Rouble’s new oil exchange currency status is just the start warns international banker
After being surprised by the Sino Soviet military alliance, the West must now accept the reality of Sino Soviet manoeuvring to establish a joint reserve currency challenging the USD.
This is the conclusion of leading Middle East banker Meguerditch Bouldoukian the former deputy governor of the Bank of Lebanon and the world authority on correspondent banking the system under which trading banks cooperate with one another internationally.
In an interview with MSC Newswire he observed that since the end of the Cold War the West had seen “what it wanted to see,” and believed “what it wanted to believe” instead of confronting realities.
This had been characterised by its shared imperative to signal its moral superiority to the Sino-Soviet bloc by for example weakening its own competitive structure in its pursuit of environmental “perfection.” This policy vastly empowered the bloc through the transfer to it of Western currency.
This enabled Russia to lay the groundwork for its underpinning ambition which is to use its relatively new status as a leading global energy resource to “supplant the petro dollar system and with it the reserve currency system too.”
Anyone doubting this said Mr Bouldoukian only had to experience the fact that access to Russian oil and gas is now readily available to buyers “only too willing to settle in currencies other than US dollars.”
“Russia by itself even after its empowerment by the West as a petro state simply does not have the clout to follow this through.
“But in combination with the yuan this possibility of a reserve currency does now take on the outline of a reality.”
United States foreign policy following World War II was to split China off from Russia.
The fall of the Berlin Wall had induced however in Western leadership and especially in the United States and the EU an ‘’illusory and even euphoric” sense that the threat “singly or together” from the old bloc had evaporated.
Even now the threat posed by the two countries working in harmony to challenge the international banking system and its underlying correspondent banking network was being routinely shrugged off, he noted.
Can such a combination replace the US dollar in the international payments system and will the US dollar remain dominant worldwide?
A rival reserve currency Mr Bouldoukian stressed must be capable of being used:-
- For the settlement of international commercial transactions
- For financial transactions short & long term borrowings on the one side and for investments and savings purposes on the other:
- As a reserve currency for central banks and other international financial institutions
Mr Bouldoukian noted that Russia’s economic reforms started in the early 1990s and were inspired by the model of securities regulation that originated in the USA but in practical terms these were decoupled from the actual US model.
It was now that Russia’s economy started to depend heavily on fossil fuel exports, the prices of which determined the value of everything else in Russia.
This over-reliance on fossil exports was always dangerous. “But as we have seen the naiveté of the West played very much into Russia’s hands and continues to do so to this day.”
Russia’s ability to squeeze every advantage out of the West’s blindness has meant “and this has to be acknowledged” that the rouble is a now leading currency for the world energy trade, he stated.
The United States he noted had failed to understand that the German proclaimed high moral purpose in letting Russia take over the role of its own nuclear and traditional power sources merely disguised a recurrence of Germany’s always-present vulnerability to political extremism.
Germany now became near-dependent on Russia for all its raw materials and did so under the camouflage of being seen to do good in the eyes of the United States and EU political class, Mr Bouldoukian added.
In order to avoid a Sino-Soviet alternate reserve currency he urged Western leaders to beware of implementing the ostentatious “high minded ideals” of this class and instead focus on the now manifest economic threat being posed by the formation of the rival reserve currency.
An example now of the imminence of this threat to global banking he insisted was that the rival reserve currency was already undergoing market testing and positioning.
Russia is directing a development project with BRICS nations dedicated to its cherished reserve currency strategy, warned Mr Bouldoukian.
Helensville and Greytown Hold Line against Solar Tsunami while elected stay gagged
Solar power station coverage of dairy pasture is a policy win-win for the government. The first win is for its renewables scheme. The second is by eliminating the cows blamed for creating half New Zealand’s greenhouse gases.
The halve-the-herd cry is routinely on the lips of activists unconcerned by the fact that the dairy industry is the nation’s chief export earner.
Tourism was the runner-up man foreign currency earner until Covid restricted world travel. Its recovery is now threatened by solar carpeting such heritage areas as Helensville and Greytown.
Concerned residents in the threatened towns are worried about the idealised artists impressions of these power stations which portray shoulder-high panels widely separated and with sheep grazing on the ample verdant pasture beneath.
Their research (pictured above) shows a quite different picture of the mechanical structural configuration relative to its surroundings.
The standard bearer for the resistance is the township of Helensville which has quite literally been under siege since the end of 2021 when the extent to which it was to be surrounded by a solar site began to leak out.
The point man for the entire resistance movement is Marco Scuderi
Mr Scuderi is a globally-recognised shipwright and yacht designer-builder who had no previous role in politics local or national.
So where exactly are the people elected and indeed paid to put a brake on exactly this type of state-backed disruption?
There is more. Suppression of public debate is through the government guiding the coverage of the topic in the mainstream media it does not directly control. This is achieved operationally through the Public Interest Journalism subsidy allocation system.
Greytown residents having discovered that a 500 acre solar power site was to be tacked onto its southern edges then proceeded to discover that another 500 acre generating plant had been tacked onto the other side of the town electricity substation – this time heading in the general direction of Martinborough another tourist town and famed for its vineyards.
The fact that New Zealand is embarking on its first generation of industrial capacity solar power stations is another camouflaged issue.
This because in this first flush of government-sponsored zeal there is no taking into consideration the negative aftermath of these plants installed a generation ago in the United States and which are described alarmingly in Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans.
With thousands of acres of dairy land in Waikato and Taupo designated for solar development the loss of export revenue set against the cost of importing all the solar equipment is an issue. Also sidestepped is the degree to which energy supply has been compromised by the political decision to turn off natural gas for instance.
There are substantially over 100 large scale solar site applications pending in New Zealand and this energy Klondike has much to do with planning regulations that make no distinction at all between pastoral farming and solar farming.
The government has set a solar forced march. It is underlined by the government’s disquieting willingness to dismantle the Covid immigration barriers for those able to accelerate the pace.
Neither is it too fussed about the people it tramples on in its swift advance.
Still, there must be surprise that the sternest resistance has come from places such as Helensville and Greytown both heritage grade retirement destinations.
Real World Candidate to bring New Zealand’s City of Dreams back to Earth by pursuing the practical
Ray Chung’s moment of truth came when he discovered that in its move to new premises the Wellington City Council took the opportunity to abandon its recently acquired furnishings in favour of entirely new fittings.
It was now that he began casting around for other such lavish and unnecessary expenditure and it was now that he discovered that far from being an exception the furnishings replacement was a routine example.
It was now too that he discovered that expenditure in all its forms was far from being based on necessity. Instead it was formulated on the basis of the ruminations of focus groups.
Far from representing a consensus of the citizenry and ratepayers Ray Chung now discovered that these focus groups were anything but representational. That in fact they were comprised of activists for niche and voguish special interests.
One of these was cycling. Now he delved into what had been allocated to this special interest group in terms of special concessions, notably dedicated cycle paths.
He took the trouble to inspect the cycleway user counters and found an immense divergence between the exaggerated original estimates of the usage of these cycle paths and the numbers actually revealed by the traffic counters.
The more he dug into projects, expenditure, and outcomes the more he discovered a basis of focus group driven direction and abstraction.
The city’s current operating slogan-in-chief Let’s Get Wellington Moving encapsulates this, he believes.
What does it mean exactly? He asks. In what direction? Upward? Sideways? Downward?
“There is nothing specific about Let’s Get Wellington Moving beyond a fluffy impression that something is happening somewhere, sometime.”
While this feel-good focus and “reimagining” is in full flow there are some known specifics bearing down on the city. Among these is that rates are projected to increase by another 50% over the next three years.
Ray Chung believes that Wellington governance has become suffused with abstraction just because so many people in charge have emerged from backgrounds in policy and political science and other such esoteric callings in which theory is rarely tested against reality.
Rayward Chung’s lineage stretches back to the gold rush era. One of nine children he grew up in a tiny street and a tinier house, which is still there, in the capital’s old inner city.
He went to university and became an engineer and specialised in advanced electronics and it was in this capacity that he worked for multinational companies notably in Europe.
It was in this role that he observed how all expenditure had to be justified and then the return on this expenditure was continuously monitored and evaluated.
He believes that an underpinning problem in Wellington is revealed by the local government elected councillors being referred to as “politicians.” This gives their “underperforming” game away, he points out.
“They are not supposed to be working for political parties. They are elected to work on behalf of all their citizens regardless of their political stripe.”
It is this political classification that he is convinced leads to the focus group syndrome in which there is a constant placating often with “frivolous” expenditure of noisy special interest groups.
He is especially irked since he announced his candidacy by the number of times he has been asked by commentators about his “vision” for the capital.
He replies that he has no vision. Merely an insight into what works and what does not work.
For example his working life in countries such as Germany and Switzerland demonstrated to him how these highly populated nations feature comparatively small cities where the population lives contentedly with close access to things like green parks, public transport, and shops and restaurants.
Many believe that Wellington’s susceptibility to things like visions and ideals stems from parliament where these are the transactional bread and butter ingredients.
Ray Chung wants to insulate the Wellington City Council from political posturing and force it into the real world in which it must confront for example the fact that 30 percent of the capital’s drinking water leaks from its conduit pipes before it reaches its ratepayer consumers.
Firewalling the Wellington City Council from its nearby neighbour the New Zealand Parliament does pose problems. Councillors look with envy at the perks and platoons of “communication” advisers available down the road to their central government counterparts.
“Pet projects belong In Parliament,” concludes Ray Chung. “The City Council is not there to be exciting. It is there to fix pipes and slips. Spin begins down the road….. at Parliament.
Dairy and Wine tourist towns offer close-in substation plug-ins for larger scale power projects in New Zealand
Helensville is often considered the premier heritage town of New Zealand’s North Island. At the end of last year its citizens were shocked and amazed to discover that a massive industrialised solar plant was to be built on the outskirts of the town, and was even planned to make an incursion into the township itself.
Helensville is a prosperous coastal retirement and leisure destination near Auckland and is celebrated for its cafés, boutiques, and art galleries.
Some suspected that Helensville had been selected for the colossal power site because New Zealand’s Labour government with its aspirational best-in-class determination to be on the “right side of history” wanted to use the town to prove that the privileged would assume their fair share of climatic sacrifices.
Then some months later, at the end of August, residents living on the southern boundaries of Greytown began to learn unofficially that a similar scale solar plant was to be built quite literally in their backyard too.
If Helensville is Auckland’s heritage town, then Greytown is the capital, Wellington’s, heritage destination.
The two are at the centre of their district’s wine and dairy areas. They have near identical populations.
Helensville has a population of 2,787. Greytown has 2,420.
So what was the attraction of these townships to the foreign solar power developers?
The incentive was a nearby sub station and the easy flat land and main road access.
This was the common thread. The immense economies provided by these in-place national grid plug-ins cancelled out the elimination of dairy land, and the compromising of heritage value.
Worries about things like glare, electrically-stimulated high temperatures, porosity of shallow water tables, and the chemical composition of the solar panel structures and their disposal are preoccupations of the Helensville community opposition to the power plant.
And now Greytown’s opposition too.
Ratepayers in both heritage townships are daily are learning about hardware such as inverters.
These inverters buffer the electrical currents and make the thrumming noise emitted by these high voltage plants and which at 15 ft high will be dotted among the solar arrays.
Inverted also describes the official location policy of such high voltage plants.
Elsewhere around the world these sprawling plant are in remote and in low productivity areas.
In sparsely populated New Zealand in contrast a pattern is now discernible in which they are installed on highly fertile productive ground hugging tourist-grade townships.
The Greytown international solar developer specifically proclaims the value of “larger scale” projects.
In both the Helensville and the Greytown solar projects the foreign developers have used a town planning compliance opportunity centred on farming.
This means that the usual consents can be by-passed on the simple grounds that these farms will continue to farm.
But this time as solar farms. The type of farming in a legal sense is interpreted in that it is changed in much the same way as if the farmers had switched from cattle and sheep to ostrich farming, for example.
Present participle and letter T are Extinct in new politico-media Argot
A rapidly standardising New Zealand dialect has now overwhelmed the diction of broadcasters and politicians. It has caused to disappear the spoken alphabet consonant “t” and without the substitute Estuary glottal stop. The discarded letter “t” simply emerges as a “d” as in the frequently spoken “baddery” or “budder,” i.e. battery, butter.
Duty is rendered as “doody,” and not as the glottalised “doo-ee,” the Cockney-Essex version.
The absence of the glottal stop as in for example “buh-uh” for butter isolates this new semi-received politico-broadcast dialect or patois from any inherited stem in Cockney and Estuary English.
Wadda and Godda (what a… and got to…) are two other elided examples of the vanished Estuary-Cockney-Essex glottal stop with now the all-purpose “d” sound filling the gap, vacuum.
“Warder,” similarly uses the “d” to replace the old glottal stop for water (war-uh in Estuary-Essex.)
In this evolving Antipodean politico-broadcast patois there is too an emphasis on the second vowel in words, a characteristic of Romance or Latin languages. Examples are “halth,” and “walth” for health and wealth.
The letter “e” is heavily extended as in “Wheat and Forgeet” for the heavily branded Wet and Forget
Transposing the letters “a” and “e” as in Alvis for Elvis or Ellis for Alice and vice versa is another unexplained and now accepted standardisation. Another such localisation is “halp” for help.
The broadcast disappearance of the present participle “ing” does share a traceable and noble lineage to the old English clipped “huntin’, fishin’ & shootin’.”
The routine rendition of a broadcast television programme as “Fear Go,” instead of Fair Go emphasises this firewalling from Estuary English.
The word air is now routinely delivered in any word syllable component to sound like ear. Now standard or received is for example “ear conditioning.”
New York Born British Prime Minister has a claim to the White House
Boris Johnson’s co-premiership with his wife Carrie introduced into the Westminster zone the trans-Atlantic concept of a shared connubial political leadership of which President and Mrs Clinton remain the outstanding Anglosphere exponents.
This might now be taken a stage further with the No.10 Downing Street duo repeating this role in the White House.
Mr Johnson was born in New York. Other than being born in the United States, the other Constitutional pre-requisite is that he lived there for 14 years.
He appears to have lived as a child in the United States for five years. So given his present age and the nine years left to reside in the United States Mr Johnson could announce a candidacy on or around his 67th birthday.
This would still make him around a decade younger than the current two front runners president Joe Biden 79 and the former president Donald Trump 76.
So in this theory which until a few weeks ago seemed entirely dotty a President Boris Johnson could serve two full terms and still be younger than either of these are currently.
Polls in the United States focus on Mr Johnson’s proven track record in fund raising and vote raising notably his 80 seat majority garnered for his Conservative government in the last British general election.
Also cited is his political personality modus operandi deemed to be more appropriate for the United States than the United Kingdom.
Above all there is Boris Johnson launching himself from an already high plateau of name recognition combined with proven fund and vote-getting experience as two time mayor of London and then prime minister.
He sees at home his Brexit capital evaporating hourly.
In the United States in contrast it is accumulating. The reason is that Brexit translates there as anti-globalism.
How could the West have failed to see that the EU “powerhouse” in the form of a united Germany still remained vulnerable to extremist ideologies and which this time took the form of relying on its enemy for most of its fuel?
How could the United States have similarly outsourced its manufacturing to another foe?
Mr Johnson based in the United States, the land of his birth, the man who got Brexit done, would become the go-to guy for presidential calibre answers to these globalist era mysteries. How did the theory of pacifying self-declared enemy powers by enriching them at the expense of your own economy achieve such traction, and for so long?
The concept of connubial presidential power sharing is accepted in the United States. Think also the Carters, Reagans, and Obamas. Neither is there any requirement for a spouse to be born in the United States. Think Melania Trump.
Mr Johnson’s biography of Winston Churchill, The Churchill Factor, has attained institutional status in the United States. Churchill’s own mother Jennie Jerome was similarly born in New York.
Mr Johnson would need to hide his party allegiance until the very last moment.
Under this hypothesis he is “drafted” by one of the main parties in a situation similar to the one that exists now in which one of the two parties, in this instance the Democrats, has no obvious campaign standard bearer.
Britain’s doctrinal media’s vituperative pursuit of the departing prime minister characterises him as a one man crime scene. This is even after the greening of Mr Johnson following his marriage to Carrie.
Should Mr Johnson see a political destiny for himself in the United States this indicates an association with the Republican Party. It is here too that his war-leader instincts demonstrated on the advent of the Ukraine invasion will render the biggest dividend.
Mr Johnson is sometimes regarded as Britain’s Donald Trump, whose mother incidentally was born in Scotland. Both started at the top and worked their way up. Both position themselves as outsiders who have wandered into the inside.
Conjecture on a trans Atlantic destiny for Mr Johnson followed on the heels of Washington polls gauging the popularity in United States federal politics of the Duchess of Sussex after Meghan gave indications that this is where she saw her own future.
Similar polls now devolved onto Mr Johnson and they gained currency after exposure in London’s Daily Express which remains Fleet Street’s crusading voice of the Empire and what is left of it.
Curiously the first eight presidents of the United States including George Washington were regarded as British subjects because the United States was part of the British Empire.
In the British Commonwealth the only other example resembling a federal scale co premiership is that of the late Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser and his wife Tamie who deputised for her husband when he was ill and who is considered to have influenced her husband’s views especially in his later years, notably about the United States.
John Howard’s Lazarus Rising is Boris Johnson’s hand book on Conservative Leadership Comebacks
Boris Johnson was served notice because he could not be dissuaded from dragging his Conservative Party and government into progressive minefields which conservatives know they can never successfully extricate themselves from.
Mr Johnson’s determination to engage in activist-grade progressivism became evident when at the Glasgow summit he proclaimed in the manner of a male member of the Royal Family “It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.”
This effectively set ticking Mr Johnson’s own Doomsday Clock because it followed months of Mr Johnson’s prattling about sustainable diets, vegetarianism, doing away with open fires and indeed any heat sources at all derived from beneath the earth’s surface.
Nobody is talking about this and Mr Johnson’s ouster is officially attributed to his presence at several morale-boosting staff get-togethers during his own lock downs and then prevaricating about it.
Then more recently to an unlikely tipping point in which a boozy elected minor Conservative official groped his way around a St James gentlemen’s club
The reality is rather more chilling.
At the very moment Mr Johnson made his Doomsday proclamation at the Glasgow summit his cabinet had been on the receiving end for several months and most definitely for the preceding month of Anglo-American joint intelligence to the effect that Russia was building up its expeditionary forces on the Ukraine border to the extent that an invasion was imminent.
Was Mr Johnson deliberately shielded from the Anglo-American intelligence relating to the Russian threat?
Given that former aides and associates have testified to Number 10 being anything but watertight this has to be a possibility especially that upon the invasion a few months later Mr Johnson described it as "the biggest war in Europe since 1945."
Questions must be asked however late in the day………………….
Was he aware by October 2021 and certainly by November of the invasion likelihood?
If so what measures were put in place to boost the United Kingdom’s fuel independence? Stockpiles?
Mr Johnson’s drift into progressive issues was alarming to the Conservative Party just because there is no gain it for the party politically.
There is only the quicksand effect in which the more it tries to fend them off, keep them at a distance, the more the party gets mired in them. This is what happened to the conservatives in the Australian general election only weeks before Mr Johnson’s sacking.
Mr Johnson it is continuously reiterated intends to return to the leadership of the Conservative Party.
He has always savoured the way Winston Churchill voted out in 1945 came back as prime minister in the next general election.
But Sir Winston was voted out, and then back in again, by the electorate. Not by his own Conservative Party.
Mr Johnson’s Commonwealth comeback prototype, earthly avatar, therefore is Australia’s John Howard (pictured).
He was ousted by his party, a conservative one, in 1989 yet came back to lead it to victory in the 1996 federal election.
It is a political party eviction comeback celebrated in Mr Howard’s autobiography Lazarus Rising which details the long serving prime minister’s stabilising and deft application of social conservatism.
Meanwhile the two most successful progressive practitioners in the Commonwealth sphere are Canada’s Justin Trudeau and New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern
These two Westminster zone Wizards of Woke adeptly juggle native languages, ancestral property rights, flags, place names, holidays, tribes, quotas, orders of precedence, head starts, compensation for past wrongs, affirmative action, and the issuance of scheduled Apologies.
In the United Kingdom these are not the responsibility of Westminster.
Instead these issues belong with the Welsh and Scottish governments with their own parliaments in Cardiff and Edinburgh.
These are actual countries. They are not states in the Australian or North American sense as so many still believe. They are constituted around ancient tribal borders and as such Wales and Scotland are authentic, true, bona fide First Nations.
In Britain therefore the culture wars minus indigenous conflict, minus First Nation imperatives, are on a much narrower and restricted front.
Horrified, the Tory Party now saw Mr Johnson Siren-like unnecessarily yet inexorably drawing his Conservative government onto the rocks of a politico-moral lived experience in which the party didn’t have to live, let alone experience.
Actors in Stalin Purges, Famines still promote Great Experiments
Washington catch cries and rallying calls notably the Defund the Police campaign are supposed to demonstrate officially supported empathy with the deprived and downtrodden. They are received in Russia as indications of irresolution and instability
Russia’s picking off its enemies liquidating them by whatever means wherever they are in the world demonstrates Russia’s horror of internal dissent and the consequent urgency to suppress it.
The failure to comprehend Russia continues to involve the West’s newspapers of record. At the height of the collectivisation- induced great famine of the 1930s the New York Times correspondent in Moscow won a Pulitzer award for claiming that there were no such famines.
Malcolm Muggeridge (pictured) then employed by the Manchester Guardian doubted the New York Times’ bureau head Walter Duranty’s version and went to Ukraine to investigate for himself the plight of the Kulaks. These were the farmers under intense forced collectivisation which caused the starvation known as Holodomor. His reports were buried.
Muggeridge much later toured Australasia and in both countries emphasised how the Russians continuously duped the Western media, and did so through a realisation of the media’s own susceptibility to radicalism combined with its willingness “to be deceived.”
The defund movement in the United States with its clear Administration support conveyed to the totalitarian bloc an officially sanctioned regime of anarchy or Great Chaos as it is known in China
The English speaking realm media/political class consistently fails to grasp the difference between noble-sounding proclaimed priorities uttered in the West and their interpretation when these same concepts make landfall in totalitarian Russia and China.
When the defund the police sloganeering unchallenged by the White House washed up in Moscow the call was taken literally as officially approved agitation of the variety that could be a prelude to a full scale revolution.
Stalin’s Doctors Plot and its ensuing purges was one example. The merest hint, indication, suspicion of a failure to follow the party line, the approved doctrine, triggered the direst of reprisals
Another parallel and another great experiment is the expropriation mooted as far afield as Australia and the Netherlands by the state of farmland in the interests of carbon dioxide/methane minimisation. This chimes with collectivisation. Land seizures in other words.
Similarly the compulsory re-writing of school text books and the pulling down of statues is simply interpreted as a contemporary manifestation of revisionism. The disappearance after a perceived infraction of the official (i.e. party) line from the airwaves of broadcasters in certain Commonwealth countries is regarded in Russia simply as exile.
In the contemporary Cancel culture there is a comparison here with the various purges and plots and show trials in 1930s Russia. The West’s institutional apologies translate as Soviet era Recantations
The current boosted fuel prices leading to increased food prices is seen by the Russians as the inevitable sufferings by the peasantry when such noble experiments as net zero are inflicted on the masses by the intellectual class.
Highbrow political magazines routinely render the useful fools phrase attributed to Lenin as useful “idiots.” This is quite wrong. It is just another example of the West’s tin ear in the Russian intellectual transaction.
“Fools” the original word accurately conveys Lenin’s original and intended meaning. This defines the highly educated and privileged who are anything but idiots. Yet who have susceptibility for unquestioning belief in and a compulsion to promote certain abstract theories.
In this narrow vulnerability only are they Lenin’s fools. The belief that the end of communist Russia in the form of the old USSR was somehow the “end of history” is only one obvious example of the political class’ deliberately encouraged dreamy triumphalism.
Malcolm Muggeridge’s warnings about the West’s institutional willingness to be hoodwinked by Russia have been vindicated by a series of events since the supposed “end of history.”
In 1994 posing as peacemakers Russia persuaded the UK and the US to concur in a scheme known as the Budapest Memorandum which unilaterally stripped Ukraine of all its nuclear weaponry.
The 2014 annexation of Crimea was the first siege stage in land locking Ukraine. All the while Russia encouraged the West in its sacred ideal (which is how Russia sees it) to stop using its own fuel, be politically correct, and depend on Russia’s instead. This allowed Russia to corner the market and set export prices accordingly.
This atmosphere of constant rolling deception slides easily along via an indelible illusion held on the trans Atlantic axis that Germans and Russians remain instinctively at loggerheads. Quite the opposite was and is true. The two races are culturally intensely close.
The Russians watch for weakness. The evacuation of Kabul chimed with the United States losing its grip on its own military and this view was confirmed when top operational figures subsequently held onto their jobs. Was Washington afraid to fire them?
Or were they unpurged because they were zealously pursuing centrally-driven social engineering creeds by tinkering with words and their meanings which mirrors the Leninist belief in perpetual revolution at any and all levels, all the time?
Commonwealth Prime Ministers Preoccupied by Ethical Topics Ignored Own Base
Boris Johnson changed his party without formally announcing his switch as he veered across the political divide from conservatism to globalism. He is in good company. Australian prime minister Scott Morrison did the same thing. He swerved from straight laced traditionalism to accepting the full slate of contemporary avant garde values.
The only difference being that Mr Johnson’s U-turn stemmed from the zeal associated with new converts to causes.
Mr Morrison’s rather grim-faced acceptance of such causes was of a rather more operational nature.
He sought to straddle the Australian electorate by appealing to the metropolitan voguish vote while maintaining a grasp on his base in the unpretentious outback and shires.
The outcome for both prime ministers was the same. In seeking to accommodate their fickle metropolitan types they failed to capture them and at the same time lost the faith of their own one-time ardent if less showy-off followers.
For Mr Morrison this became evident in the federal election. For Mr Johnson in two provincial by-elections.
There are much closer links between the conservative party machines in Westminster and Australasia than many realise.
By the time the result of the Australian Federal general election was received it was already too late for the lesson to be learned let alone applied by the freshly dewy-eyed Mr Johnson now surrounded by knee-taking advisors even if he had been capable of applying it, let alone learning it.
When the war came it was too late as Boris in full Churchill mode strode through the streets of Kiev with president Zelensky.
Margaret Thatcher’s war in the Falklands in contrast was at the beginning of her long term in office and allowed her to give full voice to the resolve and decisiveness that is expected from Tory prime ministers as they sweep aside distractions in order to focus on priorities such as a war.
As the various movements and cults swept in from the United States both Morrison and Johnson gave the impression of being captivated by a mood surge of “Hey! What’s this! Nothing to do with us? Never mind. We’ll run with it. Where’s it heading?”
Where now was the jut-jawed Scott Morrison brandishing a lump of coal before the federal parliament and daring his audience to look at it without fainting away in a fashionable swoon?
Where was the growling 80 seat majority Brexiteer Boris so recently renowned for his scepticism on voguish trends?
Like the China plague that black swan-like plummeted into the relatively placid lake of their early days as prime ministers, the cults kept coming in then metamorphosing and mutating.
Scott Morrison already twisting and turning in the familiar winds of career feminism suddenly found himself at the epicentre of a new gender hurricane.
This one centred on gender reassignment which in turn twisted into a tornado centred on the rights of the thus gender re-assigned to compete on equal terms in high performance sports, especially at an international level.
Boris Johnson looks like John Bull. Yet once he had got Brexit done we can see now that he was increasingly drawn to the salons where the globalists like to glow.
Both prime ministers in their different ways we can see now became hopelessly entangled in the notions of a non productive yet noisy ilk.
In doing so they fell into the tender trap, seeking the affection of everyone.
Mr Johnson is viewed now as someone whose sympathies always lay with the a la mode metropolitans and whose true colours only needed ignition.
In Australia there were just a few straws in the wind that prime minister Scott Morrison sensed that he was beset by a swarm of social justice diversions, notably the gender ones.
In a move that still mystifies many Mr Morrison dealt harshly with the female head of a major and successful and difficult federal trading enterprise who dished out bonuses in the form of fancy wrist watches to her high-performing department heads.
Mr Morrison cited first foremost and always as a “marketing” man seemed blind to the incentive value in all this. He made the ceo a public example to all and any other federal employee tempted to do anything resembling a grand gesture off their own bat.
Australasians now fear precedent spill over and sectarian schism
From the outset of this millennium the coastal enclaves of the United States exported ethics to the rest of the Anglosphere.
These buzzed up moral constructs were absorbed unquestioningly like warm honey until even just a few days ago. The repeal of Roe versus Wade amounted to a slap in the face.
The United States ethics command of the Anglosphere became obvious when government heads in the UK and Australasia felt compelled to remind their own citizens that they were not in fact under United States jurisdiction, and thus they were unaffected by Roe versus Wade
It was the coupling of climate and identity that supercharged the United States coastal progressive agenda export and made it unchallengeable by a compliant politico media class in Australasia and much of continental Europe too.
In fact the repeal of Roe versus Wade had silently returned to the Supreme Court agenda following the retirement in 2020 of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
It has been claimed that Justice Ginsburg (pictured) also questioned the constitutionality of Roe versus Wade on the grounds that there was nothing in the United States Constitution that dealt with abortion and that the matter therefore belonged under the aegis of the individual states.
However those who met Justice Ginsburg on her tour of New Zealand were left in no doubt about the liberal nature of her views on this and allied issues.
Justice Ginsburg during this tour New Zealand impressed audiences with her brisk and matter-of-fact descriptions of the workings of the Supreme Court.
Her visit to New Zealand achieved global attention when she announced subsequently that if Donald Trump was elected to the presidency then she would relocate to the famously social justice conscious nation in the South Pacific.
In the event Justice Ginsburg is said to be a cause of the Roe versus Wade repeal because of her determinedly clinging to her office until her death in the year she retired, 2020.
This allowed the by now elected and in-office president Donald Trump to weigh the Supreme Court against the libertarians.
Many are surprised that the Roe versus Wade repeal was made prior to the United States mid term elections later this year.
Premature leaks of the repeal’s imminence are probably one cause. Another is that the Republicans precipitated the repeal in the belief that it would consolidate their own vote.
Meanwhile one of the reasons that political leaders in Australasia so swiftly reassured their own citizens that Roe versus Wade would not spill over into these countries is the extreme sensitivity in these Oceania nations to anything involving Roman Catholicism.
Both countries from their pioneering inception sought to reduce sectarian tensions and this was notably successful in education.
Prior to the climate-identity blending the issue of abortion was the dominant moral issue of its era and its intensity was only fanned by the rawness of the division about it within Catholicism itself.
The Roe versus Wade reappraisal has re-ignited in the region a conscience-gender issue that many believed had become subsumed and even utterly buried simply because the dominant dual climate-identity packaged activism sucked the oxygen out of any competing moral issue.
In the Westminster zone of the Anglosphere this newly revived issue in all its rawness is likely to be handled gingerly by public broadcasters especially. This sector is anxious to preserve undiluted and unchallenged its flagship and priority United States doctrinal import which is the climate -identitarian coupled theory.
The tacitly accepted United States formula ethics export dominance has suddenly U-turned and ploughed into the back of a movement that more than any other had evoked traditional and confusing values often religious ones.