As Sino-Russo-Iranophobia dissolves in sanctions and hysteria, mapmakers carve the post-unilateral order
By Pepe Escobar posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times
It’s the Nikolai Patrushev-Yang Jiechi show – all over again. These are the two players running an up and coming geopolitical entente, on behalf of their bosses Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
Last week, Yang Jiechi – the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee – visited Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow. That was part of the 16thround of China-Russia strategic security consultations.
What’s intriguing is that Yang-Patrushev happened between the Blinken-Lavrov meeting on the sidelines of the Arctic Council summit in Reykjavik, and the upcoming and highest-ranking Putin-Biden in Geneva on June 16 (possibly at the Intercontinental Hotel, where Reagan and Gorbachev met in 1985).
The Western spin before Putin-Biden is that it might herald some sort of reset back to “predictability” and “stability” in currently extra-turbulent US-Russia relations.
That’s wishful thinking. Putin, Patrushev and Lavrov harbor no illusions. Especially when in the G7 in London, in early May, the Western focus was on Russia’s “malign activities” as well as China’s “coercive economic policies.”
Russian and Chinese analysts, in informal conversations, tend to agree that Geneva will be yet another instance of good old Kissingerian divide and rule, complete with a few seducing tactics to lure Moscow away from Beijing, an attempt to bide some time and probing openings for laying out geopolitical traps. Old foxes such as Yang and Patrushev are more than aware of the game in play.
What’s particularly relevant is that Yang-Patrushev laid the groundwork for an upcoming Putin visit to Xi in Beijing not long after Putin-Biden in Geneva – to further coordinate geopolitically, once again, the “comprehensive strategic partnership”, in their mutually recognized terminology.
The visit might take place on July 1, the hundredth anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party – or on July 16, the 20thanniversary of the China-Russia Treaty of Friendship.
So Putin-Biden is the starter; Putin-Xi is the main course.
That Putin-Luka tea for two
Beyond the Russian president’s “outburst of emotions” comment defending his Belarusian counterpart’s action, the Putin-Lukashenko tea for two in Sochi yielded an extra piece of the puzzle concerning the RyanAir emergency landing in Minsk– starring a blogger from Belarus who is alleged to have lent his services to the ultra-nationalist, neo-Nazi-ridden Azov battalion, which fought against the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in the Ukrainian Donbass in 2014.
Lukashenko told Putin he had “brought along some documents so you can understand what is going on.” Nothing has been leaked regarding the contents of these documents, but it’s possible they may be incandescent – related to the fact that sanctions were imposed by the EU against Belavia Airlines even though the carrier had nothing to do with the RyanAir saga – and potentially capable of being brought up in the context of Putin-Biden in Geneva.
The Big Picture is always Eurasia versus the Atlanticist West. As much as Washington will keep pushing Europe – and Japan – to decouple from both China and Russia, Cold War 2.0 on two simultaneous fronts has very few takers.
Rational players see that the 21st century combined scientific, economic and military power of a Russia-China strategic partnership would be a whole new ball game in terms of global reach compared with the former USSR/Iron Curtain era.
And when it comes to appealing to the Global South, and the new iterations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), emphasis on an international order upholding the UN Charter and the rule of international law is definitely sexier than a much-vaunted “rules-based international order” where only the hegemon sets the rules.
In parallel to Moscow’s lack of illusions about the new Washington dispensation, the same applies to Beijing – especially after the latest outburst by Kurt Campbell, the former Obama-Biden 1.0 assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific who is now back as the head of Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council under Obama-Biden 3.0.
Campbell is the actual father of the ‘pivot to Asia’ concept when he was at the State Department in the early 2010s – although as I pointed out during the 2016 US presidential campaign, it was Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State who claimed Mothership of the pivot to Asia in an October 2011 essay.
At a gig promoted by Stanford University last week, Campbell said, “The period that was broadly described as engagement [with China] has come to an end.” After all, the “pivot to Asia” never really died, as there has been a clear Trump-Biden continuum.
Campbell obfuscated by talking about a “new set of strategic parameters” and the need to confront China by working with “allies, partners and friends”. Nonsense: this is all about the militarization of the Indo-Pacific.
That’s what Biden himself reiterated during his first address to a joint session of the US Congress, when he boasted about telling Xi that the US will “maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific” just as it does with NATO in Europe.
The Iranian factor
On a different but parallel track with Yang-Patrushev, Iran may be on the cusp of a momentous directional change. We may see it as part of a progressive strengthening of the Arc of Resistance – which links Iran, the People’s Mobilization Units in Iraq, Syria, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen and now a more unified Palestine.
The proxy war on Syria was a tragic, massive fail on every aspect. It did not deliver secular Syria to a bunch of takfiris (aka “moderate rebels”). It did not prevent the expansion of Iran’s sphere of influence. It did not derail the Southwest Asia branch of the New Silk Roads. It did not destroy Hezbollah.
“Assad must go”? Dream on; he was reelected with 95% of Syrian votes, with a 78% turnout.
As for the upcoming Iranian presidential election on June 18 – only two days after Putin-Biden – it takes place when arguably the nuclear deal revival drama being enacted in Vienna will have reached an endgame. Tehran has repeatedly stressed that the deadline for a deal expires today, May 31.
The impasse is clear. In Vienna, through its EU interlocutors, Washington has agreed to lift sanctions on Iranian oil, petrochemicals and the central bank, but refuses to remove them on individuals such as members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
At the same time, in Tehran, something very intriguing happened with Ali Larijani, former Parliament speaker, an ambitious member of a quite prominent family but discarded by the Guardian Council when it chose candidates to run for President. Larijani immediately accepted the ruling. As I was told by Tehran insiders, that happened with no friction because he received a detailed explanation of something much bigger: the new game in town.
As it stands, the one positioned as the nearly inevitable winner on June 18 seems to be Ebrahim Raeisi, up to now the chief justice – and close to the Revolutionary Guards. There’s a very strong possibility that he will ask the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to leave Iran – and that means the end of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as we knew it, with unforeseen consequences. (From the Revolutionary Guards’ point of view, the JCPOA is already dead).
An extra factor is that Iran is currently suffering from severe drought – when summer has not even arrived. The power grid will be under tremendous pressure. The dams are empty – so it’s impossible to rely on hydroelectric power. There’s serious popular discontent regarding the fact that Team Rouhani for eight years prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear power. One of Raeisi’s first acts may be to command the immediate construction of a nuclear power plant.
We don’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowin’ when it comes to the top three “existential threats” to the declining hegemon – Russia, China and Iran. What’s clear is that none of the good old methods deployed to maintain the subjugation of the vassals is working – at least when confronted by real sovereign powers.
As Sino-Russo-Iranophobia dissolves in a fog of sanctions and hysteria, mapmakers like Yang Jiechi and Nikolai Patrushev relentlessly carve the post-unilateral order.
‘And when it comes to appealing to the Global South, and the new iterations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), emphasis on an international order upholding the UN Charter and the rule of international law is definitely sexier than a much-vaunted “rules-based international order” where only the hegemon sets the rules’.
As far as I can see, China and Russia are bidding to join the non-aligned nations. That would snooker Washington properly.
Russia and China are the Godfathers of the Non-Aligned Movement, going way back……
“Nonsense: this is all about the militarization of the Indo-Pacific”.
Well, some of the inhabitants of the Pacific, along with the Japanese, have already tasted the delights of nuclear war (on the receiving end) – courtesy of the Pentagon.
As the world’s biggest and widest ocean, the Pacific does not offer Washington an attractive mis-en-scene for war against China, Russia, or both. (And both it would be, as the Russians and Chinese are well aware that they must hang together or hang separately).
Only very long-range missiles can cross the Pacific and deliver powerful blows. Bomber aircraft have very little chance of surviving the flight, and aircraft carriers coming within 2,000 km of Chinese or Russian missiles would simply be sunk. As for landing substantial military forces on the continent of Asia – just forget it. Saddam Hussein sat for months watching the Americans built up their forces to attack Iraq. China and Russia – even Iran – might take a few days to decide.
Tom.
You missed north-west Australia being designated a “lillypad”,
(can find a link to the US medal wearer who stated this if anyone interested)
From this location it is a short missile hop into anywhere in China.
The militarisation of north Australia is progressing rapidly. Most Australians completely unaware.
Australia has been convinced to greatly increase its military budget to pay for new big boy toys, and build infrastructure in north Australia.
Australia is supposedly building its own missiles.
Lots going on under the radar (pun) in “lillypad” Australia.
“Australia has been convinced to greatly increase its military budget to pay for new big boy toys, and build infrastructure in north Australia.”
You mean roped in and bullied to support the US military complex and usd$ by buying overpriced and comparatively under performing junk to keep the war-systems going. This is a big sacrifice directly affecting trade relations with the major customer of raw materials and provider of finished goods that has not been put to the popular (read deomcratic) vote. It is being pushed by some mental-retard, backside-selling, subalterns in Canberra.
As for “building its own missiles” — I doubt that. Why bother when there are thousands of American warehouses to empty to make space for new inventory etc? The place still does not rank high enough in world affairs to even get a reasonable quota of C-19 vaccines. At 25-million people it is roughly the same scale as Sri Lanka (apart from land mass). One chinese city basically. It’s natural agency has never really emerged and it still keeps the British monarchy and flag (with a few added southern stars on blue wilderness background).
“Lots going on under the radar (pun) in “lillypad” Australia” — just another cog in the western capatalist machine going about its business to protect settler programmes and international capital.
I can recommend this recent public radio interview (1June21, 18min) with a local academic that puts it rather well:
“Australia’s relationship with China has been on a steep decline over the last few years politically, strategically and economically and COVID certainly hasn’t helped. Is there a middle road between pandering to China and paranoia about China. David Brophy explains believes there is.”
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/a-new-way-of-navigating-our-relationship-with-china/13368794
Consider it a blessing the vaccine rollout has been as slow as it has. I hope to God that the PM and the government hold firm against all the pressure being thrown at them to accelerate.
Excellent SitRep on Russia-China, Russia-US, Putin-Xi, Putin-Biden, US-Iran, and Eurasian Integration-Western Collapse.
What strategy could the US use beside carrot and stick?
And the Carrot? Ukraine? They might offer something there, but Russia doesn’t want to take on the burden.
The Stick? The US will start a War in Ukraine-Belarus?
The Russians-Belarus militaries would wipe the NATO-Ukie sacrificial lambs in days and expose all European vassals to a forced stand down and de-militarization or lose not just NATO alliance but EU economic nodes.
The US has nothing to offer and no threat to use.
As for separating, dividing, picking off Russia from China or China from Russia, the task is impossible. They coordinate as if they are a unified organism.
The threats to each cannot be the threats to both. The US has to challenge or cajole each one at a time. This makes the task of challenging Russia in the western region isolated. Challenging China in the eastern region becomes isolated also. No matter a NATO in the west and IndoPacific QUAD in the east, they could never operate without the US full attention. Thus, each must take its turn. All the while, the Double Helix is unified, coordinated as massive land powers with EW, Radars and Missile Defenses that the Hegemon cannot penetrate.
Start a war with either and you will actually get both (logistically and tactically) as your opponent.
The US can only lose its proxy shields (NATO and QUAD), and then be exposed as weak and the loser.
Biden will have bring Syria, North Africa, Lebanon, a settled Palestine, the end of nazi Kiev, and the Arctic to get Putin’s attention to Let’s Make a Deal. All of those in one package, which would never happen.
Meanwhile, Biden is losing control over his China policy options. The neocons and Sinophobes are running wild with Covid-19 ‘origins’. If Biden can’t keep China open for Wall Street and the financial capitalists who call the shots domestically in the US, he will have no political leverage.
The US and Biden have cornered themselves. Biden is out of the China market, out of the Eurasian market and has no military strategy or alliances (no Sticks) to break the Double Helix.
The US has played its stones into self-enclosed space. It can no longer rule the globe. It is not welcomed outside its Atlantic shores. Eurasia, Asia, Africa, ME and Latin America reject the Hegemon.
As the beauty of its dollars, now blood-soaked, fades into history, and its endless wars prove to be snake-oil illusions of democracy, the US has nothing left to “sell”. Climate Change is elite ideology, not a solution to the world’s problems.
Biden will be in Geneva as a fitting representative of the distant past, not the future.
He has nothing to offer.
He will be told what he must do, not what he wishes to be done.
The US Hegemon is old, diminished, weak, shaky, and very limited. Biden embodies all these deficits perfectly.
Possible “stick” options include financial and investment restrictions, including the nuclear option of shutting Russia off from SWIFT, also seizing assets owned by Russia and (more importantly) by Russian nationals overseas.
It would be a mistake to underestimate the ruthlessness of these people. Such an approach would harm Europe more than Russia but is entirely in keeping with the principle of fighting wars on someone else’s territory- and there will be profits to be had in the rebuilding.
Or am I wrong in this line of thinking?
Russia, China and Iran have substitutes for SWIFT. The stick is a broken twig.
Russia is already isolated from Western investment, though, as you will see at the upcoming SPIEF, the largest contingent will be from the US.
There is nuclear war and suicide. Nothing else is a threat to Russia and China.
Does the US Elite actually want to perish?
I think not. Their wet dream is immortality.
The reality is Empires are term-limited. The Anglo-American Empire is over. You can’t erase US history.
Like a virile young man who takes to drugs and alcohol and dissipates his vigor and good health, the US has pissed away not only its hegemony and prior good will, it has no future as unipolar global monarch.
The US is very dangerous because it has incompetent leaders and an irrational set of ideologies that drive both parties that alternate in power. Liberalism is a failure everywhere. Exceptionalism has died a short life. The Left and the Right are without ideas, policies and solutions that the masses want. Trump offered nationalism and retrenchment from endless wars. The elites stole his second election and only 2022 and 2024 will see if he and those programs have a second life.
Meanwhile, Biden is traveling with an empty briefcase, tugging along a suitcase with no handles (Ukraine). He has mixed feeling about the suitcase. There’s a few billion dollars of corrupt money Biden and the Dems want from Ukraine. It’s a pig trough that keeps on giving to them black money they launder into their political campaigns. But, Ukraine is also a broken nation that needs 25 million people to get fed, medicine and pensions with no hope of revenues sufficient to satisfy those needs. No one wants the Ukies. Plenty of people want the land they live on.
Putin knows all of this far better than we do. Nothing Biden can say will be taken as a meaningful threat or offer.
Putin is one of the architects of the future of mankind. Biden is a graveyard keeper and candidate for a crypt.
“The elites stole his second election and only 2022 and 2024 will see if he and those programs have a second life.”
the usa and europe don’t have that long to decide. domestic inflation is already ruinous but not yet out fully in public consciousness. this should take place starting this summer and in full panic for the state and populace by this time next year. this will make 2022 chaotic with public trust and confidence in both the government and fed collapse. the one way exit out of the cities will accelerate even faster rendering them incapacitated and broke.
the biden spending plans are ludicrous and anyone with economic understanding knows where this goes. digital money is the goal. the biden profligacy and chaos just over the hill are the elites way of lubing the public up for the “change” they have planned well before 2024 elections, IF they even occur. politically, socially and culturally somewhere between “”lachrymose argentina/hypertense brazil””” is whats coming
by 2024 food shortages, medicine shortages supply chain fractures will be the norm not the exception. any war with china by washington is absurd on its face……….rare earth elements cease to flow to the MIC, medicine delivery is disrupted any and all american owned or partnered production on the mainland becomes subject to force majeure which decimates wall street and the big dow averages………talk of financial suicide….. war with bejing is that before the first missile hits.
what americans consider economic normalcy or a covid version of it ends this year.
I would guess Biden will be out before this time next year, in order to create a groundswell of patriotic emotions when things start to get ugly. By January 21, 2025, there will be no more keeping a lid on anything.
“Tedrichard” notes inflation, shortages of good will appear soon.
A solid and honest economist is Dr. John Williams. His site is http://www.shadowstats.com
According to his reports;
US inflation is around 13%
US unemployment is about 25-26%
Millions of American citizens (combined) are $14 TRILLION in debt. (Auto, mortgage, credit card and college debt combined.)
The US govt, eons ago, would increase wages when inflation flared up. NO more. The banks, insurance companies keep making incredible profits just off that debt by citizens.
With that “debt load” and the lack of good paying jobs, the social conditions in America will grow even more disturbed.
I expect the inequality, (and the violence that goes w/it), to increase dramatically over the coming years.
Tent and car cities are no way to grow an economy.
Hi Larch!
You may be missing an important and groundbreaking news item in the western press at the moment and that is the previous and current sighting of UFO’s that is so important to the Pentagon and the US press. The hope is that they may be the salvation of the west as all else fails … as you point out so well. That the intelligencia of the ‘western powers’ may have a combined belief that their plight may find a new interrestial ally from another universe and all will be well. Here I consider the possibilities …
UFO: From the point of view of the pilots of the UFO’s https://youtu.be/phG999W3NWU
This comes from an institution that killed OBL after he had already been dead for 10 years, they love theater b/c there’s no where else to go.
But Biden may give Putin an offer that he can’t refuse.
An offer like Putin’s dream of “a Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok” – dominated by Russia of course.
An enlarged Europe with European culture will help shield a very underpopulated Russia from 1.4 billion supposedly land-hungry Chinese and 1.3 billion equally land-hungry Indians in Eurasia.
Nord Stream 2 could be just the first installment.
Will Putin fall for it? My hunch is that there is a good chance that he will. Must concentrate also on the real longer-term threat from Russia’s point of view.
But as Larchmonter445 said, “No one wants the Ukies. Plenty of people want the land they live on”. And Russia has plenty of land.
Far too much from Hitler’s point of view.
And the west Europeans may not want Siberia either. They want the sparsely populated and very fertile lebensraum west of the Urals.
You are wrong when you continue to overestimate the power of ‘these people’ and their ability to manipulate the minds.
People still cannot wrap their minds around the fact that ‘China-Russia cooperation has no upper limits’. That ‘Regardless of history, Beijing and Moscow have become strategic partners that cannot be separated from each other. The two countries not only maintain and develop their relations back-to-back, but also meet challenges shoulder-to-shoulder. There are countless forces consolidating this situation. This is the inevitable choice of the two countries and their peoples in the 21st century, and it is what the world expects from these two great powers’.
What are the chances of a formal defense pact between Russia and China announced at the China meet?
Zero chance. It is not needed. It is not in the interest of either nation.
The mere coordination of the two leaders, the two military organizations and the convergence of threats from the same source (US and its proxies) make their alliance unnecessary.
Russia and China are bound at the hip, with thousands of miles of common border, with the necessity to have sea access in the Pacific, with the need to have a NSR in the Arctic, with the need of energy by China and the supply abundance from Russia, with agricultural land available for China to lease, with water available, and timber available as exports from Russia that China requires. They compliment one another in many strategic ways.
They now are building a leading edge electronic network of defenses based on Russian technology to cover the China territory like it covers the Russia territory.
Because China is not a warrior nation like Russia is the Chinese have set out to learn the Russian way of warfare. Thus, Russian generals and staff officers can assist the Chinese if they need help at the strategic, tactical or logistical level. And it will be seamless.
The Chinese will fight for what they need to and the Russians will fight for their own national interests, too.
There won’t be any need for an alliance. China won’t be coming to the rescue, nor the Russians rescuing the Chinese. But both will give whatever assistance the other may need if war breaks out.
Alliance sounds good and may look good on the surface, but it creates issues neither need or want to grapple with. Everything is fine and smooth as is.
next door neighbors protecting their neighborhood from vandals. very little is really complicated at its core
@Larchmonter445
very good analysis, as usual :)
as for the ‘formal defense pact’, it may have already happen, semi-formal, or if you like, semi-informal. very secret… Andrei Martyanov may have the insiders.
Also dont forget,
Basel III (1st Jun)
S.K just got their military command back (expect the bases to go home soon)
both china-russia has recently flash a few more new ‘toys’
the king is dead…
… even w nuk, it appears USSA has already lost the speed test…
the only card USSA has left is –
the semi chips (as they harrass Taiwan and SK)
… until china builds hundreds of factory (in less than 3 yrs)
and then USSA can go back to their horse/donkey riding days to wage wars… they wont have REAL money to buy a REAL automotive no more
Thanks also to Pepe and specially to, the Saker :)
be well be safe
@Larchmonter445. Something just doesn’t add up. Putin is on record as saying that the US is not agreement capable.
But then Putin stood down his forces and withdrew his army from the Ukraine border after a (mere) phone call from Biden which, according to some reports, promised US withdrawal of objection to Nord Stream 2. So Biden made Putin an offer he could not refuse.
The result? With military pressure from Russia greatly eased, the US and its allies were able to pivot military forces hard east to pressure China in the South China Sea, East China Sea and over Taiwan.
China is therefore the loser from the Putin-Biden verbal agreement over the phone.
How then could China and Russia be “joined at the hip” in terms of strategic cooperation?
Just thinkin’ that’s all.
@Larchmonter: “The US Hegemon is old, diminished, weak, shaky, and very limited.”
Like its present POTU$. A witty comparison by Larchmonter.
“If Biden can’t keep China open for Wall Street and the financial capitalists who call the shots domestically in the US, he will have no political leverage.”
And no political future after 2022, most likely.
The whole scharade is clearly at breaking point. They have a “pivot to Mars” with the Pentagon now sending out UFO flares as the hyperinflation starts to kick in. Total 1950’s escapism remix.
What I don’t quite see/understand yet is the actual playbook script they intend to use in/with this meeting with Putin they are absolutely desperate for. I suggest it is mainly US domestic airwaves orientated and must have a calculus.
If they can’t realistically go straight to WW3 in order to cancel out the debt owed to China (they are trying with C-19 origins) and keep the usd$ reserve status, then all they can do is run up the white flag and negotiate a viable corner in the emerging multipolar world. It seems late-20th century globailsm was another failed “general theory of everything” that started tanking with Clinton and burst with the global financial crisis in 2007-9. Now they are resorting to bio-warfare rhetoric (if not kinetics) and needle-based domestic public health policy.
Such is the crazyiness at the moment I would even consider a “Putin does Biden in with novichok” door-knob scenario to feed the lame-street media hysteria preparing for a WW3 ramp up.
As for real risk — I’d suggest Putin makes no physical contact, wears gloves, and brings his own positive pressure atmospherics, seat covers and food/water. Lest he develop a strange Venezuelan cancer like Hugo Chavez did. In all this mess the only viable US strategy, as their security force etiquette dictates, is go for the head of the snake. Without Putin (or Xi) they have some small whisper of a chance in sowing discord to their broader strategic advantage. In fact if the Russians have a Putin stand-in proxy at hand then that would be the safest approach, imo. It is “desperate times” in the lands between Canada and Mexico.
Such is the crazyiness at the moment I would even consider a “Putin does Biden in with novichok” door-knob scenario to feed the lame-street media hysteria preparing for a WW3 ramp up. As for real risk — I’d suggest Putin makes no physical contact, wears gloves, and brings his own positive pressure atmospherics, seat covers and food/water. Lest he develop a strange Venezuelan cancer like Hugo Chavez did.
Excellent points! Those hadn’t occurred to me until now, but I would consider either one or even both of those scenarios in tandem as a very real threat. I’m sure the Russians are planning extensively for them.
I don’t believe that US can use the “carrot and stick” tactics – they never had any valuable carrots to speak of, and are running out of sticks, fast.
very well written!
La India de Modi es una potencia con triada nuclear y durante años los medios oficialistas de esa nacion lavaron el cerebro a su poblacion con romanticismo sionista o amor por Israel. La India es un peligro para la estabilidad en Asia pacifico. Modi debe salir para que India deje de ser un muñeco titere de Occidente. Rusia es la unica superpotencia que puede mediar entre China e India. Pero con Modi por el momento es imposible. Luego en el sur global Argentina tiene mucho acercamiento con su actual presidente hacia China y Rusia pese a ser torpe y estar influenciado por organismos como el FMI que le obligaron a aprobar el aborto legal en un pais catolico. En Brasil tenemos al sionazi Bolsonaro con protestas masivas en Sao Paulo y se ve que su salida es inminente ante el desastre sanitario. Brasil tarde o temprano volvera a la ruta de la seda transcontinental. En Mexico Amlo esta mas cerca de los no alineados y ya se ven ataques del periodico britanico The Economist (Grupo Pearson) hacia su persona. Amlo busca recuperar la soberania energetica que Peña Nieto regalo a los Anglos. Latino america es rica en recursos y busca un orden mas justo y en el sistema atlantico no lo encuentra desde hace 70 años. Lo cual el sistema esta agotado. Nuevos tiempos dificiles nos espera pero con oportunidades.
Saludos Cordiales !
Yandex translation. Mod:
Modi’s India is a power with nuclear triad and for years the ruling media of that nation brainwashed its population with Zionist romanticism or love for Israel. India is a danger to stability in Asia Pacific. Modi has to leave so that India stops being a puppet of the West. Russia is the only superpower that can mediate between China and India. But with Modi for the moment it’s impossible. Then in the global south Argentina has a lot of rapprochement with its current president towards China and Russia despite being clumsy and influenced by organizations such as the IMF that forced him to approve legal abortion in a Catholic country. In Brazil we have the Sionazi Bolsonaro with massive protests in Sao Paulo and it is seen that his exit is imminent in the face of the health disaster. Brazil will sooner or later return to the transcontinental silk road. In Mexico Amlo is closer to the non-aligned and there are already attacks on him by the British newspaper The Economist (Pearson Group). Amlo seeks to recover the energy sovereignty that Peña Nieto gave to los Anglos. Latin America is rich in resources and seeks a more just order and in the Atlantic system has not found it for 70 years. Which the system is exhausted. New difficult times await us but with opportunities.
Best Regards !
US and the West implemented entire spectre of sanctions against Russia but with very limited success.
Russia and China are not stupid to trust US and West ANYTHING.
Only remaining attack that could harm Russia would be to exclude Russia from SWIFT. That is the last thing that West can do.
And the West will do it sooner or later. Question is how much Russia is prepared for this and how quickly can adapt its economy for that attack.
As we can see, Iran is kicked out from SWIFT but that did not destroy Iran.
And Russia is probably more resilient than Iran.
Anyway Russia has to be ready for that. I hope they actively prepare their economy for that last one strike from the West.
Seizing assets of russian nationals in the West is the problem for those persons , not for Russia. Not at all.
From what we can see Russia IS prepared to withstand any attacks.
I hope so. To kick Russia out from SWIFT is the last resort, the last that West can do and try to stop russian economic development.
Everything else did not have too much success although it had some limited impact.
West will do that, they will exclude Russia from SWIFT, West is just waiting for moment that they think would be the right time.
Moscow should not have any ilussions about that. Yes, it will harm western economies as well, but the West is ready for such a price if they think that they can critically harm Russia.
RE: Bosnian Croat on May 31, 2021 · at 10:15 pm EST/EDT
“West will do that, they will exclude Russia from SWIFT, West is just waiting
for moment that they think would be the right time.
Moscow should not have any ilussions about that. Yes, it will harm western
economies as well, but the West is ready for such a price if they think that
they can critically harm Russia.”
Emotionalism restricts perception by increasing reliance on ideology.
Reliance on ideology precludes rigorous analyses including of – What are the United States of America and how are they facilitated ?
A component part of what are the United States of America are rentier socio-economic relations predicated/reliant upon coercive social relations, which are rendered vulnerable by those subject to emotionalism.
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/525152-uk-working-class-pandemic/
https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/525102-medici-money-modern-world/
The people will dust off the guillotines, as soon as they realize that not only social mobility up has been put a break quite time ago, but that the future their “elites” have thought for them is no other but slavery.
No fortified neighborhood will spare them from being grabbed..
Related to the pandemic mess created by both the already proved unnecessary lockdowns who brought the economy to stop and thus send the majority to ruin, plus the currently forced vaccinations with extremely harmful genic experimental therapies, even in the case the high courts refuse to make justice about the myriad of Nurembergs in the making at various European nations, may be the people will opt for taking justice by their own hand.
The so called “social-contract” has obviously been, broken the same way they broke any geopolitical treaty with foreign partners, but if you break the pack of cards, you should expect the other side may go further and opt for breaking the whole table…especially if it has nithing to lose left…Saying “the table”, for what could in this case be broken, is an undestatement.
RE: Asha K. on June 01, 2021 · at 6:19 pm EST/EDT
“The people will dust off the guillotines”
Ideologies have half-lives whilst emulation of coercive social relations preclude their transcendence.
Emotionalism restricts perception by increasing reliance on ideology.
Hence some people may attempt to dust off “weapons of individual destruction” but be disuaded from engagement in such counter-productive efforts to facilitate the lateral process of transcendence of coercive social relations by cooperative social relations with the minimum of blowback.
Enemy of the peopleness was/is a component of, and in emulation of, coercive social relations informed by notions derived from the rubbing sticks school of thermo-dynamics..
‘Emotionalism restricts perception by increasing reliance on ideology….
and coercive social relations, which are rendered vulnerable by those subject to emotionalism.’
What does this mean? It means that perception and good analysis should be independent of emotional attachment. Coersive social relations such as Israel’s apartheid is vunerable to emotionalism which is currently playing out since many nations and their people are ’emotionally’ apalled at the loss of Palestinean life and property.
So will a reinforcement of idelogy be the outcome and who will that favour?
It has long been my contention since living in the East that the emphasis of the individual as separate from the family will be the cause of a societal breakdown. That individualism can be a huge asset to a family is the crucial element that is ignored. Instead of this individualism has become associated with selfishness, greed and exploitation.
Here I examine this concept … https://youtu.be/8oFRnSf50aI
RE: John Hagan on June 02, 2021 · at 7:14 am EST/EDT
“the emphasis of the individual as separate from the family will be the cause of a societal breakdown.”
Linear beliefs/hopes/wishes, sometimes known as reforms, are predicated on beliefs/hopes that in interactive systems, only some components change whilst others remain the same.
However interactions are lateral hence all components interact – ergo change is constant – the variables within which include, but are not restricted to, trajectories and velocities.
Hence unicausality, sometimes known as ” the cause”, does not exist, and neither does sole agency; prime agency being a transitory moment within a lateral process facilitated by multifactorial multicausality, which some alluded to by use of metaphors such as Pandora’s box, which includes the connotation by “ancient” materialists of Pandora womb as chrysalis.
Consequently the opponents continue to wish to live in a past which never existed, as was the case with Mr. Gorbachev and his associates.
quick glance here (old news) says its in motion
https://sputniknews.com/russia/202105311083042225-eu-to-discuss-disconnecting-russia-from-swift-before-making-decision/
The EU, if they got their way, would soon suffer massive cyber attacks on their economic pillars.
The only reason Russia hasn’t done so in the past, is they haven’t really had to punish the fools. Also, the EU is China’s biggest trade partner. However, their will be payback if the US agrees to try to damage Russia’s economy.
As for the US, there have been many attacks via cyber that have been very costly to the US. More and bigger attacks will be the result of any SWIFT decision against Russia.
The US has almost no defenses because its grid and networks are old.
the electrical power grid is the one truly society altering hack that destroys peace of mind for the most people the quickest.
also keep in mind that the elites here and in europe desire to eliminate paper money for pure digital money they can totally control and cancel anyone they deem trouble meaning that any cyber attack on power or banking renders commerce at the simplest local level impossible for the duration of the attack for everyone
this is the true level of incompetence and lack of forethought under which the west is ruled. socialism… endless borrowing with no payback is ending now and the powers are desperate to hold on to their privilege no matter what with no appreciation for the final cost to everyone before it all blowsup and they lose anyway
@TedRichard: “endless borrowing with no payback is ending now”
You mean Rothschild is calling in his Loans? Our regime must hand over the little of our property that Rothschild does not already own?
Or else? I do not understand economics. Especially the well known saying, If you owe the bank a dollar the bank owns you but if you owe the bank a trillion dollars you own the bank. Surely by now we ought to be owning Rothschild?
The US started importing Russian oil when it cut off Venezuelan oil. So the US is importing billions of dollars in Russian oil. Plus, Russia is still supplying rocket engines to the US, isn’t it.
So if SWIFT is blocked, how will the US pay Russia…..maybe send gold equivalent from Fort Knox?? (which probably doesn’t exist.)
I think that contract for those rocket engines is over. Last six engines were supplied to US couple of months ago
A vault is empty, until proven full.
Yes and for Russia it will be final break with the West.
West wants this and so be it.
Russia will survive. As always.
But the West … not sure
> Seizing assets of russian nationals in the West is the problem for those persons , not for Russia. Not at all.
Why would they do it? They provide low cost funding…
To attempt to indirectly put pressure on the Russian government in general and on Putin in particular.
Russia is prepared for being kicked out of SWIFT, which actually is a messaging service rather than a funds transfer service. Moscow is preparing for the event with very detailed stratergies. They and China know that a showdown is coming, the E.U. are little more than clowns with severe internal rifts and the U.S. isn’t as it was 30 years ago. They are waiting for the moment they consider the most conducive to retaliate.
It’s so extreme that it’s outright comical. On one side the noises and inanities from a bunch of criminals and fools such as Biden (more a vegetable, but never mind), Modi, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, and what-have-you whose gross incompetence and ineptitude can only escape the wilfully blind. On the other side the leaderships of Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Belarus, and the growing power of anti-imperialist forces in Africa and Latin America.
Take my word for it: Not even the boldest ”regime critic” du jour in any of the countries listed above will be able to stir up any noticeable problems. The ”regime critics” have only their Master’s total brainrot to show for them.
I had hoped Modi was a tat better than the left leaning liberal primes before, but he is high on rhetoric/symbolism, idiotic socioeconomic policies and self defeating religious confrontation.
Bolsonaro is simply a fool, Nuttenyahoo a gangster and Biden brain-dead.
Endgame of the incompetent; tag-teaming with the degenerate/faux left (with the EU stuffed with bananas in its tailpipe).
China is good to go, Luka a tractorist clinging to his Belorussian fields – not ready to become a 3rd provincial Russian politician, Syria depressed and ready to rebuild, Iran going nuclear with prospective shinny new biz-international shekels and Russia waiting for the Czar to finally smash his liberal dreams with his accompanying real world entourage. (And the unavoidable rebirth of SMERSH)
Really nice overview of the current geopolitical trends. Given the generalist tone, I can imagine there are tons of information, not to mention details, couldn’t mention for a reason or another. Even like that, what emerges is :
1- Europe irrelevancy in all geopolitical aspects, but as a platform (pad) for power projection of US;
2- US collective cognitive decline, leading to a fully irrational, self-contradictory and back-firing politics.
3- Russia, China, Iran & Resistance Axis, driving the humanity toward progress, while Europe + US are sinking themselves in the swamp of neo-eugenic politics, sanctions cutting in itself and silly military threads.
I am living in Europe right now. The atmosphere is heavy, sad and pessimistic. No light, no perspective.
Tass: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told journalists on Monday. “The agendas of the US and Russia do not coincide but we are traditionally ready to react to any issues raised by the American side. Unfortunately, the reciprocal readiness is observed less and more seldom,” he said. The senior diplomat added that in the coming days, Washington will receive a number of signals from Moscow: “The Americans should proceed from the premise that a number of signals from Moscow – and I am not talking here about the meeting at the highest level, I don’t know how it will proceed, – are going to be uncomfortable for them, including in the coming days”.
MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. The European Parliament is seeking to impose a confrontational agenda ahead of a summit meeting between Russian and US Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, in a bid to win political points, speaker of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday. “The European Parliament and its President David Sassoli have tried to gain political weight using the upcoming meeting between the Russian and US presidents as a pretext,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. He recalled that they had invited Washington to join a draft joint statement to be made public ahead of the summit, on June 15. The document calls for toughening sanctions against Russia and China. “As a matter of fact, the European Parliament is imposing a confrontational agenda on Joe Biden ahead of his meeting with Vladimir Putin. It is obviously meant to exert pressure, to create a negative backdrop for the summit – in a bid to gain political points on the topics that might be discussed by the two presidents,” he noted. According to Volodin, such a position is irresponsible, since “trying to wreck possible Russian-US agreements the Europeans are cutting their own throats” and ignore the role of the Russian-US relations for peace and wellbeing in Europe.”
And BERLIN, May 30. /TASS/. President of the European Union Parliament David Sassoli has called for tightening anti-Russian sanctions, he said in an interview published in the newspapers of Germany’s Funke media group on Sunday. “We have to tighten the sanctions against Russian officials, but also establish closer contacts with the population and civil society and support Russian dissidents, NGOs and independent media,” Sassoli said.
Strange that 2 German ministers are going to USA to discuss NS2….thought that was kinda settled…..
TASS, June 1. A high-ranking negotiating team from Germany is due to visit Washington, D.C. this week to discuss the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with the US government, Funke media group reported, according to Finanzen.net portal. According to the report, the team consists of the German Chancellor’s foreign policy adviser, Jan Hecker, and her chief economic adviser, Lars-Hendrik Roeller. They will meet with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and new Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
MOSCOW, May 28. / TASS /. Gazprom applies to the Polish court with a petition to suspend consideration of the antimonopoly fine in the amount of €50 mln on the Russian holding in the case of Nord Stream 2, according to the Gazprom report under IFRS for Q1 2021, released on Friday. In July 2020, the Polish Competition and Consumer Protection Committee notified the Russian holding about the imposition of this fine “for failure to provide information previously requested by the Polish antimonopoly authority as part of the specified antimonopoly investigation” that is, for refusing to cooperate and provide the information requested by the department on the Nord Stream 2.” In August, Gazprom appealed the decision to a competent court in Poland.
PRAGUE, June 1. /TASS/. The Czech authorities are committed to the idea of demanding compensation from Russia for the damage allegedly caused by the 2014 Vrbetice ammunition warehouses explosions, Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek told reporters.
June seems to be a date for impmenentation of procedures.
UK MI5 has been meeting head of HTS re Idlib
To stop action against west(but does not mention eastwards)
CONFLICT IN SYRIA 31 MAY, 17:02Updated at: 17:36 British intelligence suggests al-Nusra start cooperating with West – diplomatic source Western intelligence agencies are seeking to directly establish contact with international terrorist groups active in Syria Jonathan Powell © AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. The British MI6 intelligence agency’s representative Jonathan Powell suggested that leader of the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (outlawed in Russia) Abu Mohammad al-Julani should build close cooperation with the West, a diplomatic source in Moscow told TASS on Monday. “The British side suggested that the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham group (outlawed in Russia, also known as Jabhat al-Nusra) should announce plans to abandon subversive activities against Western countries and build close cooperation with them,” he said. “Mohammad al-Julani received recommendations to give an interview to an American reporter in order to create a positive image for the alliance that he heads and rehabilitate it in the future. There are plans to engage some of the UK’s allies, primarily the US, in efforts aimed at rebranding the al-Nusra group,” the source added. According to him, Western intelligence agencies are seeking to directly establish contact with international terrorist groups active in Syria. The meeting between Powell and al-Julani took place in the Idlib de-escalation zone near the Bab al-Hawa Border Crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border, the source said. According to him, the meeting was focused on the possibility of removing Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from the list of terrorist organizations. In addition, an agreement was reached on maintaining a permanent communication link with international terrorists designated as such by the United Nations Security Council.”
Hmmmm….just as Turkish connections to supplying militants are being more thoroughly expised in recent days.
Note EU is funding ..
RT
EU pledges aid to an anti-Damascus region in the name of Syrian sovereignty but sanctions Assad government for being sovereign 30 May, 2021 By Kevin Karp. The EU’s aid pledge to an anti-Damascus Syrian breakaway region and its renewal of sanctions against Bashar Assad reveal a contradictory policy that ramps up humanitarian aid, while worsening the hardships that require such aid. Right after pledging a humanitarian-aid package of some 26 million euro on Wednesday to the Kurdish-controlled breakaway region of Northeastern Syria (NES), EU authorities on Thursday renewed punitive sanctions against the Syrian government of Bashar Assad. That same day, the Syrian leader won re-election as president in a landslide victory, with 78.6% voter turnout. The pair of EU decisions is impractical: aid-delivery routes to NES through Iraq and Jordan have been closed, and the only current approaches, via Turkey, are fraught with tension as Ankara…..”
Etc
With all the dirt and nonsense the U.S and Britain have thrown at Russia since the start of the Ukrainian crisis, one really has to ask why would Putin even have a summit with any of the current U.S Muppets in the Biden administration.
What at all could the U.S offer Russia, even the stinking decaying U.S dollar won’t be of any good to Russia even it was offered as a starter on any menu.
The U.S is desperate to maintain any relevance on the global scale, if I was Putin I would have told Biden to stick his summit where the sun don’t shine.
I guess Putin at the very least will be lectured about transgender,BLM, and woke ideology from a bunch of weirdos who think they’re diplomats.
When you really think about it, this summit will be the cherry on top of the Mudcake, that will be slammed into the faces of the wierdos in Washington, for it the U.S not Russia who are desperate for this summit.
RE: Boz From Oz on June 01, 2021 · at 7:05 am EST/EDT
” The U.S is desperate to maintain any relevance on the global scale, if I was Putin I would have told Biden to stick his summit where the sun don’t shine.”
via
RE: MagdaTam on June 01, 2021 · at 5:15 am EST/EDT
“Emotionalism restricts perception by increasing reliance on ideology.
Reliance on ideology precludes rigorous analyses including of – What are the United States of America and how are they facilitated ?
A component part of what are the United States of America are rentier socio-economic relations predicated/reliant upon coercive social relations, which are rendered vulnerable by those subject to emotionalism.”
Resort to coercive social relations requires complicity/facilitation/subsumption of others in emotions/ideologies derived therefrom, including but not limited to, “to stick his summit where the sun don’t shine.” which offer restricted opportunities for interlocutors to render opponents useful fools with their complicity, and hence some tend not resort to such practices.
Instead some facilitate through apparent “non-intervention” increased com[plicity of opponents in their own useful foolery, including but not restricted to
VIA
RE : JJ on June 01, 2021 · at 9:16 am EST/EDT
“Oooohhh…lots of posturising off the coast of Portugal to back up Bidens status and positioning at the meeting…..later land exercises in Ukraine via Black Sea…..presumably not all 19 naval ships in one go…..?”
Enhancing opportunities and scope of useful foolery, with contigent “disappointments”, encouraging emotional resort to belief to bridge doubt to attain hopes of “sustainability”, evangelised in various forms, adding to the dosage of fantasy in fantasy lands.
RE: MagdaTam on June 01, 2021 · at 10:41 am EST/EDT
“Resort to coercive social relations requires complicity/facilitation/subsumption of others in emotions/ideologies derived therefrom….”
RE: RE : JJ on June 01, 2021 · at 9:16 am EST/EDT
“Oooohhh…lots of posturising off the coast of Portugal to back up Bidens status and positioning at the meeting…..later land exercises in Ukraine via Black Sea…..presumably not all 19 naval ships in one go…..?”
Enhancing opportunities and scope of useful foolery, with contigent “disappointments”, encouraging emotional resort to belief to bridge doubt to attain hopes of “sustainability”, evangelised in various forms, adding to the dosage of fantasy in fantasy lands.”
evangelised in hope to the folks back home, who attempt to assign themselves significances that others do not assign to them.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/525493-us-space-nukes-boeing/
As you alude of bombing capabilities, may be of interest…
From the times when the “rules based order” was born, previous to Ministry of Truth and current dystopia, when the journalists, some, still where worth the name and were doing the right questions, even amongst a whole performance which allowed them to whitewash crimes against humanity.
Today 22 years later, all this, this interview, in the West, not to mention current Spain, would be unthinkable…
With all, amongst the propaganda and whitewashing, both the journos and him still spilled some pearls…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-JgSiuNtI&t=1793s
Journo in blue: “Da la sensación, de todas formas, de que estos errores a los que aludíamos, que han costado ya cerca de 200 muertos, se producen porque hay poco riesgo por parte de la OTAN, o sea, a mi me llama mucho la atención que no haya habido ni un solo muerto, es una guerra muy atípica, de ordenador, en la que no se arriesga. Yo, los Apache, que hablamos tanto de ellos, no sé dónde están”.
Javier Solana: “Vamos a ver, vuelva a pensar por un momento que los pilotos que están volando (… )son sus primos, sus hermanos, no son ciudadanos de otro país, no son de otro planeta..”
“La diferencia es que ninguna persona de los países de la alianza atlántica mata a nadie a conciencia, los pilotos de la alianza no tienen en sus planes hacer nada que vaya contra una vida, mientras Milosevic todos los planes que tiene van contra la vida”.
-Journo in red: “¿El antiguo pacifista y luchador contra la OTAN se siente convencido de que es una guerra justa?”
Javier Solana: “La vida es una continua evolución. Estoy haciendo lo que estoy haciendo como una continuación de lo que hice hace muchos años”.
Javier Solana: “La situación de las dictaduras la conocemos muy bien. Lo que he visto en los Balcanes y Milosevic es un anclaje en el pasado. Les estamos abriendo posibilidades de hacer un plan de estabilidad que les permita entrar en el siglo XXI como países europeos”.
Yandex translate. Mod:
Journo in blue: “It seems, anyway, that these errors to which we alluded, which have already cost nearly 200 deaths, occur because there is little risk on the part of NATO, that is, it strikes me very much that there has not been a single death, it is a very atypical war, computer, in which it does not risk. I, the Apache, who talk so much about them, do not know where they are.”
Javier Solana: “Let’s see, think again for a moment that the pilots who are flying (… )are your cousins, your brothers, they are not citizens of another country, they are not from another planet..”
”The difference is that no one from the countries of the Atlantic alliance kills anyone conscientiously, the pilots of the alliance do not have in their plans to do anything that goes against a life, while Milosevic all the plans he has go against life.”
– Journo in red “ ” Does the former pacifist and fighter against NATO feel convinced that it is a just war?”
Javier Solana: “Life is a continuous evolution. I’m doing what I’m doing as a continuation of what I did many years ago.”
Javier Solana: “We know the situation of dictatorships very well. What I have seen in the Balkans and Milosevic is an anchor in the past. We are opening up possibilities for them to draw up a stability plan that will allow them to enter the twenty-first century as European countries.”
Javier Solana: “La vida es una continua evolución. Estoy haciendo lo que estoy haciendo como una continuación de lo que hice hace muchos años”.
Javier Solana: “Life is a continuous evolution. I’m doing what I’m doing as a continuation of what I did many years ago.”
This evolution, which kind it could be, linear or lateral?
“Les estamos abriendo posibilidades de hacer un plan de estabilidad que les permita entrar en el siglo XXI como países europeos”.
”We are opening up possibilities for them to make a stability plan that will allow them to enter the twenty-first century as European countries.”
That seems the same promise they made to Gorbachev…isn´t it?
RE: Asha K. on June 02, 2021 · at 6:26 pm EST/EDT
“Javier Solana: “Life is a continuous evolution. I’m doing what I’m doing as a continuation of what I did many years ago.”
This evolution, which kind it could be, linear or lateral?
Those reliant on binaries are at least myopic and restricted in options.
“”We are opening up possibilities for them to make a stability plan that will allow them to enter the twenty-first century as European countries.”
“That seems the same promise they made to Gorbachev…isn´t it?”
Some seek to assign agencies and significances to themselves that others do not, whilst those reliant on binaries are at least myopic and restricted in options through enmazement in linear frames.
Hence:
RE: JJ on June 02, 2021 · at 12:41 pm EST/EDT
“Biden v Putin might not occur…”
“If you wish to rely on the “great men” of history concept, perhaps Biden v Biden would prove more illuminating.
If you wish to clarify further perhaps the continuing interactions of coercive social relations and cooperative social relations would prove more illuminating, thereby dispensing with “v”, “might not” and speculations derived therefrom, thereby increasing cogency?”
Hence the hopes of some are rendered other’s opportunities of useful foolery with the complicity of some: whilst the wishes of some became/become ultra vires, as was/is the case of attempted “colour revolutions” in Russia and elsewhere facilitating processes of lateral transcendence, within which variables include, but are not limited to, trajectories and velocities.
Ok, then linear…as I feared…it was kind of a rethoric question…
On interactions…
Today, I have had breakfast with the news that President Xi JInping has stated that China must make Chinese people and system more known to the people in the world, that the CCP´s main goal is making people happy and caring for them…
The radio broadcaster stated then this happened on the anniversary of Tiannamen….
Thus, they have passed from 24/7 non-stop radio broadcasted panic on cases, waves and variants of viruses fro a year, to, once unleashed the dystopia in full force ( with people being submitted to forced vaccinations on menace of losing jobs and wages, and a full apartheid state unleashed on those unvaccinated…) start broadcasting desperately what they have of dirt on the other systems where the people is currently not only freer, but also have a prospect of a more prosperous life, well, at least, they have a future…
Some siginificant data on what is being unleashed here…, this month, the electric oligopoly who reaped a great bunch of the so called “Next Generation Funds” ( euphemistically also called “recovery funnds”, which seems to mean redovery of the tax of profit fo the stock market´s giants…) raised price of elctricity for homes in 45% in a round….Major share holders in this oligopoly US major hedge funds…BlackRock and the kind…
Taking into account Pfizer will got a de facto monopoly, after the EU suspended contracts with the other companies, and that the first level system of public health is slowly being dismantled, even in the middle of an alleged pandemic ( with a clear prospect of dismantling the whole pulbic health system in order to privatize it..), this US pharma giant just announced a 25% rise in the price of its vaccines, incresing the spending for the EU in almost 4000 million euro…
As we can see what the electric oligopoly has achieved so far, one is to expect that next year the vaccines could experience an increase in 75% price rise, or more, for the same token…Who is going to stop them?
As I see it, the EU taxpayers we are financing the US financial crisis, as happened during the past one, and their overexpending in wars of intervention and other kind of wars, at the price of becoming poor of solemnity.
Forbbiding of travels has a goal in itself which goes beyond stopping spread of any virus or caring about the climate change, but mainly what they aim is to avoid we can test how others are making quite better than us, and thus for that goal they are constructing a new “iron wall”, in this case for most of us to not be able to go out…
May be you should know, there is a significant part of the population which is sure they plan to exterminate a whole bunch of us by several means, genic based vaccines, wide spread misery, lack of access to real health care and basic needs like electricity ( and thus heat and climatizing )…
This could be a 30% of the population so far, of those who dare to talk right now. ( here they are not counted those silent and submitted for fear..)..and are trying ot organize themselves to save their lives and basic liberties…
Those daring to talk about incongruencies in measures taken, use of unsafe vaccines, and denounce severe curtailing of constitutional rights, are slandered by the whole media aparatus, labeled “negationists” and tried to be demonized in front of and ostracized from society…
I guess you were already aware…
No wonder they now focus their effort in debunking Chinese president´s expresed wish of making people happy with the only thing they have, a failed intend of color revolution, to put in the table..
We, who were profusely travelling for decades in the past, know that Xi Jinping is right, as we witnessed how Chinese tourists were not only overwhelmingly present in The Kremlin, but also, even a decade before, in places where almost nobody arrived to and you were almost the only tourist present, over there, around the corner, if somebody appearing, appeared a young Chinese couple with the same curiosity and expectation for adventures you felt and longed for…
That was once upon a time, in an ancient beautiful country with really kind hearted people, currently destroyed, their population submitted to widespread misery by a war of extermination unleashed on them by the same who now come after us, but still conserving their greatness and dignity, over there in South Arabia…
I can see Comrade Konashenkov is back… with some news….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tZOtksMVSE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9639671/NATO-squares-Russia-Britains-3bn-aircraft-carrier-HMS-Queen-Elizabeth-leads-war-games.html
Oooohhh…lots of posturising off the coast of Portugal to back up Bidens status and positioning at the meeting…..later land exercises in Ukraine via Black Sea…..presumably not all 19 naval ships in one go…..?
Re the potential shutting off of Russia from SWIFT. Pepe had an article a month or so ago which suggested that if that were to happen then Iran & Russia would close the Straits of Hormuz & within a week oil would go to $1,000 dpb which would blow Wall Streets Quadrillion Derivatives market & obliterate the western economic system.
Maybe, but it would cause WWIII
So shut off someone from SWIFT (simple money transfer) would cause all domino bricks to fall and WWIII?
I wanna get off this clown world.
It has been pointed out in earlier comments that Russia already has an alternatIve to SWIFT. So has China, although Russia got there first. Both alternative systems are software-compatible with SWIFT so it would be easy for others to use them. In addition, Russia is thtinking about how to scale up its system to cope with greater traffic. Furthermore, about 30 per cent of SWIFT’s business comes from Russia, so that company would probably have trouble surviving without Russia as a customer. Nor should it be forgeotten that Russia, China and Iran have currency swap agreements, sometimes bilaerally, and in some cases with other countries.
If Russia stopped (or was stopped from ) using SWIFT, it is likly that countries trading with Russia would move away from SWIFT. The Russian economy really is ‘strong and stable’ as it was once described, and is resilient and increasingly diversified. The economic centre of gravity is already shifting to Eurasia, and both the EU and USA will have to learn to live with it. If they try a war, as Larchmonter45 says, they will lose very heavily.
“Malign activities” and “coercive economic policies” describe the enemy precisely.
The comments are poignant befitting Escobar’s article. Among the gestalt background,
the HMS Queen Elizabeth stands out to me, symbol of nostalgia suggesting renascent
imperialism. Sweetly sailing to China like a trophy against the long arc of historical
memory that was the humiliation of China at the Opium Wars and British gunboat
opprobrium. I see it in Shakespearian drama terms or Homerian ideas of Fate which
hates calculators. Maybe it’s just me, but with an historical inflection point seemingly
at play, and the drama drawing ever closer to a climax — as enthralled audience —
what possible avenging by fate might await the renascent hubris of imperium in that
symbol HMS QE, which would only be more apropos were it Queen Victoria?
The purpose of American policy at this point is to keep it’s ‘superpower’ head above water. A certain ‘detente’ vis a vis Russia is to be expected from a Pivot minded anti China policy. As per numerous comments above, this goes nowhere. But otherwise the only reason I would infer from a Biden summit initiative would be the climate change agenda. They need Russia, the major energy producer these days, to sign on to some sort of accord that could then be manipulated to box them into either more sanctions or, more to the Atlanticists taste, a tax on energy extractions that would accrue to a New Green Governance operation they plan to set up. Given their known proclivities, what else? Greenism is the neoliberal/woke policy direction. They hope to galvanise the world youth into a movement to supplement their ageing colour revolution apparatus. The plan, I take it, is to field these new international Red Guards to impose security and associated costs on the Belt and Road program as well as impose the discipline that will be required domestically when the ‘build back better’ people finally get around to telling the deplorables that they can’t afford to drive cars anymore. Of course, sacrifices have to be made to save Mother Earth. To this end the children will be set against their irresponsible parents in order to make the difficult change from growth oriented industrial consumerism to the ‘conservative’ ideal of rentier imposed austerity. That looks like the plan as I see it. As regards modern liberalism, always keep in mind that it started as a concerted criticism of patriarchy, patriarchal authority (J. Locke; Second Treatise). Liberalism always comes back to it’s beginnings with each new campaign.
Biden v Putin might not occur if
Meanwhile, preparations for the summit may be overshadowed by new US sanctions against Russia. Under the US Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991, Biden is expected to decide on new restrictions against Moscow by June 2. This act has become the legal basis for Washington’s restrictive measures against Russia following the alleged poisoning of Alexey Navalny because the US authorities had come to the conclusion that the incident had involved the banned Novichok nerve agent. In accordance with the law, the defaulting party has three months to prove that it has abandoned the use of prohibited weapons and has allowed international inspectors on its soil. Obviously, since Moscow strongly denies any involvement in the Navalny incident and insists that it has eliminated its chemical weapons stockpiles a while ago, these requirements haven’t been met.
Tass.
St. PETERSBURG, June 4. /TASS/. Mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests serve as a necessary condition for the improvement of the Russian-US relations. On the other hand, attempts at diktat or mentoring are doomed to fail, as they may disrupt the dynamic of establishing dialogue, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Channel One on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
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