This is posted on bernhard’s steadily updating discussion of Russia’s recognition of the Donbas republics. One of the btls - ‘Circe’ - threw out the phrase “adverse economic effects of the lingering pandemic”; which prompted my reply:
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@Circe 237: “the adverse economic effects of a lingering pandemic”.
There has been no pandemic, lingering or otherwise. There has been a bad novel flu-like illness going around (from - well - from somewhere…), now settling quietly into the background endemic status of normal flus/colds. In its debut appearance, it’s killed a few more than the average bad-flu season kills. The (useless, but hyper-profitable) poison-stabs are already killing even more. As are the murderous psycho-spiritual effects of lockdown.
These are sober facts, which are becoming ever more impossible to hide. It gets clearer steadily that the panic-demic was all a scam by the WEFoids. The bad economic effects, which definitely have been happening and are still continuing, were caused by the pretended response to the pretended pandemic: lockdowns, trashed SME businesses, etc.
And it’s been suggested widely that that economic scorched-earth result may well have been one of the goals behind the WEFoids’ ‘pandemic’ swindle: precisely to cut away a whole swathe of energy-and-other-resource-demanding economic activity, so as to begin facing the unavoidable consequences of the world-economy’s now-inevitable shrinkage (sic!). And to allow the onepercenter gics (gangsters-in-charge) to vulture over the wreckage to grab lots of cheapo bargains for themselves too, of course: deliberately gangster-induced disaster-capitalism. Notice how the billionaire-class has got so much richer whilst the rest of us have been getting our lifeblood sucked…?
Anyone with any functioning brain cells knows that the global economy, in aggregate, is in a serious crisis. Many of us understand that this crisis is - basically - down to the (geophysically-enforced) limits to growth, especially the now-pressing limits to further growth of the master resource on which ALL human economic activity depends absolutely: cheap, easy-get, high-density energy supplies: the utterly-indispensable life-blood of hitech industrial society.
The (non-delusional) globalist gics understand this underlying reality as well as anyone. That’s probably one big reason why the WEFoids brought forward their ‘pandemic’ scam with such panicky haste: the little-publicised bank repo crisis of Autumn 2019 really spooked them with the fear that the whole teetering global economic house of cards was about to come down, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, and devastating everything with indiscriminate destruction.
What the WEFoids have been plotting for some years has been a take-down, using global health-panic swindles, of any sort of popular democratic control, in favour of neo-feudalist tyranny, the better to manage the (non-negotiable) ending of economic growthforever and the beginning of the new era of long-term economic shrinkage; to their own considerable benefit in increased WealthPowerStatus, of course, and the equivalent disbenefit for the rest of us. The repo crisis just spooked them into jumping the gun, and bringing forward their scamdemic before they were fully ready. And they’ve messed it up rather well! 
Russia, with increasing obviousness, is one of the very few places in the world which may be able to navigate the new era of economic shrinkage that is mandated by the inherent, and now sharp, limits to growth; Russia being the nearest thing in the world right now to a full autarky. Doubtless there are realists amongst the Russian intelligentsia/ruling-elites who are aware of these steely, all-underlying realities; there’s a sprinkling of such realists everywhere in the world, after all. They’re also well aware that USAmerica is - right now! - sliding helplessly down the same dumpster-chute that swallowed the USSR thirty years ago.
So chess-master Russia - with chess-master China standing quietly behind it - makes its move to end the Ukrainian running sore, and to accelerate both the collapse of NATO, and the dissolution of the Anglozionist empire in favour of the new multipolar world. Interesting Times! LOL!
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