Welcome to the second phase of the Great Reset: war.
While
the pandemic acclimatised the world to lockdowns, normalised the
acceptance of experimental medications, precipitated the greatest transfer of
wealth to corporations by decimating SMEs and adjusted the muscle
memory of workforce operations in preparation for a cybernetic future,
an additional vector was required to accelerate the economic collapse
before nations can ‘Build Back Better.’
I
present below several ways in which the current conflict between Russia
and Ukraine is the next catalyst for the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda, facilitated by an interconnected web of global stakeholders and a diffuse network of public-private partnerships.
1. The war between Russia and Ukraine is already causing unprecedented disruption to global supply chains, exacerbating fuel shortages and inducing chronic levels of inflation.
As
geopolitical tensions morph into a protracted conflict between NATO and
the Sino-Russia axis, a second contraction may plunge the economy into stagflation.
In
the years ahead, the combination of subpar growth and runaway inflation
will force a global economic underclass into micro-work contracts and
low-wage jobs in an emerging gig economy.
Another recession will
compound global resource thirst, narrow the scope for self-sufficiency
and significantly increase dependence on government subsidies.
With
the immiseration of a significant portion of the world’s labour force
looming on the horizon, this may well be a prelude to the introduction
of a Universal Basic Income, leading to a highly stratified neo-feudal
order.
Therefore, the World Economic Forum’s ominous prediction that we will ‘own nothing and be happy’ by 2030 seems to be unfolding with horrifying rapidity.
2. The war’s economic fallout will lead to a dramatic downsizing of the global workforce.
The
architects of the Great Reset have anticipated this trend for a number
of years and will exploit this economic turbulence by propelling the
role of disruptive technologies
to meet global challenges and fundamentally alter traditional business
patterns to keep pace with rapid changes in technology.
Like the
pandemic, disaster preparedness in the age of conflict will rest
significantly on the willingness to embrace specific technological
innovations in the public and private spheres so that future generations
can supply the labour demands of the Great Reset.
A recurring theme in Klaus Schwab’s Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is
that groundbreaking technological and scientific innovations will no
longer be relegated to the physical world around us but become
extensions of ourselves.
He emphasises the primacy of emerging
technologies in a next generation workforce and highlights the urgency
to push ahead with plans to digitise several aspects of the global
labour force through scalable technology based solutions.
Those
spearheading the Great Reset seek to manage geopolitical risk by
creating new markets which revolve around digital innovations,
e-strategies, telepresence labour, Artificial Intelligence, robotics,
nanotechnology, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Bodies.
The
breakneck speed in which AI technologies are being deployed suggest
that the optimization of such technologies will initially bear on
traditional industries and professions which offer a safety net for
hundreds of millions of workers, such as farming, retail, catering,
manufacturing and the courier industries.
However, automation in
the form of robots, smart software and machine learning will not be
limited to jobs which are routine, repetitive and predictable.
AI systems are on the verge of wholesale automation of various white collar jobs,
particularly in areas which involve information processing and pattern
recognition such as accounting, HR and middle management positions.
Although
anticipating future employment trends is no easy task, it’s safe to say
that the combined threat of pandemics and wars means the labour force
is on the brink of an unprecedented reshuffle with technology reshaping
logistics, potentially threatening hundreds of millions of blue and
white collar jobs, resulting in the greatest and fastest displacement of
jobs in history and foreshadowing a labour market shift which was
previously inconceivable.
While it has long been anticipated that
the increased use of technology in the private sector would result in
massive job losses, pandemic lockdowns and the coming disruption caused
by a war will speed up this process, and many companies will be left
with no other option but to lay off staff and replace them with creative
technological solutions merely for the survival of their businesses.
In
other words, many of the jobs which will be lost in the years ahead
were already moving towards redundancy and are unlikely to be recovered
once the dust is settled.
3. The war has significantly reduced Europe’s reliance on the Russian energy sector and reinforced the centrality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ‘net zero‘ emissions which lies at the heart of the Great Reset.
Policymakers
marching lockstep with the Great Reset have capitalised on the tough
sanctions against Russia by accelerating the shift towards ‘green’
energy and reiterating the importance of decarbonisation as part of the
‘fight against climate change’.
However, it would be very
short-sighted to assume that the Great Reset is ultimately geared
towards the equitable distribution of ‘green’ hydrogen and
carbon-neutral synthetic fuels replacing petrol & diesel.
While
UN SDGs are crucial to post-pandemic recovery, more importantly, they
are fundamental to the makeover of shareholder capitalism which is now
being vaunted by the Davos elites as ‘stakeholder capitalism’.
In
economic terms, this refers to a system where governments are no longer
the final arbiters of state policies as unelected private corporations
become the de facto trustees of society, taking on the direct
responsibility to address the world’s social, economic and environmental
challenges through macroeconomic cooperation and a multi-stakeholder
model of global governance.
Under such an economic
construct, asset holding conglomerates can redirect the flow of global
capital by aligning investments with the UN’s SDGs and configuring them
as Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)
compliant so that new international markets can be built on the
disaster and misery of potentially hundreds of millions of people
reeling from the economic collapse caused by war.
Therefore, the
war offers a huge impetus for the governments pushing the reset to
actively pursue energy independence, shape markets towards ‘green and
inclusive growth’ and eventually move populations towards a
cap-and-trade system, otherwise known as a carbon credit economy.
This
will centralise power in the hands of stakeholder capitalists under the
benevolent guise of reinventing capitalism through fairer and greener
means, using deceptive slogans like ‘Build Back Better’ without
sacrificing the perpetual growth imperative of capitalism.
4. Food shortages created
by the war will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as
the convergence of digital technologies with materials science and
biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage
the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global
scale.
Russia
and Ukraine are both breadbaskets of the world and critical shortages
in grains, fertilisers, vegetable oils and essential foodstuffs will
catapult the importance of biotechnology to food security and
sustainability and give birth to several imitation meat start-ups
similar to ‘Impossible Foods’ which was co-funded by Bill Gates.
One
can therefore expect more government regulation to usher a dramatic
overhaul to industrial food production and cultivation, ultimately
benefiting agribusiness and biotech investors, since food systems will
be redesigned through emerging technologies to grow ‘sustainable’
proteins and CRISPR gene-edited patented crops.
5. Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT (The
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)
foreshadows an economic reset which will generate precisely the kind of
blowback necessary for corralling large swathes of the global population
into a technocratic control grid.
As
several economists have opined, weaponizing SWIFT, CHIPS (The Clearing
House Interbank Payments System) and the US Dollar against Russia will
only spur geopolitical rivals like China to accelerate the process of
de-dollarisation.
The main benefactor of economic sanctions
against Russia appears to be China which can reshape the Eurasian market
by encouraging member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) and BRICS to bypass the SWIFT ecosystem and settle cross-border international payments in the Digital Yuan.
While
the demand for cryptocurrencies will see a massive spike, this is
likely to encourage many governments to increasingly regulate the sector
through public blockchains and enforce a multilateral ban on
decentralised cryptocurrencies.
The shift to crypto could be the
dress rehearsal to eventually expedite plans for programmable money
overseen by a federal regulator, leading to the greater accretion of
power in the hands of a powerful global technocracy and thus sealing our
enslavement to financial institutions.
I believe this war will
bring currencies to parity, therefore heralding a new Bretton Woods
moment which promises to transform the operation of international
banking and macroeconomic cooperation through the future adoption of
central bank digital currencies.
6. This war marks a
major inflection point in the globalist aspiration for a new
international rules-based order anchored in Eurasia.
As
the ‘father of geopolitics’ Halford Mackinder opined over a century
ago, the rise of every global hegemon in the past 500 years has been
possible because of dominance over Eurasia. Similarly, their decline has been associated with losing control over that pivotal landmass.
This
causal connection between geography and power has not gone unnoticed by
the global network of stakeholders representing the WEF, many of whom
have anticipated the transition to a multipolar era and return to great
power competition amid America’s receding political and economic
influence and a pressing need for what technocrats call smart globalisation.
While
America tries desperately to cling to its superpower status, China’s
economic ascent and Russia’s regional ambitions threaten to upend the
strategic axial points of Eurasia (Western Europe and Asia Pacific).
The
region in which America previously enjoyed uncontested hegemony is no
longer impervious to cracks and we may be witnessing a changing of the
guard which dramatically alters the calculus of global force projection.
Although
China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has the potential to
unify the world-island (Asia, Africa and Europe) and cause a tectonic
shift in the locus of global power, the recent invasion of Ukraine will
have far-reaching consequences for China-Europe rail freight.
The
Ukrainian President Zelensky claimed that Ukraine could function as the
BRI’s gateway to Europe. Therefore, we cannot ignore China’s huge stake
in the recent tensions over Ukraine, nor can we ignore NATO’s
underlying ambition to check China’s rise in the region by limiting the
sale of Ukrainian assets to China and doing everything in its capacity
to thwart The Modern Silk Road.
As sanctions push Russia towards
consolidating bilateral ties with China and fully integrating with the
BRI, a Pan-Eurasian trading bloc may be the realignment which forces a
shared governance of the global commons and a reset to the age of US
exceptionalism.
7. With speculation mounting over the
war’s long term impact on bilateral trade flows between China and
Europe, the Russia-Ukraine conflict will catapult Israel – a leading advocate of the Great Reset – to even greater international prominence.
Israel is a highly attractive BRI market for
China and the CCP is acutely aware of Israel’s importance as a
strategic outpost connecting the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
through the Gulf of Suez.
Furthermore, the Chinese government has
for many years acknowledged the primacy of Israel as a global technology
hub and capitalised on Israel’s innovation capabilities to help meet
its own strategic challenges.
Therefore, Naftali Bennet’s
mediation between Moscow and Kiev is likely to factor the instrumental
role of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in expanding both China and
Israel’s regional and global strategic footprint.
Israel’s status
as among the leading tech hubs of the future and gateway connecting
Europe and the Middle East is inextricably tied to the web of physical
infrastructures, such as roads, railways, ports and energy pipelines
which China has been building over the past decade.
Already a
powerhouse in auto-technologies, robotics and cybersecurity, Israel
aspires to be the central nation in the millennial Kingdom and the
country’s tech startups are predicted to play a key role in the fourth industrial revolution.
Strengthening
its evolving relationship with China amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis
could help propel Israel into a regional hegemon par excellence with a
large share of centralised economic and technological power converging in Jerusalem.
As
Israel embarks on efforts to diversify its export markets and
investments away from the United States, it begs an important question.
Is
Israel in the formative stages of outsourcing its security interests
away from the US and hedging its bets on the Sino-Russia axis?
8. It is now common knowledge that Digital IDs are
a central plank in the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda and
are to be streamlined across industries, supply chains and markets as a
way of advancing the UN 2030 SDGs and delivering individualised and
integrated services in future smart cities.
Many
have cottoned on to how such a platform can be used to usher in a
global system of technocratic population control and compliance by
incorporating humanity into a new corporate value chain where citizens
are mined as data commodities for ESG investors and human capital bond markets and assigned a social and climate score based on how well they measure up against the UN SDGs.
This
seamless verification of people and connected devices in smart
environments can only take place once our biometrics, health records,
finances, education transcripts, consumer habits, carbon footprint and
the entire sum of human experiences is stored on an interoperable
database to determine our conformity with the UN SDGs, thus forcing a
monumental change to our social contract.
Vaccine passports were
initially touted by public-private partnerships as an entry point for
Digital IDs. Now that such a logic has run its course, how might the
present geopolitical tensions contribute to scaling what is the key node
in a new digital ecosystem?
Ukraine has traditionally been called
Europe’s breadbasket and alongside Russia, both nations are major
global suppliers of staple grains. Therefore, the war has all the
makings of a black swan for commodities and inflation.
With an
economy teetering on the brink of collapse due to a global supply
crunch, I believe the resulting economic tremors will trigger wartime
emergencies across the world and the public will be told to brace
themselves for rationing.
Once this takes place, the multilateral
adoption of Digital IDs which interface with Central Bank Digital
Currencies can be touted as the solution to efficiently manage and
distribute household rations under an unprecedented state of emergency
and exception.
The Bank of England has already floated the prospect of programmable cash which can only be spent on essentials or goods which an employer or government deem sensible.
Once
the issuer is granted control over how it is spent by the recipient, it
will become nigh impossible to function adequately without a Digital
ID, which will be required to receive food parcels and obtain a basic
means of subsistence. Think UBI (Universal Basic Income).
If food
inflation continues on an upward trajectory with no signs of abating,
governments may institute price controls in the form of rationing and
ration entries could be logged on blockchain ledgers on the Digital ID to track our carbon footprint and consumptive habits during a national emergency.
9. Europe is directly in the line of fire once a hybrid war between NATO and the Sino-Russia axis is underway.
It would be remiss to ignore the clear and present danger posed by a cyber attack on
banks and critical infrastructure or even a tentative and tactical
nuclear exchange with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
I
can’t see how any warring party will not be limited by the doctrine of
mutually assured destruction so a thermonuclear fallout is unlikely.
However,
the use of remote access technologies to erase system memory from the
SWIFT banking apparatus or Cross-Border Interbank Payment System can
potentially render much of the international economy non-operational and
send the dollar into a tailspin.
If an event of such cataclysmic
proportions was to occur, it will undoubtedly lead to increasing demands
to overhaul cyber security.
The fallout from such an event could
very well establish a new global security protocol according to which
citizens must possess a Digital ID as a necessary national security
measure.
One can imagine how accessing the internet or public
services in the aftermath of a nationwide cyberattack may require
citizens to use a Digital ID to authenticate that their online
activities and transactions are from a legitimate and non-malicious
source.
There are few coincidences in politics.
10.
The economic implications of this war will be so disastrous that
governments and the public sector will require a significant injection
of private capital to address the financing shortfall.
This
will effectively render the traditional separation of powers between
central banking institutions and governments obsolete, as the former
will be positioned to disproportionately influence the fiscal trajectory
of nation states, whose sovereignty will be hollowed out by the
wholesale capture of governments by the central banks and hedge funds.
Therefore, the nation-state model is gradually being upended by a global technocracy,
consisting of an unelected consortium of leaders of industry, central
banking oligarchs and private financial institutions, most of which are
predominantly non-state corporate actors attempting to restructure global governance and enlist themselves in the global decision-making process.
Therefore,
the future of international relations and the social, economic and
political transformation which the world is presently undergoing in
light of the pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict will not be decided
through multilateralism and elected representatives of sovereign states.
Rather,
it will be decided through a network of multi-stakeholder partnerships
which are motivated by the politics of expediency and not accountable to
any electorate or beholden to any state and for whom concepts like
sovereignty and international law are meaningless.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/10-signs-war-ukraine-part-great-reset