You, along with the little group here that take this line, are seriously confused. The WEF is not, and never has been, where some mysterious power exists that directs governments what they must do. It is what it says on the tin. It's a forum where ideas are exchanged between governments, business and interest groups. It's a recognition of the fact that common problems are more effectively tackled together, than separately. Nothing is, or ever could be, decided there. Political representatives report back to their country's politicians, who then need to decide whether to embrace recommendations, or not. Business leaders report back to their Boards, and shareholders, on what they have learned and how best to react to it. Interest groups seek to influence the others.

This is all an extremely healthy way of ensuring a co-ordinated response to problems which could otherwise have the potential to overwhelm us.

To imagine all of this is done by a sinister group whose sole purpose is personal enrichment, is so transparently impractical I fail to see how any intelligent person could believe it.

It is a blatant example of a conspiracy theory designed to undermine our confidence in our way of international cooperation in today's interconnected world. Just pause for a moment and consider who might profit from spreading such concepts around, and how they might do it. For therein lies the answer to this confusion. The internet is a force for much good, but also the source of a great deal of harm.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It's nuance.

It depends what kind of elite theory you're into (there are several) and also who or what you determine as an 'elite'. The lazy group them all into one conspiracy led theory is prevalent on here, to varying degrees.

I don't disagree with the obvious fact that money buys power and influence and with corporations at their largest in history, undue influence. As you know I've said before my interpretation is that corporations will eventually become de facto government. Some would say we're there but I beg to differ. Much further to go there.

What I disagree with is this notion that they all band together and agree on one strategic objective, like some sort of hive mind version of Mr Burns. Tens or hundreds of multi-million and billion dollar companies agreeing on one overarching strategy and following it to the letter... no chance. As a theme for a conference, or a thought leadership topic, sure. Hence why the whole 'Great Reset' thing has been latched onto as this singularity and blown out of all proportion simply to suit and attempt to validate a conspiracy rooted narrative.

So conspiracy weeds are relevant here – you don't always have to be fully entangled to be influenced.

COVID – I think this is a classic example of giving governments too much credit. They basically just copied each other, and even then not all implementation has been the same, far from it. Further, in a globalised world it's kind of to be expected – follow the leader applies here, mainly the USA and it's economic clout. Not to mention the politics and trade ties that probably create issues for anyone lower down the chain to to change tack too much.

I just don't buy the whole 'let's all do the same thing to sinister ends' nonsense. It's too simplistic and conveniently fits the usual weeds based narratives.

Again, I'm not saying some element of collusion doesn't occur, just to nowhere near the degree often espoused on here.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

You are correct re. amount of QE exploding during COVID but looking at the available information I simply cannot agree that it is the main driver of the current meteoric rise.

• Supply constraints due to lockdowns and backlogs (building materials, anyone?)
• Russian energy being effectively cut off in a matter of weeks
• UK side, electrical interconnector going offline
• A candidate led jobs market
• Fast approaching food constraints because of Russian blockades

Plus many more. It features, but it's just not the main driver.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

I'm hearing a lot about the disillusionment and low morale of Russian soldiers. Is that true on a significant basis? Are there videos of troops saying this? I don't know.

However, what I do know is that the mainstream media is not giving a balanced picture of this war. It's not talking about nor showing...for example, the many videos made by Ukrainian troops who are low on morale and complaining. That actually exists but isn't being talked about.....is this really how the fourth estate is meant to behave?

For proof of this I will provide this link that evidences the behaviour of our mainstream media and its omissions when reporting and actual videos of real troops on the ground talking about conditions and morale.

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You, either intentionally or otherwise, conflate the view that nazis (I don’t think there is much “neo” about them) are in control of the Ukraine and are a major problem in the military (before the war this was well known and undisputed) and the view that all Ukrainians are nazis which is ridiculous especially as many Ukranians see themselves as Russian. At the same time you ignore my main problem with all this is that arming these people is just extending a war Ukraine simply cannot win and thereby getting many said Ukranians killed for no good reason and that’s leaving aside the potential for expanding this conflict into other countries to a potential WW3.

This war has turned into a massive slaughter mainly of forcibly conscripted Ukranians as the regime refuses to negotiate with Russia. The Russian military dwarves Ukrains and is grinding out an inexorable victory in Donbas. This is now obvious. You also ignore any historical context. At the same time you are somehow trying to insinuate I have nazi sympathy’s and am a coward for holding views that do not follow the corporate media narrative.

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This is clearly untrue and invalidates all of your other statements.

Even the establishment / partisan New York Times is now admitting this.