TEMPER TANTRUM IN THE KINDERGARTEN
Russia says NO to Globalism by Dmitry Orlov
“Dmitry Orlov discusses the Ukraine situation and Russia undoing 30 years worth of accumulated damage, while the West punishes itself attempting to thwart Moscow. He discusses the legality of Russia’s military incursion which is absolutely necessary in terms of its security. Putin’s goals are to militarily neutralize Ukraine, get rid of the Nazi extremists, and form a new legal structure. Regarding energy, the U.S. can’t go without Russia for more than a few months, Russia can go without the U.S. practically forever. Western hysteria threatens escalation of the conflict. Dmitry reveals the mystery of why Putin sits at the far end of the table. He feels the U.S. is destroying the dollar which will destroy American living standards. Western leaders are losing their electorate and he’s concerned of the mental damage that has occurred throughout the West and thinks living in a place of social cohesion will be important.” ~ quoted from https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2022/03/01/dmitry-orlov-russia-ukraine/
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and a writer on subjects related to “potential economic, ecological and political decline and collapse in the United States,” something he has called “permanent crisis”. Orlov believes collapse will be the result of huge military budgets, government deficits, an unresponsive political system and declining oil production.
Orlov was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and moved to the United States at the age of 12. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. He was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s.
In 2005 and 2006 Orlov wrote a number of articles comparing the collapse-preparedness of the U.S. and the Soviet Union published on small Peak Oil related sites. Orlov’s article “Closing the ‘Collapse Gap’: the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US” was very popular at EnergyBulletin.Net.
Orlov’s book Reinventing Collapse:The Soviet Example and American Prospects, published in 2008, further details his views. Discussing the book in 2009, in a piece in The New Yorker, Ben McGrath wrote that Orlov describes “superpower collapse soup” common to both the U.S. and the Soviet Union: “a severe shortfall in the production of crude oil, a worsening foreign-trade deficit, an oversized military budget, and crippling foreign debt.” Orlov told interviewer McGrath that in recent months financial professionals had begun to make up more of his audience, joining “back-to-the-land types,” “peak oilers,” and those sometimes derisively called “doomers”.
In his review of the book, commentator Thom Hartmann writes that Orlov holds that the Soviet Union hit a “soft crash” because of centralized planning in: housing, agriculture, and transportation left an infrastructure private citizens could co-opt so that no one had to pay rent or go homeless and people showed up for work, even when they were not paid. He writes that Orlov believes the U.S. will have a hard crash, more like Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1920s.
humanitarian disaster 360... praying for the everyday peoples caught up in this deadly nonsense... here in USA Putin is the new uni-party orange man / dr. evil... that said, if your mental case neighbor has a biological meth lab going in his basement the logical thing would be to do something about it... no?
Actually, your opening thesis is incorrect. The US was only one year ago, and energy exporter. Biden closed down the oil and gas leases, and stopped Keystone, because his family interests are in Ukraine's gas market.
As for the US needing Russia, we are the only nation on the planet who can literally wall ourselves off, and remain completely self sufficient. We now have to two largest oil reserves in the world under the Bakken Shale, and now in West Texas plains. Russia cannot last two years without the 80% import of our grains and other farm products. Russia is not well known for such extremely fertile farm land like we have here in the US. We have very rich soil, and considerable long growing seasons. We can produce 4 crops of corn, 3 crops of wheat, 4 crops of barley, soy, and potatoes a year below the 38th parallel, known as the Mason Dixon line.
Russia is our No. 2 export for agriculture goods. I'll provide a link. China is the no. 2 because for political reasons, and trade agreements. We sell to Chinese trade firms, who then sell to Russia. China has ample farming land. It really has no need to import agri from the US. Russia cannot nuke the US because it NEEDS our farm land. Which is why we put our nuclear silos in the middle are farmers' fields. To attach our missile silos is to destroy the only thing Russia would really invade for, the farm land.
https://beef2live.com/story-top-15-agricultural-export-destinations-0-108962#:~:text=In%202015%2C%20the%20United%20States%20exported%20more%20than%20%2410%20billion,U.S.%20ag%20exports%20in%202015.