by Pepe Escobar – Crossposted with permission with Consortium News
Once upon a time, deep into the night in selected campfires across the deserts of Southwest Asia, I used to tell a fable about the eagle, the bear and the dragon – much to the amusement of my Arab and Persian interlocutors.
It was about how, in the young 21stcentury, the eagle, the bear and the dragon had taken their (furry) gloves off and engaged in what turned out to be Cold War 2.0.
As we approach the end of the second decade of this already incandescent century, perhaps it’s fruitful to upgrade the fable. With all due respect to Jean de la Fontaine, excuse me while I kiss the (desert) sky again.
Long gone are the days when a frustrated bear repeatedly offered to cooperate with the eagle and its minions on a burning question: nuclear missiles.
The bear repeatedly argued that the deployment of interceptor missiles and radars in that land of the blind leading the blind – Europe – was a threat. The eagle repeatedly argued that this is to protect us from those rogue Persians.
Now the eagle – claiming the dragon is getting an easy ride – has torn down every treaty in sight and is bent on deploying nuclear missiles in selected eastern parts of the land of the blind leading the blind, essentially targeting the bear.
Dragon bridge, Ljubljana. (Ali Eminov/Creative Commons)
All That Glitters is Silk
Roughly two decades after what top bear Putin defined as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20thcentury”, he proposed a form of USSR light; a political/economic body called the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).
The idea was to have the EAEU interact with the EU – the top institution of the motley crew congregated as the blind leading the blind.
The eagle not only rejected the possible integration; it came up with a modified color revolution scenario to unplug Ukraine from the EAEU.
Even earlier than that, the eagle had wanted to set up a New Silk Road under its total control. The eagle had conveniently forgotten that the original, Ancient Silk Road linked the dragon with the Roman empire for centuries – with no interlopers outside of Eurasia.
So one can imagine the eagle’s stupor when the dragon irrupted on the global stage with its own super-charged New Silk Roads – upgrading the bear original idea of a free trade area “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” to a multi-connectivity corridor, terrestrial and maritime, from eastern China to western Europe and everything in between, spanning the whole of Eurasia.
Facing this new paradigm the blind, well, remained blind for as long as anyone could remember; they simply could not get their act together.
The eagle, meanwhile, was incrementally raising the stakes. It launched what amounted for all practical purposes to a progressively weaponized encirclement of the dragon.
The eagle made a series of moves that amount to inciting nations bordering the South China Sea to antagonize the dragon, while repositioning an array of toys – nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, fighter jets – closer and closer to the dragon’s territory.
All the time, what the dragon saw – and continues to see – is a battered eagle trying to muscle its way out of an irreversible decline by trying to intimidate, isolate and sabotage the dragon’s irreversible ascent back to where it has been for 18 of the past 20 centuries; enthroned as the king of the jungle.
A key vector is that Eurasia-wide players know that under the new laws of the jungle the dragon simply can’t – and won’t – be reduced to the status of a supporting actor. And Eurasia-wide players are too smart to embark on a Cold War 2.0 that will undermine Eurasia itself.
The eagle’s reaction to the dragon’s New Silk strategy took some time to swing from inaction to outright demonization – complementing the joint description of both the dragon and the bear as existential threats.
And yet, for all the spinning crossfire, Eurasia-wide players are not exactly impressed anymore with an eagle empire armed to its teeth. Especially after the eagle’s crest was severely damaged by failure upon hunting failure in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Eagle aircraft carriers patrolling the eastern part of Mare Nostrum are not exactly scaring the bear, the Persians and the Syrians.
James Audubon and His Journal, published in 1899 in the Public Domain. (Wikimedia Commons)
A “reset” between the eagle and the bear was always a myth. It took some time – and much financial distress – for the bear to realize there won’t be any reset, while the dragon only saw a reset towards open confrontation.
After establishing itself, slowly but surely, as the most advanced military power on the planet, with hypersonic know-how, the bear came to a startling conclusion: we don’t care anymore about what the eagle says – or does.
Under the Raging Volcano
Meanwhile, the dragon kept expanding, inexorably, across all Asian latitudes as well as Africa, Latin America and even across the unemployment-infested pastures of the austerity-hit blind leading the blind.
The dragon is firmly assured that, if cornered to the point of resorting to a nuclear option, it holds the power to make the eagle’s staggering deficit explode, degrade its credit rating to junk, and wreak havoc in the global financial system.
No wonder the eagle, under an all-enveloping paranoid cloud of cognitive dissonance, feeding state propaganda 24/7 to its subjects and minions, keeps spewing out lava like a raging volcano – dispensing sanctions to a great deal of the planet, entertaining regime change wet dreams, launching a total energy embargo against the Persians, resurrecting the “war on terra”, and aiming to punish like a Bat Out Of Intel Hell any journalist, publisher or whistleblower revealing its inner machinations.
It hurts, so bad, to admit that the political/economic center of a new multipolar world will be Asia – actually Eurasia.
As the eagle got more and more threatening, the bear and the dragon got closer and closer in their strategic partnership. Now both bear and dragon have too many strategic links across the planet to be intimidated by the eagle’s massive Empire of Bases or those periodic coalitions of the (somewhat reluctant) willing.
Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch, the mythical creature dragon, 1806. (Wikimedia Commons)
To match comprehensive, in-progress Eurasia integration, of which the New Silk Roads are the graphic symbol, the eagle’s fury, unleashed, has nothing to offer – except rehashing a war against Islam coupled with the weaponized cornering of both bear and dragon.
Then there’s Persia – those master chess players. The eagle has been gunning for the Persians ever since they got rid of the eagle’s proconsul, the Shah, in 1979 – and this after the eagle and perfidious Albion had already smashed democracy to place the Shah, who made Saddam look like Gandhi, in power in 1953.
The eagle wants all that oil and natural gas back – not to mention a new Shah as the new gendarme of the Persian Gulf. The difference is now the bear and the dragon are saying No Way. What is the eagle to do? Set up the false flag to end all false flags?
This is where we stand now. And once again, we reach the end – though not the endgame. There’s still no moral to this revamped fable. We continue to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Our only, slim hope is that a bunch of Hollow Men obsessed by the Second Coming won’t turn Cold War 2.0 into Armageddon.
This article is from 2011 apparently. Still interesting.
At risk of ruffling many feathers here, I will point out that Pepe and many others operate under an unconscious but dangerous fallacy – the assumption that, if one side in an argument is “bad”, the other side must be “good”. There is no rational basis for this assumption, only conditioning from childhood fairy tales.
A different assumption might be more useful, even though also unprovable: In a power struggle where public perception is important, powers in the second and third positions will likely feel more pressure to avoid negative publicity than the power in position one. Position one historically demonstrates the greatest tendency towards abusive behavior.
I suppose that some fear of sinking into hopelessness pushes people towards the fallacy above. It might help to remind oneself that real good seldom arises from political powers. Rather, it seems to avoid these powers and arise from unexpected places.
Hope is good. Clinging to fantasies about the goodness of military powers is a recipe for utter despair.
Good and bad are not some cosmic dual between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The real problem with the West is that Capitalism has mutated from the efficient transfer of value, necessary for markets to function, to the manufacture of money as the end goal. The problem is that money is a contract, with one side an asset and the other a debt, not a commodity, that can simply be stored. For example, in the body, blood is the medium and fat is the store.
So in order to store this medium, enormous amounts of debt have to be created, to back the presumed wealth. One way to do this, besides sucking all possible value out of society and environment, through predatory lending, is for the government to borrow up surplus money and spend in ways the private sector would never dream. Such as paying people not to work and blowing up the occasional country. Where would that 20+ trillion have gone otherwise? Derivatives, Buying Apple stock?
Basically these wars are just a burn pit for surplus savings. That’s why there’s no real strategy and twits like Bolton are taken seriously.
Meanwhile we drive civilizations that have been competing with each other for millennia, together. That, as Escobar points out, will be the most consequential result. The US will possibly be several countries, a hundred years from now, as the current government bankrupts itself.
A quick read of this, for example, would suggest that China’s policies and influence are far more benevolent than the USA’s.
https://journal-neo.org/2019/05/07/bri-forum-points-to-tectonic-shift-in-geopolitical-power/
China always seems to aim for mutually beneficial cooperation, whereas the US approach is always to set up “wealth pumps” and steal everything they can. Indeed, the American style of “neo-imperialism” or “super-imperialism” always reminds me of the slogan from the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean”:
“Take what you can; give nothing back”.
To my mind, comparing Washington and its capitalist owners with pirates is supremely fair and accurate.
(For background, see Noam Chomsky more or less passim; and Michael Hudson’s excellent book “Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance”
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Imperialism-Origin-Fundamentals-Dominance/dp/0745319890)/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=super-imperialism&qid=1557309737&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Tom Welsh
We have to go back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the English geographer Halford MacKinder warned the British Government that a German-Russian economic and political alliance would mean the end of the British Empire and the rise of Euro-Asia. Brzezinski in his “Grand Chessboard” confirmed MacKinders writings. We can state that two world wars were fought to prevent this, ie. instead of Russia and Germany uniting, they were turned against each other, a foolish mistake by Germany. We can also say that the European union was also created to prevent this, ie. trapping Germany and others into an organization which is nothing more than a civilian component of NATO.
What do we have now ? The Atlantic political and banking powers, Britain and the US, continuing to apply MacKinders warning and doing their utmost to prevent the rise of Euro-Asia. It won’t work. Why ?
There is an old joke in the US, which goes like this:”In the US we have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”. Perfectly true. This American political and economic model has been exported to much of the world, where we see elites being created in “sovereign” countries, and who end up working for the benefits of Anglo-American banks and corporations. Guaido in Venezuela is the latest example.
The Russians and Chinese have reversed this model, creating the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Euro-Asian Economic Union and the Silk Road. They have introduced “socialism” based on fair trade and respect for the sovereign status of countries, a direct contrast to the Anglo-American methods. And the result ? The world is turning towards the East.
Russian-Chinese cooperation is well known. The Silk Road is now used to build up Russia’s far East, as well as Russia’s Arctic region. Italy has joined the Silk Road. Germany is contributing to the construction of the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline and it’s only a matter of time before it joins the Euro-Asian Economic Union.
And the US ? Can it prevent the shifting of economic and political power to the East ? Only if it provokes a wider war, a very dangerous thing to do. The US is probably half aware of this, but only half aware, which in its self is a very dangerous psychological state of mind. At the moment Washington is applying threats and sanctions left, right and center, against both foes and friends. The rest of the world is watching and analyzing. Once it concludes that it is dealing with an irrational, psychotic imperial power, which is in decline, then the rise of Euro-Asia will indeed reach it’s final phases.
That was an excellent read BF…
I think you’re spot on about Germany…the German business leaders are industrialists, not bankers…they see great things in closer trade and neighborly relations with Russia…the German refusal to cave on Nordstream 2 is just the tip of the iceberg…or even the first domino to tumble…
Look at what’s happening in Hungary and Italy…people are standing up and saying ‘we’re going to do right by our people and our country…the time of the Anglo Atlanticist diktat is gone…nobody wants that crap anymore…because the people of Europe don’t want to pay for an American empire…its time has passed…
Hitler and the Nazis were an aberration…and they played right into the Anglo American hand…however, there was a lot of German chauvinism and racism towards the Slavs…they had to get over that the hard way…
This is debatable, are there surplus savings? Where would/could the money from endless wars be spent? I say there are no savings over all b/c the debt obligations are greater than the assets of the country, if every man woman and child has to work for a straight year to balance the public debt, and their personal debt is slightly lower than their combined asset worth, their still is the $200T of unfunded liabilities to address.
The only reason the system works is b/c interest payments on the debt are the only mandated mechanism made toward the overall debt, human capital then becomes the primary method of future payment and as the health of this capital is eroded the efficiency factor of this capital is reduced. Its a downward spiraling model of an unsustainable mechanism, we start reproducing retards faster than we can afford them in hopes the next Bill Gates is produced to save the system from its self.
The question of where would or could the military’s wasted costly efforts better be spent, on widening the rails, making transportation less costly. The thoughts of these ideas should be in bringing down the cost of living rather than everything that gvt currently does, is geared toward raising the cost of living so gvts tax base grows at the same time. Gvt is not the sharpest tool in the shed and age limits along side of drug testing all gvt involved employees should be a mandatory requirement, I mean who needs congressmen who are beholden to their drug dealers first and the voters second. Gvt creditability is about to drop off a cliff with no net to catch the falling critters.
True. Unfortunately the next step will likely be predatory lending/disaster capitalism applied to the US, as those sitting on the largest piles of treasuries trade them for remaining public assets. Likely facilitated by those currently in government, who understand who their future employers will be.
As the executive and regulatory function of society, government functions as its central nervous system, while finance, as the value circulation mechanism, amounts to the heart and arteries. When private government, aka monarchy, totally lost sight of the fact it is a two way street, that they served a function to society, in order to be served by it, they were peeled away, like an old scab. Banking is having its Marie Antionette moment. It’s like the heart telling the hands and feet they don’t need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get.
The greatest danger to capitalism are the current capitalists. Henry Ford paid his workers twice what he had to, because he understood those building the products had to be able to afford them. Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, is sucking out every penny he can and will use it to suck more.
Not that banking could be run by politicians, as people experience money as quantified hope and politicians live and die on the hope they inspire, so printing money is a cheap high, with serious consequences.
One hundred years from now the USA will almost certainly be a waste-land devoid of Life and battered by the ferocious weather and climate that will accompany the rapid rise in global average temperatures by several degrees Celsius. Plus the effects of universal pollution, melted-down nuclear plants, mega-fires, burning cities and, probably, thermo-nuclear war and bio-warfare. If any humans survive, they’ll wish that they had not.
Uh, no.
Not according to any credible speculation I’ve seen. I have of course swam around in the intellectual ocean of bullshit marketed by sleazy whores of deceit. The climate hoax is up.
This would be a good time to go on a spiritual retreat, if by the Grace of God, you are Blessed enough to afford such a luxury.
Peace.
Let us see. One side is the greatest purveyor of violence in history, if I may quote, more or less, one of its victims, Martin Luther King. They have been responsible for initiating 80% of major conflicts since WW2 according to one study. They have interfered, intervened, sabotaged, subverted, sanctioned and attacked scores of countries since WW2 (and long before in Latin America) causing the deaths of millions.
They have an archipelago of one thousand or so overseas bases, from which they threaten the world. Their ‘Special Forces’ death-squads operate in over 100 countries, spreading death and destruction. They have supported, financed and trained jihadist and salafist terrorist butchers since the ’70s, in league with two other terrorist regimes, Sordid Barbaria and Talmudistan, setting them loose to kill, torture, rape and destroy. Before that they used Shia fanatics to overthrow the Mossadegh Government in Iran, installing the butcher so-called ‘Shah’.
They have imposed a neo-liberal capitalist reign of terror over the world, through the ‘Washington Consensus’ of the economic hit-men of the IMF, World Bank, WTO, WIPO etc, a dispensation that has caused global misery, death, suffering and terminal ecocide. And through the ‘soft power’ of their brainwashing apparatus of advertising, PR and ‘entertainment’ they have disseminated a ‘culture’ of greed, violence, resentment and psychological dissatisfaction and despair. If that is not ‘Bad’, or rather EVIL with capital letters, then words have lost all meaning.
@ Mulga
“God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath. Every island fled away, and the mountains could not be found. From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible.”
It’s interesting that when the scriptures speak of the city of Babylon, the great whore it also describes her as the city that sits on 7 hills which may refer to the city of Rome. The Rome of today is a far cry from the Rome of yesterday and lo and behold Washington has its own 7 hills. Just a coincidence? We shall see. And why is it that when ever someone tries to do the right thing politically they wind up dead in strange and inexplicable circumstances? Just google Korean Air Lines flight 007 and Larry MaDonald to see questionable history?
And lets us not forget the words of Marine General Smedley Butler:
“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.” {War is a Racket 1935}
Imagine if the original bird had retained its prominence as the American nations symbol, the turkey, being fattened up for a Thanksgiving feast, oh the irony of it all.
And then there is the ‘dog’ that unfortunately became infected with a Wahhabbist virus…similar to rabies, but worse…since the dog is still able to take commands from his master, the ‘eagle’…and viciously attack with razor sharp fangs and foaming mouth any peaceful global village that wants to be friendly and neighborly with the dragon or the bear…for instance Sri Lanka…Myanmar…the Philippines etc…
And the beauty of having this vicious dog is that you can always blame the dog…he doesn’t mind at all…after all he’s just a dog…
And then there is the snake in the grass.
Indeed…and the slithering snake only whispers good ‘advice’ in the ear of the eagle…they are quite a team…the snake, the dog, and the eagle…and may God bless…
While I understand that links unaccompanied by text are unwelcome, I feel that the following cartoon is a wonderful illustration of Mr Escobar’s excellent article.
https://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/1200xauto/public/1975882_Page_.jpg?itok=ae9gWVxf
EXCELLENT, LOL..!!!
You have a point, Mr. Welsh.
Many thanks..!
Bear and dragon have their feet safely on the ground which they know intimately….eagle relies on “hot air” to fly…or if none it just struts and hops around on the ground pecking with its beak uselessly…..
The pie-bald eagle was always a vulture in very thin disguise.
But the ‘bald eagle’ is the national bird of the Hew Hess Hay!
How dare you impugn that noble critter!
This is more true than you know.
https://secretsun.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-great-seal-decoded-finally.html
Will the eagle morph into a turkey ready for slaughter ??
It’s too bad the two illustrations depicting dragons are European depictions giving the Eurpean traditional ideas about dragons. The CHineseand East Asian dragons are to some extent alsom beneign and blessing mythic animals — some living in deep waters, some chasing and bringing in the blessed rainy season and thus nurturing the crops and life in general. Chinese has over fifty shades of names for dragons. Some twentieth century theorizers speculated that the dragon symbols were parts of the bodies of animals that served as totems for different ethnic groups that came to be united as the Chinese polituy and people/culture. But the oldest dragon figures are found around Inner Mongolia, i.e. also pointing to the lands of horses and bears in the north. This is also the area of the World where the most dinosaur bones can be found.
And by the way: The Russian bear is not a polar (white) bear but a grizzly brown one. The white russian cold bear is an invention in the Maoist anti-Soviet propaganda from whence they were members of a US-Chinese united front against Breshnevist-ruled red Moscow.
The bear on the postal stamp is not the russian brown bear but an arctic animal and the stamp celebrates the exotic animals in the Moscow Zoo. The Russian bear is brown.
Just like the two dragons depicted are European and not at all East Asian or Chinese.
The fable, a literary genre, so much out of fashion today. But it has great relevance for these times, crystalizing the moral issues: a race driven by the desire for power, blinded by that desire it will do anything to get power, and anything to hold on to it. But power brings a blindness – instead of bringing strength and victory it is ultimately leading the race towards impotence and defeat: the very war it seeks to avoid – Armageddon.
https://www.ghostsofhistory.wordpress.com/
The engine of the BRI is China’s Wealth/Economic Development. Eurasian Development depends on that engine running strong.
Trump’s strategy is to shut down that engine. Thus, the Trade War, Tariffs and the panoply of hybrid war tools, manifested in South China Sea encounters and arms deals with Taiwan (to break the One China policy).
The goal for the Hegemon is reduce China to a permanently crippled economy, thus an eternal number 2, with bad demographics.
The Americans smell blood as the China-based Supply Chain for high tech products is fracturing, with companies moving capacity to Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia and Laos.
However, the Chinese have made a huge geopolitical investment in themselves, not others in Eurasia. They are putting up their money, their credit (huge national debt load) to convert their economy to a consumer-based economy and to bankroll the development of infrastructure for scores of impoverished Eurasian and African nations.
This self-investment (in the Trillions of Dollars) is the enticement for others to join the BRI. With loans and co-investments from other wealth funds, a future is foreseeable. Everyone can see China’s development and have a similar (much smaller, of course) result. Ports, airports, rail systems, highways, electrical grids, all linked to the rest of Eurasia, Europe and Middle East, and by sea, to Africa, can be produced in the next 10-20 years.
Thus, China’s plan is to create a new market, 4.5 Billion consumers, for China’s next generation of exports (not cheap goods, but higher value products and services). Presently, most of the 4.5 Billion people are living in poverty. But development will move them to a status like China’s 800 million who have entered a low middle class consumer status.
The denial of China’s participation in trade with the US market, as Trump and his team plan, will mean far less as the BRI creates ten new “US markets” over the next 15-20 years.
The crisis time for China is now, 2019-24. The economy may have to take a huge hit if tariffs really bite hard. But while the US desperately tries to contain China and cripple its development, the Chinese will persevere. They have studied how the US took down the USSR economy and crippled the Russian Federation economy. They have no doubts about US hegemony.
And they understand that the hybrid war is meant to do more than cripple China’s development. It is meant as the means to generate social chaos and regime change.
There are no illusions in Zhongnanhai. The US aspires to destroy the CCP and break China into pieces.
There is no win-win possible with the Hegemon.
Watch closely the moves President Xi makes with the trade negotiations. The Politburo has already made its move to stop the agreement as it is presently constructed. Chairman for Life, Xi Jinping, was issued his instructions.
The CCP has stated on several occasions that Xi has an additional five-year term. Others may follow. ‘President for Life’ is Western agit-prop, I’m afraid. Here in Austfailia, the sheer venomous hysteria of the Sinophobic hate propaganda is scarcely believable, until you recall that public life, in politics and the fakestream media sewers in particular, depends on TOTAL ideological reliability to our Imperial Masters in Thanatopolis DC and Talmudistan.
And as ever the scum compete for brownie points in hate-mongering. I heard one ‘academic’, a veteran and extreme Sinophobe, snarling that we must ‘..get out from under’ our economic dependence on China (no doubt in preparation for war). Translating from the slavering gibberish, we must give up 55 billion per year in trade surpluses, over one million Chinese tourists per annum and tens of thousands of Chinese students, and prefer our Thanatopian Masters with their huge surpluses in trade with us, and the ludicrously one-sided (to Thanatopia) ‘Free Trade’ agreement made by the war criminal Howard regime in the early 2000s.
Then there was the feminazi ABC presstitute who demanded of some political reptile that he call for China to ‘..withdraw from the islands of the China Seas’???!!! As I say, the concatenation of racism, hard Right, Western supremacist theology and all-round intellectual and moral swinishness produces real prodigies of stupidity and arrogance, but that is Austfailia to the life, I fear. At least the Chinese are very patient and forgiving.
I don’t see how the US can hurt China…this so called trade war is Trump shooting the US economy in the foot…
How do tariffs hurt China…the American consumer pays that tariff…
US is in a no win situation…
According to the Trump marionette, China ‘broke an agreement’ that did not yet exist. Yet, despite the clear moral insanity of the entire US ruling elite, driven mad by innate racism and terror at China’s rise, outrage at the collapse of Western global hegemony, and united in genocidal hatred of China, all the little metastases in the Empire’s stooge states, like Austfailia, immediately take the Bosses’s side and abuse China for daring to succeed in a manner unprecedented in history. And, in the sad, sick, failed state that is Austfailia, that means either economic chaos and prodigious losses in trade with our greatest trade partner, or thermo-nuclear destruction as a forward base for US Marines, Navy and Air Force.
Here’s a fable:
America is more like a rabid beast that is foaming at the mouth and goes on a killing rampage around the neighborhood (or world).
Sooner or later, this rabid American animal is going to have to be put down hard–and permanently.
Appeasing America does not work.
Kill it–or it will kill you.
One American fool who pretends to be an ambassador is reported to have recently said that they don’t need diplomats anymore. Their aircraft carriers are all the diplomacy they need. This arrogance fits in perfectly with Trump and his inner circle of war criminals, pirates.
We aren’t going to have to wait long to find out which way the world will turn when this rogue state attacks Iran. it is likely going to happen very soon. What will be the response of the other two key players, Russia and China? As Paul Craig Roberts said in his final statement in today’s article, if they attack Iran, nuclear war comes next! Let that sink in for a while, but not for too long. There is no time.
Trump today saying extra extra sanctions USA preventing Iran acquiring revenue for proliferation weapons mass destruction ie saying they already have them -gonna use them?- in his make
believe world…Pompeo saying China going to cyber attack…….all ratcheting up….Iran putting “indecisive no idea what to do EU done nothing so far “on the spot….make your mind up time….
It’s ‘Kiss your ass goodbye’, time. I only have a donkey and sundry dogs and cats, and a parting pat will have to do.
The position of the EU vermin in regard to Iran and the JCPOA, in demanding that Iran still follow an already outrageously detrimental ‘deal’, when Thanatopolis DC has abrogated it for a year and imposed Evil and illegal sanctions on Iran AND the rest of the world that dares trade with Iran, is unspeakably vicious and despicable. The rule over slave regimes like France under ‘Jupiter’ Micron by the Zionazi money-masters has never been plainer.
In my limited experience, aircraft carriers are poor negotiators. The dialogue can go something like this:
Aircraft Carrier: Do what I tell you or else – air strikes!
Intended Victim: Shan’t.
AC: Vroom! Vroom! Vroom! [Many jets take off].
IV: Boom! Boom! Boom! [Many jets are blown up]
IV: ZAP! [Delivers hypersonic missiles]
AC: Glug glug glug…
Another possible line-up: The Bear, the Dragon, and the Orange Baboon — the latter throwing faeces all around. The Ukros seem to truly enjoy being at the receiving end, but that’s about it.
Our story begins in a large apartment in The Kremlin beside the US embassy where Russian operative called Sergi holds court.
Sergi laughs maniacally, stopping suddenly,’ come in.’
His friend Vladhere comments, ‘Oh, we appear to have company.’
Sergi turns to Vladhere, ‘Ha ha ha ha ha. This gentleman has come in answer to your advertisement.’
‘Oh, how lovely! Come in, sit down,’ said Vladhere to the new arrival,
My name is Ned Bahamas.’ states a tall slender man of African appearance.
‘What a memory you have!’ Sergi replies hoping for the comment to be taken as a jest.
‘I’ve, er… I’ve come to move the uranium,’ states Bahamas. Thank you.
Vladhere offers a glass of pale colored liquid, ‘Have a vodka.’
No thanks… I’m trying to give them up.
Vladhere: ‘Splendid for you! Congratulates Vladhere with an air of disappointment. ‘Now, Neddie, here’s the money for moving the uranium. There you are: five dollars in tens.’
‘Five dollars for moving some uranium? Ha ha ha! This is money for old rope.’
‘Is it?’ said Vladhere with a smile, ‘ I’d have thought you’d have bought something more useful like some sacks.’
‘No, no. I have simple tastes… Now, where is this uranium?’
‘All in good time Neddy. Now first, will you sign this contract, in which you guarantee to move the uranium from one room to another room for five dollars.’
‘Of course I’ll sign. Have you a pen?’
‘Here you are. Now Neddy, please just sign the contract.’ Vladhere offers him a gold pen and points to the space under the last paragraph.
Bahamas scribbles “Ned Bahamas. AGG”
Sergi looks over, ‘What’s AGG for?’
‘For the kiddies to ride on. ‘
Vladhere sniggers, ‘You sure are destined for high office. Are you sure you won’t have a vodka?’
‘No thanks, I’ve just put one out.’
‘I see.’
Bahamas is impatient to get going and earn his money and asks, ‘Now, which room is this uranium in?’
‘It’s erm… It’s in Utah state,’ states Vladhere.
‘Strange taste you have.’
‘We refer to Utah, the state in USA.’
‘What what what what what what what what what what? You mean the uranium’s in America?’
‘Yes.’
‘Ahhh! I’ve been tricked! Yahhahh!’ He falls to the floor with a thud.
Sergi, ‘He’s fainted.’
Vladhere with concern, ‘Don’t waste time. Open his jacket…’
‘Right!’
‘…and take the weight of his wallet off his chest.’
‘Aha yes!’
‘Find anything?’
‘Yes.’ said a somewhat disappointed Sergi. ‘a signed photograph of Neddy Bahamas, a press cutting from the NYT, a false birth certificate, a CD of his wife mowing the lawn and a photograph of Nairobi.’
‘He’s still out cold. See if this brings him round.’ Vladhere drops a coin on the marble floor.
Bahamas eyes blink open, ‘Thank you, Hilliry!’ he begins singing, ‘comrades, comrades, ever since we were boys. Sharing… Ah oh ooh oh ooh! Where am I?’
‘Russia,’ said Vladhere.
Bahamas: ‘What number?’
(to be continued or see here http://www.ablindeye.com/uranium.html )
Take some time today to view the video of the Great Patriotic Victory Day celebration.
You will see a nation, a society, a culture and a civilization unlike anything the West could present.
This is a People grounded in Faith, organized and ready for any enemy, any strategy, any tactic.
It has leadership and a precious history, without fable and lies.
Take it in. Understand it. This is why the world comes to Moscow to get help, to ally with this nation of heroes.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-08/israeli-newspaper-leaks-terms-trumps-deal-century-middle-east-peace-plan
This is hilarious! One might add that led by the Bloody Bolton Beast, the Eagle is now attempting to start new wars against Iran and Venezuela in order to seize control of their oil resources.