{"id":61120,"date":"2021-12-26T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T20:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61120"},"modified":"2021-12-26T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T20:19:04","slug":"war-drums-are-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61120","title":{"rendered":"War Drums Are Beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ContributorArticleFull_header__21CbP\">\n<h3 class=\"ContributorArticleFull_title__5lOqW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2021-12-22\/war-drums-are-beating\">War Drums Are Beating<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p><strong>A RISK NOT DISCUSSED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was around 2017 when I began seeing the ridiculous climate hysteria being pushed not just by dreadlocked physics deniers chaining themselves to trees but at an institutional level.<\/p>\n<p>This, I thought to myself, was something very, very dangerous and which \u2014 if taken to any greater level \u2014 would ultimately bring about war.<\/p>\n<p>The past two decades have seen Russia sanctioned and repeatedly threatened by Western powers. One of the many threats and arguably the most fierce has been eliminating Russia from the international payments system SWIFT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/ukraine-russia-latvia-foreign-minister-invasion-warning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prepare a swift response to Russia invading Ukraine, Latvia tells west<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A swift reprisal package against Russia \u2013 including US troops and Patriot missiles stationed in the Baltics, the cutting off of Russia from the Swift banking payments system and reinstated sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline \u2013 must be prepared now in case it invades Ukraine, the Latvian foreign minister has said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf Nato fails to protect its member states or its territories,\u201d he warned, \u201cthen it will not just be a military and political failure but a complete mental collapse of the system of values that have been built since the end of world war two. It will mean the whole transatlantic community will be in complete disarray and the glue that keeps us together has failed\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This horse has already bolted. The \u201cglue\u201d holding this ball of wax together is more like slime and \u201cisht\u201d is falling through the cracks in every direction, while the bureaucrats desperately try to hold it all together. It won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, this isn\u2019t solely an EU-Russia issue. This is a West vs East issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Drums Are Beating A RISK NOT DISCUSSED It was around 2017 when I began seeing the ridiculous climate hysteria being pushed not just by dreadlocked physics deniers chaining themselves to trees but at an institutional level. This, I thought to myself, was something very, very dangerous and which \u2014 if taken to any greater [&hellip;]<\/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":[61,8785,195,279,284,32348,690,1068,827,862,4318],"class_list":["post-61120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-banking","tag-capitalist-exploits","tag-debt","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-preppingrussia","tag-risk","tag-swift","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61120","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=61120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61122,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61120\/revisions\/61122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}