Andrew Salmon
31st August, 2021
The delusional Global Britain agenda is set to run for some time, always on the road to nowhere
Posts Tagged ‘End of empire’
UK gunboat diplomacy fires blanks at China
Posted by seumasach on September 1, 2021
Posted in Containing China, Uncategorized | Tagged: End of empire, Global Britain, HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier strike group (CSG) | Leave a Comment »
Why the loss of Afghanistan ultimately ends the Empire
Posted by seumasach on August 30, 2021
29th August, 2021
This episode and its implications will not be lost on other servants of the Empire. Will the its corrupt puppets in the Middle East, Africa, South America and elsewhere be comfortable following the Empire’s dictates? Will they obediently “build back better,” ploughing over their economies and social fabric, destroying their people’s lives? After Afghanistan they will have to think about making nice with their own people and seek cooperation with other global powers, primarily China and Russia. The Empire has already been check-mated in Ukraine; it lost Syria and their hold on Iraq has all but slipped away. Afghanistan may well prove to be its mortal wound.
Posted in Afghanistan, Global peace process, Multipolar world | Tagged: brzezinski, End of empire, Mackinder | Leave a Comment »
New Cold War: Some Western pundits want to break up Russia & China
Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2021
In fact, the destruction of Russia and China is the goal along with the destruction of their own countries. At the heart of Western policy is a shocking nihilism and the vain hope of a New World Order built of the rubble of national sovereignty.
Paul Robinson
5th August, 2021
Posted in Multipolar world, New Cold War | Tagged: End of empire | Leave a Comment »
Biden losing friends and gaining enemies
Posted by seumasach on April 27, 2021
Biden’s unforced errors are killing America in the grand geopolitical game of the 21st century
Biden appears to represent Trumpism without Trump: the key here may be that all the Joints Chiefs of Staff are Trump appointees and remain at their posts under Biden. Behind all the smoke and mirrors lies the realist current within the USA and nothing could be more realistic than ending America’s extensive network of bases, alliances, covert operations, client states etc., in short ending America’s informal empire. This is necessary work as this empire’s raison d’être, global hegemony, the New World Order is now, more than ever, clearly a chimera. Since retreat from empire contradicts America’s special status it must be carried through covertly, unannounced creating facts on the ground which open the doors to a multipolar world order
Brandon J.Weichert
27th April, 2021
US President Joseph R Biden rose to power promising to restore America’s purportedly ailing alliances. Allies are needed to assist the United States in curbing the rise of China, Russian aggression, and Iranian revanchism. Yet in the last several weeks, the Biden administration has gone out of its way to alienate potential allies across the world.
Posted in Global peace process, Multipolar world | Tagged: Biden presidency, disband nato, End of empire, End of Nato, retreat from empire | Leave a Comment »
War profiteers and the demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex
Posted by seumasach on July 22, 2019
Dimitri Orlov
16th July, 2019
Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition and sustainment and office for industrial policy spends some $100,000 a year producing an Annual Report to Congress. It is available to the general public. It is even available to the general public in Russia, and Russian experts had a really good time poring over it.
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De-dollarizing the American financial empire
Posted by seumasach on July 15, 2019
Interview with Michael Hudson
7th July, 2019
Economist Michael Hudson continues his discussion of Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire with a focus on US monetary imperialism; President Trump’s demand for lower interest rates undercuts America’s requirement for foreign investment to fund its domestic and balance of payments deficit, increases the carry trade and turns IMF and World Bank policies on the US; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest creditor post-WWI; analysis of US economic domination of the world from its position as the world’s largest debtor after the 1971 close of America’s gold window; emergence of the dollar-debt standard; how war has bankrupted the US; the difference between imperialism and super imperialism; US bribes foreign governments; China’s banking system; China and Russia stockpile gold as the world breaks out of dollar domination.
Posted in Currency Wars, Uncategorized | Tagged: de-dollarisation, decline of dollar, End of empire, gold standard | Leave a Comment »
Reporter Sharmine Narwani on the secret history of America’s defeat in Syria
Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2019
“The U.S. was already exiting the Middle East before the so-called “Arab uprisings” kicked off. Whoever in the U.S. national security apparatus made the decision to stick around and redirect these uprisings against regional adversaries made a colossal mistake. I want to write about this one day because it’s important. I believe the Syrian conflict constitutes the main battlefield in a kind of World War III. The world wars were, in essence, great-power wars, after which the global order reshuffled a bit and new global institutions were established.
Look around you now. We have had a reshuffle in the balance of power in recent years, with Russia, China, Iran in ascendance and Europe and North America in decline. That’s not to say that Washington, London or Paris don’t have levers left to pull: They do. But it is on the back of the Syrian conflict that a great-power battle was fought, and in its wake, new international institutions for finance, defense and policymaking have been born or transformed.
I’m not just talking about the strengthening of the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa], the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Eurasian Union, etc. I mean the world’s networks are shifting hands, too. What will happen to Western-controlled shipping routes now that Asia has started to build faster, cheaper land routes? Will the SWIFT [bank messaging] system survive when an alternative is agreed upon to bypass U.S. sanctions everywhere? There are so many examples of these shifts. It’s not to say that they are due to events in Syria, but rather that Syria triggered the great-power battle that unleashed the potential of this new order much more quickly and efficiently.
Keep in mind that World War III was never going to be like the other two conventionally fought wars…. It was always going to be an irregular war that would escalate on multiple fronts — not just regime change events, but financial pressures, sanctions, propaganda, political subversion activities, destabilization, increased terrorism, proxy fights and so on. The battle for global hegemony really began to unfold over Syria, though, when the Russians, Iranians and Chinese decided to draw a line and put up a fight. The world changed after that.”
Interview with Patrick Lawrence
21st April ,2019
Posted in Syria | Tagged: End of empire, Obama's realist turn, US defeat in Middle East | Leave a Comment »
Merkel draws the line against Trump
Posted by seumasach on February 25, 2019
21st february, 201
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned the corner on relations with the United States. Her speech at the Munich Security Conference should be considered Germany’s divorce filing from the U.S.-led post-WWII institutional order.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: end of Atlantic alliance, End of empire, independent Europe | Leave a Comment »
Russia phasing out US dollar in military contracts
Posted by seumasach on December 25, 2018
The Duran(source:RT)
24th december, 2018
Moscow is dropping the greenback in major arms deals and switching to the Russian ruble and the national currencies of its partners, according to the country’s trade minister Denis Manturov.
Posted in Currency Wars, Uncategorized | Tagged: decline of dollar, End of empire | Leave a Comment »
Trump’s Syrian pullout is a game changer
Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2018
M.K.Bhadrakumar
20th december, 2018
The US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday regarding the withdrawal of American military from Syria has predictably run into strong headwinds in the Washington Beltway. A formidable coalition appeared overnight – comprising the Deep State, US defence and security establishment, leading members of the Congress, major media organs –branding Trump as a maverick. However, the fact of the matter is that Trump made a considered decision.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: End of empire, endgame inSyria, Victory in Syria! | Leave a Comment »
Hammond threatens EU with aggressive tax changes after Brexit
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2018
It is clear now that the meaning of this statement has to be revisited in the light growing American hostility to UK financial interests culminating in Trump’s election and embodied in his tax reforms, and the growing campaign to render British Overseas Territories more transparent finally concretised in 2018 legislation. Dodgy financial operations are not only under threat by EU regulations but by US competition. and have been for some time. Hence the need for a deepening of the City of London’s role as a haven for illicit money flows.
15th January, 2017
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has suggested Britain could transform its economic model into that of a corporate tax haven if the EU fails to provide it with an agreement on market access after Brexit.
In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Hammond said that if Britain were closed off from European markets after leaving the EU, it would consider abandoning a European-style social model with European-style taxation and regulation systems, and “become something different”.
Posted in brexit crisis | Tagged: Brexit and the hedge funds, City of London, End of empire, UK as offshore tax haven | Leave a Comment »
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