PCR: Yeah, it's mainly Western Europe. That's the cover because the west has long reigned as the moral civilization -- the white hats, the moral people, the industrial-developed world. Now all of this is beginning to go by the wayside because other countries are developing...Brazil, China, of course...
Rob: The BRICS...
PCR: Right. India -- I mean India has got a strong professional services economy. You know all the engineering skills and things, information technology, computers. So the economic superiority of the west is not as pronounced as it was previously. So that takes away some of its claims to be, you know, the leader or the best.
And I think that the fact that both Russia and China recovered from communism or from the form that it took in those countries with fairly ruthless leadership, the fact they've recovered from that...the fact that Russia insists over and over and over on following the law, and on international law. They, themselves, and their criticisms of the United States increasingly are that Washington acts illegally, not merely on terms of international law but in terms of Washington's own domestic law. And so you see increasingly these claims that...or statements, very strong statements, like the Russian Foreign Minister made one just the other day. He said, 'Look, you have no right to bomb in Syria just because you notify Syria that you're going to bomb. That's illegal, you can't do that. You have to have the permission of the Syrian government.' And so they point these things out over and over and over. So the emphasis on legality that used to be a strong point for the United States is now Russia's strong point -- they make the points.
So I think that the white hat appearance of the United States, which it achieved because of the Cold War...well it started with the war against Nazi Germany, but really the Cold War was the main thing. This plus, the entirety of the 21st century, that Washington has been bombing other countries, always on the basis of a lie. At the time they start their lie is not realized, but by the time they finish everybody knows it was a lie. I don't think anybody any longer believes Sadam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. I don't think anybody any longer believes the Taliban were a threat to the United States. I don't think anybody believes the lies about Gaddafi. I don't think anybody believes Assad used chemical weapons. I don't know if people are still so uninformed that they think Iran has nukes. But all these things undermine the image that...or the so called "soft power" of the United States. And when the western countries in Europe just go along and follow blindly, and rah-rah, and repeat the same nonsense, it undermines them too. And so the west, I think, is wearing out its welcome as some kind of place where the world's decisions are made.
So I think that in that sense its hopeful that the power in the west, which is in the hands of psychopaths and the puppets of psychopaths...that this power may be rapidly diminishing. And I think it will be associated with crisis, particularly economic crisis. I remain convinced that the United States economy is a house of cards, and it could blow at any time.
Rob: What do you mean by a house of cards?
PCR: Well, nothing in it is substantial. All of the markets are rigged, they're bubbles. The bond market is rigged -- it's a bubble. The interest rate is rigged. The price of gold and silver is rigged. So as not to cause suspicion about the dollar, the dollar is rigged because it's supported in various ways. The stock market is rigged. The major purchases of stocks in recent years have been the companies buying back their own shares. So everybody is...'Oh, the stock market is up...' But it's not up because the economy is doing good or profits. You know retail sales have gone nowhere. The latest report from the government on wealth and poverty says that the real median family income in the United States has declined and is now back at the level of 1994...and is actually below levels in the late 1960s and early 1970s. So if people don't have any money, how is the economy doing anything? How are they spending it?
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