International Man: It’s no secret that the media has applauded countries that engaged in the strictest lockdowns.
As a reward for their obedience to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, their governments are promised generous IMF loans and recovery packages.
Do you think this is a new system for the US government to exert influence and control over foreign countries?
Jeff Thomas: Yes, although I don’t see this as a US-only effort. I see it more as one of many efforts by those countries that are central to the New World Order. Certainly, it’s interesting that the breakout of COVID occurred in several cabal countries at the same time, early in 2020, as opposed to slowly expanding outward from its supposed origin, as viruses normally do. The fact that this happened – a batch of countries in North America and Europe all experiencing a pandemic within a two-week period–provided tremendous shock value. And since all those countries acted more or less in unison with lockdowns and other restrictions and all posted false numbers and false death numbers, it’s not surprising that the rest of the world fell into step within a month or two, imitating the measures adopted by the cabal countries.
The initial months were a well-coordinated takeover of essential freedoms. But, curiously, in the latter months, the cabal have not maintained that consistency, and that has led to more and more people questioning whether this is a real pandemic or just another seasonal flu that’s been exaggerated by the principal countries. In fact, we’re beginning to see some real cracks in the dyke.
International Man: Almost every country put some sort of restrictions in place during the pandemic. The impact on their economies, local businesses, and everyday life has been significant, especially in developing countries.
What second and third order effects do you see?
Jeff Thomas: The COVID scam runs on fear. Even those who believe that it’s likely to just be a seasonal virus that governments and the media have exaggerated are unsure, so fear makes them comply with the significant loss of freedoms being demanded. But, in recent months, this fear has been going into remission, and The Powers That Be are beginning to lose their hold on populations throughout the First World. At this rate, they’ll have a real problem on their hands by this fall if they don’t invent a variant that’s rumoured to be worse than the original. Unless they create a Nagasaki bomb to follow the Hiroshima bomb, citizens worldwide will increasingly reject the draconian demands of their governments.
International Man: In what way will that be different from the initial scare in early 2020?
Jeff Thomas: Well, in the US, there is now a democratic president who will be less likely to honour states’ rights. A Presidential Declaration of Emergency would allow the present government to take over decision-making that’s presently in the hands of state governors. That would bring about a national plan for control and eliminate independent actions by states. So, there would no longer be any states embarrassing the federal government that their retention of freedom was resulting in fewer positives and fewer deaths. It would also allow them to limit movement from place to place by people, especially those who have not been vaccinated. It wouldn’t be surprising for the federal government to state, “This second wave is worse than the first, so while we’ll not demand that all persons are vaccinated, in the public interest, we can only allow those who have been vaccinated to go to work, shop, travel or otherwise go out of their houses.” This would be imprisonment by default, and it will only be pulled off if the population is sufficiently terrified by the claims, should there be a second major ‘pandemic.’
International Man: Prior to the pandemic, a number of European Union member countries had growing movements to leave the EU.
Do you think that this trend will continue to pick up momentum? Or has COVID snuffed it out?
Jeff Thomas: Human nature being what it is, I believe that European citizens will divide even further than before into two camps. Those who, above all, seek safety and hope that their government will provide it will foolishly welcome the further removal of freedoms. On the other hand, those who were fed up with the loss of freedoms before COVID will redouble their ire.
But the fundamental problem will remain. Since only four of the members of the EU were net providers, whilst the other twenty-four were net receivers, the exit of a net provider – Britain – is simply unsustainable. The remaining three will ultimately be unable to keep the EU Titanic chugging along, following the hit by the Brexit iceberg.
International Man: What do you think will happen next to EU member countries like Greece, Cyprus and others that were already in need of constant bailouts?
Jeff Thomas: Their situations will worsen, much to the anger of the populations of net providers, particularly the hard-working German people who are increasingly footing the bill for a comparatively lazy Mediterranean lot. The question is not whether the EU is sustainable – it’s not. The question will be how long they can limp along before fragmenting or falling apart entirely.
International Man: The economic house of cards was already on very shaky ground for a long time. The government response to COVID has made the problem even worse.
Is there any chance governments can print their way out of the coming economic crisis?
Jeff Thomas: Not in the long term, although they can continue performing sleight-of-hand tricks like the introduction of digital national currencies and IMF currencies that have the potential to buy them a bit of time. But ultimately, the ship is going down.
International Man: How does this play into the geopolitical landscape? Will the US and Western European governments maintain and grow their influence?
Jeff Thomas: Only briefly. This is what the collapse of an empire looks like. It’s not the first time in history this has happened, by any means. We’re looking at all the classic symptoms that were demonstrated by former empires as they self-destructed. It’s likely to be a long, drawn-out affair. If I had to make a guess, I’d say that, by 2030, the dust will have, for the most part, settled on the collapse. Of course, it’s always unwise to put a date on any prediction, as events have a nagging tendency to drag out longer than anticipated, but by 2030, I think it will be evident what the other side of this crisis will look like.
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“Will Global COVID Relief Efforts Renew the US and European Influence Worldwide?”
No.
The European MSM sucks Dementia’s* weenie as equally hard as the American media. It doesn’t matter what they say in public. Behind closed doors I image they are laughing their asses off.
The G-7 was an unmitigated disaster for the U.S. World leaders got to see first hand the unbearable ineptness of Dementia Joe. What will they do? Walk all over Joey or, ignore him.
Post G-7 analysis ….
https://youtu.be/C_Gcg8T8rHY
Jet lag is really tough on healthy people. The time shift crushed the old man. I wish I could remove my sympathy, but then I would be no different than these evil sycophants.
Only if the rest of the world wants to ignore treatments that work, have their economies destroyed, be imprisoned in their homes and/or neighborhoods, and otherwise be shamed/censored/vaccinated into submission. Or silence.
Oh, wait. Most of the world did that already to themselves, so . . . do they really need help?
And, btw. . .
THIS – including the yellow vest movement, the protests in Hong Kong, and Trump rallies . . . might be the reason WHY they . . . er. . . were susceptible to the spread of a virus from bats to pangolins to newts to pygmy guinea pigs to humans in the first place without any intervention from any lab ANYwhere in the world and without the knowledge of ANY intelligence or governmental health agencies ANYwhere, either. Really.
yes, the few years leading up to 2019 were a huge shift in the direction of relocalization, decentralization, and liberty. They needed a very big hammer asap to smash it.
“the hard-working German people who are increasingly footing the bill for a comparatively lazy Mediterranean lot.”
yeah, keep on selling that story. in germany, they have deutsche bank floating a raft of zombie corporations. in greece, they have deutsche bank running a shock doctrine/economic hit-man strategy. yes, it’s a simplification to put it all on deutsche bank, when there are other banks involved as well but all those banks are part of the same club and deutsche bank is a convenient shorthand for that club given its size.
now on top of that you have governments which are in place solely at the discretion of those bankers, enforcing policies demanded by those bankers. in greece it was made clear- orwellian, enldess ‘lockdowns’, harsh punishment and enforcement, very harsh restriction on movement, the mask nonsense, all the package basically, and your bond issues will be all oversubscribed and you’ll get to pocket a percentage as our effective agents. Don’t play along, we turn off the bonds and loans and by the way ‘greek’ banks will find themselves shut off as well so you’ll be coming back to us within days begging.
recall that greece’s government, or at least any aspect that involves finance, is still in the hands of the ‘troika’ , only that they renamed the ‘troika’ a couple years ago so it isnt as obnoxious sounding, and they moved them into ministry office space i guess to shorten the commute. greece has been rolling out newer and crazier restrictions, taxes, and ‘inventories’ of every last grain of sand, in recent years, all logically to prepare for the coming foreclosure repo. Try running a small business in greece these days, or owning property there (especially anything normal citizens need, like your home or a place of business, and not connected to tourism) and see what a wall of idiotic, kafkaesque taxes, regulations, demands for documentation, licenses, permits, and endless demands for totally unrelated matters to be declared, certified, or proven by some government document… some of which they make ‘electronic’ which in practice means having to have all the paper documents, _plus_ pay some closed-market (only those with special licenses are given the privilege to run this scam) specialist who will have to ‘prepare’ the electronic form for you as well.. add to this a government where even basic property rights are never really for certain. every few years they run people through the mill to ‘legalize’ their properties (buildings, they have a mania for buildings, ebcause you cant put them in your pocket and take them out of the country) all over again with new procedures and of course another round of having to pay some specialist hundreds or thousands to ‘prepare’ the packet of docs and ‘process’ them to basically keep your house, which up until the day bafore was already ‘legal’. Theyre also rollin out a new ‘proeprty registry’ which if one doesnt go through a new round of ‘legalizing’ and then re-register your property there, within a couple years the government will automatically confiscate it. up in europe you see houses or farms that have been in the same family since the middle ages. how is that possible in a regime where even in one human lifetime the very man who built a house has a very high probability of having it taken from him?
add to this arbitrary and heavy fines for missing a deadline etc, and arbitrary or endless delays in the procedures, so theyre designed to put either a small business or a homeowner in the red no matter what. a megacorp with a staff of lawyers and accountants and ‘specialists’ will have a special line to keep that stuff up to date.
greeks work harder than germans and get paid a pittance for it. half a million primarily young, productive, employable people have emigrated in the past decade. the government is busy enforcing policy designed to eliminate any independent economic survival, chasing down that unregistered sheep or goat and fining the owner, or fining someone the equivalent of five year’s gross income because he cut down a tree or something. what’s all this? enforcing policy. There Shall Be No Independent Humans Anywhere , as far and as hard as they can enforce it. Naturally they start from the throwaway periphery and roll inwards.
I dont think theyll pull it off in the states. We’ll come to a second civil war with enough states now resisting very openly federal encroachment, and the empire this time around is on its last gasp. in europe? they might get pretty far before the wheels come off, look how far theyve gotten in greece.
but greece is just a province of the same empire, its government taking orders from the bankers.
Very well said. I’m tired of reading about hard working Germans footing the bill. The German people or the Greeks have nothing to do with what’s going on there.