Imagine living in Poland when the Reich and Russians roll in and divide the country.
Today it is planet Earth and the Fascist West (Nazi) and the Eurasian East (Communist) eyeing the meal.
There are those who feel China is the better deal and others - as happened in Poland and the Ukraine - the Nazi.
The Nazi has bankrupted itself and allies but has some wonder weapons.
Eurasia is being born because the Nazi hates Russia not rolling over and ceding everything to service Nazi debt. Eurasia is broken too of course, a swindle propped up by slave labor in China and resources in Russia. China holding useless FRN’s it can only use on Brick and Road colonization for the coming New World Order.
Due to this phenomenon of freely generating new US-dollars, creating new debt, the US is by far the most indebted country in the world, with currently US$ 49.8 trillion debt, compared with a 2020 GDP of about US$ 21 trillion (Debt – GDP ratio 2.3 = 237% debt over GDP).
There is another important component of US debt, called by the General Accounting Office (GAO), “Unfunded Liabilities”, US$ 213 trillion (all figures 16 April 2021: US Debt Clock – https://www.usdebtclock.org/current-rates.html). These exceptionally high ratios have undoubtedly also to do with incurred covid-debt.
Unfunded liabilities are debt obligations that do not have sufficient funds or assets set aside to pay them. These liabilities generally refer to the U.S. government’s debt-service (unpaid interest on debt), or pension plans and their impact on savings and investment securities, as well as health-insurance and social support coverage for soldiers returning from wars.
These astronomical debt figures and an unbacked fiat currency are even further reducing worldwide confidence in the US-dollar. It is clear, the US debt will never be paid-off. The Federal Reserve Chair, Allan Greenspan (1987 – 2006), once answered to a journalist’s question, when will the US pay back her debt: Never. We just print new money. So, spoken, so it was and so it is.
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Today and for the last about 10 years the US-dollar has no longer a hydrocarbon trade monopoly, nor are other international contracts primarily established in US-dollars as used to be the case a couple of decades ago. China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and others have stopped using the US-dollar and are trading in local currencies and increasingly in Chinese yuan.
Why? – Countries’ treasurers around the world started realizing that the dollar is a highly volatile fiat currency, based on nothing, as shown by the above figures. Equally important for the loss of trust in the US-currency is that dollar-denominated international assets and the US banking system are frequently used by Washington to impose draconian, illegal economic sanction on countries that do not follow Washington’s dictate, including blocking countries’ foreign placed reserve assets. These economic and political realities are signaling the end of the US-dollar hegemony.
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Witkacy - a Polish painter and writer shot himself when Russia invaded. I can understand this decision. Witkiewicz witnessed the Russian Revolution while stationing in St Petersburg. In 1914 following a crisis in Witkiewicz's personal life due to the suicide of his fiancée for which he blamed himself, he was invited by Malinowski to act as draftsman and photographer on his anthropological expedition to the then Territory of Papua, by way of Ceylonand Australia. The venture was interrupted by the onset of World War I. After quarrelling with Malinowski in Australia, Witkiewicz who was by birth a subject of the Russian Empire, travelled to St Petersburg (then Petrograd) from Sydney and was commissioned as an officer in the Pavlovsky Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army.[6] His ailing father, a Polish patriot, was deeply grieved by his son's decision and died in 1915 without seeing him again. In July 1916 he was seriously wounded in the battle on Stokhid River in what is now Ukraine and was evacuated to St Petersburg. He claimed that he worked out his philosophical principles during an artillery barrage, and that when the Revolution broke out he was elected political commissar of his regiment. His later works would show his fear of social revolution and foreign invasion, often couched in absurdist language. Shortly after Poland was invaded by Germany in September 1939, Witkiewicz escaped with his young lover Czesława to the rural frontier town of Jeziory, in what was then eastern Poland. After hearing the news of the Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939, Witkacy committed suicide on 18 September by taking a drug overdose and trying to slit his wrists.
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Peter Koneig, a Western intellectual, is neither a Uyghur or a Pole, and stands firmly in the Eurasian camp with no gun to his head but a pen in hand.
I think he is a sycophant. I am not a pedigreed intellectual. I am destitute with few friends and no reputation and this is as it should be given my personality and peculiar trajectory as a Surrealist after the death of Surrealism. I write a little, read a lot, and feel my way in the darkness as a blind man in the fog of war.
If asked whose side are you on Stegiel I say I favor the gone world so neither totalitarian flavor. I was born like my parents before me in the USA. On my mother’s side the family has resided in the land since the 1740’s flight from Bremen, Germany for offending some clerics. On my father’s side the immigration from Poland was late 19th. The monster, the ogre that replaced my homeland is a simulacrum of the Old Country, mortally wounded by 9/11 and lingering until dead from Covid and buried without ceremony to the cheers of haters everywhere.
https://thesaker.is/chinas-communist-party-a-100-year-legacy-of-success-and-a-forward-vision/
Lordy. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-elected-world-health-organisation-executive-board-no-objections
China has been elected to the World Health Organisation’s Executive Board with zero objections from any democratic countries, despite its voluminous attempts to cover up the Coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent brutal lockdowns.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81NtiyWlEHs
What you say about these countries - "The monster, the ogre that replaced my homeland is a simulacrum of the Old Country, mortally wounded by 9/11 and lingering until dead from Covid and buried without ceremony to the cheers of haters everywhere." - seems this all may be true of most nations of the world right now. All of Europe seems to be bent on going along with fascism to get along. Are there any nations on Earth who aren't doing this? Difficult to tell anymore just where the source of authoritarianism is - it has sprung up all around us like a cancer.