The United States is currently waging an economic war against one-tenth of the countries in the world with a combined population of nearly 2 billion people and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of more than $ 15 trillion.
The peak of the American empire has already come and gone, but this reality has not yet become widespread due to the continued dominance of the global financial system of the US dollar, still the world's leading reserve currency. American leaders have always used US dollars as a weapon, but it is only in recent years that geopolitical rivals and longtime allies have begun to realize that the United States' unipolar role in the world's centralized financial system lies beyond its expiration date.
I think history will show that Trump's decision to unilaterally abandon the Iran deal (JCPOA) was the catalyst that made much of the rest of the world get serious about creating alternative financial rails on which to do global business. States and countries around the world come to the obvious conclusion that it is almost impossible to conduct an independent foreign policy in the content of the global financial system, which is completely dominated by the United States.
European countries that have struck a deal with Iran want to stay in it, but this has been complicated by the Trump administration's decision to use the global financial system as a weapon. While this angered European leaders back in May when he first announced his decision, it is unclear if they will simply comply with the decision as usual. Months later, it seems not.
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First, we saw comments last week from German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. Here are some excerpts from his widely read column published last week in Handelsblatt.
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These are powerful words, words that have not returned since then. In fact, other historic US allies feel brave enough to echo similar sentiments. As Bloomberg reports today:
If this kind of talk were just limited to a few European countries expressing frustration with SWIFT, I probably wouldn't be writing this post. It is especially interesting when you compare the feelings expressed above with the unusual statement made by the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, in the video below.
But that's not all. Take a look at the following excerpts from an article written by Daniel Sneijder, professor of East Asian Studies at Stanford University, in Tokyo Business Daily.
Taken together, we see a big picture that begins to emerge. Countries around the world, including many longtime US allies, are beginning to publicly express frustration over American imperial bullying, as well as deeply concerned about the restrictions placed on national sovereignty by a unipolar world centralized in Washington, D. C.
We are beginning to see a global consensus linked to two important geopolitical perspectives:
- The growing awareness that a world unilaterally under the control of the imperial US, which demands all other countries to be vassal, is no longer in doubt.
- Recognition that a more multipolar world cannot truly emerge without crowding out, or at least creating a viable alternative to a global financial system centered on US dollars.
These events were not lost to many on the ring road, which is why the high-tech giants of the United States are rapidly arming themselves in the struggle to maintain imperial dominance. While Alex Jones' seemingly coordinated deployment was a canary in a coal mine, the tech giants also pushed against several countries that were considered problematic when it came to total US dominance, including Venezuela, Iran, and of course Russia.
As I tweeted last week:
This is really undeniable at this point. American tech giants are simply extensions of the US shadow government - complicit bodies of the imperial state disguised as private companies.
While certainly getting in the way, I see the recent moves by the tech giants as part of a desperate reaction to the huge cracks developing under the geopolitical paradigm after World War II. The status quo, confident in its position or role in the world, will never resort to such blatant attempts at censorship. All of this is associated with fear, uncertainty and a futile desire to hold on to a world that is disappearing.
I've discussed these topics continually over the years, but it's nonetheless unusual to see him start to play out. The tectonic plates of geopolitics are finally starting to shift. Slowly at first, quickly later, and I expect the world to be completely different in structure by about 2025.