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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (196185)	2/12/2023 8:27:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	6 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar Arran Yuan fred woodall Gemlaoshi Secret_Agent_Man and 1 more member Respond to of 217739

50% of the world's wealth and 6% of its population. A good thing that showed how much value the USA created up until then compared with other countries. Unfortunately for the USA, they have mistakenly concluded that said wealth came from being militaristic madmen, attacking hither and yon, spending $trillions on new and improved ways to attack and kill people. To boss them around and confiscate their stuff. What the USA had a lot of back in the day was Virtuous Victorian Values = see Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged for the philosophical foundations of wealth and glory. Great Britain was great because they had Virtuous Victorian Values which enabled them to transfer megabucks of capital all over the world. The military part of USA, and UK before it, was not causal in their great wealth. It was a result of the capital formation idea, and globalising mindset, back in the day. The USA still creates vast wealth via Google, Microsoft, Apple, Qualcomm and the swarms of Cyberspace companies that took over from the fizzling industrial world of oil, steel, and machinery. In the 1980s, Japan had gained right up to neck and neck with USA. But just as Japan imploded, USA accelerated off into the totally new infinite realm of Cyberspace, genetic engineering and all that stuff where $quadrillions of value was waiting to be created out of thin air. Whether USA can retain that position is uncertain. In 1994 it was very exciting to once again visit San Diego, drive up Lusk Boulevard and see the huge new QUALCOMM centre, with hundreds of like-minded buildings in the area. It was like a huge space age realm had been dropped from space onto the desert landscape. Further north towards San Francisco, were all the Cisco, Globalstar, Apple, Silicon Valley hordes. Back in 1987, by a fluke of luck, we rented a house next door to Karl Michel, a solid state physicist. In discussion with him, he told me a friend of his was working on optical fibre technology. Holy Toledo I was beside myself with excitement = the two magical things that were essential to what I had long wanted were right there, being created. Karl showed me some of his maths when I asked. I was pretty hot stuff at maths in the good old days and could apply third order partial differential equations, mess around with Fourier transforms and Schroedinger's equation was part of my life. His maths was a different world = pages of dense mathematics reading like a book which might as well have been the Rosetta Stone for me. Thanks to their inventions - here is Karl right now: uantwerpen.be My visits to USA were pretty much annual in the 1980s and 1990s and early 21st century. I did visit for a month in 2019, but the allure has faded. It was still very nice to be there, but creating war on Russia and maybe China too seems to be a very bad idea. Weirdly, not only did USA bomb Germany's gas supply and demanded that Germany stop trading with Russia, they seem to have got Germans goose-stepping to their doom once again, with Leopard tanks in the lead, via, once again, Ukraine. I doubt that Russia will look favourably on the onslaught which keeps on coming. I had thought USA's Ukraine activity with Victoria Nuland and the attack on the easterners was an April Glaspie style trick to get Russia to invade Ukraine so that the USA could bring to bear all their latest fancy arsenal to smash the Russians like Saddam's army and country were smashed. I have been surprised that Russia has done as well as they have. But a longer war keeps the lovely loot flowing from USA taxpayers/citizens to the military-industrial bribers who fund the politicians who also send giga$bucks to Zelensky, who kickbacks bitcoin by the $billion via that guy who was arrested and went bust but also via truckloads of cash. A vast money go round and a lot of fun to attack and murder and bomb and fire rockets and drones and tanks and omg what fun. As seen on tv. Putin, like me, can see where it leads which is to continued increased pressure and Germans and NATO once again driving Yank Tanks to Murmansk, Pole-vaulting into Belorussia and Russia itself, swarming in from all directions, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Crimea to the Arctic ocean. Russia can only hold the line by using atomic bombs behind the lines. Eurostan/USA has a LOT more to lose than does Russia if MAD and Dr Stangelove take over. 1.1 billion people vs 0.1 billion people with huge GDP per person vs a small GDP per person in Russia, and high density people in Eurostan/USA vs a vast continent in Russia's case. "How to Win Friends and Influence People" was written in USA. I doubt that many in charge in USA now have read, understood and adopted it. USA was the land of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and industrialists galore. Andrew Carnegie built libraries around the world. I used to go to one in Onehunga 70 years ago. Andrew was a VVV man. Military power is nothing compared with VVV. VVV comes first. Mqurice