Surely, the only defensive measures needed are to not be a co-belligerent in the war launched by the United States of Israel and to pay for the oil and the toll in Yuan. Western capitalist economies promote free enterprise, privatisation and user pays ( shades of Aryn Rand ). If you want to drive over the Sydney Harbour Bridge or through the Harbour tunnel, you pay a toll.
Plus, I would have thought many of these countries would want to be free of the Amerikan Empire.
One would think so. But then, remember than many of these monarchies were entirely invented by the colonial powers. It's important to keep that fiction going lest the people rise up. It's also notable how we see Iran's leaders in the streets with the people, yet from the GCC states practically no images of the public.
Thanks or your response. Does the fiction still work? I follow Judge Nap and several of his regular guests have offered that in some of these artificially created Gulf Emirates, the Royals are bailing out of those countries, and some of them have sizeable Shia populations.
Perhaps that rising is ineluctable and unstoppable. At that the age of 74 I still hold out some hope.
I had an after thought to my previous comment. If you pay in Yuan, you not only free yourselves from the Dollar hegemony, but you can maybe trade with BRICS nations, who I'm guessing have most of what you might need.
Surely, the only defensive measures needed are to not be a co-belligerent in the war launched by the United States of Israel and to pay for the oil and the toll in Yuan. Western capitalist economies promote free enterprise, privatisation and user pays ( shades of Aryn Rand ). If you want to drive over the Sydney Harbour Bridge or through the Harbour tunnel, you pay a toll.
Plus, I would have thought many of these countries would want to be free of the Amerikan Empire.
One would think so. But then, remember than many of these monarchies were entirely invented by the colonial powers. It's important to keep that fiction going lest the people rise up. It's also notable how we see Iran's leaders in the streets with the people, yet from the GCC states practically no images of the public.
Thanks or your response. Does the fiction still work? I follow Judge Nap and several of his regular guests have offered that in some of these artificially created Gulf Emirates, the Royals are bailing out of those countries, and some of them have sizeable Shia populations.
Perhaps that rising is ineluctable and unstoppable. At that the age of 74 I still hold out some hope.
Hasta La Victoria Siempre!
I had an after thought to my previous comment. If you pay in Yuan, you not only free yourselves from the Dollar hegemony, but you can maybe trade with BRICS nations, who I'm guessing have most of what you might need.
This what I see as Free Trade.