My personal suspicion is that the mob long planned to take control of Russia, China and other developing countries, their labour and their rich resources by corrupting their systems and institutions - and to milk the Western countries dry on the way out.
This accelerated when the 1960s showed that people in the US and the West were waking up, demanding decent working conditions and were no longer en-masse ready to march singing off to wars of aggression on thelr leaders' say so.
While the rhetoric says otherwise the liberalisation of financial and other markets in the 1980s ended serious investment in strategically significant education and fundamental wealth producing activity (manufacturing etc) in the West and led to the debt bubble/funny money/derivatives etc scenario which almost collapsed the banking system and still poses a major risk.
The push for global control went into hubris driven overdrive following the collapse of the USSR.
Following initial success in the latter country the long established cultures in the developing nations (luckily for the world) pushed back. They while playing the mob have built themselves into situations where they cannot easily be pushed around - most notably in the cases of Russia and China.
The result it seems likely is that the mob found that they could not jump ship as intended. That they have been reduced to trying to progress their agenda from the rapidly weakening bridgehead that is the West - the latter weakening the result of their own short term profit oriented policies.
We're in fact lucky that these factors plus rampant corruption, short termism and increasing incapability have so seriously undermined the Western militaries and their supporting industrial base.
They have arguably since proceeded through use of ever more rapacious methods to try maintain their incomes and to assert ever finer control over Western populations -essentially by declaring hybrid war on us.
This in turn (assisted by the internet) has greatly accelerated the awakening of complacent and self satisfied Western populations.
The above can be read as a tale of the elite baddies causing all of the trouble - but this is not so. The factor which has always permitted the elites to maintain control has been the complicit readiness of large numbers within our populations to regard progress withinin those powerful hierachies they encounter as their best shot at a comfortable life - and to hell with whether or not what they are consequently asked to do is for the greater good.
It's hard to think other than that the situation is well on its way to sorting itself out - while avoiding catastrophe.
The shift in power caused by the rise of the developing countries and the more enlightened leadership coming from them and the awakening of many in the West has opened the way to this, but the outcome will unltimately be determined by whether or not enough of us take responsibility for ourselves and commit to acting for the greater good...
This accelerated when the 1960s showed that people in the US and the West were waking up, demanding decent working conditions and were no longer en-masse ready to march singing off to wars of aggression on thelr leaders' say so.
While the rhetoric says otherwise the liberalisation of financial and other markets in the 1980s ended serious investment in strategically significant education and fundamental wealth producing activity (manufacturing etc) in the West and led to the debt bubble/funny money/derivatives etc scenario which almost collapsed the banking system and still poses a major risk.
The push for global control went into hubris driven overdrive following the collapse of the USSR.
Following initial success in the latter country the long established cultures in the developing nations (luckily for the world) pushed back. They while playing the mob have built themselves into situations where they cannot easily be pushed around - most notably in the cases of Russia and China.
The result it seems likely is that the mob found that they could not jump ship as intended. That they have been reduced to trying to progress their agenda from the rapidly weakening bridgehead that is the West - the latter weakening the result of their own short term profit oriented policies.
We're in fact lucky that these factors plus rampant corruption, short termism and increasing incapability have so seriously undermined the Western militaries and their supporting industrial base.
They have arguably since proceeded through use of ever more rapacious methods to try maintain their incomes and to assert ever finer control over Western populations -essentially by declaring hybrid war on us.
This in turn (assisted by the internet) has greatly accelerated the awakening of complacent and self satisfied Western populations.
The above can be read as a tale of the elite baddies causing all of the trouble - but this is not so. The factor which has always permitted the elites to maintain control has been the complicit readiness of large numbers within our populations to regard progress withinin those powerful hierachies they encounter as their best shot at a comfortable life - and to hell with whether or not what they are consequently asked to do is for the greater good.
It's hard to think other than that the situation is well on its way to sorting itself out - while avoiding catastrophe.
The shift in power caused by the rise of the developing countries and the more enlightened leadership coming from them and the awakening of many in the West has opened the way to this, but the outcome will unltimately be determined by whether or not enough of us take responsibility for ourselves and commit to acting for the greater good...
That Green Lady has barfed out so many frogs in record time, its simply mind boggling... And Dmitry Medvedev got it right 
