With the new U.S. sanctions bill having been passed by a united Congress and signed by a President allegedly opposed to it, U.S. sanctions are now all over the news. But the sanctions bill was not just a step toward a second Cold War with Russia, the bill was also aimed at North Korea, Iran, China, and even Europe. In his excellent study of the bill, “U.S. Sanctions: A ‘Loony Tunes’ Bad Remake; ‘Irreversible Decline Of The U.S. As A Global Superpower,” F. William Engdahl described the legislation as being a “nuclear barrel bomb with sanctions flying in all directions.” Sadly, Engdahl is right.
Without going into a detailed analysis of the bill, suffice it to say that it is aimed directly at Russia, Iran, and North Korea but that it threatens anyone and any country that does business with specific elements of the Iranian, North Korean, or Russian economy. This means that China, Germany, and the European Union as a whole have been put on notice that business as usual will subject them to United States sanctions, “allies” or not.
Once again, the United States is declaring to the world that it is the emperor of the planet and any country (save for Israel) who acts in opposition to its whims is in danger of sanctions or worse.
What’s ironic is that the United States has become so fond of using sanctions as a response to the slightest dissent that it appears soon the U.S. will isolate itself so much that North Korea will have more diplomatic ties with other nations than America. If America continues to implement sanctions against any and all countries that do not bend to its will, it will wake up one day with its embassies empty, a non-existent export market, and international news reports referring to the “secretive and reclusive state” known as the United States of America. That is, if it can manage to keep its troops at home.
At least Free Trade would be ended. Unfortunately, so would all trade. Diplomacy would be a dead art, even more dead than it is today in a country whose answer to any dissent is sanctions first, bombing second, and total invasion third.
So now with the new sanctions bill, the United States has slapped sanctions on 14 countries including
- Russia
- Syria
- Iran
- North Korea
- Venezuela
- Cuba
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Ivory Coast (Cote d’ Ivoire)
- Belarus
- Iraq
- Congo
- Liberia
- Sudan
- Zimbabwe
If sanctions are imposed on additional countries – specifically China and the EU – America may be moving toward sanctioning more countries than it is willing to work with. Ironically, these sanctions – if countries prepare and react properly (i.e. encouraging domestic production, domestic investment, control of national banks, etc.), will end up benefiting the target countries such as what has happened recently with the Russian agricultural economy so long as they move away from imports of items that can be reasonably produced at home.
But sanctions should not be considered a positive development. They are not trade policy. They are a blockade. Sanctions are a political failure and/or an aggressive and they can be considered, as Congressman Ron Paul once noted, an act of war.
Still, as America draws the iron curtain upon itself, some are now concerned that the bill will result in the targeting of independent media outlets, long labeled “Russian propaganda” sites simply because they do not tow the mainstream narrative of the disproven “Russian hacking,” Putin as the new Hitler, or America’s freedom fighters in Syria.
While countries like North Korea have been isolated from the world due to mostly outside forces and sanctions imposed upon it, the United States is isolating itself sanctioning any and all who disagree with it, all the while reaffirming the world’s concern that it is the greatest threat to peace and security on the planet.
America’s economic death and its empire marching across the world have ruined any chance that it can lead by example or positive reinforcement and thus it can only resort to sanctions and warfare. Unfortunately for the United States, one of those methods is becoming increasingly irrelevant and the other is becoming increasingly impotent.
Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is the author of seven books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies, Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President, and Resisting The Empire: The Plan To Destroy Syria And How The Future Of The World Depends On The Outcome. Turbeville has published over 1000 articles on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s radio show Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. His website is BrandonTurbeville.com He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.
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For the moment, that violent and reckless force; having been expelled from all nations, will consume it’s consumers.
Some would say it to be a fitting end for the people who erected the real modern day tower of Babel, a.k.a the internet. Only a nation bent on evil, could possibly create it.
Were it left to the conspirators, the entire world would follow their example.
Perhaps that’s why the EU built its headquarters in Brussels to be an exact replica of the tower of Babel. That’s regional government, a cornerstone of UN Rothschild Rockefeller global governance. Already formed in the middle east GCC and coming together in the Russia bloc EEU. Both modeled after the EU with UN protocols.
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All technology can be used for good or evil. To me, the internet can be equated to social advancements, such as the Gutenberg press, backdoor government surveillance notwithstanding.
The internet is nothing new. It ended horribly the last time, and it will end horribly again. You may have heard of the tower of Babel. Well, this is it.
What, I find this stupid sanctions revealing, why make such an fuss of it, when Europa finally awakens from their slumber, doped by the hideously rotten MSM and equally rotten politicians, it will back fire.
But overall, I find this to be an self inflicted wound that will just be bigger and bigger, more and more, and when the back-fire comes, it will hit your economy hard.
Because, the ugly truth is, right now there is an race, between what comes first, the implosion of the banana republic or an world war, and I hold an buck on world war, they have no other options left.
They will never ever admit their scams, or the MSM admit their scams, or the politicians about their scams, do you really think they will alter anything, just look at Trump, huh, I had high hopes, because of the consistency He had shown thru the years, but now I wounder how deeply we have been f….. by Trump and the rest, incl the MSM.
To me, the only thing that irritates me, is how the rest, incl Russia is pussy footing, its like their spine went down the drain, along with their own balls.
And now, they act like an orchestra of castrates, piping noise, and no actions, if I was Russia I would throw out corps as Exxon, give em 10 minutes to pack their shit and confiscate everything, incl cash, and if anyone as much as farts, kick out the next large corp, and so on.
But then again, somehow I find Russians to be borderline masochistic, do they want anyone to attack and kill millions once again, before the Rats in the Duma awakens, to the bloody facts, or is it something we dont know, but I find Russia to day, highly irrational and somehow blinded by their own stupid belief in what this lame duck in the WH would, do.
Dunka, dunka.
The Chines I dont trust more than I can throw them, witch means not at all, I do respect the Chines people, but their present regime aint worth an donkeys turd.
Coward creeps, humiliating them self by doing what they can to spread their butt cheeks as far and wide they can every time any yankike pops up, just wave some cash and the Chines drops onto their knees.
My contempt grows every day now.
No, I am starting to wounder, if this is an show, where all the parts knows thing we dont, to ugly compliance from the Chines and Russia is somehow bizarre, but there is something I cant put my finger on, something dark.
peace
the US congress is controlled by the Zionist here and in Israel this proves it WAY past ant doubt, 98% approved this stupid act.
The Russians are preventing the Isralies land grab in Syria and they want WAR as always our war.
There has NEVER been and NEVER WILL BE a PEACE brokered by Zionist!
The isolation of the soon to be former US NWO hegemon after the completion of the final NWO paradigm was foretold several decades ago. The 1956 Rockefeller Panel reports clearly outlined this process.
While it’s great the NWO wars will be coming to an end, what’s not good is this inflection point marks transition of the end of the sovereign nation state model to be supplanted by rule by “supranational” entities : banks, multinational corporations, international organizations, chiefly the UN – all under the control of the usual suspects.
While all the “sticks” are up in the air during this remodeling phase, can the people of the world reclaim some of their inherent rights as sovereign sentient beings? Not likely if they aren’t informed Big Brother and the Eye of Suaron is being prepared for global technocracy.
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Don’t worry.
Hollywood will churn out even more patriotic trash to bamboozle the world how the U.S. is the greatest country on the face of the Earth.
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