Poster:  Yep, that certainly is a shift. My guess is that the cartel has simply been forced to confront the fact that they cannot steamroll over Assad and the Syrian army as long as Russia, Iran, and China are backing them. I have no doubt that Putin has made it clear that he will not be pushed any further, and that the cartel is courting a nuclear confrontation if they continue on the path they have been on. Looks like Brezinski´s ¨Silk Road¨strategy has run into a BRIIC wall, eh?

Me: Stuart,

I hope that is actually what is occurring. But if we don’t awaken to what will actually make our economic and monetary systems truly functional and stable and what will also free the individual financially there will always be instability re-inforcing the geo-political and geo-financial strategies of the major powers. And such reforms/transformations are probably best pushed simultaneously in both Russia/China and the West or it will be the same old same old of East versus West cold war, or White Russians versus Red Russians civil war