First, DaBigPicture - The Fourth Turning Tipping Point – The Burning Platform - The reason for this is that a Fourth Turning is made possible by complacency. Although there has been a deterioration in self-reliance and reasoning for three generations, a population does not become truly complacent until the latter stages. The deeper the complacency, the greater the oppression by leaders.
Interestingly, complacency
is at its greatest in populations where there previously was the greatest prosperity.
Therefore, in the present Fourth Turning, the countries that have been most
dramatically impacted have been those that had previously been the most
prosperous.
A Listing of DOTS:
History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023) - LewRockwell
To conclude, the US/NATO forces have declared corruption as a weapon of war, and wherever they have intervened to establish democracy they have left instability and misery.
Playing
a Game of "Fool's Mate" on the Grand Eurasian Chessboard, by Ron Unz
- The Unz Review
However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to
antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.
Given recent events, his prophetic warnings were completely disregarded.
Instead, our national political leadership chose to exactly invert his
suggestions, and they did so despite China having grown much stronger than he
had envisioned.
Brzezinski himself recognized some of these important developments, and
the year before his death in 2017, he updated his analysis to proclaim that the
era of American dominance was already drawing to a close and we should
recognize that reality.
- Toward a Global Realignment
As its era of global dominance ends, the United States needs to take the lead in realigning the global power architecture.
Zbigniew Brzezinski • The American Interest • April 17, 2016 • 2,500 Words
Instead of heeding his concerns and adjusting their
policies accordingly, our government has doubled-down on its crude strategy
of attempting to maintain an impossible American global hegemony, a policy that
seems likely to end in national disaster.
Our leaders have apparently decided to play a game
of “Fool’s Mate” on the grand Eurasian chessboard.
No
More Double Standards and Impunity. West Provokes Russia. Result: Nukes in
Belarus on NATO’s Borders - LewRockwell – self explanatory
DaConsequences
of Other Past Stupidities (Just a few listed):
global
warning: the wind and solar question
is there really a success story on CO2 reduction
anywhere in this wind and solar greentech saga?
where is the example of a country that adopted
these technologies and saw overall CO2 output drop markedly as a result?
What
Blows Up Next? Commercial Real Estate And then the regional banks again ...
Commercial real estate — i.e., America’s $20 trillion of office buildings,
warehouses, strip malls, and apartments — is all about financing. The lower the
interest rate, the easier it is to justify marginal projects toward the end of
a business cycle when only cheap money gets the deal done. That’s why the
sector typically booms late and then drops into the abyss when interest rates
rise and/or the economy contracts. Put another way, commercial real estate is
the living embodiment of the adage that easy money makes you stupid.
