The haemorrhage of lost jobs coincided with a rate of inflation. This outstripped growth in wages and tens of millions of comfortably off Americans sank below overwhelming debt. Since 1971, consumer debt has risen by 1700%.
Even at the height of Washington’s hostility toward Maduro, US accusations against Caracas centered on drug trafficking and corruption, not on any Venezuelan nuclear threat to the American homeland.
Then, breathtakingly, despite a ceasefire announced by Trump last month, the US military launched a wave of strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait on Thursday night.
‘The goal is to use Ukraine to wash money out of the US and EU through Ukraine and then back into the hands of the Military Industrial Complex for an endless, not a successful war.’
The level of antipathy towards the US has been growing as well, with only 42% deeming it a trustworthy partner against 46% last year, according to the researcher.
Last Saturday, US-based low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines said it was shutting down due to the sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks.
Congress and the Senate by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow.
‘We took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business. Who would have thought we were doing that? We’re like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates,’ Trump said, prompting laughter in the audience.
On Wednesday, senior Pentagon official Jules Hurst gave lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee the first official statement on the controversial war’s price tag, ludicrously estimating it to be around $25 billion.
Similar to the economic crisis of Germany’s disastrous Weimar Republic (1919-1933), which catapulted Adolf Hitler’s NSDAP party to power, the US has slipped into stagflation for the first time in decades, billionaire hedge fund boss Ray Dalio has said.
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