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The future in one picture

by | Apr 12, 2023 | Philosophy | 2 comments

That graph you see above shows the share of the two most powerful economic cooperation blocs on Earth. The G7 consists of the US, UK, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy. Back when it was the G8, it included Russia, but then, after Russia annexed Crimea and reunited it with the Motherland, the other 7 members huffed and puffed and blew it out of their little club.

The G7 is an economic and geopolitical powerhouse, representing very roughly half of the entire global economy on a nominal basis, and about a third of it on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis. The 7 countries within the group consider themselves to be the arbiters of pretty much all globally relevant policy issues, on subjects ranging from “free trade”, to economic cooperation, to “climate change”, to “representative” government.

The fact that the governments of these nations increasingly fail to live up to their own lofty professed ideals is, of course, besides the point. The actual raison d’etre of the G7 is to provide a mutual backscratching club that empowers the ultra-wealthy and powerful even more than they already are, and to inflate their egos into believing that they, alone, are the Masters of the Universe.

For nearly a decade, since they expelled Russia, the G7 has coasted along, sublimely and supremely confident that the Western “rules-based international order” – whatever the hell that means, nobody can quite figure it out – is the ONLY way, and it is the Good and Right and Proper Way For All To Follow. (These people think only in capital letters – they believe themselves to be the most supremely wise people on Earth, but they are in fact ASTOUNDINGLY stupid and incompetent.)

The BRICS organisation, on the other hand, consists of five nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – that range from shitholes to “developing” countries. (I have lived in both Russia and multiple “first-world countries”, and can assure you from personal experience that Russia has infrastructure that is BETTER than that of most “first-world” economies.) These countries have little in common in terms of global outlook, economic structure, political institutions, and other measures. But, they understand that they can work together quite easily, in spite of their differences, to engage in mutually beneficial dialogue and economic cooperation, without necessarily agreeing on everything politically.

For instance – India and China have a major and longstanding border dispute over a particular patch of the Himalayan border territories. China invaded India once, back in the 1960s, and the Indians have never forgotten that fact.

Russia and China were once enemies, back in the bad old days of the Cold War. They came to within spitting distance of a full-on nuclear war. Even today, despite the exceptionally strong personal bonds forged between the Neo-Tsar, Vladimir Putin, and the New Huangdi, Xi Jinping, substantial differences and issues remain. The Russian people, if not necessarily their government at the federal level, consider Chinese economic takeover of the Far East to be thoroughly undesirable, and the average Russian is not actually particularly fond of the Chinese.

And yet, here’s the thing…

NONE OF THOSE DIFFERENCES MATTER ANYMORE.

All of the countries in BRICS are now able to put their differences aside and work toward a single common goal – of de-dollarisation and independence from a Western world that has clearly LOST ITS DAMN MIND, and which is now under the rule of demented, immature, and utterly incompetent leaders.

That is why the graph above is so important. When you stop measuring GDP in inflated nominal terms, and start measuring in terms of how much people in those countries can actually buy with their own money, the picture that emerges is genuinely startling. China is no longer the world’s second-largest economy – it is the LARGEST, and by some distance.

The USSA’s economy, hollowed out through decades of outsourcing, financialisation, and deindustrialisation, is actually far smaller and more feeble than one might think from the outside. In reality, Russia alone produces about as much steel per year as the US does – and China produces multiples of that amount.

India is assuredly a shithole country – but its economy is actually immense. When you measure it in PPP terms, its economy goes from US$3.3T, to over US$10T in size – far, FAR larger than Germany’s and France’s COMBINED.

And that, too, is before you get to this picture:

This is a picture The Wall Street Journal put together – they are, apparently, capable of writing actual truths once in a very great while, in between all of the presstitute bullshit they put out most of the time. If you add up the total value of natural resources by country for the Western nations in that picture – the US, Canada, and Australia – you get to US$98.1T nominal. But if you add up the values of everyone else, you get to US$211.7T nominal.

That is 2.16 times the total value of the West’s largest economies.

And that, in turn, makes THIS picture all the more impressive – and terrifying, for Western leaders:

That expansion does not include Venezuela or Iraq, it is true, but the core conclusion remains exactly the same:

The West is in the process of being economically trapped and encircled. And there is not a damned thing it can do about that fact.

It did not have to be this way. The West could have played by its own much-vaunted “rules” of competition, openness, rule of law, and trade – but instead, chose to weaponise its currencies and financial markets to block out anyone the Western ruling elite did not like.

Anyone who did not promote Feikh & Ghey values, to include RAMPANT BUTTSECKS, Groomer Clowns dressed up like Baphomet telling stories to your children, and the outright promotion of insane theories about gender that encouraged teenage boys and girls to mutilate their bodies and take life- and brain-altering hormones, was immediately out of the club. And for the past 10 years, the rest of us simply had to live with that blind arrogance and towering stupidity.

Not any more.

Russia showed us all the way. The world’s commodities superpower showed everyone else that the West’s financial weapons of mass destruction actually hold no power against sovereign states that take steps to protect themselves. Those steps are very clear: build up powerful military forces for self-defence, retain autonomy and independence of political action, invest in local manufacturing and industry, and engage in strategic economic partnerships of mutual self-interest with one’s neighbours.

This is the path to peace and economic expansion, based on the production and trade of real things – as opposed to the neoliberal West’s path to endless war and cycles of debt-based booms and busts.

The future, therefore, is in Eurasia – really, Eurasia-Africa. The Chinese will secure their resource lines through their new “Silk Road”, using the One Belt One Road initiative to build out colossal infrastructure projects to transport raw materials and finished products to and from China, throughout the rest of the Eurasian-African landmass. The sheer scale of the idea boggles the mind, but the opportunities it presents are incredible.

Europe, meanwhile, will grow ever more isolated and weak, thanks to its own stupidity. The EUSSR has cut itself off from cheap and abundant Russian energy, and that will not come back in the next generation or two. It might eventually, but we will all be safely and cosily dead by then.

As for America… well, the USSA is immensely wealthy in natural resources, and has plenty to offer the world – if only its rulers would stop trying to force everyone else to think the same as Americans do.

I like Americans, immensely, but I find their prattle about their country being the “exceptional nation” to be intensely annoying. This is American provincialism at its worst – it is a direct product of attitudes and sentiments that none other than Alexis de Tocqueville saw during his visit, and chronicled in his book.

What y’all don’t realise is, America IS exceptional – so exceptional that YOUR SYSTEM ONLY WORKS FOR YOU. It CANNOT work anywhere else, because your Founders designed that system specifically for a White, Christian, European people.

Since America is no longer really White, Christian, or European, it is no longer exceptional. In reality, it looks very much like some of the Dirt World shitholes that I have visited and lived in – especially in the big cities, nowadays.

The world is changing, swiftly, inexorably, and irreversibly. The rest of us had better get with the times, and right quick, because these kinds of changes, on this kind of scale, simply do not happen often. The future is in Eurasia, with the BRICS+ and SCO countries – and the future of banking and finance, along with digital currencies, smart contracts, trade, education, industry, and everything else of real consequence, will go with it.

Let the West die in its own decarbonised, de-energised, freezing cold Hell. The rest of the world wants to develop and grow, and that is very much to the good.

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2 Comments

  1. Johnny

    Meh. The fact that there is an ‘S’ in ‘BRICS’ means it is more about being woke than having economic clout. South Africa is far too small to even be in this group. It has a GDP that is not even 2% that of China.

    Frankly, ‘C’ does not need anyone else, but ‘BRI’ at least have some size to them.

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