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And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die. ..."
—W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years,"
appended to "Makarie's Archive,"
and later in "Maxims and Reflections," as Aphorism 324
and Spiritual Transformation
Volume II: Application of Tools
Online edition, comprised of:
Section I: The cold war and the cartel’s current and future capabilities (below)
Section II: The Sino-Russian coalition's current and future capabilities
Section III: Key theatres of war: Syria, Iran, and Venezuela
Section IV: WWIII treaty stipulations
Section I. The cold war and the cartel’s current and future capabilities
The root cause of global dysfunction: Private control over money creation
The root source of power in our present global political, economic, and social structure is control over money creation. The greatest centralized control over money creation on the planet is vested in the privately held Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel, which rules over a vast network of central banks, corporations, and governments.1-a
(Left to right) Jacob Rothschild and David Rockefeller
A 1976 study by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking (and here)
found that these two families hold the controlling interest in the Federal Reserve System
"The intended purpose of a cartel is to reap monopoly profits by artificially restricting output and thus driving the price above the level that would prevail if they remained in competition with one another. ... In many fascist and authoritarian countries this has in fact historically been a general practice."1-b"In military and international law, a cartel is any agreement between belligerents for the purpose of arranging and regulating certain kinds of non-hostile relations otherwise barred by reason of the existence of the conflict."1-c
In addition to the sovereign nations that the cartel has destroyed since 9-11 via warfare—Afghanistan, Iraq, Tunisia, and Libya, with Yemen and Sudan perhaps on the way, and Syria apparently surviving, each of which controlled their own central bank and currency—the cartel, which owns the Federal Reserve System and prints the primary world reserve currency ex nihilo,2 has taken aim at the remaining sovereign nations—(Iran, North Korea, and Cuba), and other hybrid governments that control substantial oil reserves (Venezuela and Russia), substantial unmined gold (Venezuela), and/or what the cartel refers to as human capital (China)—by implementing sanctions, tariffs, and currency manipulation via speculation and market manipulation,3 in addition to intelligence operations and military incursions. Currently, the U.S. applies more than 8,000 "sanctions" to 39 countries, affecting one-third of humanity. In other words, we are all under attack by a global corporate crime syndicate, the machinations of which we are going to delineate here.
We will begin by assuming that the surviving sovereign and semi-sovereign nation-states represent a legitimate opposition (i.e., that they are not "controlled opposition," nor are they without requisite resources for counter-measures) to the cartel's economic, political, and military aggressions. This does not mean that a unipolar world, one that is controlled by a central military and economic power, does not exist over and above what appears to be competing forces, and we will periodically note that most of what goes on in terms of a multipolar world may simply be a cover for a unipolar world; however, for the purposes of delineating the multifaceted dialectic of forces at work, the dynamic of our discussion is based on a multipolar model.
The good news is that, given the opportunity, many nations are trying to ditch "Federal" Reserve Notes (FRNs) and trade in their own currencies, natural resources, and products, even if their central banks are cartel controlled. The bad news is that the cartel continues to stage successful coups d’état to bend nations to their will, steal their resources, flood their media with propaganda, organize and subsidize fifth column subterfuge, as well as agent provocateurs and saboteurs, and charge principal and interest for their private fiat currencies to extend the global reach of their principal weapon—debt slavery.
Some of the current battle lines are difficult to evaluate in terms of which power bloc, if any, has the upper hand. In these cases, we aim to identify the key forces at play and the factors that may indicate who has the greatest leverage.
Military superiority
Since the end of WWII and the transition to WWIII, which actually began before the end of WWII, the most persistent question regarding global power revolves around the conventional and nuclear capabilities of the major powers, including the cartel’s public sector subsidiaries—the U.S., U.K., France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, etc.—and the sovereign (Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Sudan) and semi-sovereign (Russia, China, and Venezuela) nation-states that are fighting to retain control over their own state of affairs and resources. It is a see-saw battle.
Let’s begin by looking at the military situation.
U.S. Strategy and the Cold War
Source: http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/07/operation-anakonda16-and-nato-summit-in-poland-direct-threat-to-russia/As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted:
"Publish a world map and mark all the U.S. military bases on it. You will see the difference between Russia and the US."4
U.S. bases everywhere
A recent analysis5 indicates that the U.S. "Department of Defense (DoD) maintains 4,775 'sites,' spread across all 50 states, eight U.S. territories, and 45 foreign countries. A total of 514 of these outposts are located overseas, according to the Pentagon’s worldwide property portfolio." But, the report (the Base Structure Report [BSR]) does not mention any bases in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Cameroon, Somalia, or many other locales where U.S. military outposts are known to exist and, in many cases, to be expanding.
One of the chief reasons that the Pentagon does not report these bases is that if they are undocumented, they are immune from oversight by Congress and outside of public scrutiny; in other words, under the guise of national security, the cartel is conducting wars that are hidden from the public. The same thing is happening domestically, of course, with the public unaware that—like the proverbial frogs in the gradually heating pot of water—they are being led to a totalitarian state, much as Orwell foresaw.
So, despite the official report, the Department of Defense boasts that its "locations" include 164 countries (including U.S. Special Operations forces in 141 countries6), with the National Guard now covering any shortages of troops both in combat zones and within the United States.7 As has been the case since the military conscription draft was ended in the '70's, the recruitment of the National Guard has depended on reducing the money supply and depressing the economy to coerce enlistment from the middle and lower classes; in other words, troops are comprised of what has historically been considered by the ruling class as "cannon fodder."
Shifts in the balance of power
During the early stages of WWIII, a period that is generally referred to as "the Cold War," two major power structures emerged—the cartel’s public sector proxies led by the U.S., Britain, and France opposing the Soviet bloc, led by the U.S.S.R. At that time, both sides had nuclear weapons and, all told, the capability of destroying life on earth many times over. The plans for this nuclear brinkmanship go back to WWII, when the U.S. and Russia were “allies,” with the U.S. military having drafted plans to construct a nuclear weapons arsenal to bomb 66 Russian cities, as well as targets in China and Eastern Europe.
There's been a lot of water under the bridge since that time, particularly with regard to the U.S. engineered coup and dissolution of the U.S.S.R., the rape of Russian assets by the cartel's oligarchs, and then, a reversal of this hostile take-over, a loosening of the cartel's grip, with Russia's political, economic, and social resurgence under the leadership of Putin.
Surprisingly, given the changes in military strategy over recent decades, with an emphasis on improved conventional weapons, it appears that Russia has a couple of tactical advantages. This is despite the plethora of U.S. military bases and the recent U.S. announcement regarding a new program aimed at developing low-power strategic nuclear weapons—if such a thing can be said to exist—in the 5 to 7 kiloton range, less than one-half the potency [about 15 kilotons] of what was dropped on Hiroshima. This is madness, but the use of nuclear weapons remains a part of U.S. military strategy.8
Before we detail Russia's current military advantages, it must be noted that the now-deployed U.S. program of "low-yield" nuclear weapons actually makes thermonuclear war far more likely, because the weapons are to be launched on the same Trident missiles used to launch full-power nuclear weapons. Basically, Russians are not going to be able to determine whether the cartel's military proxy is implementing a "first strike," all or nothing attack, or a tactical strike9 on a specific target.
Hypersonic missiles and missile defense systems
Of course, the notion of first-strike capability is not only obsolete, but suicidal. In December 2018, Putin announced that Russia has developed hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile systems, which have been tested and have been placed in combat duty, along with combat lasers. Putin underscored that "these weapons significantly increase the potential of the army and the fleet,"10 ensuring Russia’s security for decades. Putin also noted that China and Mongolia are partners in the general plan and under single combat rules with Russian units.
In response, the U.S. withdrew from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia,11 using the baseless accusation that Russia has violated a treaty that benefits Russia, by preventing intermediate-range missiles from being deployed along its borders. Russia responded by saying that the U.S. is in breach of the INF for its use of cruise missile launchpads and attack drones, which it says fit the definition of a "land-based cruise missile" under a different form, as covered in the Reagan-Gorbachev-era treaty. The U.S., in turn, announced via the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) Program, that it completed a series of tests in April 2019 in which "several" missiles were successfully shot down with a ground-based laser. AFRL claims that SHiELD, when deployed, will enable jets to down surface-to-air missiles.12 The U.S. also has other operable laser weapons. Given that Russia already has operable lasers against which to test, it remains to be seen whether U.S. aircraft-based lasers will be effective against the Russian S-400, or perhaps against an upgrade to hypersonic surface-to-air missiles or surface-to-air lasers, such as the S-500, which has been successfully tested and is now in production. The S-500 is capable of destroying space-based weapons.13 The Pentagon responded with a public relations campaign to acquire funding for their space weapons program, resulting in Trump’s heralded "Space Force," which is basically an expanded version of Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative and continued under every administration.
Worse yet, the U.S. is threatening to deploy short and/or intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, on Russia's doorstep. Putin responded by saying that such deployment by the U.S. would leave Russia with no choice but to target not only the countries where these missiles are stationed, but the U.S. itself.14 In other words, Russia would deploy Zircon hypersonic missiles, with a speed of 11,000 kilometers per hour,15 in submarines off the shores of the U.S. With a range of 600 to 1000 km, all nuclear command centers along the east and west coasts of the U.S. would be targeted16 and vaporized in less than 5 minutes from launch. In addition, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko indicated that U.S. deployment in Europe also would mean Russian missiles in Belarus.17 A hypersonic system as such as the Zircon essentially pierces any present anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense system. There's no present defense against it.18 As Putin puts it, “We are not going to fight against anyone. We are going to create conditions so that nobody wants to fight against us. ... This is exactly the situation that is called strategic stability and the balance of power.”
In early October 2019, Putin announced that Russia also has a number of other weapons in development, testing, and deployment phases for which there is no defense. In response, in early December 2019, the U.S. announced it was spending $22.2 billion on nine new Virginia-class subs that will be fitted with four large payload tubes in a new hull section in order to boost Tomahawk missile strike capacity from 12 to 40 missiles per boat. As of 2019, only non-nuclear, sea-launched Tomahawk variants are currently in service.
Recently (March 2019), Russia deployed strategic bombers (Tu-22M3) and Iskander missile systems in Crimea to counter US offensive anti-missile elements in Romania. Russia's state-of-the-art surface-to-air missile systems, including the S-300 and S-400, have also been stationed on the peninsula. The Tu-22M3 long-range missile-carrying bombers will be upgraded and equipped with new armaments in the next few years, enabling them "to deliver warheads to any point in Europe, hitting any type of enemy anti-missile or air-defense facilities."19
Both the U.S. and Russia are developing weapons that use powerful electro-magnetic explosions that render useless all electronic equipment within the range of the shock waves. There have been no announcements from the U.S. on any tests, but apparently Russia has developed a weapon of this type, which explodes at a height of 4 km and destroys electronics for a range of 40 km. On September 11, 2019, the U.S. 41st Field Artillery Brigade in Germany received 16 M270-A1 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). Each MLRS is capable of firing 12 long-range precision rockets in less than a minute at distances up to 40 miles, which can be enhanced with Army Tactical Missile System pods to reach up to 100 miles.
Future negotiations on missiles
Trump, the cartel's go-to distractive diversion and divisive teleprompter reader, has also announced U.S. intentions to withdraw from the last remaining arms control agreement—the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START),20 which is due to expire in February 2021. Yes, the beneficiaries of a renewed nuclear arms race are the cartel's military and security subsidiaries, but when you own the printing press for the principal world reserve currency, revenues are not the chief objective, though there will be plenty of investments in the next generation of missiles; rather, the focus remains what it has always been—control over every country on the planet.
After Russia's attempts to save the INF were dismissed by Washington, Moscow said that it won't make any new proposals and will wait for initiatives from the Americans; although, regardless of which advisors sit on the National Security Council, hubris remains the mindset, so it's unlikely that we will see any real initiatives from the cartel's U.S. proxy, as a February 2018 Defense One article titled, "Pentagon Confirms It's Developing Nuclear Cruise Missile to Counter a Similar Russian One," admitted that the U.S. military is developing a ground-launched, intermediate-range cruise missile, which would, if deployed, violate the INF Treaty between Moscow and Washington.21 In other words, it is the cartel's strategy to walk away from any treaty, when it is convenient to implement what would be a abrogation; for example, when the cartel’s U.S. proxy walked away from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, so that it could begin deploying anti-missile systems across Europe. Since this strategy is the modus operandi of all cartel treaties (just ask Native Americans), it would not be surprising if Russia and China had anticipated this.
Even the cartel's chief public relations and propaganda print venue, the New York Times, admitted that despite Washington claiming its termination of the INF Treaty was prompted by Moscow, its own actions since that claim indicate Washington was already well underway of violating it itself. It did so not only to threaten Russia, but also to threaten China.22
In mid-March 2019, Bolton (who headed up the National Security Council at that time) said it was likely that any future negotiations regarding nuclear weapons would need to include China. This is necessary not only because the U.S. is rushing to encircle China with both defensive and offensive missile systems, and not only because China will become the biggest rival to the cartel's present hegemony over much of the globe, but also because China has significantly improved its arsenal of conventional and nuclear missiles, including plans for the longest range missile in the world. The real target in dropping START is Russia’s hypersonic missiles and the ability to deploy short and medium range missiles on ships in the South China Sea.
Russia responded that it would welcome the involvement of China into non-proliferation negotiations, but noted that the U.S. must understand it is no longer in a position to dictate terms,23 basically noting that U.S. hegemony is past its zenith. In August 2019, Putin announced, "If Russia obtains reliable information that the United States has finished developing these systems and started to produce them, Russia will have no option other than to engage in a full-scale effort to develop similar missiles."24
Apparently, this gate has been passed, given the recent reported Russian nuclear accident. As noted earlier, Russia and China conduct joint military exercises and share a variety of technologies. In response to the U.S. test, the Putin said the U.S. missile test showed that Washington had long been preparing to exit the nuclear pact, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang noted:
"We advise the U.S. side to abandon outdated notions of Cold War thinking and zero-sum games, and exercise restraint in developing arms."
On November 25, 2019, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov announced that the Russians are no longer waiting on the U.S. to propose compromises, and will deploy their latest offensive missiles:
"We repeatedly offered Washington our options, tried to find a solution that would suit everyone, but the Americans do not want to listen to us. Russia is not a country with which you can behave in this way; Russia does not intend to seek more compromises with the United States. In response to the construction of bases in Europe, we will deploy our own latest offensive missiles."
Lavrov also noted that at present the U.S. has no defense for these weapons.
Russian S-400 Triumf (SA-21 Growler) surface-to-air defense missile system
http://worlddefencenews.blogspot.com/2014/11/china-and-russia-sign-agreement-on-s.html
Advanced Russian anti-aircraft systems end U.S. air dominance
In addition to the current imbalance in strategic nuclear arms as a result of Russian hypersonic technology, there is also a technology gap in defense systems aimed at fighter aircraft and conventional missiles, as we see in Syria, with Russian anti-aircraft systems (primarily the S-400) severely restricting U.S. Air Force movement, including so-called "stealth" aircraft. The S-400 performs supersonic interceptions at altitudes of up to 23 miles and distances of up to 250 miles.25 These Russian systems proved to be one of the key elements in defeating the cartel’s military proxies and mercenaries—the U.S., U.K, France, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Syrian "rebels," the White Helmets, and ISIS (including all its variants26)—and, in support (along with China and Iran) of Syrian forces, regaining major portions of the nation. We will discuss this in greater detail later in this article, when we look at the situation on the ground in Syria.
This imbalance created by the S-300 and S-400 systems will remain a key factor in any current conventional warfare involving the cartel and Russia, or nations to which Russia has loaned (Syria and Venezuela) or sold (China, India (and here) [However, the U.S. has roped India into massive purchases of arms], and Turkey27) such weaponry. Nations waiting for a chance to acquire S-400s include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Vietnam, Serbia, and a number of other states.
Sergei Karaganov, Putin’s foreign policy advisor, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying: "Russia does not want military superiority, but it has ended the superiority of the West or the U.S. Now, the West can no longer use force indiscriminately."28
Russia has built a defensive anti-aircraft ring from northern Syria that continues along the borders of Eastern Europe, all the way to the Arctic Circle,29 which begs reconsideration of the cartel's U.S. military proxy (in coordination with the U.K. and France) as the world’s unassailable air force, particularly given new radar arrays that detect stealth aircraft.
Naval considerations
In addition to surface-to-air missile superiority, Russia’s October 2019 upgrade of its aircraft launched missiles will arguably return it to Soviet-era parity with the U.S., with the addition of a new long-range supersonic missile, the Kh-32, that will be launched by the highly effective Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire, giving this fighter jet a formidable strike capacity against ships as well as strategic targets in Europe.
While the previous missile, the Kh-22, was designed to destroy aircraft carriers, the new Kh-32 is designed to hit a wider range of targets including bridges, military bases, electric power plants, and other large installations at standoff distances. Though the Russian Federation’s Tu-22M3 fleet is a small fraction of the force that the Soviet Union once possessed, these upgraded weapons and sensors make today’s Backfire just as much a threat—although on a much smaller scale.
However, the U.S. Navy no longer flies its most effective air interceptor, the Tomcat, and has allowed much of its air interception capability to atrophy; so, even the modest Russian air-to-sea strike capability poses a real danger to the Navy's carrier battle group, given the Kh-32’s speed and maneuverability. While U.S. carriers' Boeing F/A-18E/F and its Aegis cruisers and destroyers are capable of defending against the Backfire in an air fight, it's likely that interception would not be soon enough to prevent the Backfire from launching its missiles. Also, even if the U.S. Navy's anti-missile missiles (AIM-120D AMRAAM and SM-6) are capable of defending against the Kh-32, it's unlikely that they could handle a swarm.30
Additionally, as has been the case throughout the history of the U.S. military—e.g., J.P. Morgan selling defective rifles to the Union Army, or the collusion of Curtiss-Wright Corporation and the Army Air Forces in the inspections of WWII planes, resulting in 21 deaths—readiness is compromised by private contractors’ profitability needs. Thus, the U.S. is forced to use Russian rockets to maintain the rotation of its astronauts on the International Space Station. Much as we shall see in Section III of this online book, cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in this area could be seen either as an indication of a unipolar power structure or as a bilateral agreement to cooperate in certain limited endeavors.
Ground forces comparison
The principal difference between the military preparedness of U.S. and Russian ground forces is that U.S. forces are organized and equipped for rapid offensive use, while Russian forces are organized and equipped for defensive deployment.31 Once again, the graphic introduced at the top of this analysis tells you all you need to know about the relative intentions of the U.S., as a proxy for the cartel, and Russia, as one of the resistant forces.
Nevertheless, because of the present imbalance created by Russian surface-to-air defense and hypersonic offensive missile systems, the Rand Corporation, in a study commissioned by the Pentagon, said that the U.S. would unceremoniously lose a war with either or both Russia and China.32 Granted, the study was issued in an effort to increase military spending, but it is also a plausible response to the balance of power as indicated by the best data available to the public at this time, including the increased responsiveness of Russian ground troops to the U.S. rapid deployment strategy of its special operations units. Additionally, these special units have supplanted U.S. conventional forces as a priority and weakened preparedness in that area.33
Regardless, the U.S. is sending 20,000 troops to Russia’s eastern flank for "exercises" with an additional 17,000 troops from European NATO members (and here). These aggressive moves on the part of the cartel's military proxies substantially raise the risk of a hot war, according to Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Vladimir Putin’s general staff, who believes the West is preparing for a "large-scale military conflict."
Chris Dougherty, a former US Army Ranger, who also worked at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), agrees with the Rand Corporation’s assessment, and adds more details, as well as some advice, in an essay about the short-sighted focus on short wars. The analysis was written in 2014 for the Center for New American Security (CNAS), but was finally published on June 6, 2019. Here are a few excerpts the report:
"While the US remains stuck in the "implicit and explicit mental framework" for military strategy and operations that emerged during the 1991 Gulf War, China and Russia have been devising new strategies and weapons to defeat the US in war should that become necessary. ..."Beijing and Moscow have “offset their relative weakness versus the United States by using time and geography to their advantage” and developed weapons and strategies to target US vulnerabilities, to the point they could defeat the US and allies in a regional war. ...
"No amount of money thrown at the Pentagon will help if it is used to invest in "flawed concepts." This would be a waste of resources and "an enormous lost opportunity to make better investments ...""34
To this we would add: Consider the inefficiency of what Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex": the U.S. spends more money on military than the next 9 nations combined35; its annual war budget is three times that of China and more than 10 times that spent by Russia; yet, it has fallen behind in the arms race and produces inferior weapons, granted much of the spending is a means of transferring public money into private pockets (profit), and is not focused on efficiencies. It should be noted, however, that these figures—comparing U.S. military spending with Russia and China—are somewhat misleading, because they are based on GDP not purchasing power parity (PPP), which paints an entirely different picture of comparative military spending and economic power. As you shall see below, in what was written before the study was issued, Dougherty's analysis of the problem is perfectly aligned with our own, although our prescription for repair is outside of the cartel's current paradigm of thinking, and generally suppressed by the cartel within its domain.
America's 2012 defense budget surpassed that of the next 10 countries combined
https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-defense-spending-by-country-2014-2
In contradistinction to the foregoing analysis, the cartel's present strategy is transparently obvious to global analysts. General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian military, recently characterized it thusly:
"The Pentagon has begun to develop a fundamentally new strategy of warfare, which has been dubbed the ‘Trojan Horse’. Its essence lies in the active use of the ‘protest potential of the fifth column’ in order to destabilize the situation with simultaneous strikes by precision-guided weapons on the most important targets."... I would like to note that the Russian Federation is ready to oppose every one of these strategies. In recent years, military scientists, together with the General Staff, have developed conceptual approaches to neutralize the aggressive actions of potential opponents. The field of research of military strategy is armed struggle, its strategic level. With the emergence of new areas of confrontation in modern conflicts, methods of struggle are increasingly shifting towards the integrated application of political, economic, information, and other non-military measures, implemented with the support of military force."36
This analysis of the cartel’s strategy was echoed in a September 22, 2019 interview by Russian Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu:
"... the West long ago created the templates and algorithms for the overthrow in any country of any legitimate authority it deems inconvenient ... Of course, all this is done under the banner of promoting democracy. Well, in what country to which they “brought democracy” has this democracy taken root: in Iraq, in Afghanistan, or in Libya? Or in the former Yugoslavia, which with their "democratic" bombings in 1999 they forcibly dismembered into six countries. And you can just forget about sovereignty and independence following any American intervention. And is it a surprise to anyone that the majority of oilfields in that same Libya belong to American companies or companies under US control?"
The Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel’s financial weapons
Any optimism over this state of military balance—with Russia's anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses and the potential of its hypersonic missiles halting various encroachments by the financiers’ proxies—must be tempered by the cartel's control over the Fed, the IMF, and the World Bank, as well as its control over and manipulation of much of the world's currency and securities exchanges and gold markets.37
Recently, WikiLeaks released a 248-page U.S. Army Special Operations Forces field manual (3-05.130) on unconventional warfare strategies that details how the U.S. government applies "unilateral and indirect financial power through persuasive influence to international and domestic financial institutions regarding availability and terms of loans, grants, or other financial assistance to foreign state and nonstate actors." The report specifically names the World Bank, IMF, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as well as the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), as "U.S. diplomatic-financial venues to accomplish" such goals.38
While this strategy has been obvious for a long time, as we have discussed previously,39 the release of this document confirms that global financial institutions are standard weapons in the cartel's military "regime change" arsenal, as we shall detail in our analysis of various hot spots. These financial armaments are governed by the National Security Council (NSC). As the document notes, the NSC "has primary responsibility for the integration of the economic and military instruments of national power abroad."
The weaponization of the petro-dollar
In addition to weaponizing the World Bank, the IMF, and the OECD, as well as the currency and securities exchanges and gold markets—the cartel weaponized Federal Reserve Notes (erroneously called U.S. dollars, since they are private bank notes, not sovereign currency), by removing FRNs from the gold standard (1971) and then backing them with oil (1974), via an arrangement whereby the House of Saud would accept only FRNs for oil. Thus, the so-called petro-dollar was born. Further, the Saudis agreed to return huge portions of the money they made from selling oil to the U.S. by investing in U.S. government securities.40
The untethering of Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) from gold in 1971 produced some instability in the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel's ruse of "sound money"; but, the orchestration of the 1973 Mideast war, and the embargo that followed, provided an opportunity to re-solidify the FRNs position as the world reserve currency by pegging it to oil. This began with Nixon's Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, "convincing" King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, to accept only FRNs in exchange for oil, and to convince other members of the oil producing cartel (OPEC) to do the same. One of the lures was that the price of oil would need to dramatically increase to support the value of FRNs. This was followed by large construction projects to put various oil kingdoms into debt--the same usury scam that followed the Erie Canal in the U.S., in the mid- to late-1830's. The cartel's U.S. proxy also guaranteed Saudi security, leading to various arms deals that continue today.
In return, the cartel agreed to keep the House of Saud in power. This deal has remained in effect, although there are signs that it may be weakening.41
Consider for a moment what this reveals regarding how the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel controls the key currency in the world and how it leverages FRNs to secure its position at the top of the planetary power structure:
• First, the original arrangement with the House of Saud required every country to have FRNs to buy oil. This keeps the demand for FRNs high. It also means that if a country needs oil, it must manufacture and export goods and/or services to get FRNs.
• Second, it means that the cartel, via its U.S. proxy, can simply print FRNs, at the expense of U.S. taxpayers, who must pay the principal and interest on the U.S. Treasury bonds held by the stakeholders du jour of these bonds:o In the early days, stakeholders meant members of OPEC, a routine that came to be known as petro-dollar recycling. In essence, U.S. consumption of oil is a means of printing more FRNs. This also required periodic destruction of assets held by the working classes (the value created by labor) to avoid hyperinflation; thus, since the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, the economy is crashed, on average, every 5+ years. As the infamous financier, Andrew Mellon, arrogantly explained, "During depressions, assets return to their rightful owners." In other words, the financiers rent the currency to labor, and then choke the currency supply to seize the assets created by labor.• Third, while many political and economic analysts point to oil as the casus belli for the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, (as well as what now qualifies as a war in Venezuela, given the recent U.S. embargo42 and blockade), as we see from the circular process of printing FRNs, oil is just the current means of giving value to FRNs, just as gold was until 1971. In other words, the basis of these wars is currency, not oil. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen all controlled their own central bank and currency, and Venezuela recently broke with the FRN system in an attempt to issue its own cryto-petro-currency.43 Based on current technology, the use of oil as an energy source could be eliminated by sustainable sources; however, for the financiers, oil means much higher profits (and greater value confiscation) than renewables, in addition to serving as another means of enforcing debt-slavery around the globe. Since it appears that the notion of "Peak Oil" has no basis in fact, we would expect the cartel to sacrifice the earth’s atmosphere at the altar of power, profit, propaganda, and population reduction as long as they can get away with it.
o Later, a similar arrangement was made with the China, where FRNs spent purchasing Chinese manufactured goods were reinvested in U.S. Treasury bonds which, in turn, generated more FRNs to spend on Chinese goods. This required the destruction of major portions of the U.S. manufacturing sector; thus, the various "rust belts" and high unemployment (the numbers are suppressed [and here]) across the U.S.
o Finally, as China gained economic and military power and began to sell off its massive portfolio of U.S. Treasury bonds, the cartel created the impression that these U.S. Treasuries were being bought offshore by nations (e.g., Luxembourg) that were obviously incapable of financing these massive purchases. All of this, of course, is masked by privately-held off-shore holding companies: In essence, the cartel is now buying the bonds from itself to print FRNs, a currency which still holds the position of the principal world reserve currency. Thus, almost every planetary resource and asset, including labor, is at risk for an FRN buyout that is paid for by capital created from thin air (ex nihilo).
• Fourth, as we shall see, China's thirst for oil and the birth of the petro-yuan has heated up the war between the cartel and China because, if current economic and monetary trends continue, the yuan will eventually replace FRNs at the top of the currency value chain.44
• And fifth, as we also shall see, the remaining sovereign states—e.g., those that control their own central bank and currency, namely, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Sudan—are currently in the crosshairs of the cartel's military proxies and mercenary "manufactured terrorists" (e.g., al Qaeda, ISIS, and their various rebranded and recycled variants).
The ascendancy of competing currencies and trade pacts
In its zeal to build out a political economy from which to exploit the world, the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel enabled the economic and technical development of a number of nations that are now seeking to disengage from the cartel’s pernicious private-fiat debt instruments.
Continued in Section II: The Sino-Russian coalition's current and future capabilities
Robert Bows studied political science and economics at Stanford University during the late ‘60’s, while protesting the war in Vietnam. He is the author of the Home Rule Charter of the Town of Ward, Colorado, as well as a former producer, writer, and director for both Colorado Public Television and Rocky Mountain PBS. He is one of the founders of the Public Banking Institute.
1-ahttps://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2018/12/global-corporate-power-structure.html, https://www.mintpressnews.com/britain-unreported-bombing-of-iraq-and-syria/255705, https://friendsofsyria.wordpress.com/2018/03/31/current-developments-french-troops-are-growing-in-northern-syria, and https://www.globalresearch.ca/syrias-president-assad-says-us-french-turks-israeli-troops-are-occupying-forces/5644147
1-bhttp://auburn.edu/%7Ejohnspm/gloss/cartel
1-chttp://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary/C/Cartel.aspx#mil
2"Out of nothing"; or, "from thin air."
3http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-running-tab-on-bank-fraud.html
4Vladimir Putin interview by Corriere della Sera, June 8th, 2015: https://www.mintpressnews.com/putin-publish-a-world-map-and-mark-al-the-u-s-military-bases-on-it-you-will-see-the-difference-between-russia-and-the-us/206343/
5https://www.globalresearch.ca/bases-bases-everywhere-except-in-the-pentagons-report/5665808
6https://consortiumnews.com/2020/03/20/us-commandos-deployed-to-141-countries
7https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/20/national-guard-filling-gaps-in-all-volunteer-army
8https://fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3_72.pdf
9https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/02/01/washington-resurrected-the-arms-race/
10http://tass.com/defense/1036587
11https://www.telesurenglish.net//news/US-Suspends-Compliance-on-Nuclear-Weapons-Treaty-with-Russia-20190201-0008.html, https://www.rt.com/russia/454153-crimea-strategic-bombers-iskander-romania, and https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/US-Withdraws-From-1988-Intermediate-Range-Nuclear-Forces-Treaty-20190802-0001.html
12https://www.activistpost.com/2019/05/us-air-force-shoots-down-multiple-missiles-with-classified-laser-weapon.html
13https://sputniknews.com/military/201907081076184926-russia-s-500-missile-system-space, and https://consortiumnews.com/2019/12/21/pepe-escobar-you-say-you-want-a-russian-revolution
14https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-vows-target-u-s-if-missiles-are-deployed-europe-n973451
15The chief technological breakthrough that allows these hypersonic missiles to carry out their mission without burning up, in the dense atmosphere of their low-trajectory flight, is to let layers of the missile cone oxidize.
16https://russia-insider.com/en/top-anchor-kiselev-new-zircon-hypersonic-missiles-can-hit-every-single-important-us-command-center
17https://russia-insider.com/en/belarus-vows-response-if-us-missiles-deployed-europe/ri26407
18https://russia-insider.com/en/putin-explains-detail-why-his-mach-20-missiles-change-world-balance-power/ri26377
19https://www.rt.com/russia/454153-crimea-strategic-bombers-iskander-romania
20https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/02/01/washington-resurrected-the-arms-race/
21https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-leaves-inf-because-russia-points-missiles-china/5685995
22https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/world/asia/inf-missile-treaty.html
23https://www.rt.com/news/454075-russia-skeptical-bolton-china-us
24https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/05/wake-nuclear-treaty-collapse-putin-says-if-us-pursues-previously-banned-missiles
25https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/12/s-400-undermines-the-global-military-cabal/
26https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/04/21/how-cia-allies-helped-jihadists-in-syria/
27https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-Made-S-400-Air-Defense-System-is-En-Route-to-Turkey-20190708-0003.html, https://russia-insider.com/en/shocking-perfidious-turks-stab-us-back-buy-s-400s-join-belt-and-road-initiative/ri27427, and https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/12/s-400-undermines-the-global-military-cabal/
28https://russia-insider.com/en/us-air-dominance-falters-pilots-contend-advanced-russian-anti-aircraft-systems/ri26111, and https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Wont-Allow-S-400-Deal-to-Harm-Turkish-US-Ties-Erdogan-20190806-0004.html
29https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/04/09/russian-military-base-in-arctic-unveiled-hidden-northern-clover-revealed-for-first-time/
30https://russia-insider.com/en/carrier-costs-5-billion-it-could-be-taken-out-40-million-russian-plane/ri26878
31https://www.globalresearch.ca/organizational-staff-structure-us-russian-armies-military-comparison/5671802
32https://russia-insider.com/en/us-would-get-ass-handed-it-war-russia-claims-pentagon-aligned-think-tank/ri26547
33https://russia-insider.com/en/after-syria-venezuela-russian-military-prepares-threat-hybrid-war-video/ri26833 and https://www.mintpressnews.com/u-s-special-operations-the-new-face-of-americas-war-machine/256431
34https://www.rt.com/news/461727-us-new-way-war-cnas
35https://www.globalresearch.ca/trade-war-hot-war-u-s-chinese-relations/5672039 and https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-defense-spending-by-country-2014-2
36https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-general-staff-says-it-can-beat-pentagon-every-sector/ri26583
37http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-running-tab-on-bank-fraud.html and https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Worlds-Central-Banks-Buying-up-Gold-Ditching-Dollar-Goldman-Sachs-20191210-0019.html
38https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708
39http://coloradopublicbanking.blogspot.com/2018/04/currency-as-weapon-of-war.html
40Stuart Davies commenting on "Petrodollar Warfare: The Common Thread Linking Venezuela and Iran," by Kei Pritsker and Cale Holmes, February 14th, 2019, https://www.mintpressnews.com/petrodollar-warfare-the-common-thread-linking-venezuela-and-iran/255123
41https://www.globalresearch.ca/russias-nuclear-energy-edge-got-the-us-to-cut-ethical-corners-with-the-saudis/5669195
42https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-turns-sanctions-against-venezuela-embargo/5685695
43https://www.mintpressnews.com/venezuela-sovereign-bolivar/248019/
44It’s worth noting that this does not prevent the cartel from acquiring massive holdings in the yuan; but, unless the cartel controls China, they would not have the ability to print yuan, as they have with FRNs.
Copyright, Robert Bows, 2019
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Wow. This is just what we need to put the banksters' power in perspective. Thanks.
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