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This is an extraordinary piece of analysis. Wunderbar! more please...

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Terrific geopolitical analyses!

An important detail wrong: silk comes from silkworms that feed on mulberries, NOT from butterflies.

Otherwise, great job!

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Thank you!

[head slap] Dang it, your right, fixing that issue pronto.

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Another point - this reminds me of the Evergreen blocking the Suez Canal - another halt in that trade route.

I had thought these bumps were just to increase prices, but maybe a trade-route-war is also included.

Interestingly, empires aside, it also seems to help the corporations to increase prices, perhaps.

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A history prof told me fifty years ago that if you don't understand an event in history, look to

see who profits from the event. There's always someone profiting...Great insight and analysis-thanks!

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Great article! I received this in my email inbox from being subscribed to Matt Ehret, and am a big follower and fan of Matt Ehret. Now I discovered you!

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Jan 7Edited

To add one more supporting point, China recently took over Haifa's port... (that this is a trade route war)

https://circuit.news/2023/05/08/tech-driven-chinese-port-in-haifa-aims-for-interconnected-mideast/

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I like your analysis , can you contextualise it in terms of the following article which seems to postulate the idea of a canal parallel to the Suez canal , namely proposed Ben Gurion canalhttps://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-destroys-gaza-control-world-most-important-shipping-lane/5842081

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Wow that was a great and clear resumè but of course I don't agree with the black legend that England

dominate the seas since the Great Armada failiure it took them wait until Trafalgar , Or how do you think what happened in Lepanto? Please contact the Spanish Armada Museum, their investigations

and the full arquives that are in the Alvaro de Bazan deposit. mind you you will be astonished,

My late husband, an historian, had to go there to find the extensive documentation.

Good Luck, specially the investigation expeditions, like the heroic travels of Ladrillero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ladrillero with winds that go up to 260 Kms hour.

My late husband was a mountaineer and topographer in several expeditions Fitz Roy Mountain and also the Continental Ices they had to listen the advices of the Wellington Island.

The sea was so difficult that people fabricated a sewed with a special roap caulked so they only used

in the fiords they were unsowed and cross the land on foot and sew them again, and so on because the outside Pacific Ocean was so dangerous, they were called DALCAS.

I hope you find it interesting

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This is a fascinating geopolitical analysis and insight. I very much enjoyed and certainly benefited from reading it. Thank you!

I got here from a link your father provide on Joe Lange’s recent excellent report:

https://badlands.substack.com/p/a-seismic-shift.

Well done, young man! β€οΈπŸ™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ•ŠπŸŒŽ

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Here in Europe you can still find many medieval castles that were conveniently build right on top of critical trade routes.

Not much has changed since then. Everybody wants a piece of the pie.

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great read! Serious question though: as I've always understood, when a country defaults on its IMF-debt and pisses off the Empire's bankers, it will get sunk into perpetuous misery. Civil war will ensue with a western-backed military take-over waiting in the wings, followed by a questionable independence for its nation. So how can in this case Egypt become 'free from western-economic handcuffs' if it will default on its debt?

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True, if the Egyptians just do this alone they will probably just suffer misery. This is why I think they are joining BRICS, to give them the backing of other countries.

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that's an optimistic thought, let's see where it'll lead us (cautiously pro-BRICS here).

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Great article that makes a valiant attempt to simplify the geopolitics playing out over control of the Suez Canal.

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I think your whitewash of the colonisation of North America is just that, A whitewash of genocide perpetrated by Europeans.

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Matt . I like analysis but can you contextualise it taking the plans for the Ben Gurion canal as indicated in the following linkhttps://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-destroys-gaza-control-world-most-important-shipping-lane/5842081

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I'm not Matt, but I would welcome Matt's input on this. It sounds a lot like the plan in the 60s for using nukes to create canals (not a bad plan, if you like nukes I guess).

https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-greater-israel-scheme-and-its#%C2%A7the-david-ben-gurion-canal-fantasy

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Yes, and Ben Gurion canal?

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I have heard some things about the Ben Gurion canal in the 60s (the nuke one), but I have not till been aware of the revival of the idea. Fits into the idea that the US and Israel do not like the idea of the Suez being in the hands of a non-western power.

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Yes, and I meant to include the oil and gas reserves recently discovered

https://iacenter.org/2023/11/15/behind-israels-end-game-for-gaza-theft-of-offshore-gas-reserves/

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