Originally published via The Daily Bell: Ghana’s government recently announced plans to procure oil using gold rather than US dollars – the currency predominately used in the global oil trade. Via Reuters: “Ghana’s government is working on a new policy to buy oil products with gold rather than U.S. dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said on Facebook on Thursday.
There's the personal enrichment/corruption angle of the elites sucking off the carcass of the rotting American riches, but there's also the transition away from the nation-state model to a global technocracy headed by the WEF and all the shadowy interests it serves as a front for. If anything, American Empire is an impediment to the globalists' project as a strong nationalist entity like that would threaten their project. That's the best I can work out. But I'm sure there are lots of things going on at once.
Similar to Snakebite's point: Empire building is never about improving any country. It is always about improving the private lives of the individuals that control the government. This is true for absolutely everything that a ruler (so-called "government") does.
The only way to understand someone's choices ("the government"/the ruler) is to understand their incentives.
PS: Yes, the obvious question is "Why would anyone want rulers, then?". Well...
Purely from an empire point of view- why the fuck are we continuing to do this? The case for for-serious civilizational suicide is pretty strong.
There's the personal enrichment/corruption angle of the elites sucking off the carcass of the rotting American riches, but there's also the transition away from the nation-state model to a global technocracy headed by the WEF and all the shadowy interests it serves as a front for. If anything, American Empire is an impediment to the globalists' project as a strong nationalist entity like that would threaten their project. That's the best I can work out. But I'm sure there are lots of things going on at once.
Similar to Snakebite's point: Empire building is never about improving any country. It is always about improving the private lives of the individuals that control the government. This is true for absolutely everything that a ruler (so-called "government") does.
The only way to understand someone's choices ("the government"/the ruler) is to understand their incentives.
PS: Yes, the obvious question is "Why would anyone want rulers, then?". Well...
your comment made me think of this classic monty python thing for whatever reason
https://youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI
Short answer: money and power.
That's the opposite of what I'm saying.
Deliberately tanking the US petrodollar TAKES AWAY money and power from US hegemony. This is why I'm questioning its sanity.
“Takes away money and power from US hegemony” is true for our country but individuals promoting this BS (like the Clintons) get rich.