Home » Geopolitics (Page 25)
Category Archives: Geopolitics
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI–Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI November 12, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from […]
Israel Making Preparations To Launch Invasion Of Southern Lebanon
Israel Making Preparations To Launch Invasion Of Southern Lebanon Israel has continued signaling that it is preparing to launch a major new operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon following months of tit-for-tat escalation. Some 80,000 Israeli residents whose homes are near the border have remained evacuated since October and November, and are essentially internally displaced. Because […]
Only the US Can Destroy the US Dollar
ONLY THE US CAN DESTROY THE US DOLLAR US Dollar as a reserve asset was the first “flywheel” – and only the US can destroy its own ecosystem. Being the reserve currency has enormous benefits. And in the entirety of financial history, the US is the first and only fiat reserve currency. Sterling, and any […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIV–Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIV November 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction A very brief contemplation that is a comment I posted on the Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece of writing. It’s pretty self-evident (at least to everyone outside of the hypnotic manipulation […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIII–Pessimists Are Optimists That Have All the Facts
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIII October 31, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Pessimists Are Optimists That Have All the Facts This contemplation has been prompted by another great article by The Honest Sorcerer. If you’ve not read their work, I highly recommend it. A couple of thoughts in reading your splendid […]
Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose?
Are France & The UK Plotting A Ukrainian Power Play Right Under Germany’s Nose? There are indeed plans for a conventional Western intervention in Ukraine despite their leaders’ denials over the past two weeks, but they’ve yet to fully form and their execution can’t be taken for granted, but they also can’t be ruled out […]
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation
What the Western Press Didn’t Say About the Leaked Luftwaffe Conversation What if a conversation between Russian officials discussing the explosion of a bridge in Germany had been revealed? Would Western press coverage also treat the leak as something more serious than threats of military attack? On March 1, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII–Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII October 19, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’ While I work on a longer (perhaps several part) contemplation regarding the myth of infinite growth on a finite planet that infiltrates and dominates many mainstream narratives — especially economic in nature — I thought I would share a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI–The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI October 10, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot Today’s very brief contemplation has been prompted by a couple of recent articles/posts (see links below) by thinkers/writers whose works/ideas I have followed for some time and respect greatly — but […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXX–Democracy: It’s Not What You Think It Is
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXX October 6, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Democracy: It’s Not What You Think It Is Today’s contemplation stems from a recent article about Canadian politics that has prompted me to reflect further on sociopolitics and belief systems[1], but not so much about the actual content of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX–Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIX October 2, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Geopolitics: It’s About Wealth Extraction and Generation For the Ruling Class My very short contemplation today is my comment on an article that was posted in a Facebook group (Peak Oil) that I belong to. It is preceded by […]
Europe Is Wargaming a Food Crisis
Europe Is Wargaming a Food Crisis (Bloomberg) — The combined forces of El Niño and La Niña have crippled Latin American soy output. Ukrainian and Russian grain farmers have gone to war. Indonesia has banned shipments of palm oil to Europe, while China is hungry for crops. The Mediterranean region is getting more like a […]
Europe Is Alarmed Enough To Begin Wargaming A Food Crisis
Europe Is Alarmed Enough To Begin Wargaming A Food Crisis Governments of the European Union are engaged in wargames which simulate and foresee a global food crisis. A mix of major factors including the Russia-Ukraine war and impact on grain supplies there, as well as weather events like El Niño and La Niña and their impact on […]
The Endgame, Part I
The Endgame, Part I The Russo-Ukrainian war and geopolitics of Europe In early February, I posted a poll on X asking whether I should write a geopolitical piece on the Russo-Ukrainian war, adding to my series mapping a worst-case scenario for the war. While the vote count for this particular poll was not very high, an overwhelming majority supported […]
