Guest Post by Simon Black
Most people realize that 2020 has thrust two game-changing trends upon us that will change the world for years to come.
The first is Covid.
In less than six months, this virus has created extreme global hysteria and economic devastation.
Countless businesses have gone bust or are teetering on the edge. Tens of millions of jobs have been lost.
Government debt around the world has exploded higher. And their heavy-handed abuse of power has been astonishing… often incomprehensible.
Politicians and public health officials have suspended many of our most fundamental freedoms, threatened to come into our homes and take our family members away, and even banished us from our own private properties.
We’ve also seen a breakdown in basic social conventions.
Family and friends have stopped gathering together in person out of fear that someone may be a carrier. Weddings and funerals are virtual. And a simple handshake is practically considered an act of biological terrorism.
And, just like 9/11 nearly two decades ago, many effects of Covid will never return to ‘normal’.
Then there’s the social justice movement… which tore onto the world stage two months ago with a desire to make important cultural changes.
At its core, the movement is virtuous. After all, it’s supposed to be about freedom.
But it has quickly become divisive, menacing, and pointlessly violent.
Everything is offensive. Intellectual dissent must be immediately squashed. People lose their jobs, receive death threats, or are censored, merely for expressing completely valid (and even supportive) opinions.
And some of the largest corporations in the world have all submitted to the Twitter mob, like Nazi collaborators in France who began goose-stepping with the Wehrmacht the moment Hitler took Paris.
History is being rewritten. Vocabulary is being replaced. And any civil discourse results in persecution.
Just like lingering Covid effects, this social turmoil will also be with us for years. Don’t fool yourself into believing it’s some some flash in the pan that will be over in a few weeks.
But what I wanted to tell you today is that there is a THIRD, major trend brewing right now. And it could prove to be even bigger than Covid, bigger than the social justice movement.
It’s not one that evokes the same emotion. So you won’t see too many people marching in the streets or cowering in fear in their homes. There’s no hysteria.
This third major trend is rational. And that’s why it’s largely been ignored. But its impact could be far bigger and longer lasting.
I’m talking about conflict with China.
Over the past several months we’ve witnessed a minor trade dispute between the United States and China escalating into a major diplomatic conflict, and now, into full-blow Cold War.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left no doubt about this when he essentially declared cold war against China’s communist party in a speech late last week:
“If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the mercy of the Chinese Communist Party, whose actions are the primary challenge today in the free world.
General Secretary Xi is not destined to tyrannize inside and outside of China forever, unless we allow it.
Richard Nixon was right when he wrote in 1967 that ‘the world cannot be safe until China changes.’Now it’s up to us to heed his words.
Today the danger is clear. And today the awakening is happening.
Today the free world must respond. We can never go back to the past.”
It’s pretty incredible how China has already managed to get most of the world to bend to its will.
There are so many examples of this; major US airlines like Delta and American, have scrubbed references to “Taiwan” on their websites so as not to offend the Chinese communist party.
Hollywood, despite constantly thrusting its woke social justice politics in everyone’s faces, refuses to utter the slightest criticism of China, simply so they can squeeze out more box office revenue there.
And the National Basketball Association squashed an executive for Tweeting support to Hong Kong protesters last year.
Even the league’s biggest and most outspoken star, Lebron James, meekishly told reporters that China has “a complicated issue with racial, socioeconomic and geopolitical layers” and that he saw “little upside in speaking up” against the Chinese communist party.
Comparing sports team owners to ‘slave owners’ is perfectly fine. But don’t say anything bad about China!
In addition to Pompeo’s speeech, the US-China conflict escalated last week when the US government ordered the Chinese to close its consulate in Houston, Texas.
The Chinese government retaliated by closing a US consulate in China.
This is after months of sanctions, asset seizures, tariffs, arrests, expelling of foreign journalists, and plenty of tension about the Coronavirus.
I know there’s a lot of fear that an actual shooting war will break out between the US and China. And that is a possibility.
I’m probably biased as a West Point graduate, but I’m convinced that the US Marine Corps and Army Rangers are the most proficient fighting forces in the world.
But the reality is that China has a bigger army. It’s better equipped with newer, better technology. Its tanks are superior, and it has more of them.
China has also been investing heavily in its Navy and Air Force; it already has more ships than the US Navy, and it has also rolled out a fifth-generation fighter jet, the J-20, to compete head-to-head against the US military’s F-22 and F-35.
But that’s just conventional warfare. The next war will be highly unconventional… and the Chinese are dominant in “system destruction warfare”.
They could take down the US power grid, hack multiple defense and intelligence networks, and remotely disrupt key US command and control elements, before a single shot was fired.
This is not my assessment; the Pentagon has been wargaming conflict between the US and China for years. And in the words of one researcher who has participated in these scenarios, the US “gets its ass handed to it.”
Fortunately, a shooting war is unlikely. Why would China want to invade the US and deal with 400 million guns in the hands of the civilian population?
Why would the US want to invade China and deal with another Vietnam war?
War doesn’t benefit either nation, and on that basis it’s possible… but not probable.
What is likely is a total reset in the global financial system.
The current “Bretton Woods” financial system in which the US economy and US dollar are at the center of the global economy is decades old.
The US has derived extraordinary wealth and prosperity from this system for years.
Bretton Woods is the reason why the US national debt can be nearly $27 trillion (over 100% of GDP) without the dollar collapsing in value.
It’s the reason why the Federal Reserve can conjure trillions of dollars out of thin air and keep interest rates at 0% for years, but still be taken seriously.
Losing this advantage would be nothing short of catastrophic for the US economy.
And continued conflict with China is the one thing that is practically guaranteed to make it happen.
That’s why this trend– conflict with China– could be the biggest thing happening right now.
It’s not as scary as Covid, it’s not as emotional as social justice… but the effects may be permanently devastating.
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LOL,
“Why would the US want to invade China and deal with another Vietnam war”
What an Idiotic statement.
Vietnam did not have nuclear tipped anti-ship missiles
Vietnam did not have have potent submarine fleet with balistic missile in addition to torpedo ability
Vietnam did not have………………. well I would be writing all night if I went on
The US knows that fighting China would result in MAD, just like China knows that fighting the US would result in MAD – so there will not be any hot war.
Once the US Dollar fades away or collapses so will the US military machine – Russia knows that, China knows that, Iran knows, the US knows that.
In the meantime there will be no direct confrontation between world powers (but when it comes to proxy wars its game on until the end).
Pretty much.
Yup, I agree FB
I wouldn’t worry about China.
israel is a much greater threat with its “samson option” and its worldwide mossad spy operation– its nukes need no “delivery systems” as they are already pre-positioned around the world.
If the “united nations” goes after israel for its treatment of Palestinians, or if its worldwide “white slavery business” is exposed, israel WILL “light one off”, probably in Atlanta, Chicago or Los Angeles.
“jew York” is off-limits as it is the American epicenter for world jewish operations.
On a worldwide basis, look for Rome or Brussels to “take a hit” from israel. israel would LOVE to destroy Rome, the seat of Catholicism.
There is a way out of the israeli “white slavery” blackmail operation, which could shut down israel’s blackmail and white slavery operations for good.
Any politician of note who is or was involved with the epstein and maxwell mossad white slavery operation should just “come clean” and admit it. This would destroy the blackmail operation and expose israel as the pariah that it presently is.
It would be uncomfortable at first, but if done properly, the discomfort in exposure would be minimal, especially with politicians, as politicians are not looked on highly anyway. If politicians and “movers and shakers” did this as a group, it would destroy the mossad for good.
Most people have no problem forgiving transgressions of those who admit to them and come clean. Those peripherally involved in the israeli “white slavery” operation would easily be forgiven.
Not Rome.
We don’t have to worry about China or Russia or NK…As we have seen, the enemy is within.
The Nazis offered the French a better alternative to their own traitorous government. Nobody ever talks about that.
exactly.
what was the alternative offer?
I’d like more information on this also. No sarc intended.
Requested thrice.
Here is a start. You’ll never believe where it came from.
As soon as it had been established, Pétain’s government took measures against the so-called “undesirables”: Jews, métèques (immigrants), Freemasons, Communists — inspired by Charles Maurras’ conception of the “Anti-France”, or “internal foreigners”, which Maurras defined as the “four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners” — but also Gypsies, homosexuals, and, in a general way, any left-wing activist. Vichy imitated the racial policies of the Third Reich and also engaged in natalist policies aimed at reviving the “French race”, although these policies never went as far as the eugenics program implemented by the Nazis.
which Maurras defined as the “four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners”
Not a country in the world that can remain whole against that Juggernaut.
Red
Perhaps it’s time you supplied links as to why they wouldn’t like the Vichy alternative. You are great at asking but never prove your side of the the debate. It might reveal that you are still enraptured in the fairy tales of public schooling. As it stands it comes off to the uneducated that you are taking a positition from the high ground rather than the opposite.
i asked a question w/o any attempt at persuasion or provocation –all i know about ww2 france is that they folded quickly,the govt fled to england & the germans installed the vichy govt–
Frankie and Red are gonna get into it over Tadisha…Look out!!!
Nkit.
she told me she ain’t leevinn you an Red lessin I gib her da p ems up frunt on account of you two be keepin da traylor paid up and ain’t nobody can likky like my Nikky.
i’m nothing but the landlord,all i did was pass on the girl’s offer to let flea room there 4 awhile since he said he can’t breathe where he currently is living–
it’s hurtful when you try to help folks & they turn on you–
That exerp came right out of the Jewish Virtual Library.
Tampa Red:
France was largely communist, since Hitler and Stalin had made their pact most of the soldiers just laid down their weapons and went home. France at the time had more tanks and airplanes than the attacking German army. Just did not use them.
An excellent book is “The Collapse of the Third Republic” by William L. Shirer.
There is some really good information on De Gaulle.
so are you saying that the history we have always been taught about france thinking that the magniot line was their salvation & germany attacking via belgium was basically a bunch of false history?
I don’t think he means that part is false. That’s the route they took. The French were just caught off guard by the truce between Germany and Stalin because France was overrun by commie scum who were sympathetic to Stalin.
i’ve never heard any of this info about france,thanks–
Most of it has been scrubbed or burried under a mountian of Mal-information.
Everything I learned in school other than Math has turned out to be a lie or exaggeration.
Thank goodness I dropped out in the ninth grade.
Thank goodness is right Flea, just think how fuk’d up you’d be if you had finished or gone on to college. You might even be a Marxist today or had voted for Obamney. 🙂 A degree in hard knocks is worth ten from the commie higher learning indoctrination centers.
The lies told about Napoleon are as abundant as the ones about the French Revolution and Hitler.
Try “Napoleon VS the Old and New World Order” by M. S. King.
Most of what is taught is bare bones information, take for instance the above article THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Rocket causes deadly fire on aircraft carrier – 1967, at the very end John McCain is mentioned without the fact he actually caused it.
The Government of France did not flee to England, unless you count Charles De Gaulle, who was under arrest by the French and snuck out by plane to England
( his story is quite interesting, like coming over to control the two islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off of Newfoundland while the darling of the democrat party, Rooservelt, was dealing with the Vinchy Government).
The Germans just drove around the Magniot Line, their principle way of fighting was straight line conquest, planes strafing and bombing with tanks following. They screwed up at Dunkirk by not going in for the kill. It is thought that Hitler’s buddy Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring’s jealousness of the Army’s success wanted a little glory for the German Air Force so the Army was held back.
This is how the individual has such great effect on the course of the rest of the world.
What happened at Dunkirk is that Hitler was waiting to hear from Chamberlain on his peace offering and was betrayed.
That’s not “Thought” it’s recorded. His Emissary was arrested By Churchhill & Co. while refueling in Scotland.
This must be the reason the Franch army has always been known as pussies?
That’s more than I knew.
Comfy boxcars
same tired old one liners right from Bernays plan.
Continued conflict with China is our only avenue for the dollars sake.
The virus was nothing, the insanity surrounding it was everything.
“At its core, the movement is virtuous. After all, it’s supposed to be about freedom.”
Wrong. It’s always been about a socialist vision of ‘equality’ that must always be achieved via tyranny.
If China becomes a cold war adversary, maybe some of the globalist companies will finally repatriate some of that manufacturing capacity.
IMO the biggest issues on the table are the US civil war and Europe’s need to purge its Muslim invaders.
Vektor.
I only wish this were a civil war or a race war. That would be good news.
It could correctly be called an insurrection, Bolshevik Revolution, Bankster Takedown, or a Pogram/Blood Libel against all things conservative. It’s a shame that nowadays our language has been so badly and deliberately convuluted that it now requires a cavaet emptor when saying conservative.