{"id":120309,"date":"2022-06-14T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=120309"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:27:40","slug":"how-the-rise-of-fascist-corporatism-is-recklessly-driving-the-ukraine-war-and-its-not-just-the-global-mic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=120309","title":{"rendered":"How the rise of fascist corporatism is recklessly driving the Ukraine War, and it’s not just the global MIC."},"content":{"rendered":"

Urging Europe to War: Applying the Corporate Levers<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Phil Butler, with
\nNew Eastern Outlook<\/p>\n

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When the Russians first warned of the potential for armed conflict in Ukraine, the world looked on with pandemic blinded eyes. The public turned an unconcerned head, naturally, to still more \u201cRussia\u201d problems framed with the ever present \u201cPutin\u201d headline. Few suspected a more troubling underpinning. Then Russia marched across the border.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question of \u201cwhy\u201d still echoes in the bottomless pit of international detente, media, and monetary policies.<\/p>\n

Well, the \u201cNazi makers\u201d who stand behind this Ukraine proxy war are wielding massive profit levers against the Russians, the Chinese, India, and all nations opposed to their order. For instance, all those who wonder at Poland\u2019s renewed lust for killing Russians, news that US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Warsaw is telling.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no economist, but I know there is no such thing as a coincidence. Yellen is in the eastern European country to push forward a new reformative tax regime that would benefit mightily rich nations like France, Germany, and even Poland, perhaps. As I said, I\u2019m not a tax lawyer, but the \u201cOECD Two-Pillar Solution\u201d\u00a0seems like<\/a>\u00a0a sort of bribery to me.<\/p>\n

Maybe some of you readers are economists? All analysts like me have to go on corroborative evidence.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see. The Biden Administration needs Europe to go full-mental on Russia over the Ukraine situation. Okay. That means that Warsaw\u2019s leadership needs to be willing to accept Russian nuclear missiles at any moment. The Poles\u2019 traditional distrust and hatred of Russians must be rekindled, and even old Polish tanks and artillery must be pulled out of mothballs to help Kyiv.<\/p>\n

The possibility of a new Polish Empire might even be thrown in? At the very least, Poland\u2019s right-wing leadership needs to toe the line, especially right now. This passage from a\u00a0National Interest<\/a>\u00a0story, helps my premise here:<\/p>\n

\u201cPoland remains a frontline NATO member and an important American partner to challenge Russia\u2019s ongoing aggression, reported war crimes, and corruption. However, the Biden administration must focus on Poland not only as a European ally but also as a credible democratic nation. Thus, both the United States and the EU must engage and assist Poland instructively\u2014especially in political, economic, and military realms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Alright. Now, the US Treasury Secretary (not her EU counterpart?) being across the border from a brewing World War makes sense. It\u2019s an offer for guaranteed Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other US multinationals tax profits for Warsaw and the rest! Or, am I wrong?<\/p>\n

Then again, perhaps the Ukraine proxy war is designed to leverage NATO countries to simply comply with anything the Biden administration comes up with? I hope you see my logic. Not knowing the ins and outs of Davos meetings, having skipped through both micro and macroeconomics courses in college, all I can attest to is that wheeling and dealing with these people always leads to something really bad for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

After all, Russia is ready to launch \u201ctechnical solutions\u201d should Washington and Brussels convince Finland and Sweden war is the only path. How about the \u201clevers\u201d there?<\/p>\n

Finland may be ready to send its citizens\u00a0below ground<\/a>\u00a0into an underground city capable of housing 900,000 people, or about a third more than the city\u2019s entire population. Finland President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin confirmed the other day that their country would seek membership in NATO now.<\/p>\n

This would break a treaty with the Soviets at the end of World War 2, which essentially allowed Finland to exist even though the country had sided with Hitler\u2019s Third Reich. The fact that Finland is also one of the most militarized nations in Europe, has not escaped the Russians, either.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin response to Finland\u2019s move is one of cool pragmatism, as the Russians say the NATO bid would \u201cdefinitely\u201d be viewed as a threat. Putin assured the Finns that Russia would be \u201cforced to take reciprocal steps, military-technical and other, to address the resulting threats.\u201d Finland as part of NATO extends Russia\u2019s Europe borders with NATO friendly nations by 2x. So, it\u2019s clear Russia will not back down on this one.<\/p>\n

Still, the question of \u201cwhy\u201d remains for both Sweden and Finland. Why now?<\/p>\n

The \u201clevers\u201d here are a bit more complicated than in Poland. But monetary gain and the extension of the existing liberal order are the answers. Finland, the Baltics, and the greater EU have big plans coming up. It all starts with segregating fossil fuel suppliers, then interposing so-called \u201cgreen alternatives\u201d when gas and oil prices get intolerable.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0about converting Germany\u2019s LNG terminals to hydrogen hubs clues us. Finland is already ahead of the game in setting up the game against Russia and its gas. This story is about floating LNG production connected to the Baltics, but other moves are in the works to shift profit from Russia to the US and other suppliers.<\/p>\n

Then you can expect \u201cnew technologies\u201d to follow on with funding from public sources. But the whole Finland affair is more about cutting off Russian oil and gas exports to the west, than anything else. See the port of Primorsk and exports for more on this.<\/p>\n

The western alliance is leveraging Finland the easy way, through the threat of pulling back on imports. Finland\u2019s 5.5 million people have been so well off all these decades because 60% of the country\u2019s GDP is tied to international trade. And most of this is with the EU, where Finland is the only nordic country using the Euro.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t get into how Nokia, the country\u2019s biggest enterprise, screwed the pooch and let down the Finnish people. As further evidence of \u201carm twisting\u201d in Helsinki, this European Commission \u20ac2 billion\u00a0euro partnership<\/a>\u00a0just announced, stands as further proof of bribery.<\/p>\n

By now, the reader is wondering how all this is going to work out. Well, if NATO does not force the Russians to launch a full-scale military response across a wide NATO-Russia front, it will play out something like this. I will summarize making use of a Yahoo! News quote:<\/p>\n

\u201cGermany plans to abandon fossil-fueled power by 2035. But instead of shutting down natural gas infrastructure, it\u2019s speeding up construction of several new terminals that will allow companies to import the planet-warming fuel by ship for decades to come.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, the west-order is planning to first optimize profits from fossil fuels by cordoning off Russia and other energy giants. America and British companies will gain massive profits from partitioning supply, elevated prices, and a new kind of monopoly. Meanwhile, \u201cgreen alternatives\u201d will be hyped, and ultimately funded by the public to the benefit of western corporations, state owned, and private companies.<\/p>\n

Russia will benefit in the short term, but ultimately her natural gas and oil will be all but worthless once replacement technologies and infrastructures are in place. Russia, Iran, and Venezuela will eventually be left holding gas stove energy, and lubricants.<\/p>\n

At least, this is an ingenious plan, it seems. The plan for Making America Great Again, probably includes the rest of the world dying in mass, and American citizens funding electric car\/home development for Elon Musk. At the end of all this, we become the ultimate consumer\/batteries of progress.<\/p>\n

I think, perhaps, the elites of this order anticipate Russians, Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Brazilian slave laborers making wonder new appliances, for the superior race living to the north and west. Or, I should say, \u201ccontinuing\u201d to make.<\/p>\n

And It\u2019s all done with the smoke of war, economic mirrors, and the clever application of obvious levers.<\/p>\n

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he\u2019s an author of the recent bestseller\u00a0\u201cPutin\u2019s Praetorians<\/a>\u201d and other books. He writes exclusively for the\u00a0online magazine\u00a0\u201cNew Eastern Outlook\u201d<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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