Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D. –The Unz Review April 18, 2023
Watching a once great nation commit suicide is not pretty. President Joe Biden does not seem to understand that his role as elected leader of the United States is to take actions that directly or indirectly benefit the folks who voted for him as well as the other Americans who did not do so. That is how a constitutional democracy is supposed to work. Instead, Biden and the gang of introverts and neocon war criminals that the has surrounded himself with have done everything that can to inflict fatal damage on the economy through rash initiatives both overseas and at home. A spending spree to buy support from the bizarre constituencies that make up the Democrat Party base while also fighting an undeclared war in Europe have meant that nearly two trillion dollars has been added to the national debt under Biden’s rule, a debt that was already unsustainable at nearly $30 trillion, larger than the United States’ gross national product. Plans to cancel student loan debts will add hundreds of billions of dollars more to the red ink.
And those actions undertaken overseas, to include continuing to expand the war in Ukraine against Russia, will do immeasurable more damage. Consider how the Democratic Party has long had it in for Russian Federal President Vladimir Putin, dating back to when Putin took power in 2000 and started kicking out the western scallywags who were looting his country. Subsequently, false intelligence and other innuendoes were contrived by Hillary Clinton and her team in 2016 to implicate Donald Trump as a Russian stooge who was secretly working for Putin. When that didn’t work and Trump was elected, the Russians were accused by the media and Democrats of willy-nilly interfering in US elections more generally speaking, a much-exaggerated claim in contrast to the overwhelming silence surrounding the real electoral and policy interference, which has been coming from Israel and its fifth column inside the United States, who, not coincidentally, are the chief proponents of the war against Russia.
Placing a target on Vladimir Putin’s back appears to have an unfortunate consequence which Biden has yet to wake up to, namely the fact that the United States now has what might be described as a Ponzi scheme faux economy which is very vulnerable, particularly as much of the world has become disenchanted with the US style of global leadership. Note for example the recent state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Beijing, where he embraced a “global strategic partnership with China” to bring about a “multipolar” world, freed of “blocs” that is not sheltering behind “Cold War mentality.” Macron also criticized the “extraterritoriality of the US dollar.”
And threats made by the Bidens against both China and Russia have accomplished little beyond drawing the two major political and military powers closer together. Beijing and Moscow entered into a trade agreement in their own currencies in 2014 and have openly taken steps to challenge US dominance of international currency exchanges, creating instead a global multipolar trading environment. Europe aside, many nations are now eager to cut the tie that binds, which is the decades long American dominance of international financial mechanisms and also the general use of dollars to pay for oil and other energy supplies. The widespread use of petrodollars enables the buffoonish Janet Yellen at the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve banks to print unlimited unbacked fiat currency, knowing that there will always be a market for it.
Which brings us back to the Ukraine war, pursued “until we win” by Biden and his somnolent Secretary of State Antony Blinken. One of the first moves when Russia intervened in Ukraine was to block and eventually confiscate Russia’s 300 billion dollars-worth of foreign reserves in banks in the US and Europe. That sent a shock wave across currency markets all around the world. Biden and Yellen had weaponized the US’s own national currency, which hitherto had been an untouchable step in international relations for nations that were not actually at war. Countries like China and India with large economies then realized that the US Treasury Department and the dominance of the dollar as an exchange currency had now become a weapon of war and a serious threat to the economies of all other nations.
As a consequence, the US Dollar is right now being rejected by many nations as the world’s reserve currency. Some nations all over the world have agreed to use the Chinese Yuan and Indian Rupee for any-and-all international currency transactions. Saudi Arabia continues to use the petrodollar but does not demand it. Recently, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to permit the Saudis to sell oil to China in Yuan. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is now allowing multiple currencies to be used to purchase its oil, a major attack on the primacy of the US dollar and it also has accepted Chinese mediation to mend fences with the US and Israel’s arch enemy Iran. And the Saudis have even more recently refused a Biden Administration request that it start pumping more oil to reduce energy costs, signaling that the shift is both political and economic in nature. Japan, a major economy, has also started purchasing oil and gas directly from Russia against the US imposed energy embargo while Brazil, another major economy, has agreed to use the Yuan in its increasing trade with China. As fewer nations utilize the US dollar, America’s ability to export and ignore its burgeoning domestic debt and inflation to other countries is being diminished.
This might have a decisive impact on the US currency as the drive to break with the petrodollar continues to grow and could produce something like a “perfect storm” impacting on the US economy. It threatens to drastically lower the standards of living of nearly all Americans within the next several years as the dollar loses value and purchasing power. As the US economy is heavily interconnected with many European economies, Europe is also likely to be a victim of the coming disaster.
The good news, of course, is that the United States will no longer be able to afford its endless wars and international interventions. Lacking its economic power, it will no longer be able to declare itself “exceptional” and the enforcer of a “rules based international order.” It would mean an ending of the funding of developments like the Ukraine proxy war and the troops will have to come home from places like Syria and Somalia. And it might even mark the ending of sending billions of dollars annually to a wealthy Israel.
Ending dollar supremacy would inevitably have an immediate impact on what passes for US foreign policy, making it more difficult for Washington to initiate and sustain Treasury Department sanctions on countries like Iran and North Korea. It could also create economic turmoil for many countries until the situation resolves itself by producing greater volatility in currency markets worldwide. The Federal Reserve Bank will no doubt respond to the unfolding crisis by acting as it always does by raising interest rates to astronomical levels, thereby hurting most the Americans who can least afford the shock therapy.
And it did not have to turn out this way. It could have been avoided. If the US, which had no horse in the race, had left Ukraine alone Vladimir Putin would not have become a symbol of defiance against the “Rules Based International Order” and he would not have worked with China to establish multipolarity in the way the financial world operates. Instead, we have a situation where Europe is being de-industrialized due to soaring energy prices and Washington’s destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines while the US is potentially confronting economic disaster as the dollar’s relevance to international trade sinks. The ultimate irony is that Russia, and also the US/Israeli arch enemy Iran, are by comparison doing quite well economically as they sell their oil and gas to anyone in any currency. One has to conclude that when US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently made her secret trip to Kiev to promise the despicable Volodymyr Zelensky billions of taxpayer dollars the United States might just have been better served if she had stayed in Washington and made some minimal effort to address the mounting economic problems confronting us here at home.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.
USA go into the abyss !
a permanent waring robbernation disrespecting
other nations culture + mentality . robbing their
recources, gold,oil, intelectual knowledge .
without german + jewish scientists + engineers
this imperialists would not be so dangerous to
other nations because all foreign science they
used in negative (weaponindustry) ways .
I want see your drug adicted nation blowing
your head away !
…..which means Israel MAY try on another massive false flag…..
It would HAVE to be very serious to kick start ww3…..BUT the public is already familiar with this strategy……
Maybe the economic meltdown first making war easier.
The Great Depression was in 1929 and ww2 ten years later…so there appears to be plenty of time before the Elders of Zyklon get to pull the trigger..
This hasn’t all just happened in the past two years of a Biden White House. It is the culmination of the past forty years at least since Reagan, and probably since the end of WWII if Korea and Vietnam are indicators.
It’s NOT the United States, per se, behind this horrible downfall. It’s those folks who have wanted to destroy America and replace with the United States of Joo. This destruction is not random, sudden, or amenable to good sense. It’s the most savage attack that will allow the cabal to take over and raise the flag of the Khazarians. We knew it was coming, we saw it start when the big jewish immigration descended on us late in the 19th century and the next 40 years. We did nothing and we will now pay and pay and pay….but first, we must see if the white man will even survive the next 20 years or so.
America hasn’t been “great” since the 1950s.
And even then it had an ugly stain of fighting 2 world wars on the wrong side of truth killing millions while its naive population had zero clue.
It was a foregone conclusion it would disappear when the gaggle of smelly khazars secretly instigated the fed reserve in 1913…. gee WWI was right behind.
But if you didn’t know it was a twitching roadkill after the lies of 9-11, you might have no sensory apparatus.
This must be a joke? The US has never been exceptional. Their pomp built on German and Serbian brains (Tesla, if my memory is correct), & even then, they were beat by Russia to put a satellite, and a man in space, or close Earth orbit.
“President Joe Biden does not seem to understand that his role as elected leader”?
Giraldi must be doing some wicked drugs.
Yo, Philip; put down the crack pipe and step away.
“Europe is being de-industrialized due to soaring energy prices…”
Wrong!
Europe has being dragged through a program of de-industrialisation since WW2.
Stopped reading when he said “Jo Biden was the elected leader of the United States” ffs.
Rixon,
With all due respect, I’ve noticed of late that you are not posting comments as frequently as you used to. If I recall, you used to post comments around 4 times a day. That’s now drastically dropped.
Rixon, this is not good.
How can you expect to keep a lively forum, with people debating when they only get one comment, before it comes off the main page and into the archives?
I know you may be busy but I would STRONGLY suggest two things:
1. Turn off comment moderation and allow comments to be posted in real time. I understand that you’re probably busy, but do you really need to have comment moderation on? Do you not realise how many more comments you’re going to get if you actually allow real time debating?
2. Change the style of your website, something similar to the UNZ review, where articles can be viewed for days, if not weeks and healthy debate be had. Although flashy, the showreel, isn’t worth it. At the moment Rixon, this format really isn’t good. We’ll get articles a day with a couple staying up the next day, while the rest go down below. People really don’t read those once they’re off the showreel screen. Get rid of it Rixon. We’re not interested in flashy. We want to debate and discuss the content of the articles and the problems ongoing on this earth.
This is why I stopped posting of late because I’ll post at 7am only to find that at 12:00, 15:00, 18:00 and even 21:00 the comment has still not been put up.
Let the comments fly. If people aren’t happy what other people have to say, let them ignore them. I do. I do it all the time.
The article assumes the Democrat regime are pro-United States.
Their actions are easy to interpret by assuming the opposite.
Every action of the Biden regime is illegitimate because the Election was stolen.
It went from everybody from the President down being cancelled if they pointed this out, to a documentary exposing the theft being given General Release and simply being dismissed by ‘factcheckers’.
The ‘Opposition ‘ in the US are behaving as if they themselves have forgotten the Election was stolen.
They themselves- the Party that had the Election stolen – have legitimised the theft by tacit acceptance.
Nothing becomes clearer, and whatever happened to the Russian Winter Offensive?
So it has gone from
quote “President Joe Biden does not seem to understand that his role as elected leader of the United States”
Biden was not elected.
He could also have said: This is what happens when the Jews get control of a country.
We don’t have a “constitutional democracy” it is a constitutional republic. In reality it’s a communist failed state.
‘Watching a once great nation commit suicide is not pretty…’
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XiwcLmzGjSzP/
”Death By A Trilion Cuts….April 2023
1.31.31 Dr. Peterson Pierre American Frontline Doctors / after the start of the covid 19 shots : Insurance Industry Research showed from 2016 there was a spike of mortality of 40 % during 2021 in young healthy Americans in well paid jobs …
also: disability rates have reached an all time high of 33.000.000 (in this age group / gj) and that number keeps climbing….both causing a shortage in the labour force
1.35.27 Dr. Rodger Hodkinson on Peter Halligan data analyst / 19 august last year 20 million vaxx deaths globally & 2 billion seriously injured
1.37.00 Military Attorney Todd Calendar / 1994 Cairo Population Accords / ”the countries that meet there agreed to 7 billion people in effect….this is by international agreement
CIA O
USA is a monkeys tea party
USA = ZOG
Russia = ZOG
Ukraine = ZOG
NATO = ZOG
They’re not enemies of each other, but of the white race–advancing their global white population reduction program. Since the elimination of Nazi Germany, the white race lost the only nation governed by white gentiles representing Aryan interests.
Israeli PM Netanyahu:
“America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly.”
The Zionist ringleader mafia boss brags what he is doing to Amerika, funny how the Evangelicals love him and how he gets more standing ovations from Congress than any sitting president.
Like watching the slow motion footage of the free fall collapse of WTC 1 and 2 on 9/11.
America has fallen.
The cracks in the US reputation began in 1958, with the release of the book “The Ugly American” and the movie :The Naked and the Dead” (from Norman Mailer’s 1948 book).
It was further eroded by the 1962 book “Seven Days in May”. The plot revolved around a coup by the US Military against a pacifist President.
When asked about the of possibility of the US Military staging such a coup, JFK responded, “I know a few who would.” It’s release as a hit movie in 1964 went a long way to revealing what had happened to JFK in November 1963.
As we now “officially” know, the US Military’s enforcement arm – the CIA – took JFK out allowing for the compliant LBJ to become President. Facing a Federal Indictment in the Bobby Baker case due to be unsealed on the afternoon of November 22 (such a coincidence!) LBJ had no choice but to go along. Become POTUS – or go to jail. The Indictment disappeared, no doubt due to more pressing matters that day.
After the Gulf of Tonkin “incident” in August 1964, the US rape of Viet Nam began, and the mask was off. The “Good Guys” were fully revealed.
The End of American “Exceptionalism”?
Not to worry… THICK Brits will pick up the slack!
ROTFLMFAO!! 😅😂😆🤣
It’s obvious that they [Jews] are destroying the country. Turning Blacks into their army to attack whites was always their plan, and then the blacks being eliminated by the Amerinds [Indians-latinos] just as happened last time. Nothing new under the sun.
Jews believe that they will get the destroyed nation of Ukraine as their new Israel when the end comes form all Europeans, as well as all the Blacks.
Anyone who does not believe this has not been watching, I mean really watching this sad farce.
Now the Antichrist will come to you all and deliver your world from the Jews, to the last, young and old, to the last one and the world will celebrate!
Remember this scripture? It’s about the destruction of the Jews, who are N.P.C. units of Satan, deceiving the whole world, for the last time.
Isaiah 14:7-9
7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
….as soon as they’ve sorted out the difference between a male and a female!!
😁😄😅😂😆🤣
White Elephant on April 19, 2023 at 1:29 pm
Rixon,
With all due respect’ – etc-
This is absolutely true- Rixon needs a team, really.
What it needs, White Elephant, is serious money and help.
Rixon deserves this.
Rixon has been running the best Truth site for decades, I remember buying the original Xerox edition hard copies pre-internet, when Rixon advertised in the Fortean Times.
I hope a Christian Oligarch is reading this – this site needs its neutrality respected, plus its tolerance of VERY un-PC and obscenely expressed comments in the threads – including all the anti-Christian comments.
It will pay off.
To subvert Nietszche- and as the Russian Orthodox Revival has proved – what doesn’t kill Christianity makes it stronger.
So the problem is with introverts? The same introverts that refuse to go along to get along and join the masses that go along to get along? Really, Phil? Really? (Note: I am an introvert and glad I am since I couldn’t care less what “the masses” (mostly extroverts) think of me…and, oh yeah, aren’t most authors introverts?)
@White Elephant–I’ve been thinking the same thing about Rixon and comments, considering many posts here lately have zero comments…and esp. that one post relating to Christ a few days ago—there wasn’t even a comment box posted! Yikes!
…. Never forget that almost all countries get their marching orders from these key places.
#1 The CITY OF LONDON, not to be confused with London the city.
#2 The Vatican
#3 Washington D.C.
All three of these places are independent, sovereign territories within the U.K., Italy, and the USA. All three run the world banking system. All three are not representative of the peoples who live in the U.K. the USA, or Italy.
It is all planned and highly coordinated right from the global nerve center in Washington DC. Old style American exceptionalism is being thrown into the dustbin by the international banking cartel after a century of their debt-rigging, What is happening now is all going according to script the same as did the Plandemic. Putin is still very much a part of the act to usher in the New World Order for which so much has to be TRANSitioned, through manufactured inflation, the crashing of currencies, and numerous other fake perils. All of the PSYOP stuff including antics by small fry like George Soros, to divide, bamboozle and conquer us, which the US of all nations is most “exceptional” at doing.
They have invested so much into industries which specialize in fooling people that they are institutionalizing their methods on a global scale, specializing in surveillance of the people and controlling them through lies and deceptions.
@ARNOLD hulse
Amen and Amen ARNOLD !!
Guy Reid-Brown,
“This is absolutely true- Rixon needs a team, really.
What it needs, White Elephant, is serious money and help.
Rixon deserves this…”
I’ve been posting here for quite a while now, certainly being one of the oldest commenters on the Truth seeker, although only a short while as White Elephant (which incidentally, the choosing of this name has nothing to do with the negative ‘business practices’ definition of a white elephant but instead reference to the saying ‘ignoring the elephant in the room’. And I chose white to make it stand out more, to the individual, making it even harder to not be spotted, seeing as there are no white elephants in this world.)
More money and a team will overwhelmingly help, that I can’t deny, certainly when it comes to an design, but regarding comments, Rixon should allow posts in real time and remove moderation. He can, after all, anyways come back and remove ‘unsavoury’ ones.
atleast the jewish pharma speculators +
vanguard,blackstone,Fauci, Bill Gates,
Rothschild,Soros, Rockefeller A Bourla etc
made a lot of money with false covid vaccine
payed by all stupid governments worldwide
from taxes of the people .
when i saw a lot of intelektuals + akademics falling
to this vax scam i dont wonder anymore about
the stupidness of our elected politicians .
they are very generously with our tax money
because ITS NOT THEIRS !
We had this debate about comments before. A White Elephant free-for-all would be horrible, with bigmouths dominating in a trigger-happy rage of illogic. Three infusions of new comments per day would be about right, and the moderating is needed
If I look at other websites comment sections I don’t mind the moderation here at TTS. Because it saves me a lot of time reading trough some lengthy discussions …
I had to look up what was meant by US exceptionalism, and it is from de Tocqueville, not being at all complimentary: he says that it is only the country’s proximity to Europe that stops it descending into barbarism. For decades, a part of me could never face the fact that the USA exists. It is like some toxic fumes I wait to see get cleared away
Lewis Jones: there are hardly ever three rounds of comments per day.
As the Editor has said before, in his eyes, the comments are a minor part of this website.
The contributors are the elite, & are protected by the editor, even when published material is weak or full of hot air.
A long time ago, and I’m going on memory, this site had a forum, but it was closed, and only open to the editors inner circle. I never had access. lol
I think this site replicates what we see in the press, with letters to the editor and online comments sections. By keeping comment uploads low, it puts many off. And as others have said, stories stay up, but one wonders why, and other interesting content is removed, and it’s not even there if you search for it, but if you’re lucky, it might pop up in the archives.
One doesn’t know if this sites format is Editor driven, or simply the product of outside forces. While some would want this site shut down, it is also to their benefit, as they can weave in their propaganda narratives.
This site has become a WEF, woke, NGO, & war propaganda playground. Not just the war in Ukraine, but there’s virtually a war on every street corner, and this is why it’s difficult to determine the truth.
Two sides to the coin, two sides of the street.
Carl Jones–most of my comments get printed, which is what I care about, (publishing used to be a hell of a faff), along with the comments section’s ability to build an attitude, which is not found in the msm. People are more willing to hold an opinion if they are not alone in it. Rixon might be tired or busy but three rounds a day used to be normal