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The edge of chaos is the "comfort zone‟ for complex systems. [...] Networks, information technologies, non-linearity, positive feedback, self-organization, emergence, and decentralization are the main characteristics of the Chaoplexic Warfare.

Chaoplexity is "complexity at the edge of chaos"

--Cristina I. Brumar, Ralf D. Fabian, Boldur E. Bărbat; CSITAO Carnap-like Glossary
NATO and BRICS seem to be racing to the finish as fast as they possibly can. Both groups see an intense crisis looming on the horizon but, due to the diametrically opposed strategies of each -- for BRICS it is more or less mutual cooperation, for NATO it is more or less US-led domination via the manipulated crises -- both are heading in completely opposite directions.

Recent developments across the political and economic spectrum continue to confirm that big changes are a-coming down the pike, and humanity is facing two perennial choices in the form of major military and economic forces -- pragmatic cooperation or chaotic destruction.

Escalate the chaos

While the BRICS nations are stockpiling gold and are working their way through critical agreements, NATO is pouring more and more fuel into its various wars across the globe.

In Ukraine:
The Kiev junta and its newly 'elected' client rulers, and its NATO sponsors are intent on a major purge to consolidate the puppet Poroshenko's dictatorial rule. The recent NATO-sponsored elections excluded several major political parties that had traditionally supported the country's large ethnic minority populations, and was boycotted in the Donbas region. This sham election in Kiev set the tone for NATO's next move toward converting Ukraine into one gigantic US multi-purpose military base aimed at the Russian heartland and into a neo-colony for German capital, supplying Berlin with grain and raw materials while serving as a captive market for German manufactured goods.

An intensifying war fever is sweeping the West; the consequences of this madness appear graver by the hour.
In Afghanistan:
The administration quietly approved guidelines, revealed over the weekend, that could broaden the military role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan next year beyond what had been expected
In Iraq and Syria:
On Tuesday, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed that the US Central Command has a plan to take "targeted actions against ISIS (Islamic State/IS) safe havens in Syria," including striking infrastructure. Hagel also unveiled a plan to boost Iraqi forces with 1,600 US "military advisers." ...

While the US is determined to prop up the Iraqi puppet regime in Baghdad, Washington's main objective is over the border in Syria. The ISIS advances in Iraq provided the Obama administration with a pretext for reviving its plans, shelved last year, for an air war to oust President Bashar al-Assad. For the past three years, the US and its regional allies have been funding and arming anti-Assad forces, including Islamic fundamentalists such as ISIS and the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra front. The number of troops in Iraq has doubled, and the administration will soon seek an authorization from a Congress that is extremely unlikely to include a provision that outlaws direct combat by US troops. Even supposed doves like Rand Paul are switching their position on fighting ISIS, and the incoming class of senators has distinct interventionist positions.
Throwing the EU to the dogs in an attempt to isolate Russia:
The European Union and the United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia in late July, targeting the Russian energy, banking and defense sectors to punish Moscow's support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, the West's toughest steps yet.

As EU governments consider blacklisting more Ukrainian separatists and potentially more Russians and companies over the crisis in Ukraine, anecdotal evidence and new EU data show the economic costs for Europe of pressuring the Kremlin.

In August, the month after sanctions were imposed, EU exports to Russia fell 19 percent to 7.9 billion euros ($9.91 billion) compared to July, a loss of almost 2 billion euros, according to the EU's statistics office Eurostat.
And in Pakistan:
A U.S. drone killed five suspected militants in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, a militant and a government official said, as the intensity of air strikes grew as part of an anti-Taliban offensive by the Pakistani military.

The drone strike hit a house in Datta Khel, near the Afghan border, which was used by militants, said a militant in the area. Those killed were Pakistani fighters, the militant said.

"The Government of Pakistan condemns the drone strike that took place in the early hours of Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at Garga, north of Shawal in North Waziristan Agency," the government said in a statement.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which tracks drone strikes using media reports, says there have been 20 strikes so far this year.
The above list is certainly not exhaustive. China has seen its own recent Western NGO-inspired color revolution too. Combined with the never-ending false-flag terrorist attacks, color revolutions, using oil as a weapon, and propaganda aimed against the countries still attempting to forge networks based on mutual aid, there has probably never been so much chaos in the world.

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Chaoplexity

NATO is grinding its gears of war, pumping its terrorist proxies, and it seems that one gear in particular was in need of some fine-tuning. The supposedly "dovish" Chuck Hagel, placed into the position of defense secretary two years ago after a fierce confirmation process due to his positions on Iran and Israel, has now been forced out of it:
But it is against this new hawkish posture that Hagel's departure should be understood and discussed.

It is possible that it was the subtext to his resignation: Hagel came aboard to help manage a withdrawal from Afghanistan and shrink the Pentagon budget, and an anonymous US official told the Times Monday that "the next couple of years will demand a different kind of focus."
Chuck Hagel was allegedly tasked with resolving the issue of the defense cuts following the "Debt Ceiling" boondaggle and fine-tuning a military with (relatively) less money. The effects were supposedly less efficient training, families worried about their compensation, and the reduction of the military in terms of thousands of troops:
That includes plans to shed about 36,700 troops from across the force, bringing the total size of the active-duty component down to about 1.31 million. The Army will absorb the brunt of those cuts as it drops about 20,000 soldiers in 2015.
Roughly 85 percent of the department's nearly 900,000 civilians around the world will be furloughed one day each week over the next three months as a result of the across-the-board cuts in the current budget year.

...The administration has called for another round of domestic base closings, elimination of several weapons systems, a speedier drawdown in the size of the Army and Marine Corps, and increased fees for health care. Yet the House and Senate, in crafting their versions of a defense authorization bill, have soundly rejected the Pentagon plans.
This was what former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was tasked with as well - defense reform. And for what reason? Perhaps it has something to do with turning the president into the drone king, escalating drone warfare, and slashing the armed forces themselves to make way for the US's "frenemies," the terrorists. In the "evolution of warfare" this tactic has been called "Chaoplexity". The international oligarchy doesn't need America to have a "fine military"; what they need is chaos and a limited amount of players involved in organizing it:
At the turn of the century, the Pentagon adopted the doctrine of network-centric warfare and set out its vision of autonomous 'swarming' and 'self-synchronized' war fighting units connected to one another by high-speed data links and superior battle field awareness. Of course, the actors that have truly excelled at adopting loose, decentralized organizational structures are the jihadist networks and insurgent movements that have tied down the net-enabled US army in Afghanistan and Iraq. The recently retired head of US Central Command responsible for operations in the Gulf and Central Asia, General John Abizaid, is in no doubt that 'the enemy is in fact more networked, more decentralized, and operates within a broader commander's intent than any twentieth century foe we've ever met. In fact, this enemy is better networked than we are.' The lesson is clear, however: 'It takes a network to beat a network, and our network must be better.'

--Antoine Bousquet, Chaoplexic Warfare
The truth is their network is "our" network, and as long as we do not realize that what is destroying us is coming from within, is in our midst, and looks like us, then we will repeat this cycle over and over again. Society is not immune to pathological networks forming within groups, from the level of thuggish gang activity to the more "respectable" level of government officials:
Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.
And what does the mind-set of a psychopath translate into in real-world terms? Besides an apathetic and narcissistic public, militarily it translates into "chaoplexity" as seen in the great deceptions of modern warfare, where an enemy can be created with myth and money, justifying the use of inhuman torture and terror in their extermination. Create an enemy, declare that it exists anywhere and everywhere across the world, attack the rest of the world, and repeat:
Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Shabab in Somalia, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) (supported by NATO in 2011), Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in Indonesia, among other Al Qaeda affiliated groups are supported covertly by Western intelligence.
Do you see what I see?

The elephant in the room is the collapse of an economic system pegged to the dollar, the dollar itself being manipulated by unseen interests who desire only greater power and money. Since everyone needs oil, and oil must be traded in dollars, everyone has had to dance to Washington's tune for long enough to give them control over most of the world. What have they done with this? They've squandered America's potential and waged war by deception in order to bring everyone down to their manageable, corrupt level. But those days are quickly coming to an end, especially with the economic development of the BRICS nations, which see the coming collapse much more clearly than those who are causing it. Why? Because of the wishful thinking of "controlling chaos," NATO and those who buy into their lies will fall victim to what they bring to life. Live by the sword, you know.

But not everyone is as delusional as they are. There are many who understand that, once the dollar collapses, the safest place for them to ride out the currency crisis will be in gold. And there are others who understand that gold will be one of their strongest weapons against the dollar:
The Dutch central bank said Friday it is repatriating some of its gold reserves from the U.S., making it the latest central bank in Europe to address public concerns about the safety of its gold in the wake of the eurozone debt crisis. And: So we had two outside reversal Fridays in a row, this was followed by the action this past Wednesday. 80 tons of gold was sold over a 15 minute timespan which knocked gold down $20 in the blink of an eye...

80 tons! Let me put this in perspective. 80 tons is equal to two weeks worth of global gold production ...sold in just 15 minutes! This is nearly 2.8 million ounces. The interesting thing is, COMEX only claims to have 865,000 ounces of gold available for delivery so more than 3 times the amount of ounces were sold in 15 minutes than is even claimed as available for delivery!
And as Sott.net's Aeneas Georg states,
In order to end the petrodollar, gold will play an important role, something that Russia is all too aware of. It is therefore no surprise that Russia is one of the key buyers of gold, utilising the low gold price to offload the dollars that are still accepted in oil trade, while stocking up on gold. This week it was announced that Russia was the third quarter's biggest buyer of gold: Just as China is buying 'cheap' oil with both hands and feet, so Russia, according to the latest data from The World Gold Council (WGC) has been buying gold in huge size. Dwarfing the rest of the world's buying in Q3, Russia added a stunning 55 tonnes to its reserves, as The Telegraph reports, Putin is taking advantage of lower gold prices to pack the vaults of Russia's central bank with bullion as it prepares for the possibility of a long, drawn-out economic war with the West.
And to help put it all in perspective:
We shared that there was a substantive effort to replace the dollar as reserve currency and in fact to replace the global economic system itself. The latest BRICS summit in Brazil July 15-17 confirmed all of this.

Unfortunately, many have their head in the sand. They say it would be too complex to replace the system. While it would require work, it is certainly doable. Here are a few of the steps required:
  1. First, you'd need to build up excess financial/currency reserves. You might start with American dollars and Euros but you would want to include a lot of gold and hide your accumulation from the world as much as possible.
  2. You would need to rapidly advance a foreign currency to rival the dollar/Euro for global payments. This would require a sudden advance in the use of the new currency.
  3. You would need to establish alternatives to the Western-dominated World Bank and IMF.
  4. You would need control of new ratings agencies to review the debts of major countries and corporations from your view rather than that of the West.
  5. You would need alternative payment mechanisms for transfers and purchases.
  6. You would need new trade agreements to conduct transactions in your own currencies rather than the American dollar. Even with major Western allies.
  7. You would need to invest in potentially neutral countries, galvanize support, and peel away Western ties.
  8. You would need control of substantive natural resources including energy.
  9. You would need some sort of scandal to erode confidence in the United States and Western allies (can you say NSA?).
  10. You would need to develop strategic cyber warfare capabilities that could paralyze opposition.
  11. You would need to develop an alternative Internet to prevent cyber retaliation or spying.
  12. Ultimately, you would wait for a financial crisis (or be prepared to cause one) in the West and stand ready to step into it as rescuer, handing down terms and replacing the dollar.
It looks like Chaos is turning around and devouring its "master".

Conclusion

A collapse of some sort is coming, make no mistake about it. The 'magnificent miracles' of modern civilization were made possible by the increasing amounts of scientific progress humanity has made -- utilizing objective information in the pursuits of our values. But our values have been corrupted by pathological individuals in power. These pathological individuals have used our greater levels of complexity to pursue their own selfish ends, and chaos has been the result.

On the global stage, we can see two diametrically opposed strategies emerging -- the development of networks of mutual aid and the development of networks of pure destruction. The strategies we choose will determine our future.