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Asymm∙Plexity First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2006 |
Asymmetrical Bipolar Complexity (Asymm∙Plexity) refers to the lopsided bipolar world order that is unfolding, one in which especially the East pole is complex (multifarious) in nature, consisting of many lesser poles in array around the nucleus that consists of the Russia-China axis. | |
The Rising Multifarious East First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2006 |
The Multifarious East is the rising composite pole of the East constituted by its true nucleus, Russia, around which various key powers increasingly orbit in ever tighter array. It does not constitute an empire built by Russia upon powers it has conquered, but rather a de facto global confederation (or bloc) Russia is assembling upon the foundations of shared political/geopolitical, economic, security and energy security visions. China occupies the innermost orbit very close to Russia. Virtually all the Asian powers, with the exception of Japan and Taiwan, increasingly orbit Russia as the emergent global energy kingpin. Even key European states such as Germany, France and Spain are being seduced and/or obliged to move ever more meaningfully into Russia's political orbit, notwithstanding the pretense of being "Pro-US" of some new European leaders. Oil and gas exporting states of Central Asia are moving firmly into Russia's orbit. The trend is also notable in the Middle East with the "Look East" policies of its key powers. India is moving more firmly into Russia's orbit, despite "good" relations with the US for the purposes of acquisition of advanced technologies. Key African and Latin American energy exporting states are aligning with Russia and the East. All the members of the Multifarious East share a common world vision - the so-called "multipolarity" which, when translated, means an early end to US-led unipolarity. Increasingly, along political, geopolitical, security, energy, economic and diplomatic lines, these powers combine to form a de facto geopolitical bloc of the East opposed to (or at the very least unsympathetic to and unsupportive of) unipolarity and all its perpetuating fixtures, elements, instruments, manifestations, machinations and foundations. | |
The Neo Cold War First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2004 |
The Neo Cold War is not simply a new installment of the old Cold War, but rather a newly-styled Cold War employing entirely revised and updated ideological, political, geopolitical and technological tools and strategies. The Neo Cold War is much less formal and explicitly declared, and therefore far more stealthy, than was the old Cold War, and its public face largely consists of clever indirection, misdirection and the ostensibly reassuring rhetoric about "strategic partnership" rather than the morose threats common in the old Cold War. However, the fundamental aim of both sides (East and West), to achieve global ascendancy at the direct expense of the opposing side by virtue of taking and holding control of strategic global resources, remains the same. Notably, while that fundamental rivalry for control of strategic global resources enjoyed thick cover under the old Cold War with its ideological rivalry between communism and democratic capitalism in the forefront, today in the Neo Cold War it is only thinly veiled by the newly-styled, intensifying ideological rivalry between Western liberal democracy and Eastern "authoritarian democracy". Nonetheless, in both the old and the Neo Cold War, such ideological tools only serve to justify and give some measure of cover to the raw geopolitical moves on both sides aimed at achieving the prime objective - taking control of vital resources. All the important components of the old Cold War exist today (arms race, winner-takes-all ideological rivalry, proxy wars, fears of a nuclear catastrophe), but in completely updated and re-styled forms. | |
Russia's R.U.B.I.CON. First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2006 |
Russia's Resources Underwriter-Based Importer-Inclusive Confederation is the largely undeclared global confederation of oil & gas Russia is assembling, mostly in stealth, according to its rival concept of international energy security. The new informal confederation employs the principle of Complementary Symmetry to bind together key energy producers and key energy consumers into a balanced, self-sufficient grouping that encompasses both production and markets. The informal confederation circumscribes a new domain of international energy security as potent rival to the very foundations of the US-led liberal global energy order that is now already on its way out. The US and its closest allies are being left out of the new circle. The politics of (1) resource nationalism, (2) "authoritarian democracy" and the corporate state v. US-style liberal democracy, and (3) so-called "multipolarity" v. unipolarity (opposition to US global hegemony) play a major role, alongside economic considerations, in defining the membership of Russia's new global energy grouping, which is rapidly gaining key members the world over. As such, it represents Russia's crossing of the Rubicon, as it were, taking the first crucial step in successfully challenging the US-dominated post-1991 unipolar world order. | |
The False Prophets of Boom First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2007 |
The lying economic prognosticators who keep insisting US economic troubles are largely tactical and temporary, rather than strategic and structural, and who, against all the relevant facts, keep predicting imminent renewed US economic growth and a consolidation of US global economic hegemony, which they refuse to acknowledge as ailing. | |
Allan Greenspam First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2005 |
The primary architect and facilitator of the massive forfeiture to foreigners of independent US economic might. He inanely cooperated with successive inbred US White House administrations to try to keep the US economy at the top of the global heap no matter the costs. He has a penchant and the incredible skill for uttering nonsensical, entirely unfounded blather (spam) while leaving the impression in the minds of the unsuspecting and unquestioning mainstream that he has spoken economic truth and wisdom. He must be judged, not merely on the basis of his conniving and deceptive verbal skills, but rather on the basis of his actual accomplishments. On that basis he could be tried for high treason. | |
Asset Rubbles First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2004 |
The Fed-created, artificially bloated asset bubbles, such as those in the equities, real estate and stock markets, that finally become exhausted and implode, leaving massive wreckage (rubble) in their wake. Allan Greenspam is their primary architect. The US economy cannot manage to get growth on the books without engaging in the building of Asset Rubbles. The economic day of reckoning that is now unfolding for the US illustrates the foolishness of such policies, however. | |
I.C.E.D. First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2004 |
The Ingenious Cash Extractor Device - an economic cartoon graphic depicting the inane, shortsighted and extremely dangerous Fed policies under Greenspam. | |
Complementary Symmetry As applied to geopolitics, First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2006 |
As applied to Russia's emerging undeclared global confederation of oil & gas - the principle of complementary symmetry is that of producers and consumers banded tightly together via the private, bilateral, long-term supply contract and serving each others' needs in full complementary fashion. This results in the beneficial 'push-pull' of mutually-supportive bilateral energy-based ties between key producers and key consumers - what Mr. Putin has described as "stable offering [from producers] and reliable demand [from consumers]". This is contrasted with the cartel model which includes only producers and which is unbalanced and therefore manifests acute dependence on the markets, undermining its own self-sufficiency. The concept of complementary symmetry features private, rigid, longterm bilateral supply contracts and energy ties that are most often politically motivated as well - hence, Russia's model of international energy security powerfully facilitates a progressive locking up of the globe's energy assets and thus moves hard against the very foundations of the liberalized, highly liquid US-led global energy order and, as it gains a wider array of key adherents around the globe, increasingly threatens the underlying supply liquidity of the US-led order. | |
Multipolarists First coined by (indeterminate) |
The gullible who believe the world's powers opposed to US-led unipolarity genuinely want to achieve an even and equitable distribution of power among all the world's players, not merely an excessive concentration in their own hands, and who believe the deceptive promise that the efforts and emerging potent organizations (both the formal and the undeclared) of the rising multifarious East aren't aimed at the US, NATO and unipolarity itself. | |
Symmetrical Global Confederation of Oil & Gas First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2006 |
The informal and undeclared, yet extremely potent global energy grouping currently being constructed under Russia's leadership and based upon the model of the symmetrical confederation, which embodies the principle of complementary symmetry between both producers and consumers. Also referred to as Russia's Resources Underwriter-Based Importer-Inclusive Confederation, or R.U.B.I.CON. As such, it represents Russia's crossing of the Rubicon, as it were, taking the first crucial step in successfully challenging the US-dominated post-1991 unipolar world order. | |
Imposed Peak Oil (IPO) First coined by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2007 |
Imposed Peak Oil (IPO) is the phenomenon of reaching, and passing the point of peak oil production purely as a result of an imposed loss of control over global reserves, such that the entity or entities that are the target of IPO can no longer increase, nor even sustain former oil production levels because access to and control over the reserves that would enable production levels to be increased and/or sustained has been denied. The West's oil majors have been successfully targeted for IPO by Russia and its global producer and consumer partners - the oil majors now control less than 10% of global reserves and their production levels began to decline in 2006. Hence, the West is suffering the IPO phenomenon at the hands of Russia's undeclared global axis of oil, while the members of the axis simultaneously enjoy increased control of reserves and increasing production flowing in the direction of their various schemes and strategies for locking up global resources for their own use. The implications of the West being successfully targeted for IPO are colossal. | |
ShrinkFlation First coined (as a term to describe a formal economic condition) by W. Joseph Stroupe, 2008 |
ShrinkFlation is the economic condition of a shrinking economy (contraction of economic growth, or recession) and simultaneous strong inflation. It was coined because "stagflation" - economic stagnation and simultaneous strong inflation - failed to describe the more severe condition of strong recession and simultaneous strong inflation. The US economy is moving rapidly toward shrinkflation, not merely stagflation, as the housing bust and credit crises deepen and bring increasing harm to the "real economy", and as the dollar weakens, energy costs rise and the emerging economies export their ever hotter inflation to the US. |
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