Love Alex and his work to death, but I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective.
In 2019, nearly 24 million people worked across various government institutions in the United States, including the federal government, state and local governments, and the military. (This comes from a report by the Brookings Institution, and I am sure the number, following a decades-long trend, only grew since).
Combined, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and Google (US employees) account for approximately 840,000 employees.
Combined, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Merck & Co. (MRK), Eli Lilly and Company (LLY), Amgen (AMGN), Biogen Inc. (BIIB), and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) employ approximately 514,600 individuals.
Over 3,000 educational institutions across the United States receive federal funding, impacting over 17.5 million graduate and undergraduate students. Given another trend, that of bloated administration, it's safe to say that millions, tens of millions of people work for the government in our institutions.
I’d venture to guess over 50,000,000 million people, if not more (think all censored media, think subcontractors, think health care...) depend on the government and live well.
After all, take a look at Joseph Biden Robinette, Jr.’s approval. Despite the utter disaster that sad caricature of once a truly evil man, his numbers are staggeringly high.
I worry about the dependency and the mind virus and problems, multitude higher than what Alex deems. In my book "As America Crumbles...: A Grim Chronicle Exploring the Evil Source of America’s Catastrophic Decline" (https://amzn.to/3uP0EJm), I put some of those figures and more into numbers. Ever since, I am in a deep funk; not even Mr. Krainer's brilliant writing or sunny disposition is capable of moving an inch.
People like in this article are always saying "We will bring the job back to America", this is 100% bullshit, what will happen is those who 'can', will go abroad and mostly ASIA and get paid very well for making shit; Largely environmental, and woke, that nobody in USA can start a business let alone run one;
In asia its still wild-west capitalism laissez-faire , nobody is on your backside, everybody is making 'money' just like it used to be in USA;
laissez faire (, lit. 'let do') is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism
USA will forever be venenzuela & brazil, deal with it dumping 100 million wetbacks in USA will complete the deal and seal it forever;
Alex's post talks about how the Chinese and Russian military systems are "beating the shit" out of the American system. Guess what? The Chinese and Russian systems are not libertarian laissez-faire. The Chinese is the most effective since its socialism on top (macro) and more(?) laissez-faire locally (micro).
libertarian laissez-faire in USA are NOT liberatarian, they are control freaks every bit as much as rinos & demoRats
The problem with all of USA is that its assholes top to bottom, in ASIA people put family first and don't get involved in another mans business
In USA its this psychotic puritan complex, where everybody is worried about what somebody else shoved in their asshole or there mouth;
In all of ASIA Russia&China, nobody dwells on the dumb fucking shit that USA people dwell;
Tocqueville 1862 traveled the USA and wrote "democracy in america' he wrote in the book that he never saw a country with so many dumb cowardly stupid morons, all busy bodies
Then & now USA is a human sewer, China was always cultivated, +2, 000 years ago china had settable type, yet west says 'they invented the printing press in 1500's" guttenberg, but China was 'printing' 1,000's of years earlier
Marco-Polo noted in 1400's that Single citys like Suzhou ( shanghai ) had more canals & brides than ALL of Europe;
jeebuz xmas fuck-heads like you have never fucking been there
I was there in the early 1980 in shanghai, friends from UK were opening Irish pubs in downtown Shanghai, buying pubs in UK, and shipping them in containers and re-asembling them in CHINA, no fucking permit, no gov, just fucking open your biz and run it 24/7/365 the bars never closed, they has blues bars too the music 24/7
You fuck heads have never seen wild-west capitalism, it existed once in USA in the 1880's far wild-west, a guy could open a saloon and do anything fucking thing he wanted, if a new sherfiff came to town they just shot him, if he got in the way of business
Laisse-Faire means "Get off my back",
In USA say I open a pub in Seattle, WASH, it takes over $1M USD to just get the business license because of all the environment & regulatory permits required, and then BATF requires you pay the taxes on the beer before its ever even brewed&fermented
FUCK all of you, you don't have clue about the real world
You are forgetting that BIDEN is following the AOC formula
1.) Forgive all student loans ( Most of loans held by GOV workers )
2.) Forgive all debt
3.) Give the poor a home
4.) Provide EBT to all non-whites
What is white today in USA? Like 20%, what else you exect, a white with a skill, and some cash would have left the USA 40 years ago, and 2009 was drop-dead that's when USA people were banned from opening bank accounts abroad, if you left prior to 2009, then your grandfathered in. So now they have made it impossible for whites to stay, but impossible to survive abroad, winning; IMHO like CALIF the federal gov will start taxing those who exit HUGE amounts just like they're doing in CALIF charging HUGE EXIT taxes; White flight is real, and they all go to Florida, & Texas; Did you see the numbers for J6 jailing they predict by 2025 50,000 whites will be in jail for J6 crimes, and now you didn't even have had to been in DC that day, just showed sympathy for the insurrection online, so even if your run and hide in Florida, or Texas they will still 'get you'.
"Promoting it online, is now same as having been there in the capital building"
Where the fuck is Trump? He led them to the slaughter and he will lead more;
There is only one solution: the West must throw off the yoke of 'globalism' and the One World Order and the Cabal and the WEF, WHO... the true hegemons. Restore a world of sovereign nations who compete peacefully, not on battlefields.
There is still a way to go, but as we approach the Scare Event, I feel we are getting closer.
Friedman, an Ukranian jew, was crucial and a turning point. I wrote an investigation (in Spanish https://www.babab.com/no31/reinon31.php ) about who were his sponsors who turned out to be a bunch of billionaires close to the Dulles brothers ring whose most prominent individual was banker Mellon in the context of the capitalist counter offensive on Academia, media and the 60's peace movement. Friedman was a massive psyop operation (another one was Thatcher) totally backed by big money and the deep state who gained a totally undeserved prestige (Nobel prize, institutional awards, massive media visibility and book printing). As a result, trade unions and the real revolutionary left were crushed in America. To our days. The billions invested on an armada of authors like him created the libertarian economic paradigm which is still very active today at economics schools. Argentinian Javier Milei is a good example of this. With Friedman economic freedom became the excuse to kill the last remnants of ethics in business finance and the state. Deregulation, monetary expansion, currency debasement, full spectrum corruption, predatory wars, criminal inmunity for banking and finance and political and economic anarchy followed. Friedman was one of the most nepharious characters of the XXth century but he was just the incarnation of a historical process pertaining to the last stages of the death of capitalism, just like Marx predicted.
Well there is Nuland as well who just 'quit' I would love to see Alex explain if she actually went to her bug-out, or has been redeployed in Foreign Government where she is not constrained by remaining USA laws;
Golden age in the west ?? he should of said golden age of the powerful in the west.
From where I sit people have stopped thinking and learning and instead rely on coaching, this is very evident in universities and in the work place where people can speak confidently but have little thought behind what there saying.
Your writings usually make me think, which is probably a good thing.
Is the problem the "system", or those in it, both leadership and citizenry?
I can give several examples of current dictatorships or kingdons that work extremely well. (Singapore, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Bermuda, etc) But they are fake tax havens set up by the British to launder their global pilferage. And none have existed for 100 years. I don't think they are a model for anything.
China, Persia, and Russia are still here after 1-5000+ years. I don't think their past is a model for the future, however. But their continued existence may give us a few clues. They survived the British Empire. Will we?
Maybe culture matters over system, and that culture keeps ANY system in check.
In the west most have lost their moral compass. Until we regain that, I don't know if any system will be successful.
How do we regain that? Unfortunately history says things need to get really, really bad first.
Religion was always our compass, but the leadership of most major religions has been hijacked by the same ancient satanic belief systems that in later years hijacked our countries. They need a "Reformation" even more than our governments.
Every now and then someone asks me if this battle is between "good and evil". My answer lately is "the Evil side thinks it is".
At some point, maybe we should take them at their word.
I have no idea what "system" is best. Maybe it doesn't matter until we fix "us".
I can't speak for Bermuda however the others you list only "work well" due to money laundering/financial crimes (Singapore), and the others huge oil and gas deposits, and an exploited underclass of imported slaves from Bangladesh. None are models to aspire to.
Even the 'bangaladesh' ( or Indo ) in Singapore live 10000x better than their home country, that's why there is a quota and 100 year waiintg list & lotto to enter singapore from the 3rd world
We need to transition the ‘Military’ Industrial Complex into an ‘Infrastructure’ industrial complex. In a system run off of public debt, graft, sweetheart contracts, and budgets to congressional districts, I’d rather have a 16 lane highway across Montana and a dozen bridges to nowhere than tanks, bombers, and foreign military bases.
Don't you know, the government can't spend money on projects that don't generate a negative ROI, stuff like infrastructure, housing, education or Healthcare?
It's either we use the money for weapons for nazis or the money disappears.
'On the money' as usual Mr. Krainer. Profit motive over engineered into all of the clearly useless Western wunderwaffen being exposed on a daily basis currently. The 'tale of two carriers' being the exemplary story... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... What the Dickens? 😜
We need to make our own 'stuff', to become an actually productive society. In ways, we already do, (small farms and ranches, organic)....but I would suggest that the future for us will look much more like the late 1800's than it will the late 1900's.
In the case of this essay’s subject... particularly the point of the Western MIC being built for profit and not for purpose... can we find the road that leads back to London?
Is it as simple as the London banking centre’s financial profit motives corrupting an essential industry required for national interests? Or does the road have more twists and turns than that?
This is an extraordinarily insightful and important commentary.
The key difference between the US and Russia indeed is the fact that the entire US system is set up for profit-making by the business owners. Thus the advantage in spending power is an illusion. What good is it when the already filthy rich rake so much off the top, thievery which has increased exponentially with stock buy-backs and executive compensation kick-backs, and other tricks by the hedge fund owners like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard?
I am also remembering the days when that genius Peter Drucker sold American business on the practice of "just-in-time" inventory management. It's not looking too good today, is it?
Lenin was right. Capitalism has sold the rope by which it is being hung.
Also see my own new article: "Election 2024: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic."
Love Alex and his work to death, but I'd like to offer a slightly different perspective.
In 2019, nearly 24 million people worked across various government institutions in the United States, including the federal government, state and local governments, and the military. (This comes from a report by the Brookings Institution, and I am sure the number, following a decades-long trend, only grew since).
Combined, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, and Google (US employees) account for approximately 840,000 employees.
Combined, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), AbbVie (ABBV), Merck & Co. (MRK), Eli Lilly and Company (LLY), Amgen (AMGN), Biogen Inc. (BIIB), and Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) employ approximately 514,600 individuals.
Over 3,000 educational institutions across the United States receive federal funding, impacting over 17.5 million graduate and undergraduate students. Given another trend, that of bloated administration, it's safe to say that millions, tens of millions of people work for the government in our institutions.
I’d venture to guess over 50,000,000 million people, if not more (think all censored media, think subcontractors, think health care...) depend on the government and live well.
After all, take a look at Joseph Biden Robinette, Jr.’s approval. Despite the utter disaster that sad caricature of once a truly evil man, his numbers are staggeringly high.
I worry about the dependency and the mind virus and problems, multitude higher than what Alex deems. In my book "As America Crumbles...: A Grim Chronicle Exploring the Evil Source of America’s Catastrophic Decline" (https://amzn.to/3uP0EJm), I put some of those figures and more into numbers. Ever since, I am in a deep funk; not even Mr. Krainer's brilliant writing or sunny disposition is capable of moving an inch.
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But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
People like in this article are always saying "We will bring the job back to America", this is 100% bullshit, what will happen is those who 'can', will go abroad and mostly ASIA and get paid very well for making shit; Largely environmental, and woke, that nobody in USA can start a business let alone run one;
In asia its still wild-west capitalism laissez-faire , nobody is on your backside, everybody is making 'money' just like it used to be in USA;
laissez faire (, lit. 'let do') is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism
USA will forever be venenzuela & brazil, deal with it dumping 100 million wetbacks in USA will complete the deal and seal it forever;
Alex's post talks about how the Chinese and Russian military systems are "beating the shit" out of the American system. Guess what? The Chinese and Russian systems are not libertarian laissez-faire. The Chinese is the most effective since its socialism on top (macro) and more(?) laissez-faire locally (micro).
libertarian laissez-faire in USA are NOT liberatarian, they are control freaks every bit as much as rinos & demoRats
The problem with all of USA is that its assholes top to bottom, in ASIA people put family first and don't get involved in another mans business
In USA its this psychotic puritan complex, where everybody is worried about what somebody else shoved in their asshole or there mouth;
In all of ASIA Russia&China, nobody dwells on the dumb fucking shit that USA people dwell;
Tocqueville 1862 traveled the USA and wrote "democracy in america' he wrote in the book that he never saw a country with so many dumb cowardly stupid morons, all busy bodies
Then & now USA is a human sewer, China was always cultivated, +2, 000 years ago china had settable type, yet west says 'they invented the printing press in 1500's" guttenberg, but China was 'printing' 1,000's of years earlier
Marco-Polo noted in 1400's that Single citys like Suzhou ( shanghai ) had more canals & brides than ALL of Europe;
jeebuz xmas fuck-heads like you have never fucking been there
I was there in the early 1980 in shanghai, friends from UK were opening Irish pubs in downtown Shanghai, buying pubs in UK, and shipping them in containers and re-asembling them in CHINA, no fucking permit, no gov, just fucking open your biz and run it 24/7/365 the bars never closed, they has blues bars too the music 24/7
You fuck heads have never seen wild-west capitalism, it existed once in USA in the 1880's far wild-west, a guy could open a saloon and do anything fucking thing he wanted, if a new sherfiff came to town they just shot him, if he got in the way of business
Laisse-Faire means "Get off my back",
In USA say I open a pub in Seattle, WASH, it takes over $1M USD to just get the business license because of all the environment & regulatory permits required, and then BATF requires you pay the taxes on the beer before its ever even brewed&fermented
FUCK all of you, you don't have clue about the real world
You are forgetting that BIDEN is following the AOC formula
1.) Forgive all student loans ( Most of loans held by GOV workers )
2.) Forgive all debt
3.) Give the poor a home
4.) Provide EBT to all non-whites
What is white today in USA? Like 20%, what else you exect, a white with a skill, and some cash would have left the USA 40 years ago, and 2009 was drop-dead that's when USA people were banned from opening bank accounts abroad, if you left prior to 2009, then your grandfathered in. So now they have made it impossible for whites to stay, but impossible to survive abroad, winning; IMHO like CALIF the federal gov will start taxing those who exit HUGE amounts just like they're doing in CALIF charging HUGE EXIT taxes; White flight is real, and they all go to Florida, & Texas; Did you see the numbers for J6 jailing they predict by 2025 50,000 whites will be in jail for J6 crimes, and now you didn't even have had to been in DC that day, just showed sympathy for the insurrection online, so even if your run and hide in Florida, or Texas they will still 'get you'.
"Promoting it online, is now same as having been there in the capital building"
Where the fuck is Trump? He led them to the slaughter and he will lead more;
Well written Alex. Great perspectives. We live in dangerous times.
Thank you Dave!
There is only one solution: the West must throw off the yoke of 'globalism' and the One World Order and the Cabal and the WEF, WHO... the true hegemons. Restore a world of sovereign nations who compete peacefully, not on battlefields.
There is still a way to go, but as we approach the Scare Event, I feel we are getting closer.
Friedman, an Ukranian jew, was crucial and a turning point. I wrote an investigation (in Spanish https://www.babab.com/no31/reinon31.php ) about who were his sponsors who turned out to be a bunch of billionaires close to the Dulles brothers ring whose most prominent individual was banker Mellon in the context of the capitalist counter offensive on Academia, media and the 60's peace movement. Friedman was a massive psyop operation (another one was Thatcher) totally backed by big money and the deep state who gained a totally undeserved prestige (Nobel prize, institutional awards, massive media visibility and book printing). As a result, trade unions and the real revolutionary left were crushed in America. To our days. The billions invested on an armada of authors like him created the libertarian economic paradigm which is still very active today at economics schools. Argentinian Javier Milei is a good example of this. With Friedman economic freedom became the excuse to kill the last remnants of ethics in business finance and the state. Deregulation, monetary expansion, currency debasement, full spectrum corruption, predatory wars, criminal inmunity for banking and finance and political and economic anarchy followed. Friedman was one of the most nepharious characters of the XXth century but he was just the incarnation of a historical process pertaining to the last stages of the death of capitalism, just like Marx predicted.
Brilliant, thank you Yoni!
Well there is Nuland as well who just 'quit' I would love to see Alex explain if she actually went to her bug-out, or has been redeployed in Foreign Government where she is not constrained by remaining USA laws;
Golden age in the west ?? he should of said golden age of the powerful in the west.
From where I sit people have stopped thinking and learning and instead rely on coaching, this is very evident in universities and in the work place where people can speak confidently but have little thought behind what there saying.
Thanks from Ireland.
Money, like the mind, is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. When the servant becomes the master you lose both money and your mind.
Your writings usually make me think, which is probably a good thing.
Is the problem the "system", or those in it, both leadership and citizenry?
I can give several examples of current dictatorships or kingdons that work extremely well. (Singapore, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Bermuda, etc) But they are fake tax havens set up by the British to launder their global pilferage. And none have existed for 100 years. I don't think they are a model for anything.
China, Persia, and Russia are still here after 1-5000+ years. I don't think their past is a model for the future, however. But their continued existence may give us a few clues. They survived the British Empire. Will we?
Maybe culture matters over system, and that culture keeps ANY system in check.
In the west most have lost their moral compass. Until we regain that, I don't know if any system will be successful.
How do we regain that? Unfortunately history says things need to get really, really bad first.
Religion was always our compass, but the leadership of most major religions has been hijacked by the same ancient satanic belief systems that in later years hijacked our countries. They need a "Reformation" even more than our governments.
Every now and then someone asks me if this battle is between "good and evil". My answer lately is "the Evil side thinks it is".
At some point, maybe we should take them at their word.
I have no idea what "system" is best. Maybe it doesn't matter until we fix "us".
"Singapore, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Bermuda, etc"
I can't speak for Bermuda however the others you list only "work well" due to money laundering/financial crimes (Singapore), and the others huge oil and gas deposits, and an exploited underclass of imported slaves from Bangladesh. None are models to aspire to.
Even the 'bangaladesh' ( or Indo ) in Singapore live 10000x better than their home country, that's why there is a quota and 100 year waiintg list & lotto to enter singapore from the 3rd world
yabba, but have you been to the land of 'freedom' and seen the homeless living in shit??
I would take singapore&japan models of human living conditions any day of the week
We need to transition the ‘Military’ Industrial Complex into an ‘Infrastructure’ industrial complex. In a system run off of public debt, graft, sweetheart contracts, and budgets to congressional districts, I’d rather have a 16 lane highway across Montana and a dozen bridges to nowhere than tanks, bombers, and foreign military bases.
Don't you know, the government can't spend money on projects that don't generate a negative ROI, stuff like infrastructure, housing, education or Healthcare?
It's either we use the money for weapons for nazis or the money disappears.
Yes, that was sarcasm.
🥇 Good sarcasm always appreciated! 🙂
Alex, a great article as always!
Just one little correction: in Polish peace is 'pokój' and world is 'świat'. It would be impossible for Morawiecki to mix them up.
In Russian 'mir' is both peace and world.
Thank you!
'On the money' as usual Mr. Krainer. Profit motive over engineered into all of the clearly useless Western wunderwaffen being exposed on a daily basis currently. The 'tale of two carriers' being the exemplary story... It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... What the Dickens? 😜
We need to make our own 'stuff', to become an actually productive society. In ways, we already do, (small farms and ranches, organic)....but I would suggest that the future for us will look much more like the late 1800's than it will the late 1900's.
Perhaps the dominant western elite faction would rather not be than loose their privileges? Better dead than red updated.
In the case of this essay’s subject... particularly the point of the Western MIC being built for profit and not for purpose... can we find the road that leads back to London?
Is it as simple as the London banking centre’s financial profit motives corrupting an essential industry required for national interests? Or does the road have more twists and turns than that?
I'm not sure if the link can be established for every instance but it's definitely defined the way the system is set up.
The West Elites went to war for profit and loses catastrophically .
What I never hear is the west elites structured the economy for their benefit killing the human spirit of its people.
No spirt is a catastrophic loss rippling through the elites ability to do anything .
Amen. If only our enemies within would heed your advice!
This is an extraordinarily insightful and important commentary.
The key difference between the US and Russia indeed is the fact that the entire US system is set up for profit-making by the business owners. Thus the advantage in spending power is an illusion. What good is it when the already filthy rich rake so much off the top, thievery which has increased exponentially with stock buy-backs and executive compensation kick-backs, and other tricks by the hedge fund owners like BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard?
I am also remembering the days when that genius Peter Drucker sold American business on the practice of "just-in-time" inventory management. It's not looking too good today, is it?
Lenin was right. Capitalism has sold the rope by which it is being hung.
Also see my own new article: "Election 2024: Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic."
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/election-2024-rearranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/