A financial oligarchy has seized control of the country,
and, since it can't control its own appetites, is running it into the ground.
Thus, it would make sense for it to have some sort of back-up plan for when the
whole financial house of cards falls apart. Ideally, this plan would
effectively put down any chance of revolt of the downtrodden masses, and allow
the oligarchy to maintain security and hold onto its wealth. Peacetime is
fine for as long as it can placate the populace with bread and circuses, but
when a financial calamity causes the economy to crater and bread and circuses
turn scarce, a handy fallback is war. http://www.zerohedge.com
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[ It doesn’t exist a knock down in one single shot among main
contenders in war-history.. what exist is the Stalin type of retaliation on the
Nazis .. 2 or 3 consecutive shots until stone-age & surrender. .. In other
words, if the US is planning the 1st strike on Russia.. there will
be many nukes on our soil .. and not only from RU .. Besides, the whole
humanity will celebrate their victory.. not ours. I don’t think there will be
one single US embassy worldwide in position to celebrate the chances of US
victory. Hugo Adan ]
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LETS READ SOME
EXTRACTS FROM ORLOV ARTICLE
Looking at this broad landscape
of US failure, there are two ways to interpret it. One is that the US officialdom
is the most incompetent one imaginable, and can't ever get anything right. But
another is that they do not succeed for a distinctly different reason: they don't succeed because results don't
matter.
In fact, a point can be made that
it is the limited scope of failure that is the problem. This would explain
the recent saber-rattling in the direction of Russia, accusing it of imperial
ambitions (Russia is not interested in
territorial gains), demonizing Vladimir Putin (who is effective and
popular) and behaving provocatively along Russia's various borders (leaving
Russia vaguely insulted but generally unconcerned). It can be argued that all the previous victims
of US foreign policy—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, even the Ukraine—are too
small to produce failure writ large enough to satisfy America's appetite for
failure. Russia, on the other hand, especially when incentivized by
thinking that it is standing up to some sort of new, American-style fascism,
has the ability to deliver to the US a foreign policy failure that will dwarf
all the previous ones.
Analysts have proposed a variety of explanations for
America's hyperactive, oversized militarism. Here are the top three:
1. The
US government has been captured by the military-industrial complex, which
demands to be financed lavishly. Rationales are created artificially
to achieve that result. But there does seem to be some sort of pressure to
actually make weapons and field armies, because wouldn't it be far more
cost-effective to achieve full-spectrum failure simply by stealing all the
money and skip building the weapons systems altogether? So something else must
be going on.
2. The
US military posture is designed to assure Americans of their imagined
“full-spectrum dominance” over the entire planet. But “full-spectrum
dominance” sounds a little bit like “success,” whereas what we see is full-spectrum failure. Again, this story doesn't fit
the facts.
3. The
US acts militarily to defend the status of the US dollar as the global reserve
currency. But the US dollar is slowly but surely losing its attractiveness
as a reserve currency, as witnessed by China and Russia acting as swiftly as
they can to unload their US dollar reserves, and to stockpile gold instead.
Numerous other nations have entered into arrangements with each other to stop
using the US dollar in international trade. The fact of the matter is, it doesn't take a
huge military to flush one's national currency down the toilet, so,
once again, something else must be going on.
There are many other
explanations on offer as well, but none of them explain the fact that the goal
of all this militarism seems to be to achieve failure.
Perhaps a simpler explanation would suffice?
How about this one:
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The US
has surrendered its sovereignty to a clique of financial oligarchs. Having
nobody at all to answer to, this American (and to some extent international)
oligarchy has been ruining the financial condition of the country, running up
staggering levels of debt, destroying savings and retirements, debasing the
currency and so on. The inevitable end-game is that the Federal
Reserve (along with the central banks of other “developed economies”) will end
up buying up all the sovereign debt issuance with money they print for that
purpose, and in the end this inevitably leads to hyperinflation and national
bankruptcy. A very special set of conditions has prevented these two events
from taking place thus far, but that doesn't mean that they won't, because
that's what always happens, sooner or later.
Now, let's suppose a financial
oligarchy has seized control of the country, and, since it can't control its
own appetites, is running it into the ground. Then
it would make sense for it to have some sort of back-up plan for when the whole
financial house of cards falls apart. Ideally,
this plan would effectively put down any chance of revolt of the downtrodden
masses, and allow the oligarchy to maintain security and hold onto its wealth. Peacetime is fine for as long as it can placate the populace
with bread and circuses, but when a financial calamity causes the economy to
crater and bread and circuses turn scarce, a handy fallback is war.
Any rationale for war will do, be
it terrorists foreign and domestic, Big Bad Russia, or hallucinated space
aliens. Military success is unimportant, because
failure is even better than success for maintaining order because it makes it
possible to force through various emergency security measures. Various
training runs, such as the military occupation of Boston following the staged
bombings at the Boston Marathon, have already taken place. The surveillance
infrastructure and the partially privatized prison-industrial complex are
already in place for locking up the undesirables. A really huge failure would
provide the best rationale for putting the economy on a war footing, imposing
martial law, suppressing dissent, outlawing “extremist” political activity and
so on.
And so perhaps that is what we should expect. FINANCIAL COLLAPSE IS ALREADY BAKED IN, AND IT'S ONLY A
MATTER OF TIME BEFORE IT HAPPENS, AND PRECIPITATES COMMERCIAL COLLAPSE WHEN
GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS STOP FUNCTIONING. Political
collapse will be resisted, and the way it will be resisted is by starting as
many wars as possible, to produce a vast backdrop of failure to serve as a
rationale for all sorts of “emergency measures,” all of which will have just
one aim: to suppress rebellion and to keep the oligarchy in power. Outside the US, it will look like Americans blowing things
up: countries, things, innocent bystanders, even themselves (because, you know,
apparently that works too). From the outside looking into America's hall of
one-way mirrors, it will look like a country gone mad; but then it already
looks that way. And inside the hall of one-way mirrors it will
look like valiant defenders of liberty battling implacable foes around the
world. Most people will remain docile and just wave their little flags.
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But I would venture to guess that at some point failure will
translate into meta-failure: America will fail
even at failing. I hope that there is something we can do to
help this meta-failure of failure happen sooner rather than later.
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