last Post: David Guyatt
  World festival of students and youth 1973 Berlin Magda Hassan 0 2,492 21-01-2014, 01:10 PM
Last Post: Magda Hassan
  How children of the world united at a Soviet school Magda Hassan 0 3,990 04-10-2013, 10:38 AM
Last Post: Magda Hassan
  World War II: After the War - Alan Taylor - In Focus Bernice Moore 0 3,013 15-11-2011, 05:52 AM
Last Post: Bernice Moore
  How the US Planned to Destroy Britain Just a Few Years Before World War II Magda Hassan 4 4,537 25-09-2011, 11:55 PM
Last Post: Ed Jewett
  Bay of Pigs report shows extent of CIA's power in 1960s Bernice Moore 0 3,068 30-08-2011, 10:37 PM
Last Post: Bernice Moore
  Japan in WWII: A Casualty of Usury? / Was WWII Fought to make the World Safe for the Bankers? Ed Jewett 1 3,062 29-06-2011, 09:10 AM
Last Post: Magda Hassan
  More American history not taught in schools by Joe Perez at Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy Magda Hassan 0 5,392 05-12-2009, 06:40 AM
Last Post: Magda Hassan
  How we lied to put Suharto in power Magda Hassan 0 2,788 21-11-2009, 01:29 AM
Last Post: Magda Hassan

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)