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The Suez Moment

August 10, 2022November 10th, 20237 min read

Good morning on the 10th of August, the day the FBI raided a US president’s private home. I was supposed to calmly dissect all the – really awesome – signals coming out of China, whose first maglev suspension railway – Xingguo – has just had a test run, while we in Europe are increasingly looking at bicycles as tempting alternatives to anything that uses fuel or electricity. They have some choice words across the board even on the topic of the day.

Let’s begin with a clarification : Whatever you think about Donald Trump, who is a buffoon, and looks like a melted s*xdoll left out in the sun, or someone playing a president in a p*rno, the man who didn’t pardon Assange or Manning, but he also didn’t go to war with anyone. And he was elected into the office of US President, a title, rank and security that was supposed to be afforded to him for life even outside of term. So now the FBI has done something quite unprecedented, and while Donald was known to be in New York – with his secret service detail, pictured guarding his home under sources, sworn to protect the man – they raided his private residence, the Mar-a-Lago resort. I’m sure it was gaudy and kitschy with a golden toilet or something, but none of that is the point. 

Sorry, Frank Figliuzzi says the FBI does not like the term raid, so he and MSNBC prefer I say “executed a search warrant”. So they broke in and cracked a private safe in search of some boxes of confidential documents but found it empty. I can’t begin to describe how massive a move this is, how it is almost unprecedented. Well the act of breaking and entering is unprecedented, perhaps reminding us about Nixon’s Watergate moment, but that comparison makes no sense to me. Only one precedent comes to my mind, and it was twenty years before my time, when John and Robert Kennedy went to war with the US intelligence communities. 

The slain brothers also come to mind because Donald Trump once promised to release the JFK files but never did. JFK was at war with the Dulles brothers and the CIA, who were trying to foment a coup in France without his approval, and the sitting President had to come out and say : “They are a beast of their own, I cannot stop them”. The same CIA that lied to the president about what was going on in Cuba and orchestrated the absolute blunder known as the Bay of Pigs incident, something he had to take the fall for before finally having the top of his head blown off on the grassy knolls. Then there was RFK who had just won the presidential primary in Californa, and was set to win the Presidency, and in the week prior to his assassination he promised to re-open the investigation into his brother’s death. He too, was shot.

There is no need to speculate about the specifics around the deaths, there currently are none, only to illustrate one point : For the first time, the President of the United States was shown to have no ultimate power against the frankenstein’s monster the Billionaire’s Council on Foreign Relations rallied to create : A bunch of appointed – not elected – regularly wealthy functionaries with access to information, and unlimited extralegal power who could practice leverage over, or even outright remove those who would challenge them. 

And while they seem to have consolidated power since 1962, this is something new. I don’t know what papers they were looking for, I don’t know if they found anything, but after two Suez Canal moments on the International arena – The Ukraine Provocation via the US foreign legion called NATO, and now Pelosi spitting in the eye of China – this is the moment the rule of law illusion they have upheld for so long has burst. I had no misconceptions about the US legal system, the best a bunch of slave owners could come up with, which would never be designed with the slave’s best interests at heart. Never mind all the historic propaganda designed to prop up the illusion of it somehow being For the People. But the reality is that in so many minds, it was a fair and remarkable legal system until yesterday.

For those of you who are wondering : For Britain and for France the 1956 Suez Crisis marked the end of their roles as empires. Humiliated by the United States and president Eisenhower who forced them to withdraw. Humiliated and ended as individual powers in the world. I thought Europe would fall before the Robust United States, a continental economy with rich resources of its own, but the Biden presidency is forcing me to question this conviction daily. 

They have printed more money in the last two years than in the previous hundred, and if you think that has nothing to do with the current global depression crisis, you are kidding yourself. His new inflation-reduction bill – dressed as all US legislation is now in Climate and Health – is exactly the same, printing $430 billion more, the last thing you want during a recession, and the less talked about Ukraine the better.

With the new CHIPS legislation it is seeking to introduce large-scale unilateral interventions in the global market, creating more trade and technology barriers in it, and is doomed to fail as it has on all previous fronts, while undermining its domestic peace. 

I ask myself just how much more damage can be done by the Bobbleheads’ administration if it is allowed two more years in office? This is in multiple ways the Suez Moment for the United States. 

China has commented on this matter calling it what it is : The US Political System being more dysfunctional than ever. They have some choice words about the “daydreaming” US which still expects China to cooperate on US interests after historically offending the country. I wanted to tell you more, regarding Japan, South Korea and the Pacific Islands, the continuing oil and gas wars – Kiev has halted oil to MY country via the Druzhba ( meaning friendship ) pipeline, weeks after Elenksy called for simply “seizing” Russian energy assets – and Gaza but I think this singular event is more worthy of your attention at least for now. And who knows you might even be tired of reading about Europe’s season finale.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading and have a lovely Wednesday morning, afternoon or evening whatever sky looks down upon you reading these lines.

Peace, Land and Bread

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