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Erg bang. Op de bijeenkomsten van het World Economic Forum van deze week heeft meesterbrein Klaus Schwab – met zijn kenmerkende Bond-schurkact – keer op keer een categorisch gebod verkondigd: “Samenwerking in een Gefragmenteerde Wereld“, schrijft Pepe Escobar. Hoewel zijn diagnose van “de meest...
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At this week's World Economic Forum meetings, mastermind Klaus Schwab — with his signature Bond villain act — has proclaimed a categorical commandment time and time again: "r scared. ," writesPepe Escobar.
While his diagnosis of"the most critical fragmentation"into which the world is now sunk is predictably bleak, Herr Schwab insists that
"the spirit of Davos is positive" and that in the end we can all live happily in a"green sustainable economy."
What Davos has been good at this week has overloaded public opinion with new mantras. There's . There is
"The new system" that, given the abject failure of the much-vaunted Great Reset, now looks like a hasty update of the current – rattling – operating system.
Davos needs new hardware, new programming skills, even a new virus. But right now, there's all a"polycrisis": or, in Davos language, a
"cluster of related global risks with compound effects."
In English: a perfect storm.
The insufferable suckers of that Divide and Rule island in Northern Europe have just found out that"geopolitics"unfortunately never really entered the tasteless
"end of history" tunnel: to their surprise, it is now – again – centered in the heartland, as it has always been for most of recorded history.
They complain about"threatening" geopolitics, which is a code for Russia-China, with Iran included.
But the icing on the Alpine cake is the arrogance/stupidity that the game actually gives away: the City of London and its vassals are furious because the"world that made Davos" israpidly collapsing.
Davos has not"made"any world except its own make-believe world.
Davos never did anything right, because these "elites" were always busy exalting the Empire of Chaos and its deadly "adventures" in the South.
Davos has not only failed to foresee all the recent major economic crises, but especially the current "perfect storm", which is linked to the deindustrialisation of the collective West caused by neoliberalism.
And of course Davos has no idea of the real turnaround toward multipolarity.
Self-appointed opinion leaders are busy "rediscovering" that Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain was set in Davos nearly a century ago —"against the backdrop of a deadly disease and an impending world war."
Well, nowadays that"disease"– fully equipped with bioweapons – is not really deadly anymore. And the
"impending world war" is in fact actively encouraged by a cabal of American Straussian neo-cons and neoliberals: an unelected, irresponsible, bipartisan Deep State that is not even subject to ideology. – fully equipped with bioweapons – is not really deadly anymore. .
What will the next "crisis" look like? With the COVID mania dying out, the establishment needs another distraction
A Davos panel onde-globalisationwas full of inconsistencies, but Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at least provided a dose of reality.
In any case, China's Vice Premier Liu He, with his vast knowledge of finance, science and technology, wasvery helpfulin laying down Beijing's five main guidelines for the foreseeable future – in addition to the usual imperial Sinophobia.
China will focus on expanding domestic demand; keeping industrial and supply chains '; go for
the "healthy development of the private sector" ; deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises; and strive for"attractive foreign investment."
Russian resistance, American abyss
Emmanuel Todd was not in Davos. But that was the French anthropologist, historian, demographer and geopolitical analyst who, in recent days, has blown the necessary feathers in the collective West with a fascinating anthropological object: a reality-based interview.
Todd spoke to Le Figaro – the newspaper par excellence of the French establishment and the haute bourgeoisie. The interview was published last Friday on page 22, sandwiched between the proverbial Russophobic regurgitations and with an extremely brief mention at the bottom of the front page. So people really had to make an effort to find it.
Todd joked that in France he has the – absurd – reputation of a"rebellious destroyer", while in Japan he is respected, appears in the mainstream media and his books are published with great success, including the latest (more than 100,000 copies sold):
World War III has already begun .
It is telling that this Japanese bestseller does not exist in French, considering that the entire Parisian publishing industry follows the EU/NATO line across Ukraine.
The fact that Todd has several things right is a small miracle in today's abominably short-sighted European intellectual landscape (there are other analysts, especially in Italy and Germany, but they have much less weight than Todd).
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So here are Todd's Concise Greatest Hits.
A new world war has begun: By"switching from a limited territorial war to a global economic clash, between the collective West on the one hand and Russia linked to China on the other, this became a world war."
The Kremlin, Todd says, made a mistake in calculating that a dismantled Ukrainian society would collapse immediately. Of course, he does not address the way Ukraine was weaponized to the limit by NATO's military alliance.
Todd is right to emphasize how Germany and France have become subordinate partners in NATO and were unaware of what was being planned militarily in Ukraine:"They did not know that the Americans, British and Poles could allow Ukraine to wage an extensive war. The fundamental axis of NATO is now Washington-London-Warsaw-Kiev."
Todd's main giveaway is a death eater:"The resistance of the Russian economy is leading the imperial American system to the abyss. No one anticipated that the Russian economy would take on nato's 'economic power'."
consequently,"U.S. monetary and financial control of the world may collapse, and with it the ability for the U.S. to finance its massive trade deficit for nothing."
And thatis why "we are in an endless war, in a clash whose conclusion is the collapse of one or the other."
On China, Todd might sound like a more belligerent version of Liu He in Davos:"That's the fundamental dilemma of the U.S. economy: it can't handle Chinese competition without importing qualified Chinese labor."
As regards the Russian economy, 'it accepts the market rules, but with an important role for the state, and it retains the flexibility of the formation of engineers who allow adjustments, both industrially and militarily.'
And that brings us back to globalization, in a way that the Davos roundtables couldn't understand:"We've moved so much of our industrial activity that we don't know if our war production can be maintained."
In a more erudite interpretation of that"clash of civilizations"fallacy, Todd goes for soft power and comes up with a starting conclusion:
"On 75 percent of the planet, the organization of parenthood was patrilineal, and therefore we see a strong understanding of the Russian position. For the collective non-West, Russia confirms a reassuring moral conservatism."
Moscow has thus managedto "reposition itself as the archetype of a great power, not only "anti-colonialist" but also patrilineal and conservative in terms of traditional mores."
On the basis of all of the above, Todd makes short work of the myth sold by the EU/NATO "elites" – including in Davos – that Russia is "isolated", and highlights how the voices in the UN and the general sentiment throughout the South characterize the war, "which is described by the mainstream media as a conflict over political values. but in fact, on a deeper level, as a conflict over anthropological values."