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Mark
@Mark4XX
Curious about global affairs and finance | Enthusiast of gold, silver, and junior mining | Seeking truth in a world of noise.
Mar 17 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
🧵Some now say “The Iran war is the real turning point that ends Western hegemony” Wrong.
The real catalyst that ended 500 years of Western European + US dominance was the Ukraine war.
I argued this back in my Dec 17, 2023 thread after it started — and every month since has proven it right. 👉
Image From 1492 onward, Western Europeans (then the USA) ruled the world: colonialism, gunboats, industrial power, then after 1991 the unipolar moment with 800+ military bases, the dollar as world currency, and control over IMF/World Bank.
That long era died in Ukraine. Image
Nov 10, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
... to come back to this post 👇
Image here are some thoughts 🧵
I am in no doubt about where we stand in our Western countries. We do not live in a democracy, as we are led to believe. We live in an oligarchy. This is a system in which there is a thin upper class of elites who basically control the vast majority of people. This is nothing new. In ancient Greece, Aristotle did an excellent job of analysing how such a system works and what it looks like:
Aug 17, 2024 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Q: Why has Iran not yet retaliated against Israel?
A: Iran doesn't want to fuck up the real big war.
Q: What is the real war?
‼️A meta-thread ‼️🧵👇 What is the power of the USA actually based on? It is its USD financial system. A FIAT money system backed by wars, power projection and bullying. Not backed by gold, real production and commodities. It is a system built on debt and money printing and the privilege of the reserve currency of the USD that has guaranteed the need for USD government securities.Image
Dec 17, 2023 • 30 tweets • 9 min read

Let me explain! Cave: A long thread 🧵 After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, various civilizations and empires rose to prominence in different parts of the world. It's important to note that dominance was often regional rather than global, Image
Dec 4, 2023 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
What Nord Stream and Russian gas have to do with GAZA -
and the new geopolitical situation in the Middle East
A thread 🧵 Sept 2022: Attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, Europe's most important energy infrastructure, which has supplied the industrialized nation of Germany in particular with cheap energy from Russia and has therefore played a decisive role in Europe's prosperity.