{"id":64883,"date":"2023-01-28T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64883"},"modified":"2023-01-28T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T13:27:56","slug":"the-most-egregious-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64883","title":{"rendered":"The Most Egregious Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Most Egregious Mistake<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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It is\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0miscalculation of this era \u2013 one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S.\u00a0political<\/em>\u00a0demands, too. But its most grievous content is that it corners the U.S. into promoting dangerous Ukrainian escalation against Russia directly (i.e. Crimea).<\/p>\n

Washington dares not \u2013 indeed cannot \u2013 yield on\u00a0dollar primacy<\/em>, the ultimate signifier for \u2018American decline\u2019. And so the U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood.<\/p>\n

The Biden Team cannot withdraw its fantastical narrative of Russia\u2019s imminent humiliation; they have bet the House on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet it has become an existential issue for the U.S. precisely because of this egregious initial miscalculation that has been subsequently levered-up into a preposterous narrative of a floundering, at any moment \u2018collapsing\u2019 Russia.<\/p>\n

What then is this \u2018Great Surprise\u2019<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the almost completely unforeseen event of recent geo-politics that has so shaken U.S. expectations, and which takes the world to the precipice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is, in a word,\u00a0Resilience<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Resilience displayed by the Russian economy after the West had committed the entire weight of its financial resources to crushing Russia. The West bore down on Russia in every conceivable way \u2013 via financial, cultural and psychological war \u2013 and with real military war as the follow-through.<\/p>\n

Yet, Russia has survived, and survived relatively handsomely. It is doing \u2018okay\u2019 \u2013 maybe better, even, than many Russia insiders were expecting. The \u2018Anglo\u2019 Intelligence services however, had assured EU leaders not to worry; it\u2019s \u2018slam dunk\u2019; Putin cannot possibly survive. Rapid financial and political collapse, they promised, was certain under the tsunami of western sanctions.<\/p>\n

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The Most Egregious Mistake The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood… It is\u00a0the\u00a0miscalculation of this era \u2013 one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S.\u00a0political\u00a0demands, too. But its most grievous content is that it corners the U.S. into […]<\/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":[14457,33639,694,827,834,843,4318],"class_list":["post-64883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-alastair-crooke","tag-financial-hegemony","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-government","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883","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=64883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64884,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64883\/revisions\/64884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}