The Day America Died

The Day America Died
She won't rest in peace, because there is no peace (Ezek. 13:10).

We awaken this morning to a grave situation in the former united States, that once great nation (Deut. 4:1-9) that has now collapsed under the weight of its own greed, corruption and selfishness.

The carcase of what once was the “land of the free and home of the brave” now lies rotting in the streets. Several hundred career criminals can positively be fingered as the murderers but, truth be told, there are hundreds of millions of accomplices in America and around the world. You need only look into a mirror.

There are no “members of congress”, or “U.S. Supreme Court justices”, nor are there any real judges. Instead, criminal impersonators sit in their places, calling on their henchmen, which are similarly and deceitfully referred to as “law enforcement”, who are nothing more than uniformed criminals themselves, paid to continue protecting the criminal empire they've built.

IF someone was to entertain the fantasy that CONstitutions are actually the contractual agreements most mistakenly believe they are, then every one of these so-called officials at the federal, state and local level who have sworn an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” their state CONstitutions and the vaunted U.S. CONstitution are, at the very least, guilty of breaking their oaths of office and, according to those same CONstitutions, are no longer officials with immediate effect.

In other words, the very first time any so-called CONgressional member advocated censorship of “dangerous misinformation” these thought police violated the first amendment right to free speech supposedly guaranteed by the U.S. and state CONstitutions. And thus, from that moment onward, they've been criminally impersonating the government officials they claim to be. How many of them fall under that category? ALL of them.

Of course, patriotic Americans everywhere will likely decry badmouthing their idolatrous CONstitutions by outing them as the CONs they really are, without ever contemplating that none of them ever signed any of these constitutions, and thus cannot possibly be a party to them or to any of the terms and conditions contained therein. But that's what happens when the people have been dumbed down for decades and robbed of their reason and common-sense. Critical thinking and truth are the first casualties of war.

How many even know the difference between evidence and conjecture anymore? The former is what's needed to prove a point or the commission of a crime while the latter is someone's worthless personal opinion. For example, is there any evidence that Trump actually committed a crime or even an “impeachable offense”? NO. Conversely, there is ample evidence that every single member of CON gress who voted to have him removed from office has broken their oath of office by denying Trump his supposedly guaranteed rights to free speech and to due process of law.

But you've been CONNED into believing the opinions of a bunch of criminals, and thus are complicit in the crimes they've committed. Congratulations. Welcome to the former united States of America, where war is peace, tyranny is freedom, and where criminals are paid out of the public trough to pretend to be humanitarians.

Do you really not understand what has just happened?

The CONgressional criminals have just sent a clear message to Trump and the American people: they will NEVER let up. It's not enough to spend 4 years undermining the Trump presidency with criminal acts of fabricating evidence, false accusations, fraud, and a massive conspiracy involving thousands upon thousands of government officials in multiple countries, and the media throughout the former united States and Europe with their made-up pile of “Russian collusion” rubbish. No. They couldn't leave anything to chance so they rigged the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the most blatant case of electoral fraud in human history. But even that's not enough. They have to bury Trump, at least figuratively, if not literally, to silence him, and anyone else who is disgusted by the status quo, forever.

Understand this: THESE EVIL PEOPLE WILL NEVER STOP UNTIL TRUMP IS INCARCERATED FOR LIFE OR DEAD. This isn't a personal opinion; the facts speak for themselves. And if anyone is foolish enough to believe that they will stop with Trump, then they've allowed themselves to be dumbed down to the point they deserve what's coming next.

THESE EVIL PEOPLE will go after Trump's family, their businesses and personal wealth, Trump's legal team, Trump's loyal cabinet members, and Trump supporters . Trump supporters will simply be relabeled as “insurrectionists” or as “domestic terrorists”, just as they've already done with Trump and some of his legal team. And no, these evil people will not stop until they feel they've put down the “revolution”, because their backs are against the wall.

THESE EVIL PEOPLE know that if their crimes, which are legion, are ever exposed, they're finished. Treason is still a capital offense, and that's exactly what we're talking about. So they've embarked upon a course of action that only ends with them in jail, or facing a death sentence, unless they can get rid of anyone and everyone who can hold them personally responsible for their own, criminal actions. Why do you think t.h.e.y. have resorted to such desperate moves?

FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING. There is no way to survive with it or alongside of it. It's like a cancer, and it will continue to grow until it consumes the host.

Trump knows this. So what choice does he have at this point? He has no other option than to use every tool at his disposal to try to put down the real insurrection that's going on right now in the former united States. And the only way he will ultimately be successful is with the support of the American people who likewise, whether they realize it or not, are in the same position as Trump.

THIS IS WAR. And there's nothing civil about it.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with political party affiliations, nor with the belief systems of any organized religions, nor with personal views, opinions or anything else that can divide us against each other. Unless people band together to restore truth, justice and personal accountability, by ridding themselves of these political parasites and all of their criminal accomplices, we will lose what precious few freedoms are left, and the united States will cease to exist. So you had better learn to fight the RIGHT Way, not your own way, exactly as it says in the Declaration of Independence.

From: “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America” -

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.*

--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST powers from the consent of the governed,--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their DUTY, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

*In His Law and by our Covenant with Him (a contract without the con), which everyone is party to (Deut. 29:9-15), not a CONstitution

For those of you in Europe, and elsewhere in the world, who have been programmed by relentless media propaganda which has demonized Trump for the past four years, you're probably wondering why you should care.

The reason is amazingly simple: America is the last nation with an armed citizenry, which is the only physical impediment left standing in the way of the one world government that the filthy rich banksters and “royal” families are attempting to install. So when the American people are finally subdued, the rest of you will be at the mercy of the armed forces which will be used against you, to put you down one way or the other, i.e. through vaccination, starvation, or the old fashioned way: through the planned third world war.

The Solution to all of this is amazingly simple too: remember and return to The Law given to us by our Creator to protect us from all of this evil and to set and keep us free (Mal. 4). There's no other way to restore TRUE freedom, justice, peace, prosperity and the safety and security that only our Creator can provide. Anyone who doesn't accept that solution at face-value is already dead, so please choose wisely what side of this war you will be on, because there is no middle ground (Rev. 3:16).

WITH our Creator, ALL things are possible. Who do you think is going to be the last man standing?

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If we take what is hopefully an honest and objective look at what has transpired over the past 3 months, there are several observations that can be made, and a few lessons that seem to stand out.

First, we now have iron-clad evidence of electoral fraud on an order of magnitude never before seen, carried out by enemies, both foreign and domestic. And not in some third world country with a tin pot dictator, but in the former United States, alleged to have been "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

Secondly, for anyone under the delusion that there is any real, tangible benefit to be gained from one political party versus another, that too should have been finally put to rest. Particularly for those who have been taking notes for decades.

Thirdly, for anyone similarly under the delusion that corporations -- including the corporate fictional governments and their corporate fictional agencies -- are concerned about anyone or anything other than their continued survival and "bottom-line", that too has been wiped away for good.

Fourthly, if you believe some other human, special worldly group or agency is going to "drain the swamp" for you, and that you can merely sit back and watch, you are sadly mistaken.

The situation will never improve until people are resolute and thus willing to stand up for what is right, not in their own eyes, but in God's Eyes (Deut. 12:8).

We are learning exactly the lessons we need to learn now, to help awaken people to the fact that the system is corrupt beyond repair.

If anyone is foolish to think this was a one-time deployment of the national guard, then you haven't been paying attention. A dangerous precedent has now been set, and it was ordered by one political party to be used by the other, to show you that both political parties are, and in truth always have been, working against us.

All of the above observations, which are but a few of the most obvious, should hopefully open people's eyes to what our Creator has been telling us for thousands of years: there is no left or right except in the minds of people who believe in such lies.

Deuteronomy 5:32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the "I AM" your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Deuteronomy 28:14 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the Words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand (right-wing political parties), or [to] the left (left-wing political parties), to go after other gods to serve them.

Learn a lesson from nature. A bird requires BOTH of its wings to take flight, and those wings MUST work together. How then can people be so easily fooled into thinking they will somehow reach the heavens with one wing always working against the other? Do you want to remain grounded or do you want to learn The Way home and finally earn your wings?

Anytime we are divided into two or more groups, it should be immediately recognized as satanic divide and conquer strategy. It doesn't matter whether it's political parties, or organized religions/denominations/sects, or something else; it will invariably lead to conflict, war and eventually Armageddon. How could it not?

The key to winning this war -- and make no mistake, we are already at war -- is to learn to fight God's Way, NOT your own way. He has already told YOU that HE will fight your battles for you IF you do as He has COMMANDED us to do, for our own benefit and the greater, common good. And He (God) can NEVER lose.

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Do not say that the struggle gains nothing,

and that the labour and the wounds are in vain,

and that the enemy does not faint or fail, and

that as things have been, they remain;

for whilst the tired waves seem to be vainly

breaking and seem no painful inch to gain;

far back through creeks and inlets making,

comes silent flooding in the main.

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The Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the Governed, that when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.”

She’s Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take it Anymore! (Video)

https://stateofthenation.co/?p=86046

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Thank you.

These things are happening everywhere not only America.

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The link says website not found.

Tough lady.

Can I share this link please?

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Yes. Here is another link to it:

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Looks like

Looks like something has happened to that site. I've dug up a copy of the article on The Internet Archive:-

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Thank you, very brave woman. Nonsense woman.

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Actually police and army needed to use those guns against governments and not against us the people because government is the real threat and our worst enemy.

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Agreed. "You need only look into a mirror". God warned us in Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, COME OUT of her, MY people, that ye take not part in her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues (punishment).
18:5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her inequities.

Returning to and enforcing GOD’S LAWS is the ONLY way to come out from amongst those who are being lead to slaughter by their arrogant stupid selves. Who can stop STOP the inevitable war, WW3, being fomented in the Middle East, Ukraine, Australia, Taiwan, Japan with Russia and China as of today, no one because God wrote it in the BIBLE. WW3 is a WAR WHICH AMERICA WILL LOSE (The USA and UK Lose Armageddon, WW3 | Time To Think), exactly as God has warned us in HIS Holy Bible (Rev. 11:3-7). And unlike evil men, God NEVER lies (Numbers 23:19, Hebrews 6:18, Titus 1:2). How could blind, arrogant, disobedient humans possibly think they could win a war without God’s help (due to our disobedience, greed, murder, gluttony, slothfulness, desires of the flesh....), against Russia AND China, the latter with a 200,000,000 man standing army (Rev. 9:16)? Who do you think gave them the capabilities to destroy both the UK and US in WW3? God always uses the enemies of the people Israel to punish them for their continued disobedience to God’s COMMANDments and Law, Statutes, and Judgments.https://gibraltar-messenger.net/
Important Letter to Joe Biden

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America has not died (yet). No doubt, it is limping along on its last leg. One man (President Trump) cannot / could not drain the swamp. Few realized how utterly evil the swamp was/is. It is now being exposed. Hearts will fail. I post some of it, and monitor the reaction. People have a hard time with it. They do not recognize they are already in hell; hell is Planet Earth. Many people in America have led a relatively good life and they are relatively good, decent people.
These are the ones that are speaking-out in the forefront of the patriot-movement in America in a lot of the rallies/conferences and on their own social platforms. Others are speaking-out too. I just cannot see all that effort for naught. I do not know the future. But, I do know that I am not ready to throw in the towel. Understood, many (most?) people do not recognize The Lord. It is not my place to question (or more importantly, judge) them. The Law of God is the ONLY real solution ; actually the 'New Song' is the only Solution. Love is the only answer to survive. Love won the war in heaven. "You need only look into a mirror". Please pray to Father for more time.

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Deut. 28:43 The stranger that [is] within thy borders shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
28:44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
28:45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the "I AM" thy God, to keep His Commandments and His Statutes which He commanded thee:
28:46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

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The United States military is being destroyed, from within, prior to the upcoming war.
We have watched them build the infrastructure, now is 'go time'.
People need to get right with God NOW.

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A few topics:
ALL Government is bad. There is no such thing as a honest good Government.
The Chinese have taken a satellite shot of the entire US, every single home, marked for a family in China, just waiting for the collapse.
2nd Amendment protecting us from the rest of the world... Uninformed mom, very very stupid parents are taking part in bio-weapon exercise.
Destroying food supply in US.
Need to get back to God.

Creating Zelenko Foundation to regain common sense.

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U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Being EXPORTED - We are Being Sold-Out

More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices . . . were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched record highs.

The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden designed to lower record pump prices. Biden on Saturday renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices, drawing criticism from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

About 1 million barrels per day is being released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) through October. The flow is draining the SPR, which last month fell to the lowest since 1986.

U.S. crude futures are above $105 per barrel and gasoline and diesel prices above $5 a gallon in one-fifth of the nation https://gasprices.aaa.com/. U.S. officials have said oil prices could be higher if the SPR had not been tapped.

The fourth-largest U.S. oil refiner, Phillips 66, shipped about 470,000 barrels of sour crude from the Big Hill SPR storage site in Texas to Trieste, Italy, according to U.S. Customs data. Trieste is home to a pipeline that sends oil to refineries in central Europe.

Atlantic Trading & Marketing (ATMI), an arm of French oil major TotalEnergies, exported 2 cargoes of 560,000 barrels each, the data showed.

Phillips 66 declined to comment on trading activity. ATMI did not respond to a request for comment.

Cargoes of SPR crude were also headed to the Netherlands and to a Reliance refinery in India, an industry source said. A third cargo headed to China, another source said -- even though China is buying oil directly from Russia and ignoring US Sanctions upon Russia!

At least one cargo of crude from the West Hackberry SPR site in Louisiana was set to be exported in July, a shipping source added.

"Crude and fuel prices would likely be higher if (the SPR releases) hadn't happened, but at the same time, it isn't really having the effect that was assumed," said Matt Smith, lead oil analyst at Kpler.

The latest exports follow three vessels that carried SPR crude to Europe in April helping replace Russian crude supplies.

HAL TURNER EDITORIAL OPINION

The United States of America is being intentionally weakened and drained of resources vital to our survival and to our national security.

Almost one-third of our military weaponry/ ammunition, and armor, has been exported to either Europe (for NATO) or donated to Ukraine.

Now we find that OUR emergency oil reserves are not being used here in the USA, but instead, being shipped OUT OF THE COUNTRY.

If the U.S. is attacked or, God forbid, invaded, we won't have enough weapons or ammunition, and now, we won't even have enough of OUR OWN OIL!

This is an intentional weakening of the nation; perhaps to make us ripe for takeover.

Remember who the people are in charge, who are doing these things, so they can be held personally accountable.

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America Shoots Its Own Dollar Empire in Economic Attack on Russia

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Yves Smith

Yves here. The US is waking up to the blowback cost of its sanctions against Russia. You have to go well into Efforts to decimate Russian economy threaten to boomerang in The Hill to get to the part about US vulnerability:

Efforts to decimate Russia’s economy to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine could have serious and unpredictable implications at home for the U.S. and its allies….

Energy and food prices are the quickest way Americans could feel shockwaves from Russia’s decline, particularly if Biden takes action against Russian oil imports.

Crude oil prices are up roughly 20 percent over the past two weeks, enough to knock 0.2 percentage points from U.S. gross domestic product, according to economists at Goldman Sachs.

They also expect inflation as measured by the personal consumption expenditures price index to 0.2 percentage points thanks to “higher food prices, increased production costs due to rising commodity prices and increased transport costs due to shipping disruptions.”

[Rachel] Ziemba [founder of macroeconomic advisory firm Ziemba Insights] said a ban on Russian oil imports would largely be “symbolic” and simply send barrels to other markets.

“When we’re thinking of the cost-benefit analysis, it’s not clear to me that the pain here justifies the pain to Russia,” she said.

Michael Hudson gives an overview of the broader implications for the US.

By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is “and forgive them their debts”: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year

Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.

The basic of assumption of economic and diplomatic forecasting is that every country will act in its own self-interest. Such reasoning is of no help in today’s world. Observers across the political spectrum are using phrases like “shooting themselves in their own foot” to describe U.S. diplomatic confrontation with Russia and allies alike.

For more than a generation the most prominent U.S. diplomats have warned about what they thought would represent the ultimate external threat: an alliance of Russia and China dominating Eurasia. America’s economic sanctions and military confrontation has driven them together, and is driving other countries into their emerging Eurasian orbit.

American economic and financial power was expected to avert this fate. During the half-century since the United States went off gold in 1971, the world’s central banks have operated on the dollar standard, holding their international monetary reserves in the form of U.S. Treasury securities, U.S. bank deposits and U.S. stocks and bonds. The resulting Treasury-bill standard has enabled America to finance its foreign military spending and support its deindustrialization-driven chronic trade deficits by creating dollar IOUs that other countries accept. U.S. balance-of-payments deficits end up in the central banks of payments-surplus countries as their reserves, while Global South debtors need dollars to pay their bondholders and conduct their foreign trade.

This monetary privilege – dollar seignorage – has enabled U.S. diplomacy to impose neoliberal policies on the rest of the world, without having to use much military force of its own except to grab Middle Eastern oil.

The recent escalation of U.S. sanctions blocking Europe, Asia and other countries from trade and investment with Russia, Iran and China has imposed enormous opportunity costs – the cost of lost opportunities – on U.S. allies. And the recent confiscation of the gold and foreign reserves of Venezuela, Afghanistan and now Russia, along the targeted grabbing of bank accounts of wealthy foreigners (hoping to win their hearts and minds, along with recovery of their sequestered accounts), has ended the idea that dollar holdings or those in its sterling and euro NATO satellites are a safe investment haven when world economic conditions become shaky.

So I am somewhat chagrined as I watch the speed at which this U.S.-centered financialized system has de-dollarized over the span of just a year or two. The basic theme of my Super Imperialism has been how, for the past fifty years, the U.S. Treasury-bill standard has channeled foreign savings to U.S. financial markets and banks, giving dollar diplomacy a free ride. I thought that de-dollarization would be led by China and Russia moving to take control of their economies to avoid the kind of financial polarization that is imposing austerity on the United States.[1]But U.S. officials are forcing them to overcome whatever hesitancy they had to de-dollarize.

I had expected that the end of the dollarized imperial economy would come about by other countries breaking away. But that is not what has happened. U.S. diplomats themselves have chosen to end international dollarization themselves, while helping Russia build up its own means of self-reliant agricultural and industrial production.

This global fracture process actually has been going on for some years now, starting with the sanctions blocking America’s NATO allies and other economic satellites from trading with Russia. For Russia, these sanctions had the same effect that protective tariffs would have had.

Russia had remained too enthralled by free-market ideology to take steps to protect its own agriculture or industry. The United States provided the help that was needed by imposing domestic self-reliance on Russia. When the Baltic states lost the Russian market for cheese and other farm products, Russia quickly created its own cheese and dairy sector – while becoming the world’s leading grain exporter.

Russia is discovering (or is on the verge of discovering) that it does not need U.S. dollars as backing for the ruble’s exchange rate. Its central bank can create the rubles needed to pay domestic wages and finance capital formation. The U.S. confiscations thus may finally lead Russia to end of neoliberal monetary philosophy, as Sergei Glaziev has long been advocating in favor of MMT.

The same dynamic undercutting ostensible U.S aims has occurred with U.S. sanctions against the leading Russian billionaires. The neoliberal shock therapy and privatizations of the 1990s left Russian kleptocrats with only one way to cash out on the assets they had grabbed from the public domain. That was to incorporate their takings and sell their shares in London and New York. Domestic savings had been wiped out, and U.S. advisors persuaded Russia’s central bank not to create its own ruble money.

The result was that Russia’s national oil, gas and mineral patrimony was not used to finance a rationalization of Russian industry and housing. Instead of the revenue from privatization being invested to create new Russian means of protection, it was burned up on nouveau-riche acquisitions of luxury British real estate, yachts and other global flight-capital assets. But the effect of making Russian dollar, sterling and euro holdings hostage has been to make the City of London too risky a venue in which to hold their assets. By imposing sanctions on richest Russians closest to Putin, U.S. officials hoped to induce them to oppose his breakaway from the West, and thus to serve effectively as NATO agents-of-influence. But for Russian billionaires, their own country is starting to look safest.

For many decades now, the Federal Reserve and Treasury have fought against gold recovering its role in international reserves. But how will India and Saudi Arabia view their dollar holdings as Biden and Blinken try to strong-arm them into following the U.S. “rules-based order” instead of their own national self-interest? The recent U.S. dictates have left little alternative but to start protecting their own political autonomy by converting dollar and euro holdings into gold as an asset free of political liability of being held hostage to the increasingly costly and disruptive U.S. demands.

U.S. diplomacy has rubbed Europe’s nose in its abject subservience by telling its governments to have their companies dump the Russian assets for pennies on the dollar after Russia’s foreign reserves were blocked and the ruble’s exchange rate plunged. Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and other U.S. investors moved quickly to buy up what Shell Oil and other foreign companies were unloading.

Nobody thought that the postwar 1945-2020 world order would give way this fast. A truly new international economic order is emerging, although it is not yet clear just what form it will take. But “prodding the Bear” with the U.S./NATO confrontation with Russia has passed critical-mass level. It no longer is just about Ukraine. That is merely the trigger, a catalyst for driving much of the world away from the US/NATO orbit.

The next showdown may come within Europe itself as nationalist politicians seek to lead a break-away from the over-reaching U.S. power-grab over its European and other Allies to keep them dependent on U.S.-based trade and investment. The price of their continuing obedience is to impose cost-inflation on their industry while relinquishing their democratic electoral politics to subordination to America’s NATO proconsuls.

These consequences cannot really be deemed “unintended.” Too many observers have pointed out exactly what would happen – headed by President Putin and Foreign Secretary Lavrov explaining just what their response would be if NATO insisted in backing them into a corner while attacking Eastern Ukrainian Russian-speakers and moving heavy weaponry to Russia’s Western border. The consequences were anticipated. The neocons in control of U.S. foreign policy simply didn’t care. Recognizing its concerns was deemed to make one a Putinversteher.

What foreign countries have not done for themselves to replace the IMF, World Bank and other arms of U.S. diplomacy, American politicians are forcing them to do. Instead of European, Near Eastern and Global South countries breaking away out of their own calculation of their long-term economic interests, America is driving them away, as it has done with Russia and China. More politicians are seeking voter support by asking whether they would be better served by new monetary arrangements to replace dollarized trade, investment and even foreign debt service.

The energy and food price squeeze is hitting Global South countries especially hard, coinciding with their own Covid-19 problems and the looming dollarized debt service coming due. Something must give. How long will these countries impose austerity to pay foreign bondholders?

How will the U.S. and European economies cope in the face of their sanctions against imports of Russian gas and oil, cobalt, aluminum, palladium and other basic materials. American diplomats have made a list of raw materials that their economy desperately needs and which therefore are exempt from the trade sanctions being imposed. This provides Mr. Putin a handy list of our pressure points to use in reshaping world diplomacy and help European and other countries break away from the Iron Curtain that America has imposed to lock its satellites into dependence on high-priced U.S. supplies.

But the final breakaway from NATO’s adventurism must come from within the United States itself. As this year’s midterm elections approach, Republicans are likely to harp on price inflation led by gasoline and energy as a Biden failure. It’s not clear if the pro-Ukraine propaganda will have lost its effectiveness due to over-exposure. But if Russia wins the war in short order, the Republicans could hammer on Biden for relying on costly, arguably ill thought out, and ineffective economic sanctions America needs Russian oil and gas exports. Gas is necessary not only for heating and energy production, but to make fertilizer, of which there already is a world shortage. That has been exacerbated by blocking Russian and Ukrainian grain exports to send U.S. and European food prices soaring.

Trying to force Russia to respond militarily and thereby look bad to the rest of the world is turning out to be a stunt aimed simply at demonstrating Europe’s need to contribute more to NATO, buy more U.S. military hardware and lock itself deeper into trade and monetary dependence on the United States. The instability that this has caused could have the effect of making the United States look as threatening as Russia.

European officials did not feel uncomfortable in telling the world about their worries that Donald Trump was crazy and upsetting the apple cart of international diplomacy. But they seem to have been blindsided at the Biden Administration’s resurgence of visceral Russia-hatred by Secretary of State Blinken and Victoria Nuland-Kagan. Trump’s mode of expression and mannerisms may have been uncouth, but America’s neocon gang has much more globally threatening confrontation obsessions. For them, it was a question of whose reality would emerge victorious: the “reality” that they believed they could make, or economic reality outside of U.S. control.