Fake Wars & Higher Prices: What A "Multipolar World Order" Really Means
by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,
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What the Documents Show
Two weeks ago, Scholz called for a "post-imperial world" with "a resilient rules-based order in a new era of multipolarity." Days later, Xi and Putin signed a joint declaration on building this multipolar system. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez then reframed the entire conversation: "What is happening today is not a transfer of hegemony, but an increase in multipolarity—in both power and prosperity." Notice the language. "Prosperity." The JPMorgan Chase International Council apparently agrees. According to the source material, JPMorgan partnered with the Tony Blair Institute in December to advance this multipolar framework discussion. JPMorgan Chase, whose CEO Jamie Dimon controls roughly $3.7 trillion in assets under management, has direct interest in how global trade flows reorganize.
Follow the Money
When institutions of that scale coordinate messaging with think tanks and political figures across three continents, we're watching capital structure itself, not observing it. Here's what gets missed in the breathless analysis about "American decline": A genuinely multipolar world—one where power actually distributes and competes—would require transparent price discovery, reduced commodity concentration, and regulatory arbitrage that prevents the same Wall Street firms from profiting equally whether the hegemon is Washington or Beijing. That's not what's being proposed. What's being proposed is managed multipolarity. Controlled fragmentation. A system where OPEC+ maintains oil price floors, where China controls rare earth supply chains, where the dollar still settles everything—but now with the added legitimacy of "rules-based order in multipolarity." Regional power centers get their seat at the table (satisfying Beijing and Moscow's status demands), but the financial infrastructure—clearing houses, settlement systems, credit rating agencies—remains concentrated in the same hands.
What Else We Know
JPMorgan doesn't lose. The Saudis don't lose. What changes is the cost structure gets passed to consumers. Because here's the mechanism: When you fragment geopolitical power without fragmenting financial infrastructure, you create justified scarcity. Energy prices rise because "security concerns" in a multipolar world justify OPEC supply management. Food prices rise because the reorganization of agricultural trade routes adds "complexity costs." Currency volatility increases, which benefits derivative traders—the very JPMorgan desk that helped collapse the mortgage market in 2008.
Primary Sources
- Source: ZeroHedge
- Category: Money & Markets
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