The Year In Review
By Others
M. K. Bhadrakumar: Biden’s Existential Angst In Ukraine:
Kortunov was writing almost a fortnight before Rice and Gates began getting the same metaphysical perception. But the neocons aren’t yet prepared to accept that the choice is actually staring at them — Biden swimming alongside Putin toward a multipolar world order, or sinking in the troubled waters.
Pepe Escobar: Why BRI Is Back With A Bang In 2023
Zoltan Pozsar, Credit Suisse:
War And Commodity Encumbrance, 27 December 2022 (PDF)
War And Currency Statecraft, 29 December 2022 (PDF)
Political science is a fraud, makes US officials and their MICIMATT frauds, unable to analyze events and their own failures or to anticipate contingencies
Catastrophic losses were US to take on Russia, so will continue through proxies, not minding their losses
BREXIT was foreteller, UK sided with US rather than Europe, sounds inhumane, but, it’s actually reasonable for US-UK Neocons-Fascists to gut Europe, to give themselves a few more years as colonial, extractive powers rather than growing up and getting along respectfully with older, more experienced civilizations such as Russia-Eurasia, China, India, Japan, Syria, Egypt
Multiplication of essences . . . get too granular and you lose sight of the framework
America-centric world view, US officials grew up knowing only that, officials of a young country, a new-comer country, received industrial revolution from Great Britain, always insulated by oceans, thinking like a spoiled child without real existential responsibilities, without experience of how the world actually operates, grew up in the lap of luxury, never had to fight for survival — although Depression came close to that
Balance of power is based on military-economic might, not finance
US officials and citizens do not plan for contingencies because they never had to plan for that, were never under attack, had everything provided for them by their parents, never had to work to survive, learn skills others would value, pay to have one use for their benefit
Everything US officials know about war is from Hollywood, don't have the proper tool kit to analyze anything geo-political
Why D.C. (Neocon) plans fail: because they don't know anything!!! They are ignorant and incompetent, and assassins, Sicarii : crazy man Lindsay Graham cries out for [CIA] to assassinate Vladimir Putin . . . how embarrassing, a Senator yet!
Rector, I have an inner chuckle reading this. The lineaments of de-imperialized US you sketch here are those our founders desired and attempted to put into institutional practice. We are an island nation, not a continental nation, and other nations’ affairs are none of our business unless they attack our communications inside the order of nations, to which we too belong. The same oceans which protect us prevent us from sustaining military operations on another continent. We have no need for conquest. We are refugees from imperialism, not natively perpetrators of it.
It's our American responsibility to dethrone and banish low-minded ones who, like their forebears the Sicarii -- cf. American Russian Lithuanian Emma Goldman -- have cut their way to seize our powers of government in order to abort us and everyone else in sight. True anarchists: nothing they say is true and nothing they do is healthy.
Vladimir Putin -- and especially combined Vladimir Putin -- is a Paladin at work. I enjoy watching him and his troupe of competent officials. The Army of Titus indeed. Sicarii, you recall, jumped off a cliff at Herod's redoubt rather than undergo mass crucifixion.
9 PRINCIPLES OF WAR
Mass – Concentrate combat power at the decisive place and time
Objective – Direct every military operation towards a clearly defined, decisive, and attainable goal
Offensive – Seize, retain, and exploit the initiative
Surprise – Strike the enemy at a time, at a place, or in a manner for which he is unprepared
Economy of Force – Allocate minimum essential combat power to secondary efforts
Maneuver – Place the enemy in a position of disadvantage through the flexible application of combat power
Unity of Command – For every objective, ensure unity of effort under one responsible commander
Security – Never permit the enemy to acquire an unexpected advantage
Simplicity – Prepare clear, uncomplicated plans and clear, concise orders to ensure thorough understanding
Bernard: Lack Of Good Analyses Contributes To The Decline Of The 'West'
My feel this year was that political, economical and military issues discussed in the main stream media have parted from the objective reality more than they have done at any previous time in my life. I sometimes look into a mirror and think 'well, maybe its just you.' But it is not just me. Other analysts have come to similar conclusion. But, like me, neither of them gets quoted in main stream media and neither is paid in a traditional sense to publish on these issues. Which, thinking of it, may well be the root of this theme.
MarketWatch: 2022 Loser Stocks (by share price and by market capitalization)
MarketWatch: 2022 Winner Stocks (by share price)
Follows observation that real economy (commodities, starting with energy) overtakes rentier economy (media-tech, finance) because it has to, it’s real. This is healthy.
Zoltan Pozsar, 01 April 2022: Commodities And The New World Order: What You Need To Know From Zoltan Pozsar’s Bretton Woods III
Zoltan Pozsar, 29 December 2022: G7 Investors Should Worry About Gold-Backed Renminbi Eclipsing Dollars, Commodity Encumbrance
As for myself, I think experience is showing, among other things, that US Constitutional improvements (Amendments) are indicated, to increase military, social, economic, and political stability in the direction of clearer recognition and calmer participation in the order of nations. I’ll be experimenting with these improvements in the coming months.
