The most staggering news this week for me is that American hegemony is now officially over. America is effectively finished. And Satan is now officially fully in charge. To me the fight with Satan has always been over the big stuff. And it doesn't get bigger than this.
Saudi Arabia and Iran— Sunni & Shiite Muslim— are sworn enemies, yet China just brokered a peace deal between them. China.
Saudi Arabia is talking about settling their oil trades in the Yuan, replacing the dollar. This is in spite of being allied with the US.
There is also discussion of Saudi Arabia and Iran joining the BRICS alliance.
-Brazil
-Russia
-India
-China
-South Africa
That would mean all of the major oil producing countries in the world would be part of the same alliance. These countries also make up half of the global population. And I imagine there would be a level of protection safeguarding Iran from American invasion.
Most apparent, there is no need or room for the US in this new boys club. There is no seat at the table of this super alliance.
For those who cannot see the catastrophe The US Deep State has made America, its values, and its global status a laughing stock. It has taken its much vaunted Bill of Rights for granted, spent all the time and resources prosecuting political dissenters and handed victory to Communism. And it's the Americans in charge who have creamed off the profits of this manouevre and will tell the world they're political Creed is the Holy of Holies. It was a fiasco when America allowed socialism in the back door.
This is the biggest story of my lifetime. I would never have imagined it.
It speaks to all you've written about so correctly.
How well you've expressed it Alison. Isn't it extraordinary and yet the news has been dominated by whether President Trump would be arrested or not. I agree that what is happening with the new global alliances is the story of our lifetime and is hard to come to grips with. The foundations of freedom and the light on the hill, which the US has been to us, is a fading light. It is hard to see what the next stage of the collapse of the West will be but we need to be prepared.
As a child my parents stressed to me the importance of America. My mother once pointed to bags of food Ina news broadcast being airlifted to some wartorn or nature ravaged poverty stricken hellhole and said "USA. It says USA on the bag Alison. Not China. Be glad for that". I've never forgotten that. I cannot imagine what she would make of this were she alive to see it.
I do. And you are correct but Empires always end this way. However the probability of that group of autocratic, deeply corrupt and fissiparous group staying on the same page let alone in the same book for longer than the blinking of a proverbial eye, is miniscule.
Ironically I believe all this to be a good thing because whilst it does create the potential of severe disruption, probably even hot war, the only way we will see the deconstruction of the massively entrenched super state apparatus is through its collapse, which will happen because the money system it needs to sustain itself is irreparably broken - from now on it’s just gravity working its inexorable magic: the recent near collapse of the banking system - which has now been quasi-nationalised with the blanket deposit guarantee covering $18 tn in deposits - as a result of a run SVB and Signature is proof enough of that.
I am sure you are right. And know you are rebate banking crisis. It just feels at the moment that justice cannot vanquish all the corruption which is as embedded in the West now as it is in Saudi Brazil China etc. Fauci was the turning point. it is so important to hold feet to the fire as it all starts to fall apart.
We have to be right. Otherwise nothing we hold to be ultimately true makes any sense. Organised predation is the essence of the satanic and our story is always always about vanquishing him. Rereading Paradise Lost and extracting so much more wisdom than when I last engaged with it decades ago.
Great piece Reuben. Have you read any of Gary North’s work? He was (he died in 2021) a prodigious Christian Libertarian writer whose major contribution was a detailed analysis of the economic principles embedded in the Bible and his powerful construction of a Christian philosophy of property rights and free enterprise based on the “hierarchy of stewardship”. Start with “Inherit The Earth” available from www.garynorth.com
No Steven - I don't know about Gary North's work and look forward to making myself acquainted with him. Thanks for your comments and the context you provide. I'm going to have another look at Paradise Lost. Fortunately, the Wicklow Hills provide a great perspective.
You will love Gary North, I guarantee - and then wonder how he managed to avoid you all these years. He left behind an enormous body of analytical semi-theological work, much of it scripture-based free-market economics. Let me know what you think.
The most staggering news this week for me is that American hegemony is now officially over. America is effectively finished. And Satan is now officially fully in charge. To me the fight with Satan has always been over the big stuff. And it doesn't get bigger than this.
Saudi Arabia and Iran— Sunni & Shiite Muslim— are sworn enemies, yet China just brokered a peace deal between them. China.
Saudi Arabia is talking about settling their oil trades in the Yuan, replacing the dollar. This is in spite of being allied with the US.
There is also discussion of Saudi Arabia and Iran joining the BRICS alliance.
-Brazil
-Russia
-India
-China
-South Africa
That would mean all of the major oil producing countries in the world would be part of the same alliance. These countries also make up half of the global population. And I imagine there would be a level of protection safeguarding Iran from American invasion.
Most apparent, there is no need or room for the US in this new boys club. There is no seat at the table of this super alliance.
For those who cannot see the catastrophe The US Deep State has made America, its values, and its global status a laughing stock. It has taken its much vaunted Bill of Rights for granted, spent all the time and resources prosecuting political dissenters and handed victory to Communism. And it's the Americans in charge who have creamed off the profits of this manouevre and will tell the world they're political Creed is the Holy of Holies. It was a fiasco when America allowed socialism in the back door.
This is the biggest story of my lifetime. I would never have imagined it.
It speaks to all you've written about so correctly.
And yet noone seems to care.
How well you've expressed it Alison. Isn't it extraordinary and yet the news has been dominated by whether President Trump would be arrested or not. I agree that what is happening with the new global alliances is the story of our lifetime and is hard to come to grips with. The foundations of freedom and the light on the hill, which the US has been to us, is a fading light. It is hard to see what the next stage of the collapse of the West will be but we need to be prepared.
As a child my parents stressed to me the importance of America. My mother once pointed to bags of food Ina news broadcast being airlifted to some wartorn or nature ravaged poverty stricken hellhole and said "USA. It says USA on the bag Alison. Not China. Be glad for that". I've never forgotten that. I cannot imagine what she would make of this were she alive to see it.
I do. And you are correct but Empires always end this way. However the probability of that group of autocratic, deeply corrupt and fissiparous group staying on the same page let alone in the same book for longer than the blinking of a proverbial eye, is miniscule.
Ironically I believe all this to be a good thing because whilst it does create the potential of severe disruption, probably even hot war, the only way we will see the deconstruction of the massively entrenched super state apparatus is through its collapse, which will happen because the money system it needs to sustain itself is irreparably broken - from now on it’s just gravity working its inexorable magic: the recent near collapse of the banking system - which has now been quasi-nationalised with the blanket deposit guarantee covering $18 tn in deposits - as a result of a run SVB and Signature is proof enough of that.
I am sure you are right. And know you are rebate banking crisis. It just feels at the moment that justice cannot vanquish all the corruption which is as embedded in the West now as it is in Saudi Brazil China etc. Fauci was the turning point. it is so important to hold feet to the fire as it all starts to fall apart.
We have to be right. Otherwise nothing we hold to be ultimately true makes any sense. Organised predation is the essence of the satanic and our story is always always about vanquishing him. Rereading Paradise Lost and extracting so much more wisdom than when I last engaged with it decades ago.
Great piece Reuben. Have you read any of Gary North’s work? He was (he died in 2021) a prodigious Christian Libertarian writer whose major contribution was a detailed analysis of the economic principles embedded in the Bible and his powerful construction of a Christian philosophy of property rights and free enterprise based on the “hierarchy of stewardship”. Start with “Inherit The Earth” available from www.garynorth.com
No Steven - I don't know about Gary North's work and look forward to making myself acquainted with him. Thanks for your comments and the context you provide. I'm going to have another look at Paradise Lost. Fortunately, the Wicklow Hills provide a great perspective.
You will love Gary North, I guarantee - and then wonder how he managed to avoid you all these years. He left behind an enormous body of analytical semi-theological work, much of it scripture-based free-market economics. Let me know what you think.