{"id":64779,"date":"2023-01-19T07:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64779"},"modified":"2023-01-19T07:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:51:39","slug":"fragmented-world-sleepwalks-into-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64779","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fragmented world&#8217; sleepwalks into World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"news-title-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2023\/01\/18\/696545\/world-sleepwalks-World-War-III\">&#8216;Fragmented world&#8217; sleepwalks into World War III<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"news-body-container\">\n<div class=\"news-attachment-container\">\n<div id=\"mediaplayer\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgPlayback\" class=\"news-attachment\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.presstv.ir\/Photo\/2023\/1\/18\/1de9019f-2418-4992-9c87-ca7d8c7ebd60.jpg\" alt=\"US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo) \" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-9\">\n<p><strong>The self-appointed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/all-quiet-panic-on-the-western-front\/\">Davos &#8220;elites&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0are afraid. So afraid. At this week\u2019s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab \u2013 displaying his trademark Bond villain act \u2013 carped over and over again about a categorical imperative: we need\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/events\/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2023\/programme\">&#8220;Cooperation in a Fragmented World&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While his diagnosis of \u201cthe most critical fragmentation\u201d the world is now mired in is predictably somber, Herr Schwab maintains that \u201cthe spirit of Davos is positive\u201d and in the end we may all live happily in a \u201cgreen sustainable economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Davos has been good at this week is showering public opinion with new mantras. There\u2019s \u201cThe New System\u201d which, considering the abject failure of the much ballyhooed Great Reset, now looks like a matter of hastily updating the current \u2013 rattled &#8211; operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Davos needs new hardware, new programming skills, even a new virus. Yet for the moment all that\u2019s available is a \u201cpolycrisis\u201d: or, in Davos speak, a \u201ccluster of related global risks with compounding effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In plain English: a perfect storm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Insufferable bores from that Divide and Rule island in northern Europe have just found out that \u201cgeopolitics\u201d, alas, never really entered the tawdry \u201cend of history\u201d tunnel: much to their amazement it\u2019s now centered \u2013 again &#8211; across the Heartland, as it\u2019s been for most of recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>They complain about \u201cthreatening\u201d geopolitics, which is code for Russia-China, with Iran attached.<\/p>\n<p>But the icing on the Alpine cake is arrogance\/stupidity actually giving away the game: the City of London and its vassals are \u00a0livid because the \u201cworld Davos made\u201d is fast collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Davos did not \u201cmake\u201d any world apart from its own simulacrum.<\/p>\n<p>Davos never got anything right, because these \u201celites\u201d were always busy eulogizing the Empire of Chaos and its lethal \u201cadventures\u201d across the Global South.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Fragmented world&#8217; sleepwalks into World War III The self-appointed\u00a0Davos &#8220;elites&#8221;\u00a0are afraid. So afraid. At this week\u2019s World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab \u2013 displaying his trademark Bond villain act \u2013 carped over and over again about a categorical imperative: we need\u00a0&#8220;Cooperation in a Fragmented World&#8221;. While his diagnosis of \u201cthe most critical fragmentation\u201d the [&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":[5],"tags":[23957,553,4076,33233,694,821,827,862,14742,889,891,1823],"class_list":["post-64779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-klaus-schwab","tag-nato","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-presstv","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-wef","tag-world-economic-forum","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64779","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=64779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64780,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64779\/revisions\/64780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}