It’s Sunday, you don’t have time to think about economics, war, chaos, the real problems of the world. As my best friend told me yesterday, he “does not want to lose sleep over it all.” I say:
“It’s better to lose sleep today, than to lose our children’s legacy tomorrow.”
The world around you is changing very rapidly. We’ve reached a stage in human growth where expanding economies no longer benefit is. Now, if the US economy grows, it actually hurts Americans. As complex as this seems to be, it’s rather simple actually.
The world is getting very full of people and the human “capital” we have created. Cars, boats, planes, washing machines, TVs, iPhones, etc etc etc etc. The population explosion is outdone by the “things” explosion.
If we continue, we will reach a critical mass very soon.
And while Barack Obama and the western powers plot more sanctions and childish punishments on their newly created arch villain, Vladimir Putin, it is the UK, Spain, Greece, and other western countries that are falling apart. The “Catalonia question” may be a turning point for all Europe. Spain’s leaders are desperately trying to save a whole Spain. Meanwhile Catalonia’s independence movement seems unstoppable.
If the Yes Scotland independence campaign revels in cheers of victory coming days. The website of the movement reflects some common truths about that country that are not too different from EU contemporaries. Scotland may well be, better off without helping to prop up a broken Britain economy. Many agree, if Scotland were independent today, it would be one of the richest per capita countries in the world. Screen legend and Scotland’s most famous advocate of independence, Sir Sean Connery may well get his lifelong wish.
This Sunday, if you like to watch sports, maybe America waiting for that final second TD pass to win it all, maybe it’s not the best world strategy.
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Additional image credit: Human Capital – Brad Bray
I hate to say this but I think the Russians are being unduly optimistic about their effect on ISIS. If as NEO has reported ISIS is in fact backed by Saudi, the US, Turkey and maybe indirectly by Israel, then anything the Russians destroy will be quickly or at least eventually replaced. If Saudi wants ISIS to win or at least to prevail in Syria and Sunni Iraq with US/Turkish support, it will take a major Russian/Iranian ground effort to blunt that and then we are talking about asymmetric warfare becoming more conventional and more like 1973. Does the US really want to face Russia in Syria as well as the Ukraine? Can Russia afford to fight on 2 fronts (Ukraine, Syria/Iraq)? ISIS has a potential recruiting base of 1500 million Sunni Moslems. Iran just 250 million Shia. So if not ISI something else will transmogrify to fight for Saudi in the ME. Saudi spends billions on this kind of effort. I think Russia might win temporarily but in the longer term its not a winning scenario. Saudi and the gulf can afford to channel more weapons to ISIL/ISIS than anyone can destroy. This fight has a very long way to go yet, maybe even generational, as were the medieval wars out there.