To understand what is about to happen, and why the US is so desperate to attack Iran at this present time, we need to go back to August 2019. What is the Repo Market? In September 2019, a critical but obscure part of the financial system broke. Overnight borrowing rates in the repo market suddenly […]
9 Pakistan First, Pakistan is the most viable overland access where the US can reconnect with Central Asia, which is rich in energy resources. As Russia is waging war in Ukraine and China is squeezing trade in the region, Washington requires other access points into Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and so on. The Central Asian countries […]
6 Iran “Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an “anti- hegemonic” coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. It would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the […]
The Baltics Russia uses the Baltic Sea for its maritime trade, like oil and gas. It also houses several naval bases, especially Murmansk- which also houses its Northern Fleet. Both London and New York are actively working to blockade the Baltic Sea, in order to curtail its exports. The second reason is to blockade its […]
1 BRICS – from an Economic Project to a Geopolitical Force 2 The SCO 3 Tariff Wars 4 Oil Wars 5 Russia 6 Iran 7 China 8 India 9 Pakistan 10 Brazil 11 Venezuela 12 South Africa 13 Commodities vs. Paper Money (aka the real economy vs. a parallel financial economy) 14 The Future of […]
5 Emergences of Two Divergent Trade Blocs How would a China-oriented trade bloc and a US-oriented one will differ and the implications of this for the world? China’s installed electricity capacity, see above graph, is astounding. Annual demand for electricity in China equals to 1 Germany a year, while production capacity increases by 2 Germany’s […]
Should China succeed, the U.S. would lose its ‘magic weapon’ of monetary dominance. For the United States, it is fundamentally an economic defeat. The sanctions policy showed that the financial power of the West was not omnipotent. The Americans were reminded of the fragility of their military industry. The people at the Pentagon know very […]
1 The China Story 2 BRI-A techtonic shift in the global balance of power 3 Wall Street eyes China’s financial sector 4 China vs. America 5 Emergence of 2 trade Blocs 6 The Beijing military parade 7 The SCO summit 8 Leadership qualities British-Backed Strategic Thrusts against China In the early 1990s, London is determined […]
The story continues from Part 3 Moscow Goes East At the end of 2009, precisely as planned and to the surprise of Washington, Russia opened the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline, a 4-year construction project costing some $14 billion. The pipeline now allows Russia to export oil directly from its East Siberia fields to […]
The story continues from part 1 5 The Unipolar Period – (1990-2020) With the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, the US emerged without any rivals, to contest it for global domination. The American financier elite, centered in New York, planned a final push to secure their position in the world. Their reasoning […]
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