The Great Dessert: The Geopolitical - Financial Endgame

Part II of III

“If you are wealthy, you might assume that, because the system has allowed you to accumulate wealth, you will be protected in some way, that you are special. You are special. They’re saving you for dessert.” David Rogers Webb

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Part I: Reviews

Part II: The Transition

Part III: The End Game

Part II: The Transition

2014 The Pivotal Year

By 2014, thirteen years rather than five had already passed and none of Wesley Clark’s seven countries were “taken out.” The Empire’s armies had been defeated in Iraq, Afghanistan was a quagmire, and the Empire’s “Arab Spring” terrorist proxy war was heading for failure too. The G7 real economies had been shrinking since 2007, while the Russia, Iran and China (RIC) economies were growing robustly. The RIC’s global influence was expanding at the expense of the Empire. It was thus clear to the Empire by 2014 that total global dominance was out of reach and that an alternate geopolitical plan was needed.

The legal framework for the Great Taking^[i] having been completed, the alternate geopolitical plan was ready for implementation. This is evidenced by the 25% drop in global upstream investments in oil and gas in 2015 followed by another 26% drop in 2016, despite the growth in demand for both oil and gas during these years. By 2020 upstream investments were 42% lower than 2014.

Figure 1 Global upstream investments in oil and gas^[ii]

Realizing that fossil fuels account for 83% of global energy consumption, and that oil and gas account for 56%, the drastic reduction in upstream investments is sure to result in a global energy crisis. According to Aramco CEO Amin Nasser:[iii]

What happened in Russia–Ukraine masked what would have happened. We were going through an energy crisis because of a lack of investment.

The world is running with less than 2% of spare capacity. Be­fore COVID, the aviation industry was consuming 2.5 million bpd more than today. If the aviation industry picks up speed, you are going to have a major problem.

Simultaneously in 2014 an economic decline was initiated, as indicated by the steep drop in velocity of money (VOM), reaching historically low levels by 2021, as noted in the chart below:

Figure 2 Annual velocity of money, from 1900 to the first quarter 2021^[iv]

“Crises do not occur by accident; they are induced intentionally and used to consolidate power and to put in place provisions for measures that will be used later.” [v]

Timeline of key events:

• 1997: VOM reached a historical peak and has been dropping since and currently is at a historical low.

• 2001: “By the time of the Dotcom Bubble, I knew that the velocity of money had begun collapsing; I saw incredible escalation in money creation engendering little growth. I believed that, in some great unfolding over many years, there would be a major depression, and that the only question was whether or not there would be a global war. This was prior to 9/11”.[vi]

  • The Global War on Terror was unleashed, putting into motion the plan for extending global hegemony through the 21st century by taking control of Southwest Asia’s oil reserves.

  • The Patriot Act was signed, ushering in the formal transformation of the US into a police state.

  • The global push for conformance to the U.S. model for achieving such legal certainty to client assets and collateral mobility began in earnest.

• 2003: A three-year increase in VOM was engineered to trigger the Global Financial Crisis.

• 2007: The Global Financial Crisis set the stage for enacting “Bail-In” laws which are essential for taking control of collateral.

• 2014:

  • Completion of global imposition of the legal framework on securities, jurisdiction and movement of collateral.

  • Initiating the alternate geopolitical plan “Two Worlds” discussed below. 

  • Hedge funds impose restrictions on investments in fossil fuels exploration and other upstream activities.

  • CIA Maidan Coup, setting the stage for a proxy war with Russia.

• 2020: Covid-19 pandemic

  • Lockdowns and other restrictions devastate businesses globally.

  • Dress rehearsal for imposition of ruthless democratic governments in the West.

• 2022: Start of Ukraine war. Peace deal of March 2022 sabotaged by the Empire.[vii]

• 2023: Drums of war beating: the Empire vs. Sovereigntist states with RIC (Russia, Iran, China) at their core:

  • War in Ukraine involving Russia.

  • War in Gaza involving Resistance Axis with Iran at its core.

  • Rising tensions with China over Taiwan.

2024 Global War on the Horizon?

As noted in Figure 2 above, a steep drop in velocity of money (VOM), reflecting a drastic economic drop, presages a major war or a great depression. By the end of 2023, the VOM had dropped to a historic low. For the fourth quarter of 2023, despite a U.S. budget deficit of $510 billion and increase in debt of $834 billion, GDP growth was only $329 billion,[viii] indicating that VOM is less than 1. The drop since the Great Financial Crisis is far greater than the drops leading to WWI or the Great Depression. This indicates that either a global war or major economic crash is on the horizon.

The current wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the rising tensions with Iran and China, suggest that a global war is highly likely. However, two key factors differentiate the current period from that of WWI and WWII:

1. During WWI and WWII, the allies dominated economically and consequently militarily. Currently the Sovereigntist states dominate both economically and militarily.

2. Most importantly, the global financial structure was not threatened during either of these wars. This is evidenced by the fact that, under insistence of President Roosevelt at the Bretton Woods Conference, it was decided to liquidate the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) for collaborating with Nazi Germany during WWII. But the decision was never implemented and was subsequently rescinded, and the BIS maintained its role at the top of the global financial structure. Currently parallel financial systems are being developed by the Sovereigntist states, and these do pose a serious threat for the money powers.

A global war pitting the Empire against the Sovereigntist states would result in a resounding defeat of the Empire on the battlefield and consequently in the monetary realm. Suffice to note that the U.S. and UK navies have failed to maintain sea lines of communication in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait against Yemen, [ix] a country whose GDP is less than 10% of the US navy budget.

It may be suggested that the Money Powers or Protected Class, to use the legal terminology of Judge James M. Peck, would not hesitate at opting for the “Samson Option,” as they have never had qualms about instigating wars that have killed tens of millions.[x] However, it should be noted, that the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) doctrine has been nullified by the overwhelming superiority of Russia’s aerial defense and strategic weapon delivery systems, to the point that former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson refers to MAD as the “myth of mutually assured destruction,”[xi] confirming the ability of Russia to prevail in a nuclear war.

More significant to the Protected Class than hundreds of millions of deaths, is the fact that unlike previous global wars, the global financial structure that will emerge subsequent to this war will be developed by the Sovereigntist states with Russia, Iran, and China (RIC) at their core, ending a millennium of global financial domination, and it is this defeat that the Protected Class will avoid at all costs.

The only feasible strategy for the Empire to preclude its capacity for domination from melting away completely would be to terminate the competition by splitting the world into two regions: the Western Realm over which the Protected Class has ironclad control, where “their rules” rule, and the Sovereigntist Realm, which is completely separated from it. 

It has been shown that the alternate plan is the establishment of “Two Worlds”: a Western realm and a Sovereign world of self-determining countries protected from the deteriorating Empire by the RIC core.[xii] The current global geopolitical turmoil reflects the transition phase towards the “Two Worlds”. The West’s objective in the current transition is to lock-in as many resource-rich countries of the Global South within the Western realm as possible. It is to this end that a hyper-crisis consisting of combined energy, food, economic, and monetary crises has been engineered by the Protected Class.[xiii]

It is therefore posited that there will not be a global war. The current regional wars, and the hawkish war rhetoric of the Empire are merely intended to cement the ideological basis of the “Two Worlds”, namely RICophobia: Russophobia, Islamo-Iranophobia and Sinophobia.[xiv]

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[i] The Great Taking, David Rogers Webb, Ver. 1.2, Nov 28, 2023.

[ii]WHY THE WEST CAN’T WIN: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World, Fadi Lama, Clarity Press, May 1, 2023.

[iii] Aramco CEO warns of global oil crunch due to lack of investment, Alessandra Galloni, Reuters, May 23, 2022/

[iv] The Great Taking, David Rogers Webb, Ver. 1.2, Nov 28, 2023.

[v] Ibid.

[vi] Ibid.

[vii] Official: Johnson Forced Kyiv To Refuse Russian Peace Deal, Tamás Orbán, The European Conservative, Nov 27, 2023.

[viii] The GDP Number Was Great... There Is Just One Huge Problem, Tyler Durden, Zerohedge, Jan 26, 2024.

[ix] The United States Navy Essentially Lost A Battle At Sea This Week, Tyler Durden, Zerohedge, Jan 27, 2023.

[x] WHY THE WEST CAN’T WIN: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World, Fadi Lama, Clarity Press, May 1, 2023.

[xi] TG 889: The Gaggle Talks to Larry C. Johnson, The Gaggle with Peter and George, YouTube, 22:55, Oct 1, 2022.

[xii] The West's Plan B: Secure the Realm, Fadi Lama, The Cradle, Jun 27, 2022.

[xiii] WHY THE WEST CAN’T WIN: From Bretton Woods to a Multipolar World, Fadi Lama, Clarity Press, May 1, 2023.

[xiv] ibid