Icarus and Atahualpa Capac
The Story of Icarus and Daedalus [who] escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from feathers, threads from blankets, clothes, and beeswax. Daedalus warned Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea's dampness clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them.Icarus ignored Daedalus’ instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun."
Adger Cowans, Icarus, 1970
The Royal Hunt of the Sun is a 1964 play by Peter Shaffer that dramatizes the relation of two worlds entering in a conflict by portraying two characters: Atahuallpa Inca and Francisco Pizarro.
The expedition is predominantly in the name of gold, religion and belief; all Incas being heathens who must be brought before God.
The play critically studies these two themes throughout the discovery of Atahualpa – the Inca Sun God – and massacre of the Incas themselves.
Atahualpa: I am Atahualpa Capac. Son of the Sun. Son of the Moon. Lord of the Four Quarters. Why you not kneel?
Atahualpa: Pizarro. You will die soon, and you not believe in your God. Is why you tremble and keep no word. Believe in me. For you, I will do a great thing. I will swallow death and spit it out of me.
Some recent examples of Icarus and Atahualpa in the geopolitical sphere were Ursula von der Leyen's exit from China by the airport transit for ordinary passengers.
and every time Emmanuel Macron ventures outside the Elysee palace he too flies too close to the Sun.
Macron got an egg on his face!
And of Course Biden increasingly looks very fin de siecle and not unlike Jimmy Carter at the end of his Administration. A Trifecta of reverses increasingly looks on the cards, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Taiwan.
The idea of a violent occupation of territories where practically only Russians who do not want to be citizens of Ukraine live [Davor Slobodanovich VUYACHICH] looks entirely far fetched now.
2003 language survey of Ukraine. Each % is the amount of Russian language spoken. @2022Honesty
The Idea that the Zelensky Regime would occupy vast swathes of Ukraine which are majority Russian speaking is on the face of it simply absurd or even Nulandesque.
The Full Spectrum Dominance of the Propaganda effort is also beginning to ebb.
US Poll: "Assessment that Russia is losing fell from 48% in October to 37% in April, and the assessment that Ukraine is succeeding went from 43% in October to 26% in April... There were parallel drops in the assessments of both Republicans and Democrats.
Evidently Zelensky is looking for some kind of Exit.
Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst & American blogger: “Let us start with some facts. Zelensky called Xi, not the other way around. And Zelensky reportedly did this without consulting Washington, which left the Biden foreign policy team fuming....
...and the talent of sending powerful messages with subtle gestures, deliberately forced Zelensky to deal with Xi using Russian language. While it is possible that the Chinese were just being kind to Zelensky, who is not a native Ukrainian speaker...’’
Of Course Regime Media continues to plough on.
The Pivot to Asia seems to be the Ukraine Exit clause for the Administration.
One senses Xi has a long term horizon than Biden and will boil his Taiwan Frog via a blockade at some juncture.
Sanctions have not worked with Russia. They will be an even bigger joke in the case of China.
Evaluation of our sanctions policy
1. Only 2 questions matter.
First, have our sanctions meaningfully curtailed Russia's ability to wage war?
Second, are our sanctions a deterrent to countries that may wage war in the future?
Unfortunately, the answer to both questions is: "No!" @RobinBrooksIIF
Russia which we were informed on good authority was to be reduced to rubble by now is less likely to have a recession than any G7 country except Japan.
Meanwhile
Europeans Real incomes fell by 6.5 per cent between 2020 and 2022 in the eurozone due to anti-Russia sanctions. @Kanthan2030
April, food inflation in Germany amounted to 17.2% per annum.
How much more downside pressure can our Citizens tolerate?
With Inflation running rampant how likely are Fed Funds to reach 4.33% by 31st Jan 24?
The bond market is pricing almost 200 bps worth of Fed cuts over the next 18 months. @MacroAlf
Neither outcome looks likely and if it does some to pass You can bet your bottom Dollar the ^DXY will be at 80.00.
I cannot see anything that can stop the Gold and Silver March higher.
Of course, The African Frontier needs a Brady Plan but nothing of the sort is being tabled.
We've hit the 20% re Eurobond 24. @WehliyeMohamed