Alisdair MacLeod discusses international banking. He has an important observation around the 15 minute mark. In our frenzied permanent obsession with obliterating Russia, we took our attention off the Middle East. Those countries realized that our Machiavellian dividing force was absent, so they made peace!
All the fake enemies we created are now getting along and cooperating with each other, and they’re also quietly moving to the Russia-China side of the world.
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