Simon Hunt Strategic Services for Global Economies & Commodities
Newsletter No. 34
“The entire foreign policy community in the United States now shares the basic tenets of neoconservatives. Actually, the scripture is Paul Wolfowitz’s notorious memorandum of March 1991 wherein he laid out a comprehensive, detailed strategy for systematizing American global dominance. Everything that Washington is doing and thinking now is a derivative of that plan. Its core principles: the United States should use all means at it’s disposal to establish American global dominance; to that end it must be ready to act preventively to stymie the emergence of any power that could challenge our hegemony…..” Professor Michael Brenner, International Affairs, Pittsburgh University & Senior Fellow John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, March 2024
“If Russia decides to take out most of the bridges over the Dnieper River in the coming weeks, then the Ukrainian forces will face a logistical nightmare. They will have no way to provide the artillery and fuel needed to sustain tanks and armored vehicles. The lack of electricity will add to their problems. Russia would be in a position to compel their surrender or force all Ukrainian troops to try to escape to the west bank of Dnieper River. Russia may not need to mount a major offensive.” Larry Johnson, 30th March 2024
“While not explicitly predicting it, Buffet invoked the possibility of ‘financial disasters of a magnitude beyond any hereto experienced’ and said that Berkshire would be able to handle any such seizing up of the economy.” Stephen Leeb, The Complete Investor, 4th April 2024
“Inflation is more properly understood as the devaluation of money: as inflation accelerates the value of money (currency issued by Treasuries and central banks) decays to near-zero. Since the currency is the foundation of the economic-political-social order, its destruction leads to economic-political-social disorder and upheaval.” Charles Hugh Smith, The Known Unknowns & The Unknown Unknowns, 30th March 2024
“The Georgia Nuclear Plant that was done here in the US, $25bn. That’s $11.5-12bn or so per gigawatt. China is producing nuclear for $2bn a gigawatt. That’s a huge contrast.” Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder Lux Capital, Testimony Before Congress, March 2024