GM Fights the Cold War in the 21st Century.
Spoke to Lou Ann Hammond, Carlist.com, Sunday 30 re the unusual, contradictory and unacceptable hold up of the Opel deal in Germany -- GM refusing to sell off a European subsidiary to a generous offer from Magna International. Lou Ann Hammond told me it is because the Russians are in on the deal with the Germans, who are loaning the money to Magna, and GM has decided this means that the intellectual property rights of Opel will wind up in Moscow as well as Berlin. In sum, a Cold War dispute, with GM in the role of the Leader of the Free World, Berlin in the role of stage for espionage and intrigue, and Moscow as Center, the old KGB First Directorate aiming to trick critical secrets from the US. All of this is laughable. GM does not exist. Kaput. It is the Post Office with wheels. It is whatever POTUS and his Politburo says it is. See the above deal with GM building light trucks in China. How come it is okay to share intellectual property rights with the Chinese spies from the Beijing bullies and not okay to share with the Russian spies? Because POTUS has decided he would rather sell out to China, where the Treasury debt exists inside vaults, then to Moscow, which is a tad hostile ever since POTUS demonstrated American arrogance and ineffectiveness at the Moscow summit earlier in the summer.
Berlin and Moscow Axis.
What is most critical about the Opel deal is that it is an illustration of the new born power of the Eurasia Bloc. Russia's energy and Germany's banking and manufacturing have joined, through the office of Angela Merkel and Dmitry Medvedev, to create a world-scale alliance, a superpower in the making, and the US is most definitely not invited. What is most critical about the China deal is that the Obama administration has no policy other than complete obeisance or passivity to the Beijing mob -- just at the moment that the mob weakens from the slip in the GDP and the uprising of the Lhasa and Urumqi and Taipei patriots. Washington becomes Paris, 1933: every twist in Germany is acceptable because we must avoid war, and meantime we will act tough to rude London and fragile Washington. We need Moscow to police the Stans. We need Germany to reorganize Russia and Eastern Europe. We do not need the bullies and back-stabbers of Beijing. The Obama team is off track, appeasing the wrong parasite and antagonizing the wrong bear.
I don't feel sorry for the dyed-in-the-wool dems 'cause they know politics is a dirty game. I feel sorry for all the wide-eyed innocents; the college kids new to voting, the independents who felt this was a new kind of politics, the senior citizens who have seen it all and thought this time was different. Welcome to Washington, welcome to real life. True, the public usually votes their pocketbook, but our elected officials ALWAYS vote theirs.