Tectonic shift: Oil-based Western order is sinking, China is the future.

Caleb Maupin

EDITED BY PATRICE GREANVILLE
Dispatch dateline: March 26, 2021 / Live chat #212

THE OIL-BASED CAPITALIST ORDER IS IN CRISIS—THE EAST IS RED, AND THE EURASIAN ALTERNATIVE IS RISING
With his usual talent for making complex and important matters accessible to all, Caleb dedicates this chat to a review of recent developments underscoring the geopolitical shift causing so much turmoil and hand-wringing in the seat of the Western empire.

blockage of the Suez Canal by a ship the size of the Empire State Building has stoked economic anxieties around the globe, that only escalate each day the critical maritime trade route remains closed.

IN THIS CHAT            
The topics include:
Desperate efforts by the Western establishment to create a a real Ministry of Truth, through censorship and all possible forms of consciousness manipulation • A 4-block long oil tanker runs aground in the Suez Canal, choking oil deliveries for days, but the news is basicaly ignored by most media. Why? What's more, instead of climbing, oil prices continue to drop. The reason, notes Maupin, is that we have an oil glut. Partly through the efforts to make the US once again the world's top oil producer and because of the sharp drop in demand aused by the pandemic, the oil supply is at an all-time high. Aggravating this situation for the largest Western oil producers—a cartel comprised of the "5 supermajors"—Exxon-Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and TOTAL—tightly intertwined with the world's top banking trusts, from Morgan-Chase, controlled by the Rockefellers, to HSBC in London and Hong-Kong, is that China is switching its energy needs away from oil —especially for its automotive and mechanical apliances—and favoring an electric paradigm, mostly reliant on titanium. These "economic" shits highlight and portend a huge political change in the global power distributions. The oil-based order whose control has given the US and the West so much strategic influence, and allowed them to control and blackmail other nations, is finished. This order—which the US still struggles to defend as "the best of all possible worlds" —even at the likely cost of a nuclear war, is anchored in US global hegemony and a decadent capitalism whose social values of extreme but hypocritical liberalism, entrenched inequality, and fake democracy, much of the world rejects. 

 Also discussed:  Trotsky and Trotskyism, re the USSR, China, Germany, France, Mao, etc. • Effects of Trotskyism on the communist mivement • Ultraleftism & Soviet revisionism: the case of Enver Hoxha's Albania and Tito's Yugoslavia. And much more. 

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Caleb Maupin has worked as a journalist and political analyst for the last five years. He has reported from across the United States, as well as from Iran, the Gulf of Aden and Venezuela. He has been a featured speaker at many Universities, and at international conferences held in Tehran, Quito, and Brasilia. His writings have been translated and published in many languages including Farsi, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is originally from Ohio. As a reporter with RT.com, Maupin's focus has been the United States. He has had many intense interactions with US State Department spokespeople including John Kirby, Mark Toner, and Heather Nauert confronting them about diverse issues like Syria, Russia, and the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons. Maupin was the primary US correspondent for RT’s international broadcasts during the 2016 Presidential elections. He reported from both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and also directly from the riots in Oakland, California, during the aftermath of the vote.