{"id":16363,"date":"2016-01-12T13:07:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:07:56","slug":"financial-collapse-leads-to-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16363","title":{"rendered":"Financial collapse leads to war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Financial collapse leads to war<\/a><\/h3>\n
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[This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of \u201cmelting up,\u201d the way they used to, they have started \u201cmelting down.\u201d My original prediction is that this will lead to more armed conflict. Let’s see if I was right.]<\/p>\n

Scanning the headlines in the western mainstream press, and then peering behind the one-way mirror to compare that to the actual goings-on, one can’t but get the impression that America’s propagandists, and all those who follow in their wake, are struggling with all their might to concoct rationales for military action of one sort or another, be it supplying weapons to the largely defunct Ukrainian military, or staging parades of US military hardware and troops in the almost completely Russian town of Narva, in Estonia, a few hundred meters away from the Russian border, or putting US \u201cadvisers\u201d in harm’s way in parts of Iraq mostly controlled by Islamic militants.
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\nThe strenuous efforts to whip up Cold War-like hysteria in the face of an otherwise preoccupied and essentially passive Russia seems out of all proportion to the actual military threat Russia poses. (Yes, volunteers and ammo do filter into Ukraine across the Russian border, but that’s about it.) Further south, the efforts to topple the government of Syria by aiding and arming Islamist radicals seem to be backfiring nicely. But that’s the pattern, isn’t it? What US military involvement in recent memory\u00a0hasn’t<\/b>\u00a0resulted in a fiasco? Maybe failure is not just an option, but more of a requirement?<\/p>\n

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Financial collapse leads to war [This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of \u201cmelting up,\u201d the way they used to, they have started \u201cmelting down.\u201d My original prediction is that this will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[5712,149,4995,916,496,694,821,827,862],"class_list":["post-16363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-cluborlov","tag-cold-war","tag-dimitry-orlov","tag-financial-collapse","tag-mainstream-media","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16364,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16363\/revisions\/16364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}