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ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

Is America in the final stages of dementia?

5/6/2019

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https://www.quora.com/Although-hard-to-consider-given-how-tense-things-are-between-the-U-S-and-Chinese-along-with-Russia-how-effective-do-you-think-they-would-be-as-allies-and-who-would-the-U-S-work-better-with-for-example-like-counter/answer/Vince-Dhimos
 
Although hard to consider given how tense things are between the U.S and Chinese along with Russia, how effective do you think they would be as allies and who would the U.S work better with? (for example like counter-terror operations)
 
Vince Dhimos, Editor-in-Chief at New Silk Strategies (2016-present)
 
At this point in time, the US cabal is stuck in a negative economic strategy that obviously will never work out in the long run. Their attitude toward Russia and China is juvenile and not worthy of adults. They appear to think — God knows why — that if they can bring down these two countries, they will somehow benefit, perhaps even prosper. And yet there is no rational reason to expect that, quite to the contrary. The fact is, if they could just stop this childishness, the US could make money by joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
 
A few years ago when China opened its Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), 14 European states joined and so did most US allies in Asia such as India, Malaysia and Indonesia, the South Pacific, such as Australia and N. Zealand and many more for a total of 97 member states at this point. It was symbolic that Saudi Arabia – on which the US had once pinned its hopes of propping up the dollar – was one of the first to join. Everyone saw the growth opportunities. Everyone except the self-proclaimed Exceptional Nation. Obama warned that the AIIB lacked "safeguards." What he apparently meant was that unlike the IMF, this Chinese bank was liable to lend even to countries that did not have cross dressers in uniform. It was just weirdness and stubbornness, very much like a debilitating mental disease. At this point, the US does not seem capable of admitting that it could benefit from any kind of business relationship with Russia and China as long as the founders of the business venture are either of these two countries. The US response to Russia’s incursion into Arctic oil exploration, for example, was to plan the construction of military bases there. For what purpose? Would making Russia poorer make the US richer? Wouldn’t it have been more rational to offer cooperation with US oil companies?
 
The US insists on being the big cheese and getting all the attention but it won’t listen to anyone that is not a worshipper. Frankly, it is never of any benefit to pass up a business opportunity, especially something like China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is the biggest infrastructure enterprise even undertaken and is intended to involve all continents. There is nothing any bigger or potentially more lucrative that the US could invest in. But the US would rather lose than not be in the driver’s seat. If this attitude doesn’t cease at some point, the US will find itself eating the dust of Russia and China as the dollar drops in value and loses its hegemonic reserve status. It’s really a crying shame, all that wasted potential. I have never seen any other country with so much potential throw it all away just for the sake of false pride. I mean, if the cabal in Washington and Wall Street wants to commit suicide, that is their prerogative, but they are dragging down the whole country and there are people in the US who don’t deserve this.
 
I sensed the wind direction years ago when the Saudis joined the AIIB, and sure enough, just a few weeks ago, Saudi was baring its fangs and claws at the US, signalling the end of the honeymoon, as I reported here:
 
http://www.newsilkstrategies.com/news--analysis/news-from-wsj-on-saudi-arabia-americas-ex-ally-yes-ex
 
and here:
 
http://www.newsilkstrategies.com/international-relations/uh-on-saudis-side-with-putin-against-us-sanctions
 
I suspect this kind of scenario may be the end stage of all democratic experiments in  environments where a premium is placed on freedom. After all, democracy must by its nature focus on politics, not technically sound solutions, and eventually, the politics and the technically sound solutions must diverge fatally. I'd have to say we are there.
 
Maybe this whole process is like the life cycle of the sequoia, whose propagation is said to depend in part on a forest fire that helps open up the tough seed coat so it can sprout. At any rate, it looks more and more likely that destruction will come before redemption.
1 Comment
John Edward McClain
5/9/2019 04:00:35 pm

Vince, I'm a true believer in Christ, and have been for thirty five years or more, and am more sure of my faith than ever before, because of what I watch taking place.
One of the most important aspects of "doing evil" is doing it with intent to harm, knowing it will, and taking some sort of pleasure. Many times in the Bible we are reminded, if we turn to sin, choose its lifestyle, God will withdraw from us, and "leave us to a reprobate mind", which I've long taken to mean, "our mind, without the presence of God in it, as we all have, from birth, until and unless, we choose to walk away from God, directly.
I don't believe our current rulers are capable of considering sharing rule with others, mainly fearing they would at some point, be overthrown by another, or "others, grown strong", there simply is no other alternative, while they have any power at all, in their own perspective.
At this point, every "gold based investment banking system" that has opened, has invited the U.S. to join, with real desire to have us as part of the effort, no Nation that depends on trade, to survive, wants the U.S. to fail, everyone knows about "blowback", except those who refuse to believe in it, only our enemies with nothing to lose, actually would cheer to see us collapse.
I was born into and raised in an atheist family, my parents were the most honest people I've known, personally, bright, hard working, determined to make good lives, and working for the betterment of others, even when we were small children.
My whole life I was pressed to "face the facts" and while my own education is probably the most eclectic of we three children, both my sisters, elder and younger, were software engineers, but as liberal as were their schools. I've seen "design" everywhere I've looked, literally "all my life", and while I questioned God for a decade or so, I've become stronger in belief, as quantum mechanics grows more informative, and astrophysics produces more information about even just our solar system.
I believe it's fundamentally important to have a sound moral foundation, to live a good, honest life, and while I love my sisters dearly, loved and respected my parents as much as anyone ever, and far more than most people I've met, I've never understood how they established "morals" they certainly maintained, without any foundation.
One of my favorite quotes has been John Adams, after the Constitution was sent to the States, for ratification, and asked as to the form and substance of the government. He replied, "a republic", and proceeded to explain it, then stated: "but this form of government is suited only for a moral, and a religious people, any other form, require a tyrant, to drive them to do their duties". I believe, in losing our religion as a Nation, and as a country, we lost our moral foundation, and the vast majority, even professing faithful, either are too close to progressive, having been bullied, or are actually questioning or lost faith, and can somehow see even in one such as HRC, a redeemable, indeed, Presidential Woman, and yet all I see is a pathetic, once had a chance, has been, who started her career, by stealth, failing to complete the required courses, and caught in fraud, losing her law licence, yet never a sign of regret, always pressing forward,, ever more evil. I don't believe there's a better answer than "they are simply absent God, and we don't know what that's like unless we've cast him out, and I would suggest most who do, don't believe, and merely feel "unconstrained by conscience".
I hope you know, I have the utmost respect for your work, the latitude you proceed on, you produce a substantial volume of very valuable data, and for those intent on knowing, it matters a whole lot.
God Bless you,
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
Vanceboro, NC, USA

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