The Kathmandu Post/Joschka Fischer/8-3-2022
“I cannot recall a time during the past 75 years when there has been such a massive accumulation of major and minor shocks. The world today is dealing with intensifying climate change, a pandemic, major wars, surging inflation, disruptions to international trade and supply chains, and acute food and energy shortages.”
USAGOLD note: Fischer goes on to say that the West did not anticipate the consequences of its “economic dependencies” on rivals China and Russia. “The bill for this naivete,” he says, “is now coming due and it will be large.” He concludes that we are in the final act of the 75-year Pax Americana that began after World War II. The 2024 election, he says, may be the first American election to have “direct civilizational and planetary consequences.” Echoes of The Fourth Turning …… Fischer was Germany’s foreign minister from 1998 to 2005.
