A VIDEO ESSAY BY GONZALO LIRA: Sounds harsh and even flippant, but the logic of history and economics is irrefutable. The US empire is going down, a victim of its own obvious mistakes, the weight of innumerable errors neglected by the colossal level of hubris and corruption permeating the ruling elites of the West, headquartered in Washington, and the inexorable, myopic often chaotic thinking inherent in capitalism. Ironically, it is not solely the defeats in the military sense that are contributing so much to the downfall from supremacy, although they represent a major component of the problem, but, as Lira points out, the concomitant bloating of the financial sphere, where the accumulating contradictions of capitalism, chiefly the US public and private debt, and the resulting loss of dollar solvency, are causing a refusal by hitherto key “vassal” nations (i.e., Saudi Arabia) to continue trading exclusively in dollars. This, says Lira, and we agree entirely, is hammering the last nails into the Anglo-American empire coffin, regardless of the outcome of the Ukrainian war.
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BATIUSHKA—The most dramatic event after its defeat in the Ukraine will surely be the retreat of the USA, as it is expelled from Eurasia, a process that began in Vietnam and then continued in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nationalist Trump wanted to withdraw voluntarily, but he was not allowed to, therefore the humiliating US withdrawal will happen by force, as it did in Kabul. ‘Yanks, go home’, chants the whole world, including many in Western Europe, tired of US tyranny. In Eurasia, the US now occupies only a few islands (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore), the tips of two peninsulas (Korea and Western Europe) and the seaboard edge Israel. It will have to leave all of these, except for the Non-Palestinian parts of Israel. Taiwan will naturally return to China, Japan will have to find its own way, reconciling itself to a reunited Korea and submitting itself to China economically.
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An important discussion by expert observers about the significance of Bakhmut, and what its fall may represent. Observers include Gonzalo Lira (host), Brian Berletic (The New Atlas), HistoryLegends, and Military Summary.
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ERIC ZUESSE—U.S.-and-allied ‘news’ is so riddled with such obligatory billionaires’ lies, reading or hearing it is virtually inviting oneself to be suckered by their lies. Of course, there is a reason to invite that if the reader or hearer is determined to believe that one’s own nation’s Government and ‘news’-media are not some elaborate scam-operation to deceive the nation’s public to believe that more weapons-sales by firms such as Lockheed Martin and more international extractions such as by firms such as ExxonMobil are God-ordained instead of devil-designed; but, if one is at all realistic, one will recognize that that is the exact opposite of the reality.
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A wide ranging discussion of the past, present and probable future of the confrontation between Russia and the West, precipitated by the US/NATO coalition decision to besiege, vanquish and balkanise Russia. in Part 3 the strategists explore the many pathways to American military defeat and strategic failure, and how these have worked in concert, as they are now culminating in Ukraine.
