Thursday, September 4, 2014

Will the US Succeed in Breaking Russia to Maintain Dollar Hegemony?





August
29, 2014

In Why they are
making an enemy of Russia?
we looked at two of
the key reasons why the US is making an enemy of Russia, namely the promotion of
conflict by the powerful Defense industry lobby in order to keep its order books
full, and the value of conjuring up an external enemy as a hate figure for the
masses, in order to take the heat off the government. In this article we are
going to look at what is arguably an even bigger reason, that was largely
omitted in the earlier article, which is that Russia, in alliance with China, is
threatening to bring an end to the dollar as the global reserve currency, which
would mean the end of the American empire.

We are witness to the
greatest struggle of our age – the battle to maintain global dollar hegemony,
and with it US economic, military and political dominance of the entire planet –
this struggle is now coming to a head.

Notwithstanding its
undeniably great accomplishments of the past hundred years, the relationship of the United States to
the rest of the world is parasitic. This is because it creates money and debt
instruments out of nothing, requiring virtually no effort, which it then swaps
for goods and services with other countries.
Because the US dollar is
the global reserve currency, it is able to [temporarily] rack up astronomic
deficits that would be untenable for any other country. US debts are now at such
levels that if the US dollar loses its reserve currency status, the United
States economy will implode and it will quickly be reduced to the status of a
banana republic – hence the sense of urgency in the face of growing
threats.
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Any state that moves
to opt out of using the dollar as a medium of exchange is dealt with, forcibly
if deemed necessary. The tactics are threefold – economic blockade (sanctions),
the funding of an internal revolution, perhaps assisted by US special forces,
and an outright military invasion, or perhaps a combination of the three. This is what happened in Iraq and Libya,
both of which planned to trade their oil in currencies other than the
dollar.
Perhaps the greatest irony of all is that the world’s savings, via
the Treasury market, are used to fund the vast US military machine with its
hundreds of bases spread across the world which forcibly makes sure they stay
yoked to this parasitical system.

Enter Russia (and
China), the biggest threat yet to dollar dominance. These large powerful
neighbors have entered into various major currency and trade agreements in the
recent past that do not involve the fiat dollar, and therefore pose a serious
threat to the dollar’s reserve currency status that left unchallenged would
bring it to an end. Once you understand that—you understand the reason for the
recent propaganda blitz against Russia. In addition China has been busy mopping
up the global gold supply for several years, as early preparation for the
eventual backing of its currency by gold, which will put the final nail in the
US’ coffin, as the unbacked, fiat  [not tied to value as with gold, silver,
platinum, etc.] dollar will collapse completely when this
happens.
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A sad irony for the
American people is that even though the US has the ability to swap unlimited,
intrinsically worthless paper for goods and services from the rest of the world,
the infrastructure of the country is crumbling and many Americans already live
in poverty on “food stamps”, and even the great US middle class is being
squeezed. This is because the elites [Rothschild Moneychangers and their myriad
proxies] don’t care about the country or the masses – all they care about is
power and the amassing of personal fortunes.
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If you are any good
at playing chess you should find it very easy to understand the power game as it
now stands. The US wants to “deal with Russia” which has made substantial moves
to operate outside the confines of the fiat-dollar-based trading system. If it
could attack it militarily and bomb it into submission, as it has done with
various smaller states, it would, but because Russia is a big powerful country
with a sizeable military of its own, and has as many nukes, that is not an
option. Efforts to subvert the Russian government from within and foment
revolution probably wouldn’t work, because the Russian secret services are good
at rooting out subversives, and probably as ruthless as the US black ops. That
only leaves the option of an economic blockade – sanctions, in an effort to
isolate and mortally weaken the Russia economy. As we know, these sanctions are
already in place. But what excuse do you use to impose sanctions? – after all,
it doesn’t sound too good to go on BBC World News and say “Russia has decided to
implement trade agreements that don’t involve the US dollar, so we are going to
blockade it economically” – enter the Ukraine.

The US searched for a
geographic doorway through which to attack Russia – the North and east routes
don’t work because they are either ocean or China, countries like Poland in
Europe wouldn’t do either, because they are firmly in the Western camp now, but
the Ukraine was perfect for the job because of its being a large country on the
SW flank of Russia that is torn in two directions, having old loyalties and
blood ties to Russia, and aspirations to a closer union with Europe – the
perfect place to foment a pro-Western revolution and perhaps a civil war that
would draw Russia in and could then be used as an excuse to implement sanctions.
That is exactly what has happened.
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So now we have
sanctions, but the problem for the US is this – they probably won’t work. They
will cause damage, especially to the fools in Europe who have slavishly followed
their orders from Washington to implement them, but they probably won’t destroy
the Russian economy as the US is hoping. This is because the Russian economy is
very big and can if necessary operate on a self-sufficient basis, especially as
it has its own oil and gas, and an important supportive factor is that it has a
big powerful neighbor in the form of China which knows it will be “in the firing
line” after Russia, and is thus quite happy to enter into a mutually supportive
relationship with Russia. China and Russia look set to form a “dollar free” axis
and tough it out with Washington. The
Chinese have worked all this out in advance, as has Putin, which is why, in
addition to mopping up all the gold available on the market in recent times to
later back its currency, it has been beefing up its military in readiness to
counter future threats from the US military
, which is already making moves
to reopen bases in the Philippines, and engaging in other expansionary measures
in the west Pacific.

Meanwhile, in the
Mid-East, we have the Islamic State movement, which appears to have arisen
spontaneously to fill the power vacuum that was created when US forces quit
Iraq. We should not forget that although Iraq has existed for many decades, the
country is an artificial creation of the British after the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire in order to control the region and its oil reserves. The US is
trying to stop them with air power, but without “boots on the ground” they are
unlikely to succeed. Although Israel is looking on with satisfaction as Arab
kills Arab, it had better hope that the dollar doesn’t lose its reserve currency
status, or they could be in big trouble as the conveyor belt of money and arms
across the Atlantic from the US could grind to a
halt.
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The situation between
the US and Russia (and in the future China) is potentially very dangerous – is
already very dangerous. Are they (the US elites and NATO) crazy enough to start
a World War? – World War III? Sure they are and you can see the potential for it
in the continual provocation and brinksmanship that is already going on, a fine example of which being the rabid and
almost hysterical reaction to the Russian aid convey that just went across the
border into eastern Ukraine.
What they could have said to Russia, if they
were reasonable, is “Thank you for going to the trouble and expense of
organizing a big relief convoy for the besieged people of the cities of eastern
Ukraine, who have no electricity, food or water.” Instead their reaction was one
of sanctimonious outrage – “How dare you cross the border of this sovereign
state without the permission of their government? – This is a grave escalation.”
etc and are using it as an excuse to crank up sanctions even
more.

The situation in
eastern Ukraine and involving the Russian aid convey is a classic example of how
propaganda can be used to turn white into black. The way it worked is this: The
humanitarian situation for countless thousands of people holed up in big cities
in eastern Ukraine, like Donetsk and Luhansk, is dire. They have been
relentlessly shelled and have little or no electricity, food or water. Many of
these people are either Russian-speaking or of Russian descent, so it is natural
for Russia to want to go to their aid. So Russia went to the trouble and expense
of organizing a big relief convoy. The controlled Western media have downplayed
this crisis which affects countless thousands, hardly reporting on it at all,
but they have had plenty of airtime – much more – for one American reporter
[supposedly] gruesomely executed by a British Jihadist. They have done this
because they don’t want people to be aware of the attacks being carried by the
Ukraine government against its own people, which they back, and they don’t want
people to understand the reason for the Russian aid convoy, so that they can
then misrepresent the reasons for the aid convoy. The allegations by the Western
media that the aid convoy has military objectives is absurd – you don’t need to
be a truck driver to know that it’s very difficult to squeeze a tank or an
armored troop carrier into an average sized truck. The protest that Russia is
“violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity” by driving the trucks on through
without permission is hypocritical cant and humbug, especially coming from a
country that invaded Iraq on false pretenses, the mythical “weapons of mass
destruction”. If Kiev wasn’t massacring
its own citizens in eastern Ukraine, the aid convoy wouldn’t be necessary
,
and the reason that the trucks pressed on into Ukraine is that they were being
deliberately messed about for a week at the border, when vetting the trucks
should have taken 2 days maximum. So there you see a fine example of propaganda
by omission, the purpose being to misrepresent the objectives of the Russian aid
convoy, in order to present it as an act of aggression by Russia and therefore
as a justification for a further tightening of
sanctions.

Let’s go back to
first principles for a moment and ask ourselves why the US is so concerned about
what happens in the Ukraine, which is a country on the other side of the
world from the US
and therefore none of its business, unless that is it
fancies itself as the new Roman Empire – perhaps Barack Obama believes himself
to be a latter-day Julius Caesar, which conjures up the vision of him entering
Congress as if it was the Coliseum, dressed in a white robe and sandals, with a
laurel wreath on his head. The US does in fact command an empire, and uses the
dollar-reserve-currency system and its massive military to control its
dominions, punishing severely any that try to break out of it. However, its
dominions do not include China and Russia, which cannot be subjugated due to
their big economies and their ability to physically defend themselves with
nukes, if need be, and they are destined to dethrone the dollar and collapse the
empire, which is completely rotted out internally, stricken as it is with
massive [unpayable] debts and hopelessly corrupt government, as evidenced by the
recent train of deplorable leaders.

It is hard to
overstate the stupidity of Europe in toadying to the US and imposing sanctions
on Russia (in other words starting a trade war). Russia is not some Third World
banana republic, it is an important world power, and the act of imposing
sanctions on it by Europe and the US is a gross insult and extreme provocation
that will have disastrous consequences, particularly since it is now allied with
China, with which it will now work assiduously to completely bypass the dollar.
China knows that if the US succeeds in destroying Russia economically and
subjugating it, then it’s next, so we can expect China and Russia to forge a
very powerful alliance. Europe’s economy is already extremely fragile, and it
stands to lose far more over the short to medium-term than the US by picking a
fight it can’t win with its huge neighbor. Europe now faces a plunging currency
and disintegration with the rise of far right political parties leading
eventually to tribal wars – European countries have a long tradition of idiotic
destructive attritional wars. Russia will probably get along alright, with its
big internal economy and new trade agreements with
China.

The rabid propaganda
now being bandied about in Western media, especially with respect to Russia, is
so crude and primitive that it would have even made the Nazi propaganda maestro,
Dr
Goebbels
, blush with embarrassment, and you
couldn’t accuse him of underestimating the stupidity of the masses. We haven’t
seen this sort of thing since before the 2nd World War. What does it mean? – it
means that the Western elites are DESPERATE, desperate in the face of a looming
collapse of the [fiat] dollar caused by its losing its reserve-currency status –
so desperate that you can practically see the perspiration running down their
faces. It’s true that the dollar is rallying now temporarily because of the
gathering collapse of Europe, and may continue to benefit from this for a while,
and possibly soon from a stock market liquidation too, but they are looking
beyond that. Once the dollar goes their empire is finished – it will no longer
be possible to maintain careening astronomic deficits, there will be no more
limitless funds for the military machine many of whose bases could end up
looking like the town of Pripyat near Chernobyl, no more imposing their will by
force anywhere in the world, no more imposing fines on foreign banks and
institutions for not doing things their way, no more money and arms for Israel,
no more massive bonuses on Wall St., etc. The rapid spread of destitution and
poverty amongst the masses in the US means that a state of anarchy could well
erupt that sees the mansions and citadels of the elites ransacked by the mob,
and they are well aware of this possibility, which is the reason for the
militarization of police forces across the country, as recently demonstrated in
Ferguson, Missouri, and the stockpiling of vast quantities of
ammo.

The biggest danger
arising out of all this is that desperate people do desperate things, and the
recent crude “gloves off” propaganda blitz is certainly a sign of desperation.
It’s been a long time since a really big war and you can see from their
increasingly reckless words and actions that they [Rothschild Moneychangers] are
lusting for it. It is one of the supreme ironies of this time that amidst all
the maudlin sentimentality over the start of the 1st World War exactly 100 years
ago, they are bringing us to the brink of another. Could it cross the line and
go nuclear? – given the reckless aggression and brinksmanship already being
displayed, that is certainly a possibility.

They can mass all the
arms and missile batteries along Russia’s western border they like, perhaps
promoting the paranoid notion that Russia wants to take back Eastern Europe,
which it doesn’t, but it will never
amount to anything more than a costly bluff, because if they ever dared attack
Russia, then European cities would disappear under mushroom clouds.
The
underlying reason for such operations would probably be more lucrative contracts
for the defense industry.

Remember, it
wasn’t the elites [moneychangers] who got killed in the 1st World War, it was
the hapless young fools who thought they were doing the honorable thing going
off to fight for their countries.
So you’d
better get good at seeing through the thick smog of propaganda in order that you
understand what’s really going on and can take the necessary steps to protect
yourself – if you don’t, it could cost you and your loved ones more than just
your property and investments, it could cost you your
lives.

Many people
suffer from vague uncertainties – they know something is wrong, but can’t put
their finger on it. This is because they are not privy to “The Grand Plan” and
believe the lies and misinformation carefully and skillfully served up to them
by the compliant media, whose masters view the masses as sheep and treat them
like mushrooms – “Feed them shit and
keep them in the dark”
. But once you become aware of the game
plan, it is liberating, and spotting the lies and misinformation in the media
becomes a kind of sport.
Knowledge is power, and if you figure out that the
dollar is going to collapse after its current rally – which could have quite a
way to go incidentally – then you know to position yourself to escape the
catastrophic effects of its eventual collapse and even profit handsomely from it
– that is when gold and silver will do their moonshot of course, and it could
coincide with the Chinese backing their currency with
gold.

In conclusion, the
answer to the question posed by this article “Will the US succeed in breaking
Russia to maintain dollar hegemony?” is: “No, it won’t”, which means that the
dollar is going to collapse, probably right after its swansong “death of Europe”
rally, which is currently in progress.

Please note that this
article may later appear on some public websites.

Reprinted with
permission from
Clive
Maund.com
.


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