By Jeff J. Brown
Above, the official logo of the big BRICS summit, held in Xiamen, China, September 3-5, 2017. It was reported that there were dead canaries all over the place, covered in coal dust. No official explanation has been provided, but Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese homologue, Xi Jinping were reported to be smiling from start to finish.
BRICS is Eurangloland’s canary in the imperial mines. China Rising Radio Sinoland 170907
It was not so long ago that the world’s headlines were different, very different. During the Cold War, 1945-1990, Washington orchestrated much of the world’s media with an iron fist. The propaganda was symphonic and pedantic. Then there were the communist and socialist countries, principally China and the USSR, who had their sphere of influence, at home and mostly in poor, underdeveloped parts of the world. But, to be honest, the latter group was like a red flea on a capitalist bull elephant’s rump. It was no contest.
Since the 1980s, the situation in Eurangloland has only gotten much worse. The internet was supposed to be humanity’s great liberator for truth and justice. The West’s owners made sure that was never going to happen in the mainstream media, which is all that is needed to brainwash the masses, behind the Great Western Firewall.
The CIA-MI6-military complex has tens of billions of off-book dollars and euros to spend on Big Lie propaganda. Where does it get this ill-gotten loot? By running the world’s heroin and cocaine trade (http://claritypress.com/Valentine.html). Now you know why the United States will never leave Afghanistan. Before Uncle Sam illegally invaded and occupied that country, in 2001, its annual opium production was only 600mt per year, which satisfies global needs to manufacture painkillers, anesthetics, etc. How much is Eurangloland hauling out now, to turn into heroin, for its own citizens back home? Between 6,000 and 7,000mt per year (https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556521251/). Ditto all the American military planes flying in tons of Latin American cocaine to the United States (https://www.rt.com/usa/194992-cia-crack-scandal-webb/). They don’t call the CIA the Cocaine Importing Agency for nothing!
It is a massive, taxpayer subsidized, organized criminal empire and a windfall for big Western banks, to launder all those billions in drug money, not to mention the ever-expanding US prison industry, which continues to harvest millions of poor and dark-skinned citizens, like so much as caged chickens, to be plucked. The whole simulacrum of “Western democracy” is rotten to the core, as truckloads of drug money are used to bribe the executive, legislative and judicial branches, high and low.
America’s multibillion dollar prison industrial complex is a direct beneficiary of the West’s global drug empire. The number of prisoners is like dividends paid on stock shares. Business is good, brother, really good.
It is not until you bitterly and humbly recognize the West for what it is – a “legal” global Mafia – that the way the world works finally starts to make sense. It hurts to admit it, but it is the manifest truth (http://chinarising.puntopress.com/china-rising-the-book/).
Then there is all that dirty lucre for the mainstream media. Jeff Bezos of Amazon knows a government subsidized gravy train when he sees one and was happy to buy the Washington Post for $250 million. Due diligence (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-bought-washington-post-with-no-due-diligence-2016-3)? Are you shitting me? No need to bother in the mainstream media. Remember only a few years ago, how Western newspapers weren’t going to survive the internet age (http://newspaperdeathwatch.com/)? The flagship ones are doing fine, thanks to laundered drug money pouring in, in exchange for the CIA-MI6-military boys to churn out imperial propaganda, in print and mostly free content online (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-28/top-german-journalist-admits-mainstream-media-completely-fake-we-all-lie-cia). Not to mention making sure there is no serious, investigative journalism exposing the West’s true face and psychopathic ego, Mr. Hyde (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022835/).
So, the relentless, fascist Western propaganda machine is only getting more terrifying, but the old, limited communist and socialist propaganda system has been replaced by something that is giving Eurangloland nightmares. All those historically anti-colonial countries have morphed into a number of global organizations, that are taking full advantage of what the internet can do for “public relations”, which was Edward Bernays’ euphemism for propaganda (https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/01/17/edward-bernays-propaganda-1928/).
There are historical ones that continue to make a difference. Think of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM http://mea.gov.in/in-focus-article.htm?20349/History+and+Evolution+of+NonAligned+Movement), and the Organization of African Unity (OAU http://www.blackpast.org/gah/organization-african-unity-1963-2002). Later came the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/339) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/6674). They have all had their success stories, in fighting the good fight against the dictatorship of Western imperialism, exploitation, wars and false flags. I wrote about each one in China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (https://ganxy.com/i/113798/jeff-j-brown/china-rising-capitalist-roads-socialist-destinations). But, like the old generation communist and socialist countries, their impact has been mostly inspirational, not transformative, in knocking Eurangloland’s capitalist juggernaut on its butt.
However, in the last 10-15 years, we have seen amazing alliances forge together – big, bad motherfuckers, the “knock-Uncle-Sam-on his-ass kind”, with the moxie, military and economic power to give Washington, London and Paris more than they ever bargained for. Why? Three reasons.
First, after 500 years of global tyranny, Western empire is going through its natural and predictable decline and eventual fall. This has happened to every complex society, since the beginning of sedentary civilization, 8,000-10,000 years ago, which is explained very well in two complementary books, The Collapse of Complex Societies (http://www.wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf) and Collapse – How Societies Choose to Fail (http://cpor.org/ce/Diamond(2005)Collapse-HowSocietiesChooseFailureSuccess.pdf). I synthesized their two theories in writing about China’s six collapses in China Is Communist Dammit! Dawn of the Red Dynasty (https://www.amazon.com/dp/6027354380/).
Second, as the West slowly loses its dictatorial grip on Planet Earth, its former colonies and ideological foes are filling the vacuum, by growing exponentially in financial, economic and military spheres. Do Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa come to mind? While barely acknowledged in the West, as a group, you should know them under the acronym BRICS. This alliance slowly started in 2009, with great promise (http://thebricspost.com/), meeting frequently, followed by nonstop multiparty consultations.
Third, this and other multipolar alliances (discussed below) are giving Western empire complete fits, since it has never been able to compete on a level playing field. Western countries thrive on parasiting and enslaving smaller, weaker countries, that cannot fight back and defend their international rights and dignity. Eurangloland has never been put in a situation of having to compete mano à mano with rich, technologically and militarily advanced countries (the USSR lacked the “rich” element), and BRICS and Company together have all of this in spades.
No Eurangloland red, white and blue, nor blue and gold to be found here.
In 2015, BRICS created an International Monetary Fund (http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/confessions_of_an_economic_hitman.pdf) competitor, by establishing an emergency loan fund, with a whopping $100 billion kitty, which is not exactly chump change. Then, to compete against the West’s World Bank (WB https://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man), BRICS created its own New Development Bank (NDB http://www.ndb.int/). It too has deep pockets rivaling the WB, with $100 billion in capital.
The BRICS alliance could not be more timely, as China and Russia are promoting like dervishes their complementary Belt and Road Initiative (BRI http://www.beltandroadforum.org/english/index.html) and Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU http://www.eurasiancommission.org/en/Pages/default.aspx), respectively. They are slowly melding into each other’s orbits, creating a “hands off, Uncle Sam” trade and cooperation zone, anchored in the heartlands of Asia, while stretching from Africa to Europe to Latin America and Oceania.
China’s BRI is estimated to be adding one trillion dollars per year in global economic activity and will continue to do so for another 20 years.
Russia’s EUAU is just as impressive and a perfect “hand in glove” with China’s BRI. Vietnam is already a member in its free trade zone. Huge Indonesia is also working towards that goal. The countries in sky blue are in discussions to join the party.
Similar are Russia’s and China’s Asian security organizations, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Security_Treaty_Organization) and Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO http://eng.sectsco.org/), respectively. Put their two maps together and it spells “Eurangloland get lost”! A huge step in Asian integration happened recently, with the ascension of India and Pakistan to the SCO, historically bitter enemies (http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-06/06/content_29627880.htm). Iran cannot be far behind (http://katehon.com/article/iran-will-join-sco).
The CSTO above and the SCO below. Together, they more than match Eurangloland’s outdated and ill-existing NATO. The dark blue countries are observers in SCO, purple are dialogue partners and turquoise, dialogue applicants. Lime green are supposedly “disputed” territories, according to the West.
These four organizations (with the BRI being more of a long term developmental vision than an edifice) are not window dressing, but a collective colossus that is active, dynamic, communicating and co-sharing ideas, information and concrete development. In the years to come, they will harmonize and synthesize into a massive power block, to keep the predatory, imperial West out of Asia.
What is most encouraging about all this are three recent developments, which show the tremendous resilience of these alliances.
First was the illegal and Western backed deposition of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. She was replaced by a Wall Street hack and vulture step-and-fetch-it, Michel Temer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Temer). His criminality and greed make Western leaders look like saints, which is hard to do (https://www.yahoo.com/news/brazils-temer-running-criminal-organization-tycoon-accuser-says-171415935.html). Not only did it give Brazil a humiliating black eye around the world, many people were saying BRICS was doomed, since there was now a slash and burn capitalist crook running one of the world’s biggest countries and economies (https://www.rbth.com/opinion/2016/05/27/brics-should-russia-be-worried-about-a-brazilian-brexit_598087). But it didn’t turn out that way. Temer came to the latest BRICS summit, which just happened in Xiamen, China (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1064802.shtml), and didn’t miss a beat (https://brics2017.org/English/Headlines/201709/t20170905_1911.html). Eying that $200 billion in the BRICS banks probably didn’t hurt. It also suggests that a BRICS administrative hierarchy is already in place in the halls of government and Brazil’s capitalist owners want it for their own enrichment. Business is business.
Second was the recent border skirmish that has been vexing India and China, just days after India joined the SCO. There is lots of speculation that pro-Western, anti-SCO elements in the Indian military instigated it, in hopes of getting the Chinese to attack, to then justify pulling back out of SCO. But, for two months, Baba Beijing was cool like zen, man. As in the US, India has a very corrupt and dysfunctional Western democracy, which includes the army not really being under the full control of the commander-in-chief (http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-07/04/content_41150800.htm). So, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping got on the phone and got it resolved, right before the BRICS summit this week. Both sides claimed victory for domestic consumption and it is now back to affairs as usual. Again, business is business and the vast majority of BRICS citizens love its peaceful, hopeful vision and infrastructure development.
Third, right as the BRICS Summit was supposed to begin (https://brics2017.org/English/), DPRK (North Korea) set off an underground hydrogen bomb and announced that it now had an ICBM to send it as far as the USA (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1064713.shtml). Western mainstream media tried to portray it as a “slap in the face of Xi Jinping”, by DPRK leader Kim Jong-un. On the contrary, I suspect the detonation was planned at that time by Russia and China, so that the BRICS summit would have to deal with it (http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/03/19/china-north-korea-and-the-upcoming-international-sanctions-china-rising/). And that is exactly what happened.
Putin and Xi announced that they were going to take care of it, and thus BRICS took ownership of the issue, further isolating America (http://theduran.com/the-korea-issue-is-now-in-the-hands-of-the-brics/). As a result, the Russians are now working with the North and South Koreans to meet next month, in St. Petersburg (http://russiafeed.com/russia-is-ready-to-facilitate-north-south-korean-meeting-in-st-petersburg/), which is the last thing Uncle Sam wants – any détente across the 38th parallel, that would threaten the US’s raison d’être, to keep 30,000 troops and occupy nine military bases in the South, which house undeclared nuclear warheads (http://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/08/27/beijing-dispatch-special-posts-on-korea/). To pave the way for this meeting to happen, Korean President Moon Jae-in just met yesterday with Mr. Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, which followed right on the heels of the Xiamen BRICS summit (http://theduran.com/putin-meets-moon-russia-calls-for-calm-and-rational-approach-to-korean-issues/).
While America threatens war on China’s and Russia’s borders, these latter leaders are seeking peaceful resolution (https://www.rt.com/usa/401902-trump-pyongyang-nuclear-capabilities/). The irony that America’s act would also vaporize its poodle ally, South Korea, cannot be lost on the latter’s 50 million occupied citizens. It’s called racism, pure and simple (http://10.16.86.131/slavs-and-the-yellow-peril-are-niggers-brutes-and-beasts-in-the-eyes-of-western-empire/.
Thus, the resilience of BRICS when the chips are down, and its huge boost in profile and effectiveness on the world stage, are truly a canary in Eurangloland’s imperial coal mines. It is just one more barometer, a geopolitical indicator that Western empire is thankfully losing its dictatorial grip on the planet, and slowly collapsing into irrelevance. Humanity would perish with another 500 years of capitalist wars, resource destruction and genocide. I’m not even sure we can make it another 10-20 years.
So, get out your pompoms and cheer with me,
Gimme a “B”! Gimme an “R”! Gimme an “I”! Gimme a “C”! Gimme a “S”! What’s that spell?
BRICS!!
Go B-R-I-C-S, go!!
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I once heard it said that you could tell where the CIA was working by the types of drug problems on American streets.
–During the Vietnam era, it was heroin from the Golden Triangle that was America’s drug problem.
–During the Contra era, it was cocaine from central America.
–During the 1st Afghan War, there were blocks of hashish stamped with “Support the Afghan Resistence”.
–Now, the CIA has enough control in Afghanistan to protect the poppy fields, so its an American “opiod epidemic” with black market Afghan heroin being suplemented by greedy pharma companies wanting to push opiod based pills.
At least when it comes to marijuana, America is learning how be self-sufficent. And of course “America Last” Trump wants to crack down and end that and help the Mexican drug cartels make money with tunnels under his new wall.
Thanks for reading Hunter S.
The West is truly a criminal gang. It took me 55 years of my life to figure it out, but it ultimately boils down to capitalism. I know that is a very unpopular thing to say in the West, but that does not make it less true:
http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/09/03/ramsey-clarks-and-jay-jansons-way-to-stop-western-genocide-make-the-bastards-pay-china-rising-radio-sinoland-170903/
Best from China, Jeff
brilliant article – I sent it out to Chinese friends and posted it on FB.
I think you are 100% right – but there is another core reason for the Anglo-west being predatory as it is – the fact that we are ruled by psychopaths.
While most sheeple are brainwashed to think only serial killers are psychopaths – only about 20 % are violent (and they would not blink if they kill someone – such is the nature of their sickness – that’s why they have been very useful and promoted in the West and its empires – looting, invading, stealing, killing and raping is what they are very good at).
I think we cannot understand the way Western world works unless we understand how psychopaths operate and what motivates them.
The west is like a psychopath aggregated as a system of interlinked psychopathic countries- run by psychopaths and promoting psychopathy and glorified slavery/fraud.
People are brainwashed to love/respect psychopaths like Hilary or Trump. And these psychos lie and lie, never admit they lie, never take responsibility for their stealing, murder etc…they spin it as a desirable and even necessary component of a ‘good leadership’.
I think our biggest problem to day is psychopaths like Hilary, Anglo Zionists etc – they cannot care about others even if they wanted to – such is the nature of their sickness.
absolutely brilliant!
isolating the isolater (US).
Go BRICS Go!
Thanks for reading, Anonymous.
Remember, sharing is caring. Please light up your social media.
Best, Jeff in China
Many centuries ago in Great Britain the most obscene and offensive political cartoons were made public, attacking everyone in power. Did the powers that be go around arresting the authors/artists? No- they roared with laughter, congratulating the cartoonists and declared the whole enterprise a wonderful example of the real power of British society.
Centuries later, when Tony Blair’s ‘John the Baptist’, Margeret Thatcher, rose to power to lay the road for Blair, the most popular show on UK TV was ‘Spitting Image’- a puppet show that each Sunday ripped to pieces the Conservative government with the most barbed comedic attacks imaginable.
The above article is a classic ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will ***never*** hurt me” verbal attack on the ever more powerful Deep State of the West- and the Deep State Demons are rolling around on the floor in hysterics at the idea that words are ever going to hurt them.
The N Korea ‘hydrogen Bomb’ ploy was a classic false-flag by the West- this time intended to bamboozle the simple minds in China and Russia with a typical example of misdirection- ie., look at this hand fools while you fail to notice what my other hand is doing.
America wants Korea split cos Japan wants its old slave colony neutered. End of. East Germany’s great ‘threatening’ military prowess was always used by the Soviets to maintain the partition of Germany likewise. Empire fakes, both of them.
Meanwhile while articles like this mindlessly focus on talking points promoted by the BBC, CNN. NYT, Guardian et al, the Deep State prepares to turn Russia’s victory in Syria to ashes in Putin’s mouth. And the method is straightforward- massive West strikes against all government elements in Damascus- coming ‘out of the blue’ very shortly with the excuse of Russia and Assad’s chemical weapons programs. Putin has been weighed and correctly identified as a man who will never confront the West over any threat not directly about Russia itself. Russia will offer allies ‘aid’ but never defense against direct West military action.
Putin has two current ‘victories’- the situation in E Ukraine and the situation in Syria. The Deep State intends to rob Putin of both with the same tactic- massive West military action in both lands that Putin, by his own words, will not confront. E Ukraine is legally Ukraine, so the recognised Ukraine government can allow NATO forces to strike anywhere in Ukraine. The West has loudly proclaimed its intent to wipe out Assad if they think he is at risk of using chemical weapons in the region. bye bye both!
And as the West kicks Putin from pillar to post, Putin ***still*** rushes to the UN to do the West’s bidding. And Putin still gets down on his knees at the UN to beg them to fix the situation in N Korea and Syria.
China, experiencing the fruits of the ***fourth*** Industrial Revolution, is the essential trade partner of the whole planet, and is undisputed master of its own part of the planet. It fears America, short to mid term, not one whit- and is preparing to have the tech means to take the USA on in the long term. Meanwhile China sees Russia as a pitiful joke, because Russia never ever stands up for any ally. China doesn’t need those types of ally- it has the money and manufacturing muscle to create fair-weather ‘friends’ anywhere it likes. But miniscule Russia (by population) lacks the people clout to take on the West by itself (save in a nuke war). Yet Russia lets its friends down so very badly everytime by never flexing its military muscles to smack down atrocities by the West.
If Russia was prepared to stand up to the West, China would stand shoulder to shoulder with Russia. Look how China, and ***not*** Russia tried to help the Serbs during Tony Blair’s murderous Kosovo War. And China had its people slaughtered and its embassy blown to bits by Blair as a result.
The depraved neo-nazi zionists of Israel destroyed facilities deep in Syria yesterday, laughing at so-called Russian air defense systems. Under the law of the planet (UN Conventions), Russia could (and should) destroy similar facilities in the depaved terror state of ‘the chosen’- sending the neo-nazi regime there into fatal turmoil, causing the richest and most powerful jews to run screaming from the sinking ship back to Russia, Europe and the USA. But we all know Putin won’t do any such thing. Instead he’ll allow the CIA and NSA to pretend to collect ‘evidence’ from the aftermath of the strike on Syria that ‘proves’ Assad’s current ownership and active development of chemical WMDs. And China watches this and weeps at Russia’s weakness.
Putin’s mindless cheerleaders, who tell the ‘king’ that he is always right, condemn him, Russia and the planet to hell. Russia has the means, the bravery, and right on its side. But this counts for nothing while Putin acts as he does.
Thanks Twilight. I understand your cynicism and can empathize with you.
But, BRICS is some good news and we all need a dose of that once in a while.
Best from China, Jeff
Hello twilight,
fair is fair, and if you re-hash your posts then i assume i can do the same,
so here we go:
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Didn’t the French and British run out of missiles on day 1 in Libya?
Didn’t 60% of US tomahawks just plain disappear in Syria?
So now tell us, how want those 3 countries achieve
” the utter elimination of all elements of the current government in Syria”
as you claim?
Furthermore, i assume you twilight are doing your part to “save the planet from hell”
and are on your merry way to arrest McCain and Hillary and Blair and Merkel,
the Queen too just to play it safe. Correct?
BTW,
Putin openly said Russia won’t save anyone from fascism this time around,
Russians won’t bleed and die for others that later turn out ungrateful bastards
(Polish, Bulgarians, Ukrainians etc). Everybody has to save themselves.
I mean, i do understand you twilight: you are paid to agitprop, to make people
believe reality is as you portrait it to be. But what if noone reads you or noone believes
you anymore because you have been wrong for a millionth time?
p.s. is that you Karl Rove?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove
@Anon. re post by “twilight”. You suggest that nobody reads “twilight” because he/she/it is agitprop. Be that as it may; however, I stopped reading because it sounded clinically depressive. “We’rrrr doomed! I tell ye, doomed!”
No, I think twilight is always an interesting voice to hear, the voice of critical cynicism, sarcasm and skepticism against the dangers of excessive cheerfulness and the automation of impulses to give everything a positive spin when it has none.
As long as he remains civil and more or less cogent, his contributions add dimension to the picture, and are valuable.
Ocassionally he does contradict himself. For example, midway through his last post he acknowledges that Russia is very seriously limited in what it can do to oppose the Beast in open confrontation, when he says:
But miniscule Russia (by population) lacks the people clout to take on the West by itself (save in a nuke war).
Quite true, but in plain contradiction with the last two sentences, which say:
Russia has the means, the bravery, and right on its side. But this counts for nothing while Putin acts as he does.
The thing is, Russia is the only real hope against the Bully in the entire schoolyard. It is entirely understandable that so many of us, with our seething, indignant and impotent souls, are often disappointed when it looks like Russia might hit back, but doesn’t.
And on the other hand it is also true that Russia does not have any obligation, moral or otherwise, to risk a potentially devastating all-out war in order to save anybody’s ass (other than its own).
But in its replies to the primal lies and gruntings of the abominable Beast, I do wish Russia started using a slightly less appeasing tone.
I think this is very true.
Russia threw Iran under the bus.
Russia threw Libya under the bus.
Russia has now thrown N. Korea under the bus.
Russia agrees to sanctions on North Korea.
What is its reward?
It immediately gets sanctioned (yet again) by way of thanks.
Russia needs to get off its knees and repay America in its own coin.
It needs to start by stopping calling the US “partners” and “colleagues.” Partners and colleagues do not try to destroy your economy by sanctions, manipulating the oil price with Saudi Arabia, and attacking your currency. They announced they were going to “shred” Russia’s economy and reduce it to poverty. They should not be rewarded because they have failed in this as in everything else. Instead, the US and its satellites need to be described as they are – “enemies”, implacable, hate filled enemies intent on Russia’s destruction. The Russian people have to be mobilised and prepared for the fight. The time for polite and diplomatic language is long gone.
America has broken every agreement and treaty it ever freely entered into as soon as it became convenient to do so. Ask the Red Indians. Or the Iranians and the laboriously negotiated nuclear deal. America came to various agreements with Russia over the fighting in Syria. None of these “agreements” lasted longer than 24 hours, one when they bombed the Syrian army, killing 100 Syrian troops, so that ISIS could attack and win back an important position. There should be no further attempts to negotiate understandings and agreements with America. This is pointless. Their word is worthless.
Russia should break off diplomatic relations with the US completely and limit all other ties. Refuse contact at presidential level or informal links. Treat America as the enemy it is. Kick out all the bogus NGOs and human rights industry. End the Afghan supply route through Russia. End the joint space programme. Cooperate with China instead. Outlaw foreign ownership of Russian media. End cooperation with the US over drugs and terrorism. This is pointless anyway. The global drugs trade is controlled by the CIA and western banks. The US is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
Go over to the offensive in the economic sphere in a totally disproportionate way. Embargo exports of nuclear fuel, titanium, rocket engines, rare earth to America. Freeze all debt repayments to western banks as long as sanctions last. Put the money in a blocked Moscow bank account for the duration. It this leads to another western bank bail out, so be it. Consider seizing all western assets in Russia if necessary.
Hit back hard at all countries imposing sanctions on Russia. Ban imports from them of cars/ motorcycles, electrical appliances, alcohol, tobacco, clothing, footwear, watches, jewellery, cosmetics. All this can be produced in Russia or imported from friendly nations, China, India, South America, South Korea. Russia produces its own Mercedes and VWs. Its own cars are up to modern standards, not the boxy old Ladas of the past. Make them face a permanent loss of markets. The situation should become permanent. These countries have shown themselves to be unreliable trade partners, to put it charitably. Nothing should be imported from them unless absolutely necessary. If German machinery or US aircraft are imported, somebody like McCain, Graham, etc. will just demand the cut off of spare parts on some pretext.
Advise Russian citizens not to travel to western countries. They are likely to be targeted by western intelligence agencies for harassment and blackmail. Look at how Russian diplomats have been treated. They would have no compunction in doing the same or worse to ordinary Russians. Advise Russians not to keep assets in western countries – bank accounts, property, bond and shareholdings, ownership of western business assets. These are liable to seizure without warning on some vacuous pretext or other. Facilitate the repatriation of Russian assets abroad. This money can make a good return financing domestic growth. Form a completely separate financial structure with China outside of western control. Banks, credit card agencies, ratings agencies, money transfer system. Make this system available to all countries like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Syria (and many others) targeted by the US. Dump the dollar completely. Liquidate any remaining dollar assets and treasury bonds.
It’s time to take off the gloves. The time for diplomatic language and restraint are long gone. It’s time to go out and kick Uncle Sam in the balls. Give him (and his western satraps) a dose of their own medicine.
“I think this is very true.
Russia threw Iran under the bus.
Russia threw Libya under the bus.
Russia has now thrown N. Korea under the bus”
Your post is far from reality. Libya was not an ally of Russia and if I remember correctly (Russia) had Medvedev at that time. Syria (if not for the Russians -and Iranians, Hezbollah-,) would be another “Libya” right now.
That isn’t the point I was trying to make.
No one is asking Russia to go to war on anybody’s behalf.
Not to shed any blood or bear any cost on somebody else’s behalf.
Just to stop playing the Judas in futile attempts to appease Washington.
Stop endorsing/ enabling/ facilitating US aggression/ regime change/ economic strangulation of prey countries by giving this legitimacy and diplomatic cover in the Security Council.
That’s all. Nothing else. Stop playing the weasel. Stop backstabbing other countries in the Security Council to kowtow to the neocons.
The US may well do it anyway but it will do it illegally at greater cost to itself.
Once these countries have been destroyed – N. Korea, Iran, Venezuela – it will turn on Russia, then China.
Probably beginning with more US sponsored Islamic terror in Dagestan/ Xinjiang province.
Mark, you are absolutely right, every line. Taking the high ground just keeps Russia in the crosshairs. For all the chess-playing talk, I do not believe Russian leadership, in the aggregate, understands who and what they are dealing with.
I think so too.
People tell me that I’m just not bright enough to see the bigger picture, Russia and China are playing a long game, buying gold, planning the Silk Road, de dollarizing, cleverly outmanoeuvring the US, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe I’m not very bright.
But all I see is one disaster after another going back over 20 years.
Yugoslavia destroyed and subjugated to the EU/ NATO.
Iraq, a quite advanced country, bombed back into the Stone Age and under US occupation. Millions dead, millions of refugees. The country set back 100 years. Its leaders lynched.
Libya, the wealthiest and most advanced country in Africa completely destroyed and reduced to a battleground for assorted warlords fighting for their petty fiefdoms. Its leaders brutally murdered.
Iran, set up for economic strangulation with Russian and Chinese acquiescence/ connivance, now again in the cross hairs of US aggression after giving up its civil nuclear programme.
North Korea, now facing the same fate as Iran, again thanks to futile efforts by Russia/ China to appease Washington.
Europe being submerged under a tidal wave of unassimilable 3rd world refugees.
NATO Expansion right up to Russia’s doorstep, having taken over a dozen or more countries that were Russia’s allies or part of its own territory. St. Petersburg virtually in NATO artillery range and within a couple of minutes flying time. Missile bases on its borders like a dagger at the heart of Russia. Daily intrusions into its airspace and waters. A strategic situation incomparably worse than 1941, when Russia had strategic depth, when no 5th column was free to operate on its own territory.
10,000 US troops driving up and down the Latvian border in 1,000 tanks and vehicles, just a few yards from Russian territory, driving through Russian communities.
Ukraine a playground for the CIA and US corporations, 1.5 million refugees fleeing to Russia, Russian communities destroyed and threatened with genocide by a CIA installed Nazi regime.
I could go on……and on……and on.
What a mean and hubristic rant twilight.
Syria was on its knees when Assad asked Putin for help.
The Greater Israel project was about to be realised until BOOM BOOM BOOM
Putin has been pulling the Empires pants down ever since with a tiny fraction of their budget.
It sounds like you are satisfied with your view of the world and it’s not going to change.
What a shame. Your going to miss(represent) the best bit.
I sure hope you are right. But something tells me the Hindu nationalists of India will be the ‘Trojan horse’.
Look, the bottom line is there will be a global war centered on the Eurasian landmass, or a series of regionalproxy wars that the Anglo-Zionists will instigate or outright start as the Anglo-Zionists will not go down without a fight. That’s what makes our immediate or near future so dangerous.
The folks who increasingly and undisputedly control, pull the strings in the U.S.-West ideologically believe they are solely destined to rule the world, based on some archaic, racist and demonic rantings of Rabbi’s throughout the ages. Just check out the Talmud. Its all there.
For these said folks, its black/white, zero-sum. If they cant have their way, they will try to doom us all. They came so close to global domination until Putin-Russia, and now together with China squashed their inherent dreams.
It pains me to say this, as its not too healthy to be a pessimist , but things globally are about to get more insane, reactionary and war, conflict, subversion and needless human suffering are about to increase exponentially. I pray not.
Tel-Aviv and Washington, by using the nefarious House of Saud, are seeming to be brewing a ‘grand bargain’ if you will, where the Saudi’s , posing as the legitimate spokespeople for the Sunni Islamic world (I’m Sunni, but to me Shia are my co-religionist brothers and sisters, as I don’t by the deception and subversion) will announce with Israel and the U.S. a ‘peace deal’ , as by such , they will try to break off the Islamic world away from the Russia-China alliance. We are possibly talking about 1.6 billion souls, and numerous strategic nations.
Will this work ? I doubt it. But this example is just one attempt to take the wind out of the Eurasian alliance that is rapidly forming.
India, with its nationalistic Hindus extremist ruling caste, are also to be used as a disruptive force, a Trojan horse if you will.
The ‘Stan’ countries at Russias southern borders and Chinas north-western borders will also be targeted for turmoil and if the Anglo-Zionists are lucky enough, outright conflict and revolutions.
Eurasia is the crucial chesspiece, and he who controls it wins the 21st century and beyond. It will be interesting to see what happens. My money is on Russia-China-Islamic world, and the global south in general.
Thanks Bored Muslim,
I often include the perfidy and genocide of Israel and Zionism in my work. They are definitely included in The China Trilogy. http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/05/19/read-the-china-trilogy .
Best from China, Jeff
your answer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/07/india-army-chief-we-must-prepare-for-simultaneous-war-with-china-and-pakistan
Assalamu Alaikum
What tells you the Sanatum Dharam nationalists will be the Torjan Horse in the BRICS?
(I know Sheikh Imran Hosein says that Bharat betrayed her people and sold out to the Zionist ruled West when she de-monetised some notes, is that what you are talking about?)
Each time I see the term “Eurangloland” in print, my mind wants to read it “Eurogangland,” which I think might be a better term, after all.
Excellent turn of phrase, Jack! I like it. Thanks for reading.
Same here.
It’s actually how I always process it.
Thank you for the article; I enjoyed it very much.
Here in the West at 43° 42′ 0″ N, we have the lazy hazy daze in September, late in the existence of this empire on the verge of collapse, but before the collapse begins.
Anybody paying attention to the relevant things must know this, but alas, around here it is a very small minority; and the sane man in the insane colony is shunned as… insane (conspiracy theorist, or a similar derogatory dismissive).
BRICS is the future.
I’m buying Yuan and Rubles, awaiting the establishment of an official BRICS trade currency (gold-convertible Yuan).
Thanks One Tribe,
We have RMB since we live in China. I always said buying rubles when it dove last year, would be a good invest. Maybe I’ll buy some and put them away. In the meantime, it is very easy to buy physical gold in China. Every bank branch sells it.
Best, Jeff
How does silver fare in China?
Is it a popular commodity?
Thanks for your essay.
I still think Iran will replace India. Modi is too wishy washy and lets the western companies run too much of his government.
A very well done work of analysis. Thanks for writing this, JJB. Very informative.
Very good article. My only quibble is with the opinion that China and Russia staged/cooperated with Kim for the “show of nukes”. There is not a single evidence for that, in fact, it only seems to make things much worse right in China and Russia’s borders. If they did it then it’s totally foolish, and I don’t think Xi and Putin are in any way foolish. Why would they want to give more reasons for S.Koreans to deploy more THAAD batteries? Having another neighbor with nukes just mean you have another nuke power next to you that you have to worry about. I really doubt that’s the case at all.
Before Kim has successfully gotten his nukes, I think having a “peace treaty” would be sufficient for Kim to give up his nukes program. But now that he already has them, it is not clear to me that Kim would now give them up even if a peace treaty with the US+Korea+Japan can be achieved. And given the record of the US breaking international agreements left and right, who would want to bet on the US not breaking any new peace agreement later on ? Heck, Obama barely finished signing the nuclear agreement with Iran before he left and Trump is already doing his best to suggest it should be broken!
any new peace treaty will have declare the US presence in all of East Asia (SK + Japan)
unwarranted and unwanted. this is why the NK delegation in Vladivostok said
“the time is not ripe yet”. these talks initiated by Putin aren’t to bring NK in fold (they already are)
but actually to bring SK+JP to realization they profit from chasing the Americans away
with the Americans gone: trade can blossom
with the Americans occupying SK+JP: war & destruction looms anytime anyday
PICK YOUR CHOICE South Korea + Japan !!!
BRICS means nothing at the moment. It’s only on a paper and will stay that way. BRICS can only bring fruits after nationalizing the Central Bank of Russia. BRICS and Russia need to raise money for this project ( and others ). I hope Putin will do it before is too late.
India’s Central Bank along with China’s are nationalized and under government control.
A demonstration of this occurred a few months back when Indian PM Modi effectively fired the previous Indian Central Bank head, US Wallstreet stooge, Raghuram Rajan. He was sent packing back to his masters in the US and given a cushy job in Chicago by his true owners. It was the soldout out Indian liberal left (the corrupt western controlled stooge Man Mohan Singh) that originally appointed him. The call to fire this stooge came from Hindu Nationalists due to his fiscal policies of keeping domestic interests high, which favored the wealthy, stock market investors and international investment funds at the expense of small and medium sized Indian businesses. The man was openly called an American stooge by leaders of Hindu Sovereignists (aka Hindu nationalists) forcing Modi to chance his renewal. An apparent crooked western proxy Central Bank head that was defended by the Indian Left and the sold out “secular” ,Islamist appeasing, Indian version of Atlantic Intégrationists.
So much for the sour grapes and cock and bull from Islamist quarters that Indian Sovereignists (Hindu Nationalists) are Trojan horses. A notion that’s getting no traction as we can see from non response to that proposition.
So you think that the Nationalists of Sanatam Dharam do not have strategic goals that converge together with the Zionist ruled West?
Both wish for destabilization of Pakistan and containment of China.
One wishes for containment of Russia.
Both support Israel’s position regarding the oppressed of the Holy Land.
I’d be curious to hear your views.
Hindu nationalists and BJP stooge are the real Western stooge, just look at lovingly bear hugs Modi give to trump and Bibi.
China has greater trade with Israel than India and is very happy to trade military technology with Israel. China has no problem with the way Israel treats Muslims and especially the Palestinians. Their foreign policy ignores internal moral issues with the countries they’re dealing with. The Chinese J-10 is a very obvious rendition of the Israeli LAVI jet whose designs China bought from Israel.
Let’s not forget that Pakistan’s leadership (if that’s what we can call it) has openly pined for good relations with Israel and the Jewish lobby in a hope that it could help them regain influence in the United States (you can go look up the videos, in English, on youtube, of various Pakistani leaders including, president-generalissimo Musharraf openly calling for this).
China’s wise decision to acquiesce to Indian demands that Pakistan terror groups be placed on the BRICS list of violent terrorist groups that must be eliminated is further testament to that. In addition to the Chinese Global Times editorial praising India’s Hindu culture as the major factor as to why India’s Muslims have not been radicalized like in other cultures).
Well, I know it is too hard for your to comprehend, Chinese will trade with Israel and US, and still support Palatine and North Korea openly. BRICS also put Hindu sponsored TPP on the terrorist list as well. Hindu fundamentalist BJP while being a ardent Islamophobic, and has no shame beg for billion from UAE and Saudi.
By the way, how is the boycotting of Chinese products come along? Chinese merchants want Indian stop bothering them.
@J
China does not support the Palestinians. They don’t care what happens to them it is part of the character of China’s foreign relations. And what of China’s openly friendly relations with Israel? You have not addressed that.
Also do you have anything further to say about Asia Times and their unholy alliance with extreme Zionist Dr. Goldman/Spengler? No I didn’t think so.
@J
Re:
“Hindu fundamentalist BJP while being a ardent Islamophobic, and has no shame beg for billion from UAE and Saudi.”
Another fantasy statement laden with sour grapes. India did not ask for that puny investment, maybe for an insolvent state like Pakistan it seems like an important amount of money, but not for a state the size of India. The fact is that the UAE and Saudi invested the money in Indian petroleum industry to insure market share and to humiliate Pakistan; from your response, it seems to have succeeded toward the latter quite well.
When comes to begging for money and acting as a mercenary for the Empire, the prize goes to Pakistan: a country that sponges off both the US and China. I’m sure China must find this burdensome and perhaps that’s why their patience is running out and they may have willingly signed into to BRICS document condemning Pakistan’s state sponsored terrorist groups.
LOL. Sounds like you are the sour grape because Chinese did not invest that 60 billion in India, but in your enemy Pakistan. So you can not stop yourself from stabbing them every chance you get.
On Sina news, it has a article about about Indian non change its face again and want Chinese money (investment), but has habit of puts restriction on Chinese products. In fact, Indian is second worst offender only after US. Consider how little Indian trade with China, Indian is the champion. All these are quot out of Indian newspapers, along with their racist comments. I suggest Indian forget about it, and find some one else for the money.
@J
Your knowledge of India is surprisingly poor. India doesn’t need foreign investment in their infrastructure sector, they have more than sufficient internal domestic savings to finance their own projects (that assessment based on international investment banks that realized that they could not enter the $1.7 Trillion Indian infrastructure financing market because the funds already exist in India). China’s still to be disbursed $53Billion CPEC is only a fraction of what India is spending on itself: Just one leg of India’s quadrilateral infrastructure project (quadrilateral means 4 + 2 cross-connects) is twice the investment of CPEC $120Billion, there are an additional 5 legs being built: $700Billion in total. You really are clueless if you think India needs Chinese investment.
So how’s the road building in Doklam going?
They who have opined for a rapprochement with the Imposter state are traitorous: this is Pakistan’s curse!
Can you imagine if Pakistan actually had sincere leadership like Putin?
It would be more unbearable for the Zionist ruled West and RSS Bharat!
Jeff’s wwritings are such a morale booster reminding us folks stuck in western decay and moral degeneracy, undermined by an endless stream of lies and fake news, that there is a new, fairer and better world on it’s way.
And well done for mentioning the drug dealing. Amongst the other degenerate behaviours of western “elites” is of course pedophilia and on a massive scale. I’d love to see that eradicated and the children rescued from their predators.
There is never a good word to say about BRICS in the garbage that passes for news where we are and articles like this are a huge tonic.
I think western policy is to pretend BRICS etc doesn’t exist.
Thanks Jeff. Hope you’ll write more about BRICS again especially China. I’m trying to watch the China moves to buy oil for Yuan as I think it’ll be a game changer.
Wonder how long we’ll have to wait to find out if they are successful – sooner the better.
Regarding “the recent border skirmish that has been vexing India and China, just days after India joined the SCO. There is lots of speculation that pro-Western, anti-SCO elements in the Indian military instigated it, in hopes of getting the Chinese to attack, to then justify pulling back out of SCO” – thanks for reminding us that the west will never tire of the “divide-and-rule” tactic. I thought long ago that BRICS would have to be forever vigilant in this department. A break can come at any time, even imperceptibly. And now we know which part of the Indian army is involved: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/07/india-army-chief-we-must-prepare-for-simultaneous-war-with-china-and-pakistan
Beware of fake news, and the Brits are masters at it.
Does this Indian Army Chief really exist and did he say as claimed?
@Anonymous re Indian Army chief and using the Brit media as a source.
You make a very valid point. But it’s unimportant to worry about this in the context of this article because it’s a feel good article which may have a few errors here and fhere.
To answer your specific question, yes the Indian Army Chief does exist and no he is not outside of the control of the commander in chief as has been erroneously believed by the well intentioned author of this article. In fact, the opposite is true, the Indian Army does not have any seats in parliament, veto or political power. However, the PLA does wield formal political power within the Chinese power structure and peoples Congress.
It was the PLA’s mouthpiece the Global Times that went into full war hysteria mode openly threatening war on India in editorial pieces. Fortunately, President Xi seems to have put the war hawks of the PLA on a leash and ceased the road construction on the disputed Doklam plateau acquiescing to the Indian & Bhutanese demand, allowing the return of the previous status quo whereby both Chinese and Bhutanese troops patrol the Doklam plateau but no road construction is permitted since the territory is disputed. This wise move allowed the BRICS summit to proceed. Since President Xi’s crack down on war hysteria the Global Times has been forced to publish conciliatory articles praising India’s Hindu culture etc and how both countries and Asia as well won since the Doklam issue has cooled down.
In addition, President Xi signed on to the BRICS declaration that formally named Pakistan terrorist groups as violent groups that need to be eliminated. This is a very important development that might bring India and China closer together (time will tell). One hopes that China’s patience with Pakistan using Islamist terror groups (that also help Uyghur terrorist groups) is finally coming to an end. Certainly both China and India have shown unity in condemning Western and gulf Arab state sponsored Islamic terrorists (the poor “Rohingyas”) that murdered scores of Myanmar police men in the last few days: both India and China reaffirmed their unequivocal support of the Myanmar military in hunting down and exterminating these Islamic terrorists and offered political and economic support to the Myanmar government to break attempts by the West to pressure censure or condemn Myanmar for defending themselves from these savage Islamist terrorists. With both India’s and China support Myanmar has the ability to say no to the terrorist coddling elements of the Western deep state. Let’s hope the Indians and Chinese find other areas of common interest.
Indian are into their usual hot air, british MSM is not need to prove it. From indian’s very own right wing mouth piece:
India cannot rule out possibility of two-front war with China and Pakistan, Army chief General Bipin Rawat says
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-cannot-rule-out-possibility-of-two-front-war-with-china-and-pakistan-army-chief-general-bipin-rawat-says/articleshow/60395986.cms
Here are some sane Indian’s take on India, and donglang situation.
Indian posturing, post-Doklam, has a tragi-comic feel
http://www.atimes.com/indian-posturing-post-doklam-tragi-comic-feel/
Let India grow at 8-10% for 10 years before chest thumping: Raghuram Rajan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/let-india-grow-at-8-10-for-10-years-before-chest-thumping-raghuram-rajan/articleshow/60425751.cms
The road will be build. India will be balkanized without a shot from China.
I suppose China’s climb down from Doklam is causing you considerable grief. They cannot and will not build the road on the Doklam plateau and have stopped, and withdrawn all construction equipment, that is what was the Indian & Bhutanese demand, and China has acquiesced, full stop.
Asia Times is owned by Chinese business interests and located in China, the opinions of their paid writers have no more credibility than paid writers in the Western MSM. You will note how Asia Times curries favor with Israel and International Zionists by regularly publishing (and paying for) extremist editorials by their extreme Muslim hating Zionist writer “Spengler” aka Dr. David P Goldman. So much for Asia Times credibility.
Deflecting the issue of a potential Chinese change in stance on Pakistan state sponsored terrorism isn’t going to make it go away.
Now to address your points:
(1)Regarding the Indian Army Chiefs statement regarding fighting a 2 front war, So what? What’s that got to do with anything?
(2)Atimes has damaged credibility when it has regularly has allowed an unapologetic and extreme Zionist “Spengler” aka Dr. Goldman to regularly spews hatred against Muslims and their religion (obviously to gain favor with Zionists). Atimes is based in China and is Chinese owned so one cannot expect anything but compliance with the Chinese government line. I have already addressed this in my previous posting to you here.
(3). Raghuram Rajan is Anglo-empire stooge who was kicked out of India for carrying fiscal policies (keeping internal borrowing rates artificially high) that favored US institutional investors, Western multinationals and the Indian elite at the expense of Indian Small and Medium sized businesses, farmers and the middle-class. His policies were virtually identical to, and the resulting damage done, as that of the internationally influenced Russian Central Bank: handicapping domestic Russian businesses with untenably high domestic interest rates while favoring multinationals that raise capital at 2% rates from western institutions. You quoting him only damages your own credibility.
Sorry, J,
my logic filter totally ignored your last point on its first scan thru your response, I only now saw it. Let me address it:
Re:”India will be balkanized without a shot from China.”
->Dream on, it’s not going to happen (funny that you should share the same objective as the Anglo empire, which has for decades, unsuccessfully, tried to Balkanize the republic of India.)
Balkanize India? Is that why the BJP won the majority of Muslim dominated districts in India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, in its latest landslide state election victory? (Uttar Pradesh is 20%muslim) Is that why the insurgencies in India’s northeast have suddenly come to a screeching halt after the BJP won the state elections there? Is that why the ruling state government in Kashmir, which won a majority of the Muslim vote in Kashmir is a BJP ally? Is that why Christian dominated parties have supported a BJP government in the Christian enclave of Goa? Is that why the BJP’s electoral standing is only increasing across all caste lines, not decreasing?
Sorry to disappoint you. (Not!)
Your last point sounds more like bitter sour grapes fantasy than genuine fact based analysis: a desire that would lead to the destruction of the BRICS, which in turn supports the empire.
India has no grape (or grip of reality), and is laughing stock of the world.
Last election there were only 7% Kashmir participated, for his trouble of casting a vote, 26-year-old Farooq Ahmad Dar, a resident of Chil village in Beerwah sub-district, was tide to front of army jeep as a human shield.
He Voted, Never Hurled Stones, ‘What Was My Crime,’ Asks Army’s ‘Human Shield’ in Kashmir
https://thewire.in/124465/kashmir-farooq-ahmad-dar-army/
I know all the oppressed people love their masters as Hindu nationalists do, so no surprise they votes BJP to have mob justice practiced on them…
By the way, Modi is the man. There is no need for a war with Modi/BJP/RSS doing such a exceptional job. Modi need to get elected for 10 more terms.
@J
Your response indicates that you have read my postings. That’s great! However, the statements you have made are contrary to the facts: too bad. This is the precise line of sour grapes one expects of Pakistani extremists in denial of their continued spiral down the tubes: The voter turn out that placed the BJP ally, the PDP, in power in Kashmir, was over 65%.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_Legislative_Assembly_election,_2014
You also have not been able to contradict the rest of my my points, and on this one you’ve just been proven wrong too. Any explanation as to why Muslim majority districts in Uttar Pradesh voted for BJP candidates? It seems they don’t seem to be cooperating with your Balkanization fantasy.
Big climb down from Doklam stand off and now malicious wishes that a massive country like India should Balkanize -a scenario that would lead to millions of deaths; nice! So we all get an insight on how unsupportive you are of the BRICS.
Perhaps you should be more worried about your country balkanizing (God knows that all the other minorities in Pakistan are fed up with the oppression and domination of Pakistan’s Punjabi Sunni deobandi junta of dimwitted bungling mismanagers.).
I’m glad that BRICS appear to be growing stronger, that is only possible with a strong India, along with Russia and China. It was noteworthy that Egypt was invited to this BRICS summit but not terrorist sponsoring Pakistan or Turkey.
@RC You are so entertaining. Don’t you impressed how well Modi has been doing in Indian, especially in Kashimr. From 65.23% turn out to 7% turn out in short 2.5 years. Modi need to win another term… I have to say RAW’s darling TPP is doing a decent amount damage in Pakistan, and with Chinese support, it will go the way of Indian economy… DOWN.
@J
Your frustration is palpable. Again can you address the issue of why the BJP won Muslim majority districts in Uttar Pradesh and continues to gain support across all states? Apparently you can’t.
You need to stop projecting the failings of your own state and countrymen onto India. Your fantasy of the Indian economy going down (All in caps!) is quite entertaining and further underscores your sour grapes and unending frustration, but it does not further the discussion and it seems you are not a serious or credible interlocutor on the subject of India, China, Russia, the BRICS or even the Empire.
Perhaps you should focus your attention to cleaning up your own nations’s mess instead of maliciously, jealously and hatefully hoping for harm on others.
Always CIA and MI6 – I have a document actually sent to Indian Intelligence (RAW) by the CIA from 2015. ISI raided an office in Kashmir (Indian) and a certain RAW Agent Mr Chatterjee. (And it appeared on facebook in a few groups)…..When I discussed it with a lovely Indian Army guy on facebook (quite high up) and showed it to him (the scan) – he came back to me and said the Indian Army had no idea that Mr Chatterjee was a CIA Asset. ….I was then able to relay this back to ISI, (yes I have a couple on facebook) and soon afterwards a Visit was arranged by Modi to Pakistan and some trade deals were signed. I have no idea whether what I did had anything to do with that…….but I really love the Internet and social media. Yes it’s all ahuge Propaganda Machine – but if you chose not to – you can chose to use it your own way – and be not only an Activist, but a srt of spy for the good and pass information etc. It really upsets the Zionists as well.
Regarding North Korea being and Ally of the West – that is a proven disinformation campaign by CIA and ZION – if you use facebook the right way and get into groups where they target people (and if you are a good activist they friend request you do fill your head with disinformation (some of them a subtle and almost invisible and some are really easy to spot) …..I’m actually really stunned that this disinformation is being spread here unchallenged. !! Twilight is definitely from the ZION Twighlight Zone – either as a paid troll or an willing and oblivious slave.
Venezuela is also looking to dump the USD in favor of the ‘basket of currencies’ approach. The US MSM was also not impressed when Citgo offered aid to Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas. The Zionists are very poor losers.
About the ‘S’ in BRICS…
Will that be dropped, or just name-changed in the very, very near future when South Africa gets ‘Rhodesia-ed’?
Thoughts?
Please see my comments/thoughts on this subject on the other BRICS thread on by Pepe:
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Basically, if the other BRICS members maintain their policy of “not interfering in each other´s business”, which means: looking away and saying nothing, then South Africa is very likely going to be the next Zimbabwe – it is already very well on its way there.
However, if the BRIC(s) are only interested in South Africa´s resources (increasingly this is how it seems), then they will perhaps just say nothing and let the country fail and collapse upon itself into a failed state, by its own doing(through, amongst other things launching a racial civil aware upon itself), because that would just provide even easier access to its resources.
I would like to think this is not the case, but time will tell. Please excuse my cynicism.
@MN Steel: ” … when South Africa gets ‘Rhodesia-ed’ ” ?
Do you mean ‘Rhodesia’ as when the land was raped of its mineral and agricultural wealth by Anglo Capitalists under a colonial ‘white’ govt? Or do you mean ‘Zimbabwe-ed’, as in the land being raped by Anglo Capitalists under a conniving ‘black’ govt? Either way, my thoughts are old ones: Don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t lust after other peoples’ property; and don’t vote for politicians who do such things. Above all, do not reward such politicians with “a modest fortune” and a directorship in House of Ratschild; send them to jail. Then your country whatever its name – be it France, UK, Zion or USA – will become neither ‘Rhodesia-ised’ nor ‘Zimbabwe-fied’.
In the second half of the 19th century the British geographer Halford Mackinder warned the British Government about the dangers of a Russian-German economic alliance and the importance of the Euro-Asian geographic region. Namely, if Russia and Germany did create an economic alliance, that alliance would have represented the most powerful economic zone in the world. Current developments proved him right, namely in the creation of the BRIC’s, SCO, EAEU, and the Silk Road. As far as I can see, current political and economic developments are moving in the direction of the mentioned institutions, with Russia and China representing the backbone. Washington is trying to prevent this movement by sending the US Navy towards the North Korean coast and additional troops to Afghanistan. The obvious question is what is Washington hoping to achieve with it’s military ? A new conventional or nuclear war, trying to prevent Euro-Asia becoming the chief economic and political factor in the world ? Such imperial methods are bound to fail. Not only that, but they are constantly raising the esteem of both Russia and China. I can only conclude that the East is the future, and that this process cannot be stopped.
I really Expect We [Brasil] will rise again, but its difficult to know. As I see everyday is a new imperialist attack perpetraded by the hands of globalist, and people stay in a state of lethargy, dont know what gonna happen here but cant see nothing good on the short time. BTW excellent article.
If this was going to be the last article to be printed by the Saker, or anyone, just before the world ended, it would be a good choice. I am sending this on to some sick friends who are terminally ill but have been engaged and fighters all their lives. I think it will cheer them up hugely.
The death of the US empire and its tail, Israel, would make anyone’s day.
@(the USSR lacked the “rich” element)
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Are you sure? USSR was left during WW2 without 40mlns. of the men in their best age, was totally destroyed wherever Germans had come, has grown in 100mlns. of new population (natality – losses) in 20 yrs. 1945-65… and gave to all of them: house, kindergarten, school, universities, medical aid, sports, culture and free activities for free, musical & arts schools, full development of everybodie’s abbilities and interests. Cheap, allmost free services of trasnportation, tourism and any spents was something “by default” in socialistic countries.
The life in the eastern countries has left everybody enough energy, time, and the abbility to engage in activities different from the survival. East citizen was never in a threat for his own existence.
West was “rich” in bubble-gums, jeans-pans, women’s hulla-hop socks (??) and effort to give everybody a house and a car – on a credit.
On the way to the New World Oligarchy it has always been planned to create a few integrated mega-regions. Propaganda calls it “a multi power world”. Not as long as they share the same banking system. Not as long as all the major powers including China and Russia are each run by a few oligarchs who just happen to be integrating their own and the world’s economies.
Most of the 100 US shipping terminals at our biggest 15 ports are foreign-run, many by China. How long will you believe that China and the US are opponents?