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K “The ‘War of Northern Aggression’ is an accurate description.”
J “The ‘War of Southern Aggression’ is an accurate description.”
. . .
K “We must conform Mercator’s depiction because the ‘West’ is really the ‘North’ and the ‘East’ is really the ‘South’. Russia and China must be relocated to the ‘South’. Australia and New Zealand must be relocated to the ‘North’. And voila! everything is geographically and economically and politically and socially copacetic. The architectonic shifts are manifesting in tectonic shifts. The lines are being drawn.”
J “The poles are shifting. The battle lines are being drawn.”
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K “About three quarters to four fifths of the world’s population are ‘Southerners’ and about one quarter to one fifth are ‘Northerners’. The ‘Southerners’ have land and people and resources. The Northerners led by the U.S. have fiat and finance and firearms. The ‘Southerners’ are the future. The ‘Northerners’ are the past.”
J “Everything turns on how much longer the PetroDollar is the world’s reserve currency. In the short term, however, as Europe and the emerging countries suffer, assets are likely to flow to the dollar.”
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K “The U.S. War against Russia via a duped, duplicitous and culpable proxy Ukraine has triggered many of these fundamental geographic, economic, political and social changes that are acknowledged by few and understood by even fewer. February 24, 2022 will be another red letter day on the calendar. 2022 will be another red letter year on the calendar.”
J “Because the Chinese won.”
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[See the e-commentary at World War E Becomes World War III: The West Versus The Rest: Uni-Polar Versus Multi-Polar (March 28, 2022).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
G7 versus BRICS and many other nations
“Land and people and resources” versus “fiat and finance and firearms”
The “North” rules (while breaking all the rules) at this time
February 24, 2022 will be another red letter day on the calendar
The Chinese won/one
Was Sir Halford John Mackinder prescient?
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