0dea3b No.377638
The Graveyard Of Empires: What To Expect As The Unipolar World Order Collapses
“You have the watches, but we have the time.”
The Taliban often referred to this old Afghan saying when discussing their fight against the Americans.
Ultimately, they were proven correct.
After almost two decades of conflict, an insurgent army from one of the world’s poorest nations inflicted a decisive military defeat on the US, the global superpower that upholds the unipolar world order.
The US government’s total failure in Afghanistan — the longest war in American history — signifies a crucial moment and turning point in world history.
The Soviet Union collapsed about two years after the Red Army was defeated and withdrew from Afghanistan.
As we approach the second anniversary of the American retreat, could a similar fate be in store for the US?
While nobody knows the future, there is an excellent chance that the colossal failure in Afghanistan could accelerate the unraveling of the geopolitical power of the US and the shift to a multipolar world order.
Afghanistan’s strategic position has always made it a coveted prize in the Eurasian landscape.
As shown in the image below, Afghanistan is situated in the center of Eurasia, at the crossroads of China, Iran, and Russia—the three primary challengers to the US-led world order.
This central location is why Afghanistan has enormous geopolitical importance and why the US desired a strategic military presence there.
The US military’s presence in Afghanistan was a strategic roadblock to Russia, China, and Iran’s goal of creating a powerful geopolitical group in Eurasia that could challenge the US-led world order.
However, with the Taliban forcing the US military out of Afghanistan, the door to a more coherent geopolitical alliance in Eurasia is now wide open.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graveyard-empires-top-investments-world-order-collapses
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0dea3b No.377639
>>377638
China, Russia, and Iran are constructing a vast network of land-based transportation infrastructure, making the US Navy’s control of the oceans less significant.
China’s New Silk Road project is central to this new system. It aims to bypass the US financial system and the US Navy’s control of sea routes. The project, planned to be operational by 2025, includes high-speed railways, highways, fiber optic cables, energy pipelines, seaports, and airports.
These Eurasian powers are also establishing alternative international organizations for financial, political, and security cooperation, separate from those central to the US-led world order, institutions like NATO, the World Bank, SWIFT, and the IMF.
Some notable examples include the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), launched by China in 2014 and is an alternative to the IMF and World Bank.
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), a Russian-led trading bloc created in 2015, allows for the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people among its member countries.
Lastly, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) focuses on military and security collaboration between its members.
If current trends continue, it will result in greater economic, political, and security collaboration among the three main Eurasian nations—China, Russia, and Iran—at the expense of US geopolitical interests.
This scenario is exactly what Zbigniew Brzezinski worried would make the US “geopolitically peripheral.” It spells the end of the unipolar world order.
In short, we are on the path to the emergence of an alliance of powerful Eurasian countries and a multipolar world order.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/graveyard-empires-top-investments-world-order-collapses
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0dea3b No.377640
>>377639
As the world order changes, I think there are two prominent investment outcomes we can bet on:
Outcome #1: The US Dollar Will Lose Its Privileged Position
The decline of America’s geopolitical influence is another enormous headwind for the US dollar.
Suppose the world thinks the US military is the ultimate backstop of the US dollar. What does it mean for the US dollar’s credibility when a ragtag group of insurgents from one of the poorest countries can defeat the military which backs it?
If the mighty US military couldn’t secure its partners in Afghanistan, how can it protect its other allies?
Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Western European countries, and the Gulf Arab states are likely pondering this.
It wouldn’t be surprising to see them make security arrangements with US adversaries—such as China, Russia, and Iran—that exclude the Americans.
In fact, this has already happened with Saudi Arabia, a crucial player in the US-led world order. Saudi Arabia is the linchpin of the petrodollar system, which has underpinned the US dollar since Nixon removed its last links to gold in 1971.
In a matter of weeks, Saudi Arabia has: Restored relations with Iran. Restored relations with Syria and welcomed it back to Arab League. Supported multiple OPEC+ oil production cuts against American wishes. Announced an end to the war in Yemen. Agreed to sell oil in other currencies. Decided to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
The US recently sent its CIA director to Riyadh to tell the Saudis the Americans feel “blindsided” amid these seismic shifts in Saudi foreign policy.
In short, a paradigm shift in Saudi policies signifies a paradigm shift in the US dollar because of the petrodollar system.
However, Saudi Arabia is not the only US ally hedging its geopolitical bets recently. France, India, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and others are making moves to cozy up to the Eurasian geopolitical block.
The big question is, how long will the world continue to hold the paper liabilities of a bankrupt and declining government?
The only reason the US government has managed to avoid severe consequences from its monetary policies is the US dollar’s status as the world’s premiere reserve currency, thanks to Washington’s military and economic dominance that has prevailed since the end of World War II. However, as this dominance wanes, so will the dollar’s purchasing power.
The US government’s ability to hide the effects of its rampant money printing by offloading trillions of dollars to foreigners is nearing its end.
That’s terrible news for the US dollar.
Fake money comes from government. Real money emerges from the market. Government currencies are terrible money because they are easy to produce with a potentially unlimited supply. The free market wouldn’t choose government confetti as money without laws forcing their use.
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0dea3b No.377641
>>377640
Outcome #2: Commodity Supply Disruption
The end of the unipolar world order means transitioning to a multipolar global trade regime—with serious implications for commodities.
As I see it, there will be two main geopolitical blocks.
First, there are the countries part of or allied with the West. I’m reluctant to call this block “the West” because the people who control it have values antithetical to Western Civilization.
The other block consists of Russia, China, Iran, and other countries favorable to a multipolar world order.
Let’s call them the BRICS+, which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other interested countries.
Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the UAE, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and numerous others have expressed interest in membership of BRICS.
BRICS+ is not a perfect label, but it’s a decent representation of the countries favorable to the multipolar world order.
While there already is friction in free trade — sanctions, tariffs, export bans, nationalizations, embargoes, strategic competition, etc. — between NATO/West and BRICS+, I expect it to grow substantially as the multipolar world order emerges.
That will have serious consequences for commodities, which BRICS+ dominates.
As tensions between NATO & Friends and BRICS+ continue to rise, I expect it to disrupt commodity trade between the two further.
Supply disruptions mean higher prices. That’s an outcome I think we can bet on.
I expect countries in both geopolitical blocks will increasingly focus on securing critical commodities and ensuring access to stable supplies.
Unfortunately, most people have no idea what really happens when the world order changes, let alone how to prepare…
The coming crisis will be much worse, much longer, and very different than what we’ve seen since World War II.
Countless millions throughout history were wiped out financially — or worse — as the world order changed because they failed to see the correct Big Picture and take appropriate action.
Don’t be one of them.
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0dea3b No.377644
MY COMMENT: This is very likely THE REASON most of the biggest banks like Wells Fargo are setting up new booths for "wealth management assistance" which includes options for foreign currency exchange options to swap with the US Dollar. Yes footage of this has been leaked online, along with whistleblowers working for some of the banks. They are getting ready for the time Americans start to panic and for bank runs. At the point they do this "Great Reset" and the BRICS+ nations announce their new gold-backed currency expect American and European banks to shut down temporarily to transition. Lots and lots of Westerners are going to lose their wealth and there will be assigned "wealth management" teams to transition them into exchanging currency or owned assets so they can keep living while the Western world faces rations and austerity measures.
Point is this: get whatever you need NOW, have backups of what you need, you should focus on all basic essentials and have at least one year backup of supplies. The more, the better.
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ca06a4 No.377702
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ca06a4 No.377764
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f87333 No.377898
bumping genuine important international news
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2430c8 No.377918
anti-slide mitigation bumparoo
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0c804c No.377928
>>377638
>The Soviet Union collapsed about two years after the Red Army was defeated and withdrew from Afghanistan.
>As we approach the second anniversary of the American retreat, could a similar fate be in store for the US?
Yes.
We are nearing the end of our cycle. China will then have her 300-400 years in the sun, they everything will shift somewhere else.
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34ace0 No.377952
>>377928
I wonder if they intend to invade us after the US collapses? Some Americans are warning they might due to our rich resources. Holy fuck we are probably doomed if so. So sad it would have to end that way. Maybe nuclear world war shouldn't be off the table if it came to that, just fuck everything everywhere and get it all over with?
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3db4fb No.378342
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38ee10 No.378361
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e50c24 No.378424
bumping reality-driven news
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3a3b76 No.378460
America is run by deranged corrupt psychopaths.
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cbe463 No.378513
>>377928
Sadly. Didn't have to happen but it will rest assured. Enjoy it up now, and be ready to end your life when everything comes crashing down.
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f73528 No.378553
All nations that try to set up a global empire eventually fail.
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f73528 No.378575
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a72572 No.378704
Too bad, didn't have to end this way but stupidity prevailed in the West.
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a1cd37 No.378772
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794749 No.379142
I warned everyone to be prepared for many years. Those that listened and did were the smart ones.
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3a3b76 No.379316
bumping solid news in a declining empire of lies
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c0b4e9 No.379359
bumping popular well respected news
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f87333 No.380532
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f73528 No.380773
I warned everyone to be prepared for many years. Those that listened and did were the smart ones.
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cbe463 No.381421
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cbe463 No.381494
bumping factual news
fuck the gatekeepers
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5497a3 No.381513
>>377928
China won't be in charge of jack shit. If the US collapses, no one will be in charge. It will be a world wide version of medieval Europe. Lots of smaller states and governments but no real central power.
Actually, it will be worse than medieval Europe, because there won't be a single Church which can smooth over conflicts. Winner will be the most genocidal peoples.
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38ee10 No.381563
>>381513
Wrong, other nations would just ignore the US and start trading in another currency globally. The world would move on, just like it has when other empires have collapsed.
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f73528 No.381767
Russia and China don't have to fire a shot when it comes to World War III, America will simply kill itself from within.
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20110b No.381879
Too bad patriotism is punished while treason is rewarded today.
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3a3b76 No.382093
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659f50 No.382545
Too bad America is no longer a free country, no wonder the country is in such rapid decline.
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0dea3b No.382692
It's very clear the government hates us.
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34ace0 No.382796
Good luck BRICS, please learn from this mistakes of your enemies.
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0dea3b No.382858
The US is in the same horrific predicament other nations have been in before the collapse of their radical-leftist communist Empires. Typically there is prosecution following mass murder of all political opposition. The country falls to war lords and criminals as the economy collapses. Other nations start noticing the massive violent instability and start to distance themselves from the falling Empire. Sooner or later the Empire can no longer fund itself and loses it's hard-earned influence and then collapses with another political revolution.
The rise and fall of Empires go as this:
<strong people create good times
<good times create weak people
<weak people create hard times
<hard times create strong people
Thing is, the collapse is accelerating faster than normal because of the global internet, information comes out much faster and is harder for Empires to control. Therefore, with the internet age, these Empires will come and go much more rapidly than the days without free global information proliferation. That's why despots are scared of open free speech platforms. The sooner people wake up to evil, the sooner they can take measures to prepare accordingly to survive it, possibly resist it or even avoid conflict altogether.
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3a3b76 No.382911
Glad I prepared for the collapse of the Western world.
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f87333 No.383028
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480b37 No.383236
Glad I prepared for the collapse of the Western world.
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f73528 No.383622
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0fc645 No.383851
bumping reality-driven news
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f73528 No.383994
bumping important improved news
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