David Murrin interviewed by Jay Martin
Murrin gets to the same conclusion as me, but by a different route. Well worth listening to.
Like Murrin, I believe that WW3 has started. But I read it slightly differently. He places more of an emphasis on planned domination by China. My view is that by America’s actions, both Russia and China have been forced into taking defensive action, which has been well executed. I take the view that fundamentally the Russia/China partnership is only a military threat to America because as the dying hegemon America is a threat to them.
My view is that the conflict will not be military, at least initially. America is killing its hegemony (the dollar) itself without any assistance from Russia or China. At some stage, Russia and China will be forced to protect their currencies from a dollar collapse by introducing a gold standard, otherwise the dollar will take the rouble and yuan down with it. That to me is the end game of WW3. Unless, of course, in desperation a bust US with a close-to-valueless USD decides to go nuclear.
Murrin’s take on gold and silver is well worth listening to as well, towards the end of the interview.
Thanks to my colleague James Turk for drawing this to my attention!
I appreciate some of his observations, but found myself disagreeing with most of what he said. My view of the U.S. with respect to China and Russia is the opposite of his, and I think he and I would disagree in nearly every respect about what is going on in Ukraine. I don't think the lateral/linear thinking paradigm is useful at this stage in the game, and I don't think it is the underlying source of human conflict. I'm not inclined to use cycles in any sort of analysis - I prefer examining underlying events, which speak clearly enough. Tragically, I believe we will find ourselves in a kinetic war of unprecedented destruction because war, itself, is often a primary objective of those in power, and because if I had to construct a geopolitical scenario where everyone is positioning themselves for war on multiple fronts, I could not do much better than to point to the geopolitical situation we now have. Thank you for the podcast. It was full of food for thought, which is more interesting than nodding one's head in agreement with everything.
On this one a I took a pass, or rather a shortcut. I went straight to his site, spent 5 minutes on his seriously narcissic self laudatory life description and thought I could save myself over an hour of a popinjay being interviewed by another. The curse of the internet, it is the best and the worst like Aesop's tongue, or like a soapbox used to be at Hyde Park corner...quaint, when it did not rain.
First imperative surfing rule, avoid traders who have seen the light and understood the meaning of History and Life and talk "Globish". Last piece of evidence, if we needed any, that we are indeed in a mega-bubble. I have spent 6 months with the Bonobos and discovered the true roots of human nature...Reminds one of Margaret Mead in Samoa, being fed the very dope she craved for by her Melanesian lover on the structure of sex and gender to the great merriment of the tribe. And the whole business of Anthropology, and all the ensuing societal catastrophe it took us to, was built on a tribal joke! Or Soros and his grand theory of "reflexivity" now replacing Einstein's?
So our dyslexic guru is attempting to do a Cecil Rhodes bis. Too little, too late. Tiny Rowland, the unacceptable face of capitalism, had already tried flying on a wing and a prayer carpet before crashing down to earth like I-carus. And that before Robert Maxwell plunged to new depths.It took one crook to recognize another one The City always had its share of fruit cakes, or "eccentrics" to use an euphemism. And Wall Street, credit where it is due to the Temple of Mammon, its snake oil salesmen and carpetbaggers...in fact, they have been running the show for over a century, say 1914-1918.
So , while he might come to the same conclusion about Gold as AM, I think his geo-strategic view, if you can call it that , is shallow, superficial and informed by a false narrative. The Americans have rewritten and falsified History since 1945, privilege of the victor, to such an extent that it becomes incomprehensible for most of us. Even Mearsheimer, though more lucid, still subscribes to American exceptionalism. If you believe that, you are doomed to make the same mistakes again.
If you also think that 9/11 was perpetrated by Osama and a bunch of winged islamist loonies and that Covid was a God sent plague on humanity for its sins, you probably have never heard of the CIA benevolent charitable organisation, a subdivision of the Salvation Army.
So yes, Imperialism and colonialism, its senile stage, have now entered its final nihilistic "exterminist" stage as we can observe daily, before checking the price of gold, no correlation, in a small piece of land called Palestine, the Parthian shot of the collapsing British Empire. So it goes...