Time for Australia to Lie Flat, in the contest between USA & China
Better to Lie Flat, than to be the Meat in the Sandwich
by Peter Gerard Myers
Date: January 7, 2026; update January 13, 2026.
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(1) "Warren Buffett" Imperial Panic video on Resource Lockdown
(2) Reply to Sceptics who say the video is Fake
(3) Time for Australia to Lie Flat, in the contest between USA & China
(1) "Warren Buffett" Imperial Panic video on Resource Lockdown
by Peter Gerard Myers, January 9, 2026; update Jan. 11, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1fRDmwFeY
Imperial Panic: Why The US Is Seizing The Entire Hemisphere
Buffett Wealth Institute
7 Jan 2026
What it means is this: the elite of the US has finally decided to scrap Globalization. They realized that China had sewn up all the Global Supply Chains. It's not so much about Oil, as critical minerals. The US was buying those minerals on the open market, when it realized that these markets were controlled by China.
So the US is abandoning Capitalism, and switching to National Socialism of the sort that China practises.
It's a defensive measure. China was able to use Globalization to wage economic war on the rest of the world, as Japan had done in its miracle years.
Richard A Werner documented this in his book Princes of the Yen:
"It was the system of a mobilized war economy that spearheaded Japan's postwar conquest of world markets." (p. 2)
"Influenced by the methods of Hitler's central banker, Hjalmar Schacht, the leaders of the Japanese war economy turned credit creation into their most powerful mechanism for total control. They used the banking system purposely and skillfully to allocate resources to targeted industries." (p. 5)
"The credit controls used by the war bureaucrats survived virtually unchanged into the postwar era. They took the form of the extralegal and secretive "window guidance" operated by the Bank of Japan. This "guidance" consisted of direct credit allocation quotas strictly enforced by the central bank. It was at the core of Japan's postwar economic success. It also explains the success of Korea and Taiwan, where the Japanese installed the same during the war, and where the postwar leaders continued to use it." (p. 5)
"the Bank of Japan Law (which had been introduced in 1942, largely as a translation of Hitler's Reichsbank Law of 1939)" (p. 5)
"a country that was still at war with the world in economic terms - closed to imports and hence piling up trade surpluses as if they were war loot." (p. 33)
"Noguchi and Sakakibara were the first and only public figures to clearly identify and acknowledge the true nature of Japan's economic system. They called it the "wartime system for total economic mobilization."" (p. 80). werner-princes-yen.html
China copied this economic model from Japan, after Deng Xiaoping visited Japan in 1978 and made peace. Japan transferred technology and the secrets of the Japan Model.
The UN, the WTO and other international bodies, have allowed China to hollow out Western economies. Yet Jeffrey Sachs has nothing to say about Global bodies allowing China to do this.
All the Globalist commentators who talk about International Law, but are silent about China's economic war on the rest of the world, are complicit in the destruction of Western economies and China's rise to dominance.
And now, World War III is upon us, in consequence. The Globalists have a large share of the blame, but none of them acknowledge it.
Even though Trump has been bombing places around the world, that's a last hurrah.
BRICS' cutting the Dollar from trade settlements will force the US to withdraw from most of its bases; hence the new Security Doctrine focusing on the Western Hemisphere.
It also means that, as the US withdraws into its fortress, it will no longer be able to protect Australia & New Zealand.
It's a huge story. Thanks to "Warren Buffett" for getting the news out.
(2) Reply to Sceptics who say the video is Fake
by Peter Gerard Myers, January 10, 2026; update January 13, 2026
The first point I want to make, is that I am not a supporter of Trump per se, but I am an opponent of Globalization. On that second count, I approve some of the things Trump does, aven though I'm aghast at others.
He says that he'll get impeached if the Democrats win the midterms, and I hope that he does get replaced by Vance, Gabbard or RFK Jr.
If you look at the Mearsheimer video (text) I put out too, about the end of US Imperial Dominance <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNKN8i3BMkI>, it meshes with what "Buffett" is saying.
The "Buffett" video, which may be by Warren Buffett himself, provides a comprehensive explanation of Trump's plan for a Fortress in the Western hemisphere. The whole continent, if he can get it (which he won't); and what he can get, otherwise.
The voice is synthetic, and the visuals are digitally generated, but the text is by a human.
You must have come across it, a serious webpage that carries a disclaimer that it's only for entertainment. The disclaimer is written by their lawyers. The disclaimer means nothing; it's a standard protection from being sued.
Do you accept that legalese as genuine? Would you discard a serious article because it bears a disclaimer saying that it's only for entertainment?
In the same way, there's a disclaimer that Warren Buffett did not do that video, that it has no connection to him.
What it means is this: the elite of the US has finally decided to scrap Globalization. They realized that China had sewn up all the Global Supply Chains. It had contracted the raw materials, developed the mines, the smelters, the refining, the hi-tech, the whole chain. Businesses around the world were signing contracts with China rather than the U.S., as they used to.
It's not so much about Oil, as critical minerals. The US was buying those minerals on the open market, when it realized that these markets were controlled by China.
So the US is abandoning Capitalism, and switching to National Socialism of the sort that China practises - which it learned from Japan, and which Japan, in turn, had learned from Nazi Germany.
It's a huge story. Thanks to "Warren Buffett" - whoever he is - for getting the news out.
But it's unlikely to appear in the media any time soon. They don't want to admit that the West is lost. It might create panic in the streets; it would deter investment in the economy. They don't want to scare the horses.
(3) Time for Australia to Lie Flat, in the contest between USA & China
by Peter Gerard Myers, Date: January 7, 2026; update January 9, 2026.
Australia could have been one of the most self-sufficient and independent countries in the world. And we were so, until Globalization was forced upon us from the mid 1980s.
Industry after industry died, as imports flooded in.
The same happened to the United States.
China took advantage of it to become the manufacturing hub of the world, and with manufacturing goes power. All the empires of the last 200 years had a strong manufacturing base.
The Club of Rome (founded by David Rockefeller), the Chicago School of Economics, and U. N. environmental programs such as the Rio Earth Summit and Agenda 21, advised us to become Post-Industrial, service economies exporting minerals and foods, and importing everything else.
Now, with the kidnapping of Maduro, the whole Globalist project has collapsed. The United States foresees a conflict with China on the horizon, and has chosen to commandeer supplies of metals and energy sources, to build smelters to refine them, and factories to restore self-sufficiency.
Venezuela is not just about oil; it has huge supplies of metals that U.S. industries and military want. Greenland has Rare Earths, which the military need, and want to keep out of the hands of China.
Apart from Venezuela and the U.S. itself, Canada and Greenland will be part of that economic zone. And even though Trump was the one to propose it, it will become bipartisan within a few years.
Most commentators present a Globalist perspective on the Maduro abduction; they talk about International Law.
What they miss is that World War III is at hand. Victor Gao declared China "will not fire the first shot" but would "never allow a second". https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-terrifying-new-missile-that-destroys-target-in-20-mins-sparks-ww3-fears/ar-AA1O86fw
This is not just Trump's fault, or the fault of China; it's the fault of the Globalists who have forced Free Trade, Open Borders and Woke values on the West. Through their actions, China has overtaken the U.S. as the leading economy, and an equal military adversary.
Saudi Arabia has refused to renew the Petrodollar agreement, which underpinned the value of the US Dollar for 50 years; the Dollar is in terminal decline, and with it goes U.S. hegemony and its network of bases. Trump's policies are a desperate defensive measure aimed at constructing a fortress in the Western hemisphere, within which U.S. power can survive.
Europe is left out of the picture; that's the stronghold of the Globalists. They do not have their own military force, but had been using the U.S. military as mercenary enforcers of Globalization. No more.
A good assessment of the situation is at
Imperial Panic: Why The US Is Seizing The Entire Hemisphere
by Br decode
7 Jan 2026
NO LONGER AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng4cwPNIag0
BUT IT IS AT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1fRDmwFeY
Imperial Panic: Why The US Is Seizing The Entire Hemisphere
Buffett Wealth Institute
7 Jan 2026
WATCH IT WHILE YOU CAN. If it's deleted, search Google for the headline.
THIS SEEMS TO COME FROM WARREN BUFFETT HIMSELF. NORMALLY YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS, IN A PRIVATE NEWSLETTER. BUT IT'S SUCH AN EMERGENCY THAT HE'S TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT - AS I AM TOO.
It says that China has cornered the supplies of critical minerals. Trump's moves to counter it are not ideosyncratic; they represent the new viewpoint of the leaders of the U.S.
Trump wants to annex the whole of South America, but that will prove impossible. However the U.S. may be able to get Argentina and Chile into its zone.
What about Australia?
We are too far away.
Someone who works for the Australian Army told me that, if China wanted to bring Australia to its knees, it would not need to invade us; its navy would only need to block the ships bringing oil from Indonesia and Africa. We only have a few weeks' supply, and we only have two refineries.
He agreed with me that we need a new rail line from Cairns to Melbourne, dual track, standard gauge, and electrified, powered by nuclear reactors. Moving freight that way at least gives us some independence.
Our politicians and bureaucrats are not fit to govern this country; that's why we are in such a mess. And they are beholden to Lobbies and media campaigns.
The Globalists, being haters of Russia, foolishly pushed Russia into the arms of China, and now China has that huge supply of cheap resources at hand. Plus, it is expanding into Central Asia along the old Silk Road. India is wisely trying to stay out of the conflict between China and the U.S.
I used to think that South Korea and Japan would remain in the American camp. But now I think that they will end up submitting to China.
There is one event that could avert this nightmare scenario: peace between the U.S. and Russia. Stephen Bryen stated, "Trump and his people have been hinting for a long time that they would like to have a strategic relationship with Russia. It's in the new 2025 National Security Strategy". The Globalists are the main impediment to it. Bryen also says that China is supplying electronic components for drones to BOTH sides in the Ukraine war. https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/stephen-bryen-russians-much-stronger-than-they-were-4-years-ago
In recent weeks, I have been reading a book about European travellers to the Mongol Empire.
Surprisingly, there were Christians in that part of the world - Nestorian Chistians. The Nestorian Church is also known as the Church of the East.
Nestorius objected to calling Mary, the mother of Jesus, 'Mother of God' (theotokos). God does not have a mother. He said that Jesus was a man, like you and me, but that the Logos, a divine spirit, came to dwell in him; thus he had two natures. It seems perfectly sensible to me, but it got you into big trouble back in those days.
The Catholic Church branded Nestorius a heretic, and anathematised the churches loyal to him. Being pushed out of Rome and Byzantium, they moved to Persia, which was Zoroastrian then. The Persians looked favourably on the Nestorians because they were the enemy of Rome. They flourished, and spread into Central Asia along the Silk Road.
Manicheanism spread in the same areas too. The Uyghurs became Manicheans. They had a script, I believe an Iranian script (perhaps from the Sakas), which the Mongols later adopted for their own writing.
When Genghis Khan inaugurated the Mongol Empire , it was barbaric and widely destructive at first. However, the Mongols needed civilized people to run such a huge empire; so they brought conquered peoples to their capital, Karakoram, and they in turn brought new religions such as Buddhism.
The Khans were religious people, believers in a heavenly father, but they did not discriminate between religions. They were happy to have all religions pray to Heaven for them.
After Mongols had devastated Russia and Hungary, the Great Khan died, and the Mongol armies returned to their capital to choose a new leader; and to settle scores. Thus Europe was saved.
The Pope sent emissaries to the Great Khan, to inaugurate diplomatic relations and to discover their intentions. These envoys were mainly Franciscan monks; they bore diplomatic letters from the Pope. The Khans recognised their credentials and gave them privileged passage. These friars wrote the first reports on Central Asia to reach the west. Marco Polo came a little later.
Churches and Buddhist temples were built at the Mongol capital. The Great Khan got the various religions to compete, pitching their religion to him. After Islam pulled out, he choose Buddhism, and that is why Mongolia is Buddhist today.
The book that contains this information is Papal Envoys to the Great Khans, by I. de Rachewiltz (Faber & Faber, London, 1971).
One thing I learned from reading this book, is that peoples who resisted the Mongol invasion got annihilated, whereas those that did not resist were brought into the empire to help administer it.
I'm afraid that may be the fate of Australia.
It's not the fault of the Australian people that we are at the mercy of China; it's the fault of the Globalists and their Woke allies who betrayed us from the inside. The enemy on the inside is always worse than the enemy outside.
Better to live and see another day. Who knows how the whole thing will end?
Chinese rule would not be a picnic for Australians; look what happened in Tibet and Xinjiang.
The Chinese economy is a mix of Communism, Capitalism and National Socialism.
State-Owned-Enterprises are Communist; the private sector is Capitalist; and the finance/industrial system is National Socialist.
The finance/industrial system was copied from Japan, when Deng Xiaoping visited in 1978 and made peace. Japan transferred its technology, plus the secret of Capital Allocation ('Window Guidance'), which they had copied from Germany in the 1930s.
The German Miracle led to the Japan Miracle, which led to the China Miracle. For more detals see werner-princes-yen.html and China-Taiwan-Japan.html.
Richard A. Werner was Professor of International Banking at the University of Southampton; he spent over a decade working at the Bank of Japan, the Japanese Ministry of Finance, Jardine Fleming Securities (Asia) Ltd, the Asian Development Bank, and as asset allocator of a major pension fund. His book Princes of the Yen, about the Bank of Japan, was a best-seller in Japan.
Yet his writings are suppressed in most West financial literature - ignored, written out - because he reveals the secrets of banking, and how to free ourselves from the cabal.
For example, he wrote,
"If you deposit $1,000 with a bank, and if the central bank requires banks to hold reserves of 1 percent, it is tempting to assume that the bank will lend out $990 and keep $10 (1 percent of $1,000) as reserves (as most textbooks also describe it). This is not what happens. Based on your $1,000 in new deposits, the first bank can already lend $99,000 (and keep your $1,000, which is 1 percent of $100,000 as reserves)." (Princes of the Yen, p. 45) werner-princes-yen.html
They create that money, and you have to pay it back, plus interest. Yes, you buy a house with it, and the seller deposits your payment in his account, and gets interest. The bank's profit is the difference between the interest they pay out, and the interest you pay them. The reason that house prices keep going up, is that banks keep loaning more and more money for the same house. The value of a house is whatever a bank will lend.
Remember, Werner was a Professor of International Banking; he knew what he was talking about. For spilling the beans like this, Werner has been ostracised in western financial circles. But you can subscribe to his posts on Substack.
Unfortunately, his advice about finance is too late for us now. Next lifetime, perhaps.
Moneylending (Usury) is the biggest scam in the world. It's so profitable that bankers are usually the secret power running governments behind the scenes. The IMF has often foreclosed on loans to poor countries - loans in US Dollars. When they could not repay, eg because their currency fell in value, the IMF seized the assets which were the collateral for the loan. This is why the Global South hates the United States, and sides with China against the West. Yet, you and I had no idea what the usurers were doing.
Anyway, the private sector in China is very cruel. They make workers work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week; it's called '996'. And at age 35 they sack the workers, who, lacking financial security, cannot afford to marry and have children. It's called the "Curse of 35"; look it up in Google.
Such a slave-like work environment has prompted many young people to choose Lying Flat instead; this is a form of going bush. They choose Voluntary Poverty such as alternative lifestylers like myself chose in the late 1970s; it is still my choice. It involves a simple lifestyle, often in remote locations, and lying low.
If we end up in the Chinese sphere, it would be the only sensible choice for Australia in years ahead.
It's not cowardice. We who have fought the system for decades have needed every ounce of courage we could muster. Ok, the system beat us. But we're not going to fight for it. They brought this war on; let them fight it themselves.
The Russian people had the same thoughts in the 1930s, when Hitler appeared on the horizon. They weren't going to fight for Bolshevism, but only for Russia. For their culture and values, which had been suppressed as ours have been.
The Feminists and LGBT advocates who promoted Sex Change and Gay Marriage never imagined that the resultant Androgynous societies would have to face the test of war against more traditionalist enemies. But that is now the test that awaits us, and the NYT has woken up (without mentioning the Culture War) that we will fall.
Camille Paglia warned that Androgyny is a prelude to the fall of civilization. But the Globalists at the WEF pushed on with it anyway; they thought that they could dismantle Western societies and construct a World State instead. H. G. Wells had set out the blueprint; I provide the details in my books and website.
Stalin had to rehabilitate much of Russian culture and religion; otherwise the war would have been lost. Trotsky, in his 1936 book The Revolution Betrayed, accused him of restoring God and the Family: trotsky.html.
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https://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Reparations-Gaza-Genocide-Justify/dp/064583615X
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