The West has no cards to play with coercing Russia to negotiate thanks to sanctions, sure their economy isn't as big as it could be but it isn't dependent on the west. Meanwhile on the flip side the west, primarily Europe, is suffering economic and social stability issues as a result but that's combining with EVERY other issue that's causing instability (migrants, child abuser parades, disenfranchisement of farmers etc)
What is not talked about enough is that Russia has been deliberately organising it's own economic bloc with countries like China, Iran and I believe even India. Putin also made the switch to the gold standard fairly recently or at least he intends on having the Russian Rubel backed by it and is largely ignoring the dollar. The dollar is getting such a bad reputation now people are even starting to prefer the Chinese Yuan I believe just because of stability.
There was a specific trade corridor too I believe I saw being talked about to avoid any western sanctions.
I knew there was a proper name for it, the North-South Transport Corridor. By the way, Iran is between the route for this trade corridor. Isn't it also a funny coincidence that they announce all of this and then Iran just 'magically' has an incident which nearly causes full unrest in the country? Funny that isn't it?
Anyway, lots of detail on all of this, yet fucking politicians and NPCs throw their arms up in surprise at being outwitted.
They're also still trading with a few other Asian manufacturing sectors like Singapore afaik. Basically neutral parties who may be loosely aligned with NATO who really aren't going to lose anything by continuing to trade with Russa.
If I've got any genuine economic advice for people my age or younger when it comes to where you're going to live for the next 30 years at least. Keep an eye on this big time. You don't need to live in Russia or China directly, but you could live in a politically neutral and relatively small country that trades with them and as a result has low as fuck living costs compared to other places.
That goes double for the countries that have nothing going on with the WEF really and are largely ignored because they don't have to obey mass migration quotas that are clearly in place. It's something I've been calculating as part of a plan for what I'm going to do generally. Probably going to surprise the hell out of my RL circle lol but fuck them because they're definitely part of the problem. Also part of my plan to secure my funds potentially in a bank that won't simply shut me down over politics which is almost certainly going to get worse in 2024 here in the UK.
Nigel Farage isn't fucking kidding when he says the UK is getting to be unliveable, and he's a guy with quite a lot of money so you know it's bad when him and Lawrence Fox are amazed. The thing is as well, it's not as if you can pay your council tax by cash or Bitcoin as far as I know, so that means if your bank account is taken away from you, even if you technically have money, you don't have any means of payment. The shitheads in charge are also not going to offer alternatives like simply mailing the cash by letter because this is all by design.
One of the reasons Trump was able to swing his dick so much during his presidency in terms of foreign policy. America being energy independent was MASSIVE leverage to get what he wanted.
The Keynesian mindset towards economics easily has to be one of the biggest scams of the past couple of centuries that have been pulled on the dumb public ever seen in history. People love to bash Bitcoin and then they go trading worthless paper for physical goods all the time and there is a massive crash waiting to happen in the west.
The birthrate for Japan in 1947, while whole swathes of the country were in total ruin, was 4.5.
The current birthrate is 1.3. It's probably the lowest birthrate that Japan has ever seen in the history of it's civilization.
People think that de-population is usually related to war and violence, normally it's an innuendo for genocide.
Yet the depopultion of Japan is taking place without a shot being fired. Without a single bomb being dropped. Without a single home being burned. Without any of the atrocities of war, the Japanese have been so badly mauled that mothers will not produce children, that 40% of men under the age of 35 are virgins, that people die alone in their apartments not being found for weeks or months.
Keynsianism is a weapon that has so ravaged Japan it has got them to kill themselves, rather than having to fire-bomb them.
True, that's probably a better way to explain the pitfalls of how we've seen things play out.
Like yes, obviously there are occasions where you really can only get your best materials or resources from a handful of accessible regions, but you should always try to maintain a usable and healthy supply from other sources if it's both possible and feasible.
Russia's economy is weak on paper for the same reason red states have smaller numbers than coastal blue states: you can make the money number a lot higher by doing financial tricks and emailing spreadsheets than you can by actually producing tangible physical products.
The west is playing as China requires them. We are killing ourselves, and making Russia economically dependent upon China; weakening our position while China secures itself.
The only country winning the war in Ukraine is China.
I don't doubt China is playing behind the scenes to weaken their rivals, but China has so many internal problems THEIR days are numbered.
I'll be completely honest here, I think there isn't going to be another global hegemony like we've had for centuries. Right now it seems everyone has their 'plans' of how they'll be the power brokers and lead the world but this seems to just drain the resources and stability of a country faster.
Trump seemed to make America more powerful by withdrawing a lot of that a redistributing it back into America. Every country trying to be more internationally have left their foundations to rot and in a few years we are going to see quite a lot of places crumble.
I agree that we'll have a multi-polar world, rather than a hegemon; but I think China's internal problems are one of the reason they are pushing hard on how to weaken us.
The West has no cards to play with coercing Russia to negotiate thanks to sanctions, sure their economy isn't as big as it could be but it isn't dependent on the west. Meanwhile on the flip side the west, primarily Europe, is suffering economic and social stability issues as a result but that's combining with EVERY other issue that's causing instability (migrants, child abuser parades, disenfranchisement of farmers etc)
What is not talked about enough is that Russia has been deliberately organising it's own economic bloc with countries like China, Iran and I believe even India. Putin also made the switch to the gold standard fairly recently or at least he intends on having the Russian Rubel backed by it and is largely ignoring the dollar. The dollar is getting such a bad reputation now people are even starting to prefer the Chinese Yuan I believe just because of stability.
There was a specific trade corridor too I believe I saw being talked about to avoid any western sanctions.
https://gulfif.org/north-south-transport-corridor-iran-russia-new-railway-to-circumvent-western-pressure/
I knew there was a proper name for it, the North-South Transport Corridor. By the way, Iran is between the route for this trade corridor. Isn't it also a funny coincidence that they announce all of this and then Iran just 'magically' has an incident which nearly causes full unrest in the country? Funny that isn't it?
Anyway, lots of detail on all of this, yet fucking politicians and NPCs throw their arms up in surprise at being outwitted.
They're also still trading with a few other Asian manufacturing sectors like Singapore afaik. Basically neutral parties who may be loosely aligned with NATO who really aren't going to lose anything by continuing to trade with Russa.
If I've got any genuine economic advice for people my age or younger when it comes to where you're going to live for the next 30 years at least. Keep an eye on this big time. You don't need to live in Russia or China directly, but you could live in a politically neutral and relatively small country that trades with them and as a result has low as fuck living costs compared to other places.
That goes double for the countries that have nothing going on with the WEF really and are largely ignored because they don't have to obey mass migration quotas that are clearly in place. It's something I've been calculating as part of a plan for what I'm going to do generally. Probably going to surprise the hell out of my RL circle lol but fuck them because they're definitely part of the problem. Also part of my plan to secure my funds potentially in a bank that won't simply shut me down over politics which is almost certainly going to get worse in 2024 here in the UK.
Nigel Farage isn't fucking kidding when he says the UK is getting to be unliveable, and he's a guy with quite a lot of money so you know it's bad when him and Lawrence Fox are amazed. The thing is as well, it's not as if you can pay your council tax by cash or Bitcoin as far as I know, so that means if your bank account is taken away from you, even if you technically have money, you don't have any means of payment. The shitheads in charge are also not going to offer alternatives like simply mailing the cash by letter because this is all by design.
Nobody wants to move to Belarus tho.
Funny how a self-sustainable economy is often much more robust that one that depends almost solely on outsourced manufacturing and goods.
One of the reasons Trump was able to swing his dick so much during his presidency in terms of foreign policy. America being energy independent was MASSIVE leverage to get what he wanted.
The Keynesian mindset towards economics easily has to be one of the biggest scams of the past couple of centuries that have been pulled on the dumb public ever seen in history. People love to bash Bitcoin and then they go trading worthless paper for physical goods all the time and there is a massive crash waiting to happen in the west.
How bad is Keynesianism? I like to make this comparison.
In World War 2, the US Army Air Corp's bombardment of the Japanese home islands destroyed 85% of the entire country. Curtis LeMay was one of our primary serial killers. He murdered 100,000 people in a single raid. Somewhere around 4% of the population was killed in the war.
The birthrate for Japan in 1947, while whole swathes of the country were in total ruin, was 4.5.
The current birthrate is 1.3. It's probably the lowest birthrate that Japan has ever seen in the history of it's civilization.
People think that de-population is usually related to war and violence, normally it's an innuendo for genocide.
Yet the depopultion of Japan is taking place without a shot being fired. Without a single bomb being dropped. Without a single home being burned. Without any of the atrocities of war, the Japanese have been so badly mauled that mothers will not produce children, that 40% of men under the age of 35 are virgins, that people die alone in their apartments not being found for weeks or months.
Keynsianism is a weapon that has so ravaged Japan it has got them to kill themselves, rather than having to fire-bomb them.
No economy is self-sustainable; but no economy should be entirely economically dependent on a handful of sectors.
Autarkey is impossible. But compartmentalization is a horrific idea.
True, that's probably a better way to explain the pitfalls of how we've seen things play out.
Like yes, obviously there are occasions where you really can only get your best materials or resources from a handful of accessible regions, but you should always try to maintain a usable and healthy supply from other sources if it's both possible and feasible.
Yeah, totally agree. Especially what I would consider strategic resources: food, water, energy, munitions, finance.
Russia's economy is weak on paper for the same reason red states have smaller numbers than coastal blue states: you can make the money number a lot higher by doing financial tricks and emailing spreadsheets than you can by actually producing tangible physical products.
The west is playing as China requires them. We are killing ourselves, and making Russia economically dependent upon China; weakening our position while China secures itself.
The only country winning the war in Ukraine is China.
I don't doubt China is playing behind the scenes to weaken their rivals, but China has so many internal problems THEIR days are numbered.
I'll be completely honest here, I think there isn't going to be another global hegemony like we've had for centuries. Right now it seems everyone has their 'plans' of how they'll be the power brokers and lead the world but this seems to just drain the resources and stability of a country faster.
Trump seemed to make America more powerful by withdrawing a lot of that a redistributing it back into America. Every country trying to be more internationally have left their foundations to rot and in a few years we are going to see quite a lot of places crumble.
I agree that we'll have a multi-polar world, rather than a hegemon; but I think China's internal problems are one of the reason they are pushing hard on how to weaken us.
Pretty much, weaken its competition enough that when they collapse they don't have to worry about foreigners taking advantage and can try to rebuild.