The US The North American region is in a more fortunate position than Europe. It has enough energy, raw materials and food to reduce its reliance on imports. It is mainly in manufacturing that the US has fallen way behind. In 1980, manufacturing was nearly 75-80% of the economy; and in 2023, it has been […]
In the last article, we discussed the impact of what a declining energy consumption may lead to. In this article, we will discuss the danger of rising interest rates – the reason of it, and its implications on the global economy. Since the creation of the US Federal Reserve over a century ago, every major […]
In September 2019, Wall Street had a triple cardiac event. The Feds’ Repo window went crazy. A normal weekly repo activity amounts to an average $50 billion. In mid September, over a period of 2 weeks, the Fed lent out an astounding $600 billion plus! This shocked David Rockefeller Jnr (the head of the family), […]
In this part 2, we will discuss Iran’s relations with Russia and China. Target Russia… Iran & Russia Relations between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Persian Empire (Iran) officially commenced in 1521, Past and present contact between Russia and Iran have long been complicatedly multi-faceted; often wavering between collaboration and rivalry. The two nations have a long history of […]
Introduction In 1904 in a speech before the Royal Geographical Society in London British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder, a firm advocate of the British Empire, presented what is arguably one of the most influential documents in world foreign policy of the past two hundred years since the Battle of Waterloo. His short speech was titled […]
4. The Bab el Mandab The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is another primary waterway for the world’s oil and natural gas. Nestled between Africa and the Middle East, the critical route connects the Mediterranean Sea (via the Suez Canal) to the Indian Ocean. Like the Strait of Malacca, it’s well known as a high-risk area for […]
In military strategy, a choke point is a geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or bridge, or maritime passage through a critical waterway such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass through in order to reach its objective, sometimes on a substantially narrowed front and therefore greatly decreasing its combat effectiveness by making it harder to bring superior numbers to bear. A choke point can allow a […]
How Eurasia Will be Interconnected – BRI version 2.0 Xi had announced that Beijing will hold the 3rd Belt and Road Forum in 2023. The forum was initially designed to be bi-annual, first held in 2017 and then 2019. 2021 didn’t happen because of Covid-19. The return of the forum signals not only a renewed drive […]
The Silk Road started somewhere around 100 AD. Goods travelled from the East to the West. When the Mongol Empire began, capturing the Silk Road and China (the source) helped to increase their Empire. The main artery of this road travelled through Turkey to Europe. When the Turks finally captured Constantinople in 1453, they brought […]
The New World Order The most dramatic event after its defeat in the Ukraine will surely be the retreat of the USA, as it is expelled from Eurasia, a process which began in Vietnam and then continued in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nationalist Trump wanted to withdraw voluntarily, but he was not allowed to, therefore […]
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