Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Geopolitical Economy Report" channel.

  1.  @janrozsypal7079  You describe a house of cards. Petrodollar keeps the dollar propped up no matter HOW poorly the U.S. government manages its fiscal house, no matter HOW the federal government hollows out the industrial base. But you can only borrow so long before the bill comes due and USA is upside-down on its debt:GDP. American bullying is bad enough, but when its economic foundations are rotten AND it's a bully, the rest of the world is forced to go its own way. The U.S. Government is incapable of balancing its budget in peacetime. It is doomed. It will have to pull in its horns, die back, or have its horns amputated by foreign countries. If USA stuck to its original principles, the globalist utopia would just sort of happen, organically, as nations around the world governed more lightly, just to keep up. Just to emulate the clearly most successful combo of liberty and self-responsibility. But those in government always see themselves as the New Aristocrats. What are the Old Aristocrats? They're the first bureaucrats (and warlords) to put on airs due to their inordinate and temporary position of power, thinking that made them special, and seeking to make it permanent, down through the generations. It's all quite mundane, with sordid and unsavory beginnings that self-styled bluebloods always back-fill as a larger-than-life legacy handed down by giants. Nothing changes. The USA was an eyeblink exception. We could get back to that, except now almost half the people have a vested interest in perpetuating and growing the corruption and rot, and it's the half containing those who swarmed into government, for the power and prestige. Nothing changes. Just the language.
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  2. It's a narrative that has served them and their predecessors for generations. They know no other way of characterizing things that sheds luster on their low morals and greed. "I'm not pissing down your back! It's all YOUR fault that it's raining!"
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  3. If Israel flew a sortie against the Iranian Embassy in Syria, you can't blame Iran for retaliating. I fear for the fleets in the region and I fear what they might do.
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  4.  @preemptivekicks1355  In the strictest sense, Manifest Destiny is incontrovertible. If WE were not the best, then Destiny would've replaced us. If we were not superior, Nature would've culled us from the herd. It is a terse description of reality as it is. The NOW is an expression of Destiny. All empires believe this. All empires deny that destiny has turned on them, as they decay and die. "We're the best and will remain so until we are not." Until that day comes, we're the boss. Few empires foresee their own end, or they would have averted it. The USA is in its Louis XVI stage. Its Marie Antoinette stage. Right down to "Let them eat cake."
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  5. "It is our duty to maintain the rules-based order." "Rules-based order" is what these people throw out when they're planning on flouting international law.
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  6. Exactly. When we say "rules-based order," we're planning on violating international law.
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  7. Those at the top scratched and clawed the hardest to get to the top. That is their primary competency. This has always been understood. The American Experiment was designed to keep the highest offices the most restrained. It was designed to keep the central government small, for 2 reasons: 1. Less incentive to take over the institution. 2. Less harm done when pathological behavior ensues. Instead, what the USA did was make the government bigger and more powerful to fight against robber barons, which was exactly what the robber barons wanted. Something they could sink their teeth into and wield to their further advantage. The technique is pretty basic. Use public disaffection for robber barons as an opportunity to grow the government. Right when the public was about to tear down the robber barons, the government interposes itself between the public and the robber barons, in the name of fighting robber barons. After 200 years of this slow, one-way process, the robber barons run everything.
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  8.  @GIDSKID100  America is based on supreme distrust of government power. The people have voted for more government power, out of fear, ignorance, and sheer laziness. That government is best which governs least. Ours used to be that, but from the beginning, the elites have always sought to restore the old, aristocratic forms, usually thru fear and state-serving ideology, especially since the central government took over education, health, and the press.
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  9. You want to maintain hegemony? BALANCE YOUR BUDGET!!! You cannot do that; therefore, the world will educate you.
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  10. We made ourselves dependent on China and now rattle saber against China. We're de-industrializing and pretending we're still a powerhouse. We're cutting our own throat and dragging our allies docwn with us. None of this can be analyzed without mention of insane climate-change ideology.
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  11. Being on the Security Council means you can do anything you want, and the UN will do nothing.
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  12.  @pausereflect5911  They will double down on lies until they can't. Just like any other criminal enterprise.
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  13. Not a good sign for the next 4 years.
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