Battle for US Hegemony Continues

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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby windwalker on Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:22 am

We won't be having Chinese military naval bases in our region on our doorstep."

Mr Morrison would not say how he would respond if re-elected, if the "red line" was crossed and China did move to establish a military base.



Mr Morrison says Australia will not have Chinese naval bases "on our doorstep"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-24/ ... /101011710

Interesting how sovereignty and autonomy seem only to work one way...

Must be that "rules based order".

our rules you follow the order :-\
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Bao on Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:23 am

windwalker wrote:
Interesting how sovereignty and autonomy seem only to work one way...

Must be that "rules based order".

our rules you follow the order :-\


Exactly.

It's fascinating that the USA never speak about international law. China, Russia, Iran etc, they all speak about international law. But the USA uses "rules" and "order".

Yeah, they make up the rules and give out the orders. And it never has anything to do with law.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby windwalker on Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:31 am

yeniseri wrote:All nations have the rights of territorial integrity but as in nature small nations have rarely the arsenal to retaliate in kind to the oppressor. Ukraine does have it but it is no match for Russia and its proxies!



"as in nature"

An interesting way of thinking..

Animals do things according to need, based on survival.

The so called balance of nature, ...Might be better thought of as transitions between states....favoring survival or not...

"resources " play a key role in enabling continued survival of a species or group.

The Russian president says Moscow is not impeding Ukraine’s grain exports after Berlin accused it of weaponizing hunger

https://www.rt.com/russia/557764-putin- ... er-weapon/

What happens when societies lack the ability for self-sustainment.

like maybe War :-\


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ICWAsiQPVg&t=219s
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Bao on Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:45 am

Very well spoken words by Col. Black about his view on US Hegemony.

"I will NOT fight for the glory of global oligarchs"
https://youtu.be/5j2QLSLYexw


This is obviously not his own YT channel, but from someone who collects interviews. Many good smaller and longer clips to watch. (About Ukraine as well. ;) )
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Peacedog on Sat Jul 16, 2022 5:55 am

The coming breakdown of globalism, which is entirely based upon the power of the US Navy, is going to change the viewpoint of many on this issue.

Many countries cannot provide their own power, food or basic means of production needed to maintain an industrialized society. The PRC is one of the most dependent on globalism to survive. The PRC cannot exist without globalism. It cannot feed itself without foreign produced fertilizers, cannot run its factories/vehicles without foreign oil, cannot sell its good without secured waterways and cannot finance anything without other countries providing it the capital needed.

The moment the US decides to just provide security to the Western hemisphere, the PRC starves. Depending upon who you ask, we may be seeing the first round of this in December.

And the moment will come. Crashing demographics worldwide, which started a generation ago elsewhere, have now started in the US. Within five years, all of the Baby Boomers will be gone from the workplace and take their capital with them. The US Department of Defense has been missing recruiting goals for a couple of years now. The talking heads are blaming this on "propensity to serve." The real answer is the people do not exist to fill all of the spaces.

At some point the US will give up on the eleven-supercarrier fleet for the US Navy. And all hell will break loose.

Defacto imperialism, or actual imperialism, will reappear as the worldwide economy fractures into regional blocks. In those blocks, the biggest regional powers will take control of the resources needed to power a modern economy. Functionally speaking this will be limited to Japan/SE block, Turkey/ME block, UK/Scandanavian block, French block, Indian block controlling the waterways into SE Asia and US led Western Hemisphere block. Not all of these will work out for political reasons, but those are the ones that COULD technically exist.

Everyone else is screwed.

Deindustrialization will be a major factor everywhere else as the things needed to run a modern economy simply won't exist.

Everything will be far more expensive and technological development will slow tremendously.

Going to be interesting times.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Bao on Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:48 am

Peacedog wrote:The coming breakdown of globalism, which is entirely based upon the power of the US Navy, is going to change the viewpoint of many on this issue.

Many countries cannot provide their own power, food or basic means of production needed to maintain an industrialized society. The PRC is one of the most dependent on globalism to survive. The PRC cannot exist without globalism. It cannot feed itself without foreign produced fertilizers, cannot run its factories/vehicles without foreign oil, cannot sell its good without secured waterways and cannot finance anything without other countries providing it the capital needed.

The moment the US decides to just provide security to the Western hemisphere, the PRC starves.


Do you have any source? Sounds completely ludicrous.

So the US is doing good for the world? In the last two years 40 000 people have starved to death in Venezuela. They help the Saudis to block Yemen to starve hundreds of thousands of people there to death. They support Israel apartheid and terrorism and they continuously create conflicts and war all over the World. Etc etc etc.

Do people really believe that the World need US hegemony? ??? Wow.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Quigga on Sat Jul 16, 2022 2:02 pm

The world revolves around an axis. Disrupt it and watch chaos unfold
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Bao on Mon Jul 18, 2022 5:57 am

The coming breakdown of globalism, which is entirely based upon the power of the US Navy, is going to change the viewpoint of many on this issue.


Once again Col Black isn’t afraid to say the truth: That the power of the US navy is based on simple old piracy and there’s nothing else to it.
https://youtu.be/-MHcQMfEkJs





And here’s an excellent lecture by the same man, some truths about how the criminal Obama administration planned the destruction of Syria.
https://youtu.be/zRf_PmExPJM

A shorter Chinese documentary summing up US wars and aggressions very well
https://youtu.be/Jkb1f5eqUpM

CGTN explaining US coercive diplomacy:
https://youtu.be/RGKy4D6iT9o
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Quigga on Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:18 am

Does it really matter who's fighting whom, who carries which flag, who started the war etc... When the bombs finally drop in your neighborhood, boots stomping on the ground to be heard, all material resources being rare except for blood bones flesh piss and shit. I mean, choose your soccer team. Some can't explain their choice or preference. Some just grew up with it. Some are bound by obligations of their line of duty. I don't care, you do you. The rules don't change anytime soon on this planet.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby wiesiek on Sat Jul 23, 2022 8:28 am

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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Peacedog on Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:25 pm

Here is a pretty good video explaining how globalism, what Zeihan refers to as the American led Order, allows for a single commodity to function.

Needless to say, a single hiccup anywhere pretty much shuts things down for most of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmpJ0QtyaIY
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby yeniseri on Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:24 am

Russia is still doing "great" despite the many "embargos" that exists, notwithstanding the initiative to detain the super yachts owned by its oligarchy! As part of the world economy, they are still affected by inflation.

It still has a loyal following of its former Caucasian and Central Asian republics (more or less ;D ) but US policy on threatening countries is losing its sting because there are alternative currencies and alternative ways that more countries are seeing on dealing with the embargos. US threatening other countries tends to be small but influential nations that lacks a central and sufficiently large ecomomic clout so they become easy to bully e.g. Cuba, Venezuela, etc but it did not help those countries because they were equally brutal to their own citizens and thus, easy to put in their place to appease US policies.

In the same era and space, using equally abusive strategies to even divide and conquer in an equluable manner ;D ;D , US policy under Richard Nixon preferred the massive land size of Communist China (vis a vis Cuba) to allow multinationals to not only invest in China but to refuse to pay the US citizen worker e fair wage and as a result this destroyed what was known as the "blue collar economy"! These places in USA (Detroit, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc., are now wastelands.............
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby wiesiek on Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:21 am

great move,
and
China has the strongest cards now,
just playing dumb, that not yet.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby Peacedog on Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:38 am

Actually, Russia is in a really rough spot right now.

Manufacturing has hit a wall due to a lack of semi-conductors. Thats why their army is pulling T-62s out of cold storage. They can't get the things needed to run modern tech. And they can't make the good stuff. They need to get that from somewhere else. Semi-conductor production basically breaks down as: low end for "smart" refrigerators comes out of China, mid-end SE Asia for cars, and top end US/Western.

Their oil production is going to shrink by at least 30% in the next 18 months as their Western run/provided equipment goes off-line and won't come back. As I understand it, a significant portion of their Arctic drilling is just going to go away permanently when that happens due to the issue of running the pipelines. Once that stuff stops, and freezes over, you would literally need to inspect every last meter of pipe manually to prevent the thing from collapsing. So, it would be easier to build a new one. And they'd need Western capital to do that. Which they aren't going to get.

Keep in mind Russian oil production happens to the degree it does care of Western advisors, and tech, all of which are going to be unavailable for a very long time. They cannot do it on their own.

It is another example of how globalism allowed for the rise of "the rest." Or less politely said, second tier locations that couldn't do it on their own.
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Re: Battle for US Hegemony Continues

Postby windwalker on Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:01 am

Peacedog wrote:Actually, Russia is in a really rough spot right now.

;D Winter time , should make it very clear who is in the rough spot,,,

Manufacturing has hit a wall due to a lack of semi-conductors. Thats why their army is pulling T-62s out of cold storage. They can't get the things needed to run modern tech. And they can't make the good stuff. They need to get that from somewhere else. Semi-conductor production basically breaks down as: low end for "smart" refrigerators comes out of China, mid-end SE Asia for cars, and top end US/Western.



Their oil production is going to shrink by at least 30% in the next 18 months as their Western run/provided equipment goes off-line and won't come back. As I understand it, a significant portion of their Arctic drilling is just going to go away permanently when that happens due to the issue of running the pipelines. Once that stuff stops, and freezes over, you would literally need to inspect every last meter of pipe manually to prevent the thing from collapsing. So, it would be easier to build a new one. And they'd need Western capital to do that. Which they aren't going to get.

Keep in mind Russian oil production happens to the degree it does care of Western advisors, and tech, all of which are going to be unavailable for a very long time.

Russia Raises July Oil Output as Domestic Refineries Ramp Up
The nation pumped 10.78 million b/d on July 1-17, data show
Refinery runs rose 6% from June as exports dropped: data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... es-ramp-up

They cannot do it on their own.

It is another example of how globalism allowed for the rise of "the rest."
Or less politely said, second tier locations that couldn't do it on their own.




Or directly said "prevented from doing it on their own"


sounds like a way to keep other countries in line telling them they cannot do it on their own making them dependent on "what ever". tech, military, money ect...every things except
resources they have the west needs, the US will and has gone to war over...

Kind of like

"rules based order" ;D

They cannot do it on their own.


Until they can :)

Chinese semiconductor giant SMIC has reportedly been manufacturing 7-nanometer chips since last year, the best sign yet that China has found a way to develop advanced components despite US efforts to curb the country's homegrown silicon capabilities.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t8Stc9E9DQ&t=3331s
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