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When money becomes the tip of the pyramid it crumbles under its weight to the foundations. Money is a reward beside being a necessity that feeds the lowest of human fundamental characteristics, greed. Money is infectious and it has no antibiotics to stop it.

America serves as the best example. It is quickly turning from empire into a v-empire.

Ignorant, least educated society in the world is beginning to show results. Everything that happens in America is by design. When the founding fathers decided that people should have the right to bear arms to deal with an oppressive government, they did not consider that ignorant people will never organize to be effective in their right to deal with such government.

America’s elite is stirring the pot to their desired taste and the mob is happy that it has the means to survive. The more suppressed it gets the least likely it is to take action. History repeats itself and it shows that there is no place in this world it cannot show the reality of human kind.

Every day I see comments of our condition but never a solution.

Tomorrow Americans will vote again based on looks, bullshit and lies fed by the manipulators. Instead of casting a vote a fist should be shown and action taken so that the voices of the people take precedence over bullshit.

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I have been wondering if the US had a hand in the "coup" in Niger. If the US is trying to cut the EU off from energy, this sure seems like a win for them. This is a lot more subtle than blowing up pipelines.

The US and Europe fought WW1 and 2 at the height of their industrial revolutions. It was comparatively easy to convert factories to produce weapons of war. Both have been largely deindustrialized and have had their domestic mineral extraction industries shut down. I won't even mention the loss of knowledge of HOW to do all of this. The populations are uneducated. To rebuild this would take a couple of decades at least.

China is in the peak of their industrial revolution. This "war" is over before it starts. Very Chinese. The US could potentially win a few naval or air battles, but those don't win wars. This would also devastate global supply chains, including in both the US and China.

On that last note, maybe that will be the last hurrah of the Oligarchs. Devastate supply chains, causing more more and famine.

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Too funny about the Outlaw US Empire Plunder boy getting peeved that China will do something similar. Both Russia and China have **vowed** to end US/Western Hegemony, which is repeated in their documents and rhetoric. On nuclear power, Rosatom has mastered the fuel cycle meaning no more waste to try and store somewhere, and current waste stocks can be converted to fuel.

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Question to author: if you dissociate "nations" from "Empire", "Empire" already having migrated from Holland to England to USA - how can we be sure that "Empire" is not actually migrating once more and just scuttling its old now useless & collapsing shell.

Migrating to RUS and/or CN, with CN having been prepared for that since the 70's - possible?

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Indeed Alex, we probably have & I welcome it.

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Aug 9, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

With all due respect to the Bible, Old and New Testament, Orthodox and Latin, this started with the judicial murder of Greek thinker Socrates, related by Plato, around 330BC.

The Neocons following Prof. Leo Strauss and papa Prof. Kagan, all trace to the beast-man Thrasymachus at this judical murder. In Thrasymachus' words, war is the normal for humans, Perpetual war to avoid war, Responsibility To Protect (Blair), preventitive war, might is right, justice is the right of power, the Führer Prinzip of Carl Schmitt, much adored at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge.

All made crimes at the Nuremberg Tribunals, all continued unabated for 80 years, with the ideologues scott free.

Lurking in our midst are the beast-men, whether XY or not, now plainly evident with US un-trained

https://twitter.com/SarahAshtonLV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

declaring Russians are not human. This official Ukraine spokes-beast has now clutched Gonzalo Lira .

This pre-dates Christianity by 300 years, is lost in the eschatology on all sides, and explains why Augustine wrote Socrates was the first Christian Saint.

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Letting go of Empire will be liberating for the West.

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Aug 7, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

" . . . it’s been the worst malignancy to afflict humanity since the days of the Roman Empire." Most important accurate phrase in the whole article. Thanks.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Great article, thank you Alex!

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~ & BREAKING: The revolutionary government of Niger has responded to the suspension of US aid by telling the

US: "We don't want your money, use it to fund a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland."

It amazes me..the fact that this war criminal V.Nuland “ paid a visit” to Niger. I wonder if she brought plastic bag with cookies( as she did in 2014 on Maidan in Kiev), or maybe she ate it herself on the way. This people living in “ plastic world”, totally not in real one.

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I truly Hope, the People of Africa win this *struggle*. "It is Time...(Film Terminator)".

Please Read:

"Before CIA-backed forces killed 36-year old patriot, Patrice Lumumba, for daring to lead the liberation of his country, he wrote to his wife:

"For without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.

Neither brutality nor cruelty nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy, for I prefer to die with my head unbowed, my faith unshakeable and with profound trust in the destiny of my country, rather than live under subjection and disregarding sacred principles.

History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or in the United Nations. But the history which will be taught in the countries freed from imperialism and its puppets.

Africa will write its own history and to the north, and south of the Sahara, it will be a glorious and dignified history.

Do not weep for me, my dear wife. I know that my country which is suffering so much, will know how to defend its independence and its liberty. Long Live the Congo. Long Live Africa!""

Quote from HERE: https://twitter.com/19hassan49/status/1686890038989058048

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Interesting Times! Nice piece thanks Alex!

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Could the coup in Niger (and loss of uranium) have been directed by the same hands who have used the war in Ukraine to cut off Europe's oil? I understand the new military leaders were trained by the US.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Bravo once again Alex...if you can inform substack about there clumsy comment posting security measures that only add friction to the platform...this might increase dialog...still your insights are precious!

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Great update!

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Africa should be the future, and I wish for it, but those of us who live in Africa know that our governments are also corrupt, and corruption should not be the future.

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Aug 8, 2023Liked by Alex Krainer

Mr.Krainer,

Your writing makes a lot of sense. The pursuit of Power does not satisfy the spirit. Bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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