Two important events took place recently with regard to Ukraine and Taiwan. President Biden spoke about the Ukraine situation and Secretary of State Blinken visited China and held important meetings with Chinese leaders. Initial reports indicated that the United States (US) was trying to dial back tensions and open the door to greater diplomatic negotiations. This was a step back from the more confrontational position the US has recently held, and one view is that the US “blinked” after seeing that the hardline approach was not achieving the desired results. Another viewpoint is that the two episodes were an aberration and not likely to have lasting effects. Blinken’s visit generated considerable negative response and Biden blew a hole in the Chinese negotiations by his comments.
In the case of Ukraine, President Biden reversed himself again, stating that Ukraine would have to go through the regular seven-step procedure in order to become a member of NATO. This is a very time-consuming process and one of the steps is to get a lid on corruption in the country. Since Ukraine is alleged to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world, the chances of fixing that problem are near zero. In effect then, Biden’s decision means that the chances of Ukraine joining NATO anytime soon are also near zero. Therefore, the US move more or less amounts to acquiescing to Russia’s demand that Ukraine not join NATO. The US action is a veto on the NATO Secretary General’s call for a speedy membership for Ukraine. It undercuts the German Foreign Minister’s newly issued national security strategy, as well as efforts to provide new weapons to Ukraine, such as the US F-16 fighter planes. Biden’s action, unless reversed yet again, will require re-tooling the agenda for the NATO meeting in Vilnius in July. The “narrative” put out by the West concerning the Ukraine War will also need to be adjusted, as this action by Biden may be a first step in taking the off-ramp from the war. However, NATO officials and European politicians are still calling for Ukraine to join NATO, and more weapons and money are being sent to Ukraine, so the impact of Biden’s statement is in doubt. It may have been just another gaffe by the President.
The latest fiasco in the Ukraine War is the reported attempt by the head of the Wagner mercenary group to march on Moscow. The latest reports are that Belarus was able to negotiate a ceasefire, that the Wagner forces have been told to return to their barracks and that the Wagner leader will go to exile in Belarus. It remains to be seen what the real facts are and to evaluate their impact on the conduct of the war.
In the case of Taiwan, Secretary of State Blinken announced during his visit to China that the US was not supporting independence for Taiwan and that the US would uphold the historical “one-China” policy. This effectively reverses the recent US position of supporting and defending Taiwan independence and amounts to acquiescing to China’s demands. Blinken’s announcement followed weeks of visits to China by a number of US CEOs of huge international companies. Presumably, the companies were not happy with the buildup of anti-Chinese actions by the US, as these measures would hamper getting goods produced by their factories in China and reduce sales of their products in China. While the multinational companies are trying to relocate production to other Asian countries, this takes time, effort and money. One can only imagine what the Chinese leader and one of the world’s richest men (Gates) talked about during their meeting in Beijing last week. Pressure on the Biden administration was likely from big retailers in the US–Walmart, Target, CVS, and the rest–who could foresee their shelves going bare in the event of a serious altercation between the US and China. Many US companies are still licking their wounds from having to pull out of Russia due to sanctions. The Western automobile companies lost their factories and sales in Russia, and these factories have been repurposed to build Chinese and Iranian vehicles. The same thing could happen to Western automobile companies in China. Other US companies are also warning about trade restrictions with China. As noted in this blog, Raytheon, a major US weapons manufacturer, points out that the company depends on several thousand suppliers in China as well as on several critical inputs for its weapons, including rare earth metals. Nvidia warns that chip restrictions will hurt the company, as it depends on sales to China and that China will just go ahead and develop its own advanced chips. Thus we see a repeat of the counter-results of sanctions on Russia: the sanctioned country just goes ahead on its own and becomes an even greater competitor to the US.
Shortly after Secretary Blinken’s visit, President Biden attended a private fund-raiser and in the course of his talk, he called the Chinese leader “a dictator.” The resulting uproar undercut the whole purpose of sending Blinken to China. The long term ramifications are not that clear on the amount of damage. For instance, Blinken would not have gone to China unless the Biden Administration had come to the conclusion that a change of course was needed in US-China relations. Blaming Blinken for “kow-towing” is only blaming the messenger. The Biden Administration would not have sent Blinken unless instructed to do so by the proverbial “Powers Behind the Throne” (or “behind the curtain” in modern terms). The “Powers” had obviously concluded that the US foreign policy was on a losing trajectory and needed to be revamped.
President Biden was either somewhat out of the loop on this decision, or forgot what was being done by the State Department, or simply was not capable of realizing when he should keep quiet. This is shown by Biden’s attempt to walk-back his comment and claim that it was no big deal, just some hysteria. The “Powers” are now on notice that the President is a major problem and that something needs to be done to prevent any more such missteps.
That Blinken’s visit to China was a US attempt at some sort of detente is also shown by the words of Secretary of the Treasury Yellen. Yellen, at a press conference in Paris, said it was critical to maintain communication with China and to work together where possible. She and other US officials were trying to down-play the President’s remarks.
Detente will be more difficult to achieve due to actions by both countries. The US has been going out of its way to inflame the Taiwan situation and annoy China with the various Quad proposals and selling nuclear submarines to Australia, among numerous provocations. China has upset the status quo by brokering a peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, leading to a wholesale shift of Middle Eastern countries away from US influence and toward China and Russia. In addition, the agreement has gravely undercut the US policies concerning Iran, and perhaps fatally injured the Petrodollar. The US is also upset over reports that China is setting up a military training effort in Cuba.
The agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia has put Israel in a less favorable position, as it effectively nullifies the Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump Administration. The agreement undercuts nearly all the bases of Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East. Furthermore, China is now embarking on a peace initiative between Israel and the Palestinians. Both of these Chinese initiatives will force Israel into a major recalculation of its foreign and domestic policies.
The new US initiatives promoted by the “Powers” will lead to significant changes with regard to the Ukraine War and the Taiwan War, provided that the policies are carried out. There will be plenty of opponents to these new policies and no guarantee that they will succeed. The Council on Foreign Relations yesterday issued a report that called for stronger support for Taiwan, especially from a military viewpoint. This shows that there is a difference of opinion among the “Powers” and that some are pushing back against any detente with China.
There are other factors at work here, too, such as the loss of prestige of the US weapons makers following the destruction of their weapons in Ukraine. The Western tanks, artillery, personnel carriers, air defense systems, and rockets are being effectively neutralized by Russia, whereas the Western- supported Ukrainian Army has not been as successful in neutralizing the Russian weapons. The longer the war goes on, the worse it looks for the Western armament companies. The German Leopard tanks are a case in point, which is probably the main reason that the US Abrams tanks have not yet been supplied to Ukraine. As for the F-16 fighter planes, Russia says bring them on and we will be happy to shoot them down wholesale.
In addition, it is widely acknowledged that the sanctions on Russia, China, and Iran have failed to achieve any really useful results. Both Russia and Iran are moving forward with economic growth, new advanced weapon systems, and increased activities in space. This month Iran proposed a new natural gas hub on the Persian Gulf coast. Gas would come from major producing countries: Russia, Iran, Qatar, and Turkmenistan, and be delivered to India, Pakistan, and China. Iran is also in the news following the reported discovery of a massive lithium deposit which is claimed to hold about ten percent of the world’s reserves.
The US even admits that the sanctions have worsened the problem of de-dollarization. A huge case of shooting oneself in the foot. The dollar is under immense pressure as other countries increasingly use local currencies or gold to settle accounts. The BRICS and SCO are investigating alternatives to the US dollar and the oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia are accepting Chinese money, thus ending the Petrodollar regime.
Countries across the Global South are wanting to join the new international organizations sponsored by Russia and China: BRICS, SCO, new transport corridors, and banks. The US wars and regime changes in West Asia (Middle East) have been a failure and Israel is more isolated and in the midst of internal disagreement. The Central Asian counties are more and more working together with Russia, China, and Iran to sort out problems and seek progress together.
It is clear that the US plan of world-wide hegemony has run aground and a new plan is necessary. This realization has penetrated the US Defense Department, where the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has stated that there are three superpowers in the world today, the US, China and Russia. In other words, the US cannot use military power against the other superpowers without blowing up the world. This fact has been slow to percolate through the US political class and the mainstream media, but it appears that the White House and the State Department have also finally gotten the message. The US military is mostly impotent in its ability to preserve the “international rules-based order” of the past American Century.
However, just because the Biden Administration has apparently tried to change course, it is not clear that all the other political factions in the US and Europe will fall in line. There has been an enormous investment in promoting the alternative reality of US exceptionalism and triumphalism, coupled with the supposed weakness of Russia and China. The whole narrative in the official reports and the mainstream media would have to be changed. There is some indication that this is already happening. News articles are pointing out the problems and lack of success of the Ukraine counter-offensive and beginning to put the blame on the head of the Ukraine Army, as well as the head of Ukraine intelligence. The next head to be blamed, so to speak, could well be the President of Ukraine, especially since Russia would like him to stay in office in order to sign the surrender papers.
Of course, there is no guarantee on how long the Biden Administration officials will remain in office, but these latest “blinks” provide a glimmer of hope that, behind the curtain, the US is diverting onto an off-ramp instead of continuing the reckless drive toward a wider war.
If Joe Vialls, best investigative journalist, were alive, he would have cracked open the finest details of the ‘march for justice’ aka wagner mutiny as he did with this expose in 2004.
Take a look.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060622160208/http://www.vialls.com/myahudi/tabanuke.html
Neolibs in Feb 24 of 2022
“logistics are booooring! Russia is a gas station we are going to loot!”
Neolibs in June of 2024
“What u mean we can’t haz WW3?!?”
In some perverse way, I think it would be better in the long run that Biden gets “reelected.”
My reasoning being that it will finally make it plain as a pikestaff that US elections are crooked. In addition, it will accelerate the downfall of the American empire, hopefully allowing the godness of America to rise Phoenix like from the ashes.
Wishful thinking perhaps, but on the current trajectory, I do not see any glimmers of hope on the horizon.
Is there any goodness even left in the United Snakes? We’re in the middle of sodomy month – named after the uttermost of the deadly sins. States like California are trying to codify the government’s right to snatch children from parents if they don’t acquiesce to letting their minor child decide (after being propagandized by their teachers) to have themselves castrated/sterilized (“gender-affirming healthcare”). Meanwhile our government – with its minuscule approval ratings – lectures the world about democracy and “rules based order” – where the rule is “follow our orders”.
Nor all of us are child eating perverts…..
Most aren’t. Most of 1930s Germans were not Nazis. They were just too scared, and kept their mouth shut in order to stay under the radar, and save themselves from the evil.
There is a lot more to that war than what we have been told.
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
by Antony Sutton
I don’t know what you have been told. My comment was not about war itself, but other things.
Regarding Biden getting re-elected being possibly a good thing, I’ve been thinking along those lines myself. It’s like kicking a dog when it’s down but right now the US deserves a beating.
A known devil is better than the unknown. Not that Trump is unknown but he blows hot and blows cold alternatively so it wastes people’s time.
Who else is there the hoarse Kennedy? Well he just recently called Putin a thug and murderer.
More of the same but then again world opinion demands that he be given a chance. So more waste if time.
Rest of the world needs to get on with the route it’s taking this Biden is the best bet.
I agree completely. Besides, the bonus would be to watch Biden stroke out on national TV. (Yeah, I know. We’ll never be allowed to see that.) That, or having Biden press the button, launching a nuclear first strike against Russia, thinking he was calling for ice cream and room service.
It might spark another revolution as well.
I think it’d be preferable if that ‘what’s a uighur?’ guy won the post.
America’s ignorance is the world’s bliss.
A uighur is sort of like a thigamajigit but more useful to throw into the gear works.
I am on the reelect Biden team. I want America to become a republic again and that won’t stand a chance of happening until the Empire is destroyed.
The Biden junta has done more to destroy the Empire than all the preceding administrations combined.
RFKjr has some very good policies that will benefit the country. However, as Trump showed, the entire system will pull together to make sure he can’t rock the Empire’s boat.
“RFKjr has some very good policies that will benefit the country.”
Based on his recent comments, by “the country” you probably mean Israel. 🙂
I want Bidet to get reselected. Four more years of Bidet should finish off the American Empire once and for all.
Biden and his team are turning America into the Titan II submersible.
“I’m not a real commander in chief, I just play one for my audience.”
As John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out decades ago, those in power won’t give it up peacefully. That could be the problem here is the “golden billion” are now faced with a world where everybody else decided to make their own sand box and play in it without us.
It is a logical step considering how poorly our leadership has been in running the “rules based order.” Now we have conflicting views coming from the elites as they try to adjust and hang on to power. There are indications the Davos/WEF crowd is giving up on the Ukraine idea. They hoped to make Russia a vassal, but that clearly isn’t going to happen.
Ukraine has shown the emperor has no clothes, and everybody can see it now. The conceit and hubris here seems to be preventing the puppet masters from seeing the reality of it. We’re done militarily, financially and culturally, but we don’t know it yet. The WEF new world order will be a small rump conglomeration on the outside looking in.
Ironic that a bunch of old, privileged white guys pushing DEI are losing out to a multi-ethnic, multi-racial diverse group that is including everybody else. Oh, and don’t be surprised if they punt Biden and dust off Hillary for 2024. As near as I can tell, they have nobody else, and that’s pretty sad too.
Before the United States leaves this conflict they’ll push in Poland, Baltics, Romania et al.
Poland and Baltics are eager for a bruising, Romania not so much.
Looks right. The battle cry by Graham will be fight to the last Pole.
After that the Baltics.f
The Baltics are a halftime show.
Thank you, sir – for providing us with a glimmer of hope.
One problem being American is that you fail to see how others see you and that is far from impressed. No one sees consistency in any US position and expect it to dissolve in the morning dew.
No American assurance, pledge, treaty, contract is worth the paper it is written and there is simply no security in anything whether a bank deposit or a visa. I lived and studied in US for many years and worked there but would fear visiting such a volatile place – I would feel safer in Russia
I fear US police, DHS, FBI or simply street violence and it is not how I lived in USA happily many decades ago
US needs quarantining with a cordon sanitaire like George Kennan suggested but this time it is US that needs containment by Rest of World
Mexico should hire Chinese to build a wall.
Thank you sir you made my day.
Oh, yes! Please make it happen.
If the Chinese get the contract it definitely will be completed on time and within budget
And yet millions more want to flood into this country. I would take the below mentioned wall if it worked both ways.
Essentially, America reveals more to the world each year that its so-called democracy and human rights is a simple facade, a decades-long carefully crafted construct of neo-colonial policies gained by hook, by crook or outright military action where simple diktat fails – and is well on its way to becoming a world diplomatic leper.
Fascinating how all that America has done, it accuses Russia and China of doing (without its blessed authorization). I’d say the phenomenon definitely qualifies as a bona fide American syndrome.
“Let’s see how many Ukrainians we can throw against the wall and see what sticks.”
Larry, Sir
Thanks again for posting this analysis of yours.
It is the most intelligent and prescient paper that we have found in all the analysis categories to date.
And let me assure you that your vision far exceeds what is disclosed by other Blogs and bloggers, -although some bloggers show undeserved prestige –
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Blinker went an awfully long way to lie straight to Xi’s face.
That is not diplomacy – that is shameless
All this talk about Ukraine joining NATO or not joining is pointless.Ukraine is already part of NATO,they skipped the dating and foreplay and went straight to bed in 2014.They are fighting Russia for the USA,they are armed by the USA,NATO/USA does all their surveillance, electronic warfare,their politicians are paid by the USA,their pensions are paid by the USA,they buy houses in the EU paid for by the USA,they send money back to USA politicians.If anyone is an active member of NATO/USA it is Ukraine.Ukraine is the USA’s bitch on a choke chain,and its people are just grease under the tracks to the USA hegemon.
It’s not pointless. It’s pimp talk about marriage to a prostitute, in order to keep her in business. If they were to tell the truth, Ukrainian soldiers might do a Prigozhin, and turn remainder of their tanks towars Kiev. Such thing won’t end up nice for NATO.
Exactly
Unfortunately, it appears to me that Biden’s cabinet intent is to destroy the United States and not Russia/China.
Blinken’s policies have backfired just as had Reagan’s similar policies during the Siberian pipeline crisis of that era. Not only did Blinken fail to learn from history, he failed to learn from his own historical research.
Great analysis. The US doesn’t have a unified foreign policy; it gets pulled by which ever ‘influencer’ has the Administrations ear at the moment. In addition, the US ‘can’t accept that other nations (Russia and China, e.g.) might not bend to US demands and bullying. IMO, the US also doesn’t recognize that those afore mentioned countries can bait the US as the US has baited them and force the aging bully to back off (at the cost of loss of so called ‘prestige’).
There is another way to look at these current events that draws on more of history. We are witnessing a great slow moving public unmasking and its roots run deep. It is a history of predation that is being unmasked.
Let me try to explain. Venality, selfishness and predation sometimes (often times?) holds sway in the affairs of nations. It has been so with the American Empire, reflected in great destruction in a series of countries. It has been so with European Empires in previous centuries as they subjugated people throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. See the blog Globalities.org for a brief of the history.
When the Russians and Chinese speak to other people about economics and about the conduct of Western governments in Ukraine and elsewhere, they are doing the unmasking. Most people in the world can see this and they hear the Russians and Chinese when they speak. They are jointly having a kind of revelation.
Most people in Europe and North America do not hear the Russians and Chinese when they speak. These people continue in a propaganda bubble of their own creation.
The best is Uncle Joe insisting on waiting for Ukraine to root out corruption as he eliminates prosecutors and continues to pocket his 10%. Yeah, I’ll bet he’ll wait donkey’s years for that, and I’m sure he’s not the only one.
For someone who made his modest fortune from corruption, domestically and abroad – including Ukraine, I’m sure we can take his condemnation of it with a few truckloads of salt.
Biden said “Putin is losing the war in Iraq.” Maybe it’s a new strategy to make Mr. Putin laugh himself to death. The rest of the world is watching this buffoon and making their decisions concerning which side they wish to back. It doesn’t bode well for the USA.
It’s a one of those Jekyll and Hyde transference moments for the gaffer.
Everything you stated is true.
America needs to be shoveled up thrown in the garbage bin of history as a failure
At this current time in history America is a rotten vile place, a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
I said this in 2020; America will become a hissing and a byword among the nations of the world; and indeed it has.
I hope Biden continues screwing things for all the big corporations that put him in office.
Go ahead don’t hold back put full sanctions on China I hope they do.
Sure just like they did Russia, Iran and every other country that rejects the U.S. hegemony.
If corruption is a problem, how the hell are we in NATO??
Grandfather clause.
Sweet.
I love this question! Nailed it!
Smokin’ Joe thinks the NA stands for North American and of course, there ain’t no America but us.
Unbelievable, Ukraine anti-corrup-tion board (5th from bottom in the
global list) continue to press Sweden not to eat Marabou chocolates cakes, a classic brand,
owned of global Mondelez, and now attacking Volvo car, saved
to survival of China Geely Auto, but how can Sweden accept retarded Ukraine as her master, seems selfinflicted masochism. Sweden is as subordinated as the muslims, to Allah, as Ukraine will be Sweden’s Allah, we all must obey, terrible, cowards. Get the hell out of here, Kiev. Don’t suck us dry!
Sweden giving Kiev billions of support, from taxpayers, 15.000 ATG’s and state-of-the art, artillery,
Archer, training of battalions, and pilots, people working to produce
Marabou and Volvo cars, paid not of USA, but by the income taxes, Kiev idiots don’t understand, the most obvious connections. Laugh or cry?
But thinking should we tell them?
Just now, a TV-serial, about Muhammed Ali, pointing to his
technic to box from the exact right distance, but even keep the defensive distance, not only go to offensive, at any price, do the attrition, dance, and wait for opportunity, for K. O, most people remember Ali’s performance, its like the Ukrainian war, a metaphor? but the west, is obsolete and hawkish, imagining superiority, don’t understand the Russian warfare, because all Russian is ‘bad”. They cannot win, and we know it.
Now I will read Larry’ s blogg, carefully.
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Sweeden has been on it’s way into a shithole for a while. It was slow at first, but it speeds up over time. Enjoy your first row seats.
There was a post about Rope-a-dope Ali on this blog, a while ago.
Meanwhile the Brits give billions to the 5th most corrupt country on Earth, while their biggest drinking water provider is close to bankruptcy for failing infrastructure and dumping sewage into the Thames.
Darwin’s Law: ‘You can’t fix stupid. Just have to let it dry up and blow away.’
And the Germans are wondering ‘where have all the flowers gone’
I like the op-ed writers that our host invites in. Let’s have more Mr. Johnson.
Scoop the world, get Yevgeny Prigozhin to do an op-ed, I’m sure Scott will get you an introduction. I’m being serious…_
to add the archetypal ‘weather’: after the square Uranus/Mars signifying the
coincidence of outbreak and the unexpected, this week continues with the square Uranus/Venus, signifying the unexpectedness of sovereignty of defense = Venus in Taurus.
26. week 2023: ‘After Losing the Balance in Amok of Soul – Sovereignty in Defense’
http://astromundanediary.blogspot.com/2023/06/losing-balance-in-amok-of-soul.html
The residents of Derbent enthusiastically greeted Putin
https://t.me/rian_de/41675
Kennedy jr. and Putin would be a solution-oriented Team.
Intellectual, political and atlehtic.
Do the Americans recognize it?
Or has it stunk up CNN and Mc Donalds?
Then only fresh fruits and vegetables will help.
Analog Germany!!!
LOL Biden demands Ukraine become less corrupt.
At least God has a sense of history.
The current crop of Euro-vassals will be thrilled.
Not God. Actually, I think it’s the Devil, using projection.
“Initial reports indicated that the United States (US) was trying to dial back tensions and open the door to greater diplomatic negotiations. ”
By “dial back” are you talking about Biden calling ‘President for Life’ Xi Jinping “a dictator?” Because nothing dials tension back like calling a dictator a dictator.
It would be nice to see what happens if somebody were to call one of our elected for life U.S. Senators, one of our geriatric, demented old codgers and biddys “a dictator” and see what happens.
Nancy Pelosi would probably just shriek back “I’m a Christian!” Yeah, Pelosi’s a Christian like the Devil is.
“In the case of Ukraine, President Biden reversed himself again, stating that Ukraine would have to go through the regular seven-step procedure in order to become a member of NATO.”
Don’t trust them. Don’t believe them.
NATO giving security guarantees to the Ukraine, but guarantees that carry no legally enforceable weight? Huh? What?
“The Western automobile companies lost their factories and sales in Russia, and these factories have been repurposed to build Chinese and Iranian vehicles.”
They should be repurposed to build T90 tanks. Poetic justice.
No need. Russia kept its powder dry, while its antagonists snorted theirs away.
Nah. Russians need cars more that tanks. Their civillian vehicles industry was always way behind military one. It’s almost like they knew that someone will try to conquer them yet another time.
Latin America needs to sharpen their attention and perhaps come to some agreement with Russia (or China) on supplying them with defensive weapons. Once the US finally accepts that their influence in the ME and Central Asia has expired, no doubt they’ll turn their attention to Latin America, which unfortunately still has plenty of quislings who’ll sell out their nation for a tiny slice of American pie.
I have almost no knowlege about the area, but I’m sure some Argentinians are already making plans about a rematch with the Brits.
“. . . the US move more or less amounts to acquiescing to Russia’s demand that Ukraine not join NATO.”
Acquiesce? The United States?
The United States has now entered the closing phase, where it reveals and revels in its true feeling towards Russia and the Russian People.
It’s Joe Biden, Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal jumping up and down together, yelling.
“I want to kill [Russians]. I want to kill! I want to see [Russian] Blood and [Russian] Gore and [Russian] Guts and [Russian] Veins in my teeth! Eat dead, burnt [Russian] bodies! I Mean Kill [Russians]. Kill! [ ! ! ]”
It has been mentioned before-the decline of american education does not help the country’s ability to compete. Also, the lack of mechanical brainpower combined with fickle new military equipment cannot be helpful in battle.I wonder what Russian modeling shows of a face off against NATO-full blown. I wonder if it is a rout. There would be many dead and I guess what is the point? Who would rebuild Europe? It might be China. There is not enough brain power in the US to fix the infrastructure there. Also, there would be so many “marginalized” US helpers Europe would look like South Africa and Chicago. The american media portrays Russia as inept because most of Ukraine is Russia free.
I can see how that sells
how can you blink when you have your eyes shut?
You mean like “Eyes Wide Shut?”
Sounds sneaky.
What this article has omitted was the JP Morgan Bank’s presence in China a week prior to Blinken’s visit. You just can’t analyze geopolitics without International finance and banking or for those who might prefer “Capital Allocation.”
So, Could it be that the US Commercial Banks with their Chairman Powell are meeting with the Chinese to signal that it is understood that a currency divorce is inevitable and that working out an amicable and peaceful transition is best for everyone? It could also be a signal from the US Banks that they are at war, as is China, with the the World’s Colonial Masters represented by the WEF and the Bidet administration; and that destroying the Colonial Masters’ Ponzi scheme is a worthwhile joint venture?
Furthermore, Uganda has announced the discovery of a huge gold deposit. Some estimates are at one trillion Dollars. Uganda has signaled letters of intent for the extraction of the gold are being prepared between Uganda, Russia and China. Is the Bidet Admin. being sanctioned by Uganda?
Egypt is renegotiating its large debt held by the International Mother Funders, and for the first time, is asking for the IMF to take a haircut and China will underwrite Egypts debt. Interestingly, 20% ownership in the Suez Canal is being offered, gues who will pick most of it up?
Moreover, the article doesn’t mentioned that China will begin investments in the West Bank, which makes settlements less likely, or at least more difficult. This is why you see this uptick in Zionist ejection of Palestinians from the West Bank.
Keep an eye on Nigeria. Peace will break out when ISIS will vanish. With a stable Nigeria, Opec+ is closer to stabilizing the oil markets and in turn making oil investments profitable again. The African continent is waking up and discovering that fighting amongst themselves was an old colonial disease.
This is getting dangerous, because it is apparent, those Colonial Masters would rather burn the world up than loose control.
“The american media portrays Russia as inept because most of Ukraine is Russia free.”
Part of my study of Russia (with plans to move there) involves wandering about on Google Maps street view. The one thing that stands out no matter where you go is the amount of new construction. Commercial, industrial, residential. It’s everywhere. The roads are still pretty rough, but why fix them until the build-out is complete? I’m sure they’ll get around to it. Nice bridges too. Their engineering is first rate. So are their railways.
IMO, the West has done Russia an enormous favour by imposing sanctions. Sanctions have the same effect as tariffs, but without directing public anger at the government or domestic industry. Net effect is Russia is producing more and more of what it needs internally (such as jet engines) while importing less and less, thus positively affecting the trade balance. Another positive effect, both from sanctions and the war itself, is that military technology eventually finds its way into commercial markets, aviation being a prime example. Then there’s the huge potential for military exports, now that the world has seen how Russia systems perform against their Nato counterparts. That’s a huge market that’s not only positive for the trade balance, but also puts a hard stop to US interference in those nations that adopt Russian defence systems. Hard to conduct gunboat diplomacy when your gunboat can be blown out of the water with impunity:)
Hard to control the shipping lanes when the deep land based silk road is moving everything.
America must change course and cleans itself from the parasites.
As Woodrow Wilson predicted a century ago ( I know he sold us down the rover with Fed Res Act), “America is now sauntering through her resources and through the mazes of her politics with easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old, — a country crowded, strained, perplexed,-when she will be obliged … to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members. That will be the time of change.”
Will we be an agrarian economy by the time the puppet governor general is forcibly retired. Donald is the only one with experience that the people will trust. This hamburger was made for him. He will get elected and pardon himself on day 1.
Showing others Milly’s Iran war plans was smart, because they would disappear otherwise as needed, shake well. It will cause a conversation regarding the war pigs and they’re running the country aground. on a reef. in shark infested waters. Jellyfish breeding ground, near fukushima. (all spelling changed to ridicule the belligerent)
We need an awful lot of plans leaked because as our former intelligence agents all state categorically when discussing the blob; That they do not know what the government is doing. They can only get information that is legal to possess. That is not good enough any longer. But those people that do are likely to start leaking on a level ever seen to protect the world from the insane.
I thought bear bating was illegal?
Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland hasn’t received this message:
“In other words, the US cannot use military power against the other superpowers without blowing up the world. This fact has been slow to percolate through the US political class and the mainstream media, but it appears that the White House and the State Department have also finally gotten the message. The US military is mostly impotent in its ability to preserve the “international rules-based order” of the past American Century.”
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
“In other words, the US cannot use military power against the other superpowers without blowing up the world. This fact has been slow to percolate through the US political class and the mainstream media, but it appears that the White House and the State Department have also finally gotten the message. The US military is mostly impotent in its ability to preserve the “international rules-based order” of the past American Century.”
Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland hasn’t received this message:
https://jamesburrillangell.substack.com/p/strange-diplomacy-victoria-fck-the
There will be no Ukraine after all this is said and done. The end scenario is non-negotiable for the Russians. They were lied to by the west with the false “Minsk Agreements” and the west proceeded to buy
time to arm Ukraine further. With this in mind, it’s likely impossible to negotiate any terms other than unconditional surrender by Ukraine. It will then be swallowed by Russia and that will be the end of the endless debate on any preconditions for them joining NATO. It’s not going to happen….ever. I just hope I’m wrong but I see Russia marching to the Polish border and extinguishing any organized military actions against it other than terrorist type actions.
In what parallel universe is this supposed to happen? Elensky would never sign any surrender papers because his own nazis would quite literally have his guts for garters. His possible fates:
1. Murdered by his NATO masters and the blame put on Russia.
2. Murdered by his nazi cohorts as Ukranazistan begins to collapse totally.
3. Flee abroad like Ashraf Ghani from Afghanistan with a plane load of looted money.
4. and most likely: be put on top of a puppet “government in exile” by his NATO masters.
Signing surrender papers? Not in anyone’s dreams.
Come on man! Don’t you know Putin losing in Iraq? https://www.bitchute.com/video/u0v0mrJYEqlI/
I think negotiations are going on in the background. on June 27, a Russian government plane landed in Washington.
on June 28, a German government plane landed in Washington.
Don’t tell me. It was Scholz with a Minsk III proposal in hand.
I believe Blinken went to see the puppet masters in China in person because phone calls, cables, diplomatic papers can be hacked, stolen or leaked. He had to make sure that any and all correspondence and evidence that ties the Big Guy to the current unraveling of his families treasonous behavior is buried/destroyed/burned whatever. So yes the U.S. blinked.How utter appropriate from a guy with the same moniker. The Chinese and the Ukes are now going to play Uncle Joe like a fiddle pretending that they have his back. They will until the time comes for the old double cross and by then the good old USA will be as useful and competent as an 80 yr old on the battlefield.
Why negotiate when you can dictate? Why should Russia trust the words of the USA government after all the betrayals?
Interesting but expected that disunity will ensue. The WEF crowd’s plans seemed destined for a rump dominated by the US – perhaps. The whole faulty notion of decoupling from China aside it will be a monumental task to rebuild manufacturing which necessitates a change of economic/financial philosophy – a break with the FIRE casino economy. And I don’t see any capacity in the collective west to balance the guns and butter curves. In the leadership class who gets to stay and who goes; the current situation with the crazies in charge doesn’t look good and in previous posts mentioning breakdowns in control over deep state elements…who knows? But it’s now a certainty that the status quo is over so no more kicking proverbial cans down the road.
Some in D.C. may look for an off-ramp. Apparently POTUS blocked British NATO chief candidate Wallace, and hilariously France two-stepped that! Off-ramp tango!
Needs to be confirmed of course.
Britain and its US aficionados will do anything to keep this war going, and event expand. The oldest British swamp stink-tank, RUSI, made this clear this week.
British diplomat Alasdair Crooke wrote about the nightmare of the negotiator over at SCO.
So expect Z to attack ZNPP when any kind of off-ramp rolls.
I expect the US can deal with this !!!
When some of your campaign donors associate to pay a courtesy visit to the country you’re antagonizing for years : you have a problem.
So it was the reasons behind the Blinken’s unscheduled trip and urgent meeting with Xi : telling the donors and the Chinese who’s in charge , play the diplomat for the press and change nothing to the actual and future policies for the rest.
In that context, Brandon could have wiped a Xi portrait with one of his dirty diapers without further consequences : the Chinese were as politely outraged before Tony’s trip as after. US didn’t blink at all but Bliatken mess his boss campaign.
Spot on, Larry!!!
Joke Bidumb saw Zelenski on TV playing the piano with his penis and people laughed. So Joke Bidumb wants to play piano with Zelenski’s penis too.
This made Blinken blink, I’ll say :
The great chatbot bubble – Markets are grossly overestimating the near-term potential for chatbots to eliminate jobs and save corporate costs
https://asiatimes.com/2023/06/the-great-chatbot-bubble/
Now all of a sudden all that hype I lived through with AI radiology, AI med. diagnostics, AI autonomous vehicles, AI high-tech help-desk (hold it cheap they who ne’re hung there) are all a vast imploding financial bubble.
And worst of all look at the largest US container port taking 48 HOURS to unload compared to China’s 15 MINUTES with real AI and 5g Huawei.
“The US is also upset over reports that China is setting up a military training effort in Cuba.”
If they weren’t bent on the complete dissolution of the United States as it once existed, they would be far more concerned with all those military-age Chinese dudes streaming across the line in the sand that once was the southern border. But that would be undercutting one of their favorite lies.