theduran--2020-12-24--Trump demands $2K payouts; creating populist mandate [Video]

American citizens have been in many cases really deeply impacted by COVID-19 tinpot dictators closing businesses due to fear of the virus .
In the spring , the President and Congress swiftly passed a relief plan that paid every American aside from the super-wealthy a $ 1,200 payment .
This extended to benefits for children as well , so a family of four might have picked up $ 3,600 or more , ostensibly to help the families make it through the massive unemployment the shutdown brought about .
As time went on and COVID did not go away , some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdowns again .
Joe Biden , if inaugurated as President , plans to shut the entire nation down for something like 45 days ( which would no doubt be extended , just because those in power could do so . )
Shutdown or no , Congress started debating a fourth COVID-related relief measure which featured another $ 1,200 payout .
The Democrats stubbornly kept trying to place riders in the measure for American taxpayer money to be sent hither and yon for anything and everything but coronavirus relief for Americans .
Much like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sent abroad before being given to American citizens , the liberals insisted on giving away the farm without letting the farmer eat .
This new package was finally sent through both houses of Congress , a six thousand page behemoth , that does much of the same porkulus that was wanted before – things like military equipment for Egypt and gender programs for Pakistan .
Oh , and a very generous ( sarcasm ) $ 600 payment to American taxpayers for COVID relief .
When this got to President Trump ’ s desk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for many of us ( including those of us who both need and do not need financial support ) by saying , Congress did not even read this monster , folks , but look what it features !
I am not signing this .
Congress needs to give $ 2,000 to each citizen and get rid of all these stupid waste programs or I am vetoing it .
The president lists these irrelevant ( and expensive ) outlays of YOUR money : • $ 1.3 billion for Egypt , including for the military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buy Russian military hardware .
Very generous , Congress !
• $ 25 million for ‘ democracy and gender ’ programs in Pakistan ( teaching Muslims to be gay , no doubt ) • $ 40 million for the Kennedy Center in Washington , D.C. which is not even open for business right now .
( why ?
! )
• $ 1 billion for the Smithsonian Institution ( which is also not open ) • $ 154 million for the National Gallery of Art ( also closed ) • $ 2.5 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the Gulf of Mexico • $ 2 million to research the effects of downed trees ( ! )
• $ 566 million for construction projects at the F.B.I .
• The bill presently gives checks of YOUR taxpayer money to families of illegal aliens living in the US as well , allowing them to get up to $ 1,800 each , contrasted with the $ 600 for US citizens .
This is a $ 900 billion piece of legislation .
While the numbers President Trump mentioned do not compare very highly against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have anything to do with COVID , and in particular the notion of paying family members of illegal aliens MORE than legal citizens is asinine .
President Trump , in listing all these things , basically took Congress out to the woodshed for a much-needed beating .
This ought to happen every time Congress allocates taxpayer funds for anything .
The President ’ s action here is the fulfillment of a promise the president swore in 2018 , when he regretfully signed an omnibus spending bill that numbered five thousand pages into law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but I will never do this again .
It is bad for the nation.
” He is absolutely right .
He also stole the spotlight again and successfully put his election challenge front and center by merely mentioning that “ the next administration may have to take this us , and that next administration may be me.
” This is certainly about the election , but for President Trump it is really about America itself .
The man is motivated by his ideas of what will make America great ( again ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not the elite .
He is , at least financially speaking , one of the elite , but when he finally decided to run for President back in 2015 , this came after at least ten years of him refusing to run , despite constant proddings from his friend and talk show host , Sean Hannity .
A lot of people may not know this , but the Trumpster was being thought of as a viable presidential candidate by some very influential people many years before he ever ran .
When he finally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ him , a tipping point had been reached with Obama / Biden and the way the government was running .
President Trump is truly a man who wishes to help the American people .
Contrasted with so many people in American politics who say this but do not do it , he says it and does it .
It seems that not even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal can deny this , and they don ’ t – at least not successfully .
That is why the stories from the Left surrounding Trump are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ returns , Stormy Daniels , Russiagate and so on .
But when the man donates all his salary and refuses to make alliances with powerful people and organizations , that says something .
Even Julian Assange noted this back in 2016 : Interestingly , Nancy Pelosi agreed with President Trump ’ s demand for $ 2,000 per person , and at the time of this writing , we are waiting to see if Congress will approve the amendment through a “ unanimous consent request ” , a special process where all members of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change .
That request is scheduled for 9:00am Eastern Standard Time , Thursday , Dec 24th , at the time of this writing , this is less than eight hours away .
Roman Balmakov of The Epoch Times gives a stunningly clear report on this in this video below .
Also reported here is information concerning the election challenge , but we will cover this in a separate piece .

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
American citizens have been in many cases really deeply impacted by COVID-19 tinpot dictators closing businesses due to fear of the virus. In the spring, the President and Congress swiftly passed a relief plan that paid every American aside from the super-wealthy a $1,200 payment. This extended to benefits for children as well, so a family of four might have picked up $3,600 or more, ostensibly to help the families make it through the massive unemployment the shutdown brought about. As time went on and COVID did not go away, some states and cities are planning or executing lockdowns again. Joe Biden, if inaugurated as President, plans to shut the entire nation down for something like 45 days (which would no doubt be extended, just because those in power could do so.)
Shutdown or no, Congress started debating a fourth COVID-related relief measure which featured another $1,200 payout. The Democrats stubbornly kept trying to place riders in the measure for American taxpayer money to be sent hither and yon for anything and everything but coronavirus relief for Americans. Much like the recent rumor of our vaccines being sent abroad before being given to American citizens, the liberals insisted on giving away the farm without letting the farmer eat. This new package was finally sent through both houses of Congress, a six thousand page behemoth, that does much of the same porkulus that was wanted before – things like military equipment for Egypt and gender programs for Pakistan.
Right.
Oh, and a very generous (sarcasm) $600 payment to American taxpayers for COVID relief.
When this got to President Trump’s desk he stunned the country, happily so for many of us (including those of us who both need and do not need financial support) by saying, Congress did not even read this monster, folks, but look what it features! I am not signing this. Congress needs to give $2,000 to each citizen and get rid of all these stupid waste programs or I am vetoing it.
The president lists these irrelevant (and expensive) outlays of YOUR money:
$85.5 million for assistance to Cambodia $134 million for Burma $1.3 billion for Egypt, including for the military, so that they can go and buy Russian military hardware. Very generous, Congress! $25 million for ‘democracy and gender’ programs in Pakistan (teaching Muslims to be gay, no doubt) $505 million to Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama $40 million for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. which is not even open for business right now. (why?!) $1 billion for the Smithsonian Institution (which is also not open) $154 million for the National Gallery of Art (also closed) $7 million for reef fish management $25 million for combating Asian Carp $2.5 million to count the number of Amberjack Fish in the Gulf of Mexico $3 million in poultry production technology $2 million to research the effects of downed trees (!) $566 million for construction projects at the F.B.I. The bill presently gives checks of YOUR taxpayer money to families of illegal aliens living in the US as well, allowing them to get up to $1,800 each, contrasted with the $600 for US citizens. And more…
This is a $900 billion piece of legislation. While the numbers President Trump mentioned do not compare very highly against the overall total, none of these have anything to do with COVID, and in particular the notion of paying family members of illegal aliens MORE than legal citizens is asinine.
President Trump, in listing all these things, basically took Congress out to the woodshed for a much-needed beating. This ought to happen every time Congress allocates taxpayer funds for anything.
The President’s action here is the fulfillment of a promise the president swore in 2018, when he regretfully signed an omnibus spending bill that numbered five thousand pages into law. He said, “This time, but I will never do this again. It is bad for the nation.”
He is absolutely right. He also stole the spotlight again and successfully put his election challenge front and center by merely mentioning that “the next administration may have to take this us, and that next administration may be me.”
This is certainly about the election, but for President Trump it is really about America itself. The man is motivated by his ideas of what will make America great (again) and that means the American people. Not the elite. He is, at least financially speaking, one of the elite, but when he finally decided to run for President back in 2015, this came after at least ten years of him refusing to run, despite constant proddings from his friend and talk show host, Sean Hannity. A lot of people may not know this, but the Trumpster was being thought of as a viable presidential candidate by some very influential people many years before he ever ran. When he finally decided to, it was because for him, a tipping point had been reached with Obama / Biden and the way the government was running.
President Trump is truly a man who wishes to help the American people. Contrasted with so many people in American politics who say this but do not do it, he says it and does it. It seems that not even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberal can deny this, and they don’t – at least not successfully. That is why the stories from the Left surrounding Trump are all about various personal scandals – Tax returns, Stormy Daniels, Russiagate and so on. But when the man donates all his salary and refuses to make alliances with powerful people and organizations, that says something. Even Julian Assange noted this back in 2016:
“We cannot publish what we do not have. To date, we have not received information on Donald Trump’s campaign, or Jill Stein’s campaign, or Gary Johnson’s campaign or any of the other candidates that [fulfills] our stated editorial criteria,” Assange said in a statement posted on WikiLeaks‘ website.
Interestingly, Nancy Pelosi agreed with President Trump’s demand for $2,000 per person, and at the time of this writing, we are waiting to see if Congress will approve the amendment through a “unanimous consent request”, a special process where all members of the House have to agree to the change. That request is scheduled for 9:00am Eastern Standard Time, Thursday, Dec 24th, at the time of this writing, this is less than eight hours away.
Roman Balmakov of The Epoch Times gives a stunningly clear report on this in this video below. Also reported here is information concerning the election challenge, but we will cover this in a separate piece.
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theduran--2020-12-24--It All Makes Sense: Gaslighting the USA to make it IMPLODE!

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2020 has been a year like no other .
Everything we know , everything we trust , and everything we have come to rely on has changed .
So why should we expect the US election to be any different ?
Mainstream @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over , Biden won , time to move on , nothing to see here folks .
But in your gut , you know something ’ s just not right .
From the strange patterns on election night , to the weeks of suspense , to the reports of fraud that evaporate faster than Biden ’ s memory .
It just doesn ’ t add up .
In this episode , I ’ ll show you just what ’ s going on behind the scenes in this election , and why the greatest threat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not an invisible enemy invading our bodies , but one that ’ s invading our country and our minds .

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2020 has been a year like no other. Everything we know, everything we trust, and everything we have come to rely on has changed. So why should we expect the US election to be any different?
Mainstream media are telling us the race is over, Biden won, time to move on, nothing to see here folks. But in your gut, you know something’s just not right. From the strange patterns on election night, to the weeks of suspense, to the reports of fraud that evaporate faster than Biden’s memory. It just doesn’t add up.
In this episode, I’ll show you just what’s going on behind the scenes in this election, and why the greatest threat we’re facing right now, is not an invisible enemy invading our bodies, but one that’s invading our country and our minds.
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theduran--2020-12-24--The World Watches: VP Pence Must Fight For Trump Or Become History’s Next Judas

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theduran--2020-12-24--Bill Gertz: Leaked Database Suggests Widespread CCP Infiltration; China Silences Hong Kong Activists

A leaked database of 2 million Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) members suggests widespread CCP infiltration into the upper @ @ @ @ @ private sector .
The Big Four auditors collectively employ over 2000 Chinese Communist Party members @ @ @ @ @ partner at each firm , according to the Telegraph .
This could mean the Chinese @ @ @ @ @ some of the inner workings of virtually every major U.S. firm .
In this episode @ @ @ @ @ China analyst Bill Gertz , a national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author @ @ @ @ @ ” We discuss the leaked database , recent revelations of a suspected CCP spy , @ @ @ @ @ ties with prominent U.S. politicians , and Hong Kong authorities targetting pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy @ @ @ @ @ Law .
This is American Thought Leaders , and I ’ m Jan Jekielek .

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A leaked database of 2 million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members suggests widespread CCP infiltration into the upper echelons of government and the private sector.
The Big Four auditors collectively employ over 2000 Chinese Communist Party members, including at least one partner at each firm, according to the Telegraph. This could mean the Chinese Communist Party has access to some of the inner workings of virtually every major U.S. firm.
In this episode, we sit down with China analyst Bill Gertz, a national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of “Deceiving the Sky.” We discuss the leaked database, recent revelations of a suspected CCP spy, Fang Fang, developing close ties with prominent U.S. politicians, and Hong Kong authorities targetting pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai with the National Security Law. This is American Thought Leaders , and I’m Jan Jekielek.
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theduran--2020-12-24--Unipolar vs Multipolar: The Death of McKinley and the Loss of America’s Soul

On December 17 , 2020 A new US Maritime strategy was unveiled putting into practice the regressive concepts first outlined in the early National Defense Strategy 2020 doctrine which target China and Russia as the primary enemies of the USA and demanding that the USA be capable to “ defeat our adversaries while we accelerate development of a modernized integrated all-domain naval force of the future ” .
The Pentagon ’ s Advantages at Sea : Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power continued by saying “ China ’ s and Russia ’ s revisionist approaches in the maritime environment threaten @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and degrade the free and open international order… moreover , China ’ s and Russia ’ s aggressive naval growth and modernization are eroding US institutional advantages.
” The document continued to describe that “ we must operate more assertively to prevail in day-to-day competition as we uphold the rules-based order and deter our competitors from pursuing armed aggression… ready , forward-deployed naval forces will adopt a more assertive posture in day to day operations ” For anyone who has been paying attention to the vast growth of the Pentagon ’ s Full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perimeter begun with Obama ’ s Asia Pivot , it may appear as though these words are not new , but just a continuation of American unipolar agenda , Pacific war games , and psychological projection onto perceived enemies , that have been underway for years .
While this is certainly true , it must be noted that they are occurring at a time that NATO 2030 has enshrined an anti-China military posture into the Trans Atlantic security doctrine which had formerly channeled most of its hate purely onto Russia .
The fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in no other terms but global post-nation state dominance are deathly afraid of the Russia-China bond of survival which has created a uniquely viable foundation for an alternative economic/security architecture for the world .
This model is based on a system of finance that defines money not in speculative but rather long-term development of the real economic foundations of life .
It also features a strong emphasis on win-win cooperation as opposed to Hobbesian zero-sum logic dominant among western powers , and it also finds itself driven by OPEN system economic practices shaped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once upon a time guided America ’ s better traditions .
With the obvious threat of nuclear war breaking out between a collapsing unipolar order in the west and an emergent Multipolar alliance , it is important to review what possible latent policy traditions may yet be revived within America ’ s history which certain forces have worked very hard to scrub out of the historical record and memory .
This study will take us to the incredible fights that arose over America ’ s identity at the turn of the 20th century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the treasonous anglophile President of vice , Theodore Roosevelt .
As Martin Sieff eloquently laid out in his recent article , President McKinley himself was an peacemaker , anti-imperialist of a higher order than most people realize .
McKinley was also a strong supporter of two complementary policies : 1 ) Internally , he was a defender of Lincoln ’ s “ American system ” of protectionism , internal improvements and black suffrage and 2 ) Externally , he was a defender of the Monroe Doctrine that defined America ’ s anti-imperial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Doctrine ’ s architect John Quincy Adams laid out this principle eloquently on July 4 , 1821 : “ After fifty years the United States has , without a single exception , respected the independence of other nations , while asserting and maintaining her own .
That the United States does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy .
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all .
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own .
That by involving itself in the internal affairs of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroy its own reason of existence ; the fundamental maxims of her policy would become , then , no different than the empire America ’ s revolution defeated .
It would be , then , no longer the ruler of itself , but the dictator of the world.
” America ’ s march is the march of mind , not of conquest .
Colonial establishments are engines of wrong , and that in the progress of social improvement it will be the duty of the human family to abolish them ” .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a young Abraham Lincoln collaborated with in ending the imperial Mexican-American war under Wall Street stooge James Polk in 1846 .
When Adams died in 1848 , Lincoln picked up the torch he left behind as the London-directed “ proto deep state ” of the 19th century worked to dissolve the republic from within .
The foreign policy conception laid out by Adams ensured that America ’ s only concern was “ staying out of foreign imperial entanglements ” as Washington had earlier warned and keeping foreign imperial interests out of the Americas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the weak or subduing other cultures was anathema to this genuinely American principle .
A major battle which has been intentionally obscured from history books took place in the wake of Lincoln ’ s murder and the re-ascension of the City of London-backed slave power during the decades after the Union victory of 1865 .
On the one hand America ’ s role in the emerging global family of nations was being shaped by followers of Lincoln who wished to usher in an age of win-win cooperation .
Such an anti-Darwinian system which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” asserted that each nation had the right to sovereign banking controls over private finance , productive credit emissions tied to internal improvements with a focus on continental ( rail/road ) development , industrial progress and full spectrum economies .
Adherents of this program included Russia ’ s Sergei Witte and Alexander II , Germany ’ s Otto von Bismarck , France ’ s Sadi Carnot , and leading figures within Japan ’ s Meiji Restoration .
On the other hand , “ eastern establishment families ” of the USA more loyal to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the vast international empire of Britain saw America ’ s destiny tied to an imperial global partnership with the Mother country .
These two opposing paradigms within America have defined two opposing views of “ progress ” , “ value ” , “ self-interest ” and “ law ” which have continued to shape the world over 150 years later .
A champion of the former traditionally American outlook who rose to the international scene was William Gilpin ( 1813-1894 ) .
Gilpin hailed from a patriotic family of nation builders whose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Benjamin Franklin and leading member of Franklin ’ s Philosophical Society .
William Gilpin was famous for his advocacy of America ’ s trans continental railway whose construction he proselytized as early as 1845 ( it was finally begun by Lincoln during the Civil War and completed in 1869 as I outlined in my previous paper How to Save a Dying Republic ) .
In his thousands of speeches and writings , Gilpin made it known that he understood America ’ s destiny to be inextricably tied to the ancient civilization of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ British and their American lackies were want to do , but to learn from and even emulate !
“ Salvation must come to America from China , and this consists in the introduction of the “ Chinese constitution ” viz .
the “ patriarchal democracy of the Celestial Empire ” .
The political life of the United States is through European influences , in a state of complete demoralization , and the Chinese Constitution alone contains elements of regeneration .
For this reason , a railroad to the Pacific is of such vast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese trade will be conducted straight across the North American continent .
This trade must bring in its train Chinese civilization .
All that is usually alleged against China is mere calumny spread purposefully , just like those calumnies which are circulated in Europe about the United States ” .
With Lincoln ’ s 1861 presidential victory , Gilpin became Lincoln ’ s bodyguard and ensured the president survived his first assassination attempt en route to Washington from Illinois .
During the Civil War , Gilpin was made Colorado ’ s first Governor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from opening up a western front during the war of secession ( applying Lincoln ’ s greenback system to finance his army on a state level ) and winning the “ Battle of Glorieta Pass ” , thus saving the union .
After the war Gilpin became a leading advocate of the internationalization of the “ American system of political economy ” which Lincoln applied vigorously during his short-lived presidency .
Citing the success of Lincoln ’ s system , Gilpin said : “ No amount of argument will make America adopt old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to develop her own resources , to manufacture everything that can possibly be manufactured within her territory- this is and has been the policy of the USA from the time of Alexander Hamilton to that of Henry Clay and thence to our own days ” .
Throughout his speeches Gilpin emphasizes the role of a U.S.-Russia alliance : “ It is a simple and plain proposition that Russia and the United States , each having broad , uninhabited areas and limitless undeveloped resources , would by the expenditure of 2 or 3 hundred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nations threw their now waste places , add a hundredfold to their wealth and power and influence ” And seeing in China ’ s potential the means to re-enliven the world- including the decadent and corrupt culture of Europe : “ In Asia a civilization resting on a basis of remote antiquity has had , indeed , a long pause , but a certain civilization- although hitherto hermetically sealed up has continued to exist .
The ancient Asiatic colossus , in a certain sense , needed only to be awakened to new life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on which it can build future reforms.
” In opposition to the outdated British controls of “ chock points ” on the seas which kept the world under the clutches of the might of London , Gilpin advocated loudly for a system of internal improvements , rail development , and growth of the innate goodness of all cultures and people through scientific and technological progress .
Once a global system of mutual development of rail were established , Gilpin stated “ in the shipment of many kinds of raw and manufactured goods , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Great Britain , in whose hands is now carrying the trade of the world.
” Gilpin ’ s vision was most clearly laid out in his 1890 magnum opus “ The Cosmopolitan Railway ” which featured designs for development corridors across all continents united by a “ community of principle ” .
Echoing the win-win philosophy of Xi Jinping ’ s New Silk Road today , Gilpin stated : “ The cosmopolitan railway will make the whole world one community .
It will reduce the separate nations to families of our great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wider intercourse of human ideas and as the result , logical and philosophical reciprocities , which will become the germs for innumerable new developments ; for in the track of intercommunication , enterprise and invention invariably follow and whatever facilitates one stimulates every other agency of progress.
” Alfred Thayer Mahan ( 1840-1914 ) represented an opposing paradigm which true American statesmen like Lincoln , Secretary of State James Blaine , William Seward , President Grant , William Garfield , and McKinley detested .
Sadly , with McKinley ’ s murder ( run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ British Intelligence ) and the rise of Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 , it was not Gilpin ’ s but rather Mahan ’ s worldview which became the dominant foreign policy doctrine for the next 120 years ( despite a few brief respites under FDR and JFK ) .
Mahan is commonly credited for being a co-founder of modern geopolitics and an inspiration for Halford Mackinder .
Having graduated from West Point ’ s naval academy in 1859 , Mahan soon became renowned as a total failure in actual combat having crashed warships repeatedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Civil War .
Since reality was not his forte , Mahan focused his post-war career on Ivory tower theorizing gushing over maps of the world and fawning over Britain ’ s power as a force of world history .
His “ Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 published in the same year that Gilpin published his Cosmopolitan Railway ( 1890 ) was a total break from the spirit of win-win cooperation that defined America ’ s foreign policy .
According to the Diplomat , this book soon “ became the bible for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Kaiser of Germany ( now released from the influence of the great rail-loving statesman Otto von Bismarck whom he fired in 1890 ) demanding all of his offers read .
Later Teddy Roosevelt ordered copies for every member of Congress .
In Mahan ’ s book , the geopolitician continuously asserts his belief that it is America ’ s destiny to succeed the British Empire .
Taking the British imperial definition of “ commerce ” which uses free trade as a cover for the military dominance of weak nations ( open borders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people easier to rob ) , Mahan attempts to argue that America need not continue to adhere to “ outdated ” habits like the Monroe doctrine since the new order of world empires demands America stay relevant in a world of sea power and empire .
Mahan writes : “ The advance of Russia in Asia , in the division of Africa , in the colonial ambitions of France and in the British idea of Imperial Federation , now fast assuming concrete shape in practical combined action in South Africa ” demands that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ refute the “ outdated habits ” of rail development which consume so many foolish statesmen around the globe , Mahan states : “ a railway competes in vain with a river… because more facile and copious , water traffic is for equal distances much cheaper and because cheaper , more useful ” .
Like those attacking today ’ s Belt and Road Initiative , the power of railways is that their returns are not measurable by simple monetary terms , but are rather QUALITATIVE .
The long-term construction of rail systems not only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industrial corridors but also induce closer powers of association and interchange between agriculture and urban producers .
These processes uplift national productive powers building full spectrum economies and also a culture ’ s capacity for creative thought .
The attempt made to justify sea traffic merely because “ larger amounts of goods can be shipped ” is purely quantitative and monetaristic sophistry devoid of any science of real value .
While Gilpin celebrates the successful awakening of China and other great nations of the world , in the Problem of Asia ( 1901 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scarcely desirable that so vast a proportion of mankind as the Chinese constitute should be animated by but one spirit ” .
Should China “ burst her barriers eastward , it would be impossible to exaggerate the momentous issues dependant upon a firm hold of the Hawaiian islands by a great civilized maritime power.
” Mahan ’ s adherence to social Darwinism is present throughout his works as he defines the political differences of the 3 primary branches of humanity ( Teutonic , Slavic and Asiatic ) as purely rooted in the intrinsic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ There are well recognized racial divergencies which find concrete expression in differences equally marked of political institution , of social progress and of individual development .
These differences are… deep seated in the racial constitution and partly the result of the environment ” .
Mahan goes onto restate his belief that unlike the superior Teutonics “ the Oriental , whether national or individual does not change ” and “ the East does not progress ” .
Calling China a carcass to be devoured by an American eagle , Mahan writes : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can be utilized only by dissection or for food ; the gathering to it of the eagles is a natural law , of which it is bootless to complain… the onward movement of the world has to be accepted as a fact.
” Championing an Anglo American alliance needed to subdue and “ civilize ” China as part of the post-Boxer Rebellion , Mahan says “ of all the nations we shall meet in the East , Great Britain is the one with which we have by far the most in common in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in our standards of law and justice ” .
In case there was any doubt in the minds of Mahan ’ s readers as to the MEANS which America should assert its dominance onto China , Mahan makes clear his belief that progress is caused by 1 ) force and 2 ) war : “ That such a process should be underlain by force… on the part of outside influences , force of opposition among the latter themselves [ speaking of the colonial European monarchies racing to carve up China in 1901 -ed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is only a repetition of all history… Every step forward in the march that has opened in China to trade has been gained by pressure ; the most important have been the result of actual war.
” The chaos induced by the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion of 1899 which spread quickly across China resulted a heated battle between imperial and anti-imperial forces in both Russia and the USA .
Where Transport Minister Sergei Witte who spearheaded the development of the Trans Siberian rail line ( 1890-1905 ) tried to avoid military entanglement , McKinley @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boxers soon attacked the Manchurian rail connecting Russia to China by land and Witte succumbed to pressure to finally send in troops .
The reformers of China who attempted to modernize with American and Russian assistance under Emperor Kuang Hsu and Li Hung Chang fell from power as total anarchy reigned .
The outcome of the Boxer chaos involved the imperial powers of France , Germany and England demanding immense financial reparations , ownership of Chinese territory and mass executions of the Boxers .
While McKinley is often blamed for America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the opposite .
The Spanish-American war begun in 1898 was actually launched unilaterally by Anglophilic racist Theodore Roosevelt who used the 4 hour window he had while Undersecretary of the Navy ( while the actual Secretary was out of Washington ) to send orders to Captain Dewey of the Pacific fleet to engage in a fight with the Spanish over their Philippine territories .
McKinley had resisted the war hawks until that point but found himself finally bending to the momentum .
In China , McKinley , like Witte worked desperately to reject @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the British oligarchy that a U.S.-Russia alliance led by McKinley and Witte was immanent .
The assassination of McKinley on September 18 , 1901 catapulted Mahan-loving Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into high office , who enmeshed America into a new epoch of Anglo-American imperialism abroad , a growth of eugenics and segregation at home and the creation of an independent police state agency called the FBI .
As Sieff writes : “ Roosevelt devoted his next eight years in the presidency and the rest of his life to integrating the United States and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of racial imperialist oppression that dominated Latin America , sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and that destroyed the cultural history and heritage of the Native North American nations.
” In Russia , the 1902 Anglo-Japan Treaty led to the disastrous Japan-Russo war of 1905 which devastated the Russian navy , ended the political career of Sergei Witte and threw Russia into chaos leading to the fall of the Romanovs ( Czar Nicholas II was the last statesman occupying high office that this author is aware of to have actively promoted the Bering Strait Tunnel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t until FDR ’ s Vice President Henry Wallace met with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 that the idea resurfaced once more ) .
In his Two Peoples One Friendship , Wallace described his discussions with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 saying : “ Of all nations , Russia has the most powerful combination of a rapidly increasing population , great natural resources and immediate expansion in technological skills .
Siberia and China will furnish the greatest frontier of tomorrow… When Molotov [ Russia ’ s Foreign Minister ] was in Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to him about the combined highway and airway which I hope someday will link Chicago and Moscow via Canada , Alaska and Siberia .
Molotov , after observing that no one nation could do this job by itself , said that he and I would live to see the day of its accomplishment .
It would mean much to the peace of the future if there could be some tangible link of this sort between the pioneer spirit of our own West and the frontier spirit of the Russian East.
” While the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China was attempted by the Anglo-Americans , a fortunate rear guard maneuver orchestrated by another follower of Abraham Lincoln named Sun Yat-sen resulted in a surprise overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and the institution of the Republic of China with Sun Yat-sen as the acting President .
While Sun Yat-sen sided with Gilpin and Lincoln in opposition to the Mahanists on the issue of rail and industrial development ( illustrated in his extraordinary 1920 International Development of China program which called for 160 000 km of rail , water diversion projects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paved roads- illustrated below ) , the intrigues that sank the world into World War I made any hopes of this early development of China impossible in Sun Yat-sen ’ s lifetime .
Expressing his own deep understanding of these top down tactics of world history ( and the recognition that the same British imperial forces that orchestrated the US Civil War were planning to do the same to China ) , Sun Yat-sen wrote in 1912 : “ We understand too well that there are certain men of power—not to include for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a greater or lesser satisfaction an internal rupture in the new Republic [ of China ] .
They would welcome , as a move toward the accomplishment of their own ends and designs , a civil war between the provinces of the North and the South ; just as , 50 years ago , there was applause in secret ( in certain quarters ) over the terrible civil strife in the United States .
Americans of today who were alive in those dark days of the great republic will remember the feelings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and painful thoughts that arose from the knowledge that foreigners were hoping and praying for the destruction of the American Union .
Had the war been successful from the South ’ s standpoint , and had two separate republics been established , is it not likely that perhaps half a dozen or more weak nations would have eventually been established ?
I believe that such would have been the result ; and I further believe that with the one great nation divided politically and commercially , outsiders would have stepped in sooner or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I do not believe that I am stating this too forcibly .
If so , I have not read history nor studied men and nations intelligently .
And I feel that we have such enemies abroad as the American republic had ; and that at certain capitals the most welcome announcement that would be made would be that of a rebellion in China against the constituted authorities .
This is a hard statement to make ; but I believe in speaking the truth so that all the world may know and recognize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Road Initiative , and strategic friendship established between Russia and China has re-awoken the forgotten vision of William Gilpin for a world of cooperating sovereign nation states .
Does the USA have the moral ability to avoid disintegration by accepting a Russia-U.S.-China alliance needed to revive McKinley ’ s American System or will we slip into a new Great Reset and World War ?
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow , BRI Expert on Tactical talk , and has authored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada ’ book series .
In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation .
He can be reached at [ email protected ]

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Originally published on the Saker
On December 17, 2020 A new US Maritime strategy was unveiled putting into practice the regressive concepts first outlined in the early National Defense Strategy 2020 doctrine which target China and Russia as the primary enemies of the USA and demanding that the USA be capable to “defeat our adversaries while we accelerate development of a modernized integrated all-domain naval force of the future”.
The Pentagon’s Advantages at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power continued by saying “China’s and Russia’s revisionist approaches in the maritime environment threaten US interests, undermine alliances and partnerships and degrade the free and open international order… moreover, China’s and Russia’s aggressive naval growth and modernization are eroding US institutional advantages.”
The document continued to describe that “we must operate more assertively to prevail in day-to-day competition as we uphold the rules-based order and deter our competitors from pursuing armed aggression… ready, forward-deployed naval forces will adopt a more assertive posture in day to day operations”
For anyone who has been paying attention to the vast growth of the Pentagon’s Full Spectrum containment policy around China’s perimeter begun with Obama’s Asia Pivot, it may appear as though these words are not new, but just a continuation of American unipolar agenda, Pacific war games, and psychological projection onto perceived enemies, that have been underway for years. While this is certainly true, it must be noted that they are occurring at a time that NATO 2030 has enshrined an anti-China military posture into the Trans Atlantic security doctrine which had formerly channeled most of its hate purely onto Russia.
The fact is those unipolar zombies programmed to think in no other terms but global post-nation state dominance are deathly afraid of the Russia-China bond of survival which has created a uniquely viable foundation for an alternative economic/security architecture for the world. This model is based on a system of finance that defines money not in speculative but rather long-term development of the real economic foundations of life. It also features a strong emphasis on win-win cooperation as opposed to Hobbesian zero-sum logic dominant among western powers, and it also finds itself driven by OPEN system economic practices shaped by unbounded scientific and technological progress that once upon a time guided America’s better traditions.
With the obvious threat of nuclear war breaking out between a collapsing unipolar order in the west and an emergent Multipolar alliance, it is important to review what possible latent policy traditions may yet be revived within America’s history which certain forces have worked very hard to scrub out of the historical record and memory. This study will take us to the incredible fights that arose over America’s identity at the turn of the 20th century during the period of President William McKinley and the treasonous anglophile President of vice, Theodore Roosevelt.
Monroe Doctrine or Empire?
As Martin Sieff eloquently laid out in his recent article, President McKinley himself was an peacemaker, anti-imperialist of a higher order than most people realize. McKinley was also a strong supporter of two complementary policies: 1) Internally, he was a defender of Lincoln’s “American system” of protectionism, internal improvements and black suffrage and 2) Externally, he was a defender of the Monroe Doctrine that defined America’s anti-imperial foreign policy since 1823.
The Monroe Doctrine’s architect John Quincy Adams laid out this principle eloquently on July 4, 1821:
“After fifty years the United States has, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations, while asserting and maintaining her own.
That the United States does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
That by involving itself in the internal affairs of other nations, the United States would destroy its own reason of existence; the fundamental maxims of her policy would become, then, no different than the empire America’s revolution defeated. It would be, then, no longer the ruler of itself, but the dictator of the world.”
America’s march is the march of mind, not of conquest.
Colonial establishments are engines of wrong, and that in the progress of social improvement it will be the duty of the human family to abolish them”.
It was an aging John Quincy Adams whom a young Abraham Lincoln collaborated with in ending the imperial Mexican-American war under Wall Street stooge James Polk in 1846. When Adams died in 1848, Lincoln picked up the torch he left behind as the London-directed “proto deep state” of the 19th century worked to dissolve the republic from within. The foreign policy conception laid out by Adams ensured that America’s only concern was “staying out of foreign imperial entanglements” as Washington had earlier warned and keeping foreign imperial interests out of the Americas. The idea of projecting power onto the weak or subduing other cultures was anathema to this genuinely American principle.
A major battle which has been intentionally obscured from history books took place in the wake of Lincoln’s murder and the re-ascension of the City of London-backed slave power during the decades after the Union victory of 1865. On the one hand America’s role in the emerging global family of nations was being shaped by followers of Lincoln who wished to usher in an age of win-win cooperation. Such an anti-Darwinian system which Adams called “a community of principle” asserted that each nation had the right to sovereign banking controls over private finance, productive credit emissions tied to internal improvements with a focus on continental (rail/road) development, industrial progress and full spectrum economies. Adherents of this program included Russia’s Sergei Witte and Alexander II, Germany’s Otto von Bismarck, France’s Sadi Carnot, and leading figures within Japan’s Meiji Restoration.
On the other hand, “eastern establishment families” of the USA more loyal to the gods of money, hereditary institutions and the vast international empire of Britain saw America’s destiny tied to an imperial global partnership with the Mother country. These two opposing paradigms within America have defined two opposing views of “progress”, “value”, “self-interest” and “law” which have continued to shape the world over 150 years later.
William Gilpin vs Alfred Mahan: Two Paradigms Clash
A champion of the former traditionally American outlook who rose to the international scene was William Gilpin (1813-1894). Gilpin hailed from a patriotic family of nation builders whose patriarch Thomas Gilpin was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin and leading member of Franklin’s Philosophical Society. William Gilpin was famous for his advocacy of America’s trans continental railway whose construction he proselytized as early as 1845 (it was finally begun by Lincoln during the Civil War and completed in 1869 as I outlined in my previous paper How to Save a Dying Republic).
In his thousands of speeches and writings, Gilpin made it known that he understood America’s destiny to be inextricably tied to the ancient civilization of China- not to impose opium as the British and their American lackies were want to do, but to learn from and even emulate!
In 1852, Gilpin stated:
“Salvation must come to America from China, and this consists in the introduction of the “Chinese constitution” viz. the “patriarchal democracy of the Celestial Empire”. The political life of the United States is through European influences, in a state of complete demoralization, and the Chinese Constitution alone contains elements of regeneration. For this reason, a railroad to the Pacific is of such vast importance, since by its means the Chinese trade will be conducted straight across the North American continent. This trade must bring in its train Chinese civilization. All that is usually alleged against China is mere calumny spread purposefully, just like those calumnies which are circulated in Europe about the United States”.
With Lincoln’s 1861 presidential victory, Gilpin became Lincoln’s bodyguard and ensured the president survived his first assassination attempt en route to Washington from Illinois. During the Civil War, Gilpin was made Colorado’s first Governor where he successfully stopped the southern power from opening up a western front during the war of secession (applying Lincoln’s greenback system to finance his army on a state level) and winning the “Battle of Glorieta Pass”, thus saving the union.
After the war Gilpin became a leading advocate of the internationalization of the “American system of political economy” which Lincoln applied vigorously during his short-lived presidency. Citing the success of Lincoln’s system, Gilpin said: “No amount of argument will make America adopt old world theories… To rely upon herself, to develop her own resources, to manufacture everything that can possibly be manufactured within her territory- this is and has been the policy of the USA from the time of Alexander Hamilton to that of Henry Clay and thence to our own days”.
Throughout his speeches Gilpin emphasizes the role of a U.S.-Russia alliance: “It is a simple and plain proposition that Russia and the United States, each having broad, uninhabited areas and limitless undeveloped resources, would by the expenditure of 2 or 3 hundred millions apiece for a highway of the nations threw their now waste places, add a hundredfold to their wealth and power and influence”
And seeing in China’s potential the means to re-enliven the world- including the decadent and corrupt culture of Europe: “In Asia a civilization resting on a basis of remote antiquity has had, indeed, a long pause, but a certain civilization- although hitherto hermetically sealed up has continued to exist. The ancient Asiatic colossus, in a certain sense, needed only to be awakened to new life and European culture finds a basis there on which it can build future reforms.”
In opposition to the outdated British controls of “chock points” on the seas which kept the world under the clutches of the might of London, Gilpin advocated loudly for a system of internal improvements, rail development, and growth of the innate goodness of all cultures and people through scientific and technological progress. Once a global system of mutual development of rail were established, Gilpin stated “in the shipment of many kinds of raw and manufactured goods, it will largely supersede the ocean traffic of Great Britain, in whose hands is now carrying the trade of the world.”
Gilpin’s vision was most clearly laid out in his 1890 magnum opus “The Cosmopolitan Railway” which featured designs for development corridors across all continents united by a “community of principle”.
Echoing the win-win philosophy of Xi Jinping’s New Silk Road today, Gilpin stated:
“The cosmopolitan railway will make the whole world one community. It will reduce the separate nations to families of our great nation… From extended intercommunication will arise a wider intercourse of human ideas and as the result, logical and philosophical reciprocities, which will become the germs for innumerable new developments; for in the track of intercommunication, enterprise and invention invariably follow and whatever facilitates one stimulates every other agency of progress.”
Mahan Derails America’s Anti-Imperial Identity
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) represented an opposing paradigm which true American statesmen like Lincoln, Secretary of State James Blaine, William Seward, President Grant, William Garfield, and McKinley detested. Sadly, with McKinley’s murder (run by an anarchist ring with ties to British Intelligence) and the rise of Teddy Roosevelt in 1901, it was not Gilpin’s but rather Mahan’s worldview which became the dominant foreign policy doctrine for the next 120 years (despite a few brief respites under FDR and JFK).
Mahan is commonly credited for being a co-founder of modern geopolitics and an inspiration for Halford Mackinder. Having graduated from West Point’s naval academy in 1859, Mahan soon became renowned as a total failure in actual combat having crashed warships repeatedly into moving and stationary objects during the Civil War. Since reality was not his forte, Mahan focused his post-war career on Ivory tower theorizing gushing over maps of the world and fawning over Britain’s power as a force of world history.
His “Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660-1783 published in the same year that Gilpin published his Cosmopolitan Railway (1890) was a total break from the spirit of win-win cooperation that defined America’s foreign policy. According to the Diplomat, this book soon “became the bible for many navies around the world” with the Kaiser of Germany (now released from the influence of the great rail-loving statesman Otto von Bismarck whom he fired in 1890) demanding all of his offers read. Later Teddy Roosevelt ordered copies for every member of Congress. In Mahan’s book, the geopolitician continuously asserts his belief that it is America’s destiny to succeed the British Empire.
Taking the British imperial definition of “commerce” which uses free trade as a cover for the military dominance of weak nations (open borders and turning off protectionism simply makes a people easier to rob), Mahan attempts to argue that America need not continue to adhere to “outdated” habits like the Monroe doctrine since the new order of world empires demands America stay relevant in a world of sea power and empire. Mahan writes: “The advance of Russia in Asia, in the division of Africa, in the colonial ambitions of France and in the British idea of Imperial Federation, now fast assuming concrete shape in practical combined action in South Africa” demands that the USA act accordingly.
Attempting to refute the “outdated habits” of rail development which consume so many foolish statesmen around the globe, Mahan states: “a railway competes in vain with a river… because more facile and copious, water traffic is for equal distances much cheaper and because cheaper, more useful”. Like those attacking today’s Belt and Road Initiative, the power of railways is that their returns are not measurable by simple monetary terms, but are rather QUALITATIVE. The long-term construction of rail systems not only unite divided people, increase manufacturing and industrial corridors but also induce closer powers of association and interchange between agriculture and urban producers. These processes uplift national productive powers building full spectrum economies and also a culture’s capacity for creative thought.
The attempt made to justify sea traffic merely because “larger amounts of goods can be shipped” is purely quantitative and monetaristic sophistry devoid of any science of real value.
While Gilpin celebrates the successful awakening of China and other great nations of the world, in the Problem of Asia (1901) Mahan says: “It is scarcely desirable that so vast a proportion of mankind as the Chinese constitute should be animated by but one spirit”. Should China “burst her barriers eastward, it would be impossible to exaggerate the momentous issues dependant upon a firm hold of the Hawaiian islands by a great civilized maritime power.”
Mahan’s adherence to social Darwinism is present throughout his works as he defines the political differences of the 3 primary branches of humanity (Teutonic, Slavic and Asiatic) as purely rooted in the intrinsic inferiority or superiority of their race saying: “There are well recognized racial divergencies which find concrete expression in differences equally marked of political institution, of social progress and of individual development. These differences are… deep seated in the racial constitution and partly the result of the environment”. Mahan goes onto restate his belief that unlike the superior Teutonics “the Oriental, whether national or individual does not change” and “the East does not progress”.
Calling China a carcass to be devoured by an American eagle, Mahan writes: “If life departs, a carcass can be utilized only by dissection or for food; the gathering to it of the eagles is a natural law, of which it is bootless to complain… the onward movement of the world has to be accepted as a fact.”
Championing an Anglo American alliance needed to subdue and “civilize” China as part of the post-Boxer Rebellion, Mahan says “of all the nations we shall meet in the East, Great Britain is the one with which we have by far the most in common in the nature of our interests there and in our standards of law and justice”.
In case there was any doubt in the minds of Mahan’s readers as to the MEANS which America should assert its dominance onto China, Mahan makes clear his belief that progress is caused by 1) force and 2) war: “That such a process should be underlain by force… on the part of outside influences, force of opposition among the latter themselves [speaking of the colonial European monarchies racing to carve up China in 1901 -ed] may be regrettable, but it is only a repetition of all history… Every step forward in the march that has opened in China to trade has been gained by pressure; the most important have been the result of actual war.”
A Last Anti-Imperial Push
The chaos induced by the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion of 1899 which spread quickly across China resulted a heated battle between imperial and anti-imperial forces in both Russia and the USA. Where Transport Minister Sergei Witte who spearheaded the development of the Trans Siberian rail line (1890-1905) tried to avoid military entanglement, McKinley was busy doing the same.
The boxers soon attacked the Manchurian rail connecting Russia to China by land and Witte succumbed to pressure to finally send in troops. The reformers of China who attempted to modernize with American and Russian assistance under Emperor Kuang Hsu and Li Hung Chang fell from power as total anarchy reigned. The outcome of the Boxer chaos involved the imperial powers of France, Germany and England demanding immense financial reparations, ownership of Chinese territory and mass executions of the Boxers.
While McKinley is often blamed for America’s imperial turn, the reality is just the opposite.
The Spanish-American war begun in 1898 was actually launched unilaterally by Anglophilic racist Theodore Roosevelt who used the 4 hour window he had while Undersecretary of the Navy (while the actual Secretary was out of Washington) to send orders to Captain Dewey of the Pacific fleet to engage in a fight with the Spanish over their Philippine territories. McKinley had resisted the war hawks until that point but found himself finally bending to the momentum. In China, McKinley, like Witte worked desperately to reject taking territory resulting in great fears from the British oligarchy that a U.S.-Russia alliance led by McKinley and Witte was immanent.
The assassination of McKinley on September 18, 1901 catapulted Mahan-loving Vice President Teddy Roosevelt into high office, who enmeshed America into a new epoch of Anglo-American imperialism abroad, a growth of eugenics and segregation at home and the creation of an independent police state agency called the FBI.
As Sieff writes: “Roosevelt devoted his next eight years in the presidency and the rest of his life to integrating the United States and the British Empire into a seamless web of racial imperialist oppression that dominated Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia and that destroyed the cultural history and heritage of the Native North American nations.”
In Russia, the 1902 Anglo-Japan Treaty led to the disastrous Japan-Russo war of 1905 which devastated the Russian navy, ended the political career of Sergei Witte and threw Russia into chaos leading to the fall of the Romanovs (Czar Nicholas II was the last statesman occupying high office that this author is aware of to have actively promoted the Bering Strait Tunnel rail connection in 1906. It wasn’t until FDR’s Vice President Henry Wallace met with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 that the idea resurfaced once more).
In his Two Peoples One Friendship, Wallace described his discussions with Foreign Minister Molotov in 1942 saying:
“Of all nations, Russia has the most powerful combination of a rapidly increasing population, great natural resources and immediate expansion in technological skills. Siberia and China will furnish the greatest frontier of tomorrow… When Molotov [Russia’s Foreign Minister] was in Washington in the spring of 1942 I spoke to him about the combined highway and airway which I hope someday will link Chicago and Moscow via Canada, Alaska and Siberia. Molotov, after observing that no one nation could do this job by itself, said that he and I would live to see the day of its accomplishment. It would mean much to the peace of the future if there could be some tangible link of this sort between the pioneer spirit of our own West and the frontier spirit of the Russian East.”
While the “open door” rape of the China was attempted by the Anglo-Americans, a fortunate rear guard maneuver orchestrated by another follower of Abraham Lincoln named Sun Yat-sen resulted in a surprise overthrow of the Manchu dynasty in 1911 and the institution of the Republic of China with Sun Yat-sen as the acting President. While Sun Yat-sen sided with Gilpin and Lincoln in opposition to the Mahanists on the issue of rail and industrial development (illustrated in his extraordinary 1920 International Development of China program which called for 160 000 km of rail, water diversion projects, ports and 1.5 million km of paved roads- illustrated below), the intrigues that sank the world into World War I made any hopes of this early development of China impossible in Sun Yat-sen’s lifetime.
Expressing his own deep understanding of these top down tactics of world history (and the recognition that the same British imperial forces that orchestrated the US Civil War were planning to do the same to China), Sun Yat-sen wrote in 1912:
“We understand too well that there are certain men of power—not to include for the present, certain nations—who would view with a greater or lesser satisfaction an internal rupture in the new Republic [of China]. They would welcome, as a move toward the accomplishment of their own ends and designs, a civil war between the provinces of the North and the South; just as, 50 years ago, there was applause in secret (in certain quarters) over the terrible civil strife in the United States.
Americans of today who were alive in those dark days of the great republic will remember the feelings in the hearts of the people—the bitter and painful thoughts that arose from the knowledge that foreigners were hoping and praying for the destruction of the American Union.
Had the war been successful from the South’s standpoint, and had two separate republics been established, is it not likely that perhaps half a dozen or more weak nations would have eventually been established? I believe that such would have been the result; and I further believe that with the one great nation divided politically and commercially, outsiders would have stepped in sooner or later and made of America their own. I do not believe that I am stating this too forcibly. If so, I have not read history nor studied men and nations intelligently.
And I feel that we have such enemies abroad as the American republic had; and that at certain capitals the most welcome announcement that would be made would be that of a rebellion in China against the constituted authorities.
This is a hard statement to make; but I believe in speaking the truth so that all the world may know and recognize it.”
Today’s Belt and Road Initiative, and strategic friendship established between Russia and China has re-awoken the forgotten vision of William Gilpin for a world of cooperating sovereign nation states. Does the USA have the moral ability to avoid disintegration by accepting a Russia-U.S.-China alliance needed to revive McKinley’s American System or will we slip into a new Great Reset and World War?
Matthew Ehret is the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review , Senior Fellow at the American University in Moscow, BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and has authored 3 volumes of ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series. In 2019 he co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com
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Look around and see how many people are getting into the market. Look at how many believe it will never stop. And why? Why is this belief so persistent? Is it a reality? Or is it simply what people want? The Fed and other central banks have done such an excellent job of clearly doing their best to devalue the currency, destroying their primary function of price stability, in an effort to juice asset prices, while at the same time suggesting they do not factor asset prices into the equation for their decisions. This is when the lies have gone out of control, and those in control are not acting in anyone’s best interest but a small group, hiding in the shadows.
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There is considerable debt that has been accumulated in 2020. We have also seen stocks going higher especially tech stocks. More people are moving money, cash, debt into technology stocks at this time. The financial system is full of institutions flush with money and a blank check to invest more capital into stock buybacks instead of advancing their corporations.
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theduran--2020-12-25--Diplomat urges Biden to engage with others to resolve the Syrian crisis

Charles Thépaut is a French diplomat and resident Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute .
He recently published a policy analysis concerning the US foreign policy on Syria .
While , much of his analysis demonstrates professionalism ; he misses a very important point of view : that of the Syrian people living inside Syria , which amounts to about 10 million persons , or roughly two-thirds of the original 23 million before 2011 .
Thepaut treats the Syrian crisis as if it was only between various governments , such as ; the US , EU , Russia , Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ listed are indeed involved in the Syrian crisis , but the suffering and effect on the residents in Syria must be considered in any US foreign policy changes .
Thepaut writes , “ The first step in that direction is clear : using the momentum granted by the coming inauguration to signal Damascus , Moscow , and Tehran that their current strategy of trying to wait out the United States will not work , ” while adding , “ Ultimately , compromising with Russia is the only way to deliver a negotiated outcome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is of utmost importance to find a solution for the Syria crisis , which is now at a stalemate .
The battlefields are silent , the major cities and most highways are operating under normal conditions , and free of terrorist occupation .
Idlib remains the last terrorist occupied province , with the Al Qaeda affiliate , HTS holding about 2 million persons as human hostages , while international aid agencies support the civilians , and the families of the Radical Islamic terrorists .
The upcoming Biden administration ’ s Syrian foreign policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be revealed .
We know that President-elect Joe Biden has asked Anthony Blinken to be Secretary of State , who as made comments concerning mistakes made in Syria during the Obama administration , and Blinken has stated that he can not imagine a policy of reengaging with Bashar al-Assad .
The uprising which began in 2011 , was not a grass-roots revolution .
It was a US-NATO attack on the Syrian people for ‘ regime change ’ .
When the US wants to remove a leader , they don ’ t always invade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Iraqi people , to remove Saddam Hussein , they often choose to instigate chaos , and an armed struggle using locals acting as mercenaries for the US and/or NATO .
The fact that the Syrian people never fully supported the Free Syrian Army , who some called “ Obama ’ s Army ” , and the Syrian Arab Army never broke apart is clear proof the majority of the Syrian population did not support the US goal of ‘ regime change ’ .
There was indeed a minor percentage of Syrian who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brotherhood , which is the dominant group among the US-EU recognized Syrian Opposition .
The US foreign policy on the Middle East is designed to meet the security goals of Israel .
Syria and Israel are at war because Israel is militarily occupying the Golan Heights , in defiance and disregard of multiple UN resolutions .
Instead of causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of unarmed Syrian civilians , the US could have negotiated with Israel to leave the Golan Heights .
Syria has not attacked Israel , even in the face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have become routine .
Syrian President Assad said in October that to hold Syrian-Israeli negotiations , it is imperative that Israel “ restore all Syrian land ” it is occupying .
Thepaut feels the “ strategy employed against the Islamic State remains a good model for American military action in the Middle East .
This may indicate a willingness to keep a small contingent on the ground to support local partners.
” However , he fails to include the Syrian and Russian military who are responsible for the majority of the defeat of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military who are illegally occupying several Syrian bases is there to steal the Syrian oil resources , which was ordered by President Trump , and not fighting ISIS .
This has prevented the Syrian government from refining their oil into gasoline and heating oil .
This has left the Syrian people in constant shortages of heat and transportation .
When Syria attempts to import oil for the needs of the population , often the ships carrying the lifeblood of basic services are prevented from arriving by the US .
Imagine the average Syrian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to buy cooking gas to cook their food , and having to walk miles daily because their car , or the taxis , sit idle with empty tanks .
The war on ISIS in Syria is over .
ISIS will always survive as an ideology of Radical Islam , akin to their brothers in Al Qaeda , and the Muslim Brotherhood .
ISIS holds no territory in Syria , but may continue to carry out random acts of terror in Syria , and in the US and Europe as well .
There is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Syria .
Thepaut writes , “ economic sanctions targeting the Assad regime are likely here to stay.
” The US-EU sanctions on the Syrian government has not created any revolution , or ‘ regime change ’ .
The sanctions are preventing Syrians from acquiring : money from relatives abroad ; chemotherapy drugs , and other foreign specialty medicines ; gasoline ; cooking gas ; materials from the US or EU countries which would be used to repair and restore homes , hospitals , schools , and businesses which were damaged in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ run on fuel , which is being stolen by the US military , the Syrian population is living with one and one-half hours of electricity in three increments per day .
This is not enough time to freeze food at home , and the result is food poisoning .
Thepaut rightfully acknowledges that international banks and companies are so afraid of the US-EU sanctions that they refuse to deal with humanitarian needs such as foods and medicines .
Thepaut writes , “ One prerequisite for breaking the diplomatic stalemate is acknowledging that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ambition to solve the Syria quandary on its own , ” However , the nation which caused the war , which flooded the battlefields with mercenaries and weapons , should be the one who solves the conflict .
A withdrawal of US occupation forces and removal of the sanctions which hurt the Syrian civilian population should be among the first steps .
The ” Small Group ” consists of the UK , Egypt , France , Germany , Jordan , and Saudi Arabia .
Thepaut advises that Biden should work diplomatically with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those countries were present in Syria fighting as Radical Islamic terrorists , for ‘ regime change ’ to a state governed by Islamic Law .
Saudi Arabia spent billions of dollars supporting the US-backed terrorists and is accused of supplying the sarin gas used in the 2013 East Ghouta attack .
The “ Small Group ” should be part of the Astana process , along with Russia , Turkey , and Iran , which has never had a US member .
“ The United States and the EU have long conditioned their funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the political process , ” wrote Thepaut .
The UN resolution 2254 has been the accepted framework of the Syrian government , which has consistently sent delegations to the meetings .
The Syrian constitution reform committee has made progress .
The US-EU sanctions which prevent Syrian reconstruction should be removed .
As the new year , 2021 is days away , Syria prepares for its Presidential election .
The last in 2014 was observed by an international delegation of activists .
The upcoming election will have a UN monitoring system .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election , otherwise , voters will not be able to drive to the polls and vote .

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Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator
Charles Thépaut is a French diplomat and resident Visiting Fellow at The Washington Institute. He recently published a policy analysis concerning the US foreign policy on Syria.
While, much of his analysis demonstrates professionalism; he misses a very important point of view: that of the Syrian people living inside Syria, which amounts to about 10 million persons, or roughly two-thirds of the original 23 million before 2011.
Thepaut treats the Syrian crisis as if it was only between various governments, such as; the US, EU, Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Those various countries listed are indeed involved in the Syrian crisis, but the suffering and effect on the residents in Syria must be considered in any US foreign policy changes.
Thepaut writes, “The first step in that direction is clear: using the momentum granted by the coming inauguration to signal Damascus, Moscow, and Tehran that their current strategy of trying to wait out the United States will not work,” while adding, “Ultimately, compromising with Russia is the only way to deliver a negotiated outcome in Syria.”
Political dialog with Russia is of utmost importance to find a solution for the Syria crisis, which is now at a stalemate. The battlefields are silent, the major cities and most highways are operating under normal conditions, and free of terrorist occupation. Idlib remains the last terrorist occupied province, with the Al Qaeda affiliate, HTS holding about 2 million persons as human hostages, while international aid agencies support the civilians, and the families of the Radical Islamic terrorists.
The upcoming Biden administration’s Syrian foreign policy is still unknown, and yet to be revealed. We know that President-elect Joe Biden has asked Anthony Blinken to be Secretary of State, who as made comments concerning mistakes made in Syria during the Obama administration, and Blinken has stated that he cannot imagine a policy of reengaging with Bashar al-Assad.
The uprising which began in 2011, was not a grass-roots revolution. It was a US-NATO attack on the Syrian people for ‘regime change’. When the US wants to remove a leader, they don’t always invade, such as the Bush war on the Iraqi people, to remove Saddam Hussein, they often choose to instigate chaos, and an armed struggle using locals acting as mercenaries for the US and/or NATO.
The fact that the Syrian people never fully supported the Free Syrian Army, who some called “Obama’s Army”, and the Syrian Arab Army never broke apart is clear proof the majority of the Syrian population did not support the US goal of ‘regime change’. There was indeed a minor percentage of Syrian who were following the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is the dominant group among the US-EU recognized Syrian Opposition.
The US foreign policy on the Middle East is designed to meet the security goals of Israel. Syria and Israel are at war because Israel is militarily occupying the Golan Heights, in defiance and disregard of multiple UN resolutions. Instead of causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of unarmed Syrian civilians, the US could have negotiated with Israel to leave the Golan Heights. Syria has not attacked Israel, even in the face of missile attacks by Israel, which have become routine.
Syrian President Assad said in October that to hold Syrian-Israeli negotiations, it is imperative that Israel “restore all Syrian land” it is occupying.
Thepaut feels the “strategy employed against the Islamic State remains a good model for American military action in the Middle East. This may indicate a willingness to keep a small contingent on the ground to support local partners.” However, he fails to include the Syrian and Russian military who are responsible for the majority of the defeat of ISIS on Syrian soil. The US military who are illegally occupying several Syrian bases is there to steal the Syrian oil resources, which was ordered by President Trump, and not fighting ISIS. This has prevented the Syrian government from refining their oil into gasoline and heating oil. This has left the Syrian people in constant shortages of heat and transportation. When Syria attempts to import oil for the needs of the population, often the ships carrying the lifeblood of basic services are prevented from arriving by the US. Imagine the average Syrian sitting in freezing temperatures, not able to buy cooking gas to cook their food, and having to walk miles daily because their car, or the taxis, sit idle with empty tanks.
The war on ISIS in Syria is over. ISIS will always survive as an ideology of Radical Islam, akin to their brothers in Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood. ISIS holds no territory in Syria, but may continue to carry out random acts of terror in Syria, and in the US and Europe as well. There is no military justification for any US occupation of Syria.
Thepaut writes, “economic sanctions targeting the Assad regime are likely here to stay.” The US-EU sanctions on the Syrian government has not created any revolution, or ‘regime change’. The sanctions are preventing Syrians from acquiring: money from relatives abroad; chemotherapy drugs, and other foreign specialty medicines; gasoline; cooking gas; materials from the US or EU countries which would be used to repair and restore homes, hospitals, schools, and businesses which were damaged in the war. Because the Syrian power generators run on fuel, which is being stolen by the US military, the Syrian population is living with one and one-half hours of electricity in three increments per day. This is not enough time to freeze food at home, and the result is food poisoning. Thepaut rightfully acknowledges that international banks and companies are so afraid of the US-EU sanctions that they refuse to deal with humanitarian needs such as foods and medicines.
Thepaut writes, “One prerequisite for breaking the diplomatic stalemate is acknowledging that the United States has neither the means nor the ambition to solve the Syria quandary on its own,” However, the nation which caused the war, which flooded the battlefields with mercenaries and weapons, should be the one who solves the conflict. A withdrawal of US occupation forces and removal of the sanctions which hurt the Syrian civilian population should be among the first steps.
The” Small Group” consists of the UK, Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Thepaut advises that Biden should work diplomatically with that group. Citizens from each of those countries were present in Syria fighting as Radical Islamic terrorists, for ‘regime change’ to a state governed by Islamic Law. Saudi Arabia spent billions of dollars supporting the US-backed terrorists and is accused of supplying the sarin gas used in the 2013 East Ghouta attack. The “Small Group” should be part of the Astana process, along with Russia, Turkey, and Iran, which has never had a US member.
“The United States and the EU have long conditioned their funding of reconstruction projects on making visible progress in the political process,” wrote Thepaut. The UN resolution 2254 has been the accepted framework of the Syrian government, which has consistently sent delegations to the meetings. The Syrian constitution reform committee has made progress. The US-EU sanctions which prevent Syrian reconstruction should be removed.
As the new year, 2021 is days away, Syria prepares for its Presidential election. The last in 2014 was observed by an international delegation of activists. The upcoming election will have a UN monitoring system. The US-EU sanctions should be lifted before the election, otherwise, voters will not be able to drive to the polls and vote.
Steven Sahiounie is an award-winning journalist
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