A pie chart I saw on Whatfinger.com this morning got me to thinking.
Tesla is a helluva lot more diversified than just car making, of course, the company is a leader in AI and robotics as well. It’s that valuation that really catches the eye, though. $1.6 trillion. Another valuation that matters is the weekend closing spot price of silver, which ended at $80 an ounce. EIGHTY DOLLARS AN OUNCE. Had to repeat that, I mean, Holy Crap. A few months ago it was half of that and what happened is the Chinese, who’ve been buying and hoarding tons of silver for years, have run out of it because they make so much of the techie shit we yuppie guppies Must Have, that all uses silver. The shortage is because their silver isn’t directly mined, it’s a by-product of mining coal and other minerals, and the ore grades are degrading.
So the Chinese have single handedly inflated the price. Supply and demand, that’s how it works. If they’ll pay $80 an ounce, that’s what the world price is. I happen to own over 800 ounces of it, so of course this price increase is very nice and I may even learn to speak Mandarin in appreciation. I may learn to sing in Mandarin if it hits $100, and it very well may. But that’s not my point, which is…
Elon Musk is deeply involved in China’s economy, he sold far more Teslas there than anywhere else, plus they’re still making them there and the batteries are made there. Elon’s also deep into the USA military-industrial complex, building god-knows-what for the military along with being an AI contractor, and his Optimus robot development is no doubt involved in that as well along with NeuraLink and StarLink and everything else he’s doing because he’s also deeply connected to the US government. “Dept. of Government Efficiency”, for example.
I know, I haven’t clarified my point yet. It’s coming. Elon’s relationship with the Chinese shifts with the economic winds, and China’s been making a lot more electric cars now, and cheaper, than Teslas, and Elon’s market share over there has collapsed because of it. I don’t know about Europe but there’s no Chinese cars sold over here in the USA, clear evidence that such sales are blocked by our government to boost Tesla. Elon has a Conflict of Interest now more than ever because of his dealings in China, which is why he’s built Tesla factories in the USA, has invested in rare earth mines and processing here and is building batteries here, now. He’s not alone, there’s other recent US startups in these fields. A lot of manufacturing is returning to the US but not the solar panels and other things requiring silver, and the more it costs, the higher the price, the slower the sales. Then China pays tariffs on top of it.
The wars being fomented against Venezuela, Columbia and the Mexican cartels by our government aren’t about drugs, they’re about oil and minerals. Venezuela has vast untapped oil and Mexico has the largest unmined silver reserves, while Columbia has lots of gold in the ground. Our government can’t form a Western Hemisphere Economic Bloc with nations like Venezuela being run by low IQ dictators who cozy up to China, so it’s necessary to get rid of them. One way or another. Because this is a war over technological advancement and dominance, boundary lines have to be enforced.
Check this: China keeps increasing their threats of invading Taiwan and trying to scare everyone away from defending them, so the US and Japan, instead of backing off, sell more advanced arms to Taiwan to defend themselves, and declare their intentions of coming to Taiwan’s aid if attacked. Recently the Chinese threatened to blockade Taiwan, yet this is something they’ve always been able to do and have never done because it would start a fight with the US. Now they’re building a big navy and making loud threats again, so the US is suddenly going hell bent for leather building new ships too. Both at least appear to be rapidly arming up against each other. Footnote 1.
So. China in the East developing new tech as fast as they can and needing to sell stuff to pay for it, the US doing the same. Robotics advancing like crazy, East and West sideline nations waiting it out and AI is the key because AI will provide the knowledge that makes the difference. Not the drones or the robot warriors being built, but the most correct maneuvers will establish final dominance. The war is territorial, technological, industrial, economic and political and the world deliberately created this situation. It was grossly obvious when Nixon opened China to free trade with the USA that this was going to happen, the Chinese government was aggressively Communist and even I saw right then where this was going to lead. The more they profited, the more aggressive they’d become and that’s exactly how it unfolded from the very start.
We could have shut this down at any time but instead encouraged our industries here to fold up and ship them all to China along with all the knowledge and technology, while creating a lot of unemployment and sudden poverty here.
All this stuff was planned out decades ago. The clash between East and West is orchestrated and the final winner will either be a big desert or technology. No idea which, which is what makes it all so fascinating and fun to watch. Footnote2
Footnote 1: “Appear” to be arming up against each other because while they are arming up it may not be against each other, it may be a guise to cover an actual intent to attack entirely different nations instead. Additionally, there’s been loud complaints within the US military about depleting the US reserves of bombs and artillery shells by shipping them all to Ukraine, but this may be to make way for entirely new types of munitions while making us look shorthanded to China. Smoke and mirrors.
Footnote 2: The constant clash between the US and China, the repetition that China is the enemy, the competition between us, sure smells to me of rotting fish and has for a long time. If they’re such terrible and dangerous enemies, then why are we so tied up in each other’s economies? This is comparable to selling bombs to Nazi Germany and buying their submarines.
What if the real plan is exactly what George Orwell envisioned? He foresaw an endless fake war between East and West that dominated everything else on the planet. In short, a Global government pretending to be at war to maintain a constant state of martial law, and isn’t that what’s developing now? look at the preparations for it in the EU, Canada and Australia where they’re all going Marxist-type Socialist now. Those governments don’t serve the people, they enslave and own them, and the USA will follow suit like it always has in the past.
The East and West becoming a united Economic Bloc and using their advanced Techno military to split the world in half and control everyone on the planet. Could be?