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After hearing how the law and constitution work in Italy, is it any wonder they had a fascist dictator last century? It’s similar with Spain, they had a fascist dictator until he died in the 1970s. Something about these cultures in Europe, they seem to need a tyrant ruling over them. What a cesspool. No wonder there was such an exodus to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The only people, who aren’t trapped by whatever circumstances they find themselves, that want to stay there must be brain dead imbeciles that need a daddy telling them what to do. Fundamentally, Europe can’t save itself. Its part in human history…the birth of philosophy, culture, intellect, etc, is over.
Well, it is true that Catholicism is a hierarchical religion, to be contrasted with Protestantism marked by a horizontal relationship to God. This observation would feed into your comment.
That said, I disagree with you; i think America can no longer be saved, whereas i think the Europeans can more easily return to nationalism, chauvinism.
America’s main advantage is it’s size (Texas = 6 times the size of England) thus allowing Americans to keep fleeing the problems. But, the next 30 years will be chaotic for America.
The problem with the societies in Europe is the problem with all human societies. And that is what Albert Jay Nock called the “mass man”. Which is the vast majority of people, who simply lack not just the intellect to recognize truth, but the moral character to implement it in their lives. It is past time to point the finger where it belongs. People are ruled by tyrants because they want to be, or they are complacent to do anything to change it. The problem cannot be blamed on “indoctrination” as so many who are optimistic in the liberty movement claim. We are all part of the same indoctrination, but a tiny fraction of us in humanity still retain our skepticism, critical thinking and moral character. Therefore, education isn’t the answer either. If you can “educate” someone into the truth, they can be just as easily “educated” out of it. People can only find truth by searching for it themselves, just like Nock stated. There is no solution to this problem, this is simply the human condition. Having said all that, America provided a land mass for freedom loving people to escape, but it grew into a cesspool like all places with masses of people do. However Europe is a far bigger mess and has been for thousands of years.
Well, it is true that Catholicism is a hierarchical religion, to be contrasted with Protestantism marked by a horizontal relationship to God. This observation would feed into your comment.
That said, I disagree with you; i think America can no longer be saved, whereas i think the Europeans can more easily return to nationalism, chauvinism.
America’s main advantage is its’ size (Texas = 6 times the size of England) thus allowing Americans to keep fleeing the problems. But, the next 30 years will be chaotic for America.
My friends in Rome want out. Circumstances, especially with the Davos Covid Evil.
So no, not everyone is stupid.
If you live in a Blue State, are you moving to a Red one?
If you live in a Red State could you move at the drop at a hat? With kids?
I have friends in Roma too. 3 kids.
They want out, but Covid etc destroyed his small business. On and on
Tom, if politics is mostly theater, have you considered that Putins role is to be the patsy in world affairs. He’s got Klaus Schwab lineage. He was hand picked by the bankers and approved by Rothschild. His vaccine isn’t any better than the others. He’s following WEF protocols and implementing their version of Vax passports. It seems to me he doesn’t really care about Mother Russia, his loyalty is to the bankers and WEF. If he’s reading the riot act to Boris Johnson and other puppets, I’d be very surprised.
No he’s not following their vax protocol. In fact it’s been globalists within the Duma that has pushed that and governors in the regions. Putin has pushed back against it. And only has he pushed Sputnik V not the mRNA clot shots. So, if you think Putin is playing Schwabs game you are misreading the situation completely
Let’s say you’re right, that Putin is pushing back. With regard to the Sputnik, according to a Moscow based journalist, their clot shot looks to be a total failure and a dangerous one at that.
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-is-a-scam
Its a thing to thwart the WEF mRNA killshot. Adenovirus vector vaccines are at least well understood tech that can or cannot be effective.
Italian law has long been viewed — by Italians — as a mere suggestion. Follow the law if it suits you, ignore it if not. It doesn’t really matter.
The EU is collapsing because Germany can’t (is not able to) prop it up much longer. Whether or not Rome pretends to give a hoot what Brussels thinks, the whole Potemkin village rests on perpetual German financing. German financing rests on German industry, which rested (note the past tense) on affordable energy.
Soros wanted to control Europe by controlling natural gas entering via Ukraine. Its why he ordered Obama to stage a coup in Ukraine. No one ever cared about Ukraine except as a transit point for gas or for troops. Its now blocked for “NATO” (aka US) troops.
The pipelines through Ukraine require regular maintenance, which they will not be getting going forward. Sooner or later, there will be a failure. With regular theft happening by Ukrainians, sooner seems like a good bet.
Germany will be forced to approve Nordstream II startup, even if Brussels objects.
Much of Europe has already decided to restart or build nuclear power plants, and they don’t care whether Brussels or Greta object. No one bothered to ask, Brussels doesn’t matter.
Italians will continue to make leather and marble and Ferraris and wine and other “high culture” goods — and they will continue to use creative payment schemes to avoid paying taxes. Nothing will change, regardless of which dim-wit is theoretically “in charge” in Rome. Italy functions much better when it is de-centralized (even if there is a nominal head in Rome).
Italian police are hoping to get paid. They have to go home each night to their neighbors. As long as Italian citizens don’t go on TV giving Rome the middle finger (or the neck) — police can (and do) look the other way.
Tom, I agree that the black out cyber pandemic looked to be set up for last fall. I still think they’re going to pull it off, and fairly soon. What are your thoughts?
Tom only converses with ivordeacon
Not you. Sorry.
Great Talk, Thanks
Hi Tom,
What do you think about this?
Zelensky at odds with US…
“…due to panic over Russia’s possible “invasion,” the outflow of capital from Ukraine since the end of autumn has already amounted to $12.5 bln. “Our nation cannot cope with such challenges by itself. We are stabilizing our national currency from state reserves so this costs a lot for Ukraine. I think that we will spend over $4-5 bln to stabilize our economy,” the Ukrainian leader said, adding that he hopes for financial aid from the US and more credit from the IMF.”
https://tass.com/pressreview/1395131
Do you think that all this impending war talk is really to do exactly what is written above (ie turn the Ukraine into an economic basket case)?
The hype is all about NATO & EU membership for Ukraine, but what about having it become an IMF vassal state? As the United States funds the IMF, if the loan is big enough, won’t the Ukraine become a vassal of the United States, regardless what any future Ukraine government decides? And how would the Ukraine ever be able to trade with the Russian Federation if it needs to scrounge up US Dollars to service a huge IMF debt?
So, while we are looking at the military and political situation is it possible that the real objective is to financially take over Ukraine? Furthermore, if the debt is big enough, Ukraine won’t have its financial house in order to join the EU. Also, given what Victoria Nuland said in the secret phone call: “F*ck the EU!”, it does not seem like the US wants the EU involved. And such a takeover would effectively give the United States leverage over Europe’s LNG lifeline.
As the US seems to no longer regard money as money, having the Fed print up ~10 billion dollars to buy the Ukraine, through the IMF, seems like the easiest hegemonic tool to deploy.
Just thought I would ask…
I think it’s a bit of ‘all of the above’ to be honest.
If we can’t have Ukraine then leaving it an open wound seeping across the border into Russia is the next best thing.
I haven’t given the following much consideration publicly, but there is, of course, also an angle here vis a vis the Biden family corruption there which some of this is a cover story for as well.
The problem with that is, eventually, Putin can and probably already has played this card privately which is why we’re seeing the US back down here.
Ukraine will never be whole again. But the West, especially the UK neocons never want these crisis spots to resolve because they provide endless opportunity to spin up a new crisis to use in the future.
Thanks for your reply. As you mentioned Putin, I thought you and the readers here might find this series of articles interesting:
Sputnik V is a scam
“A socioeconomic experiment on the Russian population”
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/sputnik-v-is-a-scam
It pretty much bursts the bubble that Russia was on top of Covid vaccinations before the West; they ALL were developed too rapidly to know anything about their safety or efficacy.
However, what was more revealing about this article is that Putin has a Davos 5th Column in Russia. When you start clicking on the authors other pieces, given in the “here, here,here” paragraph you will see what I mean. I think it is worth a look to understand how Davos permeates everything.
Reading the articles reminded me of reading the nutty Nazi eugenics literature and finding positive references to Californian biologists, laws and philanthropies like the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. WTF?
And I think it explains the Russian people’s support of Putin… as they seem to understand what lies beneath the surface, should Putin be deposed. It is also interesting to note that the Russian people wanted nothing to do with Sputnik V when it was rolled out.
Anyway, food for thought…
Why would Russia want to pay three middle men (Ukraine, Romania, Austria) to deliver natgas to Germany — the one and only country in the EU that can pay with actual wealth not IOUs?
There is very little wealth in Ukraine to argue about. Its a transit point for Russian gas, and thus has lots of political value to Soros et al to control Europe. Historically, Russia has never been successfully invaded from the west (ask Napoleon and Hitler) — the one and only successful invasion was from the South.
Russia will turn western Ukraine into a bomb range if NATO puts troops there. Short of that, Russia already has the Russian part of Ukraine and that’s all they have cared about for centuries.
Sooner or later, the pipelines in Ukraine will fail from poor maintenance and constant theft. When that happens, Germany will be forced to open Nordstream II for its own survival. Time is on Russia’s side, no point in launching an expensive military adventure.
The EU, which is already bankrupt, will be forced to send welfare checks to Austria and Romania… and possibly Ukraine if Brussels is really stupid (Brussels never misses a chance to shoot itself in the foot!).
The warmongers in London and Washington DC are going to be disappointed. There is a lot of profit to be made selling weapons to everybody if Ukraine becomes a war zone. But no one really cares about Ukraine itself. Its only value ***WAS*** as a transit point
Italian President Mattarella, in his inauguration speech, just said: “Supranational economic powers tend to prevail and impose themselves, bypassing the democratic process”.
The statement is very heavy. To whom and what was he referring to, in your opinion?
Davos and hte European Union… since he’s a member
So what would Mattarella have done, denounce himself?
No, the President is referring to something else.
Come on Tom, if you find out, you will discover many other things in cascade.
Insightful stuff, as ever, Tom! Let’s hope the EU fails soon. I’m getting tired of waiting!
I’ve heard mixed information from Italy. Officially, Rome has implemented draconian lock downs even after the liars in Maryland have admitted that lockdowns were counter productive. Supposedly life in Italy is miserable with green passes and absurd restrictions. At the same time, I’ve also heard that outside of Rome most of Italy has not ever cared what the laws were, and this time is not any different. I don’t know which version of the story to believe? But does it matter to global politics or economics?
Europe is demographically old. Really old. Europe has no military to speak of — the UK is the only country that could in theory project power abroad. Europe has a long list of industries that were really important a century ago, but are in run off phase now.
Europe is run by a group of sissies with no leadership potential. Be honest and admit it. If Europe was a grade school, Macron would get beat up and his lunch money stolen every day. Draghi would sell his own mother. BoJo can’t master how to use a comb. And the new idiot running Germany lives in a fantasy world. For what its worth, Trudeau would have his head shoved in a toilet and get a “swirlie” every day. Biden was corrupt in his prime, now he has dementia. This is not a group that is going to influence the world.
There is no way to politely point out that Europe’s debts have grown MUCH faster than its economies — for decades. There is no indication that this trend will change going forward. There will still be demand for Italian marble and various European stuff — keeping up with the Jones requires a selection of old world luxury goods. But Europe’s debts will grow much faster, while its population grows older.
The only way Europe doesn’t grow old is if it gets overrun with African and/or middle eastern immigrants — who so far have shown zero interest in becoming European. They will bring African or middle eastern traditions, foods, and culture. Europeans will be displaced in their own neighborhoods. Reverse gentrification, urban blight — give it whatever label you like.
The relatively vibrant economies of Europe are abandoning failed covid / Davos lockdowns — Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands. But most of Europe is just slowly circling the drain.