By Chris Faure – for The Saker Blog
Empire is still strong, but fast becoming toast. We can only look at the very last few happenings in our world to see that the only weapon that they have left is to try to pump glue into the global systems fast, and they hope this will give them leverage or maintain control. If nothing works, then just maybe they can grab the spoils and run on home. What Empire does not realize is that they are shooting themselves in the foot and continuously empowering the strong development of alternative world systems.
The Saker, Andrei Martynov and other respected military analyists say that the words “hybrid warfare” are indicative of one that is only semi-educated in military matters. Let me concede that point at this early stage as I am not writing about all out shoot-outs at the OK Corral and world destruction militarily, but self-destruction by empire by gluing the systems closed. I would argue that what we are seeing now, is the desperate new hybrid war strategy; a full-out attack in a final forlorn attempt to keep control of world systems. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the new Empire strategy of ‘Glue’n Hope’.
We all watched the recent NATO summit fall into a comedy of desperation trying to hold on to some relevance while Mr Trump went home early after milking the NATO countries for a few more percentage points of Benjamins so that he himself could seem relevant to his base.
Mr Lavrov describes NATO as a cold war relic and proposes: “If you want, you can call it a post-West world order when each country, based on its sovereignty within the rules of international law, will strive to find a balance between its own national interests and the national interests of partners.”
NATO is so drunkenly staggering around looking for relevance that all a thinking person can say about this trajectory is :
“Go on Home NATO, you’re Drunk!”
At the time of writing we see an almost complete ban on Russia from taking part in world sporting events under their own banner and flag, with doping allegations.
“Russia has been handed a four-year ban from major sporting events, including the Olympics and football World Cup, after the Executive Committee of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) approved sanctions on Monday.”
https://www.rt.com/sport/475284-wada-russia-4-year-ban-olympics/
Will Russia act appropriately and say :
“Go on Home Wada, you’ve sniffed too much glue – you’re High!”
On the incessant US / China trade war front, something is happening that is two-fold. China has taken the boxing gloves off and it is now a bare-knuckle fight. We’ve been entertained by Mr Trump bellowing how businesses are leaving China for other shores, because of His Trade War, and how China is hurting. Vietnam and Taiwan are such countries but do not have the infrastructure to support the production might of China or the speed of demand. We also know about the Empire’s fight on Huawei, during the time that China still needs to build up her technology, specifically in the area of electronics generally and semi-conductors.
China, as usual, solved this asymmetrically, both taking the gloves off and strengthening their technology manufacturing by simply recruiting +3,000 engineers from Taiwan, offering them good wage packages and better lifestyle and in that way hollow out the production ability of the Taiwanese ally of Empire with no sanctions whatsoever.
In addition, this sentence is significant as to China’s future moves: “So the rest of the world will have to restructure their industries and prepare for the reorganization of the world’s value chain as result of the US-triggered tariff war.”
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1172858.shtml
In addition, China has instructed all government offices and public companies to replace foreign PCs and software with domestic made alternatives within three years.
China has said : “Go on Home Hegemon! We will restructure and re-organize and trade without you, or your crazy glue.”
In the last few days a crisis developed in the World Trade Organization (WTO) where the US is refusing to allow appointment of new judges to replace those whose term of office expires. In this way exercising a veto, it makes this adjudication body unable to function. Normally operating with seven judges, the WTOAB has been operating with only three judges, since January 2018, and two of those judges will retire Tuesday.
“The WTO’s appellate body (AB), which adjudicates on contested rulings over disputes between member countries, will become unable to function when Washington exercises a veto and blocks new judges from being appointed to replace two whose terms of office expire. …”
https://www.ft.com/content/f0f992b8-19c4-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4?list=intlhomepage
https://www.axios.com/trump-vs-wto-blocked-appointments-d6eb10e6-f0a9-4c46-b801-71d9836c4c5a.html
There are serious allegations from China on US misbehavior in trade issues, but the US has also won major awards from the court. So, the US is pumping glue into this system because they are truly too exceptional to simply keep to the rules and regulations that they themselves agreed to in terms of trade and in the favorite words of Mr Pompeo, become a normal country. Alternatively while this system needs serious redevelopment, adults in the room sit down and negotiatiate. Take out the judges and what do they think will happen? Nobody will trade with them and alternative systems will be developed more quickly, and more effectively.
“Go on home Empire, everything has changed and you’re outclassed!”.
Postscript : if you want this all in professional, real professional language, they call it “Worrying signs that a great global deregulation has begun.” https://www.ft.com/content/fc15abec-182e-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406
This could be off topic but I was born in California and can no longer afford an apartment or a house. I made damned good money in my working life. I’m not a millie or a zhlub. I live in a 40 foot bus. I am not allowed to live anywhere longer than 21 days or I would have what are called ‘tenants rights’. Technically, I have no voice as I officially am allowed to reside no where. There are many like me. In fact, as I write, I am surrounded by temporarily embarrassed millionaires, who are only here on ‘vacation’. If I go full time here, meaning I have to relinquish my space and any improvements I have made, I have to leave for a week and when I return someone else is enjoying the fruits of my labors. So, I no longer make any. I do, however, read and view every news source I can find. Crap like this infuriates me. Our, in name only, leaders, thinking they are pulling this over on their ‘stupid’ constituents used to really piss me off. Now that I know I have a decade or so left, barring any health issues that would truly render me homeless, living in a cardboard box on the side of a road, I find it almost laughable. I couldn’t write a book anyone would believe about this crap. No one would believe our ‘leaders’ were that out of touch, that stupid, and lacking any kind of morals. I hope, if there is a hell, based on what I have been told most of my life, of my evil, that I see these c*cksuckers in hell. The life I’ve lived, Satan will be like “Welcome to hell, I’m going to scare the hell out of you. Oh Ruben, let me just show you the sights. Those other assholes will be at my beck and call.
Should have bought ahen you could have. Can’t get priced out when you don’t rent.
There’s a reason why in these parts of Europe people live with parents until they’re like 30 – if you don’t own your housing, you’re barely a person. Better to live with parents than pay rent, that’s for deadbeats. The west could use this sort of thinking
Since WADA’s decision to ban Russia from all sporting events for the next 4 yearsis mentioned in this article I would like to say that it is time now for China to show solidarity with Russia and boycott next year’s Olympics. Other friendly Nations should follow suit but especially China being a sports superpower. Imagine the impact of such a show of solidarity. This recent decision of WADA can be dismissed by those who think that it’s only sport and not such a big deal but I think it’s much bigger and part of the big agenda and needs to be nipped in the bud now. Do t waste tine on appeals and courts. It’s time for real action to set up alternatives to the current world order. We are constantly told the empire is crumbling but either I don’t see it or it is happening at an extremely slow rate that it is barely noticeable. It’s time for Russia and China to really create alternatives to the Western dominated internet, banking system, the Big Pharma monopoly, sporting events, Hollywood, etc. And these alternatives have to be better that the people of the world would want to “defect” to them. I realize changes have happened but they seem all very superficial. It’s all very disillusioning as it appears that both Russia and China go out of their way not to “offend” the West too much. Putin is a great politician and I would say he is Russia’s best leader in history. But we often hear how he uses judo principles to deal with his opponents but the way things are now I prefer the streetfighting technique where you strike out suddenly and fast before your opponent even knows what hit him. Keep turning the other cheek will only lead to you getting knocked out.
I don’t think any nation will ever show solidarity with Russia, but Russia doesn’t need. These are all provocations and the Agent Provocateurs will eventually fall on their faces.
I wish but history shows you fall on your face or your ass……….you are electable to the electorate for some reason. It’s a win win.
Right on dude! How ’bout those exceptions for the tennis playing american ‘sistahs’? I mean, hypocrisy abounds, right? America is SO wrong it’s somehow right and the country is full of kids whose school education existed on no more than passing the conch around and discussing their feelings. A bunch of morons with nothing to go on but their feelings and they don’t trust them
Unfortunately I can’t find the cartoon this brought to mind. It was a year or two ago, and it showed Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova in separate but characteristic photos.
Underneath Sharapova was the caption “Steroids”, and underneath Williams “Granola”.
That double set of image (Williams -Sharapova) is still circulating on Twitter
https://scontent.fbeg5-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/79019337_1419661704858349_4392186861452263424_n.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_ohc=IqXikDGyrnsAQmDzfrCQ2Upn6o0mWamRaTmAJ_guZKaY6G0QSHV48cRzA&_nc_ht=scontent.fbeg5-1.fna&oh=dc877b2b830b5193f1093c088f294b8c&oe=5EB30E79
Apparently, the US has an asthma epidemic among its world class athletes. So many of them have permission to use steroids via inhalers and other asthma drugs. This used to be forbidden in sports. Now, for the US it is the norm.
Russia made a strategic mistake continuing its obdurate practices of testing. It needed to bring in independent testing and record keeping.
It made a tactical mistake by not protecting the digital data from hackers.
There is no reason athletes should dope themselves if they truly are world class.
There will always be cheaters. But the way the Russians have behaved has brought nothing good to Russian Sports or clean Russian athletes.
When you have enemies like the Canadians and Americans, you have to be smarter than the Russians have been regarding doping, testing and record keeping. If you ask a bully to punch you, he will.
This last round of sanctions of the Russian Sports was completely avoidable.
I am pissed because I follow the Russian futbol team, Denis Cheryshev in particular, and now they are either out of the World Cup or will have to compete in neutral colors.
This is stupid and was avoidable.
The Canadians are heavily influenced against Russia by immigrant refugee Ukrainians and Russophobic nazis. WADA will never treat Russia fairly. You have to outsmart them, not stick your jaw out and dare them to smash your face.
Problem is, WADA runs both RusADA and ROC. It is WADA that appoints RusADa’s head not the Russians, you know, “impartiality ” and all.
Other than to leave WADA and co there is probably not much they can do. Is it just me or are they not as hysterical as they were in 2016?
I suspect the Russians expected this from the beginning. My guess is they have chosen door number 2 i.e slow motion demolition of WADA and co. They can’t announce it of course. How they’ll do it I don’t know but they know this cannot go on. I doubt Putin has forgotten Lena breakdown in front of him and the whole nation.
The aim of the Empire is full spectrum dominance.
If that cannot be achieved the plan B is to divide the world into two blocks- those with the Empire and those not with it. The Empire will then use the alliance that it has developed to destroy those who are not with it or under it.
The Empire is not gumming up the works. It is separating those that are with the Empire and those that are not with it.
Don’t count the Empire out yet. It still has a lot of surprises in store.
In RSS newsfeed that was formatted differently :-D
The mail started with “By Chris Faure – for The Saker Blog Empire”
Hmm, maybe i like this :-D
What to think of all this gigantic world wide mess? It does seem to show an empire that is desperate. Their spokespersons and leg breakers keep talking about the rules-based order and the malign activities of one country after another. I think they see the threat to themselves and they have jumped on the accelerator. They are desperately trying to force as many nations they can back under their yoke. This aggressive stance washes over into every endeavor of life: financial, trade, social morality, military, sports, and even Orthodox Church life. They have no intention of stopping which probably does not bode well for the near future of the planet.
As for agent orange, he has said far too much, almost every day speaking out of both sides of his mouth. First, he is against NATO and then he castigates Macron for saying negative things about it being brain dead. He is against these wars and will end them, but he continues them, escalates them and says ‘we are keeping the oil’. He said on the campaign trail that he would not tell the enemy what he was going to do. It appears his plans are so secret, even he does not know what they are! He will do as instructed by his parasitic overlords. He does seem clearly to be working first and foremost for them, funding the military-industrial complex and transnational corporations. That would be the powers who are enslaving the world. So, that is where we are. All other national governments must see all this but the parasitic billionaires have their hooks into most of their countries too. So, what can we expect from them but lies? Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba et al must be very cautious in dealing with them. They cannot be trusted.
IMHO, Trump has been damaging the Israelis badly by giving them almost everything they- except for war with Iran. He has been also deliberately damaging NATO as is self-evident. He wants the USA to go home. All these “stupid” moves are pointing in that direction. By doing it this way, he is still alive.
Trump playing 3D or 4D chess – or some advising Trump are playing it. This is the big question. I’ve heard several commentators who know of Trump’s business acumen say he is no fool at all. One can hope so.
Nonetheless it seems the Trump nationalists are retreating to the Monroe doctrine – Bolivians can go to fascist hell and give Uncle Sam their lithium cheap. So it is a retreat to a smaller empire than the full-spectrum globalists want – which is why they hate him so much. But it is still a bully.
State of Transhumania, Looneylandia
The SF 69ers who run the land via handing out voter registration forms along with driver’s licenses to all illegally present adults are having to explain why Those who move residence and report it to the DMV may not be able to vote in the primary elections in March.
Mysterious glitch. ? Evidently they will have to reregister. Whaaa?
Then if you go to buy ammunition and the DOJ or some other federal agency finds that you are not in their data base for a background check, well, then you are out of luck. Embarrassingly enough this happened to a small town sheriff in the north (in the “inhumanos “red zon e) so a great hue and cry ensued.
Like I say. Gotta make your own.
Yes the Fed is pumping billions into the short term credit markets, corporations pay no taxes, legal and illegal drug addiction is at record levels and photo of homeless taking a dump in a super market is trending— meanwhile the Supreme Court just ruled it is legal for the homeless to sleep on the sidewalk.
So it is not yet a crime to be poor. Whoopeee!
By the way Merry Christmas