Marxist theory and notions of Geopolitical Economy help us explain how war keeps the U.S. economy afloat, and why peace threatens to expose the deadliest Ponzi-Scheme in history.
Washington DC s strategy is constant, using a geographical position of power.
Figuring out the USA's foreign policy is actually quite easy. They wish to avoid unity formatting in Eurasia, West Asia, Africa, South America, East Asia, and everywhere else. That's it.
*Rome:* used divide-and-rule unto others, hidden behind a history of hubris and jingoism.
*The British Empire:* used divide-and-rule unto others, hidden behind a history of hubris and jingoism.
*The American Century:* currently uses divide-and-rule onto others as continuation of policy, and is hiding behind stories of hubris and jingoism...
It means to AVOID the unity of all others by fabricating dissent which riles up negative emotions globally [which is how the contents of this video fits in].
As countermeasure to divide-and-rule, the world needs to implement a global equilibrium (natural order) as man-made "balance of power" (policy), to avoid a few million human beings creating "gardens" for themselves, at the expense of billions of other human beings, like the USA/collective West has done to the "jungles" these past 500 years, hiding behind their stories of hubris and jingoism...
The powerful use deception to torpedo any attempt of regional/over-regional/global equilibrium covertly (hawks). Good cops (neolibs/global-lusts) and bad cops (imperialists/militarists), hiding behind facades of empires, talking down to, and gaslighting the plebs in their "bread-and-circuses"-INequilibrium, all well-trained to be finger-pointers at their favorite bad guys...
*This is divide-and-rule.*
We are not outnumbered. We are out-organized. Out-powered. Out-monetized. Out-narrativized...
PIC: Political Industrial Complex
FIC: Financial Industrial Complex
NIC: Narrative Industrial Complex
MIC: Military Industrial Complex
CIP: Cultural Industrial Complex
They play "5D-chess" with the minds of 2D-checkers players who think they are "smart".
The "divide and control/rule/conquer"-world is intact. It is practically as old as modern civilisation, and has never been defeated. Those with true power will do their utmost to ensure that the "divide and rule"-world we live in today, will rule for all times, because the DIVIDERS win, if all others fail.
The divide-and-rule system is a formless headless global system composed of every imaginable race, religion, ethnicity, language group, class, creed as an "ingroup" of power. This ingroup which intends to DIVIDE emergent unity elsewhere, contains all forms of "personal conviction" as "-ism" imaginable, with only a little input from top tiers.
this is a tactic - undetected in the west, for what it actually is - against critical thinking.
only by this tactic, people can be divided, though they share interest.
in connection with this, the "list of fallacies", a set of formulas to poison a conversation, you will find explanations and good rhetorical antidotes.
Outstanding article, very well written Pascal. It's thesis, that the USA economically thrived due to war is, I believe, an objective historic fact. And while it may not be possible to objectively state that war always was America's 'game plan', in all likelihood it was. The evidence pointing in that direction, spanning over a century, is overwhelming.
America is akin to an addict selling the drug he needs to finance his own habit. That moral debasement, based on the USA's current trajectory, will not end well. Rehab is always a possibility, but the addict refuses to admit that he has a problem beyond getting his next fix. Economically, politically and socially, the USA is dying a slow death in a dark alley. Heavily-armed as he is, it's only a question of how much more damage he will inflict on the world before it ends.
if we talk resistance, then ibrahim traore is extremely important, but probably underrated.
he comes with enormous softpower.
hardly understood in the west, plz all check out one factor, told by certain sheiks (religious leaders).
the group that took power in syria is by many muslims seen as inauthentic, bought by western money. but traore is widely seen as taking authentic leadership supporting the will of allah.
to me it seems he may become an african malcolm X, but due to the situation in west-africa, also with a strong military leg.
to support him, I think should be an important factor in advancing almost every topic, that prof. lottaz is dealing with. this is in connection with how broad the base of traore's pan-african undertaking is. losing him to assassination would be an existential blow to the creation of a more modern, more peaceful third millenium.
there is another caveat: AI production that may fake and distort his words faster than his followers can communicate. it happens in other theaters already in catastrophic ways.
so, the other leg of resistance to war-mongering has to be tactics against inauthentic media products that distort and thwart political initiatives.
Because we're run by Christian Zionists who want Armageddon for the 2nd coming of Jesus. And they'll do whatever it takes to get there. Literally, we're run by very rich people who believe in mythology, little green men, and a afterlife. We should all be very afraid.
Right now one could say this sort of thing at dinner with friends...but not when the patriotism is high after a fresh "event". So say it now and something might seep through.
Afghanistan was a particularly cynical operation, with pallets of cash and heroin loaded on to expensive transports off expensive trucks, all for a war which was never meant to be won. My own country, Australia, was a participant, but the media knew to gloss over its dodgy role and treat the whole thing as a yawn, including the usual yobbo antics and crimes you always get with young Aussies abroad.
I suppose when the juiciest domestic industries are captive-market stuff like arms and "space", you are going to need wars to boost them (though you have to wonder where all that space money goes when they won't even spend to make the fakery half-real).
Either have forever wars or go back to making jeans and frypans. (I still cook in a sixty year old Lodge!) A thousand percent tariff on all consumer goods should do the trick, and the US can beat its swords into Lodge ploughshares.
I have had relatively little success discussing this with friends. I've even lost two of them completely, people that I've known for many decades. Most Westerners don't want to believe the reality, probably because it's such a terrible indictment against our system and all the people who support it.
If there's to be a future for humanity, it will be distributed across those parts of the world that reject the Western model.
Such a good article. I agree with what you wrote. Every great power needs war. A good example of what you wrote is the war in Afghanistan. If I’m not mistaken Brzezinski said “let’s give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam” just to win the Cold War, but killing million of people (not Americans) and creating Al-Qaeda. Now they are doing the same thing with Ukraine, firstly US arms it to the teeth, promising NATO and then back out. Now Trump has signed the rare earths agreement, like a loan shark.
Do you think something similar will happen with China, perhaps using Taiwan as a proxy nation?
Thanks, Pascal! This evident truth— as disheartening as it is— is exactly what we need to face. Other historians, journalists and political scientists say it in different words but for me it comes to this: we need to overcome the cultural hegemony and physical domination of militarism to gain a chance to escape our dystopian present and an even more dystopian future. Unfortunately, the US war imperialism has copycat allies/competitors in Isra-el and Europe. Fortunately, some ‘normal’ people are beginning to understand.
I was enjoying the conversation, even found some of it persuasive, until the last 5 minutes when Radhika totally flubbed Pascal’s comment about whether the US would accept payment in hryvnia vs. dollars.
Pascal is absolutely right, the US would not, because then Ukraine could print the money. Yes, there would be inflation, but that would also inflate away the debt if it’s denominated in the local currency. Convertibility doesn’t change that aspect, unless I’m missing something. I’d expect Dr. Desai, as an economist, to have caught that.
So now this throws the rest of the conversation into doubt for me. 🤷🏾♂️
Shame, I was expecting an actual Marxist analysis of the necessity of war production for capitalism. This is just a polemic. I might as well be reading slogans on signs at a demo.
The rise in European defense spending has lifted Europe's Defense and Aerospace industry. So far in 2025, the seven stocks that make up the MSCI EMU Aerospace and Defense Index have gained over 20%, leaving the U.S.'s Magnificent Seven stocks at a stall. Those gains add to the nearly 150% total return measured in U.S. dollars since the current bull market began on October 14, 2022, doubling the return of the S&P 500 Index over that period..."
Pascal, the United States was the opportunist who joined the war to get the spoils of war when the German Nazis were almost defeated by the Russian. Hence, this smart move led to the US becoming the unipolar world power when all European nations and Russia have been weakened and destroyed in WW2.
Anyone who uses a propaganda term like "Nazis" in an adult conversation about National Socialist Germany and 20th Century history should never be taken seriously.
in a common-language communication I can't agree with this, as there are many cultures and heritages involved, and an exclusivist take would narrow the base of power against various forms of fascism. but we should regularly define details about what we are talking in particular, regarding the conversation of the moment.
the issue is similar to talking about "communists", when it is actually about unions, infrastructure, pension and healthcare systems etc.
it is often ruthless and distorting, when material struggles for justice and fairness get framed into moralistic overton windows.
Unipolar, bipolar, multipolar.
Washington DC s strategy is constant, using a geographical position of power.
Figuring out the USA's foreign policy is actually quite easy. They wish to avoid unity formatting in Eurasia, West Asia, Africa, South America, East Asia, and everywhere else. That's it.
*Rome:* used divide-and-rule unto others, hidden behind a history of hubris and jingoism.
*The British Empire:* used divide-and-rule unto others, hidden behind a history of hubris and jingoism.
*The American Century:* currently uses divide-and-rule onto others as continuation of policy, and is hiding behind stories of hubris and jingoism...
It means to AVOID the unity of all others by fabricating dissent which riles up negative emotions globally [which is how the contents of this video fits in].
As countermeasure to divide-and-rule, the world needs to implement a global equilibrium (natural order) as man-made "balance of power" (policy), to avoid a few million human beings creating "gardens" for themselves, at the expense of billions of other human beings, like the USA/collective West has done to the "jungles" these past 500 years, hiding behind their stories of hubris and jingoism...
The powerful use deception to torpedo any attempt of regional/over-regional/global equilibrium covertly (hawks). Good cops (neolibs/global-lusts) and bad cops (imperialists/militarists), hiding behind facades of empires, talking down to, and gaslighting the plebs in their "bread-and-circuses"-INequilibrium, all well-trained to be finger-pointers at their favorite bad guys...
*This is divide-and-rule.*
We are not outnumbered. We are out-organized. Out-powered. Out-monetized. Out-narrativized...
PIC: Political Industrial Complex
FIC: Financial Industrial Complex
NIC: Narrative Industrial Complex
MIC: Military Industrial Complex
CIP: Cultural Industrial Complex
They play "5D-chess" with the minds of 2D-checkers players who think they are "smart".
The "divide and control/rule/conquer"-world is intact. It is practically as old as modern civilisation, and has never been defeated. Those with true power will do their utmost to ensure that the "divide and rule"-world we live in today, will rule for all times, because the DIVIDERS win, if all others fail.
The divide-and-rule system is a formless headless global system composed of every imaginable race, religion, ethnicity, language group, class, creed as an "ingroup" of power. This ingroup which intends to DIVIDE emergent unity elsewhere, contains all forms of "personal conviction" as "-ism" imaginable, with only a little input from top tiers.
Their aim is division.
*This is divide-and-rule.*
plz look into the topic of "snart shaming".
this is a tactic - undetected in the west, for what it actually is - against critical thinking.
only by this tactic, people can be divided, though they share interest.
in connection with this, the "list of fallacies", a set of formulas to poison a conversation, you will find explanations and good rhetorical antidotes.
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Outstanding article, very well written Pascal. It's thesis, that the USA economically thrived due to war is, I believe, an objective historic fact. And while it may not be possible to objectively state that war always was America's 'game plan', in all likelihood it was. The evidence pointing in that direction, spanning over a century, is overwhelming.
America is akin to an addict selling the drug he needs to finance his own habit. That moral debasement, based on the USA's current trajectory, will not end well. Rehab is always a possibility, but the addict refuses to admit that he has a problem beyond getting his next fix. Economically, politically and socially, the USA is dying a slow death in a dark alley. Heavily-armed as he is, it's only a question of how much more damage he will inflict on the world before it ends.
if we talk resistance, then ibrahim traore is extremely important, but probably underrated.
he comes with enormous softpower.
hardly understood in the west, plz all check out one factor, told by certain sheiks (religious leaders).
the group that took power in syria is by many muslims seen as inauthentic, bought by western money. but traore is widely seen as taking authentic leadership supporting the will of allah.
to me it seems he may become an african malcolm X, but due to the situation in west-africa, also with a strong military leg.
to support him, I think should be an important factor in advancing almost every topic, that prof. lottaz is dealing with. this is in connection with how broad the base of traore's pan-african undertaking is. losing him to assassination would be an existential blow to the creation of a more modern, more peaceful third millenium.
there is another caveat: AI production that may fake and distort his words faster than his followers can communicate. it happens in other theaters already in catastrophic ways.
so, the other leg of resistance to war-mongering has to be tactics against inauthentic media products that distort and thwart political initiatives.
Michael Hudson's book "Superimperialism" (first published 1972) chronicles historical US economic arrangements from the leadup to WW1 onwards.
It is a must read for those seeking to understand the parasitic US trade/war-based business model.
Because we're run by Christian Zionists who want Armageddon for the 2nd coming of Jesus. And they'll do whatever it takes to get there. Literally, we're run by very rich people who believe in mythology, little green men, and a afterlife. We should all be very afraid.
Yep, fine article.
Right now one could say this sort of thing at dinner with friends...but not when the patriotism is high after a fresh "event". So say it now and something might seep through.
Afghanistan was a particularly cynical operation, with pallets of cash and heroin loaded on to expensive transports off expensive trucks, all for a war which was never meant to be won. My own country, Australia, was a participant, but the media knew to gloss over its dodgy role and treat the whole thing as a yawn, including the usual yobbo antics and crimes you always get with young Aussies abroad.
I suppose when the juiciest domestic industries are captive-market stuff like arms and "space", you are going to need wars to boost them (though you have to wonder where all that space money goes when they won't even spend to make the fakery half-real).
Either have forever wars or go back to making jeans and frypans. (I still cook in a sixty year old Lodge!) A thousand percent tariff on all consumer goods should do the trick, and the US can beat its swords into Lodge ploughshares.
I have had relatively little success discussing this with friends. I've even lost two of them completely, people that I've known for many decades. Most Westerners don't want to believe the reality, probably because it's such a terrible indictment against our system and all the people who support it.
If there's to be a future for humanity, it will be distributed across those parts of the world that reject the Western model.
Such a good article. I agree with what you wrote. Every great power needs war. A good example of what you wrote is the war in Afghanistan. If I’m not mistaken Brzezinski said “let’s give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam” just to win the Cold War, but killing million of people (not Americans) and creating Al-Qaeda. Now they are doing the same thing with Ukraine, firstly US arms it to the teeth, promising NATO and then back out. Now Trump has signed the rare earths agreement, like a loan shark.
Do you think something similar will happen with China, perhaps using Taiwan as a proxy nation?
Thanks, Pascal! This evident truth— as disheartening as it is— is exactly what we need to face. Other historians, journalists and political scientists say it in different words but for me it comes to this: we need to overcome the cultural hegemony and physical domination of militarism to gain a chance to escape our dystopian present and an even more dystopian future. Unfortunately, the US war imperialism has copycat allies/competitors in Isra-el and Europe. Fortunately, some ‘normal’ people are beginning to understand.
I was enjoying the conversation, even found some of it persuasive, until the last 5 minutes when Radhika totally flubbed Pascal’s comment about whether the US would accept payment in hryvnia vs. dollars.
Pascal is absolutely right, the US would not, because then Ukraine could print the money. Yes, there would be inflation, but that would also inflate away the debt if it’s denominated in the local currency. Convertibility doesn’t change that aspect, unless I’m missing something. I’d expect Dr. Desai, as an economist, to have caught that.
So now this throws the rest of the conversation into doubt for me. 🤷🏾♂️
Shame, I was expecting an actual Marxist analysis of the necessity of war production for capitalism. This is just a polemic. I might as well be reading slogans on signs at a demo.
The danger is VERY present of the European economy also completely reorienting around war and destruction.
See here the huge difference in the prospects of the European war profiteers, compared with the rest of the European economy:
MSCI Europe Aerospace and Defense Index (USD)- CUMULATIVE INDEX PERFORMANCE — PRICE RETURNS (APR 2010 – APR 2025)
https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/9b833a81-423d-b624-ebd5-4c9019717061
More here:
https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/new-magnificent-seven
"...A new Magnificent Seven?
The rise in European defense spending has lifted Europe's Defense and Aerospace industry. So far in 2025, the seven stocks that make up the MSCI EMU Aerospace and Defense Index have gained over 20%, leaving the U.S.'s Magnificent Seven stocks at a stall. Those gains add to the nearly 150% total return measured in U.S. dollars since the current bull market began on October 14, 2022, doubling the return of the S&P 500 Index over that period..."
Pascal, the United States was the opportunist who joined the war to get the spoils of war when the German Nazis were almost defeated by the Russian. Hence, this smart move led to the US becoming the unipolar world power when all European nations and Russia have been weakened and destroyed in WW2.
Anyone who uses a propaganda term like "Nazis" in an adult conversation about National Socialist Germany and 20th Century history should never be taken seriously.
in a common-language communication I can't agree with this, as there are many cultures and heritages involved, and an exclusivist take would narrow the base of power against various forms of fascism. but we should regularly define details about what we are talking in particular, regarding the conversation of the moment.
the issue is similar to talking about "communists", when it is actually about unions, infrastructure, pension and healthcare systems etc.
it is often ruthless and distorting, when material struggles for justice and fairness get framed into moralistic overton windows.
Hervorragend, Pascal! Proxikriege sind tatsächlich ein perfides, aber gelungenes Geschäftsmodel!