Debt Rattle October 27 2026
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William Merritt Chase Back Of A Nude 1888 • A Good Point About the Problem that Zelenskyy Is Creating (CTH) • Musk Warns Over 200 Ai Neoclouds Face ‘G
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle October 27 2026]
“Rubio Urges Cubans To Partner With CIA To Bring Change To Communist Country
What a bunch of scumbags. Just putting it out there. No. Do not approve. However, the other side will jail us all, end free speech, chop up our kids, and steal everything for their friends. So I blame you guys for being an opposition so s—t you can’t be better than these losers. The Republicans are just the Democrats from 1965. Look at everyone on stage at the rally: All Democrats.
“Senators Say Trump Admin Is Illegally Sitting On Secret Court Ruling About Warrantless Spying
Oh so after 25, 35 years NOW you’re interested? He’s probably waiting for you to demand it. So it will be your fault. Like the Epstein files. Whatever happened to those?
It was like 500 Congressmen all cried out in horror, then Silence. Hey remember the good old days when Democrats told the Drudge Report that was all a crazy Conspiracy Theory? Good Times, good times.
“Alastair Crooke : Can Witkoff and Kushner Seduce Putin and Zelenskyy With Their Deals?” — Judge I-Make-It-Up
Who cares? I’ve given up. I hope they kill each other for at least 1,000 years. Since the Judge hates the very concept of peace here, I’m sure he’ll completely approve. How dare Trump attempt to broker peace. WE MUST HAVE WAR I TELL YOU!!! Talking peace is Stupid!!! Stop this peace immediately!– Judge Napalitano, Fox News, and Rupert Murdoch. The fewer people talking peace the better I like it, says the Judge, And that’s the side of the angels.
“Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish security chiefs flew into Tehran while Trump declared another no-strike day.”
Now who was it that owes me $500 and can never speak on the Internet again? This is the little one. They promised me nuclear bombs. …Back with “Little Rocket Man” about about every week in office for 6 years, but only JUST last month. Totally, Fox-Swears-on-the-Koran promised.
“Trump’s “maybe tomorrow” has effectively voided his written promise not to strike Iran before the midterms,”
This guy too. Not Bombing = Bombing. War Is Peace.
“Trump said both “no attack before the midterms” and “another little Epic Fury” in one news cycle”
Note they don’t care a bit which is true or actually happened. They only care about “Signaling” and your internal emotional state. These people are insane. Some of us still care what ACTUALLY happened and when ACTUAL people get hurt.
Maybe this will be interesting, start and algo-chain. A young kid, podcasting on Iran, his ethnic home, and the Iran Prince perhaps. This is the perception of the Iranian expats. Is it true? It’s a different perspective, it may very well be true, why not find out?
“The Atlantic: the CIA still supplies deep-strike targeting, [Into Russia] “much more aggressive” than under Biden according to a Baltic officer (OlgaBazova)”
I’ll bet they do. And the CIA traitors over at the CIA traitor mouthpiece The Atlantic know all about it.
“Jerusalem Post Took Its Story Down, Alleging Author Matthew Cole Had Unsubstantiated Facts, But We Must Presume This (Vanity Fair) Piece Went Through EXHAUSTIVE Fact and Legal Checks”
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A journalist fact checking! What will they think of next?? Has the last 25 or 55 years not taught you people anything? “Why can’t it learn??”
““The press is a gang of cruel f-ggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for f—koffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.” — Hunter S. Thompson
Good thing Hunter said it, because I wouldn’t have been so generous.
Fueling the War in Ukraine.
By Larry C. Johnson on 27 October 2026I spent enough years at the Central Intelligence Agency that I learned how to read the press stories that the agency’s friends place for it. Shane Harris’s new profile of CIA Director John Ratcliffe in The Atlantic, published October 23, is one of those stories. It is written to make Ratcliffe look like the sober professional in a chaotic administration. But read it carefully and it confirms something Washington has spent four years denying: the United States is not merely supplying Ukraine. Through the CIA, it is fighting Russia.
“The CIA is in the lead”
Harris does not bury the lede. Armed with information the CIA provides, Ukraine’s military has been launching strikes deep inside Russia. American spy satellites give Ukraine early warning of incoming Russian missiles and drones. Among U.S. personnel on the ground in Ukraine, a retired senior officer who travels there frequently told him, “the CIA is in the lead.”It gets better. A Baltic intelligence officer who works closely with the Americans told Harris that, whatever Donald Trump says in public, the CIA’s operations against Russia are now “much more aggressive” than they were under Joe Biden. Officers in the CIA’s Special Activities Center, the people who run covert and paramilitary operations, are reportedly among the happiest at Langley, because they are so busy. And this is not new. As Harris notes, the CIA helped build Ukraine’s modern intelligence apparatus after Russia took Crimea in 2014. This has been the agency’s war for more than a decade.
Let me translate that from the polite language of a magazine profile. American intelligence is identifying the targets inside Russia, American satellites are running Ukraine’s air-defense warning network, and American officers are “in the lead” on the ground. If Russia were doing that for Mexico against Texas, Washington would call it an act of war. Moscow has said for years that it is fighting NATO, not just Ukraine. Here, courtesy of The Atlantic and its anonymous sources, is the evidence.
Shooting ourselves in the fuel tank
Now comes the absurdity. According to Harris, the CIA’s success has become a problem for the President. The refinery strikes the agency helps enable have hobbled Russia’s economy. The International Energy Agency estimates that in the first eight months of this year, Ukraine hit a Russian refinery on average once every three days.Those refineries make diesel. The world is short of diesel. The International Energy Agency says the shortage will run well into 2027. And Trump, according to Harris, blames the attacks on Russian refineries for the spike in prices and wants them to stop. He has threatened to cut off intelligence support to Ukraine unless Kyiv halts the refinery strikes.
Think about that. The CIA helps Ukraine knock out Russian refining capacity. Diesel prices soar. Then on October 9, in the middle of peace talks in Miami, the President announces a deal for Russia to sell its diesel on the world market, boasting on Truth Social that prices would be “COMING DOWN… AND FAST!” Harris reports that the announcement caught the negotiators by surprise, and that Putin made no reciprocal commitment. So the United States is simultaneously paying to destroy Russian diesel production and begging Russia to sell it more diesel. You could not design a more incoherent policy if you tried.
The spy channel
The most revealing passage in the piece concerns Ratcliffe’s trip to Moscow in August. Trump sent him to meet his counterparts in the Russian security services through what is informally called the “spy channel.” His message, Harris writes, was that nobody was winning: Russia had failed to make meaningful advances, and Ukraine could not expel Russian forces. The hope was that Ratcliffe could convince Putin he was pursuing a lost cause.I have two problems with that. The first is the claim itself. Russia’s General Staff reported to Putin on October 16 that its forces had taken roughly 6,500 square kilometers and 310 settlements since January. You can argue the Russian figure is inflated, and I have. But even DeepState, the Ukrainian mapping project, counts about 1,300 square kilometers. Russia is advancing. It is not doing so as fast as Moscow claims, but “failed to make meaningful advances” is wishful thinking dressed up as intelligence.
The second problem is the messenger. Imagine you are the head of the SVR or the FSB. The director of the CIA flies into Moscow to tell you, spy to spy, that your war is a stalemate and you should give it up. You know perfectly well that his agency is the one feeding Ukraine the targeting data for the drones hitting your refineries. That is not a peace overture. That is a threat with a diplomatic passport. If Ratcliffe expected the Russians to take his assessment as neutral advice, he does not understand the people he was talking to.
Not what Truman built
Ratcliffe likes to talk about returning the CIA to its “roots.” He has the roots wrong. Harry Truman did not create the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947 to run paramilitary campaigns. He created it to collect and analyze intelligence from foreign sources and tell the President the truth, so that he would never again be blindsided the way Franklin Roosevelt was at Pearl Harbor. Covert action came in through the back door. Within a year, the National Security Council’s directive NSC 10/2 authorized covert operations, and the clandestine tail has been wagging the analytic dog ever since.Truman saw it happening and said so publicly. In an op-ed published in the Washington Post on December 22, 1963, a month after John Kennedy’s assassination, he wrote that he had become disturbed by how far the CIA had strayed from “its intended role.” His words are worth quoting: “I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations.” The agency, he warned, “has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the government.” He said that in creating it, “the most important thing was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions,” and he asked that the CIA be “restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President.”
Sixty-three years later, Ratcliffe has turned Truman’s warning into a mission statement.
How covert action corrupts the truth
I want to explain why this matters, because it is not an abstract argument about organization charts. I watched it from the inside.When an intelligence agency is simply collecting and analyzing information, its only stake in the outcome is getting the answer right. The moment the same agency is running a covert operation, it has a horse in the race. The operation has a budget, a sponsor on the Seventh Floor, careers riding on it and, most important, a President who has already been told it will work. Now the analysts down the hall are being asked to assess whether their own colleagues’ operation is succeeding. Bad news is no longer just bad news. It is an attack on the director’s program and an embarrassment to the man in the Oval Office.
The pressure is rarely an explicit order to change a conclusion. It is subtler and more corrosive than that. The pessimistic assessment gets sent back for more sourcing. The analyst who keeps writing that the operation is failing gets a reputation for not being a team player, and does not get the next promotion. The briefing for the President leads with the success stories and buries the costs in an annex. After a few rounds of that, as Julia Curlee told Harris, officers simply stop telling the hard truths and “learned to avoid” what the White House did not want to hear.
We have seen where this leads. The Bay of Pigs was planned by the clandestine service and kept walled off from the agency’s own analysts, who might have pointed out that there was no evidence the Cuban people were about to rise up against Castro. The operators sold the President the operation they wanted to run, and the analysis that would have stopped it never reached his desk. The pattern repeats whenever the agency becomes both the player and the referee.
Now look at Ukraine. The CIA is, by The Atlantic’s account, “in the lead” on the ground, helping run a campaign of deep strikes inside Russia. The same CIA is responsible for telling the President whether that campaign is working and whether Ukraine can win. Is it any surprise that the agency’s message, the one Ratcliffe carried to Moscow, is that Russia has “failed to make meaningful advances”? An agency that has spent twelve years building Ukraine’s intelligence service and now directs its targeting has every institutional incentive to report that its war is going well, or at least not badly. The negative consequences, Russian advances, Ukrainian casualties, a diesel shortage that is hammering Europe and American consumers, are exactly the things an agency in that position is least likely to put front and center.
That is the corruption Truman feared. Not that the CIA would lie outright, but that it would slowly start serving the operation instead of the President, and the President would make decisions based on intelligence shaped by people who need him to keep going.
An agency that tells the boss what he wants
Harris also reports on the state of the CIA itself, and it isn’t pretty. Ratcliffe pledged at his confirmation hearing to “conduct covert action at the direction of the president, going places no one else can go and doing things no one else can do.” The covert-action side is thriving, from Ukraine to Venezuela to the CIA’s air strikes on suspected drug boats, which legal experts say may violate the laws of armed conflict. One former officer told Harris, “The agency is over its skis right now.”The analysts, meanwhile, are miserable. More of them report that the objectivity of their work is being undermined. Julia Curlee, a senior analyst who resigned in May, put it bluntly: “Ratcliffe isn’t protecting the CIA from politicization; he’s leading it.” Current and former officers say they have never seen so many retirements and resignations. An agency where the paramilitary officers are thrilled and the analysts are afraid to tell hard truths is an agency built to fight wars, not to understand them. And Harris himself notes that Trump did not heed the intelligence community’s warnings about how Iran would respond to American attacks. We are all paying for that one now.
Pick a policy
So here is where the United States stands. The President calls Zelensky “more difficult to deal with” than Putin and urges Ukrainians to elect someone else. His CIA director is running operations against Russia that are more aggressive than Biden’s. His CIA is helping Ukraine destroy Russian refineries while he cuts deals to sell Russian diesel. His spy chief flies to Moscow to tell the Russians they cannot win, while his agency’s own analysts are afraid to tell him what they think.That is not a strategy. It is a contradiction that the American people are paying for at the pump, and that the Ukrainians are paying for with their lives. If Washington wants peace, it should stop being a combatant. If it wants to fight Russia, it should have the honesty to say so, to Congress and to the voters, before the midterms rather than after. What it cannot keep doing is both, and pretending it is doing neither.
This interview is important to understand
The man shares reality from the Russian perspective and I sense truthful
Sergey Glazyev: The World Economy Is Moving East and the West Can’t Stop It
Do you have your browser set to erase all history, page and search, and all cookies upon closing? Does our host?
In the event neither of the above is true then every item in our host’s feed is pre-selected for us when his browser is opened. In the event the browser is never closed there is a certainty in that reality.One of the beauties of learning is finding the balance between being wrong and not becoming discouraged.
“All the cash is now being geotracked…….” do you find comfort in this?
Have you investigated Bessent’s employment history? Black WednesdayToday:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Merritt_Chase“He maintains that post-war demographic change across the West was deliberate, driven by a belief among ruling elites “that there is something inherently immoral and threatening about a majority-white Christian country”. Aka “Kill them all from the earth”.
I don’t know what you can say to that. It can’t be true, yet it’s impossible for it not to be true.
“”And the leadership of our country… despises Putin for that reason.”
Donald Trump and his entire administration are not “The Leadership of our country” according to Tucker, a CIA man. Tell me more, Tuck. I often ask “Who is really running things” as Ted Cruz obeys Jack, a man not even a prosecutor but a common citizen.
“Then Boris Johnson flew in.Yes, it was the ultra AMERICAN Boris Johnson, PM of England. While they were brokering a settled deal with the U.S. as a sideline to the completed Donbas peace deal. Quick, tell Alex, while he ALSO quotes this daily, then concludes the #Opposite. Boris is an American now.
That’s not my question though. My question is: “How?” What did Boris tell Zelensky? And what has he told him every losing day since then, 2.5 Million people later.
Whatever it was, it must be very interesting.
“The architects and fathers of this catastrophe are the US and NATO
That isn’t false. But WHO? Who exactly? So no one was involved until April 1st, 2022, England LEAPED into action first time, having never been involved even once before now? Please elaborate. Tell me all about it.
Or was it “NATO” AND the “United States” meaning 100% of NATO – Every nation in EUROPE, and a couple of rogue generals and the CIA who were dragged along? Hmmm. Because THAT’S WHAT THE EQUIPMENT ROSTER SAYS. What was shipped to Ukraine, and when? Nothing. Shipped too slow. That says they are doing everything they can think of to stall and escape, not that they’re the foaming vanguard.
Congress ordered them to. They did everything but openly rebel. So that leads to WHO? Who exactly? And back to Tucker’s statement that “Who exactly” is never Presidents or administrations at all, is it?
Who sent Boris? He Logan Acted on his own private citizenship and the President of one of the largest nations instantly obeyed?
“• A Good Point About the Problem that Zelenskyy Is Creating (CTH)
True and also possibly inevitable. Because they’re such reckless dips—ts. That is, the Satellite people; the Ukrainians are doing is totally predictable, there’s not human on earth who wouldn’t say they’d do that. So selling Starlink ANYWHERE in Ukraine, is ALWAYS military. That’s the obvious thing all along, and why most of us haven’t bothered to distinguish StarShield until now.
Your claims are hilarious. I only care about the FACTS of what you do. It was always near-exclusively military, and everybody knew. Again, Russia has always let them. Why?
“Elon Musk warns that over 200 specialist AI cloud providers could fail or consolidate as lenders tighten up their purse strings.
Why there is no Capitalism nor competition. Big existing financiers exclusively turn on and off the tap. Once banks are locked up, regulated, it can be no other way. They are the Politboro of American Socialism.
Meanwhile, you can have the worst run companies on planet earth, Microsoft, for example, and have no trouble getting 1% financing for your monopoly works.
“80% of neocloud providers will cease operating independently by 2030, as the industry struggles to generate sufficient returns”
That is to say: There was never even any plausible chance of profit. As we all knew. Capitalism chases not-profit now. The more not-Profit expected, the more money they suddenly put in. For a product none of the American People want.
“respect for institutional rules became negotiable when Comey decided James Comey had a better idea.”
Ego Uber Alles
“Obama claims Iran is stronger than before.”
That always happens when you’re bombed flat and they fly Bell H-13 Sioux over you for 200 days. The Iranian podcaster above, has a relevant question: Who would you rather be? The U.S., who doesn’t even notice and has rotated out all weapons and troops? Or Iran?
Obama says Iran. He’d rather be Iran. And going back to EM Burlingame, point out that – what can stop the rogue state? The Globalists and out-of-control petty Hitler bureaucracy? Kings, actually. Just as the U.S. happens to have a king-like Executor, as formed in 1789, the era of Kings. They made sure that never happened again in the French Revolution, following the mob, what would be the Soviet, Socialist Plan.
Who are the Kings? King of Spain last week. King of Denmark, can broker a deal. King of Iran, above. He exists, he can make things right. It’s even possible the King of England is under house arrest by the same people who will kill him and his whole family, Tsarina-style, if he so much as breathes funny. In fact, I guarantee that’s true. And Putin likewise has the broad executive, the similar powers of a King.
By sheer coincidence these are the ones the Globalists like Ursula – who have no elections, no job description, no powers, and no process, no responsibilities – are all fighting. She, the EU, are very clearly the Politboro, the Permanent Bureaucracy, the managerial state, hiding all within a kaskaesque leviathan of deniability, like Comey does or is in the Kunstler essay. That is how cowardly, lying, self-serving weasels operate. That is how they Think. Men stand up and say “This is what it is, suck it.” That’s what they hate most: Truth, Light, Responsibility, Order.
Anyway, Obama here denies the reality of all wars over all time in all places. He knows better, actually. Who you gonna believe, him or all recorded history? If bombing makes them stronger, then Peace makes them weaker?
“but unlike in the movie, the jurors are actually being trained to ignore evidence and deliberations in favor of political outcomes.”
Yup, Thus why the Clancy Trial was a put-on. It’s a puppet show. WHY am I seeing this case? WHY is it in the media? For only this reason: to end the very concept of Jury trial, innocence, attacking every black juror they can find. Which way Western Man?
By the way, this is exactly the process and premised they used to have “Activist Reporters” 30 years ago. Now it’s illegal to tell even the smallest truth, and Reality itself is melting. Which King and God would desire that? Which Prince and Morningstar?
“• Something’s Rotten in Brasília: Did Lula Just Use Biden’s Playbook? (Anderson)
Too complicated for me to follow. As is Yemen. But also internal Canadian politics, although I may get up to speed there some distant day. All of them: what is going on is not what is seen or said. Everything real going on is in darkness.
“Euro Deficits exceed 3%”
Yes, and it’s even worse because they’re also lying. So they’ve burned though every trick and STILL this is what is public. So it’s 10x that? Usually? Thus why they need the war, and to colonize the U.S. And have no reservations about a broad nuclear exchange as soon and as often and possible, and Judge Nepalitano, Alistair, and Fox News from Murdoch are fighting against peace with every breath in their body.
Okay, next question: France is broke, bonds cracked first, over 5%, which they can’t stand but we easily can. WHAT DOES THE MONEY GET YOU? Already they’re +60% government, possibly the most Socialist government on earth. They ALREADY gave every citizen, every migrant, everything. Free school, medical, apartments if necessary – they’re still rioting. Give them everything, they riot. Give them nothing, they don’t. Hmmm. Almost like a Mortal Sin.
But what that means is somehow that MONEY translates into CONTROL – which we’re all quite sure it does, but HOW? It’s not funding the police or army. It’s not funding a secret Stasi that we know of. So what? Where? Is the organized blackmail, trafficking, drug, crime, murder cartels REALLY that large it’s essentially the budgets of most European countries? ‘Coz armies are a lot cheaper, I assure you.
Well you tell me. They need “money” but what is the money buying? Then or now? Control, yes, but How?
“• The Gettysburg Address: Crown Jewel of American Political Rhetoric (Mahoney)
Sort of. There are a lot of great speeches in history, most about events that no longer ring. And this one was considered a total failure at the time. Most good things are coughfightingcovidcough.
“Kevin O’Leary defends Elon Musk’s extraordinary wealth and says America should reward innovators,”
Musk gets all his money from Government, same as Lockheed. He is not an innovator, he doesn’t invent things. He’s a money guy and a manager. That’s like saying Eisenhower is the best Boxer in the army. No, but he permits the conditions for that boxer to exist.
Again, repeating, since this is running our world: Musk is an ARMY. He has created a robot army, the factories for another robot army, and the back end servers. The others are creating all the small, war-resistant nuclear plants to charge that army. TO FIGHT WHO?
“Over the past 500 years, all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to Europe”
And this is from Mao, one of the most blooththirsty periods and people ever known? Down to Pol Pot? You can say yes, sure, but JAPAN is the one who invaded and sparked the next level, and if you say Well China Opium Wars, etc, then you’re back to “Any nation who ever contacts another nation.” At that point, why not pick Uruguay? What he’s doing is proposing a collective guilt
Which is also a complete collective innocence
Of everyone else. If you’re not ACTUALLY the empire – and one that existed 490 years ago, he claims – then you have no power and no responsibilities. Japan is therefore completely innocent of the Chinese atrocities, As is Turkey for their – I dunno FIVE genocides, undisputed world champion genocider? No nation in Africa ever dun wrong selling millions of fellow nations to slavery, which was the GOOD outcome, which was usually death. Etc. We should have kept the Aztecs, killing ten-thousands and eating hearts, IF ONLY!!
Nope. Not going there. It’s a popular view because: It makes people do what I want. I say some dumb-s—t words and you obey! Magic! But it’s also false and fatal. Europe isn’t all. They’re just the latest. Other nations killed hundred-millions in an joyful attempt to keep up, we were just “better” and kicked their -ss. And we are only responsible for our own actions. Not even thoughts. Not even words. Actions.
Larry: In good CIA style, all the facts are right there now, described by him. I agree. Except he says “He doesn’t understand” when if you set aside his fake framing, it’s perfectly clear. So Larry’s own data set now agrees perfectly with me. Congratulations, Larry, you did it. A day after telling the truth for the first time in a year.
He can’t understand how the U.S., Trump, could be both bombing diesel refineries and hiring them. No kidding. That would be because we’re not? Never did? And that would be because the CIA is the rogue operation HE HIMSELF PROPOSES THEY ARE. Decisively anti-Presidential, Anti-Democracy, SINCE Nineteen-f’ing-sixty-two?
And LITERALLY EVERY U.S. CITIZEN KNOWS AND BELIEVES?
Larry finally caught up to Cleetus the Slack-jawed yokel. “All America” over “All time”. You did it!!!
Okay, so the CIA is a ROGUE operation, and hasn’t listened to the President in generations. I believe you Larry! I agree!
And so therefore they are ALSO a rogue operation NOW. In Russia. Because nothing has happened since 1962 to stop them, but indeed, thousands of steps and laws to further empower them. Which every Ricky-Bobby from NASCAR east knows, and is literally in every Hollywood script since “Day of the Condor.”
Then the President – which you openly say is stovepiped, the #Enemy of the CIA – then has policies that consistently run counter the the CIA, unelected, un-executive, un-democratic plans of world war and conquest. Run in opposition to the President, even as they openly remove the Presidents, FDR, JFK, Nixon, Reagan, and Trump.
Problem solved Larry!
YOU DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Call this a #36, I’ll make a macro and cut and paste it every day from now on, especially when Larry himself speaks. Larry says the CIA is rogue and always has been. He says they’re for war and against the President, and always has been. So if they are Pro-war, and the #Opposite of Presidents, that makes the President(s)….Pro….Peace???? Yeeeeessssss.
“Sergey Glazyev: The World Economy Is Moving East and the West Can’t Stop It”
Why would we stop it? It’s our published policy to let it. Is she illiterate, or dishonest?
@Michael Reid:
Truman wasa dupe for a few oligarchs, who put him in as FDR’s running mate, against FDR’s wishes, because they knew he would listen to them and sign papers They had a final plan for FDR.
What Truman thought the CIA was constituted for was just what Harry-the-dupe was told.
He probably knew more than he could even imply in his late 1963 apology.Radhika Desai’s interview with Sergey Glazyev is here as a transcript, which I prefer, myself. https://radicaldesai.substack.com/p/sergey-glazyev-the-world-economy
Covert action is a secret action undertaken.
How secrets are revealed.Help from Copilot
Secrets come out through a handful of broad channels. Here’s a rundown, grouped by type.**Technical surveillance and sensing**
– **Satellites:** Commercial and government imagery reveals military buildup, construction, mass graves, illegal mining or fishing, and nuclear sites. Radar and infrared satellites see through clouds and at night.
– **Cameras:** CCTV, dashcams, doorbell cams, body cams, and drones capture events that were meant to stay hidden.
– **Phones:** Location history, photos with embedded metadata, call logs, and messaging apps leave trails. Everyone carrying a recording device makes bystander footage common.
– **Signals intelligence:** Intercepted communications, metadata analysis, and cell tower records.
– **Data breaches and hacks:** Stolen or leaked databases, emails, and documents.
– **Digital forensics:** Recovering deleted files, browser history, and device contents.
– **Financial records:** Bank transfers, credit card trails, and blockchain analysis (public ledgers make crypto traceable).**Human sources**
– **Spies and informants:** Recruited insiders, double agents, and intelligence services.
– **Whistleblowers:** Employees or officials who leak out of conscience (Snowden, Manning, Frances Haugen).
– **Defectors:** People who leave an organization or country and talk.
– **Confessions:** Guilt, deathbed admissions, or plea deals.
– **Gossip and loose lips:** Drunken talk, pillow talk, or an offhand remark to the wrong person.
– **Disgruntled insiders:** Ex-partners, fired employees, and rivals with a grudge.**Media and public investigation**
– **Investigative reporters:** Source cultivation, document analysis, and records requests (Watergate, Panama Papers).
– **Blogs, forums, and social media:** (Congratulation. TAE is here.) Citizen sleuthing, viral posts, and anonymous tips.
– **OSINT (open-source intelligence):** Groups like Bellingcat combine satellite imagery, geolocation, social media, flight trackers, and public records to uncover hidden facts.
– **Documentaries and books:** Long-form investigation and memoirs.
– **Leak platforms:** WikiLeaks, SecureDrop, and similar tools for anonymous submissions.**Legal and institutional mechanisms**
– **Court discovery and subpoenas:** Forcing disclosure of documents and testimony.
– **Freedom of Information requests:** Pulling records from governments.
– **Audits and inspections:** Financial, regulatory, and safety reviews.
– **Congressional or public inquiries:** Hearings with sworn testimony.
– **Declassification:** Government archives opening after a set number of years.
– **Forensic accounting:** Following the money through shell companies.**Science and physical evidence**
– **DNA and genealogy databases:** Revealing identity, parentage, and crime links.
– **Forensics:** Fingerprints, ballistics, toxicology, and chemical analysis.
– **Archaeology and geology:** Uncovering buried history.
– **Environmental sampling:** Air, water, and soil tests reveal secret nuclear tests, pollution, or chemical weapons use.
– **Seismic and radiation monitoring:** Detects underground nuclear tests.**Pattern analysis and inference**
– **Data mining and AI:** (Claude is here.) Spotting anomalies, linking identities, and de-anonymizing “anonymous” data.
– **Traffic and logistics tracking:** Ship (AIS), aircraft (ADS-B), and shipping manifests expose hidden movements.
– **Stylometry:** Identifying authors by writing style.
– **Social network analysis:** Mapping who knows whom.**Time and human nature**
– **Time itself:** Archives open, witnesses talk, and people die, releasing secrets.
– **The number of people who know:** The more people in on a secret, the faster it leaks.
– **Mistakes:** Reused passwords, forgotten metadata, a photo’s background, or a slip in a story.
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Show me the face, please. Facial Recognition in the Surveillance Society
With biometric scanning and facial recognition, we are no longer merely being observed: we are being interpreted, measured and predicted in real time.
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Western Analysts Shocked: Previously Emptied Russian Armor Bases Quietly Filling Up Again
SimpliciusThe past week Western analysts were shocked to discover that Russian armor storage facilities, which were long thought to have emptied out due to the Ukraine war, have been quietly refilling with freshly produced and refurbished armor.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/western-analysts-shocked-previously
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A different point of view to think about.Everyone knows a Country whose debt is denominated in their own currency can not “go bankrupt”.
Posted by: jr | Oct 26 2026 23:29 utc | 93Wowaw, hold on. Regarding the USD, I can give you 2 previous “can no go” that actually went :
“the dollar is the currency of the US and can not be put into private hands”… except it went into the hands of a private bank cartel (the FED) in 1913
“the USD is convertible into gold and can not be only based on trust”… except convertibility ended in 1971So about “the US that cannot go bankrupt because its debt is in USD”, let me point out that the debt is on the US government’s Treasury (the taxpayer), while the USD (and Quantitative Easings, and Treasury debt purchases) is not from the government, but from the FED (a private cartel with oligarchy interests).
The current situation since 1971 has been extremely profitable for the oligarchy, who has put the US taxpayer into quasi financial slavery while still maintaining some theater of “democracy”, “elections” and so on.
However, the day they want to get rid of 90% of useless eaters (to be replaced by robots and AI), they can well easily have the US government default on its 40,463 billion dollarbucks debt, bring the USD to nothing-value, while watching the theater burn and the plebs starve to death.
So, yeah, a country cannot default when its debt is denominated in its “own” currency, yeah… Hold my beer…
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But only the retarded glue-sniffing ones like Larry Johnson. I don’t know how this could even be hypothesized with a straight face, but I’ve seen every normal citizen from Europe, Ireland do it. Russia is using trebuchets to launch washing machines into Kiev, they say, yet somehow Russia seems to be beating them 10:1 every day. Unclear.
Note the use of the word “Western”. They only use that when they mean YOU. Not US. If it was the U.S. they would say so and point with the world’s biggest finger. The world exists entirely to baffle and deflect. It means “Europe and only exclusively Europe”. After the U.S. told them 100 times not to.
“So about “the US that cannot go bankrupt because its debt is in USD”, let me point out that the debt is on the US government’s Treasury (the taxpayer), while the USD (and Quantitative Easings, and Treasury debt purchases) is not from the government, but from the FED”
Speaking of baffling yourself: first, printing money leads to hyperinflation and that currency’s total repudiation aka, “A Bankruptcy” so it’s retarded on its face. I can’t believe normal people have to say these things. By the way, fire is hot and you can drown in water. But second, How many tank divisions does the Fed have? Oh, zero? Tell me again how General Patton can’t go down to the Fed and by 3pm have every Fed official hung and every Fed building on fire as an example to others. JHC people. You don’t have the brains God gave a goose. Don’t walk through the ghetto on Saturday night, and keep having your Mom put your pants on. At least Cleetus knows what “I can hit you with a stick” means.
Today is Israel’s first national legislative election since the Oct.7, 2023 Hamas-led attack which unleashed years of war, particularly focused in the Gaza Strip. The Lebanon conflict is also still smoldering, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political fate is being determined in the vote – is threatening renewed war on Iran.
“The elections for the 26th Knesset began on Tuesday morning, with 7,331,981 voters eligible to participate. 12,018 polling stations will be set up across the country, where voters can choose between 36 lists running to fill the 120 seats in Israel’s legislature,” Israel National News Arutz Sheva previews.
Polls opened at 7am and will close at 10pm (4pm US eastern).
Already the election is being widely described as having incredibly high voter turnout, which is being seen as not boding well for Netanyahu and his Likud party, suggesting “Bibi fatigue” – which is likely to result in more votes for parties either further to the right or to the left. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-election-early-turnout-hits-45-year-high-bibi-fatigue-threatens-netanyahus-gripSergey Glazyev: The World Economy Is Moving East and the West Can’t Stop It
Radhika Desai
18 hours agoRadhika Desai: Hello and welcome to another Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that illuminates the fast-changing political economy and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai. Joining me today is Dr Sergey Glazyev. We’ve had you on the show before, Sergey, and you are the director of Eurasian affairs for the Russian government. Is that right?
Sergey Glazyev: Not really, but it doesn’t matter.
Radhika Desai: Okay, maybe you can say something about how to introduce yourself.
Sergey Glazyev: I prefer to speak as an academician, because otherwise I should speak only official views.
Radhika Desai: Correct. So then I should introduce you as a Russian academician and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr Glazyev is a Russian academician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He’s also a very well-known economist, one of the best known in Russia. So Dr Glazyev, we are here today at the Global Governance Initiative Forum, organised by the People’s Institute for Foreign Affairs, which is the foreign policy think tank of the Communist Party of China. They have organised this Global Governance Initiative Forum to mark the first anniversary of the promulgation of the Global Governance Initiative. It was proposed by President Xi Jinping of China, essentially to indicate that the age of chaos that President Trump had unleashed on the world required taking an initiative to mend some of the difficulties that had been created as a result. And of course, President Trump is not the only factor in this. The crisis of multilateralism has been discussed for at least a decade, if not longer. And what is the substance? I always think of the substance of the crisis of multilateralism as being the decline of the West and the inability of the West to accept this decline and deal with the rest of the world on an equal basis. So with that introduction, maybe I’ll ask for your thoughts on the initiative and on this forum.
Sergey Glazyev: Well, first of all, I should say that perhaps multilateralism is only a symbol, because in fact we never saw multilateralism until now. And today it is on the agenda because unilateralism doesn’t work anymore.
Radhika Desai: Correct.
Sergey Glazyev: After the collapse of the Soviet Union, we had a transition period to the new world economic mode. Now we see the collapse of Pax Americana, and it is clear to everybody at the moment that the United States couldn’t maintain the unipolar world. Everybody is looking for multipolarity, and multilateralism becomes the reality at the moment. And I think the major idea of Chairman Xi is, let’s make international law work again.
Radhika Desai: Exactly.
Sergey Glazyev: Because at the moment we see complete chaos. Here at the forum, the first session which we participated in was about how the WTO doesn’t work. Now the second session is about how the world financial system doesn’t work. But it doesn’t work because there is no single centre anymore. It was a bipolar world before, with the Soviet system and the Western system. Then there were thirty years of transition, where the United States was trying to keep global leadership. Now it couldn’t do this anymore. Not because of Trump, but because objectively we have a new centre of the world economy.
Radhika Desai: And in fact, Trump is just the symptom of the larger problem.
Sergey Glazyev: I think Trump, you see, using a comparison with the collapse of the USSR, is Gorbachev and Yeltsin in one face.
Radhika Desai: Quite right.
Sergey Glazyev: So he is ruining the existing order, but he couldn’t organise the new one, because the US is not the most efficient system of management.
Radhika Desai: That’s a very interesting Russian perspective on it. Trump is Gorbachev and Yeltsin rolled into one. They both destroyed a lot of things, didn’t they? This Global Governance Initiative, what do you think of it?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, I think it is very simple. If you look at what Chairman Xi is saying about global governance, it is exactly the rule of law in international relations, which was declared just after the Second World War. But in fact it was never implemented, because during the bipolar imperialist order we had two political systems which were competing with each other and which were ruling their parts of the world, not really taking care of the United Nations declarations and international law. The Soviet Union established its own system with its own rules. The United States established its own system with its own rules, with its hegemony. For instance, it was mentioned today that 1971 marked the change of the monetary system, when President Nixon declared that the dollar was no longer exchangeable for gold. So it became totally fiat money, printed by the private Federal Reserve to finance the growing government debt. And after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States became the only leader for the time being. But it continued to use this double standard approach, to use the supremacy in the West which was based on the competition with the Soviet system. After the Soviet Union collapsed, they were trying to use their hegemony in their own private interests. For this reason it couldn’t work efficiently, because the whole world had to finance the government debt of the United States, which was growing like a financial pyramid. And finally, exactly according to long wave economic theory and the theory of the century cycles of capital accumulation, we see the emergence of a new system of management in China, which was more successful because it was more efficient, combining central planning strategy together with market competition mechanisms. And finally China became, to the huge surprise of everybody, the main promoter of the liberal trade regime, the free market approach, because China became the most competitive. For this reason, in the institutions which were created by the United States, China became more competitive than the United States.
Radhika Desai: More competitive, yes.
Sergey Glazyev: Yes. And what did the United States do? They said, okay, we don’t want these rules anymore. If you remember, a lady in the previous session said that the United States does not think the WTO is suitable for the United States.
Radhika Desai: Yes.
Sergey Glazyev: Which was a very interesting idea, because the United States in fact was ruling the WTO for a long time and created the rules according to its interests. If you remember the Quad, the major players in the WTO were the US, Canada, the European Union and Japan. They made all the decisions. But finally they saw that China was becoming more competitive, other countries like India were growing, and the American and Western market was becoming less and less profitable. And finally they said, okay, these rules are not according to our interests. Trump openly and dramatically violated all the rules of the WTO, and before him, Obama together with his NATO partners violated the IMF rules, trying to arrest Russian currency reserves. So the Western centres of power in fact ruined the system which helped them to maintain their power. But they do this because they lost competitiveness.
Radhika Desai: Correct, exactly. Because in fact, when the WTO was launched, it was billed as the flagship organisation of globalisation. Of course it was double-sided rhetoric. On the one hand, it was supposed to benefit the whole world. But on the other hand, the United States was taking the lead in establishing globalisation. So it was the leader of globalisation, and now of course it doesn’t want globalisation.
Sergey Glazyev: And what the Chinese Global Governance Initiative says is, let’s make these international rules work again.
Radhika Desai: Yes, exactly.
Sergey Glazyev: This is the main idea.
Radhika Desai: But in a different way.
Sergey Glazyev: In a different way, in the sense that it should be based on the equal rights of all nations. But this is really declared in the United Nations Charter. So what they are saying is that United Nations legislation should work.
Radhika Desai: Yes. And in fact, it has become very fashionable for various people, progressive people, to criticise the United Nations and say it is no longer fit for purpose, it is a plaything of big powers and so on, and that we need to reject it. But the Global Governance Initiative, I think for very good reasons, puts the United Nations and the UN Charter at the centre of its conception of global governance. And I think this is not very surprising. As a Russian, you will appreciate what I’m about to say, which is that the United Nations may not have fully realised its potential. You just said that, and I agree with you. But at the same time, at the formation of the United Nations, the Soviet Union was there and China was there. And because of their presence, the other big powers of the world could not have things their own way. And so they had to, at least formally, even if hypocritically, accept the equal sovereignty of nations, no territorial aggression and so on. So all these principles, multilateralism, respect for sovereignty, all these principles are there in the UN Charter.
Sergey Glazyev: In theory.
Radhika Desai: In theory they are there, and the point is to make them true in practice.
Sergey Glazyev: The problem is that they were never fulfilled in practice, because both the United States and the Soviet Union did whatever they wanted, using the veto if they didn’t like what other countries were doing. And the number of decisions of the Security Council which were unanimous was very limited.
Radhika Desai: Exactly. They were able to stymie one another. So in this new context, how do you see global governance evolving, particularly in the context of China’s amazing economic success?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, I think that we’re still in a transition period, because, as I mentioned, the economic centre of the world moved to the East. China is becoming the largest country. India is growing very rapidly, and I think in ten years they will together construct a real bipolar system, where they will be in rather strong connectivity. Maybe Japan will also join this economic centre, together with South Korea and Indonesia. So the East and South Asian economy becomes dominant. It is quite clear, because they have a more competitive management system. And both of these countries, India and China, are really interested in the rule of law in international relations. This is evident. And what the Chinese Global Governance Initiative says is, let’s respect the United Nations Charter, let’s do as it is written. We all agree about the sovereignty of nations. Let’s make the WTO work again. But the problem is that we have a contradiction now. South and East Asia is the largest centre of production and the largest centre of trade. But if you’re speaking about the financial system, we still have a rather obsolete financial system, because it was created in the previous period, when the United States used its hegemony in the Western part of the world to introduce the world currency as the private currency of the Federal Reserve. And we have a clear contradiction between the rule of law and national sovereignty as the basis for international law and multipolarity, and at the same time a private currency, in fact private, which is used by American financial oligarchs for their huge capital accumulation, and which has no real basis except American debt. And this basis for the financial expansion of the dollar system is shrinking, because fewer and fewer countries continue to use the dollar as a reserve currency. But for China and for India, this financial and economic system was good for growth, and they used it for growth. They don’t have too many incentives to change it. The only country which is really committed to change is Russia, because Russia couldn’t use the dollar, the euro or other currencies. Russia was faced with the arrest of its currency reserves. So we do not use the dollar, euro, pound or yen anymore in transactions. We don’t use them as reserves, neither for private accumulation nor for government assets. It is strange that the Russian central bank continues to quote these currencies, but in fact they are not considered currency instruments. You see, I understand the inertia of thinking here, because many years ago, in the 90s, when I was Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, I proposed using the ruble as an international currency for transactions, because the ruble was totally convertible. Officially, Russia became a member of the IMF, and the ruble was formally as good as the dollar.
Radhika Desai: You mean it was exchangeable with the dollar?
Sergey Glazyev: Yes. Not only exchangeable, but Russia was producing liquidity in large volumes, selling raw materials and commodities. Commodities were the same as currency. We had a very liquid trade structure. For this reason, the Russian ruble would for sure have been accepted as a currency, at least in Eurasia. But you see, the main problem was corruption, because Russian oligarchs didn’t want to show their revenues. As long as they traded in dollars and then in euros, the Russian monetary authorities did not see where the money was going. For this reason, the dollarisation of the Russian economy, and especially of Russian foreign trade, was not for objective reasons. It was in the interest of oligarchs who did not want to show their revenues for taxation. This is the main reason, because they used a lot of schemes to avoid showing profits.
Radhika Desai: But I think what you’re also pointing out is that the dollar system, of all the different things that are wrong with it, is also one of the biggest tax evasion schemes in the world. This is where all the oligarchs of the world park their money, and it’s always been that way.
Sergey Glazyev: But now it is not the case for Russian oligarchs, because of course they can use the dollar, but they are not sure that they could keep their money, which could be confiscated. It has happened a lot of times, not only to government assets but to private assets as well, both in London and in the United States. No difference. So today it is impossible for this reason. It was very funny to see that it took only one year, only one year, to get rid of the dollar in the Russian economy. Nobody believed in that. I had said since the 90s that we had to do this. Our major trading companies said it was impossible, because all contracts are in dollars, everything is in dollars and euros, nobody needs rubles. So it is impossible, don’t speak about that.
Radhika Desai: But it happened in a very short time.
Sergey Glazyev: Overnight, in fact. After the currency reserves were arrested, the Russian monetary authorities and private entrepreneurs immediately had to think about what to do. And in one year, the structure of currency trade changed dramatically. We moved to national currencies. The Russian central bank immediately introduced its own payment system instead of SWIFT. The Chinese did the same. Today the so-called CIPS was mentioned.
Radhika Desai: CIPS, that’s right.
Sergey Glazyev: So there is no problem combining these payment systems. In fact, it took maybe two or three years to establish our own international financial infrastructure for payments. And then there were real shocks starting from 2022. Our entrepreneurs used a lot of instruments. You see, for about five years we have had this sanctions war. Western financiers are trying to find our vulnerable spots, and our entrepreneurs are looking for new instruments. And finally it became quite clear that Western sanctions could work only because of the banking system, because international banks are very vulnerable to secondary sanctions. So if you do not use banks, there is no problem at all. And now Russian entrepreneurs use a lot of different instruments, cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, national currencies, even the exchange of commodities, barter trade. And you see, the transaction cost of not using the dollar is now maybe about 1%, no more.
Radhika Desai: So it’s quite easy for Russia to escape.
Sergey Glazyev: Because the digitalisation of monetary instruments makes it possible to trade and make payments without banks. And banks, by the way, are very expensive, because bank commissions, even without sanctions, are higher than the cost of using digital instruments. Especially if central banks finally move to central bank digital currencies, the transaction cost should be 0.1%, not 2 or 3% like some commercial banks charge. So I think that here in China and elsewhere in the world, there is still inertia, the inertia of thinking that it is too difficult to change the monetary system. But this is the main problem, because if you do not change the monetary system, you will keep working in the obsolete, archaic system where the private money of the Federal Reserve is used as world money.
Radhika Desai: Exactly.
Sergey Glazyev: There is no problem now in changing this situation. If the banking community resists, okay, we shall do this without banks. The central banks can do this independently.
Radhika Desai: Exactly. No, you are so right. You just have central bank digital currencies, and that’s all you need. And people don’t realise that. Anyway, let me move the conversation on to something that you take a lot of interest in, which is Eurasian integration. And of course, a very big element of Eurasian integration was always the integration of the Russian and Chinese economies. So how do you think that’s progressing? Clearly, after 2022 in particular, this process has accelerated, for obvious reasons. So how is it proceeding, and what do you see as the successes and the limitations?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, really, the Western sanctions played a huge role in increasing trade between Russia and China. In two years, the balance of trade geographically shifted from West to East. Before sanctions, the European Union was Russia’s major partner. About half of Russian foreign trade was with the European Union. In two years, the situation changed dramatically. Now Russia does half of its trade with China, and in fact China totally substituted for Western partners, because the Chinese economy at the moment is really the most efficient. This process would have taken place anyway, even without sanctions, but sanctions accelerated it dramatically. So a process which might have taken 15 years was done in two years.
Radhika Desai: Two years, yeah.
Sergey Glazyev: And now I think it’s impossible, even if sanctions end, for European partners to easily return to the Russian market, because they are simply not competitive in comparison with China. And I should say that Chinese production and trade still have a lot of room to become even more competitive, because if you look at prices, let’s say for cars, Chinese cars here in the domestic market are still two times cheaper than in Russia. So the intermediary services are still very expensive.
Radhika Desai: You mean the extra cost is added by importing the cars from China to Russia?
Sergey Glazyev: Yes, because there are a lot of private businesses doing this importation. There is no marketplace for cars. But if you look at electronic trade, at marketplaces which are trading various devices and consumer goods, you can see that they are very cheap. We have even had the experience that when Chinese entrepreneurs establish their marketplaces in Russian cities, prices go down about two or three times.
Radhika Desai: So when the Russian intermediaries are cut out and the Chinese sell directly in Russia, the costs are very low.
Sergey Glazyev: Yes. But at the same time, Russian companies have now established their own marketplaces. We have two large companies, Wildberries and Ozon, which established very convenient marketplaces. Everybody can order any consumer items from China or elsewhere, and it is very convenient and very cheap. And Europeans do not even understand this, because in European countries trade is more or less traditional, but in Russia it has become mainly electronic.
Radhika Desai: That’s interesting. So these platform companies are taking over trade. Now, with this integration going on between the Russian economy and the Chinese economy, do you think that there is a serious danger that, precisely because China is such a manufacturing success, it will put pressure on Russia to remain a primary commodity exporting economy?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, you see, that happened before all of this. The Russian economy had already become commodity export oriented in the 90s. The manufacturing sector was destroyed during shock therapy. In the 90s we lost, for instance, the machine building sector. Machine tool production decreased about 100 times, and so forth. So the major decrease in manufacturing production, especially in the high-tech sector, happened in the 90s after the liberalisation and privatisation of the Russian economy. And it happened because of shock therapy, because the large corporations of the Soviet Union, which were organised by the ministries, were destroyed. Each plant became an independent private company, and the long technological chains collapsed.
Radhika Desai: Yeah.
Sergey Glazyev: So it was a very wrong way of privatisation and radical liberalisation, which in fact made the Russian machine building sector nonfunctional. Huge transaction costs, cheap imports and so forth. So Russian manufacturing industry, except for those sectors which were under government control, was ruined in the 90s. So now we’re thinking about new niches where our engineers can produce something competitive. They use Chinese spare parts, Chinese chips and so forth, and in a lot of cases produce very competitive goods. But of course, Russia at the moment couldn’t have the whole technological chain. But taking spare parts and chips from China, they can produce really…
Radhika Desai: And is there a Russian government industrial policy that is encouraging that?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, you see, after the sanctions from the West, the Russian government was trying to reach technological sovereignty, especially in vulnerable spheres. And a lot of effort went into reaching technological sovereignty over maybe the last ten years. Not in the whole economy, that is impossible, but for specific branches we had a successful policy. For instance, from 2022 to 2025 we had huge growth of production in electronics and in various kinds of machinery, especially special machinery and electrical machinery. There were growth rates of about 20 to 30% per year.
Radhika Desai: Wow. To fill the gap. So there was a big import substitution effect. That was very big. So how would you assess the state of the Russian economy today, since 2022, given the shocks that have been imposed on it? These also had some positive effects, like you said, the import substitution effect and so on. Where do you think it’s at?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, according to our estimates, in fact the Western sanctions played a huge motivating role for import substitution, as we mentioned, for industrial policy and for integration, especially Eurasian integration. The growth rate of mutual trade between the Eurasian countries which created the Eurasian Economic Union is about 10 to 15% per year. So we started to create our own supply chains, technological chains, which will not be dependent on Western sources. And of course, the diversification of supply chains and the diversification of currencies also helped the Russian economy to grow. So the first effect of sanctions was the growth of production, because of import substitution. The second effect was the decline of capital flight.
Radhika Desai: Because of financial sanctions.
Sergey Glazyev: Yes. And Russian entrepreneurs had to keep their money at home and make investments. And I should tell you that if you look at the potential of the Russian economy over the last ten years, let’s say, of course the present situation is much less than the potential. Potentially the Russian economy can grow about 8% per year, because we have a lot of commodities, a lot of technologies, a lot of production facilities which are not used. But the main problem is monetary policy, because the specific policy of the central bank, following IMF recommendations, does not allow us to use 80% of our potential. So the Russian economy can grow about 8%, and now it is growing maybe about 1%. And this is not because of sanctions, this is because of monetary policy. The role of sanctions is maybe 15%, and 80% is the negative role of central bank policy.
Radhika Desai: Okay, that’s very interesting. Now, of course, the sanctions were imposed on Russia because of the Ukraine conflict. Now we have the Iran conflict. Given that you are such an excellent assessor of the world economy as a whole, where do you think the world economy is at, given these wars, given the high price of oil and so on? Where do you see this going? Just today, for example, it was reported not only that oil prices have once again hit $117 per barrel, which was last reached in April, but also that most traders now assume these high prices are here to stay, because the war is not going to stop anytime soon. So how do you assess the state of the world economy and where it’s going?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, you see, it is very different. There is a lot of panic about the chaos and turbulence of the world economy, but it is not really the world economy. It is the Western economy.
Radhika Desai: Quite right. Absolutely.
Sergey Glazyev: Here in China, we see the successful fulfilment of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The Chinese economy is growing at 5%. The Indian economy is growing at about 8%. Central Asian countries are growing at about 10%.
Radhika Desai: Well, I’ll just say one thing. This is the second time you’ve mentioned India, so I’ll just say that it is my understanding that the Indian economy’s growth rate is highly exaggerated. I’ll just say that for the record, but you continue.
Sergey Glazyev: Nevertheless, I can tell you that I was in Mumbai this year, and before that 20 years ago, and it’s quite different.
Radhika Desai: Well, of course India has changed a lot. But I think it’s also important to understand that India’s economy is very K-shaped, in the sense that if you go to the richer parts of Mumbai, they will look fantastic. But as far as working people are concerned, and small, medium and even slightly larger businesses, they are all suffering.
Sergey Glazyev: But they are growing at the same time, and India has the huge advantage of a young population.
Radhika Desai: Well, the young population is right now out in the streets opposing Mr Modi. But anyway, let’s come back to the world economy. You’re absolutely right, it’s the problem of the West. So continue from there.
Sergey Glazyev: Well, if you look at the centre of the Western economy, the United States, it is quite clear that the financial expansion of the United States over the last 40 years created a huge financial bubble. Even artificial intelligence, which is now on the agenda, American technocrats are trying to use as an engine for the growth of the American economy. But in fact there are no profits from implementing artificial intelligence.
Radhika Desai: Exactly.
Sergey Glazyev: What we see is a huge financial bubble, which concentrated about 40% of the American financial market in these IT companies, which continue to show good health. But what they’re doing is moving towards technofascism. In fact, the main strategic planning centre of all these wars is the American technofascists, because they are trying to maintain their leadership not only in the United States but also in the world. They have a huge influence on the Trump administration. They tell the American president that they can create a weapons system which can help him make America great again. And they show that they really have such capabilities, using today’s information technologies to kill anybody anywhere. They showed this in Iran. They give information services to Ukrainian drones which attack Russian plants. So we see that these really are technofascists who are sure that they can rule the world with these new technologies. It is very dangerous for the world, but it will not work, because in fact the maintenance of this artificial intelligence psychosis is based on virtual…
Radhika Desai: Sorry, based on what?
Sergey Glazyev: Not real, but virtual.
Radhika Desai: Virtual, that’s right.
Sergey Glazyev: Feelings.
Radhika Desai: Yeah, I mean, they create the atmosphere in which people believe something. They create the illusion…
Sergey Glazyev: Yes.
Radhika Desai: …of profitability.
Sergey Glazyev: Musk is saying that everybody will live in communism in five years. If you invest in his shares, you will get a lot of wealth in five years and you will not need money anymore. But of course it is not realistic, and this financial bubble will in any case collapse. And I am sure that in the near future the American and Western financial system will suffer a huge crisis, not only because of the artificial intelligence bubble, but also because of the derivatives bubble. According to some estimates, the derivatives bubble is more than two quadrillion dollars.
Radhika Desai: Wow.
Sergey Glazyev: And if oil prices are going up…
Radhika Desai: So a quadrillion is a thousand trillion, is that right?
Sergey Glazyev: A thousand trillion, yes. So if oil prices are going up, it means that interest rates will go up. To fight inflation, central banks will have to increase interest rates, and it will lead to the collapse of credit default swaps and finally the collapse of the whole financial system. I think we are moving in this direction.
Radhika Desai: Absolutely. I couldn’t agree with you more. And I think that this time, when the financial system collapses… With every major financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has essentially been using up more and more of its tools to try and bail out the system. And this time it will be too big to bail, so we will probably also see the collapse of the dollar system, because it’s the financial system that is keeping up the dollar. But okay, that’s very interesting. Now, I have two other questions I want to ask you. The first one is, how do you assess the state of the Ukraine war right now? What do you think is going to happen? What is Russia’s position? How will it unfold in the coming weeks and months?
Sergey Glazyev: I see the war in Ukraine as part of the Brzezinski strategy.
Radhika Desai: Yes, of course.
Sergey Glazyev: Until now, the American administration has used the Brzezinski strategy, which has five phases. The first phase was to create an anti-Russian state in Ukraine. They did this by means of the Maidan coup in 2014. The second phase was to take Europe away from Russia. They did this a little later, including the bombing of the pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Then the third phase was to organise a revolution in Russia and bring to power a regime which would be under Western control. This phase failed. The fourth phase, according to the Brzezinski plan, was to ruin Iran. This fourth phase failed as well.
Radhika Desai: And what does Iran have to do with breaking up Russia?
Sergey Glazyev: Just a moment. And the final phase, the fifth phase, was to isolate China. So this was a five stage plan, but it was not realistic.
Radhika Desai: I see what you’re saying. Okay, so the Brzezinski plan is a wider plan of establishing US dominance. Okay, I get it.
Sergey Glazyev: But it failed, and it had to fail. They did what they could do, which was just to create war in Europe. So the war in Europe was created not by Russia, not by Ukraine. It was created by the Americans and the Western deep state.
Radhika Desai: Correct.
Sergey Glazyev: Which was trying to implement the Brzezinski plan. Today it doesn’t work. Trump understands this. By the way, Europe was the main loser in this war. Of course, the worst position is that of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. They lost their homes, they lost their country in fact. So of course Ukraine became the victim of this Western strategy. But Europe was the loser. Europe now has a huge economic crisis without Russian commodities, and energy in Europe has become the most expensive in the world. Productivity is much lower than in China. So it has no chance to survive. And the Americans, the American elite I mean, are trying to use the situation in Europe to take capital and talent from Europe to the United States, as happened in the 20th century during the wars in Europe. It certainly happens…
Radhika Desai: But not in such large amounts as to benefit the United States.
Sergey Glazyev: Yeah. So today the main driving force of the Ukrainian war is European corruption, because the corrupt Zelensky regime is part of the corrupt European political regime. According to some estimates, about one third of the money which Europe gives to Ukraine comes back in bribes for European politicians. By the way, Musk said this openly.
Radhika Desai: That’s interesting.
Sergey Glazyev: And as far as Musk runs the satellite system, he knows everything.
Radhika Desai: That’s really interesting. So to continue, where is Russia at in the war? How do you think it will unfold in the coming months?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, you see, Western politicians do not really understand Russian motivation, because what took place in Ukraine after the 2014 coup was genocide. Genocide of Russian people.
Radhika Desai: Yes.
Sergey Glazyev: Those Russian people who did not accept the Nazi regime in Ukraine, in Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, were under fire from Ukrainian military forces for ten years. Others, who were inside Ukraine, lost their right to speak Russian and their right to go to their church. So it was clear genocide, genocide of the Russian population by the Nazi regime which was created by the West. It is an artificial regime which has no historical roots. But according to the Brzezinski plan, it worked. And it took ten years for the militarisation and nazification of Ukraine, like Hitler did in Germany. He came to power in ‘33, and in ‘39 he started the war. Ukraine is the same. The Nazis came to power with the help of the West in 2014, and for eight years they bombed Donbas and killed Russian people in Donbas, and finally they came to war with Russia. And there is no real internal motivation to continue this war, except Nazism created artificially by Western supervisors and corrupt European politicians. So there are no objective reasons to continue this war.
Radhika Desai: Yes.
Sergey Glazyev: But unfortunately, the politicians who make decisions in the West, especially in Britain at the moment…
Radhika Desai: They intend to continue the war.
Sergey Glazyev: They want to continue the war. And Zelensky as well makes huge profits. Everybody knows about that, because according to Musk again, Ukrainian elites make a lot of profits and the Ukrainian people have to be killed.
Radhika Desai: Yeah. But can Russia win this war? Is Russia winning this war?
Sergey Glazyev: Russia, you see, for all these years, starting from 2014, has in fact been in a hybrid war with the whole West. What we see is that the drones in Ukraine are manufactured in the West, the rockets are manufactured in the West, the arms come from the West. So it is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. In fact, it is a war between Russia and the West.
Radhika Desai: Yes, absolutely. But can Russia win it? We hear that Russia is making progress on the ground.
Sergey Glazyev: I can tell you that the war will finish together with the collapse of the artificial intelligence financial bubble.
Radhika Desai: That’s very interesting. And how do you see that relationship? What does the collapse of the artificial intelligence bubble have to do with it?
Sergey Glazyev: Because the main driving force of this war is the American technofascists.
Radhika Desai: I see. Okay.
Sergey Glazyev: They are the only strategic planning centre in the US today. The technofascists around Trump are the major strategic planning centre in the United States, together with corrupt European politicians.
Radhika Desai: So this is really interesting, because I think not if but probably when this collapse occurs, within a week or two of that we are going to have to do another interview. And we will see how this works out. You may very well be right. I think this is very possible. Okay, final question, coming back to the Global Governance Initiative. Clearly China has proposed it. At the same time, China’s foreign policy, to me at least, seems very genuine, in the sense that, just as you say, the West is declining and creating wars around the world, and China has emerged as a kind of centre of peace in the world, able to provide peace, stability and so on. And obviously Russia is a big part of this as well. How does Russia see something like the Global Governance Initiative, and what does it mean from Russia’s point of view?
Sergey Glazyev: Well, as you know, Russia and China are in a relationship of strategic partnership. And if you look at the votes of China and Russia in the United Nations, especially in the Security Council, they vote in the same manner. So there is no difference between the Chinese and Russian positions on global governance. The difference is that we don’t use the words global governance, because, you see, in Russia we are too afraid of conspiracy theories. Global governance sounds like a deep state.
Radhika Desai: Okay, that’s very interesting.
Sergey Glazyev: But in fact, the Russian official position and the real position are totally the same. The rule of international law, the UN Charter, national sovereignty.
Radhika Desai: Yes.
Sergey Glazyev: Peace. So you see, in the West nobody really wants to understand the message of President Putin, who does not speak so much about global governance, but speaks about partnership, about Eurasian economic partnership. He speaks about the principles of security, that security cannot be divided.
Radhika Desai: Exactly.
Sergey Glazyev: Inclusive security. That we should respect national sovereignty. And he is not only saying this, he is doing this. Look at the Eurasian Economic Union. There are five countries, where Russia is about 80% of the economic space, but all countries have the same rights and the same votes. All decisions are made on a consensus basis. Everything is transparent. So what President Putin is saying, he is doing exactly. Mutual interest, national sovereignty, no use of force, no sanctions. Let’s have peaceful development based on international…
Radhika Desai: Well, Sergey, this has been another very fascinating conversation. Thank you so much. I’m sure that our listeners will have really appreciated it. So folks, thanks for tuning in and listening, and until next time, goodbye.
Sergey Glazyev: Goodbye.
Dear D: I am beginning to wonder if you are a retarded glue-sniffing Trump-Cult minion
Give Larry a break. Sometimes you work your whole life before you realize you were fooled. No time like the present to work with the new knowledge.
US should not be interfering with any country in the world. Mind your own business, get home and fix the problems there
pause was taken to consider the meaningless nature of the following in an environtment driven by secular humanism
” And we are only responsible for our own actions. Not even thoughts. Not even words. Actions.”
nuance is not binary
for one to be western and civilized, knowledge of the progression of thought from Evagrius Ponticus to Gregory I to Thomas Aquinas was once considered a necessity
is omission, failure to act, considered an act within the framework of Actions?
not even a morsel of influence from Locke, Rousseau or Paine?posted it anyway
Netanyahu Already Alleging Fraud Before Vote Closes, As Arab-Israeli Districts Flood Polls
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-election-early-turnout-hits-45-year-high-bibi-fatigue-threatens-netanyahus-grip@Michael Reid: I take it back, then… That’s too much transcript.
I have coned it down for my next post, with which I will flood this commode when I get it ready.The Iran war and the ‘terrible power of the purse’
Alastair Crooke
October 26, 2026
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The ‘Grand Design’ to “maintain [western civilisation’s] place at the head of the world” (as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio put it) requires the tools for ensuring compliance are two-fold: The creating of destructive revolutionary fervour from below (now termed ‘regime change’); and secondly, the use of what Theodore Herzl in a now famous phrase termed “the terrible power of the purse to exert irresistible pressure on international politics” in order to co-opt the ruling strata into a power network that would advance the Grand Design ‘project’.
This is what we are observing with Trump’s war on Iran. The June 2025 Israeli-American attack was primarily a decapitation attack designed to disable both Iran’s political and military leadership, whilst armed Mossad trained elements, the MEK and Baluchi separatists inter alia would be inserted into Iran to foment revolution from the street below. At that time, the former Shah’s son – implausibly – was being presented to the western media as the incoming leader of Iran.
It did not work. And now Netanyahu is touting that Israel has ‘fresh evidence’ that Iran is moving towards producing a weapon component to its nuclear programme. He is telling Trump that he needs now to finish the job of destroying Iran. And to motivate Trump further, leadingIsraeli daily Ma’ariv reports that Israel stove-piped Likud polling directly into the White House to the effect that Netanyahu might win the Israeli elections on 27 October. According to the report, this Likud information (that runs counter to most other Israeli polls) prompted Trump’s full-hearted election endorsement of Netanyahu.
At the same time, the pro-Zionist billionaire donors are wielding the ‘terrible power of the purse’ at Trump: ‘We will not accept anything less than the defeat of Iran. If you continue to seek a deal we will pull our financial support from you’.
Senior current and former security officials in Israel however, refute the need for an imminent attack on Iran and Netanyahu’s claim of new evidence of Iran moving toward a nuclear weapon –
IDF Chief of Staff Zamir told Israel’s Channel 13: “We don’t see a need to attack Iran before the elections”;
Leading Israeli military strategist Udi Evental has cautioned:
“A war to thwart the elections and democracy, not to thwart Iran’s nuclear programme. Netanyahu, who is suspected of being up to his neck in extraneous political and personal considerations, is unfit to make such a decision. He must not be allowed to”.
Whether or not there is such evidence really does not matter. Likely it doesn’t exist. The claim simply forms the peg on which the U.S. is beingtold to take action to ‘finish the job’ on Iran.
As ever, Netanyahu said in the last days:
“Iran is once again trying to develop its weapons of death … There is only one way to remove this threat once and for all – to topple the regime in Iran, and that is my directive to the IDF, the Mossad and the security agencies.”
A senior Iranian official told Drop Site that Tehran’s current internal intelligence assessment indicates a high likelihood that large-scale bombing may begin – even before Tuesday’s Israeli elections.
The point here is that Iran does not care who wins in the midterms, nor who will win the U.S. Presidency in 2028. For the Iranian leadership it is all the same. They well understand the concept of the ‘Grand Design’ (how could they not?).
It is well understood in Iran that they are engaged in a long war confronting the entire Atlanticist bloc – Israel, its intelligence services, its arsenals, its satellites, its military industry, and its media machine. It does not matter whether it is a Republican or a Democrat in the White House. Senior Iranian officials see both parties to have been bought by the Zionist terrible power of the purse.
Understanding the ‘Design’ is to understand that the Zionist donor class will never be satisfied by some ‘deal or trade-off’. They claim it to be certain that Iran ultimately would renege on any mooted acquiescence to U.S. demands. Israelis and their donor class auxiliaries simply do not believe (and repeat incessantly) that Iran would ever accept compliance to Israel, or to accept U.S. political and cultural dominance.
They may be right. Why?
Simply because Iran has a deep civilisation, stretching back to a specifically Persian-Iranian complex of beliefs and practices of the second millennium BCE – Mazdaism, a cosmology of divine drama, represented by the continuing struggle between Light and Darkness.
The renown scholar, Professor Henri Corbin, has argued that “Iran was situated at a centre … it being not only a nation or an empire, but a spiritual universe”. He understood Iran therefore, as a mediating force, both geographically and metaphysically.
For millenia, Iranians have experienced the world as having a clear metaphysical dimension – and history. It is therefore unlikely that they would be attracted to a western nihilistic material posture. Civilisational states, whether Iran or Russia, that embrace contrarian values would never succumb to the ‘Grand Design’. Hence, they must be destroyed.
What does this metaphysical history mean? It means that Iran is preparing for war, not for a ‘deal’. Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and personal representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, stated that,
“If the question is whether Iran still has the ability to continue missile and drone operations [in the event of an attack], the answer is ‘yes’ … The United States has valuable assets in the region. In the event of war, cables, data centres and artificial intelligence facilities could also come within range. If the conflict begins again, we will have a broader plan”.
“Everyone must understand that action against Iran carries a cost”.
Senior Iranian officials believe that war is coming. Iran has extensive plans (in the event of an attack) that encompasses Saudi Arabia and its leadership, too, a senior Iranian hinted. Karl Miller (from the field) states that in this respect, already a quarter of Saudi oil production has been destroyed and that the damage as a result of AnsarAllah’s retaliatory attacks runs through the whole Saudi production chain – ‘from wellhead to the gas station’ – and that Saudi Arabia has been covering the gap by draining their tanks.
Miller’s report, quoted by Larry Johnson, warns that,
“if Saudi Arabia’s export outlets close, its oil has nowhere to go but to its own refineries, its own power plants and its storage tanks. Once the storage is full, that is roughly the ceiling on what Saudi Arabia could keep producing. Close Ras Tanura and Yanbu at the same time, and the Kingdom would have to shut in most of its oil fields. That is exactly the scenario Ansar Allah’s campaign against the pipeline, the Red Sea and the Gulf terminals, is built to produce”.
“Any new American or Israeli campaign against Iran will land on a Saudi energy system that has no slack left to absorb it”, Larry Johnson observes.
Any new attack on Iran, by extension, will mean the end to the Gulf as we know it, an end to the petrodollar, and an end to the Gulf as the primary supplier of hard cash to Wall Street and the Tech world.
Nonetheless, Trump reportedly has said that the U.S. is not currently negotiating with Iran, and something will happen “fairly soon”.
Maybe. (But with Trump everything distils into speculation). But if he is bluffing, it won’t work, and his humiliation will be all the deeper.
One man who knows Trump better than most (having authored four books on him), Michael Wolff, opines that if the Democrats win in the 3 November midterms –
“They will be trying to impress upon the world that it is ‘a new day’. Trump, for his part, will be trying to impress upon the world that he still controls the stage. There will be a series of these kinds of things (such as a putative invasion of Cuba, for example) greater than anything we may have imagined. He will not be humbled. The idea of humility does not exist in Donald Trump’s soul. Therefore he will do – the opposite”.
“Not retreat but attack”.
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