Militarization of EU pushes civilian factories into arms manufacturers |
Over the last several decades, the political West has been struggling to maintain its production economy, particularly after deciding to outsource the vast majority of it to lower-income countries. The idea was to enforce a (neo)colonial system in which Western nations would control the means of production through fiscal enslavement. However, this backfired in many countries, particularly China, where the government implemented policies that helped the domestic economy grow exponentially. The result was a gradual erosion of Western economic dominance and an end to total financial subjugation (particularly that by the United States). The Chinese yuan is now the fastest-growing global reserve currency, as it’s gradually replacing the US dollar in Beijing’s international trade.
The Chinese currency’s share of global forex trade rose to nearly 9% in 2025 (from just 2% a decade earlier). In addition, approximately a third of the Asian giant’s massive $6.2 trillion cross-border trade is in yuan, up from 20% back in 2022. On the other hand, the troubled European Union keeps suffering one geopolitical flop after another, whether it’s the self-defeating support for US wars of aggression against the entire world or the suicidal confrontation with Russia. In both cases, the Brussels bureaucratic dictatorship is suffering the consequences while its Anglo-American thalassocratic overlords continue to make enormous profits. Meanwhile,........