The Role of Trading Blocs in Geopolitics
The specific purpose of moving the EU and NATO Eastward during the late 1990s, despite the promise by the Reagan administration to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989, was to prevent affordable Russian natural gas via pipeline from going to the European market for two essential reasons. I wrote about this topic in the seven “Russian Natural Gas and Geopolitical Realignment” articles published on Energy News Beat.
First, the West wanted to prevent Russia from using the profits of the Gazprom natural gas sales to fund an export-led growth import substitution industrialization investment program that would modernize their economy and military which would make them a regional power once again.
Secondly, and most importantly, an overland logistical supply route of natural gas, oil, and railroad infrastructure would allow Russia to re-emerge as a regional power and build alliances with Central Europe, India, China, South Korea, and Japan to form a super Eurasian Economic Union trading bloc that would rival the current North American, Anglosphere Five Eyes and EU/NATO alliance system.
Under the Wolfowitz plan to prevent any near-peer superpower from emerging, a reemergence of Russo-Sino superpower alignment would likely create the scenario where they make the German-World Industrial Power center a major partner in Western Europe as well as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the Pacific Island chain would become partners in a greater Eurasian Economic Union trading bloc as well.
The Sea Power Versus Land Power Grand Strategies
In terms of the history of Sea Power Versus Land Power Grand Strategies, such a scenario would become a Friedrich Ratzel, Karl Huashofer, and Aleksandr Dugin overland logistical supply route dream and a Mahan, Mackinder, Sykman, Brzezinski, Wolfowitz nightmare that the RAND 2019 strategic plans were designed to prevent.
The two 2019 RAND articles are titled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options” as the short 12-page overview paper that complimented a 354-page detailed strategic plan titled “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.”
These articles are online and can be read by anyone willing to spend the time to investigate the actual US strategic plans as opposed to the cover-for-action rhetoric that “Russia invaded for no reason” and the “Russia is going to invade Europe” trope that is broadcast non-stop by the legacy media and Operation Mockingbird USAID and NED funded alternative media channels on YouTube over the last decade.
Kellogg and the Media Need to Read the Wolfowitz and RAND Articles
One would think that a retired three-star general such as Keith Kellogg would understand the difference between the cover-for-action rhetoric in contradistinction to the actual underlying Grand Strategies, but that was obviously not the case.
So why discuss this further than already discussed in the previous articles in this series? Because the mainstream media and Mockingbird alternative media propaganda are so pervasive that the voting electorate is misled and misinformed on purpose.
Besides the general public, way too many Western leaders are misled and misinformed intentionally by the Wolfowitz and RAND Grand Strategists as well and the Western media “journalists” have become stenographers repeating what they are told with no skepticism whatsoever.
Way too many military officers, politicians, and journalists have fallen into the foreign policy misinformation trap that a democratic system cannot exist under such a propaganda campaign.
For President Trump and DOGE to succeed President Trump needs to remain in office all four years and keep control of the House and the Senate for all four years the propaganda machines of the media need to be neutralized by openly discussing the Wolfowitz and RAND foreign policy strategic plans to the general public. It is now the US that needs a glasnost and perestroika.
A Glasnost and Perestroika of the Wolfowitz Plan and the Eurasian Natural Gas Wars
To achieve this, the actual underlying strategic plans that started the war need to be widely understood and disseminated to as much of the general public as possible to keep President Trump and DOGE in office. It is imperative that Trump and the DOGE tackle the twin current account and massive yearly budget deficits that threaten the financial and economic stability of the United States and the entire Western World.
To achieve this, both the domestic and international problems need to be solved, which means displacing the current neoconservative, neoliberal, and Green New Deal Leftists that form the current WEF Globalist parties throughout the collective West and control the media.
It is these three groups that shifted the regime-change destabilization strategies of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stanfield Turner Operation Cyclone from the late 1970s forward, to the regime-change nation-building strategy of the Global War on Terror, followed by the Big Tech-inspired color revolutions of the Arab Spring, that led to the return of the regime-change destabilization strategies across Eurasia and North Africa since the regime-change nation-building strategies failed.
It is these groups that back what Mike Benz refers to as the “dial-a-riots” where the financial class flies in and busses in professional protesters to cause street violence to overwhelm local police forces and follows Marcuse’s “repressive tolerance,” Alinky’s identity politics and Jean Sharp’s “non-violent” direct action protest protocols perfected by the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1960s protests in Europe and transferred to the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID after the Church Commission hearings in the late 1970s.
One can see that this form of political action was perfected in the 2020 election cycle George Floyd Antifa-BLM riots used to disrupt Donald Trump’s reelection effort. A “glasnost and perestroika” effort is needed to explain how these professional protest and color revolution techniques evolved from the Frankfurt School devotees in the 1950s and have been perfected by the union of the intelligence and Big Tech communities to bully local communities that do not submit to the single-party socialist state progressive programs.
The Peaceful Protestors and the Need for a Glasnost and Perestroika in the West
The reason why this glasnost and perestroika are needed is that these professional protest methods are used to advance the “Seven P Plan of the Left” strategies to achieve a single-party bureaucratic state in the United States that also controls the EU and NATO trading bloc and military alliance institutions.
Clearly, the Globalists and Leftists are using the Cloward and Piven Plan to bring about the single-party bureaucratic state by profligate government spending on wasteful government programs that are actually money laundering schemes to fund globalist politicians.
The US federal budget deficit was approximately $5.6 trillion in 2000 after President Clinton left office and approximately doubled to $10 trillion under President G. W. Bush when he left office in 2008. The national debt nearly doubled again under President Obama rising to almost $20 trillion in 2016 after President Obama left office. Since the Trump and Biden four-year terms the national debt has risen to $36 trillion as Trump took office in 2025 for his second term. The question is can Trump and Musk stop the increase and grow the economy to balance the budget over the next four years?
The Cloward and Piven Plan to accelerate spending and significantly expand the bureaucracy to achieve the single-party social state has been accelerating over the past four decades and must be reversed by the extensive cost-cutting and department closures that Elon Musk and DOGE are performing within the first month of Trump taking office.
Taken together, the twin current account and budget deficit problems are being countered by the reciprocal tariff policy of Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE. But only so much can be achieved in four years, and President Trump needs all four years to make a small dent in the twin problems. Trump and Musk not only need to maintain control of both houses through the 2026 midterms but need to maintain control of all three houses (the White House and both Houses of Congress) throughout the next four-year terms as well.
Part 3: Understanding the Catastrophic Downside Risk of the Kellogg Plan and Exploring Alternatives
Part 2: Why Keith Kellogg’s Plan is DOA: Shifting the Global Political Center of Gravity Part 2
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