As peças no tabuleiro da geopolítica estão em movimento. Justamente nesse instante em que vários atores disputam, acirradamente, o poder global, e no qual o destino do mundo será decidido, é que a grande maioria das pessoas se encontra num profundo estado de torpor e ignorância - aí incluídos os ditos intelequituais e formadores de opinião que, por dever de ofício, deveriam informar a população em geral do verdadeiro e real estado atual de coisas; mas eles não fazem isso, seja porque estão comprometidos na luta - e aí agem, pura e simplesmente, como agentes de desinformação - seja porque são ineptos mesmo.
Brilhante e assustador artigo de J. R. Nyquist, certamente um dos maiores analistas geopolíticos da atualidade:


"Chaos, confusion and civil war

J. R. Nyquist

On 29 December 2008 the Wall Street Journal ran a piece about Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic academy. A former KGB officer, Panarin made a splash by predicting that America will probably come under martial law by the end of 2009, and may fracture into several states by 2011. When this happens, says Panarin, Russia and China will become the mainstays of a new global order.

Americans are naturally skeptical of Panarin’s analysis. But his conclusions are quite pedestrian. If North America sank beneath the ocean like the fabled continent of Atlantis, the world would belong to Russia and China. No significant obstacle would stand in their way. The proof of this is found in the history of all empires, in the character of the leaders in Beijing and Moscow, and in the appalling weakness of Europe and Japan. Unthinking people are sometimes heard to say that Russia and China aren’t expansionist powers. It is laughable to think this, because you don’t become the largest country or the most populous unless you’ve conquered a considerable territory inhabited by many millions of people.

Without the United States in the picture, Russia and China would be the dominant powers. They would dictate terms to the world. No country or group of countries could possibly stand against them. This is because Russia and China possess thousands of nuclear weapons. The small nuclear arsenals of France, Britain, Israel and India do not pose a serious threat to large countries with large arsenals like Russia and China. Psychologically speaking, these small powers are helpless against great powers.

If Panarin is right about the breakup of the United States, then he is also right about the coming of a new global order under Moscow and Beijing. But is he right about the breakup of the United States? It was an anonymous Russian diplomat quoted in Pravda last July, who first intimated that the United States was about to suffer a profound crisis – a crisis of existence. How did the Russian diplomat know that the United States was headed for a financial crash? He knew because Russia has the best information service in the world, formerly known as the KGB. Russian spies have penetrated everywhere, and provide high quality information to people like Panarin – who is a “former” KGB analyst..."

O restante aqui: http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0313.html