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Looking For The Spark Of World War 3? Start Here
Submitted by James H Kunstler of Kunstler.com,
Any American influence left in Iraq should focus on rebuilding the credibility of national institutions.
– Editorial, The New York Times
Gosh, isn’t that what we spent eight years, 4,500 lives, and $1.7 trillion doing? And how did that work out? The Iraq war is just like the US financial system. The people in charge can’t imagine writing off their losses. Which, from the policy standpoint, leaves the USA pounding sand down so many rat holes that there may be no ground left to stand on anywhere. We’ll be lucky if our national life doesn’t soon resemble The Revenge of the Mole People.
The arc of this story points to at least one likely conclusion: the dreadful day that ISIS (shorthand for whatever they call themselves) overruns the US Green Zone in Baghdad. Won’t that be a nauseating spectacle? Perhaps just in time for the 2014 US elections. And what do you suppose the policy meeting will be like in the White House war room the day after?
Will anyone argue that the USA just take a break from further operations in the entire Middle East / North Africa region? My recommendation would be to stand back, do nothing, and see what happens — since everything we’ve done so far just leaves things and lives shattered. Let’s even say that ISIS ends up consolidating power in Iraq, Syria, and some other places. The whole region will get a very colorful demonstration of what it is like to live under an 11th century style psychopathic despotism, and then the people left after the orgy of beheading and crucifixion can decide if they like it. The experience might be clarifying.
In any case, what we’re witnessing in the Middle East — apparently unbeknownst to the newspapers and the cable news orgs — is what happens in extreme population overshoot: chaos, murder, economic collapse. The human population in this desolate corner of the world has expanded on the artificial nutriment of oil profits, which have allowed governments to keep feeding their people, and maintaining an artificial middle class to work in meaningless bureaucratic offices where, at best, they do nothing and, at worst, hassle their fellow citizens for bribes and payoffs.
There is not a nation on earth that is preparing intelligently for the end of oil — and by that I mean 1) the end of cheap, affordable oil, and 2) the permanent destabilization of existing oil supply lines. Both of these conditions should be visible now in the evolving geopolitical dynamic, but nobody is paying attention, for instance, in the hubbub over Ukraine. That feckless, unfortunate, and tragic would-be nation, prompted by EU and US puppeteers, just replied to the latest trade sanction salvo from Russia by declaring it would block the delivery of Russian gas to Europe through pipelines on its territory. I hope everybody west of Dnepropetrovsk is getting ready to burn the furniture come November. But that just shows how completely irrational the situation has become… and I stray from my point.
Which is that in the worst case that ISIS succeeds in establishing a sprawling caliphate, they will never be able to govern it successfully, only preside over an awesome episode of bloodletting and social collapse. This is especially true in what is now called Saudi Arabia, with its sclerotic ruling elite clinging to power. If and when the ISIS maniacs come rolling in on a cavalcade of You-Tube beheading videos, what are the chances that the technicians running the oil infrastructure there will stick around on the job? And could ISIS run all that machinery themselves? I wouldn’t count on it. And I wouldn’t count on global oil supply lines continuing to function in the way the world requires them to. If you’re looking for the near-future spark of World War Three, start there.
By the way, the US is no less idiotic than Ukraine. We’ve sold ourselves the story that shale oil will insulate us from all the woes and conflicts breaking out elsewhere in the world over the dissolving oil economy paradigm. The shale oil story is false. By my reckoning we have about a year left of the drive-to-Walmart-economy before the public broadly gets what trouble we’re in. The amazing thing is that the public might get to that realization even before its political leadership does. That dynamic leads straight to the previously unthinkable (not for 150 years, anyway) breakup of the United States.
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Buy a Chevy Volt you stupid cunt. We have known issue with petrodollar currency based on oil. The issue is the negros in the White House Hood.
I drive a car that gets 7-10 MPG. You want free government shit. So, when do you plan to contribute to the gas guzzling US petrodollar currency that fights deflationary measures.
Are you beginning to see the next set of US Government lies? All under the Muslim dictatorial mastermind in the White House.
I stopped reading there
how can he count only the cowboy soldiers (paid to kill & get killed, that's what they signed for so what's the big deal) & ignore the millions of iraki children, women and elder murdered since 20+ years
you're a jerk & an asshole kunstler.com.
He's a zionist/Likud gatekeeper and little more than that.
thanks for the confirmation (amazing how those psychopaths can be spot in half a sentence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az4dzdS79jU
Russia to attack the West - 2017
http://www.keepingitcatholic.org/blog/index.blog/1747740/fatima-message-...
Now that's a new thought; the public frontrunning the political leadership! There are some fellows (Ben Franklin being one) who would approve of that!
Ho hum. My popcorn's getting stale. Let's start the frickin show already!
The ied's forced the US to pull out of Iraq. It's as simple as that unfortunately.
Another fucking neocon fantasist
"The U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (official name: Agreement Between the United States of America and the Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their Temporary Presence in Iraq) was a status of forces agreement (SOFA) between Iraq and the United States, signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. It established that U.S. combat forces would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009, and all U.S. forces will be completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.-Iraq_Status_of_Forces_Agreement
The US left because Iraq wouldn't give them immunity for their crimes.
yep. Can't have Blackwater/Xe psycho pussies being subject to justice for war crimes, can we?
I have marked that on mv calender 8/11/2015. take a nice drive to Walmart for some of them green bananas that turn from green straight to brown without ever turning yellow.
Doesn't a "caliphate" require a Caliph?
War is a way of weeding out the stupid... and murdering the innocent.
Let's figure this out,,,ISIS is a CIA armed. trained, and supplied mercenary operation to Balkanize Syria, Iraq and whoever else needs a reset; but ISIS creates a massacre situation that makes the MSM so the Pentagon has to intervene against the CIA/ISIS that is conducting Globalist agenda.."curioser and curioser" or "when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, and the white knight is talking backwards and the Red Queen's "off with her head", remember what the dormouse said"....
The MIC are ideological nihilists that will foment WWIII because they have nowhere else to turn. The Multinational MIC only wants complete control over the entire world so that they can rig the game and steal all the loot in the end game. Americans cannot stop hoarding because
Congress and the politicians want more of what they already have
so that we have less in the long run. Cheap Internet cannot keep the masses occupied for much longer IMHO. The end game is near.
Kunstler - a Zionist and a Jew - will never admit that Israel is a partner of the Saudis and Americans. All three cooperated to bring about 9/11 and ISIS is a Mossad operation. ISIS has not killed a single Israeli.
"ISIS has not killed a single Israeli."
Gee, who woulda thunk, with all of those Israelis wandering around Iraq and Syria?
James Howard Kunstler is a sayan and a disinfo agent.
And not especially bright.
you break it, you buy it.
soon as Maliki is out of the way, send in the B52s.
ISIL appears to know how to win in their culture. They may not worry as much as their opponents about enemy "friendlies" blowing themselves up in briefings.
"You forget NAZI's were facist/socialists/nationalists."
You forget that a NAZI political state no longer exists. The commenter was likely suggesting that modern fascism will be found among today's wealth hoarders, ie. the global elite backing US imperialism.
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