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Alex Krainer: Afghanistan Signals End of US Empire as China Turns on Elites & Great Reset

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

History, News, Government, Politics

4.2568 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alex Krainer discusses how Afghanistan signals the American Empire’s loss of hegemony over Mackinder’s “World Island” and everywhere else (e.g. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq), the game is up. He believes that Beijing had initially been propped up by Western elites, but given the recent turn against China by George Soros and Co., the CCP mislead and is now abandoning the global elites. They have not forgotten the Century of Humiliation. The economic fallout of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan could mean equity and bond bubbles bursting, upward pressure on commodity prices, and high rates of inflation in the American financial system. He believes the dollar world reserve status can shrink rapidly in the coming years. He discusses his recent accurate Bitcoin price prediction and why precious metals and commodities are poised for an explosive rally. Regarding COVID1984 and the Great Reset, he’s optimistic in that Davos, like Icarus, is flying too close to the sun and ultimately will fail.

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About Alex Krainer

Alex Krainer (born in 1970) is an author and former hedge fund manager based in Monaco. Alex was born and raised in a socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. As a 17-year old he joined a student exchange program and spent a year in California.

Extending his stay, he took up his university studies there, ultimately transferring to Switzerland where he completed a degree in Business and Economics. From Switzerland his path led him to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis when 9 of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt.

With his plans and endeavours thwarted, he returned to Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence. Soon after finishing his military service, Alex took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco.

By the year 2000 he became the firm’s risk manager and originated the firm’s research and development program in market analysis and application of neural networks and artificial intelligence in trading of financial and commodities markets.

By 2007 Alex launched his own investment management business and was among the small minority of managers who generated positive investment returns (+27%) through the 2008 financial crisis. Over the following six years, his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index of Blue Chip commodities trading funds.

This opened the door into the big league asset managers and in 2011 Alex Joined Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth with the mandate of managing the firm’s inflation hedging strategy. In more recent years, Alex also busied himself as an author. In 2015 he published his first book titled, “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading.”

Having discovered a passion for writing and stumbling upon the story of Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act, Alex wrote his second book, unrelated to trading. “The Killing of William Browder” attempts to deconstruct Bill Browder’s narrative, which has played an important role in the conflict between Russia and the west – a needless conflict that could escalate towards a hot war.

Within five weeks, Browder’s lawyer Jonathan Winer leaned on Amazon to suppress the book. In July of 2018 the book was republished by a brave publisher Red Pill Press as “Grand Deception: the truth about Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act and anti-Russia sanctions.”

However, after only six weeks on the market, the book was again banned. While the future remains to be written, Alex’s endeavors will remain devoted to contributing towards a future endowed with peace, cooperation among nations, prosperity and emancipation of all humanity.

*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Geopolitics and Empire is joined by fellow Spanish-speaking Croat Alex Craneer. He's the author of books

0:06.7

like mastering uncertainty in commodities trading, grand deception, and trend following Bible.

0:12.8

He's a hedge fund manager based in Monaco and founder of Craneer Analytics and I-System

0:17.3

Trend Following, a subscription service that helps people navigate trends profitably in

0:22.5

multiple financial and commodity markets it's good to have you back Alex how are things in

0:27.0

Croatia, Monaco or wherever you are I'm in Monaco right now thank you very good to join you I

0:34.1

have to before we start I have to give you my kudos because ever since I discovered

0:40.2

your program, I spent many, many hours watching and listening because you uncover these

0:45.3

incredible experts from domains that I wouldn't know about. And I don't know how you figure them out,

0:52.2

how you source them, but I'm very grateful that you do because I get to learn very, very interesting things that otherwise I wouldn't have ever heard about.

1:01.8

So to answer your question, I'm in Monaco now, but I did spend about six weeks in Croatia over the summer, which was wonderful.

1:09.5

And now we're back in the fighting mode again in

1:13.4

in Monaco. Yeah, that's good to hear. Now you're re-energized and ready to go. I would just comment

1:19.8

on what you said, you know, I've kind of what I've done with the program has kind of been out

1:25.0

of necessity. A lot of the podcasts and radio shows and stuff that I've listened to over the past few decades,

1:31.7

I feel like they've stopped doing, they've stopped talking to all these like interesting experts.

1:36.1

And I'm like, I want to hear from these people.

1:39.0

So I might as well, you know, reach out to them myself.

1:41.8

So all right.

1:43.0

And before I get then to my first question,

1:45.7

I wanted to just remind listeners to subscribe to the email list, the telegram, the Twitter,

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and all other platforms like me, we, minds, gab, floats, Odyssey, Brighton, Bitshut,

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