By Amarynth for the Saker Blog
By now everyone has read Andrei (The Saker’s) excellent essay on what he termed Zone A and Zone B.
Zone B exists, thus there is hope, I promise you!
This sitrep will look at three Zone B country actions, all driven by those that understand we are in a civilizational moment of change in our world.
Mexico: A week ago, AMLO fulfilled his promise to the electorate and had what is generally called a re-call vote. Simply, if you don’t like what I do, you can recall me right now and we will have new elections – a direct democracy action. He won, by an astonishing 91.86 percent of the vote — or 15.1 million out of 16.5 million votes cast. We can conclude that he is a popular president and the Mexican people are with him.
Yet, he has been under pressure for the same reasons that other Zone B countries are being pressurised. He refused to criticize Russia’s actions and refused to join the sanctions regime. In a moment of harsh pressure, he made a statement that again did not criticize Russia per se, but criticized war. Today is the day that there is a discussion on energy sovereignty, and whereas I don’t know the minute details, this is a long term objective of AMLO. I would read the tea leaves and suggest that the pressure on AMLO had to do with where Mexico sells its oil.
“This is a crucial moment, if not the most important moment, of the López Obrador administration” says journalist @AlinaDuarte_ #ReformaEléctrica pic.twitter.com/LfRwKpfvYP
— Kawsachun News (@KawsachunNews) April 17, 2022
Given Mexico’s geographic position in the world, this looks like a very gutsy Zone B move to me.
Pakistan: Imran Khan was removed as Prime Minister of Pakistan via a very easy mechanism of regime change. A few of his key legislators joined the opposition and he found himself without a majority. He (and his remaining legislators) walked out, minutes before a new leader was elected, as they refused to be part of a US-imposed government structure. It did not end there. He called people to the streets to fight for the sovereign principles of a Zone B country.
Take a look:
Aerial images show former Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s supporters rallying in Karachi. pic.twitter.com/bstzQppKNR
— Press TV (@PressTV) April 16, 2022
The largest gathering in the history of the subcontinent is being held in Karachi under the leadership of PTI.
A large number of children, old women and men participated in the gathering.
Ex PM Imran Khan showed his people’s power after being removed.#امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور pic.twitter.com/GyUGQf82Qc
— The Vote (@TheVoteOfficial) April 16, 2022
Then, as usual, we find out the reason for this regime change. After the change of leader, Pakistan sent air attacks against Afghanistan. Under Khan, they refused to give space to US forces for a new attack base against Afghanistan, whether the Taliban is in control or not. China somewhat ‘adopted’ Afghanistan and is doing much work there to bring the Taliban into a fair governance position.
This is early days and we will see if the massive Zone B populace in the streets of Pakistan makes a difference. Early elections are being called for.
And from Russia:
Russia summoned Israel’s ambassador and criticized it for trying to use the war in Ukraine to distract from its brutal attacks on Palestinianshttps://t.co/BbF5fh3bWJ
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 18, 2022
Do read the full article: https://thecradle.co/Article/news/9248
I do wonder what the Urdu Sat-TV channels are showing in UK just before the 5 May elections which should give Johnson a very bloody nose ?
I am now surprised the EU decided to find some “error” with Marine Le Pen this week, and I doubt many voters are. Oligarchs must keep their pet candidates in office – even in France.
The 15. May election in NRW should be an interesting event for Scholz. It is the most populous state and was created by the UK Labour Government to generate a permanent SPD majority – which is not the case.
Watching some of the price increases in German food shops I have been astounded to see +25% on some pork items inside a week and empty freezers. It is not happy faces that push trolleys around. This Green Agenda will hit the buffers very rapidly.
E.On Stiftung has a survey that shows much much less enthusiasm for Russophobia in Eastern Germany than in Western. – ie US/UK Occupation Zone as opposed to Soviet SBZ. SPD is also quite unpopular in East.
Scholz may have great difficulty keeping Germany together – it is already very fractured along a multitude of faultlines.
Only the West needs quick results………Russia pursues its objectives methodically and has no real deadlines. The West has turned out the light and wonders why it is so dark
In Deutschland werden die Wahlen manipuliert und gefälscht. Alles, was man bei Trump / Biden in den Swing States gesehen hat, gibt es hier auch. Aber sehr viel umfassender und gut eingespielt. Niemand weiß, wie die Deutschen wirklich wählen. Nach meiner Schätzung ungefähr die Hälfte Kleinstparteien (besonders im Westen) und AfD (besonders im Osten). Bei Berücksichtigung der geringen Wahlbeteiligung (durch Briefwahldumping aufgebessert) haben die Regimeparteien (CDU/CSU, Linke, Grüne, SPD, FDP) nur noch eine Minderheit auf ihrer Seite, aber die Mehrheit ist weder einig noch organisiert, sondern atomisiert.
Die Anhänger des Regimes haben eine Weltsicht, die weder mit der Außenwelt (Zone B) noch mit einem guten Gedächtnis noch mit simplen Tatsachen zusammen passt. Auf Dauer kann ein Land so nicht funktionieren. Das, was aus besseren Zeiten noch da ist, wirtschaften sie nach und nach kaputt, etwas funktionales Neues schaffen sie nicht.
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In Germany, the elections are being manipulated and falsified. Everything you’ve seen with Trump/Biden in the Swing States is also available here. But much more comprehensive and well-rehearsed. No one knows how the Germans really vote. According to my estimate, about half are micro-parties (especially in the West) and AfD (especially in the East). Taking into account the low voter turnout (improved by postal vote dumping), the regime parties (CDU / CSU, Linke, Grüne, SPD, FDP) have only a minority on their side, but the majority is neither united nor organized, but atomized.
The supporters of the regime have a worldview that does not fit either with the outside world (zone B), nor with a good memory, nor with simple facts. In the long run, a country cannot function like this. They are gradually destroying what is still there from better times, they are not creating something functional new.
The West, especially the U$ loves quick results. Which is why they failed miserably in Viet Nam, Afghanistan, etc.
Indeed, I believe it’s called premature domination. Apparently it affects older states and, given time, evolves into the nasty condition of irremediable deadlock. Drug policy only make it worse, I understand.
Premature domination, LOL. I think there’s a treatment for that!
On 2nd thought, don’t tell them, I don’t want the Anglo-Zionists to win!
I think that this German government coalition will fall apart within the next year. This is one of the worst leaderships Germany has ever had.
It is however the best leadership of Germany that the USUK has ever had.
That’right, but unfortunately when germany had last time no real governme, the war lasted 30years and destroyed the whole Reich.
@ Edward
Es sind SPD und FDP, die beiden ehemaligen Koalitionspartner von Merkels CDU also, und die Grünen, die bei der letzten Wahl von CDU wie auch von SPD / Linke als Koalitionspartner vorgesehen waren, je nach Ergebnis. Wenn diese Regierung auseinanderfällt, wird aus den gleichen Elementen eine neue entstehen, die noch schlechter als diese ist, so wie diese noch schlechter als die Regierung Merkel ist.
Die korrupten Machtstrukturen und die Wahlfälschung lassen nichts anderes zu. Diese bizarre Diktatur hat totalitäre Kontrolle über alle inneren Machtfaktoren. Allerdings auch dramatischen Kontrollverlust in Sachen Außenwelt und materielle Realität. Die Änderung wird von außen kommen, weil das sich formierende Eurasien mit diesem kleptokratischen Schurkenstaat, der das heutige Deutschland faktisch ist, nicht zusammenarbeiten kann.
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These are the SPD and FDP, the two former coalition partners of Merkel’s CDU, and the Greens, who were envisaged as coalition partners by the CDU and the SPD / Linke in the last election, depending on the result. If this government falls apart, a new one will emerge from the same elements that is even worse than this one, just as this one is even worse than the Merkel government.
The corrupt power structures and the falsification of elections do not allow anything else. This bizarre dictatorship has totalitarian control over all internal power factors. However, there is also a dramatic loss of control over the external world and material reality. The change will come from the outside, because the forming Eurasia cannot cooperate with this kleptocratic rogue state, which is in fact today’s Germany.
More needs to be denazified than just Ukraine.
“More needs to be denazified than just Ukraine.”
Considering that only national-socialists have been anti-Zion in your country, maybe it’s better for Germany to re-nazify instead.
So you can also show the Ukronazis that they are a joke compared to the German Reich.
What happened to Anti-Empire ? It used to provide stirring defenses of Russia, against Western criticism. Nowadays, it’s assessment of the war in Ukraine is decidedly down-in-the mouth.
I realised a year ago that Marko Marjanovic was a sellout, when his site began nominating such “COVID heroes” as the CIA stooge Jair Bolsonaro. Remember that he used to write for the COA black propaganda site Russia Insider.
Please argue as labels on specific persons dont tell anything.
I count Temer more a stooge, Bolsonaro was duly elected because the population was tired of the lefts relaxed attitude to criminality and corruption.
Be aware many alternative sites are controlled opposition some possibly without knowing it. The stream and amount of trojan horses and manipulations is huge.
Sounds like Bolsonaro is about to be summarily ousted. Irony: I read that Lula will likely align Brazil even closer to Russia.
Certainly Lula was targeted by the CIA. Hence the charges of “corruption.”
Usually I like someone who tries to adopt an objective approach rather than to accept unconditionally what comes from one side or the other. But their today’s article “Sanctioned Pro-Russian Website Explains…” was hard to swallow as it ignores completely what would have happen if Russia _did not_ send troops into Ukraine.
God bless the Mexican people. I am an Englishman living here. For a while I thought “they” might rig the vote against AMLO but am very pleased that didn’t happen.
The strong Mexican stance on neutrality is heroic. Viva La Republica !
Thank you Mark for your support, god bless English people like you, please remain here and feel yourself at home. Most mexicans like me are behind our president because as most latinamerican people have suffered imperialism enough time. Now it is time for a new world order based on rights and respect for everyone. We can share this planet in peace.
God Bless Mexico.
While I do not live there, wish I did; I do applaud AMLO’s resistance to the globalist agenda. May he and the Mexican people have the fortitude to maintain this stance as we move forward.
While they’re at it, maybe they can give the Cartels the punishment they deserve!
take into account that cartels are strongly and effectively protected by many three letters agencies, just like in Colombia or formerly in Afganistan
Very true But if the Mexican citizens were allowed to bear arms they could take out the trash themselves
Israeli soldiers stormed Al Aqsa mosque, with shooting and gassings, all three days in a row, during the time of Easter as celebrated by the Western churches. Wicked. Where is the Western outrage?
The West pretends to care about ‘sovereignty’, so why did they help the Israelis to invade Palestine, to genocide the Palestinians from their land, and to set up a Jewish ethnic state that Amnesty has condemned as an apartheid state?
It is pure hypocrisy from the West. They did not care about ‘sovereignty’ when they invaded Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Serbia, and any number of countries. They can never talk about ‘sovereignty’ while Apartheid Israel still exists.
Fortunately Russians know what the West is like, and they do not take any of its nonsense seriously. The West manufactured this crisis in Ukraine, with the colour revolution and the attacks on Donbass. But Russia looks after its own, and it will free the people from the West.
What the world really needs is an end to Western hypocrisy. They are like the Pharisees that Jesus opposed. They make themselves look like angels on the outside, but inside they are full of all filth and corruption. Many courageous Russian soldiers are now giving their lives, as Jesus did, to oppose that hypocrisy.
When losing a war, all else is forgot.
“What the world really needs is an end to Western hypocrisy. They are like the Pharisees that Jesus opposed. They make themselves look like angels on the outside, but inside they are full of all filth and corruption. Many courageous Russian soldiers are now giving their lives, as Jesus did, to oppose that hypocrisy. ”
I’ve been waiting for that to happen, since I watched how they tried to devour Russia in the nineties.
I was actually expecting us show our best practices, not our worst.
How naive was I.
Now I almost feel like Anna in Luke 2 – I might still see it happen.
During same time, some far right wing from denmark came to Sweden with the protection of the police and was given the authorisation by ”the police” to burn the Quran, they said ”freedom of expression”, this childish behaviour by this pig from Denmark turned swedish towns upside down. Some muslim youth asked the police ”can we burn the israeli flag”, the police answered ”no that goes against our constitution and its against the law”.
This provocation only serves to give bad image to muslims. This is freedom to insult 2 billion people.
”Insulting the prophet of Islam is not freedom of expression” – Vadimir Putin.
I agree. The Charlie Hebdo incident was obnoxious. It seemed like the perps —cartoonists—were purposely testing the limits of the acceptable, as their cartoons were disgusting and purely insulting. There was really no “satiric” content that if present should be protected. But it was just s–t flinging by intellectual monkeys.
Yet the whole world indulged in this “I am Charlie Hebdo” mania.
In a way it almost seems like an early run-through of the TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), RussiaGate, the Covid-psy-op, and now the Ukraine brainwashing.
Anyhow I am glad if Putin has taken a stand on Palestine. Is it possible that the new geopolitical situation that Russia has created is a new context where he feels more confident about challenging Israel?
Seems like standing up for the Palestinians is in alignment with standing up for the rights of the Donbass peoples and republics.
Good comment, thanks
X, beautifully said and so true.
Excellent developments. I pray and hope Imran Khan gets reelected.
Russia Calling Israel’s ambassador is a great move. I have said this many times and repeat it once more that the key to immediately halting Western activism against Russia is simply in Russia just making a declaration of support for Palestinian statehood and extension of humanitarian aid including military equipment. I bet clandestine Western intervention in Ukraine against Russia would cease with immediate effect. Moreover, this will win the heart of a billion Muslims and create the impetus to destroy Anglo Saxon hegemony on the world.
It’s not the same as what you say but I think RT supports Palestinian statehood and rights (clearly).
energy sovereignty,
Mexico has a complete understanding of what happens when the Petrol Dollar dies.
Risky move – the Empire of Lies does not allow energy sovereignty.
Viav la revolucion!
LOL, China built enough HQ-22 anti-aircraft missile systems for every country that would like freedom.
In the Mexican context, what does “energy sovereignty” mean specifically?
By next year Mexico is going to be self sufficient in all gasolines, and only will extract enough oil for internal use. Vast reserves will be preserved for future generations. In electricity hydro power is being rehabilitated and in a couple of years will be around 40% of the total consumption. The former neoliberal regime bought 30 years worth of gas for private companies, around 2030 hydro will be 60% and there is also the chance of investment in geothermal to go for 100% and use the gas for fertilizer. Mexico was 5th in fertilizer production in the world, with investment has the chance to regain that place in some years
Seems like the news about Israel’s ambassador being summoned by Russia is heavily censored, access blocked. My effort’s to reach the site using various means and browsers remain futile. Will keep trying though.
Zone B – this is not a geographical position; it’s a state of mind.
If you’re sick of the powers that be, their unfair treatment, and you’re doing something about it – then you’re part of Zone B.
If you had it enough of the TPTB pushing you around, and you’re doing something about it – then you’re part of Zone B.
You don’t have to the president of Hungary or Mexico to say “shove it” and opt out of Zone A slave system – any one can do it and get away with it. I did it, and, surprisingly for me – the things turned for better for me. Yes, it’s scary at first, without the imaginary support system of TPTB, but in long term you’ll be better without it. Especially when you realise that the price of TPTB “support” is too high.
Too right George.
We are not alone!
Our numbers are greater than any zone A nation would dare admit, hence their unified ‘cognitive’ warfare to make everyone a weapon.
We moved into zone B years ago, but still live in our same house.
There are plenty of decent people who are aware and a quiet resistance for the time being.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/08/patrick-lawrence-the-casualties-of-empire/
I keep reading here that Russia is loosing the ‘Info War’… really?
So you say INFOrmation is equal to spin, exaggeration, fake news, false narratives, made up stories, fantasy, delusion…? You think?
So Russia should join the “info war” by issuing its own set of lies and made up stories?
I suggest much rather stick to the plain unvarnished truth. “The truth will set you free”… even if it first pisses you off.
Honesty is the best policy… unless you are caught up in previous lies that you must defend… by issuing ever more egregious lies.
Die Zielgruppe, die mit Lügen, Emotionen und Geschrei der PSYOP-Wurlitzer erreichbar ist, scheint nicht die Zielgruppe der Russen zu sein. Die Propaganda des kollektiven Westens ist derart schlecht, daß kein geistig normaler Mensch das ernst nehmen kann. Man hat nur Sorgen, daß Idioten es ernst nehmen könnten, und die sind so zahlreich. Aber wie will eine Seite, die nur Schufte und Idioten hat, am Ende gewinnen?
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The target audience, which can be reached with lies, emotions and shouts of the PSYOP wurlitzers, does not seem to be the target audience of Russians. The propaganda of the collective West is so bad that no mentally normal person can take it seriously. One only worries that idiots might take it seriously, and they are so numerous. But how does a side that has only scoundrels and idiots want to win in the end?
Justin Trudeau asked AMLO to criticize Russia’s SMO. He did say that he condemned what he clearly labeled the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately for “Zone A” (and I would pay to have watched Justin Trudeau’s reaction) AMLO immediatley went on to remember why Mexico dislikes invasions: because we have ourselves been invaded, twice, by the United States, and on one of these occasions we lost half our territory.
AMLO is one of the best and most underrated presidents in the world.
* He started working 16 hours a day as soon as he won the election, five months *before* assuming the presidency.
* He immediately lowered his own salary and reminded the corrupt ancien régime that by Mexico’s constitution, no public servant could earn more than him. Corrupt officials have refused, of course.
* He also got rid of all the expensive pomp surrounding the presidency.
* He got rid of BODY GUARDS.
* To avoid unnecessary expenses, he travels only with commercial airlines.
* All money thus saved goes directly into public spending, with an emphasis on helping the poor.
* He has a program of reforestation the likes of which had never been heard of in this country.
* He has a project to industrialize the Tehuantepec isthmus (the narrow stretch of land between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean) to improve commerce and communications between these sea-lanes. This will also create jobs and an employment and economic “belt” which will absorb some of the illegal immigration north to the United States.
* He is as far as I know the ONLY head of state in the world who personally faces any journalists (who only have to show up early to have access) EVERY weekday, with very few exceptions, and they can ask anything and confront him in any way. You can watch all these daily press conferences on Youtube. This has got to be THE most democratic president like, EVER.
* He proposed a law where after four years (Mexican presidents get six-year terms) an election can be held to revoke the president’s mandate and end it sooner rather than later.
* He changed the constitution so that corruption and election-meddling are now GRAVE crimes. This wasn’t the case before and corrupt officials got at most a slap in the wrist. BTW, he still hasn’t been successful in changing Mexico’s very corrupt justice system. This is IMO his biggest flaw so far.
* He introduced a program to help young students with a little money. Many poorer students in Mexico are forced to abandon school because of poverty.
* He also introduced a program to provide poor, young, inexperienced laborers with a little money as they build up their skills and experience.
A longer list could be made, but these are some achievements off the top of my head. Many of these ideas I’m sure would be quite popular in many countries around the world. No wonder MSM hates AMLO and refuses to acknowledge these very considerable gains.
Ok, but if he has no bodyguards, he is doing nothing against the drug lords.
AMLO is not attacking the drug cartels directly: the two former presidents did it and the result of this WAR on drugs is a disaster: about one hundred dead people every day for more that 10 years. More than two hundred thousand deaths in total, plus almost as many disappeared ones :(
Much worse than the Donbas civil war in the Ukraine.
You cannot wage war against such powerful people, they have too much money.
His strategy is to reduce the breeding ground from which the drug cartels can recruit people by helping the poor people: “primero los pobres” (“First the poor people”) is his motto.
That is indeed true. Almost like Putin dealt with the initial Russian oligarchs.
I found this very funny. A Fred Reed piece on the cartels back in Donald Trump days.
https://www.unz.com/freed/lets-invade-mexico/
Thanks to all of you, and especially amarynth for the link to remind us of some earlier US humanitarian efforts.
He got rid of BODY GUARDS.
Isn’t that dangerous?
A certain country that loves to do regime changes might find a Mexican version of Lee Harvey Oswald to “neutralize” AMLO.
If they want to get him they’ll get him, with or without body guards.
JFK was supposedly protected by the best security available on the planet.
You’ve just fell into the trap considering AMLO a reference in the global scene. He is sponsored by the ecumenical jesuits, the same that from Rome pursue the integration of the Russian Ortodox Church into the so close in time NWO Religion, to be led by the Pope at the Vatican. Jesuits very well play both sides with their hegelian dialectics, they are masters of deception. The UKR/RUS is in fact a vehicle, a catalyst for their GreatReset social contract.
Wishing Mexic all the best, they are so worthy of being free! Even if I am Romanian and – for good reason – Mexic retaliated against Romanian ”tourists” catching also many innocents in this attempt to free Mexic of some felons, I am still standing with Mexic, as it really was the country of the free during the pandemic.
Mexico authorities had to do it – to force some action from Romanian authorities, they did nothing to help stopping the Mafia – of course, they also benefit, all that is made is made with the ”help” from many authorirties from Romania, many corrupt people. Also they steal s much as people have to find other things to do and the ones that want to do business, if they have 0 business and the state offers them to work as slaves and be paid peanuts, they do something else, it is a circle and is all connected with how much they destroyed my country. I mean we are so few, but still we do so much damage in so many parts of the world!
https://mexicodailypost.com/2021/03/07/romanian-mafia-in-mexico-sex-trafficking-extortion-drugs-who-protects-them/
The Russian Rouble Get Out Clause
https://new-wayland.com/blog/rouble-get-out-clause/
What that means is that Russia has the legal right to pay coupons and redemptions in Roubles to investors on bonds issued after 2018. There can’t even be a technical default on these.
For those where there could be a technical default, the envisaged process is farcical. It goes roughly like this:
Russia issues an instruction to pay to its correspondent bank in the US. The correspondent bank refuses the request to comply with sanctions. The bond holder declares a default and claims on their insurance. The insurance company, after paying out and marking up premiums elsewhere to compensate, then goes to court and has the Russian assets seized – which will be the bank deposit Russia was going to pay the bond holder with anyway.
A nice little earner for corporate lawyers and insurance firms.
Thanks for the report. The Zone B does exists no doubt about it, however, they seem to be too far apart and divided. The Anglo-Saxon rule of divide and conquer very much applies here. This is due to business people turned politicians who take the current neoliberal mess promoted by zioglobalists as the best way for enriching themselves and their families. Unfortunately it’s a global phenomenon – no country is immune to it. No wonder when BoJo or Biden often talk so pompously about other nations, could be because they know how many top 5th columnists they have bribed and have under their command for example in Iran, Russia, China, Mexico, Pakistan etc, in order to turn things around. The new world order must find a way to absolutely crush this new class of business mafia attached with the US dollar.
it’s good news about AMLO. Lazaro Cardenas nationalized oil back in the thirties, siding with striking workers. went along with his land reforms. over the years there has been extensive corruption (analogous to US MIC, in a sense) so it’s good to see AMLO’s way of handling it.
I must say, I have seen no anger at Russia from my people on both sides of the border. I remember shouts of “O-Sa-Ma” during soccer games with the US following 9/11, nobody glad about the terrible event itself but glad to see the US taken down a peg. we see the propaganda, many of us understand the situation but those of us who don’t grasp detail can grasp the history, and know the US only as the imperial power north of us.
there’s an old saying, translated “Poor Mexico, So Far From God, So Close to the United States.” the reason so many of us “steal jobs” is almost entirely due to US policy, Monroe Doctrine allowing coups and upheavals and invasions along both continents. we do the jobs americans won’t do.
bendiciones sobre la gente Ruso. Blessing upon the Russian people
To remain compliant in “Zone A” we should be calling it ” One A”. Zone B can remain “Zone B”.
Sorry to see the world splitting in two.
The British Guardian newspaper hates AMLO, and has for years, accusing him of being the most dangerous president for journalists in the history of Mexico. This grossly ridiculous claim should tell you all you need to know about the Guardian: namely that they come with an agenda, that is anti-energy reform that they seek to conceal under the guise of defamatory human rights claims against AMLO and the Mexican Left.
In part, Zone B is for Russia because Russia is not really in Zone A for them, but somewhere in-between.
91.86% for AMLO, that’s amazing. I saw a little of his daily televised briefings where he speaks from a podium straight to the people. His government at one point had four daily televised conferences, with his being one of them. Things have to be going pretty well to do that, and the voters see the leader literally working for them. Hard to vote against a politician like that. Hugo Chavez was the first to use modern media like this, also the first president to communicate through twitter. The daily conferences AMLO take it to a new level, though boring if you ask me. Putin is also doing some of this. He’s very good at it in his four-hour plus yearly conferences. Those conferences are an absolute lesson to the other big presidents. Vladimir Putin might look at AMLO and think he can do it too. That conference where he gave a dress down to the FSB guy! That’s worth millions of votes and “likes”. He does not look at all like what his accusers say. George W. Bush said he looked at his blue eyes and saw “his soul.” We get what he meant (he’s this political shield now). The best one was Chavez though, just too good (unforgettable). He was giving 5-hour shows every Sunday. I remember walking by the TV and there he was being funny, being a mixture of Ronald Reagan and Johnny Carson, but a communist (a spectacle). Four hours later one might look again at the TV and there was Chavez as if not a minute had passed, obviously in his element 100%, even licking his chops. Hard to lose like that. What a dress down he gave to his main opponent in his last election when he was already very sick. He compared him to a pig while describing the pig’s parts. Funny as hell. Of course, he was a spectacular on serious speeches and he almost never read them. Pres. Kirchner, a good speaker himself, once said to Chavez right after a speech, “That was incredible.”
Maybe China can donate, to Afghanistan, a few S400 AD systems to be placed near Afghan’s border with Pakistan.
IDK. Just an idea.
I’m a long-time reader of this blog and I appreciate it for its insight on geopolitics and Russian-related issues, but this is misleading to the point that it makes me distrust other information published here.
I am Mexican and even though I haven’t lived in Mexico in years all my family and many friends live there. I was there last week in time for the “Consulta Popular” and absolutely no one in my circles (which granted are biased towards the richer class of Mexican society) approved of the vote. This article doesn’t mention that Mexico’s voter registry includes about 95 million, so 16 millions being cast is less than 20% of eligible voters. From what I gathered while in Mexico last week most people saw it as a mockery and didn’t bother to go vote because they didn’t want to lend credibility to what is perceived as a “desperdicio de fondos” because:
* there is no legal way to enforce the results, the constitution provides for no legal way for the president to step down after such a “referendum”
* AMLO has never conceded any election whose results did not favour him, most people didn’t think he would concede this one if the result was against him, so why bother voting
*AMLO has been critical about the INE and made comments about INE “boycotting” him – leading people to think he’d call the results fake once again if the referendum didn’t go his way
* La Cuarta Transformación is regarded by most as a half-assed policy that has not been thought-through and which is wasting many resources critical to the country.
*Only acarreados (people who are taken by political parties to the voting places) would go thanks to the promises/threats of local lideresas.
Seeing this referendum endorsed and saying Mexican society overwhelmingly supports AMLO is misleading and disappointing. Please keep in mind that for Mexicans no one doubted the result as it was perceived as rigged, rather people focus onthe fact that less than 20% of eligible voters casted their vote and this is an indication of how unpopular AMLO is, as he couldn’t bring more of his supporters to go validate this scam.
I´m also Mexican, I live here and I fully agree with your opinion. The current president is a fraud and a scam, corrupt as are many in the current government. Don´t be fooled by his apparent ¨love for the poor¨ while he, his family and friends are pocketing public funds. He might be popular with the people who like handouts, but on the other hand, he cancelled health insurance for the impoverished class, has retained medicine and drugs destined for cancer patients. Under his government, murders of journalists, activists and women have skyrocketed. And don´t get me started on his relations with cartel war lords.
MexAnon, I really like Mexico and would live there if I did not make another choice.
But please, you’re not very factual. Let’s take one thing only .. journalists killed ..
Go here, you don’t have to read a word, but take a look at the lists of journalists killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_and_media_workers_killed_in_Mexico
Fox was reasonable, Calderón was horrible, Nieto was very bad, and then we get to Obrador – so far, less than the others.
You can look for yourself.
If all your other statements are as misleading as this one then I cannot believe a word you say.
Wikipedia? Please…. Just take a look at the graphics shown in these links, all of them citing as a source the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública. (Executive Secretariat of the National System for Public Security)
https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/politica/Crecen-con-AMLO-homicidio-violacion-robo-y-lesiones-20210705-0134.html
https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2021/07/02/con-amlo-mas-del-doble-de-homicidios-que-con-fch/
https://aristeguinoticias.com/3108/mexico/llega-amlo-a-segundo-informe-con-mas-de-60-mil-asesinatos-semanario-zeta
https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/2022/01/20/feminicidios-en-mexico-2021-es-el-ano-mas-violento-contra-las-mujeres/
PS.- Per your classification, I fall in Zone B.
Why are you fighting Mexican politics so hard then. You may have 100 problems with Obrador, but you must admit that he is a Zone B President, and who else is there, are Zone A Oligarchs.
Where would you then think Mexico falls within the very crude Zone A / B spectrum? And who do you think will do better for the world if we recognize that nobody is going to go multipolar alone.
“The richer classes of Mexican society did not approve the vote.”
Thank you for proving the point 😂😂😂
Zone A Mexican speaking – Zone A for the rich, Zone B for the poor. This is stark.
Why did you not get out of the vote then? Because your concept of democracy is not a concept of direct democracy? You all rich ones made a very strategic mistake and now the whole bunch is very sour. So far, AMLO followed his promises. Los pobres stand for Amlo, from a Zone B perspective.
Hola Amaranth,
Living in mexico for many years now . I will mention a critical thing.
Few Mexicans speak or write correct English as you read in the comments above.
They are mainly from richer class,which lost a lot of corruption schemes lately.
The election commission is not a friend of Amlo, they frustrated up to a maximum this revote election, example : in my state only 30% of the necessary voting boxes were place etc.etc. On all levels you see this resistance of richer people to anything what is promoted by Amlo, even they resist free healthcare.
Mexican peso appreciates against dollar and euro. Petrol prices are more or less the same as before.
On many levels things are progressing with little steps, not appreciated by many.
Just to make clear how you better read between the lines about Mexico comments
Cheers
Hola Pancho, Sí, eso es muy cierto.
Me preocupa México en realidad, ya que creo que hay el inicio de un cambio de régimen. Tal vez algún castigo por no participar en el régimen de sanciones y el petróleo es una cosa también.
No participar en esta votación es una vieja táctica. También lo hicieron en Venezuela, para que la votación fuera inválida.
I speak fine but very bad in written Spanish.
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Hi Pancho, yes, I agree.
I’m a little worried about Mexico because I think I see first steps toward regime change. There is also the oil, which everybody wants and there may be punishment for not taking part in the sanctions regime.
To not participate in this vote is an old tactic. They tried that in Venezuela as well, only to call the vote invalid.
Well-written, only that it’s “sea algo tambien” instead of “es una cosa tambien.” Also “sea otra cosa tambien.”
Grins .. yes, and now we have confirmed what you stated:
“Few Mexicans speak or write correct English as you read in the comments above.”
I just turned it around to prove your point.
“They are mainly from richer class,which lost a lot of corruption schemes lately.”
Mexican-Americans, not rich per se (you thought about this after your comment!).
Latinos are like Ukranian and Russians (not so much so). The other day I needed something fixed in my car and I chanced into this Mexican-owned shop (English is my second language and I write this without google). He walks with me to check if he has that replacement part. “How much? “70 dollars” “Bueno”. I start thinking that maybe it’s a little too much but it’s not, that maybe I should have asked that taxes be included in the price, could be uncomfortable. In the end, he said something to the secretary and it was $70 taxes included. “My Mexican brothers!” I asked earlier if he happened to have something else my car needed. “I’m already checking for that in the back.” When he brings out the car (just a normal car), this is also already in the car. “Nothing”, he said about the price. It’s $140 from the car maker…
“this is misleading to the point that it makes me distrust other information published here.”
It’s too much to expect foreigners to take sides and choose one political party or some other, or decide to reject the electoral triumph of any and all of them ipso facto. I pay almost no attention to Mexican politics, but I see that the newspaper El Universal, one of the Mexican newspapers with the largest circulation, does not say anything about the election being “rigged” today. I notice that El Universal is not allied with AMLO because it doesn’t have anything about his victory and much about the vote against the energy reform that AMLO favored. If all the newspapers of Mexico are not having on their front page articles about a massive vote rigging, there’s no reason why this Sitrep not report the 90% plus referendum result as impressive (a politicians’ fantasy). A lot of people didn’t vote, but we cannot know which way they would have voted. Maybe it’s like you indicate, but since president AMLO rules and does not condemn Russia…
Time for Russia to tighten the screw on EU NATO vassals and squeeze those butt-hurt bitter lemons ’til their pips squeak.
Despite the constant threats, bullying and intimidation from the satanic USA, I can only see growth in Zone B’s political, geopolitical, economic and social influence/reach, organic if you like.
Mexico is an interesting case in the Zone A/B framework. Since it’s historically more from Spanish colonization than British, it isn’t part of today’s Five Eyes and takes a more neutral stance generally than Canada.
However, from a geographical and practical policy perspective*, the “AngloZionist Empire” exercises effectively as much control in Mexican government as in the US or Canada. It’s hard even to define the border between “the US” and “Mexico”. Which wars, which lands, which people do we want to count? It’s conceivable over the long run depending on how things play out, it’s even possible that US/Canada/Mexico will become more important to each other than DC/London or DC/Eurolemmings. The people of Mexico and the US have much more in common with each other than the globalist fascists running things.
Could Mexico’s independence change in the future, could it take actions against the wishes of the empire? Of course. Lots of things could happen, but until they do, the empire is in control.
*NAFTA, drug war, intellectual property regime, uncontrolled mass migration (especially third party nationals being transited through Mexico), doing business with the criminal banksters, logistical difficulty for RF/PRC to project power in North America, limited interest/capacity to speak out against hypocrisy within the empire (for example, Mexico concretely supporting Catalonian independence from Madrid would be a particularly powerful statement), etc.
Mexico was the first step in USA imperialism, the 1847-48 war and this invasion rendered more than half of mexican territory taken away, around 16 USA states, with the two richest (California and Texas) included. There are more than 45 million ethnic mexican in usa a number US gvmnt does not want to be precise about, there are around 35 million mexican citizens many with no legal estatus, the country population is aroud 125 million. So there are about the same population as Rusian people. Mexican revolution was parallel in many instances with the soviet one, there were plenty of letters from mexican anarchist with the likes in Rusia (prince Kropotkin for instance), mexican advise was to have more involvement of peasants.
Mexico exercise a non interventionist foreign policy. With AMLO it is working ok, with previous neoliberal regime not at all.
Regards from Mexico
Yesterday was the vote on President Obrador’s electrical reform. He lost in the lower house, since there are still many representatives who are related to foreign companies.
But the country is changing, and it is showing an independence it hasn’t shown in at least 40 years.
We are close to the hegemon, and it is very difficult to resist Washington’s pressure, but the path is marked and nothing will make us deviate.
Dear Amarynyh, I usually am 100% behind your posture and very much in favor of Sakers´ point of view as well…but this time you really are very confused or badly misinformed about the Mexico situation.
First of all: this was a recount vote. The result was non binding as the Mexican constitution does not allow for a re-vote unless very specific things happen. This was done by AMLO just to inflate his ego and feel good and the result backfired and was dismal. While 30 million voted in his favor in 2018…this time only 15.6 million where there for him. The other 98 million Mexicans decided not to play his game.
Having said that…other behaviour may be as you suggest… Gutsy moves to show he does not favor Zone A behavior.
A 90% plus referendum result can’t be discredited just because fewer people voted if there is no controversy of fraud discussed in Mexican newspapers, as happens anywhere when electoral frauds happen and the political parties are complaining and showing their proofs of fraud. I only read the front page of El Universal. Would one need to visit two or three other major Mexican newspapers? I don’t think so. They reported he won big. Why so many didn’t vote nobody really knows. Maybe a few polls on that need to be taken. I like this post; I learned that he won a referendum, to begin with.
What is Israel’s/jJewish interest in destroying Russia?
If it’s innocent like Jesus, none. If it wishes to make Isaiah’s prophecies of a world kingdom for Israel come true, when all the nations will come to it and give it all their wealth and ask it what else does Yahweh want, then the answer can be different, obviously. It could be that Israel was able to acquire greater power in the United States than in any other nation of the world, and that when a nation like Russia rises, and China rises, and it becomes more like a multipolar world, its relative influence and even power decreases. Is this why Blinken and Nuland think like they do about Russia? No! I wonder if they even read it. Religion has a lot of power in Israel and is the foundation of their state. Isaiah had no idea that big nations like China and Russia would rise up.
@ tranquilocomp on April 18, 2022 · at 12:24 pm EST/EDT
Ok, but if he has no bodyguards, he is doing nothing against the drug lords.
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Bodyguards or not, he cannot do anything against the drug lords. This is not a critique to AMLO, a populist, “man of the people,” but when it comes to the narco cartels, he had no option but to go pragmatic. Mexico’s economy is a narco economy, functioning within the frame provided by the Mexican government, which legitimizes their role. Mexican government cannot do anything against the billions of dollars flowing from the US to the narco cartels, which control local, state, and federal institutions, city mayors, governors, the military, the “justice” system, congressmen, cabinet members, etc.
Their power over Mexico’s political and economic structure is total.
The greater supporter of the narco cartels is the US, whose “war on drugs” is a gigantic farce, as big as the Mexican/US border. The US allows the drug trafficking across the border, the Mexican cartels push drugs all over the US, while the MIC pockets billions by selling them weapons of all kinds, some even more powerful than those of the Mexican army.
The narcos are the power within the government’s “power.”
Their money has penetrated all sectors of the economy, industry, agriculture, banking, finances, sports (car/horse racing), transportation, that’s how they launder their money, and all the “industries” in the underworld, prostitution, night-clubs, human/sex trafficking, etc. They control all ports and airports, which allows to import raw materials for their drug making/processing (e.g. fentanyl from China), a killer drug in the US, were thousands have died from opioid overdoses.
The question is not what AMLO could do against the narco-cartels, but why hasn’t the US done anything for decades against them, given just the Gulf Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel, the most powerful on either side of the border on the Pacific and the Caribbean, have thousands of men under arms, the equivalent of a division, if not more. I assure you, if the narco-cartels were leftist guerrillas, the US would have by now devastated Mexico’s north with orange agent and what not, as it has done with Central and South American guerrilla groups, or simply leftist/patriotic/nationalist groups, parties, organizations.
AMLO can move around without bodyguards because he has a tacit agreement with the narco-cartels, he doesn’t bother them, they don’t touch him. As simple as that.
Lone Wolf
The best way to weaken global drug business is to eradicate drug usage and drug abuse.
Do you think the drug marketers and the drug users would allow that? Do you think the local countries like US/Europe have the balls to do that?
You see, to blame Columbia, to blame Mexico, to blame Afghanistan, is much easier than to enforce drug usage punishment. Where is money to make, where is the flow, the longer, the better.
@ KitaySupporter on April 18, 2022 · at 2:03 pm EST/EDT
The best way to weaken global drug business is to eradicate drug usage and drug abuse.
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Pushing drugs on the population is an unstated policy from the ruling elites. A social group or class caught into drugs cannot reflect on their basic interests, all they can think of is their next fix. I am a witness of the devastation opioids have caused in the US, mostly in rural, semi-rural regions, targeted to people who do heavy labor, loggers, miners, truckers, etc., who originally used them to cope with labor-related pain, once caught in the drugs, there was no way out.
Once the US government pretended to set some controls on opioids, which it ignored for years while the “health care” system and the Sackler family made billions, people were left without their drug of choice, and the Mexican drug cartels started pushing cheap “black tar,” Mexican produced heroin, which continue to devastate the same rural areas. Drugs are a project of the Deep State to keep their subjects submissive and under control, they cannot be eliminated, any government that promises to do a “war on drugs” à la Reagan, is lying, again.
Lone Wolf
“AMLO can move around without bodyguards because he has a tacit agreement with the narco-cartels, he doesn’t bother them, they don’t touch him. As simple as that.”
Yes, though he would deny it. No bodyguards means that, that’s all I said.
I think it’s pretty obvious that it should be legalized, with very strict penalties for people who drive under the influence of drugs or commit any crime because of their consumption. People want to buy it, people want to sell it – no wonder Milton Friedman said legalize it.
Mexico one day must do what the following people did to remove the rot; The King Of France killed the Knights Templars all on one day and Britain killed off the East India Company. The World has been taken over by criminal private organisations and corporations, all in the guise of politicians and businessmen. We will not see peace nor progress till all this filth is neutralised. They have gamed the electoral, legal and economic institutions to benefit ONLY themselves.
It is good to see that Russia finally realized that the west isn’t its friend. But Russia also needs to realize that the zionists aren’t their friends, either. They are, in fact, a worse threat than any western country. Russia, deal with this, quick.
Straight talking Kadyrov lays out the best answer for what will be left of Ukraine:
Kadyrov: I don’t understand a lot of things when great politicians, political scientists and strategists make statements that we need to negotiate, we need to withdraw troops from Donetsk and Luhansk, as if there is power in Ukraine. There is no vertical of power. There is no president, no supreme commander, nothing at all. There is a bandit group there, which at one time was with us, in the Chechen Republic. With the roots you need to destroy these Nazis, banderlog, shaitans. After that, it is necessary to appoint an interim acting head of the region, after that, how can we begin to form the power in the Chechen Republic, ask the people what they want, how they want to continue to live, what are their main problems, as Vladimir Vladimirovich once gave the opportunity our Chechen people.
Now is the time for people in power to heed his wise advise.
https://t.me/vicktop55/3247
Thank you Amarynth.
I believe we are witnessing an escalating series of fracturing of the entire ‘edifice‘ of the so-called West as a geopolitical empire.
This has well-passed the ‘critical mass‘, just as in fission,
The West, or, more accurately, the controllers of Zone A/the West knew exactly what it was doing, with poorly thought out planning a very weak analysis, if the controllers are not completely aligned to a humanity-hating ethos of “control all, or burn all!
The fracturing activity is sustained and accelerated as all the weakest points, observing the standing up of one international play to the trans-national bully, these weak points, past recipients of the short end of the stick, as the direct result of the bullying behaviour, now taking a stand over egregious violations of their sovereignty, i.e. Pakistan; the actions that the West takes to such events is showing louder and louder to those whose perceptions are on the move, well on the move, and they are realizing, the emporium does indeed NOT have any clothes on!, and this triggers multiple, further fractures across the geo-political edifice, etc….
I see a direct linkage between smartphone integration/addiction and uptake of the official narrative.
We saw it with the …. so-called global health danger, which just so-happened to result in wide-spread suspension of civil rights, and the greatest transfer of wealth in human history to those already absurdly wealthy compared to the 99% of humanity, and now it is observable with the imposition of a clearly (as understood by everybody 12 months ago), ideology/culture of irrational hatred.
Everyone with continual smartphone usage should challenge themselves to go a week without it, for if you can’t, you are addicted…..
….. its a problem….. for everybody.
Smartphone integration. . . irrational hatred.
— I agree that not just some, but all nations to varying degree, have become enamored with the, instantly! now! bug. Others have written comprehensively on this, a drug like fulfillment of mental-emotional appetites, like endorphins from the metaverse. The endorphin junky needs answers to every unanswered question, however trite, and has learned this habit of receiving now! answers. The junky can not stomach confronting the inner confusion, this is unbearable to him, his brainwaves cannot bear to stay in one place for any length of time. Solace only comes in staring dumbfounded into the bottomless abyss — a garden of delights, a crystal ball, and divine oracle. The junky only finds solace by plumbing the depths of virtuality, never within, and the relief given to these feelings of confusion, doubts, and generalized spiritual acedia/torpor, lulls his rational soul to sleep. And what can we call this mental sleep? —Death of the higher rational function of the psyche, rigor mortises of the higher faculties.
I have applauded the Russian MOD’s negative propaganda war for this reason, which is its apparent failure in the information war, with its shocking dearth of immediate sound bites and counter memes, precisely because it has forced the introspection which is inimical to the smartphone. Silence is enemy to this madness of constant shouting, but also its antidote, to those who can have it, as bitter medicine for the sweet-sweet poison of mental opioids, the antidote to instant gratification of the smartphone generation three-second attention span.
Truth is strength because it conquers and rules both earth and heaven, maybe not as we would have it do, but as it is. What can we learn or do, to have this antidote of truth and reason working in us? and not go mad? It does seem as if seems the five stages of collapse are being worked out internally in the lives of the commiserator, but it’s a cold-turkey withdrawal. As a gross example, the surrender of Nationalists to the allied forces, who believing they would receive beatings, are instead receiving humane treatment — truly a wonderful shock, for the battered smartphone psyche. But maybe this same pattern is being carried out more minutely with the *zone B* virtual onlooker. He desires endless tasty morsels of self-fulfilling tropes; ´´ Our guys are really winning.´´ and, ´´ We are the best. And this proves it!´´ Instead, the soul is left with a hungry growling stomachache, and the bitter taste of feeling insulted, letdown, it can’t get the tasty treats it’s accustomed to, so it twitches and convulses, and complainingly groans. But with time the junky may pass through the worst of the smartphone withdrawal sickness, and health begins to return, and in this case that health is firstly patience, followed by trust. Patience to wait for, and hope in, the strength of truth to shine. Followed by trust in those who fight this war to fully demonstrate their character, not by words, but by deeds.
Good news. There is more to the Pakistan story: a secret letter received from the Paki ambassador to the US, which supposedly contains direct threats should the pm not step aside. Khan allegedly waved this letter, unopened, in front of the masses who support him. There will be more good news coming from Pakistan.
Fantastic politics in Mexico in terms of tactical defense of the position. Really, really impressive. Negated the US infowar portion of a regime change op.
Thanks for this. Hard to keep track of all the years passing in weeks these days.
The EU has rejected Putin’s demands for payments in rubles, while Russia did not immediately cut off the gas supply to Europe after April 1, partly because it is dependent on revenues from gas and partly because payments for gas delivered after April 1 are not due until later this month or early May.
The Kremlin has signaled the gas-for-rubles demand is just the beginning of a switch to the Russian currency for Russian exports.
Some of Russia’s natural gas customers have agreed to pay in rubles for Russian gas, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said last week, without naming the countries specifically.