Andranik Aghazarian

Cold War 2.0 Andranik Aghazarian

As the United States and China begin to square up in the political arena with a war of words, the rhetoric each day grows more intense, and an Anti-Asian sentiment begins to form in the west, are you left wondering how did we get here? The western world has been in decline for decades, politically, financially, economically, socially, environmentally, and even technologically. As once prosperous cities become slowly abandoned, complete industries move abroad, infrastructure crumbles, the middle class gets squeezed out of owning assets, and failed political solutions enrage the public, the average person is left to hold the bag. Decades of American intervention abroad have left a bad taste in the mouth of many countries, as the once bright light upon the hill begins to dim. There have never been more countries turning their backs on western values, western products, western companies, and western nations, as there are today. Never before, have we seen such open criticism of everything American. Only a decade ago, the charge towards a more liberal democracy may have been seen as the only way to modernization, but today China's success coupled with the floundering of democracies have put this into question. Unable or unwilling to distract the general population from the slew of issues stacking up at home, politicians and media have turned to the age-old method of conjuring up an adversary. Throughout most of recorded history, Asia has represented the economic and political center of the world, and it has only been the last 200 years that this was usurped. However, with the U. S. dollar waning as a reserve currency, at the long end of its natural lifetime, the rise of alternatives such as precious metals and cryptocurrencies has shown generational shifts in line with larger market cycles. In a post-Covid-19 world, a new millennium has dawned: The Asian Millennium. With the collapse of western hegemony and a new Cold War, it is inevitable that "business as usual" is just a distant memory. The world as we once knew it has forever changed, ushering in a power vacuum for a New World Order. The Great Reset is the culmination of several macro market cycles, and it has finally arrived, have you prepared yourself for it?