European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a moment of clarity
once. He
famously said, “When things get serious, you have to lie.”
Given the state of affairs in his beloved European Union right
now Mr. Juncker and company are doing a lot of lying.
It is rare in politics to get that kind of honesty from a
politician, especially one currently in office. But, Juncker’s statement
shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who is even a semi-serious political
observer.
It’s why I find it funny that the Democrats and Antifa-Left get
so bent out of shape when Donald Trump exaggerates or outright lies. To
him lying’s a tactic. Catching Donald Trump in a falsehood is like trying
to ladle water with a sieve.
So, by the Juncker Maxim, things must be getting very serious
because the amount and type of lies being thrown around by people who are
supposed to know better have been staggering.
To the point that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said,
“I simply don’t have any normal terms left to describe all this.”
Lavrov has been the world’s most effective diplomat over the
past few years, talking to and cutting deals with people who should hate him
and Russia’s policies. What it highlights is that Lavrov and his boss,
Vladimir Putin, have been so effective simply because they make a deal and keep
to it.
They are the opposite of Mr. Juncker. When things get
serious they become honest, speaking with one voice.
Part of
that comes from having a single administration in power for the past 17
years. It’s easy to keep to agreements when those in power don’t
change. The
U.S.’s diplomatic history with North Korea, for example,
highlights the problems of shifting domestic political winds in Washington.
But, that part stems from the way these men comport themselves
on international stage.
So, watching the hyperventilations of of Theresa “Gypsum Lady”
May and her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the poisoning of Former
Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia means there is a lot
more going on here than anyone cares to admit.
The quick reversals from European leaders as well as Donald
Trump from their initial skepticism of May and Johnson’s bloviating tells me
that not only are they lying but they are being forced to lie by some vaguely
unseen hand.
Just
Blame Putin-stan!
It’s
not just that the
Neocons are losing, like I talked about in my last
article. It is that stench of desperation that’s everywhere right now.
The level of histrionics, lying and insanity over Former
Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s firing is telling. From McCabe
himself, to his disgraced former boss, James Comey, the level of mendacity,
chutzpah and, frankly, evil on display is impressive.
I guess the situation’s been serious for a long time for the
lies to come this easily to their tongues.
This week we had the staged walk-outs by high school students
over the Parkland, Fl shooting calling for gun control. How desperate are
those clinging to power behind the scenes that they’ve turned to weaponizing
mal-educated children to do their bidding?
The
French Foreign Ministry instructing its
diplomats to not travel to Syria is also telling. It’s
all about lying to support the narrative that Assad and Putin are the bad guys.
The
Reuters article I just linked to spends more column inches perpetuating the lie
that there are no humanitarian corridors in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, even though
there are plenty images,
video and reports of thousands of civilians having been liberated from
ISIS/Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists.
But it mentions reports of chlorine gas attacks, again
neglecting to say anything about the Syrian Army liberating a major chemical
weapons facility in their advances against US-backed proxies.
How bad is the situation behind the scenes in the financial
markets that Goldman-Sachs CEO Lloyd “Doin’ God’s Work” Blankfein suddenly
decides it’s time to step down? Derivative book that bad, Lloyd?
Or did you bet that Gary Cohn would get Trump to heel to allow
Goldman to finish destroying Europe?
Long-established diplomatic norms and rules of conduct are
simply thrown out the window because they need to be to induce hysteria to take
people to war, otherwise, a war-weary, anxiety-ridden population will turn on
their own governments.
So, Theresa May tells Russia to prove to her they’re innocent to
distract from her betrayals on Brexit.
Boris Johnson threatens Putin directly and the moron in charge
of Britain’s defense department screeches for the Russians to ‘shut up and go
away.’ Presumably he said it from his safe space rubbing his safety pin
like Captain Queeg.
Meanwhile Mr. Juncker continues to lie about everything as it
pertains to Brexit negotiations because the EU’s financial situation must be
that serious. If it weren’t they wouldn’t be trying to shake the U.K.
down for tens of billions of euros.
Why So
Serious?!
Look around you, step back from the craziness and see the bigger
picture. When you do you just see a bunch of incompetent, venal people
covering their asses. While a lot of what I write here could be
considered ‘conspiratorial’ I would disagree.
In fact, I rarely, if ever, chalk up to conspiracy that which
incompetence explains far better. As a root cause analyst, I prefer
Occam’s Razor to Alex Jones.
Yes, there are groups of people with power conspiring to achieve
personal and societal goals which are anathema to life and decency.
But, that doesn’t mean that because they have power they are
competent at wielding it. In fact, power makes you lazy. Winning
makes you complacent and, eventually, stupid.
Does anyone with any shred of self-respect believe that thirteen
Russian trolls armed with Tweetium could derail Hillary Clinton’s presidential
campaign? Really?
When the more obvious answer is that Hillary and her backers
thought they had perfected the art of rigging an election and never conceived
of losing. It never crossed their minds until a few days before the
election and internal polling forced Obama to campaign in Michigan on her
behalf.
And he only did that to help himself, since he was in up to his
neck in all of her dirty laundry.
The Theory of the All-Powerful Putin is as childish and
nonsensical as the Alt-Right’s blaming Jews for everything.
The Gypsum Lady is trying to save her government by invoking that
theory now. So is Nikki Haley at the U.N., Mika Brzezinski at MSNBC,
George Soros and David Brock, the leadership at CNN, Google, Facebook and
Twitter. The bigger the lies get, the more desperate you know they are.
All of the Obama administration traitors — Samantha Power, James
Brennan, Susan Rice, Robert Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Eric Holder, etc. — lie
every time they open their mouths. It their narrative fails it means the end of
not only their careers, but the plans of the incompetent globalist oligarchs
who fund and power them.
And those are the stakes in play here.
Ye
Gods, and I haven’t even brought up the Saudi Arabians, yet. Or the
attempted military coup against the U.S. pet in Ukraine, Petro
Poroshenko, from within his own government, no less.
Talk about gross incompetence!
Cooler
Heads or Heads in a Cooler?
While I’m not sanguine about how all of this plays out, I refuse
to give into hysteria and add to the cacophony. It serves no purpose.
The markets still believe, as they always do, that ‘cooler heads
will prevail.’ But, markets aren’t allowed to believe anything else. The
central banks ensure that. The sheer size of the money at stake makes it
nearly impossible to move much of it without inducing even more panic.
So, the default position of most money managers is sit tight and
hope.
But, hope is not a plan or a path to the stars. It is, as
I’ve said before, the worst thing in the world — that which you have when you
have nothing else. But, changes are coming, war or the collapse of the
post-WWII institutional order or both.
As I’ve pointed out, banks are getting nervous, emerging market
central banks are positioned for radical currency defense. Rates are
rising and dollar liquidity is falling. Bitcoin and gold are screaming
this. If there was ever a time to get to cash it’s now.
The acceleration of events since Putin’s speech on March 1st is
itself accelerating. Windows are closing fast. It’s time to get
serious.
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