The new Horsemen of the Apocalypse  – US Military Industrial Complex vs Covid vs Catastrophic Climate Change vs Late Stage Capitalism

Comrades, the new Horsemen of the Apocalypse are upon us and will shape 2023.

US Military Industrial Complex

They just gained an obscene $858 billion for next years budget. The way the US mIlitary Industrial Complex has profited from the Ukrainian War the West goaded Putin into has been exceptionally profitable, as it always is…

One key reason the U.S. advocated the expansion of NATO was that it would open up new markets for American arms dealers. A little-known but significant figure named Bruce Jackson cofounded an NGO called the Committee to Expand NATO in 1996 — all the while serving as vice president for strategy and planning at Lockheed Martin. He was also co-chair of the finance committee for Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign. Jackson was still at Lockheed in 2002, the year he became chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

This had led to many merry Christmases, indeed. With dividends reinvested, Lockheed’s stock is up over 1,600 percent since the liberation of Iraq commenced on March 19, 2003, It’s up 25 percent just since Russia’s attack on Ukraine last February. Jackson currently owns a chateau and vineyardin the Bordeaux region of France.

…we can righteously criticise Putin for the butchery and mass murder his contemptible invasion of the Ukraine has been and continues to be, but let’s not ignore the coup in Kazakstan, the Wests involvement with the Ukrainian coup and the years of shelling and conflict in the Donbas that all lead up to this nor should we ignore the war mongers selling weapons being accelerants here.

We keep telling ourselves Putin has miscalculated.

I hope so.

I was one of the few who called Putin invading after the Kazakstan coup, and argued he was doing so because he had concluded the West will always expand into Russia’s sphere of influence and because he was looking down the corridors of time to asses his place in Russia’s pantheon of hard men and as a defender of the true Christian faith.

He bullied and tricked his military into invading and has been sowing chaos ever since.

He has us in a Black belt submission hold and sees that only in . world of chaos outside the ordered hegemony of American capitalism can Russia dominate again.

He is a brutal KGB thug who understands only force.

If his own plutocracy don’t kill him in a Palace coup, Putin will continue to escalate and conflict will erupt on numerous fronts.

For Israel, a nuclear Iran is a red line that they will launch military strikes against. It would be in Russia’s interests to give Iran the final technology to successfully test a nuclear weapon and spark conflict with Israel to start a new Middle East uprising that America couldn’t control.

We are in a more dangerous place with war in 2023 than we appreciate.

Covid

I think we are in denial about Covid.

We hated its restrictions and the costs to protect us and we want to believe it is just a flu we are dealing with.

Firstly, long Covid and its risks are unique each time and the more and more times you catch it, the more run down your system gets, the more chance of long term health decline. It is not a bloody flu!

Secondly, the damage Covid is causing China could trigger social unrest, economic carnage and the desperate need to start a Nationalistic conflict outside their borders.

Thirdly, the decision to not spend $50billion to vaccinate the entire planet has ensured an unvaccinated pool of billions for the virus to mutate into and without warning start a new far more deadly subvariant.

10 new billionaires were made from the vaccine, and yet our refusal to spend a mere 0.05 percent of the world’s annual gross domestic product to vaccinate the entire planet makes those new billionaires wealth even more repugnant.

Covid has not finished with us by any means and it will continue to destabilise global institutes throughout 2023 with a possibility of becoming a far larger mass death event if it mutates into something more dangerous.

Catastrophic Climate Change

Consumerism must die because the biosphere it exploits is dying…

The Earth, as we know it, is fucked. We’re currently at 417 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, up from 280 ppm pre-capitalism. And that’s still not enough to satiate the shrieking, sucking mouth of the market. 

Russia sees the melting Arctic and has decided this is a wonderful opportunity to extract the region’s hitherto inaccessible oil. Burning this will melt the Arctic further, making more oil available, in a virtuous circle of suicide. While making false promises in the fight against the climate crisis, America took the lead in crude oil production last year. Right behind us are the world’s other oil producers, from the despots of Saudi Arabia to the bland democracy of Canada. It’s like a “Murder on the Orient Express”-style mystery, where humanity is killed by every passenger. 

It’s getting pretty close to night-night time for ocean life, most of the insects on Earth, half of the birds, too. Oh, and a third of the trees. When this will take out people is hard to predict, just as you never know which piece you have to remove to cause everything to collapse in a game of Jenga.

If you find this distressing, consider the more distressing fact that even if we develop massive amounts of green energy and stop global warming, capitalism will still probably destroy a livable biosphere.

…we are so far off the maps in terms of pollution and what that dramatic sharp increase in heat will do to our biosphere.

Nothing else matters in politics right now more than radical adaptation for the climate crisis that is upon us.

Watch for more climate refugees and the inability for some places to rebuild in time for the next storm as agricultural calendars are irreversibly disrupted.

Late Stage Capitalism

We printed $25trillion in quantitive easing to prevent the greed of the corporate world plunging the planet into an economic depression in 2008 and artificially created the lowest interest rates in 5000 years.

The inflation from that never hit us because just-in-time global supply chains reached into the deepest, darkest most deunionised parts of China and reduced the manufacturing base price for the West.

The problem is China’s zero tolerance Covid policy and geopolitical tensions turned those just-in-time global supply chains into just-in-case supply chains at the same time as two important base product producing countries like Russia and the Ukraine are at war shutting down access to those base ingredients.

This means the West is importing a tsunami of inflation as base production costs and base ingredients shoot up in price and scarcity.

Bloated on a glut of cheap money debt, the enormity of that debt gravity will implode upon itself as Reserve Banks rapidly ratchet up interest rates with the only blunt tools left them.

Economic anxiety will cause cultural friction that will tear at the fabric of society.

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Each one of these challenges on their own would be difficult enough, the ongoing culmination of them however will become increasingly difficult to manage and the possibility of serious conflict erupting as these tensions finally snap will be the story of 2023.

I do not believe that we are ready for this jelly.

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