The comment is in reply to this piece by Kit K:
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Nuance it a bit more, Kit:
Yes, the gangsters-in-charge (the gics) in what Andrei Raevsky/The Saker calls Zone A of the world, otherwise the Anglozionist empire and its vassals (Eurolemmingia, the ukstate, Australasia, Japan, SKorea), want to damage Russia, and have rushed into a sanctions war without admitting too loudly that it will be a disaster for their own vassals, including the common citizenry of the US itself: the metropolitan state of âthe Empire of Liesâ, as Andrei also calls it.
But also, these same gics have amongst their number at least a sprinkling of hard-faced realists who make it their business to peer ahead as well as they can into the fog-of-the-future. These creeps are as aware as anyone who keeps his/her mind clear of the Permanent Bullshit Blizzard of the Az empire that the near future is looking â well, decidedly Interesting.
They understand, for example, that the Az empire is now in the terminal endgame which eventually consumes all empires: that their empire is on the way down, whilst the immediate future belongs to the rising Russian and Chinese empires. But also, they â the hard-faced ultra-realists amongst the globalist gics mostly holed-up currently in the Az empire â understand something else:
Anyone not entranced by the conventional-wisdom canards of our time knows that the famous Limits To Growth are real, and non-negotiable, and are already starting to bite. (Btw, I get the impression that you excellent folk of the editorial crew at Off-G are yourselves a bit behind the curve in grasping these LTG realities; still somewhat hypnotised by the econonicgrowthforever-into-the-hypertechie-future fairytale myth of our time. But thatâs another matterâŚ)
Hence, just as you outline Kit, the LimitsToGrowth-realists amongst the globalist gics feel urged to do something drastic. But this isnât just about the rivalry with Russia. It encompasses also the looming shortages. Not only shortages of the optional indulgences of the fat life for we Pampered Twenty Percent of the Earthâs humans, but also of lifeâs basic necessities for absolutely everyone: food, fuel, and all the basic commodities which make a productive hitech industrial economy possible. Particularly fuels, of course, without which nothing productive in the physical world can happen at all.
And letâs be clear: whatever obfuscations may be getting bandied about currently, the main and absolutely non-substitutable * sources of energy â fossil hydrocarbons â are now past their all-time aggregate global peak of production, and are headed into their irreversible and non-negotiable down-slope right now. Could it be, do you think, that the US and the al Saud gang donât increase their oil/gas output because now, in 2022, they canât? Not to any effective extent? (Look into the USâs absolute need to import heavy grades of oil, to cut the barrel-scraping ultra-light production which is all they have left themselves, and without which they canât make diesel â without which their entire economy dies pronto. Guess where they have to import the heavy from: Russia right now, Venezuela if Maduro will play ballâŚ)
So, all of this duly considered, it becomes necessary from the gicsâ criminal perspective to start crunching down on the fat life of the overblown middle class within their empire: less of everything for everyone (except the gics themselves, natch); and, of course, all of this belt-tightening is to be done in ways which allow the gics to maintain their grip on overall power and control of society.
Cela va sans dire, natch. Thatâs always their number one priority: hang on to the sacred, hyper-addictive trinity of WealthPowerStatus at all costs!
Also, naturally enough for these amoralists, anything which helps to cull the currently-overshot numbers of their human cattle will be a good thing for the immediate future too; eugenics redux, by whatever smokescreened means that will workâŚ
The nuanced conclusion has to be that, yes indeed, the economy-crashing sanctions are deliberate, and are aimed at we plebs in the Az empire, at least as much as theyâre aimed at Russia; quite possibly more so. But theyâre at least as much about the apocalyptic Limits as they are about inter-imperial rivalry.
Maintaining the iron control of the gics, whilst crashing the living standards of we plebs, and crashing our brute numbers too as far as possible: this is the underlying game.
Oddly, they could just as well pass with the eugenics. The Limits will see to the task of bringing our population level back into balance within the Earthâs life-support system, even should we do nothing whatever to resolve effectively our current overshoot; which it seems we wonât. And humankind are probably never going to be able to do selective breeding of ourselves in the same way that we do it to other species. We shanât be deliberately breeding Homo Superior. Weâre just not up to that level of long-term discipline.
With luck, though, and over a much longer time period, that should happen spontaneously, by natural evolution. There are grounds to hope for thatâŚ
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*There are NO effective substitutes for fossil-hydrocarbon energy on any practical scale. Nuclear fusion as a practicable global system has been âtwenty years in the futureâ for all of my lifetime, and will remain there permanently. Not doable. Eat your hearts out, techie-techie eegabeevas!
Current standard nuclear fission, moreover, is subject to the same depleting-fuel syndrome as are fossil-hydrocarbon-driven power systems. Thereâs only a finite amount of actually-getatable pitchblende in the Earthâs crust.
And as for ârenewablesâ â hah!. Besides being absolutely dependent on permanent fossil-hydrocarbon energy subsidies to build, run and maintain them, they suffer from two further intractable difficulties:
They could never, even theoretically, offer the vast flood of high-energy-density fuel that we splurge currently; certainly not in the ultra-convenient high-density liquid form that fossil hydrocarbons provide. But beyond that thereâs a further killer difficulty:
The main ârenewablesâ â solar and wind â are irretrievably ragged; they donât come in a reliably-steady flow; nor is there any practical way at all to store their energy flows, nor is any such realistic storage system visible anywhere on the techie-techie horizon. These non-dodgeable reaities mean that, to maintain steady electrical power availability on the grid 24/7, back-up generating stations equivalent to the entire output capability of the ârenewablesâ simply have to be on permanent stand-by tickover. This is such an expensive essential adjunct to ârenewablesâ that itâs been shown â in Germany, for example â that adding ârenewablesâ to your national generating system makes electricity unavoidably more costly to produce. Whatâs even more of a no-no: the tickover sets have to be of a kind which can be ramped up rapidly to cover ârenewableâ shortfalls as they occur. And â literally â the only available systems which can do this rapid manoeuvring safely and quickly enough are â ta-daaa! â gas-firedgenerating sets.
And as for hydrogen⌠Oh please! Do look up the technics!
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