Crisis Progress Report (3), by Robert Gore | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC
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The headline of the Journal editorial is “Putin’s Latest Victory.” Putin is the enemy and the US political elite wants to use Ukraine as a lever to dislodge him and install a government more tractable to its designs. This is a pipe dream on the order of the neocon fantasy of remaking the Middle East, and Merkel and Hollande just said “nein” and “non” respectively. If they keep the US from escalating the war in Ukraine (a long odds bet), it would redound to the benefit of both the US and Europe. However, remaking the Middle East and Russia to suit American interests are long-term goals of the bipartisan elite, faithfully trumpeted by its MSM propaganda arm. This is what passes for brains among those running the US, and it reinforces the message of “Buy Asia; Short the US and Europe,” (SLL, 2/3/15). They are dangerous in every sense of the word, posing a grave threat to the lives and remaining wealth of the American people.
Apparently the world’s smart money is grasping the potential of the Asian-Russian linkages US policy has done so much to promote. The Russian stock market hit bottom one month after the Ukrainian coup last year and so far is the world’s best performing market in 2015. The Chinese have pollution issues and massive piles of debt and malinvestment to work through, but their stock market has been on a tear. So has India’s. The Asia-Russia investment thesis has far more appeal than taking a flyer on the debt-saturated economies and central bank-manipulated bond and stock markets of the US and Europe.
The headline of the Journal editorial is “Putin’s Latest Victory.” Putin is the enemy and the US political elite wants to use Ukraine as a lever to dislodge him and install a government more tractable to its designs. This is a pipe dream on the order of the neocon fantasy of remaking the Middle East, and Merkel and Hollande just said “nein” and “non” respectively. If they keep the US from escalating the war in Ukraine (a long odds bet), it would redound to the benefit of both the US and Europe. However, remaking the Middle East and Russia to suit American interests are long-term goals of the bipartisan elite, faithfully trumpeted by its MSM propaganda arm. This is what passes for brains among those running the US, and it reinforces the message of “Buy Asia; Short the US and Europe,” (SLL, 2/3/15). They are dangerous in every sense of the word, posing a grave threat to the lives and remaining wealth of the American people.
Apparently the world’s smart money is grasping the potential of the Asian-Russian linkages US policy has done so much to promote. The Russian stock market hit bottom one month after the Ukrainian coup last year and so far is the world’s best performing market in 2015. The Chinese have pollution issues and massive piles of debt and malinvestment to work through, but their stock market has been on a tear. So has India’s. The Asia-Russia investment thesis has far more appeal than taking a flyer on the debt-saturated economies and central bank-manipulated bond and stock markets of the US and Europe.
