By Pepe Escobar – with permission and cross-posted with Consortium News
Something extraordinary began with a short walk in St. Petersburg last Friday.
After a stroll, they took a boat on the Neva River, visited the legendary Aurora cruiser, and dropped in to examine the Renaissance masterpieces at the Hermitage. Cool, calm, collected, all the while it felt like they were mapping the ins and outs of a new, emerging, multipolar world.
Xi and Putin cruising into a multipolar world: Aurora Cruiser Museum (Wikipedia)
Chinese President Xi Jinping was the guest of honor of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was Xi’s eighth trip to Russia since 2013, when he announced the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
First they met in Moscow, signing multiple deals. The most important is a bombshell: a commitment to develop bilateral trade and cross-border payments using the ruble and the yuan, bypassing the U.S. dollar.
Then Xi visited the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s premier business gathering, absolutely essential for anyone to understand the hyper-complex mechanisms inherent in the construction of Eurasian integration. I addressed some of SPIEF’s foremost discussions and round tables here.
In Moscow, Putin and Xi signed two joint statements – whose key concepts, crucially, are “comprehensive partnership”, “strategic interaction” and “global strategic stability.”
In his St. Petersburg speech, Xi outlined the comprehensive strategic partnership”. He stressed that China and Russia were both committed to green, low carbon sustainable development. He linked the expansion of BRI as “consistent with the UN agenda of sustainable development” and praised the interconnection of BRI projects with the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). He emphasized how all that was consistent with Putin’s idea of a Great Eurasian Partnership. He praised the “synergetic effect” of BRI linked to South-South cooperation.
And crucially, Xi stressed that China “won’t seek development to the expense of environment”; China “will implement the Paris climate agreement”; and China is “ready to share 5G technology with all partners” on the way towards a pivotal change in the model of economic growth.
So what about Cold War 2.0?
It was obvious this was slowly brewing for the past five to six years. Now the deal is in the open. The Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership is thriving; not as an allied treaty, but as a consistent road map towards Eurasia integration and the consolidation of the multipolar world.
Unipolarism – via its demonization matrix – had first accelerated Russia’s pivot to Asia. Now, the U.S.-driven trade war has facilitated the consolidation of Russia as China’s top strategic partner.
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs better get ready to dismiss virtually everyday statementscoming, for instance, from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Joseph Dunford, when he alleges that Moscow aims to use non-strategic nuclear weapons in the European theater. It’s part of a non-stop process – now in high gear – of manufacturing hysteria by frightening NATO allies with the Russian “threat.”
Moscow better get ready to dodge and counteract reams of reports such as the latest from the RAND corporation, which outlines – what else? – Cold War 2.0 against Russia.
In 2014, Russia did not react to sanctions imposed by Washington. Then, it would have sufficed to merely brandish the threat of default on $700 billion in external debt. That would have killed the sanctions.
Now, there’s ample debate inside Russian intelligence circles on what to do in case Moscow faces the prospect of being cut off the CHIPS-SWIFT financial clearing system.
A 1936 map of Eurasia. (Flickr)
With few illusions about what may pass at the G20 in Osaka later this month, in terms of a breakthrough in U.S.-Russia relations, intel sources told me Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin is prepared to send a more “realistic” message— if push eventually comes to shove.
His message to the EU, in this case, would be to cut them off, and link with China for good. That way, Russian oil would be completely redirected from the EU to China, making the EU completely dependent on the Strait of Hormuz.
Beijing for its part seems to have finally absorbed that the current Trump administration offensive is not a mere trade war, but a full fledged attack on its economic miracle, including a concerted drive to cut China off from large swathes of the world economy.
The war on Huawei – the Rosebud of China’s 5G supremacy – has been identified as an attack on the dragon’s head. The attack on Huawei means an attack not only on tech, mega-hub Shenzhen, but the whole Pearl River Delta: a $3 trillion yuan ecosystem, which supplies the nuts and bolts of the Chinese supply chain for high-tech manufacturers.
Enter the Golden Ring
Neither China’s technological rise, nor Russia’s unmatched hypersonic know-how have caused America’s structural malaise. If there are answers they should come from the Exceptionalist elites.
The problem for the U.S. is the emergence of a formidable peer competitor in Eurasia – and worse still, a strategic partnership. It has thrown these elites into Supreme Paranoia mode, which is holding the whole world hostage.
By contrast, the concept of the Golden Ring of Multipolar Great Powers has been floated, by which Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and China might provide a “stability belt” along the South Asia Rimland.
I have discussed variations of this idea with Russian, Iranian, Pakistani and Turkish analysts – but it sounds like wishful thinking. Admittedly all these nations would welcome establishing the Golden Ring; but no one knows which way Modi’s India would lean – intoxicated as it is with dreams of Big Power status as the crux of America’s “Indo-Pacific” concoction.
It might be more realistic to assume that if Washington does not go to war with Iran – because Pentagon gaming has established this would be a nightmare – all options are on the table ranging from the South China Sea to the larger Indo-Pacific.
The Deep State will not flinch to unleash concentric havoc on the periphery of both Russia and China and then try to advance to destabilize the heartland from the inside. The Russia-China strategic partnership has generated a sore wound: it hurts – so bad – to be a Eurasia outsider.
As shown in this article, China is slowly but surely developing its military capabilities so that it can play a leadership role in the new multipolar global reality:
https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2019/05/chinas-latest-military-threat-overwater.html
On the upside, America’s defense contractors must be rubbing their hands together with glee just thinking about how much U.S. taxpayers are going to spend to defend against China’s advancing capabilities.
One must ask just what is it that they need to defend? The answer is a known, their failed ideology, but at what cost?
Satan has no bounds when it comes to controls, a group of like minded thinkers is not well in mind, body or spirit, and has yet to admit this fact.
Satan is a good metaphor for psychopaths
So are vampires
@ Sall Snyder
… ” just thinking about how much us taxpayers are going to spend to defend against chinas advancing capabilities … ” …
Well , that is interesting question since nobody knows how much money was wasted.
For about 70 years nobody entered pentagon with question : hi , guys , how much usa taxpayers money you wasted. Nobody asked such question. Not even think.
So answer may be countless trilions.
Countless , since nobody counted money wasted ,
and trilions , since pentagon wastes in trilions. Pentagon wastes in great numbers.
One pentagon wastes more money than other 10 countries on list , all combined.
Why say ” wastes ” ? Because no country in world had intention on attacking usa.
And money spent to protect usa , when no one is attacking , is wasted.
So that leaves us with conclusion that countles trilions of $ were wasted to keep usa on top of world army force.
.But highely likely as world policeman , ” protecting ” world by ” spreading ” usa democracy all around world.
And wasting paper $ , do not cost usa at all.
It is just paper printed by fed , paper and paint. Sold to usa government.
Costs are paid by all countries in world , that use $ as payment.
All usa costs are spread all around world. They cost usa nothing.
So country that is being bombed by usa , is effectivelly paying by itself , to be bombed. With no cost to usa ! Small countries pay it all.
Selling their cheap oil , of course. And other resources they have , their misfortune.
Even big countries , as long as they use $ as their international payment currency.
So , usa army can afford to spend 6.000 bilions $ in war games in afganistan.
But china taxpayers will pay solid cash for china army to defend its borders from visiting carriers , and other battle ships sailing china sea waters.
It will cost china army since they know they are defending against ” democracy “.
Money spent in defending is different from money wasted attacking.
How much wasted?
The Pentagon cannot account for $21 trillion.
USA national debt is $22 trillion.
95+% of the national debt is $21 trillion.
@ Igor
… ” how much wasted ? … ” …
But , how much earned ? And not displayed ? No statistical data ?
How much usa earned in 70 years of rulling over world ?
” Buying ” with worthless paper $ … ? In other words stealing from whole world?
Was so accumulated wealth earned with threat with guns , ever displayed , mentioned ? Guess , estimate , 700 trilion $ ? Or more ? Where that wealth ended ?
All that tax free money , available to spend on any war to ” protect democracy ” …
Also other , gray ways of filling pentagon bills…
You may know there is cia-a , and cia-b. One with usa government , other free loose.
Before usa army entered afganistan , there was production of heroin , some tonnage . but after cia-a and cia-b , and usa army came production of heroin imcreased by 10 times. Under very instructions from cia-b. With army support.
And where did that enormous sum of money go ? In thin air ? Or in black money use.
Remember that all mafia earned money is under strict control of intel agencies.
Did you think that mafia money stays in hands of mafia dons ? Or is used for wars ?
What about black or grey money gained from weapons sales ? Somebody sold warehouse of weapons from remote army base , but nobody checked if weapons are in there , or warehouse is empty. But someone got that black tax free money.
So there are many ways to get money for wars and secret actions , that go unnoticed by government clerks , and are not displayed in government statistics.
Even that number mentioned , 22 trilions of debt , are just couple of numbers , meaning nothing.
Since usa government does not care about debt , as long as $ is world currency.
Because all countries of world pay debts of usa government.
So usa can spend even more.
Does world gold still exist in fort knox ? Or is empty ? Nobody dares to check.
Usa government takes daily loans of 2 bilion dolars, or more , daily.
From china , saudi arabia , japan , and all other world governments lending money to usa. As they must , since they use $ for their payments. World oil trade in $ .
Until they continue so.
But what happens if / when they stop using $ . What about usa then ?
@ Igor
… ” usa national debt is 22 $ trilion… ” …
Correctly , usa government is … 24 trilion $. Government debt only.
But internal debt of usa is abot 240 trilion $ . Debt of usa citizens , corporations.
Is there any possibility for those debt to be ballanced ? No way ! That is just wasted.
When / if usa declares bunktrapcy ? . What will happen than ? Can one imagine ?
If someone owed government 24.000 $ for not paid taxes , he would soon be found in jail. He would not be no1 in his town ! Not in world !
But if country , first economic country in world , leader of free world , democracy ,
has debt 260 trilion $ , nobody is concerned ? Leader with such a debt ?
Can one explain how is it so , logical ? Economical ? Suicidal ? Brutal ?
If some rich person is in debt , say , 24 milion $ , can we say he is rich , or failed ?
If government is in debt 24 trilions , is it good prospereous government , or failing ?
But since all those big numbers are just digits iñ computers , nobody cares.
As if nobody belives they have connection with real life , real worries.
Because they already know $ is just peace of coloured paper , printed out of thin air.
Perhaps the USA could learn to live in peace with the rest of humanity, instead of demanding that they must rule over the entire planet, controlled by their Zionazi Masters, forever.
if you are not at peace with yourself – it’s impossible to be at peace with the world
Too bad. So sad.
That is what America deserves and reaps because of its lust to “defend” its unipolar world tyranny … sorry, freedom and democracy.
I doubt that the millions of people of America has murdered, maimed, tortured, and refugeed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Serbia, etc. will weep when the chickens come home to roost for the American Empire.
No empire has ever been able to conquer the world, though many have tried. The latest, largest, and richest has been the Anglo-American Empire. Late in the 19th century, Cecil Rhodes established as an objective the recapture of America for the British Empire. That plan succeeded. Now the empire has reached its maximum power and can only decline. As en empire, that is. As a good citizen of a multipolar world, well that has not ever been tried. Maybe it’s time. If the empire would make a simple commitment to apply the principles of its religion–Christianity–to social, political, and economic life, maybe the miracle could happen. How about it? “Blessed are the peacemakers.” He said it, and it’s true.
“Late in the 19th century, Cecil Rhodes established as an objective the recapture of America for the British Empire. ”
I didn’t know that. Can you document? Where did he say/write that?
Katherine
Here is a good survey of Cecil Rhodes’ scheme.
https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/
Thank you Katherine.
This is spelled out in detail in Carroll Quigley’s masterpiece, “The Anglo-American Establishment”, published in 1981 by GSG and Associates. The reincorporation of the US into the British Empire was the cornerstone of the program of Rhodes’ Round Table, a body that included Lord Nathan Rothschild, the 1st Baron Rothschild, as a key member. Another Round Table member was Lord Balfour, whose 1917 public declaration addressed to the 2nd Lord Rothschild, effectively “gave” Palestine to the Zionists as the future national home of the Jews.
We need fairly keen discernment to allow us to see through the surface appearance of events to detect the hidden hand behind them. I would submit that three key actions by which the Rhodes plan to restore the U.S. to the British Empire was accomplished were 1) the assassination of U.S. President William McKinley in 1901 by an alleged “anarchist,” allowing avowed imperialist Teddy Roosevelt to become president; 2) the establishment of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 allowing takeover of the monetary system by a clone of the Bank of England; and 3) the entrance by the U.S. into World War I in 1917 on the side of Great Britain. Along with gaining control of the nation’s newspapers by the banking oligarchy, these events placed the U.S. firmly in the camp of British imperialism. Rhodes and the rest of the Round Table also foresaw that the U.S. would become the apparent senior party in the firm through eventual control of the military might. But the strings would be pulled from elsewhere. In 1921 the Rockefellers financed the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations as a clone of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Not a whole lot has changed since this era except that the strong Zionist element behind the scenes has increasingly become dominant, even publicly.
I will look at the video.
And try to get ahold of the Quigley book.
Meanwhile, much evidence (it might be termed circumstantial) for the integration of USA and UK elites’ interests is on display in the excellent documentary, “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire,” which was linked by . . . a Saker commenter, I think, and I watched it. It is excellent. Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
Katherine
The fact that Canada is still led by the Queen, and the fact that the US has not bothered to take over Canada is evidence that the US and Canada are owned by the same crown.
The US (and the Queen) can’t take over Canada because Canada borders Russia.
From the title, I presume that this video was based on Nicholas Shaxon’s book “Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who stole the World”? The book is excellent. I haven’t seen the video but I do find the title somewhat misleading. To global finance, the elite oligarchs of all countries, from the US and UK down to Chad cooperate with each other to enrich themselves at the expense of their general populace. National boundaries and national allegiances have little to no meaning. To speak of “UK” or “US” elites implies that they have more ties to their respective populations than to each other. This is an obsolete concept. The City of London is not “British” in any real sense any more than the Bis is Swiss. They are both components of the global financial complex. Sorry for the quibble.
Hi, Dave,
I don’t want to get into a pointless argument with someone who has not viewed the documentary and is making assumptions.
The documentary shows how the UK and the USA together created the system of tax havens
It documents, or states (I assume there is evidence for this) the percentages of all tax-haven monies that are in UK and USA tax havens and that originate in the UK and the USA. It shows the immense power of financial entities in the City of London and NYC.
Why not view the video yourself before criticizing my comments.Then ytou would have a firm basis to agree or disagree. BTW, there is no point in “disagreeing” or arguing with me. I am a relative ignoramus. I just call attention to what looks like good, relevant information.
Katherine
“To speak of “UK” or “US” elites implies that they have more ties to their respective populations than to each other. ”
It implies no such thing.
It assumes that people still do have a nationality (passport); a member of the “USA elite” carries a USA passport; his/her monies are being sheltered from U.S. tax authorities. Ditto for UK elites.
The Dark State will “unleash concentric havoc on the periphery of both Russia and China and then try to advance to destabilize the heartland from the inside.” That’s happening now in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Spratly, and numerous spots in the Balkans, etc. Then there are the takfiris the US moved to the Pakistan/Afghanistan border.
I keep going back and forth on this issue. My hunch is the Dark State and all of the West is in a full manic episode-mode. But I suspect they know they can’t afford the kind of enormously embarrassing military defeat that any open attack will precipitate. The absolute last thing they can afford right now is an aircraft carrier on the bottom of the sea. So they are in a jam. They need a military target that cannot defend itself. I would have guessed Venezuela, but that appears to be off the table, for now. Time to think like Mossad here, i suppose, to guess what country the US will be aimed at next.
Don’t forget Kazakhstan, and Moscow today. EVIL never rests. I saw Pox News today, the talking cadavers gibbering approvingly that Creepy Joe Biden had been properly threatening towards China. But when it was mentioned that China had invested billions in technology and education, the resident Pox News bimbo, blurted out, ‘No they don’t! They just steal everything from us!’. I think even the other Pox News undead were embarassed by that, but it does show, once again, and there are hundreds of examples every day, coming thick and fast, just how thoroughly barking, viciously, mad the Western ‘Gods Upon the Earth’ are going. Have gone, in fact.
When the voice of reason disappears, insanity fills the void. It is seen best in the design, or currently the lack, so many of today’s products.
@Mulga Mumblebrain
Seriously, Mulga – couldn’t you please do an appropriatly animated Weekly News like this one because it’s really for the history books….you will be No1 News – Channel in no time and f…ck all competition !!!!
THEN YOU COULD START THE TAKEOVER !
The NSA (Neurotic Scoundrels Association) pays me to hide my light under a bushel. It keeps me in that genteel penury to which I have become accustomed.
I think Lebanon would be the “perfect” candidate, because it:
*Supports “EYE-RAY-NEE-ANN terrorism” (Hezbollah)
*Does not have proper air defence
*Unable to protect its prime minister from kidnapping
*Most importantly, it “threatens” Israel.
The USA is desperate for an easy country to “defeat,” & Lebanon might be the last one.
You can count on an Iran war at some point, despite it being a disaster which will be three or four times worse than the Afghanistan and Iraq wars combined.
Israel, the oil companies, and the military-industrial complex run US foreign policy – and Israel wants Iran devastated, the oil companies want the profits from a high oil price, and the MIC want profits from the war.
So the war will happen. It’s inevitable.
However, the immediate target is the one force preventing that war – Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel can’t afford an Iran war until Hezbollah’s missile article is degraded. So the next war we will see is Israel and the US attacking Hezbollah, probably this summer or next summer, to give Trump a “war bump” for the 2020 elections.
Israel can’t take Hezbollah alone. So Israel will convince the US to join in, using US troops to assist Israeli troops in rooting out Hezbollah forces, and US B-52s heavy bombing of Hezbollah bunkers and missile caches, as was done effectively in Vietnam. These are the two components which Israel doesn’t have and needs to be able to take on Hezbollah.
An article today in The Times of Israel shows how the propaganda is being spun up to justify another war in Lebanon:
IDF general warns Lebanon will pay ‘heavy price’ for working with Hezbollah
Northern Command chief accuses Iran-backed terror group of violating UN resolution, threatening Israel with terrorist infrastructure along border
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-general-warns-lebanon-will-pay-heavy-price-for-working-with-hezbollah/
The accusation that Hezbollah is in violation of the UN Resolution which ended the 2006 war will be one justification Israel can use to convince the US to join it in attacking a “terrorist group” – which will sell easily to the US public who are clueless about the real reason – which is setting up one more step to an Iran war.
Iran is undefeatable and Hezbollah could flatten Israel in a day or two.
It is important to separate reality from mere zionist wishful thinking.
I meant to include this link.
With US power declining whilst Iran’s strength increases, along with very strong relationships with other world powers, if the US thought they could destroy Iran they would have done it long, long ago.
I also suggest one will find more truth in the words of President Rouhani than in the Zionist media from occupied Palestine.
“Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States has practically exhausted its capacity for pressure on Iran and such pressure is losing steam.”
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/12/598327/Iran-Rouhani-US-pressure-sanctions-capacity
@ Tomsk
… ” … If usa thought they could destroy iran they would have done it long ago … ” ..
Long , long ago pentagon generals agreed they could conquer country with 5 milion people , or less.
That was long ago.
Nowdays estimations could be , country with less than 3 milions people , …
Usa army is twenty years in afganistan unable to conquer barefoot talibans.
But usa still can continue with sanctions , economic wàr , psyop war , threats..
And if that country gets scared with it , it may surrender , for a while , until usa looses its military power. Which comes after loosing economic power , and role of $.
Or until UN countries regain some of lost dignity of free men , and say collective and firm no to usa. One usa rulles over 190 world countries ? 1 against 190 ?
No more sanctions , no wars , start with co_operation at last.
Old , forgotten phrase : yankee go home , from all 1.000 usa military bases throughout world. Then proccess of prosper might begin.
Gens una sumus.
They will not dare to attack Iran and they will also not dare to attack Lebanon. Iran knows the game, they know what happens if Hezbollah falls, they will not stand on the sidelines, cross their fingers and hope for the best if Israel and the US attack Hezbollah. If they do, all of todays fairytale propaganda Bibi constantly parrots whenever he gets the chance will become reality in the event they attack Hezbollah. Iran will use Syria as a forward operations base against Israel and then it’s over for the promised land. Whatever happens to Iran if they intervene in Lebanon is nothing compared to what would happen if Hezbollah falls.
Then, I seriously doubt Syria would also just stand by and watch, if Israel starts to behave like a rabid dog and viciously attack it’s neighbours, well, even more than they already do, the SAA will have nothing restraining them any longer and a battle hardened, incredibly experienced force will set it’s sights on Tel Aviv.
If anybody is thinking of bringing up the “Samson” option, don’t bother, I don’t believe there is any truth to it. I think this is propaganda straight from the Mossad to scare potential enemies away. Israel would be vaporised by countries it calls allies today if one nuclear silo opens up. Nobody wants their country to be turned into a nuclear wasteland for hundreds of years by rabid, racist fanatics who believe they are better than everybody else, so anyone with the means to do so will destroy the threat, even if it comes from an ally.
You have to take into account the hatred that drives the worst of the Jews. I must, of course, note that this type is but a fraction, perhaps a small fraction, of Jewry, but they do exist. They are driven by the root nature of Judaism, the fear and hatred of the non-Jew, that basic worldview that is the source of the many horrors inflicted on the Jews, and by the Jews on others, over the centuries.
To that you must add the Western settler hatred of the Indigenous untermenschen, in this case the Palestinians, who must be exterminated or expelled in order that the ubermenschen can claim their God-ordained lebensraum. In this case it is land that has been ‘ordained’ by the Jewish God, themselves, in religious mythology, surely the proper basis for International Law and relations between peoples.
Then there is the horror of the Nazi Judeocide, which, understandably, made the early Zionazis so very ruthless and determined. In any case the religious cum fascist Zionazi regime is quite capable of destroying a ‘Jew-hating world’ as one Zionazi described humanity in 2002 while recommending that Israel cause a ‘nuclear winter’. In any case I suspect that a Masada type final confrontation, one that the Zionazis well know that their ‘Christian Zionist’ allies actually desire, would be settled by bio-warfare. I would bet that Israeli high-tech in league with the USA and Saudi Arabia (possibly) have been researching such Final Solutions for some time.
” I must, of course, note that this type is but a fraction, perhaps a small fraction, of Jewry, but they do exist”
That is a question I’ve wondered about. We always say that of course.And some of the finest,most supportive people to the Palestinian cause have been Jews.Many of those Jewish Israelis are the only reason that the zionist crimes there have been exposed in the wider world. But from what I see,those wonderful people are the minority,not the other way around. Most of the Israeli Jews support one or the other of the hideous zionist political parties. Some may not like Netanyahoo,but that’s because of his stealing from them. Not for the countless crimes he’s committed against the Palestinians. And just what percentage of Diaspora Jews,do we see condemning Israels crimes. The numbers might be a little bigger than Israeli Jews,but not by much.So,what was the percentage of nazi supporters in Germany? Hitler got way over a third of the vote at times because coming to power.And after coming to power,the percentage of Germans that openly opposed him (even by word) wouldn’t be much smaller,if at all,than Jews that openly oppose zionism today. Much of Jewry that opposed zionism was lost in WWII. Postwar Jewry is vastly zionist.
Apparently in the US Diaspora the younger Jews are becoming very anti-Israel, so much so that it has the Zionazi elite quite worried.
Everyone:
Please read Edwin M. Wright on the history of Zionist influence in foreign capitals, the mistakes that were made by Truman, the relationship of religious Judiaism to secular Judaism in the “national home” that became the Jewish state.
Wright was a ME expert who was a State Department insider during the Truman adminsitration. He saw firsthand, and wrote down, what he observed in the ways that the Palestine and diaspora Zionists worked hand in glove to exert influence in Washington. He also observed how *all decisions* were made in Palestine, to the extent that influential diaspora Zionists were told anything that was convenient, but then were pushed aside when their usefulness ran out.
One of his most interesting accounts is about the plans to resettle survivors of th e camps in the USA. They would have the best chance for healing in a relatively welcoming American setting where they were safe and there were settled Jewish communities and others to help them. This plan was nixed by the Israelis. They had to be sent to Palestine.:
“MCKINZIE: At the time that Auschwitz and Buchenwald and all those places were being revealed to people, there was a massive sentiment in favor of moving Jewish refugees out of Germany to some place. Did you have any ideas for a viable alternative to the creation of Israel?
[[Edwin M. Wright:] Yes, this was in 1945. I briefed Chief of Staff Eisenhower one day on the situation in the Middle East and pointed out all of these things.
He interrupted me in the middle of the talk. (Eisenhower was, by the way a very vocal person. Marshall sat there looking like a great big bear and never said anything. You could talk for an hour and you hadn’t the least idea whether it was registering or not. Eisenhower is very different. He’d interrupt you, he would tell stories, very much the social character.) I was telling this story about how they were using this problem of the hundred thousand refugees in order to get them into Palestine. This was being used as an effort to help build up a Jewish community to sufficient size in order to justify a Jewish state. He suddenly interrupted me. He said, “You know, I walked through all those camps in Germany. I looked upon those bodies and those people heaped up there and skeletons. I do not believe that these people who went through that experience could ever become human beings again.” In other words, they’d been so nervously upset they would be neurotic. He said, “I’m not in favor of bringing them to the United States because this whole generation of Jews from Europe will have to undergo a long process of getting away from the fears of what’s happened there.”
This is just his remark and he threw his heart in this talk. I said to President Eisenhower, “You know, if we move these 100 thousand we will create this kind of problem in the Middle East. Instead we should bring them here; it is our culture that created this problem. It was the Europeans who destroyed the Jewish community; hated them and punished them. It’s up to us to try to rectify ourselves.” So at that time the Stratton bill was up.
[[See http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/event.php?eid=200–Kath%5D%5D
It was to bring, I think, 200 thousand of these Jewish refugees to America. I was in favor of that. “Let’s bring them to America. Here’s where they’ll find a home and a much more normal life. While there’s some anti-Jewishness in America it’s very light, it’s nothing important. Jews have risen to high positions in America, and if there’s anywhere in the world that they have a chance, it’s here. If they go to a Jewish state, this concept of paranoia, ‘the world hates us, we’ve got to establish a state, completely independent and exclusively ours,’ it will transfer the problem from Europe to the Middle East.” That was my argument.
So often when I was discussing this with people in the State Department or other places I’ve said, “We ought to support the Stratton bill.”
The strange thing was, it was the Zionists who torpedoed the Stratton bill. They did not want Jews to come to America. Their purpose was to build up a Jewish state, and if these Jews came to America they would not have enough people in Palestine to do so. What they did was to torpedo it and to see that it never even got a hearing. The Stratton bill was, I think the healthiest thing to do for the Jews and for ourselves. We would have paid the price of European cruelty. As it was we shipped these people off to Israel where they’ve developed what was called the Masada complex, “The world’s against us. We’ve got to destroy the Arabs, expand our kingdom and defend ourselves even to the last Jew.” Golda Meir has it and all the rest of them have it. The concept of persecution was moved from Europe down to the Middle East where they saw the Arabs as their enemies. It was really the Arabs who have always helped the Jews throughout history, they never persecuted the Jews the way the Christians have done. What the U.S. did was to save ourselves by shifting this problem over to the Middle East. We did not solve the problem at all.
I might mention right now that many of those same Jews want to come to America. One of the fascinating things emerged only recently; of these Jews going from Russia to Israel, 13 percent have already left Israel to come to other parts of the world. In other words, Israel is a staging area to get out of Russia [[[this interview was in ca. 1976—Kath]]. Then they want to go somewhere else, like Latin-America or the United States. [New York Times magazine, January 16, 1977. Article by Feron “Israelies in New York” states 335,000 Israelies have migrated to the U.S. and Canada. Jews leaving Russia do not want to go to Israel. In 1976 out of 12,000 Jews who left Russia, only 5,000 went to Israel. The U.S.A. finally issued 7,000 special visas to clear them out of “refugee” camps in Europe.] This is like Pavel Litvinov. He applied to go to Israel, but the moment he got to Austria he used his influence on American Jews to come here to teach.
Some of them never even go to Israel, some go to Israel and immediately leave. Israel is not turning out to be their haven; the United States is. This is what we should have done back in 1945-46. We should have paid the price of our own guilt and our own cruelty rather than ask the Arabs to handle this problem.”
“Richard McKinzie [Oral History] Interview with Edwin M. Wright,”
https://worldpeace365.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/23/
Worth reading in its entirety.
Also worth reading: the whole of “The Great Zionist Cover-Up,”
https://worldpeace365.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/zionist-cover-up.pdf
Katherine
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Sorry,
The Stratton bill URL, above, came out wrong.
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/event.php?eid=200
Katherine
PS. Interesting.
https://www.jta.org/1947/06/29/archive/stratton-bill-cannot-solve-basic-problem-of-jewish-dps-gillette-tells-house-committee
They will not dare to attack Iran and they will also not dare to attack Lebanon.
Sadly I must disagree! :-(
The USA & Israel have complete air superiority against Lebanon, as demonstrated by Israel constantly flying over Lebanese airspace to launch air strikes against Syria. Even if Hezbollah has Yakhont anti-ship missiles, they will not be able to reach west of Cyprus, where the USN could park its carrier strike group. As I stated above, I think Lebanon would be the “perfect” candidate, because it:
*Supports “EYE-RAY-NEE-ANN terrorism” (Hezbollah)
*Does not have proper air defence
*Unable to protect its prime minister from kidnapping
*Most importantly, it “threatens” Israel.
Lebanon also has significant offshore petroleum reserves, and a territorial dispute with Israel in one of those offshore blocks. In other words, yet another excuse to justify going to war to “protect Israel’s security.”
Then, I seriously doubt Syria would also just stand by and watch…
As battle hardened as they are, I am not sure Syria could spare the manpower to deploy into Lebanon, or the Golan Heights. Frankly speaking I think Syria needs Iranian reinforcements to completely liberate its own territory, which include:
*ISIS + Al-Qaeda-occupied Idlib
*ISIS remnants in Deir Ezzor
*ISIS + Al-Qaeda + USA on its border with Jordan
*Turkish invasion all over Northern Syria
Israel had air superiority over Lebanon in 2006, look where that has gotten them. They have received the biggest, most humiliating defeat in their history. This defeat shattered the perception of the undefeatable IDF and Hezbollah was nowhere near as strong back then as they are today. Iran was also nowhere near as strong as they are today and Assad still had his head up his own backside, you can see him laughing at the prospect of regime change in a 2005 CNN interview. He sure lost his appetite for laughing at such matters ever since.
I agree that Syria still needs help to regain their own territory, however, that stems from the fact that what remains is directly supported by the US and their vassals, if the US abandons those groups, the show is over in weeks. If Lebanon is attacked, priorities will shift dramatically and Idlib and other conflicts will have to be, if not won outright, maintained as frozen in the meantime. Hezbollah can not fall, nobody can afford them to, so everybody will have to chime in to prevent that from happening. If Hezbollah falls, it will kick off a domino effect which will ignite the middle east far worse than what the US already did.
“In 2014, Russia did not react to sanctions imposed by Washington. Then, it would have sufficed to merely brandish the threat of default on $700 billion in external debt. That would have killed the sanctions.”
I thought so then too,but was scolded for not knowing the difference in playing chess from checkers.
“Now, there’s ample debate inside Russian intelligence circles on what to do in case Moscow faces the prospect of being cut off the CHIPS-SWIFT financial clearing system.”
There shouldn’t even be a debate on this.The problem should have been fixed years ago.There have been threats to do that for 5 years now.Just how long should a “debate” be going on.
“His message to the EU, in this case, would be to cut them off, and link with China for good. That way, Russian oil would be completely redirected from the EU to China, making the EU completely dependent on the Strait of Hormuz.”
A truly great idea (if true). If the EU was made almost totally dependent on the Strait of Hormuz. You would see them desperate to oppose the US’s plans against Iran.The dire threat to their survival would force them to break with the US over that issue.
The European elites certainly merit punishment for their treachery and duplicity and groveling obedience to the USA and Israel. But, of course, the elites who are guilty of these crimes will be protected while the people suffer the consequences. As usual.
As Orwell once said – those people who elect such puppets/criminals as their government are not victims but accomplices
Doesn’t the threat just instigate more corrective actions? The bigger the stick, the greater the damage, should cooler heads not prevail.
Uncle Bob, A few years ago, they presumeably wanted to wait out the Obama administration and also try to get the EU on their side…This hasn’t borne fruit so… hopefully a radical change in foreign policy is happening now. Putin’s tone is definitely harsher (spief speech)…
I thought so then too,but was scolded for not knowing the difference in playing chess from checkers.
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There shouldn’t even be a debate on this.The problem should have been fixed years ago.There have been threats to do that for 5 years now.Just how long should a “debate” be going on.
I think the only debate now is about timing. Right now the USA is still strong enough to rebound from any blow that a sudden coordinated selloff of US Treasuries could bring. A better time for such an action would be after a decisive defeat of the US military. Only then would AZ Empire client states be fully convinced to abandon the US dollar en masse. This scenario is well detailed in the excellent novel “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” by John Michael Greer.
As sad as it would be for the average Venezuelan, I really hope Russia & China are quietly arming Venezuela to the teeth, and properly training them. I would also love to see S-400s, Su-35s, & Kalibr missiles installed in Cuba!
I suppose this might shock Pepe, but most Americans would welcome the end of the ’empire’. ‘America First’ did not mean America bosses everyone, but the exact opposite. Forget everyone else, and take care of our own country and put ‘America First’. Unfortunately, electing someone who says that, does not mean it will happen. In fact, in election after election, America votes for the candidate who says he will get us out of all this garbage. But once they are on in office, they cannot resist … the deep state.
Yes-the US people pay the cost of Empire, while the parasites at the top reap the benefits. They’ll get Armageddon, too, soon, whether they are Christian Zionists, evangelicals or Pentacostals or not.
@ SteveK9
… ” but once they are in office , they cannot resist …. deep state ” …
Yes , interesting , is not it ?
But that just shows that ” usa deep state ” in fact selected them and put in chair.
Bill clinton was selected to be potus , when he was 20 years old , in school .
He was selected before anyone thought about some joke called ” voting “.
… ” america votes for candidates “…
Yes , votes , but not decides. Because ” usa deep state ” decides , not voters.
For candidated that are already selected and proved by ” usa deep state “.
It is only joke , smoke curtain , hiding fact that voters are slaves , in fact.
… ” who says he will get us out of all this garbage ” …
Yes , he says one , but acts opposite , according orders given to him by deep state.
Because ” usa deep state ” is decission maker , not some potus , clerk with salary.
Potus just follows and executes orders given from above , from his masters.
Think about such reality , not virtual tv stories ,… like potus signed important act ,
And what if intention of ” usa deep state ” is not ” to get us out of this garbage ” ,
but in fact orders ” to get us IN this garbage ” . To decompose usa as no1 state.
Sounds strange , but look around , usa decaying , things falling down , beyond repairs possible.
What about next crises comimg in economy , all those bankers baloons, fictive
” derivates ” , and bankers games with peoples money and destiny , blown out ?
What about pension funds lost in gambling speculations ? No more pensions ?
Because ” world deep state ” ordered ” usa deep state ” to act like this.
Excuse my ignorance but why don’t Russia and China sign a formal alliance? What is the difference between a strategic partnership and a formal alliance? Will each come to the others defence if one is attacked?
I’m sorry but in my mind a formal alliance between the two would be the ultimate resistance to the West. On their own its just too hard and perhaps the people of both countries would feel a more brotherly attachment if they knew each could rely on each other for protection. No man is an island.
Hopefully Saker or someone else can write an article on the true nature of Russia’s and China’s relationship and how genuine it really is.
Soon the neo unitards will go down in history as God’s Chosen Dumbshits.
The yield on 3 month US treasuries is greater than the 10 year yield.
The Wall Street sociopathic parasites have created an asset inflation bubble to far and the military ignoramus corruption complex can’t enforce US dollar hegemony.
https://stockcharts.com/freecharts/yieldcurve.php
He who has the gold makes the rules and Chinese central bank after a 2 year layoff started purchasing gold again and I’ll bet they’re getting failures to deliver on their gold futures.
And now they have launched the most blatant false flag attack on oil tankers in the Gulf. The Armageddon wish is strong with these monsters.
The banking vampire empire has a favourite dish – the dollar. De-dollarize, de-dollarize, de-dollarize is the tune of the day. Soon enough the bloody outflows to the bankers coffers – City of London, New York & Basel – will eventually dry up.
What is the role of offshore tax havens in de-dollarization?
Per the documentary “The Spider’s Web,” half of world assets are held in these havens, beyond the ability of any country to tax their nationals’ holdings— in the trillions of dollars.
Per this documentary—just one interesting factoid—the continent of Africa is actually a creditor continent, not a debtor, as commonly stated. But the profits and assets have been creamed off by elites, stashed in tax havens, leaving African countries starved for revenues and instead, in debt.
Katherine
@Richard Steven Hack
US B-52s heavy bombing of Hezbollah bunkers and missile caches
If Hezbollah has Russian S-300s, S-400s, or even Chinese FD-2000s, the big slow B-52s are toast. Syria’s S-300s could probably defend Lebanon too.
If Hezbollah survives, it has more than enough missiles to turn Israel into smoking ruins. Sure, the Zionists want their US lackeys to destroy Iran, but what’s the point (for the Zionists) if Israel is annihilated too?
@Uncle Bob
There shouldn’t even be a debate on this. [The dependence on SWIFT] should have been fixed years ago.There have been threats to do that for 5 years now.Just how long should a “debate” be going on.
Russia and China are not slacking off.
See the following article: Rise of the yuan: China-based payment settlements jump 80%. Usage of China’s Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) grew 80% in 2018, to 14 million transactions or $3.77 trillion in value that year.
Of course, $3.77 trillion is not much compared to the $1825tn to $2190tn that SWIFT does annually, but note the growth rate: if CIPS continues to grow at 80% a year (admittedly unlikely), it will pass SWIFT in 11 years. Even if the growth slackens to 30%, CIPS will overtake SWIFT in 25 years.
I wrote:
Of course, $3.77 trillion is not much compared to the $1825tn to $2190tn that SWIFT does annually, but note the growth rate: if CIPS continues to grow at 80% a year (admittedly unlikely), it will pass SWIFT in 11 years. Even if the growth slackens to 30%, CIPS will overtake SWIFT in 25 years.
Of course, long before CIPS passes SWIFT, Russia and China will be safe from any SWIFT cutoff. The point is that CIPS is a working interbank settlement system that the US can’t threaten.
I also made an error in my calculations. I determined how long CIPS would take to pass SWIFT, assuming that CIPS grew at 80% or 30% a year. I forgot that SWIFT was also likely to grow. Okay, let’s assume that SWIFT will grow at 3% a year. I know, that’s probably an overestimate, as global economic growth (outside China) is more like 1% a year, but let’s give SWIFT the benefit of incumbency. With the new assumption, CIPS would still take 11 years (actually, more like 11.4 years) to overtake SWIFT at 80%, and 27 years, not 25, at 30%.
CIPS is likely to be handling transactions connected to trade and the real economy, whereas 99% of the SWIFT system, which looks like twenty-five or so times global GNP, would be mere financial speculation and parasitism.
A lot of speculation etc seems likely. Thus the switchover from SWIFT to CIPS could happen even faster than I expect.
It’s another example of sanctions as inoculation. With SWIFT left to the bloodsuckers, parasites and other vermin, the sanctioned States can concentrate on productive investment, and longer term planning than one micro-second, as is the case with computerised trading.
The United States must always have an enemy. It’s eonomy relies on it. War, for the U.S. and its military industrial complex, are money-making machines. If China and Russia didn’t exist, the U.S. would find or invent another enemy to keep its economy going. Maybe, it would be England. Yes, can’t you see it, fighting the red coats again?
@ A.E.Williams
. .. ” usa must always have an enemy …. ” ….
Possible , but since when ? Who were usa enemies in 1819 ? , 1889 ? …
What countries ? What were purpose of war ? Then…usa lend of imigrants.
… ” its economy relies on it ” …
Usa economy relies on work of slaves , then and now , and in some future time.
Usa come to power exploitiong work of slaves , conquering others taking their wealth. Some oil , some ore , some natural resources of slaved country.
… ” war for usa and its mic , are money-making machines … ” …
FED is $ printing machine , usa government and army are just money-wasting machines.
Work of slaves in countries all around world , those using $ ,
and war booty is money-gaining machines. Usa army wars for war booty.
Stealing from poor , earning wealth for rich.
Work of 99% of world poor to 1% richies.