Ben Norton on Trump’s plan for Gaza and Brian Berletic on U.S. plans for a China blockade: a bigger picture. There cannot be peace — “War is peace.” (My rambling)

I didn’t write anything last week, and I’m sorry about that. Because of this, I decided to put this post together quickly. I’m also sorry for being inconsistent with my posts. It’s hard for me to stay motivated to write or even decide what to write about, especially since I have so many potential topics.

By the way, that’s why it makes me sad that I don’t get any comments on my posts anymore. I used to get a lot more, and I would really like to know what you want me to write about, since choosing a topic is difficult for me.

I know The Duran community is very informed and knowledgeable. I’ve mentioned before that I was introduced to Michael Parenti by a member of this community, and I’ll always be grateful for that, since I’m one of his biggest fans. While I may not respond quickly, I always read the comments and hope that they contain something interesting—just like the comment which introduced me to Parenti.

Okay, enough about me—let’s get to the post.

“War is peace”

In the post linked below, I described how the USD functions as a reserve currency and how the U.S. seeks to control oil production in order to starve China of energy:

Nigeria — Why? Economy and The Grand Cheeseboard: Ukraine, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria — what is really happening, in my opinion.

I don’t want to repeat myself, but in that post I explained how, out of the 10 countries with the largest oil production, the U.S. controls 6, and the remaining 4—Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and Nigeria — are its targets. I also explained how the USD functions as a reserve currency only because the U.S. effectively holds a gun to the head of every country in the world, forcing them to accept the dollar, which is essentially an unpayable IOU. In that post, I used Michael Hudson’s great analogy of the shopkeeper to illustrate this.

“It's as if you went to the grocery store and tried to pay with an IOU, and the grocery store would say, "Well, you've run up quite a tab in the last week; you know, you've got to pay." And the customer will say, "Well, I can't pay. But you can use this debt — maybe you can give this IOU to the farm that's giving you the eggs and the dairy or the vegetables that you're selling, and somehow if only this IOU could be circulated as a claim on the customer, then it would be technically a debt."”

This is basically our Ponzi scheme economy right now, and this allegory makes it easier for people to understand. The USD circulates around the world based on debt that will never be paid, serving as currency. The issue is that no one would normally accept such a situation as described in this allegory. No shopkeeper would accept an IOU that would never be paid back for their products. That’s why America needs to hold guns to the heads of other countries to make sure they accept this unpayable IOU.

Because of this, there cannot be peace, because peace would require abandoning the USD — and the U.S. will never allow that. As a result, the U.S. must terrorize the entire world, which is why I say the U.S. government is the biggest gangster/criminal organization/terrorist organization in the world. That’s why I laugh when I hear naïve people ask why America can’t coexist in a multipolar world as an equal among nations. That thinking is so naïve and shows a lack of understanding of the USD and the monetary system.

This system can exist only because the U.S. has been holding a metaphorical gun to the rest of the world, and for a long time there was no alternative. The rise of China and a multipolar world makes this metaphorical gun far less intimidating, and at the same time, the rise of China and BRICS has — for the first time — created a real alternative to the USD. The U.S. cannot allow this to happen. That’s why the U.S. targets China and multipolarism: because once the world stops being afraid of the U.S., the USD collapses.

This would mean hyperinflation in the USD — so extreme that Weimar Germany’s hyperinflation would look mild in comparison. It also explains the subservience of U.S. allies like Europe, which is tied to the dollar through the Eurodollar system, and Japan, whose economy is tied to the USD as well.

I start to think real decision makers who are behind Trump, because of course Trump does not make major decisions; he is just an actor. Believing Trump is a decision-maker is like believing the Marlboro Man makes decisions at the Marlboro company. Trump is simply the Marlboro Man of the empire — just as Obama was. They had nothing to do with decision-making; they were advertisements, mascots, branding devices for the empire. I don’t understand how people don’t see this. I don’t understand how people cannot understand this fact after Reagan — a literal actor with brain damage — was chosen as president. And then they act surprised by Biden, as if it matters whether the president has a functioning brain when he is not actually a decision-maker. His only role is to sell a narrative.

The last president who actually knew what was happening was George H. W. Bush, known as “Poppy Bush.” Officially, the nickname came from his father, but there are rumors it was because of his connection to heroin and poppy fields. If you’re interested in the history of the Bush family, there is a great series from the channel Eyes Wide Open about it:

I’m sorry for interrupting the post with those links, but I can’t recommend that channel enough for people who are interested in what I consider real history.

Anyway, “Poppy Bush” got too big for his breeches and thought that, because he was president, he could decide U.S. policy. He was destroyed for it, with Israel playing a major role. But it wasn’t only Israel. Bush believed that, because he had led the CIA before becoming president, he would be able to control the CIA as president — yet people in the CIA didn’t like that, so they got rid of him with help of Zionists.

Besides “Poppy Bush,” who was connected to the heroin trade and was part of the CIA, we also have Nixon, who was connected to the heroin trade as shown in this quote I’ve used many times:

**“This information is from The Great Heroin Coup by Henrik Krüger. In August 1971, the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs announced the location in Southeast Asia of 29 drug refineries, 15 of which were allegedly producing heroin. Among the largest was one in Vientiane, Laos, which was camouflaged as a Pepsi-Cola plant. Richard Nixon, representing Pepsi’s interests in 1965, promoted its construction. Though the plant never capped a bottle, it continued to receive subsidies from U.S. aid for international development.

Richard Nixon, who at that time, among other things, was involved in the Kennedy assassination, worked for the Pepsi-Cola Company. He was the one who promoted the establishment of that plant in Vientiane, which became the leading heroin refinery in all of Southeast Asia. The plant never capped a bottle of Pepsi; instead, the heroin, as Dave said, went straight into the arms of American GIs, supported by American taxpayers through USAID. Furthermore, the main person trafficking that heroin—which was going into the arms of the GIs—was Nien Kalki, a key official of the government the GIs were there to support. This is obviously a distasteful situation.”**

And again, Nixon was connected to the deep state and the drug trade, even to figures like Winston Churchill. Because of that, he thought that once he became president he could control the CIA. Again, Zionists and Israel played a role, but it wasn’t only them. I wrote a post about Deep State Inside the State, Outside the State, in which I explained that the CIA created Israel as a deep-state “state outside the state.” Because of FDR’s demand for unconditional surrender from Nazi Germany — something that went against Allen Dulles’ secret peace plan with Nazis — people inside the CIA realized they needed a way to operate outside the control of the state. Israel filled that role.

This was also evident with the next president who got too big for his britches: Kennedy, who famously said, “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” Again, Zionists and Israel played a role, but again, it wasn’t just Israel. Yes, Kennedy opposed Israel’s nuclear weapons program and wanted the predecessor of AIPAC — the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA) — to register as a foreign agent under FARA. But that was not why Kennedy was killed, in my opinion. Kennedy signed his own death warrant when he said those words about the CIA and fired Allen Dulles. This was another example of a president who thought that, simply because he was president, he could decide the future of America.

So all presidents who thought they were real decision-makers were put back in their place by the CIA, with help from Zionists and Israel. Many people think that because Israel was involved, Israel must have been calling the shots. I don’t agree. Israel is, in my view, a construct of the CIA. For example, Israel had problems with Kennedy long before his death. And it was only after Kennedy wanted to make peace with the Soviet Union and end the Cold War that the final straw was broken. We may never know for sure. But just because Israel was involved does not mean they were the deciders — since all these presidents also went against the deep state and the CIA. The American empire would not serve Israel if it did not benefit the empire — and many people, like Brian Berletic, share that view.

I’m sorry my posts have such bad structure, but everything is connected, and I was writing about Trump when I went off on a tangent about presidents being nothing more than salesmen for the empire. I was going to write about how Trump probably used a “madman strategy” against Western allies like Europe and Japan, which are connected to the USD.

“The ‘madman strategy’ is a political theory in which a leader projects an image of being irrational and unpredictable in order to intimidate adversaries into making concessions. Associated with U.S. President Richard Nixon, the strategy involves threatening excessive force or making enemies believe the leader is ‘crazy enough’ to act against conventional wisdom.”

For people wondering why Europe or Japan caved to Trump, I suspect Trump simply used the “madman strategy.” He could have said to Europe and Japan: If you won’t help me, I’ll destroy the USD — and since you’re tied to the USD, you’ll go down with me. So they either helped Trump, or they risked the U.S. collapsing and taking the entire West with it. If the USD dies, America dies — but Europe and Japan die with it. This explains why Japan, Europe, and other U.S. allies had to do what America demanded: because the “madman” was threatening to destroy the entire system, and they would sink as well.

I have trouble structuring my posts and staying focused, since all these things are connected. I could easily write 100 pages about each topic. That’s why it would help me if you wrote in the comments what you want me to write about.

Anyway, the president does not decide anything, and there cannot be peace in the world as long as the U.S. exists. Let’s move on to the next point.

Preparation for War

There is a very interesting fragment from a Brian Berletic video I linked earlier:

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“The vector sum of what the US is doing is decoupling from China. The purpose of doing that is because they want to isolate and cut off China. If they do that while their economy is still connected to China, they will hurt themselves. That is the whole purpose. Again, that was an obstacle mentioned in the 2018 paper, and now it's an obstacle you can see them actively working to dismantle and remove out of the way.”

This is a great point, and I completely agree with it, but there is also another side to the coin. In the post I linked earlier, I wrote that the only way to turn our pseudo–Ponzi-scheme economy into a real economy is to dump the USD as the reserve currency, since it works like a leech on the global economy — essentially making the entire world finance the American Empire. I know most people don’t understand this, which surprises me, but the people who are actually in power do understand it. If someone like me — nobody, a simple warehouse worker from Poland - understands it, then obviously the people who own and control the world understand it as well. Thinking otherwise is so naïve it leaves me speechless.

That’s why I wrote a post about not underestimating our enemies. It irritates me when naïve people say things like “the people who run the world actually believe Ukraine is winning.” People like Brian Berletic or John Helmer, who are closest to my position, constantly criticize that kind of thinking. If I understand how the USD and the monetary system work, then the elites certainly do.

People often wonder why Russia, China, or BRICS don’t just dump the USD and create an alternative. The reason is the same as in the quote about the U.S.: just as the U.S. cannot blockade China right now because they are too interconnected and it would hurt the U.S. too much, the same applies to China. Just as America needs to build supply chains and manufacturing capacity outside China before it can blockade and fight China, China needs to build demand for its production capacity outside the West.

If China and BRICS were to drop the USD right now and trigger hyperinflation—which would destroy America and, with it, the whole West including its allies like Europe and Japan—then, for example, if 40% of global demand for Chinese production comes from the West, China would instantly lose that demand. That would mean 40% of Chinese factories would have to shut down. This is why Russia, China, and BRICS are not rushing to replace the USD: they need to ensure sufficient external demand for their production capacity outside the West so create internal demand or in the so-called Third World, before they destroy the USD.

So just like America can’t start a blockade and war against China yet, China also can’t destroy the USD yet. But both sides are preparing. America is trying to create production capacity outside China so it can eventually blockade and attack China, while China is trying to create demand for its production capacity outside the West so it can eventually destroy the USD and collapse what I describe as our pseudo Ponzi-scheme economy.

Both sides must reach their goals before they can move forward. Otherwise, they would hurt themselves too much. But both sides are preparing—the U.S. to terrorize and destroy China, and China to destroy the USD-based system.

Gaza and the Abraham Accords

In this part, I want to touch on Gaza, based on a video by Ben Norton that I attached to this post. Of course, this is connected to the subjects I wrote about earlier — USD and U.S. – China war preparations — because everything is interconnected. In this video, I heard about something I had never heard of before: IMEC, the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor. This connects to what Brian Berletic talks about regarding the blockade of China.

Again, I could write 100 pages just about this subject, since I’ve touched on it before in connection with what happened in Pakistan. IMEC is only one part of the picture. Just look at a map of Iran and the countries it borders: Iraq (occupied by the U.S.), Turkey (a NATO ally), Armenia and Azerbaijan (with the famous “Zangezur/Trump corridor”), Turkmenistan (where I’ve heard the U.S. is meddling), Afghanistan (where Trump famously demanded their airbase back), and of course Pakistan, which switched sides from China to the West after its conflict with India.

Pakistan had to be neutralized because it created a land bridge between Iran and China, which would be problematic in the event of a naval blockade—something the West is planning. Now the only thing left is to get rid of Iran in order to gain full control of the Middle East. The U.S. wants total control of the Middle East so it can control its resources and cut off China from those resources.

I previously wrote a prediction that the recent defense deal between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan was not aimed against the U.S. and Israel at all, but was preparation for a war against Iran. With this arrangement, the West can stage a false flag against Saudi Arabia, blame Iran, and give Pakistan an excuse to attack Iran “in defense” of the Saudis and in fulfillment of their defense agreement—even though, in reality, they would be doing it on behalf of the West.

But this entire effort to control the Middle East depends heavily on our main attack dog in the region: Israel. Comedian Kurt Metzger, who I’ve posted before and who speaks about deeper truths beyond geopolitics, says that “it’s funny how al-Qaeda never attacks Israel, and the one time it did, they apologized to Israel.” It is indeed strange that these supposedly antisemitic jihadists who “hate Israel and the West because of Israel” attack the West far more often than Israel itself. There are no “bad Muslims” or evil jihadists we should fear—there are only the McJihadists we created and control, and Israel plays a huge role in managing these McJihadists on our behalf.

If there were no Israel, there would be no McJihadists. For example: after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the American military was supposed to leave, and then suddenly ISIS appeared—forcing the Iraqi government to ask the American military to return. If there had been no Israel, there would have been no McJihad, therefore no ISIS, and the U.S. military would have had no excuse to remain in Iraq. And America needs to remain in Iraq because it needs control over the Middle East in order to cut China off from Middle Eastern resources in the future.

Many people think America is controlled by Israel and works for Israel, but that’s because they don’t understand what I explained earlier about the USD system. I’ve heard people say that America doesn’t need to be in the Middle East, and people believe that because they don’t understand that, as the issuer of the global reserve currency, the U.S. must function as the world’s biggest terrorist organization. It cannot function like a normal country. America didn’t invade Iraq for Israel—America simply had to invade Iraq because it needed to control and terrorize the Middle East in order to sustain the USD as the global reserve currency.

America needs to be everywhere, terrorizing the world, and it uses proxies to do this: Ukraine to terrorize Russia, Israel to terrorize the Middle East, Taiwan and Pakistan to terrorize Asia, and so on. Again, I’m drifting off-topic, but this post is already extremely long.

I could have mentioned many other things—for example, my previous post:

The world is not black and white, so stop your simplistic analysis. Blackmail and Division within the Deep State — an old video by Whitney Webb.

That post included a video by Whitney Webb containing this gem of a quote:

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“Many people haven’t discussed the close relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia. After the raid on Epstein’s home in 2019, reports surfaced of numerous photographs of Epstein with MBS. This is particularly strange when considering MBS’s path to power, including his closeness to Jared Kushner, Adam Neumann of WeWork, and his friendliness toward Israel.

MBS was allowed to depose his senior cousin, Mohammed bin Nayef, a close associate of former CIA director John Brennan. After this, MBS consolidated power through a dramatic purge, imprisoning many of his relatives in a Ritz-Carlton. This unconventional rise to power, which displaced a CIA-aligned figure, suggests that MBS may have been supported by external, non-traditional forces within the Saudi power structure.”

This explains a lot about the internal fight between factions within the deep state. John Brennan represented the faction aligned with Biden’s people, who wanted to destroy Russia first, while Jeffrey Epstein represented the pro-Zionist faction that wanted to destroy Iran first. Epstein was close to MBS, MBS was close to Jared Kushner, and Jared Kushner was close to Trump. This explains why Trump and the Saudis worked so closely with the Zionist faction.

MBS came to power with the help of the Zionist faction represented by Epstein, against the Brennan faction — this also explains MBS’s position on the Gaza genocide, as Ben Norton explained in his video. This is why, when I hear people say that the Saudi–Pakistan defense pact was “against Israel and the U.S.,” I laugh, because both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are controlled by the West. To me, the purpose of that defense pact was to give the West an excuse to use Pakistan against Iran. We can’t simply order Pakistan to attack Iran—we always need to look like the “good guys,” so we need a narrative. Now all that’s needed is an attack on Saudi Arabia blamed on Iran, and suddenly Pakistan has the “moral obligation” to attack Iran.

To finish, I want to briefly mention Trump’s peace offer to Russia regarding Ukraine. America would only agree to peace with Russia if Russia sold out the Global South and China. I wrote previously that the purpose of Ukraine is to tie up Russia’s resources so it cannot interfere elsewhere — Brian Berletic also talks about this in a video I have attached and he also uses Syria as an example. If there were no war in Ukraine, Syria would not have collapsed, and we would not have been able to empower our head-chopper McJihadists from al-Qaeda as head of Syria.

I also mentioned that Russia sends weapons to Iran and Venezuela when we target them; imagine how much more Russia could send if it didn’t need so much equipment in Ukraine. So the American Empire would only agree to peace if Russia promised not to help our targets like Venezuela and Iran. That’s why I don’t believe there will be peace in Ukraine unless Putin and Russia sell out China, BRICS, and the Global South — which I don’t think will happen, but who knows.

There’s also the strange fact of Russia’s ambiguous position toward Israel, as John Helmer euphemistically puts it. What we know is: MBS was put into power by the Zionist faction of the Western deep state; MBS is close to Trump; Trump is close to Putin. So it looks like Putin is close to this Zionist faction as well. That would explain Russia’s “ambiguous” posture toward Israel: on the one hand, Russia arms Iran against Israel; on the other, Russia stays quiet about the Gaza genocide, ignores Israel arming Ukraine, and maintains friendly relations with Israel despite the contradictions. Calling Russia’s stance toward Isreal “ambiguous” is euphemistic — it’s weird as f***.

Unfortunately, most people don’t know or understand half of the things I’m writing about, and I don’t really have anyone I can talk to who understands my analysis. I would love to share my ideas with someone, because discussion is helpful, but if people don’t understand half of what I’m talking about, there’s no point. Let’s end this with a funny short.

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