What happens to countries who try and escape the debt/exploitation trap and try and use natural resources to invest in themselves? Invariably the guys who really set the rules see it as a threat to their interests, and seek to destabilise that country.
It starts with language, it moves to economic warfare, and when that isn't enough, they send in the troops. Of course Joe Public doesn’t know the real reason for the ‘intervention’. He gets told it’s for a noble cause, and is conditioned not to notice the double standards.
Sometimes, of course, there will be real issues that can be used justify the intervention. But they won't be unique to that country. The accusers themselves have done far, far worse. But it's 'different' when they do it, and we don't talk about that.
Anyway, whatever the targeted country may or may not have done, it's not the real reason for the intervention, there would be no intervention if you were on the inside. No, the real reason is that some very powerful investors are unhappy with you, or you have something someone else wants, or there is money and strategic advantage to be had from staging the intervention, and the health of the empire, as they see it, depends on you being brought down a peg or two.
City is treated like' that country'. Owners from the global East and South will be treated like 'that country'. We were likeable when we could be pitied and patted on the head, but when we started to assert ourselves, to do things differently and do it well, to use our money to build a proper long term structure, exposing the moral and financial bankruptcy of the vulture ownership model, the 'love' turned to hate.
They said our money was dirty, they called us cheats, they couldn't ignore us so they tried to erase us, saying we have no past, no fans, and no soul, the same fans who they couldn't get enough of when we were shit, they literally made it illegal for us to spend our own money on catching up after 25 years of missing out...It's rigged to fuck. Because the power they seek isn't maintained by being nice, but brute force, snide, underhand tactics and loads and loads of propaganda. Cinderella stories are fine until Cinderella upsets vested interests. Then Cinderella becomes the villain.
The good news is that they will not win. I genuinely believe punishment will electrify us. And I also believe that our enemies are going to cut themselves with the knife they're trying to hurt us with. They all have secrets, but they're so arrogant they think there will be no fall out for them.
