My better half has always been against zoos. It's the principle of the thing. Something about being locked in a cage and everyone pretending that you are free.
I guess you'll just have to listen.
29 Mar 2025
Who is Running the Show?
Well, our audio got cut off at the tail end of this episode. I hope you enjoy it though. There is still an hour of ramblings for you listening pleasure.
This episode concerns the new empire that is forming in Europe called the European Union. They are amassing power and influence, cutting new alliances, dissolving old ones. Now they are building an army for the purpose of defeating Russia. Boots on the ground in Ukraine shortly, with a 500 billion Euro spending package to back it up. Things are about to get interesting...
Remember last episode? It was about how the sick man in Europe is the EU. I stand by this thinking, two things can be true at the same time. The issue is that they backed themselves into a corner with their insane policies that seem designed to undermine the fundamentals that their society is built on. Now they are building an army with the intention of going to total war with Russia. When things are on the verge of collapse for a society, they go to war. Perhaps this is what we have been watching over the last 50 plus years of American foreign wars. This is what happens when an empire is collapsing.
Couple that news with Signal-gate, a manufactured scandal regarding the US backed fighting against Iran and it's proxies. America seems hell bent on eliminating Iran shortly. Lets see how this all plays out.
2 Mar 2025
Episode 44 - The Sick Man is Europe
We are living through a geopolitical realignment the likes of which we haven't seen since the start of WW1. The "sick man of europe" was a term for the Ottoman Empire before the war to describe a formerly great and powerful player that had seen better days. I believe we are seeing that today but at a much grander scale. It seem as though Europe itself is on the brink of collapse, and is thrashing about wildly for relevance.
I firmly believe the escalation of the war in Ukraine is a direct result of Europe's energy crisis. Ukraine is sitting on massive undeveloped oil and gas that Europe needs so they can move away from dependence on Russia. Before the war Europe bought up to 40% of their energy from Russia. That has shifted dramatically since the war, with Europe buying much higher priced energy from other sources. This increase in energy prices is crushing European manufacturing and squeezing their population.
Europe is in a desperate situation with skyrocketing energy prices and a declining population. They can keep fighting over Ukraine, or switch to US supplied energy and effectively become our vassal. It appears that they have chosen war over reliance on the United States at their own peril. If this continues, there will be a hot war in Europe and we will be dragged into the conflict. Let's hope they come to their senses real quick for all our sakes.
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