Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
January 10, 2025
Looting The ‘Allies’

With regards to Trump attempting to land grab Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal, Agit Papadakis offers some interesting observation:

The Bozo [Trump] Doctrine, the Bibi [Netanyahoo] Doctrine, and the Tayyip [Erdogan] Doctrine, are all converging on a new post-Westphalian world disorder of imperialism gone nuts.

For the cucked vassals of the old order this means either grow a pair and resist or lose every shred of sovereignty, dignity, and material comfort you have left. Cucks like the EU, Australia, Japan, South Korea and wounded weak states like Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq are all suffering the torment of being raped and ravaged by powerful rogue states.

Bozo didn't lose a minute to join the melée. He looked at the economic train wreck he was inheriting and decided it was now or never to hoist the Jolly Roger over his big but old and rusty military machine and what's left of the once mighty dollar's hegemony.

His first victims would be the weak and cucked vassals who poured their sorry excuse for a military and their treasure into the Ukraine black hole. Bozo knows that his unfurling of the black banner will automatically dissolve those BS "alliances" with weak vassals that were never but a frilly negligée concealing America's naked imperialism, as revealed by the the lonely squeak of the French chihuahua protesting Bozo's Greenland grab and threatening to resist.

The cucked chihuahuas of the Rules Based Order are suddenly up against Judgement Day, naked and defenseless between two raging behemoths, Amerisrael and Russia, while an even bigger and scarier one, China, looms over everybody else.

It's the 19th century with nukes and hypersonics and space jets, which would normally be followed by the world wars of the 20th. But with 21st century speed, it shouldn't take longer than a decade if that.

Agit's rant refers to a 'based' thread 'On American expansionism' by Russians With Attitude:

The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.

The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.

The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this — and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.

The unilateral moment has ended. Russia, India and China have become too rich and too powerful to be looted. U.S. vassals are now by far the easier target.

Trump's ideas of taking from the 'allies' is not knew. The U.S. plundering of its vassals has been ongoing for some time.

The instigation of the war in Ukraine can be interpreted as a large U.S. looting operation of its European 'allies'.

Biden was also quite successful when he blew up Nord Stream. (This was btw the second time the U.S. destroyed a Russia to Germany pipeline. An analytical book available on the first incident in 1982 had been written by Anthony Blinken!)

The weaklings in the German and EU government did not even dare protest. They instead condemned their people to pay horrendous prices for U.S. fracking gas. On top of that they were pressed to buy U.S. weapons to feed the war in Ukraine.

Things did not go as well as planned with the war in Ukraine but the U.S. is still winning from it.

Comments

Michael J | Jan 11 2025 16:42 utc | 226
*** UK after failing to stop Russia or Trump now in China with a begging bowl. Love or hate him, Trump knows how to deal with these treacherous Euros ***
Reeves deal with China was reportedly for 600 milliion pounds over a five year period.
Not impressive.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 13 2025 14:04 utc | 401

The reply to the argument that government must run deficits so the rest of the economy may have surpluses based on the balance of accounts tautology is that the assumption behind it, namely that the economic value starts with government issuing currency, is wrong. Economic value starts with the work of individual workers, not with the issuance of currency by government.
Posted by: Johan Kaspar | Jan 13 2025 8:13 utc | 400
The problem with your logic is that individual workers won’t do work if they don’t get paid.
That’s a reality like it or not. Maybe, in a perfect world it wouldn’t be like that, but it far from a perfect world.
In a perfect world people would not need or want a surplus of money or payment from the surplus of others for their labor, but that’s not the world we live in.
If you want to change the way things are, pretending that reality is something its not is not going give you much traction.

Posted by: jinn | Jan 13 2025 14:27 utc | 402

Refinnejenna | Jan 11 2025 21:12 utc | 298
*** I had in mind not just The Beatles’ catalogue but the catalogues of all other major British rock and pop acts of the 1960s onwards … the combined value of all this musical culture would be enough to pay Britain’s energy bill to Russia for many years, maybe a quarter-century even. ***
A proper Russia does not need such faddishist Western trivia.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 13 2025 14:30 utc | 403

About the Road to War in Ukraine, here is a useful Timeline of mine, which clearly shows the West’s nefarious role over the decades (all sourced):
https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/the-road-to-war-in-ukraine-a-timeline
Posted by: Finn Andreen | Jan 10 2025 21:22 utc | 78
Excellent, concise history. Thanks Finn

Posted by: Samu | Jan 13 2025 14:42 utc | 404

Trump Allies Prepare Bill To Let Him Buy Greenland
https://www.rt.com/news/610834-makes-greenland-great-again/
“US House Republicans have introduced ‘Make Greenland Great Again Act…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 14 2025 4:48 utc | 405

Trump Allies Prepare Bill To Let Him Buy Greenland
Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 14 2025 4:48 utc | 405

New Year; New Debt Ceiling
January 3, 2025

In June 2023, Congress passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA)―which, among other things, suspended the debt ceiling through January 1, 2025. In a letter to Congress last month, Treasury Secretary Yellen announced that due to several technicalities in the federal budget, the United States’ debt load recently decreased by about $54 billion. The letter went on to explain that the decrease would allow the federal government to fully maintain operations for a bit longer beyond the January 1 date set in statue. Yellen estimates that the federal government should be able to continue its operations through January 14 – 23 but notes estimating these dates is an imprecise science.
Once the federal government hits the debt limit, Yellen (or whoever leads Treasury at that time) will likely issue an order to begin implementing extraordinary measures, which are essentially accounting maneuvers that allow the federal government to temporarily continue its operations with minimal impact even after the debt ceiling has been reached. Extraordinary measures offer only an interim solution, and Congress will almost certainly need to address the debt ceiling to avoid potentially catastrophic scenarios.
full article ==> https://www.nabl.org/blogs/new-year-new-debt-ceiling/

Trump’s supporters have a long shopping list and a short budget.

Posted by: too scents | Jan 15 2025 10:44 utc | 406