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American Austerity and the End of “Wars of Choice”
Foreign Affairs, the mouthpiece of the Council on Foreign Relations, is like a 500-pound canary: When it speaks, people listen. Gary North referred to the article in the November-December 2010 issue entitled "American Profligacy and American Power" as “a turning point … the first official announcement … that the Federal deficit is out of control … which threatens the survival of America’s position as the world’s most influential political-military participant.”
“The post-2020 fiscal outlook is downright apocalyptic.” There are two trends in place that cannot be reversed: the aging of the population and the inevitable increase in the cost of servicing the national debt. The intersection of those two trends will essentially stop the American economy as all available capital that would otherwise be invested in capital, equipment, and innovation will be absorbed by the debt markets. This is the “crowding out” effect that Austrians have predicted for years.
However, their big concern is that these forced cuts will also heavily impact military spending, which would interfere with the Anglo-American elitists’ plans to use American-funded interventions to promote their agenda for a global government. The reason for their concern is that every category of government spending will be cut, and “politics demands that the pain be shared.”
In other words, cuts in entitlements and domestic discretionary spending will only be achievable if they are coupled with reductions in defense expenditures….
There will [as a result] be fewer resources available to undertake wars of choice along the lines of Iraq and what has become a war of choice in Afghanistan. [Emphasis added.] Nation-building is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive exercise….
This does not mean that there will not be wars of choice — a conflict with Iran is a possibility given its nuclear ambitions — but rather that such wars will be both less common and more limited in their aims.
The Foreign Affairs article concludes by restating its disappointment that with America’s fiscal decline also goes their plan to install the New World Order according to their timetable.
It is fiscal, economic, and political failures at home that are threatening the ability of the United States to exert the global influence that it could and should. [Emphasis added.]
Gary North says that as these new austerity measures are imposed on the American citizens, cuts in military spending “will end the dreams and schemes of the faceless experts who have quietly directed the ship of state ever since 1921. Their gravy train will come to an end.”
Originally posted by wcitizen
Sweet justice.
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Originally posted by FortAnthem
Originally posted by wcitizen
Sweet justice.
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Sweet justice indeed. It seems the NWO forgot that it takes money to drive the American military machine and that they need its military might if they want to continue their plans of one world global domination. You can't have a one world government without a strong military to quell dissent.
The good news behind this is; if the financial collapse damages America's military capabilities, it may force the NWO to call off their scheduled demolition of the American republic until they can come up with an option to maintain their global military hegemony.
This may be the best sign yet that the US is on the way to recovery.
Originally posted by FortAnthem
reply to post by wcitizen
Things like a military coup could be dangerous. Sure, I'd love to see all those government cronies, from BOTH parties, forcibly thrown out of power and into a prison cell somewhere to rot away the rest of their days.
The thing you have to remember is this though; TPTB have plans for every contingency. The politicians in Washington are only their puppets, they aren't the ones really pulling the strings. TPTB will find a way to come out on top no matter what.
You have to remember that many of the top officers in the military are also CFR members and if they were to perform a coup, it would probably be on orders from their CFR masters and nothing would change, in fact it would probably only get worse; we would be living under martial law for real if the military took over. Not a good prospect in my book.