I can still remember being in elementary school and the alarm going off in the middle of class, it was time to practice “duck and cover”. Another practice drill was when all six grades would march to the basement of the building and huddle in the boiler room, a potential nuclear war at any time was very real to us in the old days. It’s different today, everyone “knows” a nuclear war can nor will ever happen. It can’t happen because our leaders driving the bus are too smart to ever go down that road …right?
In case you have only been watching mainstream media, you may not be aware another “little war” has broken out in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and Yemen. I mentioned “mainstream media” above because …there is almost NO MENTION of this. More coverage has been given to an airliner crashed by a depressed pilot and Mr. Obama’s recent golf trip. What is happening is so complicated it boggles the mind. The underlying cause can be said to be religious, between the Sunnis and Shiites but this line is quite blurred because of other alliances.
To bring you up to speed, Saudi Arabia is predominantly Sunni, Iran is predominantly Shiite. This pits the two against each other. Yemen had a Shiite president until 2012 and he was replaced by a Sunni. The country is split, mostly Shiite in the north and Sunni in the south. A new name (Al Qaeda, ISIL, ISIS etc.), the Shiite (Iranian backed) “Houthi” have sprung up from the north and forced the president out of the capital, his whereabouts are unknown. Yemen has been and is going through a civil war.
The problems as I see them are: first, Yemen controls a choke point of oil transportation from the Red Sea, logistically they can prevent a goodly percentage of oil from reaching world markets. This in my mind is secondary to what potentially could be “drawn in”. If this expands and truly becomes Saudi Arabia versus Iran then assuming our ties with the Saudis remain (remember they just joined China’s competing infrastructure bank against U.S. wishes), it will become the U.S. versus Russia backing Iran. A side oddity is the U.S. providing airstrikes in support of Iranian fighters against the ISIS advance in Iraq. Could we support Iranian troops in one country yet cut them down in another conflict? I suppose yes and should not be surprising given our foreign policy thought process, it could be said it is even probable? This is the danger in the Middle East, it is religious and thus the hardest type of fire to put out.
This is not the only place the U.S. and Russia are facing off, don’t forget Ukraine and other borders to Russia. NATO (the U.S.) has been amassing hardware all around the Russian border and our Congress just overwhelmingly voted 348-48 to supply Ukraine with military hardware. Mr. Putin and Russia have previously said if we arm Ukraine, they will consider it an act of war.
This is insanity! It was reported yesterday the U.S. is sending 50 Abrams class tanks to Ukraine, not smart in my opinion. Sending arms to Ukraine will not work to defeat Russia, it will however get a war started which is exactly what the U.S. has been trying to do over the last several years.
I don’t want to write a book about either the Middle East situation or the direct aggression on the Russian border, rather we should look at “why”. Why is the U.S. pushing so hard for a war which cannot be won and can only go nuclear with all the follow on repercussions. In short, because we “have to”. The game is over and Washington knows it. The game of course is dollar hegemony. The game of “reflation” is lost and gone until we can reset the system with a new currency. You see, each time we had a recession in the past, the Fed would (could) reflate the economy and thus the markets. It did not work this time as you know because we reached “debt saturation” levels in the economy back in 2007 and now finally on the Fed and Treasury levels. Adding more debt no longer works as a medicine, rather, it is lethal.
It is my opinion that war is necessary and will be used to “cover up” what has really been done. Will people even care about their 401K’s in the middle of a world war? Will they care if the dollar implodes in value? Of course they will but, these and any other bad events will be blamed on “the war”. You will hear “our plans would have worked and were working if not for the war”. Will investigations of anything be demanded? No, “it was the war’s fault”!
There are a couple of possibilities still left for the world to avoid war. First, and seemingly possible in light of recent actions, our allies could simply abandon us. They might even join together and demand the U.S. just stop. Europe could turn away and tell us they do not want war with Russia. Until this week I thought it was possible for Saudi Arabia to turn toward China and thus Russia, I may have been wrong as demonstrated with their attacks on Yemen with U.S. support.
Another possibility is somehow the rest of the world makes it financially impossible for the U.S. to wage war. It is possible for our markets to be “crashed” and our ability to borrow denied. This could be a concerted effort or even in the form of some sort of “truth bomb”. Our entire system is a lie. The banking system is a lie where mark to fantasy is the rule, our economic reporting is false and so are all markets. Our rule of law is breaking down. Should the lie of the “American way” be somehow exposed, allies would not back us nor will there be any support internally to aggress further overseas.
The U.S. has worked very hard over the last year(s) to isolate Russia in nearly every way imaginable and to war with them, we have succeeded in isolating ourselves more and more. The question is whether we have isolated ourselves to the point where the entire world will no longer support us and instead stand against us.
As I started this piece with “duck and cover”, it was foolish then and of course still foolish. What we so feared then, and maybe even irrationally, we should absolutely fear today. Our leaders of the past were rational, they also had options and a viable system to live in. Today, our leaders are irrational with no options available in a system which must be changed and cleaned up. If you ask the question, “what could possibly go wrong?”, the answer is, it already has, and unfortunately we will bear the consequences. As good and easy as it was in the past to live as an American, I believe it will be an unpleasant and hard (if not impossible) task from here.
Re: “What we so feared then, and maybe even irrationally, we should absolutely fear today.”
F-E-A-R: Forget everything and run OR Face everything and rise
As the late Bill Hicks, may he RIP, once said: We have a choice between fear and love. Choose wisely and remember, it’s just a ride.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER6uv2xtuCg)
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
John Lennon
good quotes.
At this point I think the US is just swirling around the toilet bowl waiting for the big flush. Everyday the good news just keeps rolling in. More and more countries joining the AIIB. We’re done.
The world is fed up and done with this murderous and corrupt country and you can’t blame them one bit.
yet, not one in 100 Americans even know what AIIB is.
No fair play. The US is in the process of kicking the game table over, and as you put it Bill, “shooting the other players”!
The ‘Empire’ has been backed into a corner from which there is no escape and has become increasingly, dangerously unstable. The most sad thing about this, is the fact that this ‘corner’ has been of it’s own making! It didn’t have to be this way.
The American people can thank the elite group of psychopaths, who rule the western world and own the banks, that control the governments and media. They fund both sides of war for profit and manufacture the consent of the public through their complete control of the MSM and it’s never ending propaganda.
One would have to go back 55 years to JFK to find a leader with mostly the interests of the public at heart. Just look at who came after;
LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Snr, Clinton, Bush Jnr, Obama. In the words of George Carlin; “This is the best we can do folks. Don’t look for it get any better. Be satisfied with what you have got. They call it the ‘American Dream’ because you have to be asleep to believe it”!
where have all the leaders gone? Sold out, that’s where.
You’re absolutely right! As someone has said already, “The American politicians are NOT prostitutes. Rather, they are more like pimps because they have sold out the American people time and time again.” Yes, they ARE traitors. They’re criminals waiting to be convicted by honest and legal judges in lawful courts, and then sentenced.
it might not ever happen.
This is what we get after years of government involvement in nearly everything followed handing the reigns of power to a bunch of kindergartners.
Those who believe that government can be used to do good things are, and will continue to be, the bane of our existence. They will never be eradicated, but maybe the Great Reset will clip their wings for a generation.
I love your work, Bill.
thanks much BP.
“it was the war’s fault”!
Yet no one will point out that the dollar previously survived several world wars and centuries without crashing…
it “was” a different duck then.
Seems obvious to me…we are now working with the Iranians to increase the price of oil through closing of middle east shipping choke points by warefare. Opec, U.S., Russia all refuse to reduce output, so this is the CIA way to increase prices, increase chaos in the Arab/Persian world (great for Israel) and save the U.S. fracking industry.
possibly.
Bill,
Apart from upcoming “military among civilians” operations over summer in Texas, Utah, California, these operations have already been taking place for weeks:
http://www.wsvn.com/story/28539409/military-training-drills-taking-place-in-broward
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/crime-safety-blog/sfl-us-special-forces-to-hold-drills-over-two-weeks-in-broward-county-20150316-story.html
And an unexplained “Emergency alert” went off on TVs today morning for multiple states:
Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, DC
http://rt.com/usa/245493-fema-alert-television-emergency/
As they say in New England: Everything is all “Hunk Dory”?
As they say in Texas: “Y’all doin’ just fine”?
Sorry, forgot to clarify above:
“these operations have already been taking place for weeks in Florida”.
as I see.
interesting times indeed.
Another outstanding article Bill. Again, you nailed it. In the 5th paragraph from the bottom “war is necessary to cover up what has been done” – On the mark Bill. These neocon devils have captured our Government and before that our Monetary system. They have Plundered U.S. of our Wealth and Destroyed our Monetary System and have No option but to destroy the Nation in order to try and avoid Prosecution/Execution when it COLLAPSES. Indeed, to live as an American before long is going to be extremely unpleasant – Depending on how long you live. Thanks Bill for your great work.
thanks Richard.
Mr Holter: I´ve been an avid reader of the Miles Franklin newsletter for many years now and your section has most definitely become my favorite part. Throughout these past years your wonderful writings have become one of my top daily reads. I agree with just about everything that you write and am in fact well-prepared with quite a large horde of physical PM´s (in various locations). I´m a retired USN Commander (O-5) and hold a MS in Economics from the U. of Michigan – please dont hold the latter against me, it´s been a heavy burden overcoming my Keynesian roots and evolving into a devout ¨Austrian¨. Okay seriously, while I did make a medium sized purchase from Miles Franlkin a few years back, until today I´ve never posted a comment on your site – but the subject of this article has finally prompted me to bring up one of the very few subjects on which you and I do not agree. I know that several years back you made the move to Costa Rica but shortly thereafter returned to the USA. I would love for you to write an article on why you STILL think that was a wise move – or better yet on your second guessing that decision. I for one moved overseas shortly after my retirement (I vary my time between Chile, Ecuador and Spain and am completely fluent in Spanish) and with the way things have been going lately in ¨The Land of the Free¨, after several years away I´m convinced it was the wisest choice I ever made. I´ve made REAL friends abroad so the argument of ¨How foreigners will treat American after the coming reset¨ does not hold wáter for me. To tell you the truth I no longer feel comfortable even on short visits when my presence in the US is required.
thank you and welcome to the blog Commander. As I have written before, we lived in Costa Rica for almost five years, my opinion is that gringo’s walk around with targets on their backs. It became my opinion that when the banks go down, they will go down everywhere and I would rather face that in Texas with like minded people. Maybe it’s wrong but it’s my opinion and made a life change based on it. Feel free and welcome your comments!
Thank you for responding so quickly Sir. IMHO, even if we somehow manage to reach the coming global reset before starting a full blown conflict with the Russians & Chinese (I agree with you that elements of our government are in fact attempting it so as to be able to blame ¨someone else¨ for the economic colapse), I believe this coming financial havoc will trigger violent events ALL around the world and that the US with its vast hungry EBT hoardes, extremely violent mass civil unrest and out of control pólice state would likely be amongst the worst places to be. Then again, if the Neocons manage to get their way and provoke Putin into a nuclear exchange, pretty much all of the US (except perhaps small sections of the NW – if the exchange is limited) would be ground zero. In fact if it´s anything more than a limited nuclear exchange, the entire northern hemisphere would probably be history. I honestly believe that financially able expatriating Americans who bother to learn the language well and nurture real friendships with the locals have a much brighter future in a place like Chile than back in the ¨Good Ole USA¨.
I agree and by all means stay away from cities.
President B.H.O. said when he was running, that he was going to do all these things we see unfolding before our very eyes, and with the total support of BIG, OLD money!
So, since we knew, who could be surprised? And yet, I think a lot of folks will ask, “How could this have ever happened?”
As for where to live, pick a place you like with people you care about, and remember- This isn’t heaven- that only comes later, if indeed you are willing to take the offer that’s on the table made by the only One Who can deliver on the promise!
and it’s free!
Love your straight talk Bill.
thanks Rob, some people do, some don’t.
What’s happening is obvious. It may sound bad to say this but it is 100 percent accurate and honest. The growing minority are becoming the majority. They come from third world nations or their ancestors do. Almost every county from where they derive their heritage has had their currencies go under one or maybe several times. Now they practice the same lack of economic balance buy living off the system, partaking in the fiat scam by going into debt, living the lie, etc. Add that to the corrupt officials they elect (handout of endless goodies), ignorance and ongoing fiat garbage for 44 years and we are doomed, no doubt about it. You can also add the elderly as part of this equation as the are benefiting from the Ponzi s.s and healthcare systems.
… and the savings of the elderly?
Bill, I’m 68 years old. I went to grade school in Brooklyn, N.Y. We had the same
drills. We had to stand in the hallway and avoid the windows. God almighty, I’d take
a kamikaze hit any day over what these banksters have planned for us. I pray for
divine intervention daily. I want an infinite future for our progeny, not a finite one.
Bill,
Thank goodness you speak the truth. Not too many of you guys left. Now days most seem to be liars.
Uncle Sambo has shot himself in both feet and his ass as well.
Sure hope other countries figure out our war is to cover the tracks of the banking and govt criminals, otherwise it was sure nice knowing you.
they have.
Bill,
Unfortunately my friend, to STOP the US from entering a World War is nigh on impossible. It is not what can be or should be done outside of the US because the USA has always been used to achieve desired outcomes notwithstanding inappropriateness. They always find a way to overcome obstacles that stand in the way.
Those that inhabit the Political, Banking, MSM, Corporate, Law Enforcement, Special Agencies , Judicial System and even the Military Complex are of the same ilk and blood. They control the US and have done so for almost a century. They have brainwashed the US population into a state of disbelief…of socialism and non productivity…. where the mortal enemies are constantly made out to be Muslims and Communists.
The point you make about the “isolation” of Russia is not uncommon in history. One can retrace back to WWII when the Zionists in the US did exactly the same to a very strong and independent Germany. The US intentionally, through the mechanisms devised by the deceitful people who had infiltrated positions in the highest echelons of Government, Banking and Media wanted to encourage Germany to bring the US into the War.
Here we are today with the US (Minders) wanting Russia to repeat the process again. If not….then the Central Planners will devise a way (false flag) to bring this about. Russia is important for a number of reasons least of which is her proximity and influence over a very WEALTHY Europe and Middle East.
The next war cannot be stopped nor can the US involvement in it. It may have some roots in the USD hegemony but I believe it is more to do with the preservation of the Zionist State in Palestine.
unfortunately you are correct.
I sense a lot of anti-Semitism here. That’s why your thinking is so delusional.
Bill – I think your third to last paragraph hits the nail on the head. Russia is smart enough to recognize that we are on the brink of financial disaster. They don’t want or need all out war. All they need to do is stir up enough trouble to cause us to bleed a little more financially until we collapse in on ourselves.
they don’t need to stir anything, the U.S. has that covered.