"China dumping U.S. oil isn’t good, and Russian energy leaving the EU is even worse, for the west that is. But the U.S. is apparently doing everything it can to speed up this process in the deluded fantasy that they will somehow be holding all of the cards in the end."
I'd say there's no "deluded fantasy" involved. Quite the opposite in fact. It's not as if the results weren't entirely predictable. And that should tell us that the results are exactly what was desired.
"The absurdity of this approach is that it isn’t really hurting Russian revenue, but it is spiking energy cost for economies around the world."
Again, the approach isn't absurd if spiking energy costs for economies around the world was the aim.
One would have to be a staunch adherent to the Hanlon's Razor principle - “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" - to believe that the fallout as expertly outlined in this article is accidental. But when you consider how competent the world powers that be have been over the last 100-plus years at increasing their wealth multifold while the rest of us struggle more and more each year to buy homes, heat our homes and buy groceries and other basic necessities - all while small businesses close their doors in droves - it becomes obvious that incompetence isn't the explanation.
The west is being intentionally dismantled ... one "incompetent" decision at a time.
Well said Bird's Brain. I agree with you that that is the agenda, to effectively throw the chessboard since they know they can't win the game, and I will be going over some of the very unpleasant vision they have for what lies in their future stratagem in the second instalment, that they have outlined themselves in the 2025 security report. However, there is also a level of actual incompetence here as well. The tariffs backfiring and weakening their own economy more than China is one example. In the second part of this paper I will be going through some other factors including China's dominance in critical minerals and how this has severely curbed production for the U.S. military. They seem to have woken up to this rather late. They would essentially need Russia, India and Japan to turn on China at this point and wage a war. The U.S. are experts at wreaking chaos so nothing is impossible, but in terms of real competition they are incompetent and are going to be falling really far back at this point. Not just from East and West Asia, but I would garner from Africa as well in a few decades. We will see who gets burned the most by the fire the U.S. has launched but it does look like this is going to be their last ditch effort which is scary but also hopeful at the same time.
Though time may change my mind, at this stage I don't see it as a "hegemony competition," BRICS vs the US. It appears to me that the entire globe is being moved in the same direction - digital ID/currency as a means of control, constrained freedom, etc - and that the idea of a multipolar world is a step in the direction of an overarching one-world style government. It also appears that events in Russia, India and Japan could have consequences that also contribute to that end.
Using that hypothesis, tariffs weakening the US economy can, Hegelian Dialectic style, be viewed as stepping stones towards gaining public acceptance for measures implemented to resolve these intentionally created problems. Universal basic income and all the compliance strings that would be attached - including acceptance of digital ID and currency and social credit scores - could, for example, be the solution to citizens drowning financially while the economy and buying power are intentionally weakened. Tariffs are also having a tremendous negative impact on small businesses in both Canada and the US, which furthers the ends of those who want complete control over the economy and the people who currently rely on their own hard work and initiative for their income.
Viewed from a different perspective - one that doesn't see it as a competition between powerful nations but between powerful corporate-private interests and the rest of us wee plebs - it does indeed appear that "they" are implementing seemingly incompetent policies that yet move them closer to the win.
Value is an ethereal sort of quality. What would happen if everyone decided to make their purchases according to necessity, moral and ethical considerations?
Would it produce a response as Peter Fleming wrote in "The Death of Homo Economicus" - "If I had a choice between the iPhone and a flushing toilet, I know which one I'd choose."
Wealth still depends on the consumer as does the ecology of the planet. Robots are not consumers. What does exist is a slipping away of the republic of the Unites States into an Empire. And it seems that empires continually have a shorter and shorter life span.
The unpredictable will always happen because it is seeking a way. A re-balance is a necessity of existence with war an obsolete artifact still practiced by the psychotic mind.
The doomsday clock is now at 58 seconds before midnight.
Thank God for daylight savings time.
May its light enter the darkness that creates suffering and death.
Excellent post, wow. That our elites are barking-mad psychopaths and narcissists completely detached from material reality here on planet earth seems unarguable.
However, I think we are mistaken if we believe that the current global madness is just "oligarchy" doing what oligarchy has always done in mass societies - essentially "whatever it wants." We have entered new terrain. The larger equation has changed in epochal fashion. Between smart machinery, AI, robotics, high-tech military weaponry, and the availability of cheap access to semi-slave labor in non-Western nations - it is quite clear that our "peasant role" as workers and soldiers is rapidly becoming obsolete here in the West. Where we were once needed - and thus able to wrestle at least some small concessions from our "betters" - today we not only have no real leverage - but most of us have come to be seen in elite circles as no more than - "useless eaters" - unnecessary to the promotion and continuation of elite power and privilege. This is a new phenomenon in power relations between Western elites and we the populations they rule over - and it clearly does not bode well for we human beings who do not count our wealth in the millions and billions of dollars.
There is a lot going on regarding the war in Iran, where there seems to be three major players with their own set of objectives: Israel, the US, and the City of London. I'm thinking the main objective for the US is denying China energy (oil). Suddenly cutting off all that energy input might make a huge difference to China's economy; it might even collapse it completely. Has China anticipated this? They've had a failed coup and a purge recently.
Then again the Deep State folks might want to attack the US in some fashion, with a false flag cyberattack or something similar. Then they could blame it on Iran. Would give them leverage to introduce "reforms," which in the past have always resulted in increased surveillance and control. Heck with a big enough attack they might be able to cripple the country and clear the way for their coveted one world government.
It is really about the New World Order map of the United Nations. Trump is making it look like his doing but this region design was created years ago and Trump is just fulfilling the agenda. Most Americans are unaware of this and do not even realize that soon Americans will be answering to the United Nations (end of Constitution) unless they remove all the bad actors up in Washington.
" If China were to fall, the entire global resistance to U.S. economic hegemony would not have a hope in the world."
I have a question Cynthia:
Are you trying to say that China or Iran are the ‘good guys’ in this story and are “fighting the globalists”?
Genuinely curious.
We can all agree I think that the US is an evil empire but is China/BRICS/”global south” any better and are in actual opposition to the globalist agenda?
I just wanted to point out that tRump said that any taxes due from the sale of Venezuelan oil would be paid and sent back to them. The balance however would be put into a bank account in Qatar and be for President tRump to administer as he sees fit! As of today 03/08/26 we know that Hormuz is closed, oil tanks are full and production will have to be shut down, also no LNG can be exported anywhere. The worst hit is to Europe. What if the figures for world populations are wrong and they are in fact much lower will the UN and WEF reconsider their present disaster course. Oil is important of course, but who are the puppet masters is more important.
Hi Cynthia, interesting article. Thank you! Question: Why is lower energy prices good for china’s economy making them “more competitive”, but the glut of supply in the US and the Americas considered a bad thing? I inderstand its bad for big oil, but wouldn’t this make America “more competitive” as well?
Energy prices are governed by the energy market. However, there are other factors that go into price cost. The cost of extracting the oil for example, the cost of refining the oil (different oils have different costs, for instance, Venezuelan oil is the most costly to refine). Then you have transportation costs as well. Russia is primarily the big energy exporter and their costs for extracting (and I believe also refining) their oil is a lot less than America's cost. In addition they have a lot less distance to travel by water than the US does to deliver their oil. These are all advantages and causes the prices to go down while they are still able to make a good profit. Pipelines are of course the cheapest way to deliver the oil, but these are being targeted heavily with attacks to create artificial scarcity (like what is going on in the Middle East). This causes prices to spike up. Countries that produce their own energy will not be affected that badly (such as the United States) whereas other countries will be affected very badly such as in Europe and Asia (like Japan for instance). It appears the U.S. started this chaos in the Middle East to gain a further edge in the oil and gas market, the world will be more reliant to buy their oil and gas and at very high prices, and the U.S. can choose who it wants to sell to, possibly will be asking for making "deals" along what was being asked with the tariffs. This is all being done to try to slow down their competitors (namely BRICS) so that they can catch up. I will be give more details on this in the second instalment but hope that clarifies things.
Again, fine insights as usual, but confusing informed speculation with thinking (and posing) as knowing “the real agenda” is becoming a pattern lately. You don’t know what you don’t know, and it isn’t insubstantial. This is true across the board in situations like we’re in, and you are no exception
Great article! Looking forward to next installment, esp. Greenland.
"China dumping U.S. oil isn’t good, and Russian energy leaving the EU is even worse, for the west that is. But the U.S. is apparently doing everything it can to speed up this process in the deluded fantasy that they will somehow be holding all of the cards in the end."
I'd say there's no "deluded fantasy" involved. Quite the opposite in fact. It's not as if the results weren't entirely predictable. And that should tell us that the results are exactly what was desired.
"The absurdity of this approach is that it isn’t really hurting Russian revenue, but it is spiking energy cost for economies around the world."
Again, the approach isn't absurd if spiking energy costs for economies around the world was the aim.
One would have to be a staunch adherent to the Hanlon's Razor principle - “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence" - to believe that the fallout as expertly outlined in this article is accidental. But when you consider how competent the world powers that be have been over the last 100-plus years at increasing their wealth multifold while the rest of us struggle more and more each year to buy homes, heat our homes and buy groceries and other basic necessities - all while small businesses close their doors in droves - it becomes obvious that incompetence isn't the explanation.
The west is being intentionally dismantled ... one "incompetent" decision at a time.
Well said Bird's Brain. I agree with you that that is the agenda, to effectively throw the chessboard since they know they can't win the game, and I will be going over some of the very unpleasant vision they have for what lies in their future stratagem in the second instalment, that they have outlined themselves in the 2025 security report. However, there is also a level of actual incompetence here as well. The tariffs backfiring and weakening their own economy more than China is one example. In the second part of this paper I will be going through some other factors including China's dominance in critical minerals and how this has severely curbed production for the U.S. military. They seem to have woken up to this rather late. They would essentially need Russia, India and Japan to turn on China at this point and wage a war. The U.S. are experts at wreaking chaos so nothing is impossible, but in terms of real competition they are incompetent and are going to be falling really far back at this point. Not just from East and West Asia, but I would garner from Africa as well in a few decades. We will see who gets burned the most by the fire the U.S. has launched but it does look like this is going to be their last ditch effort which is scary but also hopeful at the same time.
Though time may change my mind, at this stage I don't see it as a "hegemony competition," BRICS vs the US. It appears to me that the entire globe is being moved in the same direction - digital ID/currency as a means of control, constrained freedom, etc - and that the idea of a multipolar world is a step in the direction of an overarching one-world style government. It also appears that events in Russia, India and Japan could have consequences that also contribute to that end.
Using that hypothesis, tariffs weakening the US economy can, Hegelian Dialectic style, be viewed as stepping stones towards gaining public acceptance for measures implemented to resolve these intentionally created problems. Universal basic income and all the compliance strings that would be attached - including acceptance of digital ID and currency and social credit scores - could, for example, be the solution to citizens drowning financially while the economy and buying power are intentionally weakened. Tariffs are also having a tremendous negative impact on small businesses in both Canada and the US, which furthers the ends of those who want complete control over the economy and the people who currently rely on their own hard work and initiative for their income.
Viewed from a different perspective - one that doesn't see it as a competition between powerful nations but between powerful corporate-private interests and the rest of us wee plebs - it does indeed appear that "they" are implementing seemingly incompetent policies that yet move them closer to the win.
I'm looking forward to your next instalment!
Thanks, Cynthia, for another brilliant report on the Decline and Fall of the Anglo-American Empire!
Excellent thanks for the conciseness
Thank you
Thanks for the in depth analysis.
Value is an ethereal sort of quality. What would happen if everyone decided to make their purchases according to necessity, moral and ethical considerations?
Would it produce a response as Peter Fleming wrote in "The Death of Homo Economicus" - "If I had a choice between the iPhone and a flushing toilet, I know which one I'd choose."
Wealth still depends on the consumer as does the ecology of the planet. Robots are not consumers. What does exist is a slipping away of the republic of the Unites States into an Empire. And it seems that empires continually have a shorter and shorter life span.
The unpredictable will always happen because it is seeking a way. A re-balance is a necessity of existence with war an obsolete artifact still practiced by the psychotic mind.
The doomsday clock is now at 58 seconds before midnight.
Thank God for daylight savings time.
May its light enter the darkness that creates suffering and death.
Spot on Cynthia. Great work!
Great piece. Highly recommend for everyone to read. Keep up the good work Matt, Cynthia and company for a great work you are doing.
Excellent post, wow. That our elites are barking-mad psychopaths and narcissists completely detached from material reality here on planet earth seems unarguable.
However, I think we are mistaken if we believe that the current global madness is just "oligarchy" doing what oligarchy has always done in mass societies - essentially "whatever it wants." We have entered new terrain. The larger equation has changed in epochal fashion. Between smart machinery, AI, robotics, high-tech military weaponry, and the availability of cheap access to semi-slave labor in non-Western nations - it is quite clear that our "peasant role" as workers and soldiers is rapidly becoming obsolete here in the West. Where we were once needed - and thus able to wrestle at least some small concessions from our "betters" - today we not only have no real leverage - but most of us have come to be seen in elite circles as no more than - "useless eaters" - unnecessary to the promotion and continuation of elite power and privilege. This is a new phenomenon in power relations between Western elites and we the populations they rule over - and it clearly does not bode well for we human beings who do not count our wealth in the millions and billions of dollars.
There is a lot going on regarding the war in Iran, where there seems to be three major players with their own set of objectives: Israel, the US, and the City of London. I'm thinking the main objective for the US is denying China energy (oil). Suddenly cutting off all that energy input might make a huge difference to China's economy; it might even collapse it completely. Has China anticipated this? They've had a failed coup and a purge recently.
Then again the Deep State folks might want to attack the US in some fashion, with a false flag cyberattack or something similar. Then they could blame it on Iran. Would give them leverage to introduce "reforms," which in the past have always resulted in increased surveillance and control. Heck with a big enough attack they might be able to cripple the country and clear the way for their coveted one world government.
It is really about the New World Order map of the United Nations. Trump is making it look like his doing but this region design was created years ago and Trump is just fulfilling the agenda. Most Americans are unaware of this and do not even realize that soon Americans will be answering to the United Nations (end of Constitution) unless they remove all the bad actors up in Washington.
" If China were to fall, the entire global resistance to U.S. economic hegemony would not have a hope in the world."
I have a question Cynthia:
Are you trying to say that China or Iran are the ‘good guys’ in this story and are “fighting the globalists”?
Genuinely curious.
We can all agree I think that the US is an evil empire but is China/BRICS/”global south” any better and are in actual opposition to the globalist agenda?
https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com/p/multipolarity-as-world-government
Good article, thank you.
I just wanted to point out that tRump said that any taxes due from the sale of Venezuelan oil would be paid and sent back to them. The balance however would be put into a bank account in Qatar and be for President tRump to administer as he sees fit! As of today 03/08/26 we know that Hormuz is closed, oil tanks are full and production will have to be shut down, also no LNG can be exported anywhere. The worst hit is to Europe. What if the figures for world populations are wrong and they are in fact much lower will the UN and WEF reconsider their present disaster course. Oil is important of course, but who are the puppet masters is more important.
Hi Cynthia, interesting article. Thank you! Question: Why is lower energy prices good for china’s economy making them “more competitive”, but the glut of supply in the US and the Americas considered a bad thing? I inderstand its bad for big oil, but wouldn’t this make America “more competitive” as well?
Energy prices are governed by the energy market. However, there are other factors that go into price cost. The cost of extracting the oil for example, the cost of refining the oil (different oils have different costs, for instance, Venezuelan oil is the most costly to refine). Then you have transportation costs as well. Russia is primarily the big energy exporter and their costs for extracting (and I believe also refining) their oil is a lot less than America's cost. In addition they have a lot less distance to travel by water than the US does to deliver their oil. These are all advantages and causes the prices to go down while they are still able to make a good profit. Pipelines are of course the cheapest way to deliver the oil, but these are being targeted heavily with attacks to create artificial scarcity (like what is going on in the Middle East). This causes prices to spike up. Countries that produce their own energy will not be affected that badly (such as the United States) whereas other countries will be affected very badly such as in Europe and Asia (like Japan for instance). It appears the U.S. started this chaos in the Middle East to gain a further edge in the oil and gas market, the world will be more reliant to buy their oil and gas and at very high prices, and the U.S. can choose who it wants to sell to, possibly will be asking for making "deals" along what was being asked with the tariffs. This is all being done to try to slow down their competitors (namely BRICS) so that they can catch up. I will be give more details on this in the second instalment but hope that clarifies things.
Again, fine insights as usual, but confusing informed speculation with thinking (and posing) as knowing “the real agenda” is becoming a pattern lately. You don’t know what you don’t know, and it isn’t insubstantial. This is true across the board in situations like we’re in, and you are no exception
As usual, great reporting. I hope they would sell their grandmothers and grandfathers too . Thank you ❤️