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1 week ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
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1 week ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
[Originally published at I-System TrendCompass] Something about the war between Israel and Iran doesn’t seem to add up. Israel’s initiated the hostilities, which, of course, were purely defensive in nature. They were merely a justified retaliation against Iran’s missile attack which was sure to follow in the near future. Israel always has the right to defend itself.
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2 weeks ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
On Sunday, I had the great pleasure of joining my friend Matthew Ehret and Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski on Pluralia Dialogos podcast. The full recording is below. We discussed the general state of things in the world, but toward the end of our session we addressed some questions from viewers, and one of them asked about the periodic mega-transition cycles of human societies, whether we are experiencing one now, and where things go from here.
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1 month ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
Donald Trump has been the President of the United States for 126 days now, and so far, it's been a mixed bag of goods. However, I find that he is probably being judged too harshly, especially by some of his supporters. The attitude among them reminds me of a few people I know when they watch their home football teams play.
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1 month ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
[Originally published in I-System TrendCompass] Over the last few years I'm noticing that the grocery stores where I buy my food are less and less supplied with certain foods, particularly organic meat and periodically milk and eggs. The difference is very obvious and my Carrefour supermarket even reduced the shelf space where these foods are displayed.
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1 month ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
[Originally published at I-System TrendCompass] Russia’s military victory over Ukraine has been a near-certainty for months now. Ukraine’s total defeat is only a matter of time, but as that time approaches, European powers have been increasingly determined not to let the war die and are now actively preparing to take it up where Ukraine stumbles.
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2 months ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
[Originally published in I-System TrendCompass] The "peace talks,” that were meant to take place in London on Wednesday, 23 April, collapsed as US State Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump's envoy Steve Wytkoff cancelled their attendance. Instead, Wytkoff flew to Moscow for his fourth meeting with Vladimir Putin.
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2 months ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
[Originally published in this morning’s TrendCompass report] In last Thursday’s report I referenced Regan Boychuk’s article in which he made a credible case about the way $9 trillion in Alberta oil resources were turned into legal collateral for US banks and used that collateral to conjure $5 trillion in mortgage debt and inflate the 2000s housing bubble.
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2 months ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer
Last March I published an article titled, "The power behind the throne and the forever wars" in which I explored the ultimate, systemic causes behind the West's insatiable appetite for war. Forever wars have become normalized, part of our everyday reality. In an article in the American Journal of Public Health, a group of American researchers made the following claim:"Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world.
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Mar 30, 2025 | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer |Dennis Small
Back in 2022, Ukraine’s President Zelensky posed for a photo shoot wearing an olive green t-shirt emblazoned with a bizarre design that read, “Come to the dark side … Dominate or Die.” At the time, I wondered who thought it appropriate to even come up with such slogans, let alone have Ukraine’s president wear it on his chest. The photoshoot was arranged by a British PR team. At the time, a short documentary report about this was published in social media (here’s a YouTube clip).