Exactly right, but our generation (and our great grandchildren) will be living through it. This is our generation's mess to deal with. The weak-men-equal-hard-times part of the cycle. It will get noticably nastier for us and while the Boomers peacefully and flatulently slip away, their bellies full of easy debt, materialism, nostalgia, quaint idealism about freedom and democracy... our overlords are telling us the old paradigm is over, and are carefully describing how it will be for us now. We should definitely pay attention to their words. They're not lying.
The war angle is definitely worth discussing further on the board, as it has been obvious that the Western media and politicians have been setting the narrative that Putin is again being very, very bad for some months now. Now with the culmination of the recent cyber-attack in Ukraine, the Ukranian government themselves have said it appeared to come out of Belarussia not Russia. Russia is both actually surrounded and harried by the West, and it now seems like it is interested in creating their own perception domestically of being surrounded as well. If you look at places like Armenia and Kazakhstan it's clear these places are under far more pressure than Ukraine... and while the Kazakhstan situation hardly got a play over here, it was covered non-stop in Russian media between the Christmas and New Year period. It seems like things are very confusing, with China acting in its own interests and benefiting from playing both Russia and the West. The short answer is the people running the West are so stupid and irresponsible (look at Biden, Blinken, Harris. Look at the EU.) Do we honestly think we have masterful generals and statesmen in charge? There's no telling what kind of stupid shit they could get us involved with. All bets are off.
Right again, and people seriously believe that this "transitory" inflation is only related to pandemic money-printing. As with Mnuchin's deal with Fink, did Americans even notice or care? And guess who will, again, be buying up all the foreclosures when 2008's temporary band-aid finally comes off and the putrid mess in the markets spills over. It's looking like housing growth is slowly going grind down here over the next few years, but the end result will be the same. As we've already been told, though, we'll own nothing, and will be happy - so it won't be all bad.
No, I get what you're saying and I get how you could apply the "commie" label here too. Our economy, this "command economy", call it what you will, could very well be described as something not a million miles away from the proper Soviet Union, and Fink just isn't called the "People's Commissar for Finance" but that's the role he has taken for himself except he's talking about "The Power of Capitalism". However that's where it stops being like communism. These people are getting everything done through the markets, and all of those things they wish to destroy ("deconstruct") are an impediment to growth. The globalized vision is the same for both capitalists and communists, but they just use different means to get there. The communists didn't play such a long, clever game, though.
My main gripe with the use of the term is the way BoomerCons use "communism" as a stand in for what they view as "authoritarianism". Just as the left labels everything as "fascist". We're doomed to fail when we have been divided into two fake sides and these two sides are communicating in such a retarded way. We need to move past these 20th century historical terms.