While all the others say this… [Video]

An aggregate of titles on geopolitical-directed English-language YouTube and social media largely seem to give the same message: (I am embedding links into each of these so you can follow them yourselves.)

From Dr. Vladimir Brovkin – “Trump’s Imperial Overreach and Its Impact”

Our own Alex Christoforou – “Empty oil tanker. Graham, 500% BONE CRUSHING tariffs. Trump, $1.5 TRILLION military. Greenland SALE”

Larry Johnson – “Trump’s FATAL MISTAKE: Venezuela War DESTROYS US Empire”

Redacted – “Tucker Carlson just dropped a truth bomb “war is coming and we will lose”

These are but a few, but as in my recent piece about the Venezuelan refugee and her comments, these are largely representative of a worldview that insists that the USA is in a declining, desperate stage of the “imperial arc”.

There is a lot of information that would support this, as well. My effort here is not so much to dispute it as to acknowledge that there is a great deal of accumulated information built along the line of this narrative. So much so, that it may actually be able to influence people who view and read this to make the narrative come true.

Maybe none of you ever saw Tomorrowland, the Disney sort-of-flop that nevertheless made a very telling point: 

The Terminator also makes a similar point: No fate but what we make.

What I want to put forth are some ideas that may be disturbing to those dedicated to the narrative (and many of us are, for many reasons).

President Trump changed the geopolitical game in a big way a week ago. Rightly or wrongly, we have a different reality.

When the White House released its National Security Strategy document, it made big news in Russian press, because Russia itself was no longer cast as the enemy, and that the message was the USA would mind its own hemisphere and stop seeking to impose itself in ways that were common in the Unipolar period, in places where it was not needed or wanted, to say the least. The wisdom of this move was lauded across the world, by us in particular.

But what many of us thought the document meant may be different from what it looks like in practice. For myself, this is true. As a very pro-Russian American, I was hopeful that this strategy would be a quick pathway to the US butting out of Russian business and settling the war on Russian terms.

But this week, after the capture / abduction / kidnapping of President Maduro and his wife from their home in Caracas, two other stories rapidly ascended to prominence. One was a strongly renewed push for the acquisition of Greenland, the other was the approval President Trump gave to the (editoral slant warning!!) despicable Lindsey Graham to advance his “bone-crushing 500% sanctions bill” through the Senate, bringing it closer to the President’s own desk and signature… and possibly implementation.

I believe these stories are linked.

It is well known that the sanctions that the USA and Europe brought against the Russian Federation for its Special Military Operation in Ukraine were not hurting Russia at all. Russia dealt with the shock and reoriented and reformed its commerce means and the country is doing VERY well. I live here. Those gas lines that were reported? I have never seen them. Gasoline price shocks? I did see those for a short period of time, but so few people drive in Russia compared to the USA that the impact was far less than it would have been had such a shock hit the Americans. We live in our cars. Most Russian people do not. IF they have a car, they also can afford a price hit, and it didn’t last. Now, prices are settled down to about where they have been all along, consistent with international pricing for gasoline, generally a little cheaper than the midrange prices in the USA.

Part of the reason that the sanctions hurt the West, Europe especially, is that Europe was getting a lot of its energy supplies from Russia. Now, that is mostly cut off.

But the USA just got a huge new source of energy, the largest known reserve of heavy crude in existence, and American refineries are optimized for the production of heavy crude into all the products that petroleum can give. This makes the United States much ore the supplier of choice to the West, which can mean enormous money, a boost to the Venezuelan economy with American companies restoring Venezuelan production and so on.

All this while the rest of the world laments the American capture of someone known for being very repressive to his people (Mr. Maduro), following on the heels of socializing and nationalizing (and ruining) Venezuela’s economy.

Now to be sure, Chavez saw the worst of it, and Mr. Maduro is credited for a lot of improvement in Venezuela. But the story from its refugees is that they cannot dare to go back, for they will be imprisoned immediately.

And we were supporting such leadership? Russia and China were supporting such policy implicitly or explicitly? The American Democrat Party was supporting this?

We go on about things like violating national sovereignty and kidnapping and all this, but, what it is about ourselves that makes it possible to praise people who treat their citizens in this way?

Are we so invested in our resolution that the United States is so historically corrupt that it simply must fall? And what is the difference between this thinking and the thought popular among Russians that the West is always seeking to destroy and break up Russia?

Now, I am not saying that these ideas are nonsense creations – they have ample bases for people to consider them as valid and true. The USA did a great deal of damage in the hubris of its Unipolar era. I think the present dismissal of the Russian information concerning a Ukrainian drone attack on one of President Putin’s residence / command and control centers is awful. If this dismissal is indeed true at the levels where it matters, I think it is an awful move. It should be examined and Russia ought not be dismissed out of hand. I have written President Trump saying precisely this.

So, what do I think?

I think we are seeing what that National Security Strategy really looks like in practice. The establishment of Venezuela as a mid-hemisphere energy stronghold for the United States, the renewed and intense efforts to acquire Greenland, the events now being reported in Cuba implying collapse, the rumors of Canadian dissolution and provinces joining the United States, the uprisings reported in Iran… these stories suggest action on the part of President Trump. Dr Steve Turley offers his perspective here, even though I already linked it, I should call much attention to this video:

There indeed may be desperation to save the crumbling US empire. I think this is a valid charge; I have seen the signs personally. But there are more signs than just disintegration. There is turbulence in the USA, but also realignment, a restoration to sanity. Traditional Christian faith is coming back, interesting not in the sense of a resurgent Protestant Revival, but with hundreds of thousands of people going “back to the source”, many engaging Roman Catholicism as serious adherents and even more surprising (and personally of delight) an astounding wave of conversions to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, particularly in the Antiochian (pro Syria) and Russian / Slavic (Russia, Serbia, Bulgaria, canonical Ukraine, etc Orthodox Churches.

On a side note, as these Americans come into Orthodoxy, they start getting a much more educated geopolitical worldview, so The Duran may truly come into its own in the USA. Let’s hope.

To say that President Trump is not taking the idea of American disintegration lying down in defeatism and despair is accurate. He is the most busy Chief Executive I have ever observed in my lifetime. Everything he is doing is designed to combat and counter the internal disintegration of the last fifty years or so, and at the same time to re-establish the United States as a regional hegemon and civilizational state in its own right.

It is probably true (I hope!) that a hedonistic, psychotic, self-destructive and self-absorbed United States cannot exist as a civilizational power. In this, the US lags behind Russia, China and India, who have all been working this angle for at least eleven years or more. But the USA is being led towards the same internal challenge that these other nations have been facing and dealing with.

So, perhaps the doom-and-gloomers about the USA are right – in a sense. The old, corrupt America, the hedonistic, irresponsible and globalist, transnationalist America – that nation has no hopes in a multipolar world. But the new America that President Trump and his people and the MAGA movement are trying to give rise to – that America is mighty, unafraid, and every bit as determined to excel as Russia or China or India could possibly be.

If I am right, what we are all reporting are aspects of this metamorphosis. It is terrifying and wonderful to observe.

May God help us all.