Ten-Dimensional Chess

Being old now, I don’t know if I’ll live to see the outcome of the great experiment that our oligarchy is currently embarking upon.  What this experiment is I’m not completely sure of.  I can see the actions being taken and make some assumptions about what is planned, but much is still speculation.  Let’s review.

The industrial basis for our modern economy has been almost completely moved to Asia.  High skill manufacture is located in Japan, South Korea and China and the low skill assembly is farmed out to Thailand, Vietnam and other backwaters.

The use of fossil fuels is being curtailed in the United States, Canada and Europe.  This will have the effect of impoverishing the majority of the former middle class and their descendants.  And the knock-on effect of this is the discouraging of these young people from marrying and having children.

At the same time the United States, Canada and Europe are being flooded with migrants from Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, various parts of Asia and the Middle East.  These migrants have the effect of further depressing the economic opportunities of the younger American and European citizens while at the same time plunging the whole of these areas in a chaotic environment that further discourages stability and political action by the supposed sovereign citizens.

So, what is this experiment?  Apparently, the oligarchs find representative democracy, at least one that doesn’t accord with their dictates as inconvenient.  So, what they are doing is reshuffling the deck.  If those pesky Europeans and European descendants have gotten demanding (things like a living wage and a middle-class existence for their children) why then let’s just find some people whose expectations only include a tin shack and a dollop of beans.  After all, if the Chinese can get the Uyghurs to assemble smart phones while they’re being genocided in the camps then surely, we can expect Guatemalans to pick fruit and work in an Amazon warehouse for practically nothing.

Ultimately, these supermen see the whole world and all the people in it as their tools.  They decide what the world will look like and even who gets to live in it.

But for this to continue to work, the Global American Empire has to be able to control basically the whole world.  Asia has to continue to make our tech equipment and America has to run things without producing anything except Artificial Intelligence and high-end war equipment.

But is this a stable system?  That’s the part that will take time to discover.  Already there appear to be some parts of the machine that are coming loose.  The extension of the European sector into Russia and its satellites has turned into a land war that has the earmarks of a catastrophe for the West.  If Russia overwhelms Ukraine, then the much-vaunted NATO alliance will have failed at its primary task of keeping Russia in check.

On the other side of Asia China is preparing to call America’s bluff over Taiwan.  That is a much more serious threat.  Such a move would cause a panic in South Korea and Japan and alter the way things are looked at throughout East Asia.

And even in a nothing place like Niger in Africa, the dominant role of the West is in retreat.  Warlords are kicking over the West’s puppets and telling the United States and France to take their troops out.

Now which way all this will go is completely unknown.  Maybe our oligarchs are playing ten-dimensional chess and they’ve already looked fifty moves ahead and know to a certainty how all of this global pinball game settles out.  Maybe the much-vaunted AI has run the simulation ten trillion times and every time the result shows the masters of the universe winning the game and the peons being crushed down to dust.

That’s what I’d love to know the answer to.  Do they know something we don’t or are they guessing?  My hunch is they’re winging it.  The face of the oligarchs is Joe Biden.  That’s not the face you get from a directorate of super geniuses.  That’s the face you end up with from a bureaucracy of hacks, crooks and hucksters and a shoddy one at that.

So maybe this regime will last long enough to outlive me.  But I’m holding out hope that the awful people running things aren’t as smart as they or even we think they are.  They’re just more ruthless than we are.  In which case they won’t have things all their way.  The global empire will end up as all empires do; in the dustbin of history.  I just hope to see it and get the last laugh.