Saturday, December 21, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Newest article: The American Conservative 12/17/24
Peace is not at hand in the Middle East, and Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu remains determined to expand the war. Syria’s de facto partition into Israeli and Turkish territories is the prelude to wider war with Iran. As the Times of Israel reported last week, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has “continued to increase its readiness and preparations” for “potential strikes in Iran.”
Netanyahu’s top priority is the destruction of Iran before Russia wraps up its victory in Ukraine and Syria becomes a new battleground for Turks and Israelis. It’s not simply the end of Washington’s “rules-based international order.” It’s the onset of chaos. Israeli forces and Turkish auxiliaries (i.e. the Islamist terrorists who sacked Syria) are already staring at each other across a demarcation line that runs east–west just south of Damascus. Netanyahu harbors no illusions about the conflict between Ankara’s long-term strategic aims in the region and Jerusalem’s determination to claim the Syrian spoils of war.
In addition to serious financial trouble and societal discontent on the home front, President-elect Donald Trump now confronts the dangerous distraction of wars he did not start, wars that will bring his administration and his country no strategic benefit. America’s underwriting of Netanyahu’s expanding war in the Middle East will endanger U.S. national security and guarantee that Washington, its armed forces, and the U.S. economy will be hostage to whatever strategic direction Netanyahu decides to take.
Starting the war sooner, rather than later, is critical for Netanyahu. War with Iran presents Trump with a strategic fait accompli. In case Trump decides to distance the United States from another bloodbath in the Middle East, Israel’s ongoing conflict with Iran and Turkey’s potential confrontation with Israel will make disengagement impossible.
American policy planners need to understand the larger context in which this is all unfolding—and why a war on Iran will ultimately bring us and our alleged Israeli friends to grief. The principal aim of U.S. foreign policy planners ought to be the adaptation of the American economy and military establishment to the multipolar world and the development of new markets, not new enemies. Washington’s refusal to acknowledge the fundamental shifts in power and wealth lie at the heart of much of the Biden administration’s foreign policy failure.
A successful management of change would avoid a conflict with Iran; it would peacefully reconcile competing claims to regional hegemony, as the Chinese recently did with their brokering of the historic rapprochement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. It would revitalize such multilateral organizations as the UN Security Council and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. These actions would cultivate the emergence of new constellations of power along the lines of Metternich and Castlereagh’s 1815 Concert of Europe. Just as no question of strategic security in Europe can be solved without Russian participation, Washington cannot create stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing Israel’s territorial ambitions.
An American failure to manage its own transition to multipolarity will create more chaos and ignite a major war in the Middle East, not to mention a full blown war with Russia, and, eventually, China. An outlook that prioritizes avoiding conflict, not starting new conflicts, must replace nearly three decades of feckless leadership in foreign affairs. New thinking in defense and foreign policy should rank diplomacy and peaceful cooperation first over the use of military power.
Bonaparte quipped that in war, truth is the first casualty. Nothing has changed since then. Washington is a veritable fountainhead of lies feeding an unending stream of false narratives regarding the true character of the jihadist hordes raging across Syria. For our purposes, however, it is important to note the alignment of powers behind the Islamist factions now pillaging and terrorizing Syria.
Washington seems blithely oblivious to Syria’s destruction and the emergence of joint Israeli-Turkish hegemony across the Near East. The disintegration of Syria does, however, open up a short window of opportunity for Tel Aviv to attack Iran. As the Times of Israel report noted, while previously the “IAF would not fly directly over Damascus when carrying out strikes on Iran-linked targets in the capital, it now can.”
Netanyahu believes he has the wind at his back: Emboldened by the collapse of the Assad regime, he will turn his attention to Lebanon, southern Syria, and the West Bank. One predictable consequence of an attack on Iran will be a solidifying of the Chinese-brokered Iran-Saudi rapprochement—and a hardening of the blocs in the Greater Middle East, which will see Iran, backed by Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, set against a temporary Israel-Turkish bloc backed by Washington and its European vassals.
Iran is not Iraq: At 90 million people, it is double Iraq’s population, has a more developed economy, and has more powerful allies than Saddam Hussein ever did. Contrary to neoconservative expectations, there are no cake-walks in the greater Middle East.
The only certainty amid the chaos is that, thanks to the connivance of Biden, Netanyahu, and Erdogan, a wider war in the greater Middle East is only just beginning. It is one we will come to regret.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/iran-americas-next-war-of-choice/
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 12/11/2024
SYRIA - a looming crisis awaits.
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Daniel Davis/Deep Dive 11/26/2024
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Redacted 11/19/2024
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Our Country Our Choice 11/9/2024: Honoring Veteran's Day
Friday, November 8, 2024
Natalie Brunell 11/7/2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Stephen Gardner 11/1/2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Friday, November 1, 2024
Daniel Davis 10/30/2024
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 10/29/2024
Friday, October 25, 2024
Colonel Douglas Macgregor & Professor Glenn Diesen 10/24/2024
Redacted with Clayton and Natali Morris 10/24/2024
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Judge Napolitano-Judging Freedom 10/24/2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Daniel Davis/Deep Dive 10/16/2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 10/16/2024
Godfrey Bloom 10/15/2024
Friday, October 11, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 10/9/2024
Daniel Davis/Deep Dive 10/9/2024
Trump - Putin Bromance: NOT the Problem w/Col Doug Macgregor
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Important Message from Our Country Our Choice 10/4/2024
Redacted with Clayton Morris 10/3/2024
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Judge Napolitano - 10/2/2024
Daniel Davis-Deep Dive 10/2/2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
The Big Mig 9/26/2024
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Redacted 9/16/2024 "Putin is preparing a MASSIVE invasion to end this war" Col. Douglas Macgregor
Monday, September 9, 2024
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Thursday, September 5, 2024
Mike Adams 9/4/2024
Judging Freedom / Judge Napolitano 9/4/2024
Sunday, September 1, 2024
The Roger Stone Show on 77 WABC Radio 9/1/2024
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Redacted 8/26/2024
Friday, August 23, 2024
Glenn Diesen 8/22/2024
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 8/21/2024
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Daniel Davis/Deep Dive 8/20/2024
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Friday, August 9, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 8/8/2024
Saturday, August 3, 2024
STATE of AFFAIRS with DR. RAVASSI
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Reinvent Money 7/31/2024
Douglas Macgregor: Mike Pompeo’s alleged “Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine”
Natalie Brunell 7/31/2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
Redacted 7/29/2024 HIGH ALERT!
Thursday, July 25, 2024
The Coming Economic Collapse TUOMAS MALINEN JUL 23, 2024
https://mtmalinen.substack.com/p/the-coming-economic-collapse-0cd
Part III: A systemic meltdown
TUOMAS MALINEN
JUL 23, 2024
Issues discussed:
Systemic collapse implies cessation of day-to-day financial transactions.
Effects of this would be felt in all levels of ordinary life.
Preparation for this concentrates on keeping sufficient cash balances.
Please note that GnS Economics has an updating blog describing and following the Stages of the Collapse, we first published in December 2019.
When I was finalizing the second entry to my series on the approaching economic collapse, I realized that the meltdown of the financial system is something people tend not to know very much about. Yet, it’s the most pervasive economic phenomenon existing, because it affects the foundations of everyday life: how you pay, with what you pay and what is generally available?
The complete collapse of the financial system, or a systemic meltdown, is likely to consist of two parts. The first one would be the collapse of the banking system, which I have detailed in several posts (see, e.g., this and this), and the second the collapse of the financial markets. Their harsh effects would be felt directly in the real economy and everyday life.
In this piece I detail what will happen, when the financial system fails to function, where it leads to and how would societies cope after. It’s paramount to acknowledge that human societies are highly resilient and innovative towards shocks, and that money is nothing more than an IOU. I will also discuss the likely response of financial authorities.
What happens when the financial system seizes to function?
Not many know that we came extremely close of a systemic meltdown in mid-October 2008. By the second week of October, financial markets were panicked. The DJIA had fallen by over 22 percent, the FTSE by over 21 percent and the Tokyo Nikkei Index by over 24 percent in one week. Trust in the banking system was collapsing, and there was genuine apprehension that global banks would not open their doors on Monday the 13th. However, between Sunday and Monday night the leaders of the G-7 industrialized nations hammered-out a comprehensive rescue package for banks, which included borrowing guarantees, the recapitalization of afflicted banks and liquidity support from major central banks. Banks kept their doors open and credit kept flowing, although in diminished quantities. A systemic meltdown was averted, but we are likely to approach another such event.
A systemic meltdown would mean a cessation of all banking services due to the collapse of several major banks. Thus, this is an extreme version of a banking crisis. Here I briefly detail the probable effects of a systemic meltdown on the capital markets and the real economy, which we dubbed in the September 2020 Q-Review as the Reset.
What a Reset effectively implies is a collapse and prolonged economic and financial calamity. A wide-spread banking crisis leading into a systemic meltdown will spread mistrust throughout the financial markets, as well as restricting liquidity, as banks pull credit lines from both corporations and market participants leading to widespread ‘margin calls’.1 When the flow of credit freezes, all levered positions must be liquidated en masse, predictably leading to chaotic fire-sales across capital markets and skyrocketing interest rates forced by the meltdown of the banking sector—and capital markets collapse.
Alas, a cessation of practically all financial market activity results. Trading simply stops in many parts of the capital markets. As assets will become illiquid, a tsunami of defaults by investors and borrowers is likely to overwhelm both commercial and shadow banking sectors. It’s actually rather difficult to imagine a situation where majority of financial assets will abruptly lose all value, but that is, in fact what the Reset implies. That is, a re-denomination—a reset of practically all financial assets.
As a result, credit issuance throughout the capital markets will seize-up, like an engine without oil. Since credit lines from the banking sector will also be unavailable, corporate bankruptcies will accelerate at a never-before-seen pace. This will create wide-spread unemployment engulfing all sectors of the economy. Global freight will grind to a halt, because banks stop providing insurance and loans for the cargo, creating wide-spread shortages of necessities and factory inputs.
Cessation of banking services combined with corporate bankruptcies and skyrocketing unemployment will wreak havoc in the real economy and of course, in society, where real people, not statistics, live and interact. Credit lines are withdrawn, credit availability vanishes, mass foreclosures hit banks, MBS investors, and families, and cash-shortages emerge as electronic and card payments freeze. An extremely rapid deflation, in the range of tens of percent, would develop. Makeshift and alternative means of transaction are needed to cope with the lack of sufficient cash in circulation. Widespread rioting and looting will be likely as shortages develop.
It’s also possible that many governments will fail through social unrest, sovereign defaults and currency crashes. In this case, the central bank would become the only source of funding, which like catastrophic consequences, like explained in my previous entry.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Our Country Our Choice 7/24/2024 NETANYAHU VISIT
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Daniel Davis/Deep Dive 7/23/2024
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
The Prather Point 7/18/2024 UPDATED
The Prather Point 7/18/2024: Breaking: U.S. Deep State Targeted Trump and Putin!
UPDATE:
Edited to just include only Colonel Macgregor's interview:
Breaking: U.S. Deep State Targeted Trump and Putin!
https://rumble.com/v57go65-breaking-russia-us-deep-state-targeted-trump-and-putin.html
***Colonel Macgregor's interview starts around the 15:21 mark***
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
Russell Brand 7/5/2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Stephen Gardner 7/3/2024: It's Beyond Our Worst Fears
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Arta Moeini on X:
Our Country Our Choice: The debate is a call for accountability.
Judging Freedom/Judge Napolitano 6/27/2024
Bannons War Room 6/21/2024 Part 1 and 2
Our Country Our Choice: CNN and the White House Will Control Tonight's Debate Questions.
Monday, June 24, 2024
The American Conservative 6/24/2024 Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points
Ideas for Candidates Beyond Talking Points
Americans want a nation that leads by example. The candidates for the presidency and Congress should provide it to them.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Philadelphia, PA 6/27/2024
Monday, June 10, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Judging Freedom/Judge Napolitano 6/4/2024
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Freedom News 05/18/2024
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Unified Patriots News 5/31/2024 with General Mike Flynn ***FULL VIDEO***
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Saturday, May 25, 2024
Newsvoice.SE 5/23/2024
LifeSite 5/10/2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Memorial Day message from Colonel Douglas Macgregor
Our Country Our Choice
CEO Colonel Douglas Macgregor
Memorial Day message
https://vimeo.com/jacobmcneill/review/948496884/f5d25eb789
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Daniel Davis 5/6/2024
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Russell Brand 4/26/2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Colonel Macgregor's most recent OP-ED 4/23/2024 -- Audio only.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Redacted/Clayton Morris 4/22/2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Judge Napolitano/Judging Freedom 4/16/2024
The American Conservative 4/16/2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Reinvent Money with Paul Buitink 4/9/2024
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
RPN 3/30/2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Redacted 3/25/2024
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Judge Napolitano Judging Freedom 3/19/2024
Repost of interview from 3/1/2024 but for the German speaking audience:
Die Weltwoche
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#Putin ist viel klüger als seine Gegner: US-Colonel #DouglasMacgregor über die massiv unterschätzte russische #Armee, den Zusammenbruch des #Selenskyj-Regimes und die politische Lage in den #USA
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom 3/12/2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
Daniel Davis 3/11/2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoeT6W0_J0