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The best thing about the Brits in my opinion is their humour and their ability to laugh at themselves. Vicky Pollard is a great example. But I’d argue she’s more Vicky Nuland than Anthony Blinken!

Great wisdom in your words yet again, thanks Alex.

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Thank you!

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Vicky Pollard is a caricature of the stupid tasteless working class conjured into existence by posh/upper middle class boys who went to the best universities and imagine themselves as so so superior to the people who do the actual work in the UK. Painfully unfunny.

Most British humour falls into the same category: barely disguised hatred for social inferiors. Yanks seem to love it, James Corden being a recent example, but then your own class system is every bit as vicious.

That aside, good article Alex, thank you.

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Well, yes, exactly.

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Yes, I watched Ms. Vicky and feel it's not humor, it's class warfare. Part and parcel of the "Whites bad" program, intentionally planned to vilify, demoralize and subvert. The class system of the US has been captured by Woke madness, as has that of much of the West. We are under siege IMO.

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I think Vicky Pollard is funny, but I see your point.

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Not just hatred of "social inferiors". One of the purposes of most "humour" in Britain is to stir up contempt in different sections of the populace against each other, so they don't have time to think about which tiny demographic is doing down all the others, and about how it might just be in people's interests to combine to defend ourselves against them.

Another is to get assumptions convenient for the power players past the (albeit rudimentary) rational filter that at least some people still have for the acceptance of what ought to be contentious claims of fact. If you just tell people that Putin poisons anyone who disagrees with him, people might at least have minor reservations about treating it as an established fact. Once you have got them to laugh at a joke that requires that "fact" as a background assumption, you are through their defences.

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Excellent points, thank you.

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Britain,on the highest level,is not so sweet & lovable.

Not if you read the suppressed hidden history that is substituted for by comic strip narrative history! The whole British Empire was built by funny money created out of intangibles!

Funny Money dreamed up by John Law who was a Gambler,womanizer,murderer & all around con merchant!

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Personified and popularised in characters like James Bond.

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Some of the antics are more akin to Basil Fawlty

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Fawlty Towers had genuine humor, it was clever, it didn't need canned laughter. And the characters were idiotic, but not vicious, absurd but not criminal. Vicky is both vicious and criminal in my view.

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Yes, agreed, which is I'm not a fan of Little Britain even though I love British humor. Fawlty towers was a masterpiece.

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They say timing is everything. Last night I skipped the last concert of the season of my wife's musical orchestra. Lo and behold I'have the Rottweilor sitting on the couch beside me and the movie The Big Short comes on. I hadn't seen it in years and i had forgotten the true underlying plot of the movie. Most people think it's about what degenerates people who participate in the markets are and how shallow we all are, but it's not.

The true theme was the corruption of the regulatory branches, the banks , rating agencies and most of all the political class for sale better known as the government.

So when my wife comes home and I start telling her about the movie and the markets and how apple is buying back their stock to make earnings look better. She gets up with that bored look and walks away. However undaunted I see your column today about Banker Collateral and the War on Russia and the everything that I have been trying to tell people gets connected in such a clear vision.

Over and over I keep asking myself this question. Why would anyone with a couple of working brain cells attack Russia.? The answer you need the Russian resources as collateral for your derivitative bets among yourself(bankers, hedge funds, Davos Gang)

I have a friend who was in Central Inteligence operations until he went off the reservation . He had told me how the Russian army had been built to defend the country and was invincible within a 600 mile radius around it's borders.. He also told me of the 8 layers of corruption in the Deptartment of Defence which is the reason for the cost of everything. Take an artillary shell.

Russian cost 500$

Nato& US cost 8000$

Musk sent 30,000 terminals of the starlink system to Ukraine . I wager they were not free of charge. Who paid for them? The taxpayer!

Someone said all wars are banker wars and this is no exception. However this one is. out of panic and desperation. I look at Nvidia , the current messiah. Being the betting man that I am I will be buying puts on this.

Excellent insight and column Alex

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Thank you Jeff!

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The whole "western diplomacy" sure seems like it is all theater, for domestic consumption. It looks like the west is becoming more and more irrelevant on the world stage. More and more, all western financial markets are openly manipulated, including the sovereign debt markets. A great quote is "tyranny is maintained by fraud and force, and when the fraud is exposed, only force remains." We are there.

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Quite correct. I view all of our so called leaders as merely actors. Some are better actors than others but none of them are strategic thinkers. If they were, they would not have been appointed to that position.

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The scary thing is a bunch of them Like Vicki the Hut and Jake Sullivan are Rhodes Scholars. Decades ago those were smart folks. Their "A" Team isnt much of one anymore.

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Being a Rhodes Scholar is meant to direct you on a path of Agent of the Rhodes/British NWO. Its the replacement of the British East India Company just more subtle.

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So what,...Slick Bill Clinton was also a Rhodes Scholar!

Read some of the Quotes by Cecil Rhodes!

The man was a monster!

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Bill Clinton was kicked out of Oxford and lost his Rhodes Scholarship after raping a girl student. Isn't it strange how we never hear about that?

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I personally knew a Rhodes Schollar very well. I will try and avoid giving so much information that he can be identified, but he was the son of a famous archbishop in Africa. He met, of course, many of the other Rhodes Schollars at Oxford and returned to Africa yo become Chairman of an investment bank. He was a poor investment for the globalists, however, as he was a diamond of an individual, who loved life and people. Tragically, he died young.

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Rhodes Scholarships are dealt out to candidates for indoctrination. It doesn't always "take" thank goodness. Likewise the List of 100 Best Universities which always starts with Harvard (amusing if you are European) are just designated springboards to the club of the Chosen. Nothing to do with scholarship, which has universaly fled to obscure provincial universities.

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They are high end Sales people always alert to what the voters want to hear!

They sell good news to their voters & suppress bad news,unless they can blame the opposition for the bad news!

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The internet & the P.C. have a lot to do with what you say!

Before the mid 1990's all that was accessible to the general public was media propaganda platforms.I know,For years I was a victim of public school system & a believer in the

left wing/right wing nonsense!

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We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false"? Bill Casey CIA Director February 1981.

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You briefly touched on the arch villain, Tony Blair. You may recall that one of his first acts, upon becoming Prme Minister, was to give independence to the BOE. That one act was very much supported by the markets, which laid the foundation for two further successful general elections. But what was the deal? Does anyone really know? It was confirmed this week that, regardless of which party comes to power after the current election, significant tax rises are inevitable in the UK because the Treasury has to write a huge check to the BoE to cover losses on their sovereign bond portfolio (know as Gilts in the UK). Why? And are these paper (theoretical) losses or real losses? Why even mark to market? Would love to see a good explanation of what is going on, there.

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Thank you Stephen, excellent insight.

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I’ve never understood Gilts. So if the bond portfolio does poorly, raise taxes? What happens to taxes when it does well?

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Gilts is just the British term for US Treasuries. But why are they marking to market gilts that are under water? Commercial banks might need to sell at a bad time, to address a liquidity crisis but why is the central bank doing this?

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it may go back to the Gilts Crisis which was a year or two ago. The Prime Minister, Liz Truss, and her chancellor thought to drag the UK economy back onto the rails. BlackRock started calling in debts (which may have been the underwater Gilts), forcing the Insurance companies and Pension funds to dump their underwater gilts to raise cash for BlackRock. Dumping crashed the market. The pound dropped. The Pension funds were in danger of insolvency. The Bank of England stepped in and bought the Gilts (or said it would?) and saved the pound. And thus saved England.

However....

Liz Truss had given a speech at the UN denouncing the WEF as dangerous to democracy, BlackRock are the main financial backer / driving force behind WEF and are owned by the International Banking Cartel (BIS, Rothschilds, JPM). Altho 'independent' everyone understands the Rothschilds still run the BofE.

After being forced out of office Truss said its not the PM who runs England. Its the B of E.

Which we all knew, as they / the International Banking Cartel control the 'City' (of London). But it was nice to hear someone say it.

(Gilts are not American Treasuries but the British equivalent, debt backed by the government.)

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Yes, that was clearly an operation to remove Liz Truss but I think something else may be going on - that's even worse. While most countries issue fixed income bonds, a significant portion of the UK's sovereign debt is on variable rates. Consequently, they are now paying 4.5% on bonds they sold in a 1.5% environment. Heaven only knows why they opted for variable rate gilts but I guess they were either desperate or thought this day would never come. So - while the US and EU have some time to ease into a higher rate environment, the pain is almost immediate in the UK. Yes, the losses are technically the BoE's but the tax payer is bailing them out. They must really hate Powell.

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excellent point.

I think bankers perfectly understand the nature of bonds. Therefore this situation was anticipated. Planned for. And is intended to contribute to the ruin of England.

Like refusing to buy cheap energy from Russia in order to wreck the economy.

Like announcing an election while being pissed upon - how better to illustrate incompetence and put off the voter. There are other instances of 'incompetence' that indicate its a hand over to Starmer. Who is, I believe, on the CFA. That is to say one of demons who seek to rule us.

The last decent, principled (for a socialist) guy who could have been Prime Minister saw his campaign crippled by his own party. Why, because Corbyn had the integrity to reject the Zionists (Labour Friends of Israel) and take the side of the Palestinians. Now we can see how right he was. And how scared they must have been at the thought of genociding the Palestinians with a UK PM in office, defending the women and children, criticising the guilty.

In my old age I'm becoming quite the cynic.

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Yes, I had respect for Corbin. Not my political persuasion but he was a genuine, honest, old school socialist. Trouble is, if you are going to take on the establishment, you need to be well prepared and tough as nails and he wasn't. Reverting back to bonds - Tom Luongo theorized that Powell was seeking to break the ECB but maybe, just maybe, it was the UK that was the target?

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The anti-Semitic attacks on Corbyn were horrific, but he failure to support Brexit is what really brought him down from what I could tell.

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They rise, anyway, to keep the oiks desperate enough to do what they're told. The ostensible reason will be something else, but most likely "because Putin". There's plenty of mileage left in that one. For now.

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I Am surprised!

As a random guess I would have thought that the you meant that the Bank of England gave Great Britain it's Independence!

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Wow, Mr. Krainer!

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Insightful, as always Alex. Thanks!

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Thank you Stephen!

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Alex I love how you articulate the changing world. I would love to see ou on a podcast with Pepe Escobar. The two of you think alike. Thank you for all that you do

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Thank you Kathryn!

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Condoleezza Rice & Bob Gates had already "leaked" a few drops of truth on the "critical minerals" in early 2023:

"... although Ukraine’s response to the invasion has been heroic and its military has performed brilliantly, the country’s economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed, and much of its mineral wealth, industrial capacity and considerable agricultural land are under Russian control."

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/07/condoleezza-rice-robert-gates-ukraine-repel-russia

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I don’t get the joke about Vicky Pollard and Blinken — probably not smart enough but am I the only one?

PS: OUTSTANDING

"When the clash between the combined West and the combining rest eventually winds down, it will go down as one of history's most spectacular and most embarrassing failures of leadership. If Western leaders were capable of shame, they would be resigning their positions in droves. The fact that they’re not is because they were carefully recruited and cultivated precisely so that they wouldn't have such scruples."

West under clowns and zealots -- Western world has been cultivating a dangerous groupthink that's all but sealed the collapse of their agendas. -- Alex Sasha Krainer -- Jun 05, 2024

https://substack.com/home/post/p-145338306

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Vicky Pollard is a character from British sitcom "Little Britain" -igborant, dishonest, stupid, abrasive and vindictive. Same as western diplomats.

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Thank you very much -- in USA difficult to understand....

Cestitam i zelim i dalje puno uspjeha, te sve najbolje, Boris

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🫡 Najljepša hvala! 🙂

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Ovo je “jako” i dobro !!

“Secret Service deliberately failed to protect Trump” – Scott Ritter  --  OUTSTANDING and fairly definitive !!

(ordered by “establishment” – which remember includes GOP RINOs which are majority Rs in both Senate and Congress)

https://youtu.be/lYrwhCSzV60?si=JgM0vmLSwETyNwUv

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Usput: poslao sam linkove na knjige emailom ali se vratila poruka "approved senders only" tako da je vjerovatno išlo u spam.

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Puno hvala - nasao sam na Vasoj stranici i vec imam u PDF-u "glavnu"... koju kupio. Sve dobro i nadajmo se najboljem.. globalisti trenutacno u panici i "tonu"...

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Thank you Alex. One of the greatest “Big Picture” writers ever, who has contributed enormously to my own understanding of the western empires depraved and ultimately self destructive behaviour.

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Thank you, Cliff - that's very kind of you!

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Thanks Alex. You get to the heart of the issue so well. Nice to see the term confabulation being used in this context - just make it up as you go! Unlike Uncle Joe, Blinken et al can't hide behind Dementia. On another point you recently mentioned that 'The Great Taking' would not occur as "the collateral" would ?lose its value or something like that. In this article JP Morgan's collateral is Iraqi oil exports. Could Iraq say "We'll default on the loan and keep the collateral" now that they are joining BRICS?

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Thank you Stuart. Yes, I think that's ultimately the reason for their panic: nations could begin to default or demand rebegotiation of loans. Keeping the empire is getting more and more expensive.

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I should hope at the very least that Iraq defaults on its loan, just as Greece should refuse to pay one more cent of its fake, externally imposed 'debt' the moment it can break free. Iraq has paid off its "loan" many times over in 20+ years of its oil stolen by the occupiers. And like so many others, both should demand their stolen gold returned, reparations and damages.

I've seen a few times that BRICS will allow its members to repudiate onerous loans and debts.

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Thank you, Alex, for this simple clarification:

"Graham confirms the ultimate reason for war and unwittingly points the finger at the interest groups that are behind it. Wars are about resource wealth (duh!), and there is only one interest group who must secure access to that wealth by the force of arms: the international banking cartel. Their means and their opportunity may be more difficult to establish (though not that difficult), but their motive is crystal clear. Resources like Graham's "critical minerals," represent the high quality collateral against which banks can issue loans."

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Thank you, John!

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I'm opening my next blog post with this intellectual pivot point.

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Excellent!!!

"coincidence theorists".. luv it :-)

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Mark Wauck wrote today on the very related issue of the US-Saudi petrodollar contract, https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/exit-the-petro-dollar.

It is a good complement to this column.

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Agree.

Mark Wauck's article led to an exploration of IMEC -- the (proposed) India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. (Alberto Rizzi & Mohamed Soleman offer a useful discussion of Italy/Meloni's perspective on IMEC HERE: https://ecfr.eu/podcasts/episode/infrastructures-and-connectivity-building-bridges/. )

Saudi Arabia signed the MoU (Israel did not). KSA is also member of BRICS+ but it appears the INSTC will skirt Saudi Arabia but not cross the continent.

So, KSA (like Turkey but, unfortunately, unlike Italy) seems to have hedged its bets, and need not be that concerned that Israel's intransigence will impact IMEC.

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Excellent!

Thanks for connecting the dots!

The only thing I like more are future projections, identifying the crucial variables and probability estimates of whether these likely outcomes (in combination) will result in WW3.

I bet you have that in you and I await reading your analysis!

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I am not so sure that this is a trend analysis that I want to see.

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Sticking your head in the sand when a monster is approaching may make you gag aspirating sand, but it does not stop the approach of the monster.

As a matter of fact, your gagging will attract the monster.

The 100s of millions of Europeans and North Americans who's analysis of our present situation ends in "I don't want to know, but I HOPE all turns out well" are likely those who continue to support the system where warmongers are elected to run their country.

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I appreciate the courageous and articulate response. You are right, of course. And those who heed Alex's trend analysis will do as well as anyone can, based on it.

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This time, the neocons, Zionists, and all other "isms" created, deliberately, by the Banking family cartel will NOT survive, and its demise is closer by the day.

Ukraine business is nearing to its final conclusion, perhaps another 10-12 months (TBC) to go, to completely dismantle the beast.

Israel is about to explode and the final breath of the Zionism regime is coming to an end as well - their own doing...

Putin, and Russian leadership are well aware of the history and the events of 20th century of total wars, and thus they are very familiar with the West's, uncreative "game plans and traps"

The ships in the Caribbean are there to curb the Western enthusiasms, and serve as a visible reminder to those bastards that if they continue the rhetoric and attempting to cause any damage to Russia's civilian zones, they will get an opportunity to "taste their own medicine" via West's unfriendly proxies

The BIG DEBT cycle is about to explode the West from within, and we, living in the West should prepare for the boom, and hang on to the handrails

Thanks, Alex!

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Thank you!

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