Very good essay (and staying clear of the various "alt-media" propaganda narratives).
I wonder if "trade" is really the operational word here. Sovereign countries do want to trade. The imperial hegemon wants to loot. From the empire's pov, Russia, China and Iran as sovereign countries cannot be tolerated as the empire needs total dominance. History is not static. Powers dominant in one era may not remain so. Both the UK and now the US were once the most productive industrial powers on the planet. That's part of the reason for how they were able to become imperial powers in the first place. But imperialism under capitalism represents the domination, not of industrial capital, but financial capital which is only interested in maximizing profit for the financial oligarchs (not of building sovereign resilience which benefits the entire population, for example). The dominance of finance capital explains the de-industrialization of the West. Finance capital (aka monopoly capital) is parasitic not only to the countries w/in its "sphere of influence" but also to its own populations. Clearly the countries of the West are not sovereign. Is the US "sovereign"? The answer to that is complicated by the fact that transnational finance needs the US military and National Security State to achieve its goals. But as you indicate (via the fraud of US elections), as far as the American people are concerned, the US is not sovereign. What we are seeing is not new, it is the struggle between imperial domination and the struggle for sovereign self-determination.
Despite all the papers from think tanks, this article, while interesting and describes accurately what's going on is only pattern matching on the surface. This is the war against the British Empire, of which China and Russia are involved in the takedown. (You have to step out of the Think Tank box to see this). What is not widely known is that there are two parallel governments in China, the one controlled by the CCP and one whose visible head is Xi Jingping.
Notice how the EU is behaving and how the EU, whom I will now call the globalists, reacted to Victor Orban's loss in Hungary. They celebrated; so did Soros. However, when the EU presented Hungary with its 27 demands, Magyar agreed to 4. Instead , he tightened Hungary's borders and told the EU he wasn't allowing more migrants. In fact, in many ways, he is Orban on steroids. NATO is a fraction of what it once was because Trump cut back the US contribution to 1.5%, on par with other European countries.
What was really going on with the Strait of Hormuz? China gets only 20% of its oil from the Strait. It was Lloyd's of London who decided which ships (think countries) gets through and who doesn't by deciding who gets insurance and who doesn't. When hostilities broke out, and Trump took out Iran's navy, Lloyd's of London refused to write any insurance: so THEY created the chokepont, not Iran. When Treasury Secretary Bessent decided to underwrite the insurance, he did so knowing that there was very little the Iranians or the UK could do to stop the passage. By doing so, the US broke London's ability to create a crisis in energy supply. The media theater is the reason why nobody sees this: as of yesterday, Iran essentially surrendered control of the Strait, and thus removed itself from the chessboard, and ships are passing through the Strait unimpeded.
That said, the Saudis and Oman have created an alternative route for Mideast Oil, which uses the Red Sea instead the Strait of Hormuz, and that is what they are using. Oil consumers want to get their oil from a stable supplier and a lot of those who would have used Middle Eastern oil (including China) are now using Texas crude. The North Sea ports are closer, if they use the Arctic route to get there, and Greenland was the chokepoint when the Green EU was in charge. However, the other problem is that the North Sea crude, almost as good as Venezuela crude, the best quality oil on the market, was shut down by the UK because it wanted to go green.
So while the Stait of Hormuz did created a crisis for China, the real losers are the EU. Europeans are seeing price hikes unseen in any other place, including California. They are even cutting back their contributions to Ukraine. It is a policy choice they made by going green. Other countries, that stuck with crude are doing much better. When the market closed on Friday, crude was at $88, down from a high of $115.00. I am not sure when the pump price will fall, but there is roughly a 3-month delay between the futures price and the pump price, although these latest increases, IMO, were due to price gouging as the gasoline in the gas pumps were paid for months ago, long before this spat with Iran grew kinetic.
Promethean Action Network gives more information and connects the dots much better than the Think Tanks.
Well said! I hope that Unbecoming takes a serious look. What Trump and his administration is doing in Iran just may be is outside of the historical box.
He may not be not a Uniparty President but rather may be masterfully taking down the parasitic City of London globalist control mechanism.
so Proethean Action Network (who I used to support, but not anymore) thinks this war is more (or much more?) about targeting Europe than China? I don't believe that Wall Street oligarchs would fight European oligarchs using the Hormuz Straight when China dominates world manufacturing so much now compared to 25 years ago. The only way this war is Wall Street oligarchs vs European oligarchs is if Wall Street made a deal with China (by saying something like, "hey China, please don't take advantage of our infighting/squabble"). The West screwed China 175 years ago in the Opium Wars, and infighting in the West would help China. So *if* this is infighting between Western oligarchs, then a deal with China was made by one of the fighters (either Wall Street or European oligarchs)
Promethean Action Network aka the (Lyndon) LaRouche-ites, I used to frequent them too. But now, as Trump has broken every campaign promise that got him elected (like every other president), gone from stating that he would cut US military spending by 50% to expanding it, continuing the policies of former presidents...all the while Promethean Action claims he's essentially playing 6-dimensional chess, becoming one of his most consistent cheerleaders.
Bush Jr's war in Iraq didn't block the strait of Hormuz, yet gas prices skyrocketed to approx $8 a gallon in today's prices.
Somehow with the current "block" in the strait, we are at only $4 gas?
Also the Ukraine war didn't stop Russian gas. Russia was still paying Ukraine to transit gas through it.
We still buy uranium from Russia and the sanctions didn't stop most of the trade. The stories we heard were about stupid crap like vodka and how certain wealthy Russians were blocked from the swift banking system.
Isn't that such insanity?
The Nord stream debacle also doesn't make sense. Not all pipelines were broken, yet they stopped all gas?
Also, they didn't repair the broken ones even though it was first said it would take months. It's been years and they didn't do it.
They want us to believe there's a fight between the East and the West just like in Orwell's 1984 which was also a hyped up war to keep both sides afraid.
America was created as a Ponzi scheme by the illuminati / crown to build up its coffers and then rape and pillage . We are in the end times of a controlled demolition . For most people this makes no sense but it is nothing short of a demonically brilliant convoluted plan. This country has never been what most people think it has been. It has been a total fraud dressed up as the Uncle Sam clown icon.The best we can claim is that we made some cool cars and great music.
"Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine brighter." Do the people behind this long-running crime against humanity imagine we Americans will be better off with China brought low? How?
"in a memo that General Wesley Clark says he was shown at the Pentagon roughly six weeks after September 11, 2001."
9/11 or World Trade Center then was simply a trade down. Few people add up the human costs which are still playing out. The World Trade Center Health Program (while completely inept) and the Victims Compensation Fund is still paying out huge dollars, billions a year, to all whose health was compromised by the dust.
Dr Judy Wood in her book Where Did the Towers Go identified the dustification of the towers. Something still hidden from the public as is the weapon used to dustify the towers. No planes hit the buildings.
The 2 biggest and costliest trade downs in my lifetime - 9/11 and Plandemic. Both of which contributed to my husband's death March 2025.
Very cogent description of this mechanism. From an American POV.
Now, there are many more than just three players in the game, with similar or other mechanisms working. In particular the second gear, regular reset to keep the audience happy, requires a certain kind of audience and certain governmental structures, that dont apply everywhere.
So there may turn up unexpected wrenches in the gears.
It is up to you to read, investigate, research all information pro, con, neutral, indifferent, exculpatory, on whatever the topic excogitating over it deducing and concluding what is most likely the truth.
I never depend on Wikipedia or anyone or anything else to give me the 'truth' that is what my own (and your) brain is for...
It’s all about the trade route starting from India, through the Straight of Hormuz, on to railways through Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Gaza. New deep water ports in Haifa, Israel, and in recently demolished Gaza (they destroyed Gaza so they could build a deep water port!), and then by sea to Greece. Controlling this trade route for oil and goods and splitting India away from the BRICS alliance is worth trillions of dollars over decades to the oligarchs that control this new trade route. There is a proposed new canal (the Ben Gurion Canal) stretching from the Red Sea and across Israel. This canal through Gaza would eliminate the need to unload/reload cargo from rail to ships multiple times, but they will still use railways because they need multiple ways to transport goods. A railway through Saudi Arabia, Jordan (a tiny section of Jordan), and Israel is the option described by Patrick Wood. Developing and expanding both of these trade routes would explain why Prime Minister Modi from India seems to be helping Israel. India could deliver their products to Europe more easily. Europe would gain greater access to Middle Eastern oil, which it needs because it is getting less oil and natural gas from Russia (Germany has shut down nuclear plants, and the Nord Stream gas pipeline has been shut down). Shipping through the Red Sea with the proposed Ben Gurion canal seems the cheapest way to get goods from India and oil from that region to Europe. Egypt would lose billions annually from reduced shipping through the Suez Canal. Trump lied to us to make himself, his family, and the oligarchs rich by using US taxpayer money to militarily secure and build these new trade routes that they control. The oligarchs can use the $trillions gained from this war to build the technocratic control state. The more people who understand the technocratic-AI-social credit score-tokenization plan, the less they will be able to control us. In a nutshell, all of this explains the war/genocide in Gaza, the wars in Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Lebanon, the 2003 war in Iraq, the 2011 war in Libya and Syria, and the fall of the Assad regime in 2024. It also explains Jared Kushner’s involvement in negotiations with Russia and Iran and his role in negotiating the 2020 Abraham Accords, which helped normalize diplomatic, economic, and security relations between Israel and several Arab nations, namely the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. According to General Wesley Clark in 2007, citing a document he was shown in 2001, the US planned to attack seven Middle Eastern countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. Iran is the last of the 7 just listed to experience a significant war.
None dare call it conspiracy - Gary Allen. Written in 1971. that commission of foreign relations already published its plans at the time and still does, for all to see. their web site is free to enter, and you can read what they plan. no need for voting - someone else has the plans and any president and govt. follows the rules. Or else. They must all know this before they start. They all talk and talk and know that none of their promises will get fulfilled. I don't think anything will ever come of Epsteins files even though the names have been public for quite a while. the names were published years ago. we did not need to read all the garbage.
Every day I become more convinced I’ve already died and gone to Hell. Except it’s not as hot as I thought it would be, but then, summer is coming.
As the Buddhists say , Life is suffering. (Hell)
Very good essay (and staying clear of the various "alt-media" propaganda narratives).
I wonder if "trade" is really the operational word here. Sovereign countries do want to trade. The imperial hegemon wants to loot. From the empire's pov, Russia, China and Iran as sovereign countries cannot be tolerated as the empire needs total dominance. History is not static. Powers dominant in one era may not remain so. Both the UK and now the US were once the most productive industrial powers on the planet. That's part of the reason for how they were able to become imperial powers in the first place. But imperialism under capitalism represents the domination, not of industrial capital, but financial capital which is only interested in maximizing profit for the financial oligarchs (not of building sovereign resilience which benefits the entire population, for example). The dominance of finance capital explains the de-industrialization of the West. Finance capital (aka monopoly capital) is parasitic not only to the countries w/in its "sphere of influence" but also to its own populations. Clearly the countries of the West are not sovereign. Is the US "sovereign"? The answer to that is complicated by the fact that transnational finance needs the US military and National Security State to achieve its goals. But as you indicate (via the fraud of US elections), as far as the American people are concerned, the US is not sovereign. What we are seeing is not new, it is the struggle between imperial domination and the struggle for sovereign self-determination.
Despite all the papers from think tanks, this article, while interesting and describes accurately what's going on is only pattern matching on the surface. This is the war against the British Empire, of which China and Russia are involved in the takedown. (You have to step out of the Think Tank box to see this). What is not widely known is that there are two parallel governments in China, the one controlled by the CCP and one whose visible head is Xi Jingping.
Notice how the EU is behaving and how the EU, whom I will now call the globalists, reacted to Victor Orban's loss in Hungary. They celebrated; so did Soros. However, when the EU presented Hungary with its 27 demands, Magyar agreed to 4. Instead , he tightened Hungary's borders and told the EU he wasn't allowing more migrants. In fact, in many ways, he is Orban on steroids. NATO is a fraction of what it once was because Trump cut back the US contribution to 1.5%, on par with other European countries.
What was really going on with the Strait of Hormuz? China gets only 20% of its oil from the Strait. It was Lloyd's of London who decided which ships (think countries) gets through and who doesn't by deciding who gets insurance and who doesn't. When hostilities broke out, and Trump took out Iran's navy, Lloyd's of London refused to write any insurance: so THEY created the chokepont, not Iran. When Treasury Secretary Bessent decided to underwrite the insurance, he did so knowing that there was very little the Iranians or the UK could do to stop the passage. By doing so, the US broke London's ability to create a crisis in energy supply. The media theater is the reason why nobody sees this: as of yesterday, Iran essentially surrendered control of the Strait, and thus removed itself from the chessboard, and ships are passing through the Strait unimpeded.
That said, the Saudis and Oman have created an alternative route for Mideast Oil, which uses the Red Sea instead the Strait of Hormuz, and that is what they are using. Oil consumers want to get their oil from a stable supplier and a lot of those who would have used Middle Eastern oil (including China) are now using Texas crude. The North Sea ports are closer, if they use the Arctic route to get there, and Greenland was the chokepoint when the Green EU was in charge. However, the other problem is that the North Sea crude, almost as good as Venezuela crude, the best quality oil on the market, was shut down by the UK because it wanted to go green.
So while the Stait of Hormuz did created a crisis for China, the real losers are the EU. Europeans are seeing price hikes unseen in any other place, including California. They are even cutting back their contributions to Ukraine. It is a policy choice they made by going green. Other countries, that stuck with crude are doing much better. When the market closed on Friday, crude was at $88, down from a high of $115.00. I am not sure when the pump price will fall, but there is roughly a 3-month delay between the futures price and the pump price, although these latest increases, IMO, were due to price gouging as the gasoline in the gas pumps were paid for months ago, long before this spat with Iran grew kinetic.
Promethean Action Network gives more information and connects the dots much better than the Think Tanks.
Well said! I hope that Unbecoming takes a serious look. What Trump and his administration is doing in Iran just may be is outside of the historical box.
He may not be not a Uniparty President but rather may be masterfully taking down the parasitic City of London globalist control mechanism.
What Trump and his administration is doing in Iran is a War Crime, but if you read the article this has been in the works for a long time.
...and just look at how long the USA has brutalized Iran....since 1953.
It is disgusting, sick, evil and you know it is wrong because you would not want it done to you.
so Proethean Action Network (who I used to support, but not anymore) thinks this war is more (or much more?) about targeting Europe than China? I don't believe that Wall Street oligarchs would fight European oligarchs using the Hormuz Straight when China dominates world manufacturing so much now compared to 25 years ago. The only way this war is Wall Street oligarchs vs European oligarchs is if Wall Street made a deal with China (by saying something like, "hey China, please don't take advantage of our infighting/squabble"). The West screwed China 175 years ago in the Opium Wars, and infighting in the West would help China. So *if* this is infighting between Western oligarchs, then a deal with China was made by one of the fighters (either Wall Street or European oligarchs)
Promethean Action Network aka the (Lyndon) LaRouche-ites, I used to frequent them too. But now, as Trump has broken every campaign promise that got him elected (like every other president), gone from stating that he would cut US military spending by 50% to expanding it, continuing the policies of former presidents...all the while Promethean Action claims he's essentially playing 6-dimensional chess, becoming one of his most consistent cheerleaders.
Promethean Action is a CIA front.
It's all hype.
Bush Jr's war in Iraq didn't block the strait of Hormuz, yet gas prices skyrocketed to approx $8 a gallon in today's prices.
Somehow with the current "block" in the strait, we are at only $4 gas?
Also the Ukraine war didn't stop Russian gas. Russia was still paying Ukraine to transit gas through it.
We still buy uranium from Russia and the sanctions didn't stop most of the trade. The stories we heard were about stupid crap like vodka and how certain wealthy Russians were blocked from the swift banking system.
Isn't that such insanity?
The Nord stream debacle also doesn't make sense. Not all pipelines were broken, yet they stopped all gas?
Also, they didn't repair the broken ones even though it was first said it would take months. It's been years and they didn't do it.
They want us to believe there's a fight between the East and the West just like in Orwell's 1984 which was also a hyped up war to keep both sides afraid.
America was created as a Ponzi scheme by the illuminati / crown to build up its coffers and then rape and pillage . We are in the end times of a controlled demolition . For most people this makes no sense but it is nothing short of a demonically brilliant convoluted plan. This country has never been what most people think it has been. It has been a total fraud dressed up as the Uncle Sam clown icon.The best we can claim is that we made some cool cars and great music.
"Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine brighter." Do the people behind this long-running crime against humanity imagine we Americans will be better off with China brought low? How?
What is Israel’s role in this?
"in a memo that General Wesley Clark says he was shown at the Pentagon roughly six weeks after September 11, 2001."
9/11 or World Trade Center then was simply a trade down. Few people add up the human costs which are still playing out. The World Trade Center Health Program (while completely inept) and the Victims Compensation Fund is still paying out huge dollars, billions a year, to all whose health was compromised by the dust.
Dr Judy Wood in her book Where Did the Towers Go identified the dustification of the towers. Something still hidden from the public as is the weapon used to dustify the towers. No planes hit the buildings.
The 2 biggest and costliest trade downs in my lifetime - 9/11 and Plandemic. Both of which contributed to my husband's death March 2025.
Very cogent description of this mechanism. From an American POV.
Now, there are many more than just three players in the game, with similar or other mechanisms working. In particular the second gear, regular reset to keep the audience happy, requires a certain kind of audience and certain governmental structures, that dont apply everywhere.
So there may turn up unexpected wrenches in the gears.
I find it interesting; no mention of INDIA or IMEC…..Lies are Unbekoming is just like Wikipedia. You lie by omission…
Immature a bit?
It is up to you to read, investigate, research all information pro, con, neutral, indifferent, exculpatory, on whatever the topic excogitating over it deducing and concluding what is most likely the truth.
I never depend on Wikipedia or anyone or anything else to give me the 'truth' that is what my own (and your) brain is for...
Please elaborate.
I wrote the following 2 weeks ago, but I think this war is more about china as unbekoming states in today's posting:
Regarding the Iran war, Patrick Wood has a good explanation:
https://patrickwood.substack.com/p/imec-trumps-war-with-iran-is-about?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
It’s all about the trade route starting from India, through the Straight of Hormuz, on to railways through Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Gaza. New deep water ports in Haifa, Israel, and in recently demolished Gaza (they destroyed Gaza so they could build a deep water port!), and then by sea to Greece. Controlling this trade route for oil and goods and splitting India away from the BRICS alliance is worth trillions of dollars over decades to the oligarchs that control this new trade route. There is a proposed new canal (the Ben Gurion Canal) stretching from the Red Sea and across Israel. This canal through Gaza would eliminate the need to unload/reload cargo from rail to ships multiple times, but they will still use railways because they need multiple ways to transport goods. A railway through Saudi Arabia, Jordan (a tiny section of Jordan), and Israel is the option described by Patrick Wood. Developing and expanding both of these trade routes would explain why Prime Minister Modi from India seems to be helping Israel. India could deliver their products to Europe more easily. Europe would gain greater access to Middle Eastern oil, which it needs because it is getting less oil and natural gas from Russia (Germany has shut down nuclear plants, and the Nord Stream gas pipeline has been shut down). Shipping through the Red Sea with the proposed Ben Gurion canal seems the cheapest way to get goods from India and oil from that region to Europe. Egypt would lose billions annually from reduced shipping through the Suez Canal. Trump lied to us to make himself, his family, and the oligarchs rich by using US taxpayer money to militarily secure and build these new trade routes that they control. The oligarchs can use the $trillions gained from this war to build the technocratic control state. The more people who understand the technocratic-AI-social credit score-tokenization plan, the less they will be able to control us. In a nutshell, all of this explains the war/genocide in Gaza, the wars in Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Lebanon, the 2003 war in Iraq, the 2011 war in Libya and Syria, and the fall of the Assad regime in 2024. It also explains Jared Kushner’s involvement in negotiations with Russia and Iran and his role in negotiating the 2020 Abraham Accords, which helped normalize diplomatic, economic, and security relations between Israel and several Arab nations, namely the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. According to General Wesley Clark in 2007, citing a document he was shown in 2001, the US planned to attack seven Middle Eastern countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. Iran is the last of the 7 just listed to experience a significant war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Middle_East%E2%80%93Europe_Economic_Corridor
This Iran war:
-Europe gains cheap oil and cheap goods from India (helps Europe, India)
-Creates a trade route that generates $billions for globalist oligarchs (helps oligarchs build the technocratic/social credit score state)
-Decreases natural gas sales from Russia to Europe (hurts Russia)
-Reduces China’s access to Middle Eastern oil (hurts China)
-Reduces trade through the Suez Canal (hurts Egypt, helps Israel)
Thank you
None dare call it conspiracy - Gary Allen. Written in 1971. that commission of foreign relations already published its plans at the time and still does, for all to see. their web site is free to enter, and you can read what they plan. no need for voting - someone else has the plans and any president and govt. follows the rules. Or else. They must all know this before they start. They all talk and talk and know that none of their promises will get fulfilled. I don't think anything will ever come of Epsteins files even though the names have been public for quite a while. the names were published years ago. we did not need to read all the garbage.
The "house" that you are referring to has a surprise waiting for them.
Psalm 2.