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arrotsevni's avatar

A lot of ground covered in this one. A couple of observations. First, agreed, there is pitting of East vs West and it is mostly show. These are predators of the world vying against each other for more power, control and wealth. Each of these words iis essentially interchangeable with the other. Not greed, but a sickness to control more this day than they controlled yesterday. They believe having the ultimate power is a means of controlling the uncertainty of life, which is essentially the uncertain behaviors of humanity. These are fearful people believing if they had ultimate power that they would feel safe from others. What makes this problematic is that as they gather power, they make themselves increasingly a target of other predators wanting the same. They are caught up in their own perception never realizing that their end goal is never achievable. For the rest of us who are not interested in power over others, we are never bothered by not having it. For predators, the end game is always failure, but along the way, they create all the damage we have ever witnessed by trying to envision their dreams.

The only cure in my opinion is to remove the existing predators from office and to prevent newer ones from gaining authority. The political associations will change because these individuals are as slippery in their pretended morality as the wind in a squall.

Second, from long study and a career in finance looking for the needle of truth in a pile of false needles used to pitch supposed 'expert advice', nearly all in finance are compromised by misinformation they only discovered once they entered the arena. What I mean is that the numbers of individuals who can make sense out of generally accepted assumptions voiced daily are very, very few. Those trying to control the 'system' for their own benefit truly do not have a clue how things actually work. The believe the Fed controls rates. It does not. The Fed adjusts the Fed Fund rate only after the 3mo Treasury rate has shifted and quasi-stabilized at new level. The Fed claims it controls rates but it is just part of their political positioning. After alll, every one of them is a political appointee. It is the politicians who drive inflation with endless spending-pandering to stay in office. I just saw as study that showed their net worth rise $1.6mil annually on a salary of $175,000 as long as they were in office. This is graft on a major scale, pushing federal spending programs for which the Fed must raise borrowings. In the process politicians get kickbacks in the form of political donations and insider information to do their stock trading. The top-down direction comes from the non-public ultra-wealthy who make $Billions on vaccines, land deals, defense spending and etc. It is why they are pushing continued vaccination boosters even today long after it has been shown how dangerous they are. There is so much more, but all from the single drive to control. A sickness to control others that is ever consuming needing more control today than yesterday. These are the sociopaths of the world. Some are very smart like Gates and Klaus Schwabe, but there are wealthier people further in the background. We need to unmask these folks. Bring them and their behaviors into the light. Sunlight sterilizes.

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Misha Angeloff's avatar

Your confusion stems from your belief in "freedom" and political liberty. You are right that neither side in the East - West conflict is interested in those issues. No doubt. But there is a conflict. Western politicians are not good actors. The conflict is between authoritarian traditional nationalism and totalitarian fascist globalism. That is a real conflict in which both sides wish to capture international institutions like the UN for their side. But the nationalists are not globalists. That stretches the term beyond reason. Nonetheless, they want one primary center of soft control along the Moscow-Beijing centrality rather than a DC or Brussels controlled world. But you are correct in that 1776 has nothing to do with any of it.

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