John J Norris, who wrote A History of Venice, proposed a corollary law that the presence of such qualities as liberty, equality, fraternity are present in inverse proportion to the frequency with which they are proclaimed. Puts the US's incessant flag waving in perspective.
OTOH, as I have often argued, the US needs to be denied if it is to be isolated. It certainly seems as if Asia isn't interested in an American fueled confrontation with China over ideology. Yet they go along with what the US is pushing. The same is true in Europe where the EU is acting all empire like following US sanctions on Russia. Russia isn't having anything to do with it but it's remarkable that our vassal states send military ships to annoy Russia which doesn't imply that we're really isolated especially since this is against the backdrop of the attempted color revolution in Belarus (and it looks like Europe's reaction to the failure of the color revolution will drive Belarus back into the arms of mother Russia). Europe has a remarkable degree of non-self awareness as they blindly follow our dictates. I still don't see this ending well.
The author could be right about Blackrock. They have an incredible invested asset base / they had $6.8 trillion (with a T) under management at the end of 2017. That's about three quarters of how much is currently invested in US equities on all US markets. And I suspect Blackrock's assets have gone up by more than $2 trillion since 2017, so they must have more money under management than the entire US equities market now.
Update: As of March 2021 - $9T (trillion) in assets -- gives them a lot of power...
John J Norris, who wrote A History of Venice, proposed a corollary law that the presence of such qualities as liberty, equality, fraternity are present in inverse proportion to the frequency with which they are proclaimed. Puts the US's incessant flag waving in perspective.
OTOH, as I have often argued, the US needs to be denied if it is to be isolated. It certainly seems as if Asia isn't interested in an American fueled confrontation with China over ideology. Yet they go along with what the US is pushing. The same is true in Europe where the EU is acting all empire like following US sanctions on Russia. Russia isn't having anything to do with it but it's remarkable that our vassal states send military ships to annoy Russia which doesn't imply that we're really isolated especially since this is against the backdrop of the attempted color revolution in Belarus (and it looks like Europe's reaction to the failure of the color revolution will drive Belarus back into the arms of mother Russia). Europe has a remarkable degree of non-self awareness as they blindly follow our dictates. I still don't see this ending well.
Thanks -- very alarming but also funny.
Do you have any thoughts on the article below (NEO is published by Russian Academy):
There is More to BlackRock Than You Might Imagine – 6/18/21 -- 18.06.2021 Author: F. William Engdahl
There is More to BlackRock Than You Might Imagine | New Eastern Outlook (journal-neo.org)
https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/18/there-is-more-to-blackrock-than-you-might-imagine/
BTW - BlackRock is reported as buying residential houses ($6B invested reportedly – about 17K+ houses) – the idea is to create a “nation of renters”..
Many articles -- https://www.swfinstitute.org/news/86983/see-the-wall-street-investors-buying-single-family-american-homes
The author could be right about Blackrock. They have an incredible invested asset base / they had $6.8 trillion (with a T) under management at the end of 2017. That's about three quarters of how much is currently invested in US equities on all US markets. And I suspect Blackrock's assets have gone up by more than $2 trillion since 2017, so they must have more money under management than the entire US equities market now.
Update: As of March 2021 - $9T (trillion) in assets -- gives them a lot of power...