I am certain that most Americans do not have a clue what transpired this week at the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (aka SCO). It is a clarion call, a defiant declaration, that the countries, which account for over half of the world’s population, are no longer going to defer to the United States. The attendees included Russia, China, India, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The speeches by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping are especially noteworthy. Both countries put the United States on notice that the United States and NATO will be treated as a sponsor of terrorism because they supply weapons to Ukraine that are being used to attack civilian targets. You may accuse me of exaggerating because neither Putin nor Xi mention the United States or NATO by name. But the actions of the NATO allies in Ukraine are seen by both Russia and China as acts of terrorism. I am reprinting the salient portions of each speech below.
Russia and China also put the west on notice that Iran is no longer going to be treated as a pariah state. Iran is welcomed emphatically by both Putin and Xi as a member of the SCO. Going forward, this means that Iran will do business with all members of the SCO under the rubric of a new financial order being organized by Russia, China, India and Brazil.
I am sure this is jarring news to the western allies. They have enjoyed the luxury of the dominance of the U.S. Dollar as the international reserve currency. It was the Golden Rule at work–those with the gold make the rules. The United States faces a dilemma because it insists on levying international sanctions on any nation or leader who refuses to toe Washington’s line, but the blow back effects of those sanctions are savaging the European economies and will hurt America as well.
China and Russia now realize and affirm that the United States is no longer a reliable, trustworthy partner. They see the United States as a petulant child that, in the past, coerced others by throwing temper tantrums and launching ill-conceived, foolish foreign military operations.
Most important, but not said, the leaders of the SCO realize that Washington is leaderless. Biden is a demented buffoon. Putin demonstrated this in his press conference. He did not have a podium to lean on. He did not have a cheat sheet of journalists that instructed him who to call on. And he spoke intelligently off the cuff. Pay attention to what he says:
President Xi’s speech lays out in detail the future of the SCO:
Under these new conditions, the SCO, as an important constructive force in international and regional affairs, should keep itself well-positioned in the face of changing international dynamics, ride on the trend of the times, strengthen solidarity and cooperation and build a closer SCO community with a shared future.
First, we need to enhance mutual support. We should strengthen high-level exchanges and strategic communication, deepen mutual understanding and political trust, and support each other in our efforts to uphold security and development interests. We should guard against attempts by external forces to instigate “color revolution,” jointly oppose interference in other countries’ internal affairs under any pretext, and hold our future firmly in our own hands.
Second, we need to expand security cooperation. A proverb in Uzbekistan goes to the effect that “With peace, a country enjoys prosperity, just as with rain, the land can flourish.” The Global Security Initiative put forward by China is to address the peace deficit and global security challenges. It calls on all countries to stay true to the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security and build a balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture. We welcome all stakeholders to get involved in implementing this initiative.
We should continue to carry out joint anti-terrorism exercises, crack down hard on terrorism, separatism and extremism, drug trafficking as well as cyber and transnational organized crimes; and we should effectively meet the challenges in data security, biosecurity, outer space security and other non-traditional security domains. China is ready to train 2,000 law enforcement personnel for SCO member states in the next five years, and establish a China-SCO base for training counter-terrorism personnel, so as to enhance capacity-building for law enforcement of SCO member states.
Third, we need to deepen practical cooperation. To deliver a better life for people of all countries in the region is our shared goal. The Global Development Initiative launched by China aims to focus global attention on development, foster global development partnership, and achieve more robust, greener and more balanced global development. China is ready to work with all other stakeholders to pursue this initiative in our region to support the sustainable development of regional countries.
Fourth, we need to enhance people-to-people and cultural exchanges. Exchanges promote integration among civilizations, which, in turn, enables civilizations to advance. We should deepen cooperation in such areas as education, science and technology, culture, health, media, radio and television, ensure the continued success of signature programs such as the youth exchange camp, the women’s forum, the forum on people-to-people friendship and the forum on traditional medicine, and support the SCO Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation and other non-official organizations in playing their due roles. China will build a China-SCO ice and snow sports demonstration zone and host the SCO forums on poverty reduction and sustainable development and on sister cities next year. In the next three years, China will carry out 2,000 free cataract operations for SCO member states and provide 5,000 human resources training opportunities for them.
Fifth, we need to uphold multilateralism. Obsession with forming a small circle can only push the world toward division and confrontation. We should remain firm in safeguarding the UN-centered international system and the international order based on international law, practice the common values of humanity and reject zero-sum game and bloc politics. We should expand SCO’s exchanges with other international and regional organizations such as the UN, so as to jointly uphold true multilateralism, improve global governance, and ensure that the international order is more just and equitable. . . .
China supports advancing SCO expansion in an active yet prudent manner, and this includes going through the procedure to admit Iran as a member state, launching the procedure for Belarus’ accession, admitting Bahrain, the Maldives, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Myanmar as dialogue partners, and granting the relevant applying countries the legal status due to them. We need to seize the opportunity to build consensus, deepen cooperation and jointly create a bright future for the Eurasian continent.
Here I wish to express China’s congratulations to India on assuming the next SCO presidency. We will, together with other member states, support India during its presidency.
Putin’s speech is short and to the point. :
I fully share the statements made by my colleagues and their positive assessments of the work of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and its growing prestige in international affairs. Indeed, the SCO has become the largest regional organisation in the world.
However, I would like to repeat that global politics and economy are about to undergo fundamental and irreversible changes. The growing role of new centres of power is coming into sharp focus, and interaction among these new centres is not based on some rules, which are being forced on them by external forces and which nobody has seen, but on the universally recognised principles of the rule of international law and the UN Charter, namely, equal and indivisible security and respect for each other’s sovereignty, national values and interests.
It is on these principles, which are devoid of all elements of egoism, that the joint efforts of SCO member states are based in politics and the economy. This opens up broad prospects for continued mutually beneficial cooperation in politics, the economy, culture, humanitarian and other spheres.
Fighting terrorism and extremism, drug trafficking, organised crime and illegal armed formations remains a priority of our cooperation. Other key areas include providing assistance in the political and diplomatic settlement of conflicts along our external borders, including in Afghanistan. . . .
In this context, Russia, no doubt, favours the earliest possible accession of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the SCO, which is what the documents and the memorandum that will be signed today are designed to accomplish. We are convinced that Iran’s full-fledged participation will be beneficial for the association, as that country plays an important role in the Eurasian region and the world at large.
We also fully stand behind the decision submitted for approval by the Heads of State Council to start the process of admitting the Republic of Belarus as an SCO member. Let me be clear that we have always advocated that Belarus, which is Russia’s strategic partner and closest ally, should participate fully in the SCO. This will undoubtedly improve our ability to advance unity in politics, the economy, security and humanitarian matters.
In the past, the United States controlled the ball and set the rules for the game. The countries of the SCO are no longer going to let the United States dictate where, when and how the game is played. They are bringing their own ball and setting up their own rules. I apologize for the poor metaphor in advance, but this is bit like the PGA Tour being shocked and outraged by the emergence of an alternative professional golf tour, LIV. There is a new and potentially more powerful player on the world stage and the United States may be relegated to the peanut gallery and forced to watch.
So is this why biden threaten to deploy US troops to defend taiwan in the recent MSM interview ? the crumbling facade of the empire cannot be hold up anymore. There is no chance US can win a fight with china let alone china + russia combined. The fools in japan will be destroyed if they obey US orders to help attack china , and i doubt the occupied south korean govt will go to war against china just for pleasing US’s will.
The phase of US Empire decline is closing to terminal end. The only solution US govt can offer is war war war. Proxy war with russia is one thing , but a direct war with US troops is suicidal for the nation , considering the military forced enlistment of US citizens will be faced with reality of weak unfit addicted drunk woke generations.
The LEAST target seem to be Iran but even it have a direct supply line from russia via caspian sea. How can US Govt justify losing hundreds of planes shot down by excellent iranian AD and losing their prime bases in middle east from iranian ballistic missiles ?
Let’s say the US withdraws from the western Pacific.
How do you think that would go for the Japanese and the South Koreans?
It would give the Japanese and the South Koreans the opportunity to make new alliances and strengthen their security in the region.
And before you say that this would put them under the dominant influence of China, consider this – they would be choosing the difference between a country (China) that builds relationships based on economic improvements and enhanced infrastructure v a country (USA) that builds relationships based on militarism, threats and intimidation.
I know which I would choose.
A false assumption that the Japanese and South Korean is dependent on us.
They can both swim very well on their own.
… the Japanese and South Korean is dependent on us. They can both swim very well on their own.”
I beg to differ. Japan was conquered in 1945, and since then it remains, just as Germany, a vassal state. After the Korean war the US did not withdraw its’ troops. S. Korea, just like Germany and Japan is (not so) silently governed by the USA. As for swimming well on their own? How well will a fish swim without fins? About as well as you could walk sans legs.
I doubt it. I don’t know so much about Korea, but I do about Japan. Japan is scarce of natural resources. They have to depend on somebody. So, it was very stupid move that they participated Russian sanctions. (Well, they just do whatever US tells them to do.) However, despite all that, they’re smart enough to sign a long-term contract with Sakhalin 2. That was good news for Japanese.
Victor,
Tell me, which country, after being in a brutal war with Japan, turned around and put that all aside and supplied Japan with capital, technology, management expertise and markets?
Clinging to events that happened 77 years ago is like going on about Napoleon in 1892 – it’s a sign that the Washington War Party is no longer relevant.
Larry‘s article above highlights this challenge. The War Party is isolated on the world stage, but doesn‘t realize it. The War Party seems to only listen to its own echo chamber rather than making honest analysis.
Henry Rech, That would be the country that wanted to destroy its own unions and prevent Soviet advances. That would be the country that then shipped its remaining industrial base to China. See anything made in the US in a store anymore? Are you saying the US shipped its economy to China because the US loves china and wants to hold hands and tickle? Or could it be just bloody greed (and preserving shareholder value while moving Americans into precariate service jobs)?
Look! Countries do NOT have friends, they have interests. And I have a high quality unicorn for sale at small discount. All that support only started in the context of the cold war. Before that MacArthur envisioned Japan’s future as pastoral.
The US did not ship anything. International business moved to take advantage of Chinese production and tax benefits.
The government short of sanctions can’t stop business leaving to better environments.
Not true. Some countries do have friends.
How’s the saying go? Friends and enemies are temporary or cyclical but interests are forever. Foreign policies diplomacy has always been from a self benefit starting point.
Private companies chasing profits is notb the main problem here. Governments chasing benefits for their own people which secures the hold on power is nothing new either, that’s why they’re there anyway. The problem here is the govt being captured by private companies and then operate on behalf of private companies instead of their constituents that’s the problem.
Not exactly correct. MacArthur insisted the Emperor mythos not be entirely dismantled. He insisted, and over the objections of the USN ensured, that the IJN ship Mikasa, Adm Togo’s flagship at the battle of Tsushima Straits, not be hauled out to sea and used for target practice. He insisted that the Yasakuni Shrine not be razed. He was explicit that a warrior ethos be suppressed, but not be erased utterly from Japanese society for he envisioned a need in the future. While he was always an anti-communist he held a special distrust for Mao’s CCP and took a very dim view of FDR’s bromance with the ChiCom’s. If you want to roll that into the Cold War fine, but MacArthur’s views predated the CCP dominance of the mainland by at least a decade.
Oh you make it sound like the US was a benovolent “Santa Claus” type friend when the real truth is that Japan was and is manipulated as a vassal and a large aircraft carrier for American troops and interest in SE Asia. When Japan rose to financial prominence in the 60’s/70’s who brought it crashing down…..their big-hearted and compassionate friend Uncle Sam.
Seamus,
Ask the Japanese where they put their support now.
As for the 1980s, the Japanese internal cost structure rose as it developed. This increasingly priced it out of western markets.
The Japanese themselves turned their internal investment to south east Asia and then China chasing cheap labour as did all the global capitalists.
That’s one of the reasons the Japanese economy has stagnated.
The same country that needlessly butcher civilian cities in japan with atomics ? i dont know why one can be so blind not to see the machinations behind the ‘help’ that US gave to japan since WW2..
The one that put Japanese in concentration camps and nuked them twice quickly so they could test two types of nukes before Japan could send a letter of surrender? Was it them? The generous ones?
With a lot of strings attached of course
Victor,
“…they would be choosing the difference between a country (China) that builds relationships based on economic improvements and enhanced infrastructure …”
Ask the Taiwanese what they think about China’s grand benevolence and China’s intentions.
Ask the Vietnamese and the Phillipines what they think about China unilaterally annexing and militarizing islands in the South China Sea against international law.
Henry,
one doesn’t have to ask the Taiwanese about the mainland China one can look up the statistics, the two are to each other the biggest trading partners, the biggest inward investors, the biggest tourist destinations …. check it out.
The company that assembles Apple gear in the mainland China Foxconn (over one million employees in some 12 massive plants) was set up by a Taiwanese, Terry Gou, there are hundreds of other Taiwanese owned companies in mainland China (say) Pegatron, and Wistron that also work for Apple and other Western mostly American clients, google for the guy, the most interesting character, also owns a castle i the Czech Republic.
It’s a nonsense to say Taiwan and the mainland China are adversaries, it’s only the politicians in the former that cannot shake off the US belligerent hegemony who are paddling this nonsense.
Baron,
“It’s a nonsense to say Taiwan and the mainland China are adversaries, it’s only the politicians in the former that cannot shake off the US belligerent hegemony who are paddling this nonsense.”
You have to be kidding.
Why is it that China daily threaten invasion of Taiwan?
Why is it that Taiwan has spent hundreds of billions shoring up its defences in the event of a mainland invasion?
As they say, who needs enemies when you have friends like mainline China.
“Ask the Vietnamese and the Phillipines what they think about China unilaterally annexing and militarizing islands in the South China Sea against international law.”
Your understanding of the South China Sea is infantile. I suggest you do a little research and discover that all these countries have militarized “islands” in contested areas. China was actually the last to enter this race. Please don’t try to confuse people with partial truths.
drezzo,
Your comment is entirely disingenuous.
The PRC has unilaterally claimed an area within the South China Sea that extends all the way south to Borneo without any explanation. These claims go way back to the early 20th century. This area in the South China Sea is presently defined by a “nine dash line”.
Even Taiwan has its own 11 dash line.
This has put the PRC in dispute with Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.
In 2016, the Philippines brought a claim under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (to which the PRC is a signatory) against the PRC to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The Court essentially ruled in the Philippines’ favour.
There has been a history of occupation and militarization in the South China Sea by the various claimants. However, the scale of the occupation and militarization by the PRC is utterly unrivaled by any other claimant. China endeavours to aggressively control the waters of the South China Sea in a way that no other claimant does.
As per usual, China flouts international law, does whatever it pleases, all the while claiming it is a good international citizen.
i have work and family friend on singapore , taiwan , hongkong , philipphines and china .. not a single one of them think US will protect or bring peace in the region. They knew the machination of US juggernaut in inciting hongkong riot and now trying to use taiwan puppet govt to antagonize china.
ordinary people want US out of the region militarily because they know Uncle Sam will lost the economic war and will start doing miitary provocation
bunta…..
Who in their right mind would want to go to war with China?
Taiwanese Han Chinese are not indigenous to Taiwan. The indigenous Taiwanese are still there and not treated very well by Taiwanese Han.
So Taiwan is occupied by Han Chinese who wish to separate from China.
I don’t think China would try so hard to get it if it wasn’t being rear ended by US as a tool to bash China around.
It’s funny, you keep mentioning all these countries where the U.S. at one point or another literally comitted genocide. That’s the elephant in the room. The history of Japan, Vietnam and the Phillipines is one of the U.S. unilaterally butchering their populations, whether it’s nukes, mass carpet bombings and chemical warfare, or just outright mass murder at bayonet point. How’s that for grand benevolence and intentions?
There are some excellent documentaries out there about the (long) history of anti-imperial protest movements in both Japan and South Korea you could look up. Okinawa in Japan is the centre of the anti-US movement. The Empire Files (on YouTube, probably other platforms too) has covered these movements in detail.
FWIW, both Vietnam and the Phillipines, as well as other countries in the SCS have also militarized atols and literally all of the countries in the area have territorial problems with each other. Pretending that it’s ‘just’ China is wishful thinking. What is interesting is that the countries in the area are negotiating amongst themselves in the framework of ASEAN and other initiatives to resolve their differences and keep the peace. It seems to me that it is U.S. meddling that is the threat to peace in the region and is the outsider seeking to insert itself in local politics.
GrumpyBrit,
I have not said that the US (the West) is the paragon of virtue or beyond reproach. It is definitely not.
However, just about everyone commenting here speak as if Russia and China are beyond reproach. It’s not difficult to dig into their histories and find examples of their appalling behaviour.
For me, it’s about a simple choice, as unsatisfactory as it is.
Fascist, kleptocratic Russia and China or the West dominated by a Neoliberal/Neocon oligarchic elite.
At least in the West, one can dissent against this elite and not end up in goal.
Those that were foolhardy enough to criticize Putin this week are already locked up.
As flawed as the democratic system is in the West it is far preferable to that in China.
Regime change in China is followed by mass purges of the new regime’s opponents. Xi’s still not finished after 10 years in power and over 1,000,000 “dealt with” to date.
If you want Russia and China, you are welcome to them.
ISL,
I entirely accept what you say.
Global capital moves to the highest return.
Globalization has had a terrible impact on workers in the West (will benefiting workers in the East).
It explains why workers in the West have turned to nationalist right wing politics in droves.
They will be fine and better in the long run , because their economi prosperity is tied to asia and they can join china in their silk road program instead of being US slaves and military bases.
why do you think this is not something to rejoice for japanese and south korean ? south korea can start unification with the real korean up north.
the world is changing for the better if there is no US military presence in asia
bunta….
” south korea can start unification with the real korean up north.”
Yes, I am sure the South Koreans are overjoyed with the prospect.
I’m told that once you develop a palate for it grass, as in grazing not smoking, is peak keto.
Fine.
Have you considered that the Chinese (and the Russians for that matter) might actually be more interested in commerce rather than conquest?
Japan and South Korea can start to worry when China and Russia start to insist they need to go green and fly rainbow flags and teach their children about the 57 genders.
I’m sorry. Did I take the Japanese and the South Koreans to raise? Do I get a tax deduction?
Victor,
You might also like to ask the Tibetans and the Uyghurs what they think of the Chinese.
It seems to me that Chinese have no problem with invasion, occupation, annexation and subjugation.
I am an Australian.
Recently, it has come to light that the Chinese have been buying off politicians and surreptitiously funding the major political parties. It was a blatant attempt to corrupt our polity.
The security agencies finally convinced these parties to face up to what was going on and clean up the mess.
australian govt are slaves of US govt and they are told to start antagonizing china and spread lies and hatred toward china. So it is not a wonder to see australian whose economy depends on china start to act like the number one in the region when in fact it just US vassal state.
Tibetian are happy they are freed from slavery of tibetian leaders and now can live free.. Uyghurs also happy and their birth rate is far higher than china’s urban people as there’s no birth limit to them.
you need to take off your MSM fed brain and glasses and check the real china. So far i see you regurgiating MSM talking point and lies from USG
bunta….
“So far i see you regurgiating MSM talking point and lies from USG”
Which lies would they be?
Odds are your talking to a CCP bot.
“Tibetian are happy they are freed from slavery of tibetian leaders and now can live free..”
Don’t be emotional. Look at the phrasing, syntax, etc. Cut and pasted out of a Political Officers handbook (aka AP Style Guide). The extra period is a tell. Sowing self-doubt through insinuation that you a) lack empathy or b) are morally ignorant. Very old Socialist propaganda trick.
No, Tibetans are not “happy.” They are being slowly genocided.
One can support China’s general economic project while also being honest about China’s flaws.
China was brutal to Tibet. No question. It’s not a perfect country. It did exempt Tibetans from one child policy. But it has work to do and it has to work on its aggressive actions on its borders.
The SCO is good as only through Asian unity can border issues and minority issues get solved. Let is be clear, America and west don’t give a shit about taiwanese and uighur people.
But China not a complete tyrant either, it’s not destroying countries all over the world and doing what the US is doing. Creating gain of function bioweapons in labs globally that threaten all of us.
Do you really think China could not arm and fund an insurgency in Taiwan if they wanted to or out thousands of terrorists in there?
The more China and other Asian countries build ties the better for peace and prosperity in that region.
China is not a great conquering nation. Never has been. It’s had fisticuffs at it’s borders but in the past has been beaten up by
– 1800’s the Sikh Empire under Maharaja Emperor Duleep Singh (one of the greatest military leaders ever) beat the Chinese in sino-Sikh wars after the Sikh Emperor agree to the Dalai Lamas request to protect them from China.
In 1849 after the Sikh Emperor
died with a 7 year old heir, the British with Indian forces attached the Sikh Empire (the had attacked before but lost every battle). This time with forces also extended on the Afghan border (Sikhs rules all Kashmir, Punjab, part of Afghanistan andbChina) and a Hindu traitor in senior ranks feeding the Brits info, the Sikh Empire collapsed in 1849.
The Tibetans still say if Sikhs still had their country we would be free. As India under Nehru was too weak to defend Tibet or intimidate China. So after the Sikh Empire fell it was a matter of time before China stepped in.
So the situation is more complex with Tibet. You could argue but for the British invading India, Sikhs would have kept Tibet free. Or maybe not.
Also note that China of 1940’s is not the same as China today. Then it was a country beaten and forcibly drugged by the British who forced them to accept Indian plantation opium for tea and goods and it was a broken nation recovering from horrific abuse and determined to assert itself in a world of colonial powers.
But generally, if you look at the whole course of Asian history, China was actually not even one of the biggest aggressors.
The Moghuls, Persians, Mongolians, even Japan much more so.
Asia has long history. They can go back in time and find times of peace and war
Right now they are trying to find a time of peace.
Ash,
“Right now they are trying to find a time of peace.”
So why don’t the Chinese leave Tibet and Jinjiang?
They can make up for the sins of the past.
The same reason Europeans don’t leave America, Australia or NZ. These are now states with people who have lived there generations , it’s home to lots of people from everywhere and the indigenous people have no say. Though they are treated ok as long as they don’t challenge the state too much.
However in China’s case there are some historical claims. The uighur are ethnic Turks descendents. Not indigenous to that area though they have mixed a bit. The Turks in historical times were not the nicest.
Asia has a very long complicated history. You can’t just take a snapshot and understand one moment.
Parce que dans la tête des concepteurs de ces projets cauchemardesques, ce ne sont que des étapes avant le démembrement de la Chine….. Elle même….
As you are an Australian, are you aware of the REAL crimes committed by the (Whites) Australian Government against the Australian native population, the Aboriginals? Watch the film Rabbit-proof fence. What about the genocide committed by US government against the native anericans and, as others pointed above, against its own workers today? Stop being blind, fighting under fake, rogue flags. OTOH I can see that China, Russia etc are, ir can become, just as brutal Capitalist States as the USA and UK etc. The solution for us the people lies elsewhere. Do you dare to find out where?
AndyP,
“As you are an Australian, are you aware of the REAL crimes committed by the (Whites) Australian Government against the Australian native population”
Of course I am. I don’t have to watch anything.
Of course your heart is pure white as snow so no need to reflect. I hope you heard the saying “Let the one with no sin cast the first stone”
Muralidhar Rao,
“I hope you heard the saying “Let the one with no sin cast the first stone””
I am glad you have heard of it.
I wonder if the Muslim population of India have heard of it?
I have read elsewhere that the Tibetan people are pleased with what China has brought them. If the religious class owned almost 80% of the land and used the people almost in a relationship of slavery to their advantage, is that fair!?
Not accurate. Keep reading.
correct – The ordinary Tibetan’s are overjoyed to be freed of feudal serfdom.
Henry, I do not suppose Chinese money was refused, regrettably far too many politicians in the west have no problem selling their own electorates interests in favour of their own.
Barry,
I’m not sure but I would imagine some of the money was socked away for personal use.
Most of it I think was used for party political purposes.
The main point about it was that it was not transparent.
Hi Victor, have you asked aborigines in your Australia how they feel about the British civilizers? You complain about Chinese buying politicians well fine and dandy, however remember Iranian president Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953’s and the Ailende of Chile where your British and US over lords brought democracy and to this day the Iranians don’t even trust the west. That is your magnanamity.
I’m Australian. I’d like an Australian foreign policy not one clearly handed down by the USA.
Australia’s Defence Policy Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTCqXlDjx18&ab_channel=Whisper555
Economic war … or real war … with China would collapse our economy in weeks.
I’d also like an Australia with out US intelligence and troops based here. But then so did Gough Whitlam.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/gough-whitlam-and-the-cias-forgotten-coup,7029
Be nice if Christopher Boyce was allowed to speak publicly about what he revealed to the Soviets about the CIA’s involvement in The Dismissal.
The US has been buying off Australian politicians and political parties for years. John “lying rat” Howard reading out the exact same speech justifying the illegal Iraq Invasion as the Canadian PM and stating we were taking part in it “for American prestige” was a bit of a dead giveaway.
Australian and Canadian Prime Minister, Same Speech on Iraq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaZeQ2qUBs4&ab_channel=WakeUpAustralia
To remind everyone about the consequences of Russian destruction of electricity generators which left half of Ukraine without electricity and completely paralysed the functioning of every aspect of life! If Russia decides to send the whole Ukraine to total darkness, all it needs to do is to destroy 4-5 of major electricity generators. On top of that, the same could be done to whole of the Europe if NATO and US wants to start war with Russia. That is the reason that Putin used those words: Let them try….
They can also bomb Russian energy sources. Including nuclear. It’s a dangerous game.
And here’s the problem if you stay in the USA-Canada… Once the elites in the DC-Political complex lose internationally, they will double down on control in what they have left. One does not want to be trapped in their gulag when that happens or rather it is happening now. They will need “ internal enemies”( Larry, et al) to keep their “base” in line, in fear and hold on to their power. It can happen here. There is nothing magic about US dirt.
Nope, nothing magic. It won’t soak up one ounce of blood, more or less, than any where else.
Not related to this article, Larry, but earlier today I was in the midst of a conversation on Facebook about how the US policies in Ukraine have been undermining German economy, and I was just trying to share a link to your article “IS THE WAR IN UKRAINE PART OF A U.S. STRATEGY TO WEAKEN GERMANY? RAND SAYS, “YES”!” but could not. Facebook blocked it and said sharing that link “violates our community standards.” This is the first time I’ve seen this, and I was flabbergasted. How does Facebook know which links can or cannot be shared without violating their community standards? Are you or your blog on some kind of a blacklist by the big tech?
Probably. I refuse to parrot the propaganda. That makes me a threat.
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-51178-CV1.pdf
Federal judges ruled that social media platforms don’t have a constitutional right to “muzzle” speech.
A US appeals court has cleared the way for Texas to begin enforcing a landmark anti-censorship law, ruling that Twitter, Facebook and other social media giants don’t have a constitutional right to silence opinions that they find objectionable.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued its ruling on Friday, shooting down what it called an “odd inversion of the First Amendment” by Silicon Valley trade groups, who argued that by barring social media companies from censoring objectionable views, Texas infringed on their freedom of speech.
“The platforms argue that buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech,” the three-judge panel said in its ruling. The implications of that claim are “staggering,” the judges added, inasmuch as it would mean that email providers, mobile-phone carriers and banks could cancel the accounts of anyone who sent a message, made a phone call or donated money in support of a “disfavored” political party, candidate or business.
“Today, we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” the judges said, noting that a platform could obtain a dominant market position by billing itself as open to everyone – as Twitter did by claiming to be “the free speech wing of the free speech party” – then turn around and dictate the conversation as “the monopolist of the modern public square.”
HB20, which prohibits platforms with more than 50 million users from censoring content posted by residents of the state based on viewpoint, marks one of the boldest efforts by Republican-controlled states to push back against Big Tech’s alleged anti-conservative bias. Texas had argued that Silicon Valley went so far as to muzzle federal elected officials – such as President Donald Trump – and even censored a congressional hearing that featured disfavored viewpoints.
Rather than directly responding to such concerns, the platforms argued that the law would prohibit them from censoring “pro-Nazi speech, terrorist propaganda and Holocaust denial.” The appellate court described such claims as “fanciful hypotheticals” and said the Texas law expressly allows the companies to censor any speech that incites criminal activity or makes specific threats.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called Friday’s ruling a “massive victory for the constitution and free speech.”
I am not on facebook, but did you try with tinyurl?
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Oh most definitely. Ex CIA millennials are managing Facebook’s content policy:
https://workers.today/meet-the-former-cia-agents-deciding-facebooks-content-policy/
They’re not even trying to hide it, these linkedin profiles are still publicly available.
Thanks for the link. So, since it’s only conservatives/those on the right being censored on social media sites, it seems implicit that all of these “former” IC employees from the CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA, etc., who work as censors for FB are leftists.
I respect Mr. Putin’s words but not Xi.
Why? What has Xi ever done to you?
Why?
Larry , i hope this place will never be a place where sinophobia and western hate propaganda / lies toward china blossomed. Of course opinion might differ but a straight copy paste anti china propaganda from MSM and straight anti china hate have no place here.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi
I’m happy that the world is moving in this direction. There is a documentary on YouTube about a harsh Russia prison in Siberia. One of the inmates speaks about how he hot drunk, had a blackout and when he came to he had bloody knife in his hand. It turns out that he had murdered an entire family.
America and it’s ‘allies’ have been intoxicated with their power and on a drunken killing spree across the globe. They evidently thought, in their drunken delusions, that they would never have to foot the bill. Now is the time where they’re going to have to come to and start facing the consequences of their actions.
The multi-faceted multi-level racket and associated gravy trains are about to end. Smedley Butler got it only partly correct in that the racket is much larger than just war. The psychos in power who dial in the .gov policies don’t live in the real world and are blind to their own arrogance. I’ve seen this for decades in my profession of military operations research, especially after the fall of the USSR. In the real world, the other side has just as much sway on outcomes, and you cannot AI and game theory your way through this. The psychos are betting on AI, robotics, and bio-engineering to suppress the world population. As a fair warning to everyone, advancements in these fields need to stop right now.
Psychopaths used to be put away, or at least sent out, to remain harmless. Today, it is “normal”… just another new normalization of more abhorent vices.
Vote harder will never work. Jan 6th was essentially a petition of grievances concerning election fraud. Although this is normal Constitutional behavior, many in .gov obviously declared it an insurrection. If this is how the “new normal” .gov treats its citizens, then they should become recipients of a real insurrection. The grievances against King George III are peanuts compared to what we can list today.
Lastly, I use Lew Rockwell’s definition of fascism. The US is already there. And as true communists always do, they project onto the opposite side the exact same things they’re already doing. Nowadays, whatever .gov says, I believe the exact opposite. It’s gonna get really ugly.
New documentary on JP Morgan leading a coup against FDR in 34.
They figured they could get Butler but he played them and turned on them.
The author argues we are on the cusp of a similar scenario today
Fascinating
https://youtu.be/ge41WdMgpS4
The US empire is “true communism ” ? Leaving aside the prima facie absurdity of defining the global and world historical center of free market capitalism as true communism, where does that Leave China , don’t they get some input on what “true communism is ?
It is misleading somewhat to talk about nation states as good and bad actors though one must if one is explaining a dispute.
I think a better paradigm is to see nations as representative, autocracy or hijacked.
Western Europe is still representative of it’s population even if they manipulate them into decisions.
The US is hijacked. With few Americans understanding who wields power and how.
Russia is somewhat representative as is China though both are also autocracies.
So fighting the US is almost like fighting a cloud. You can’t fight what you can’t see. What you can’t see is who is calling the shots on a particular matter.
Until for a start senate and congressional terms are limited to 2, the US will become increasingly corrupt and hijacked.
The EU has actually put forward a media law that is in part very good, but also allows blocking of media for political reasons. The disclosure of ownership, bias etc good, the loss of free speech, evil. Bad Ursula.
Believing exactly opposite .gov says is a pretty good general rule since at least Vietnam. We are not the only ones who feel that way either – Before Vietnam trust in .gov was 88% and fallen precipitously over the decades since to low tens and single digits since according to Pew Research. I believe we could not even fight a major war today that incurred losses like Vietnam – guys in would quit, draftees not show up and people dividing on nature of threat. Lack of trust is actually a national security issue where we can’t even fight a real threat and worse would probably force these lunatics that lead us to use Nukes over something like Russia is going through like say if we tried Iran. (Not saying Iran in that threat)
“There is a new and potentially more powerful player on the world stage and the United States may be relegated to the peanut gallery and forced to watch.”
I doubt that more than 5% of the average populace or even the vaunted msm has any knowledge of the SCO. I did a quick perusal on line of the wash trash dump, wapo, and not a mention-did not even turn up with search.
Wash Times did, however, have a subscriber article on putin/xi speeches.
Larry,
It’s not difficult to understand why Russia and China want to have each other’s backs. There are clear strategic reasons.
The puzzle for me is India, particularly given the antagonism that once existed (if not still exists) between it and China.
Obviously, India wants Russian weapons sales, oil and gas. It’s going to have to find roubles to pay for this. Where does it get the roubles? What is it that Russia wants to purchase from India? Is there anything?
It seems to me that the economic co-operation between the three can only be limited.
It will be cheap Indian labour competing against cheap Chinese labour. I can’t see how that can contribute to integration.
What do you think?
What does the United States have in its favor?
Hey the states are excellent at exporting Hollywood woke-ism and very expensive military hardware that doesnt work without a very expensive and unsupportable maintenance and logistics chain are for sale (and debt). And we can box things from China and resell them – not sure who makes the boxes. And of course raw materials as typical for a developing country.
The covid shutdown showed something like 90% of the workforce is not doing anything of economic importance – mixing drinks for each other.
I wonder if the maintenance problems and costs are in part behind the low European/NATO readiness levels…
As a citizen of India, let me respond to this question. India is not just a “cheap labor” country any more. It is supplying the following to Russia: pharma products, medical equipment, automobiles, consumer goods, etc. A few months back, Putin himself referred to large Indian retailers opening branches all across Russia.
I’m not sure that I understand what your question is driving at.
I think the following might cover it.
The US and Europe offer consumer markets consisting of c. 700M people who, in general, have high incomes.
The SCO has, excluding Russia, China and India, c. 600M people with much lower incomes than those in the west.
China and India with populations of c. 3B will be competing to supply these people.
There is a huge mismatch in income and supply and there is going to be strong competition between India and China for these markets.
Where will the 600M get the rupees and yuan to purchase consumer goods from China and India? What these 600M mainly have to offer is oil and gas and they will be competing with each other and Russia to supply this oil and gas to India and China.
It seems to me there are grand imbalances that need to be resolved.
China is very concerned about getting cut out of western markets. It is working to internalize its economy so that it can ween itself of the West. It has to do this before it moves to invade Taiwan. It will eventually succeed. I can’t see how the consumer markets in the lesser developed members of the SCO (fully fledged and on the way) can satisfy China’s need for sophisticated wealthy markets for its goods.
These kind of considerations will put significant strains on the payments flows that will be required.
And what of the tensions between the mortal enemies, Iran and Saudi Arabia? Pakistan, India?, India, China?
I can’t see that it will be pleasant and plain sailing for the SCO. It will be a very interesting ride for sure.
Trade is not about money, its about goods and services. Money in international trade is just a means to acquire goods and services. In the past the system worked as follows: Nations like China and India produced goods and services that they sold to Europe and the US to get paid in euros and dollars. Then they used those very euros and dollars to buy goods and services from other developing nations. In a way the west was a burden to others, because they had to provide goods and services to the west because the west had the monopoly on the money needed for international trade. The only value the west provided to them was money that is accepted by everyone else.
What happens now is that the west is cut out from the system. The developing nations start trading in their own currencies. This way they do not need to supply goods and services to the west. That means that more of the goods and services produced there will stay there for their own consumption. So the people there will have an increased standard of living because they consume more goods and the west will have a decreased standard of living because we lose the ability to buy stuff with printed money.
The only thing the west provided in international trade was the guarantee that their money is accepted all over the world. But the BRICS are providing now an alternative trading system that also guarantees the value of the money by backing the currencies with gold and resources. This new trading system is much more appealing to developing nations because they can participate without paying with a constant stream goods and services.
You can not eat money, you can’t wear it and you can not heat with it. The world understands this, the west doesn’t. Our money is fiat money backed by faith and the faith is dwindling rapidly.
In the future world economy we have to participate in world trade on equal terms with others. That means we have to work as hard as every other person on the planet for the same wealth. Lazy people in the west doing bullshit jobs have no idea what it means to work hard and produce actually something useful that others might need and are willing to pay for.
The 700m “high income” people you talk about do not have a high income, they just have a printing press. “Consumer market” is just a euphemism term for a trading partner that burns through the goods and services others produce without providing equal benefit.
For the rest of the world we are an economic parasite, the world does not need the west, we cannot provide anything meaningful to them that they cannot produce by themselves.
deedl,
Firstly, your comments about the West’s trading system are a red herring.
Secondly, money is important in trade. How payment balances are managed is important – it affects exchange rates. If you think money is not important study the history of the Bretton Woods system.
The SCO monetary system apparently now in development has to work. It will only work if the imbalances can be managed some how and from what I can see there will be gross imbalances and as climate change action proceeds (if it does) then these imbalances will change in ways detrimental to the fossil fuel exporters.
Thirdly, even if money is not important, the effective trading ratios between commodities have to be consistent across the system. A pricing system based on money facilitates this.
Trade balances do not always matter. For example the US have been running a trade deficit for decades while Germany has run a surplus for decades. Nobody cares. Same is true between Germany and other eurozone states (see growing TARGET2 balances). Money can be transferred without trading goods by lending money, by paying back debts, by simply transferring gains if a company is owned by foreigners or by migrant workers sending parts of their income to their families back home. So payment balances solely based on trade do not show the complete picture, one has to include all money flows and money transfers.
Calling my reasoning a red herring is just a try to avoid answering the very important question of: What actual benefit does the world have from including the west into their trade?
deedl,
“What actual benefit does the world have from including the west into their trade?”
It might be an important question to you but it has nothing to do with what we are discussing.
We are discussing the SCO and the kinds of factors that might influence its success.
deedl,
“So payment balances solely based on trade do not show the complete picture, one has to include all money flows and money transfers. ”
Yes of course, that goes with out saying. And again, we are talking about MONEY.
what they are doing right now is drawing down GOLD and SILVER from western sources and banks, and repatriating the physical commodity.
The banks have been suppressing the values of these items heavily making it cheaper for India and china in particular to pull from west markets.
saudi wants progress it knows oil is limited and not forever, China just built them a High speed rail link to mecca, they also have aspirational goals they want to develop.
sadly the US focuses on buying out the political classes and debt leveraging economies, not building hard infrastructure like ports, railways and water treatment plants.
Don’t forget fastest growing middle class in the world is in Africa.
Lots of rich Nigerians, Arabs etc to supply
West is a declining 13%
London summer shopping that boosted it’s economy was. Dependent on Chinese, Arabs and Nigerians then Russians/ former Soviet.
30% housing market boosted by same in UK.
American spending in London not even close.
If Asia and Africa get their shit together, south America too, the West is irrelevant.
Question is will they get their shit together.
The low income argument is not correct, since trade between nations is *wholesale* trade and depends on wholesale prices of goods, which are actually more or less the same the world over. For people living in the West, their economic size appears larger since GDP is calculated on the basis of *retail* sales. The markup retail price of goods is many times more than the wholesale price at which those goods are sold to Western importers. Whereas in SCO countries the retail price markup over the wholesale price is much less. For example, a 5G modem’s wholesale price could be $300 (e.g., from a vendor such as Cradlepoint) when sourced from China, but in the US it would cost $1800 (as told to me by an executive in Cradlepoint), while in any SCO country (e.g., India) it wouldn’t retail for more than $450. So although Indian consumers may very well be buying a lot more modems than US consumers, but the overall retail sales in India may appear to be a lot less than in the US. But from China’s viewpoint, the Indian market – due to wholesale sales – would definitely be much more lucrative.
There is competition, but there is also cooperation among nations. The SCO provides an ideal platform for collaboration.
India has 60+ years of deep economic ties with Russia. India has 30 years of deep economic ties with the PRC.
It’s a legacy of the Non-Aligned movement and anti-colonialism.
Larry,
There is also the question of fossil fuel usage and climate change.
What the countries like Russia, Iran, Saudi and the various ‘Stans can offer is oil and gas.
Where will the need to reduce fossil fuel usage to an absolute minimum leave these countries. Eventually they will lose the income needed to purchase the consumer goods offered by China and India, further adding to the payments imbalances.
You make the same assumptions as the cretins who keep imposing sanctions…..”Russia’s a gas station masquerading as a country.” Do a little research and you’ll discover that Russia is a massive resource rich and basically self-sufficient, country producing a myriad of commodies essential to the West. It’s the collective West that produces very little, preferring the easier option of plunder and pillage
Seamus,
Of course you are correct.
But the prime source of its wealth is oil and gas.
And Russia does not have a monopoly on mineral production.
Strangely the non western world is not worried that much about climate change as the west is. There are several scenarios why that could be:
1.) They are stupid and we are smart, so we need to educate them more on the problem. This scenario is widely used in the west, the question is if this interpretation is true or if this is just a symptom of western arrogance.
2.) They can not afford environmentalism because they are poor and have more serious problems. This is explanation is also widely seen in the west. It brings up the question how to deal with it. Do developing nations have to go through a fossil age before being able to afford renewables? Or can they skip it?
3.) The west is wrong. This scenario is blasphemy in the west. But maybe the wests obsession with climate change exaggerates the real threat and is more a belief system than hard scientific truth. Since it is a complex topic as an scientific outsider it is hard to tell, but scandals like climate gate may hind at a failure of scientific method here. What if the developing nations have an independent assessment of the threat of climate change that differs from ours and therefore do not focus on it like we do?
Even if there is no climate threat the fossil reserves are not unlimited, so one day everybody has to move away from them anyways because of ending supply. So here the question is about the best strategy, is it better to move away first to then sell the technology to the others or is it better to use cheap fossil fuel as long as possible because renewables will never be able to replace them?
We may have to wait a few decades for the answers ..
deedl. Im sad to disappoint you.
There is no “fossil reserves” as oil is abiotic and unlimited. The emptied reserves are slowly being filled again and they continue to find new reserves.
Russia knows this, but West continue to play the false “limited resources ” game which is an Rockefeller used car trick to fool the sheeple to pay more, so Russia and who knows this game just profit from West’s raised prices.
Historically, India was allied with Russia, Pakistan allied with China.
The Pakistan -China relationship which is very good meant India – China relationship was not.
Add to this historical wars with China in what is now the North of what are now India and Pakistan.
Like noted above. Asia has a long history. India and China also have centuries of friendship, commerce, scientific exchange and even share Bhuddism which came from Right now a part of the historical Sikh Empire is a flash point. But they are talking.and have de weaponised the area.
Economically your theory seems that to grow china and India need to supply west.
That’s only partially true. They both have a huge internal middle class that is increasingly a consumer.
Remember that the large profits of apple etc are not driven by western consumers, it is their sales to Asian markets that matter more.
If Asia cut off Microsoft, Apple, McDonald’s Etc, their share
prices would dive. So the US companies are actually more dependent on Asian markets .
Where do you think Germany sells more cars? America, Europe or Asia and Africa?
As Asian and African and South American middle class grows they dont actually need the West.
There is nothing the West has that these regions don’t have or can’t make.
Russia has easily stepped in to fill the void in wine, cheese, consumer goods etc left by the West.
JP Morgan has shares in Gazprom.
South Africa under sanctions had more development and industry than without.
Iran has boosted development in many areas under sanctions.
The West miscalculated with it’s actions against Russia. It destroyed it’s reputation as a safe pair of hands and rule of law. The world has understood.
Even if Russia lost the war in Ukraine, the West is finished as a credible partner. Everyone else is looking East.
Ash,
I am not saying that the SCO mob cannot prosper. But there will be challenges of various kinds which will require close management.
“Economically your theory seems that to grow china and India need to supply west.”
I am saying they can continue to grow at a high rate if their economies are skewed towards exports. I just wonder if their growth rates will be sustained if they rely on the SCO. It will take time for the less developed economies to provide adequate markets for China and India compared those available in the West.
In this type of scenario everybody gets hurt. Few prosper.
If there is a big split, provided there is no nuclear war, governments will change over time and trade will begin again.
Humans are very stupid animal’s.
Everyone will fight like rats.
Eventually after getting whacked around the chops a few times we sober up. Then we hate the opponent. Then we forget and become friends because we like theirvhair or something.
None of this is permanent except perhaps end of US as empire and dollar dominstiin.
US will lick it’s wounds for a while and then get back up to play with the other kids if that happens.
We are not that different from monkeys.
Thank you, Larry! It is really important to consider those speeches. Mind you, I have found Josep Borrell’s latest article “The strategy against Russia must continue” really interesting in comparison to President Xi’s stress on cooperation. It seems to me that the basic idea of the free market (although metaphysical, but still adhered to) is undermined by Borell’s assertion that we need to abolish our belief that “economic interdependence automatically reduces political tensions”.
“ By reducing its dependence on Russian energy, Europe is freeing itself from the old belief that economic interdependence automatically reduces political tensions. This might have made sense 40 years ago, but it certainly doesn’t now, when economic interdependence has become weaponized.”
https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220918000156
The SCO’s obsession with growth with no mention of the challenges posed by decreasing energy reserves and energy stability is either leadership myopia or intentional diverting of the world’s attention.
What is most striking is the vacuum of leadership in the west compared to the vigor and rationality of the SCO leaders. Biden v. Putin is a clown show in the face of a disciplined adult.
Decreasing energy reserves and energy instability are being experienced only by the West who have implemented suicidally sanctions against energy producing countries, thus limiting their own access to these sources.
The underlying theme is a good kick in the tuchus of the one tribe dominating US empire and sanctions regime
Thanks for this excellent coverage of a supremely important topic!
The press conference was very revealing. It wasn’t just that Putin was open and relaxed, as well as sharp – the reporters were very direct in their questioning. These weren’t intimidated journalists at all. They also seemed intellectually far ahead of western journalists.
Sadly I can confirm that 95%+ of Australians would have zero knowledge of the SCO, or BRICS for that matter. They remain stuck in a world that does not exist, where America rules the waves, the Russians are vodka-swilling peasants and the Chinese are drone like communist robots.
They’re in for some massive shocks.
One thing I’ve noticed since the SMO started is how the Russians just don’t care about engaging with the west anymore. Lavrov has openly said that the relationship is over. They’re charting their own course, as are the Chinese.
It’s not just that they are no longer deterred, they openly don’t even factor in the west’s threats or opinions as relevant anymore.
That’s new. In the past, they did care. They could be deterred. They had at the least a modicum of respect towards Washington. We saw this as recently as the Trump years.
However since Biden came in, it has all changed. Not just the Russians or Chinese either. The Indians, Saudis and other nations seem to regard Biden and his people not just with disrespect, but open hostility and loathing.
I wonder if they have lost all respect for DC, as a result of that 2020 election.
They would all know the truth of what went down on that night of Nov 3/4. It may have been the last straw for these leaders.
In any event, they clearly know that they have the west by the cojones.
With America as the dominant superpower, it’s been possible for us in the west to either be ignorant or wilfully blind, about possible weaknesses and threats. That world has ended. I wish western citizens were more aware. It could make what’s coming easier to understand and bear.
Please forgive long post.
No, you shared something meaningful and important. Thank you.
I believe Turkey applied to be a full member from a dialogue partner. Wonder what NATO or Biden thinks about that???
Among their goals is to have biannual summer and winter sports competitions . Likely anticipate issues with next Olympics ?
I think SCO is good for America because real alternatives foster real improvement to better compete.
… One thing I’ve noticed since the SMO started is how EURASIA just don’t care about engaging with the west anymore.….
Fixed it for you 🙂
A Most profound insight
Quite always are the leaders who ‘shape’ the present (and btw the future). I think we are observing a narrow, but very strong as concrete wall, between Leaders and cheerLeaders. Similar indeed. Sometimes.
It seems the same everywhere. People are partying like nothing is wrong. I’d hate to be near any of them when their world comes tumbling down. Make no mistake it’s going to get ugly out there.
They lost all respect when Blinken flew from Kenya to India etc threatening to bash countries who didn’t impose sanctions on Russia. As former Pakistan PM put it “we are not your slaves.” He is a diplomatic disaster.
Larry,
There is also the question of fossil fuel usage and climate change.
What the countries like Russia, Iran, Saudi and the various ‘Stans can offer is oil and gas.
Their purchasing power depends on selling oil and gas at high prices.
Where will the need to reduce fossil fuel usage to an absolute minimum leave these countries? Eventually they will lose the income needed to purchase the consumer goods offered by China and India, further adding to the payments imbalances.
your line of questioning showed your lack of knowledge on real world outside the narrative peddled by MSM. Majority of australia are like this and it is normal due to the bombardbent of lies by the media and Aus Govt regarding world matters.
it is exactly the same line of thinking that now entrap EU leaders , in their rush to put pain on russia they cut off and hinder russian energy products. Yet the world run on fossil fuel energy and will never achieve ‘clean energy’ as dreamed by the greens everywhere.
this is why EU suffers from energy problem as it cut off its own nose and the asian
, african and middle east nations rejoiced on how the western foolish leaders took the wrong turn and suicide their own nations.
and turned out russia is not just a major energy exporter , it is also major food exporter and yes the world still need to eat .. and fertilizer , and uranium , and many other commodities ..
meanwhile US GDP rise and fall on FIRE sector which is paper wealth
bunta……
“Majority of australia are like this and it is normal due to the bombardbent of lies by the media and Aus Govt regarding world matters.”
So is it the act of a friendly nation to undermine another’s political system in a clandestine manner?
“meanwhile US GDP rise and fall on FIRE sector which is paper wealth”
Yes I agree. But the geostrategic scenario emerging will encourage and force the US to re-industrialize. It has already begun.
This will begin to alleviate the internal political, societal and economic polarization that has riven the US. The emergence of the SCO will accelerate this.
bunta……..
“….your line of questioning showed your lack of knowledge on real world outside the narrative peddled by MSM…”
The irony is that China is where it is today because of the West.
As you know, some decades ago, the Chinese progressively introduced capitalist reforms. In doing so, it opened itself up to the West.
The West provided capital, technology, education and markets. China contributed cheap labour. Of course western capitalists benefited, but so did China which punched out very high growth rates.
China has converted its economic power into military power which it has used to threaten Taiwan, threaten India, declare the South China Sea down to the 9 Dash Line it’s sovereign territory and occupy and militarize islands against all international law.
This is the reality you are not prepared to confront.
So Russia derives it’s income from oil & gas? Funny you should say that…
You oddly forgot about aluminium, steel, coal, gold, uranium, palladium, platinum, antimony, copper, diamonds, titanium, wheat, fertilizer and potash – all of which, last I looked, Russia was a top ten (and in some instances along with gas and oil a top three) world producer/exporter of.
Now in comparison let’s start listing the EU’s natural resources…
Coal. And, err….more coal? Which, if you buy into the idealogical anthropogenic climate change bollocks, is a non-starter.
The question you should be asking is where Europe will derive it’s (German manufacturing-based) income from when exhorbitant energy costs make it totally uncompetitive. Which is happening as we speak.
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2012/04/18/the-worlds-most-resource-rich-countries/3/
Don’t worry about Russia earning a crust in our lifetimes – they have most bases covered. Worry more about Europe being able to afford to buy a crust to feed itself.
It’s just as well for the ECB you don’t need paper to print money any more – the EU now needs all the wood it can harvest to keep itself warm.
There is no “need to reduce fossil fuel usage to an absolute minimum”, but just the desire to do so. There is a need not to freeze in the winter.
Block of countries built around Russia and China is self sufficient, and can function without Western Europe and Northern America. If you think that those countries are glorified gas stations, then you need to lay down that CNN-crack pipe.
“Why am I still on Facebook?” should be the primary question.
A new world order based on pragmatism where “Might is Right” has no place. It’s a start and I hope it succeeds.
“Might makes right” is an inherently pragmatic approach. The hope is, that in a multipolar world, might/power is distributed in a way that there will be no sovereign hegemon that is or believes itself above the rules.
China was facilitated and groomed to be the “official” manufactured goods supplier to the NWO/Davos ruled Rest of the World. The trade was China got rich, but politically powerless. However rich China became, they were expected to know their place and stay the hell out of geopolitics.
Russia was the opposite. Because it is The Heartland, it was imperative that it not only stayed out of geopolitics, but that it be brought entirely under control. To that end, it was to first be Balkanized, so that it could then be cannibalized to supply its resources as directed by NWO/Davos. Only its Russian agents (the Oligarchs) would get rich.
Putin first, then Xi reneged. Soros and Rothschild called them “traitors”, but they’re worse than that. They’ve not only turned NWO/Davos’ “Great Plan” against itself, they did it half-way through the crisis that was to set the stage for the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Net result? They’ve lost control of the crisis stage, socio-political chaos looms, and Robespierre’s ghost can be heard stirring.
Nonsense and buffoonery.
There was no such plan.
West prioritised services and partial final stage economies of scale and distribution over manufacturing which allowed it to raise living standards for its people.
They over did it but manufacturing outsourcing did raise standards and allow more people to buy cheaper products.
China took advantage well and worked hard to get where it is.
I’m sure WEF and David are stocked with devil spawn but let’s not over credit the billionaire buffoons with their dreams and greens. One slap and most of them would keel over.
Great comment, HMS TERROR.
And there seems to be tinges of White Supremacist, Russophobic, Synophobic hysteria behind this delusion that they’re the “designated” rulers of the world.
Meanwhile they seem to have the same disrespect for their own people and I think, hope that people are starting to get it.
So many are suffering from the mismanagement of COVID and the $trillions wasted on the war machine and endless wars that have siphoned off the funds that could have been used to benefit their own people with a sustainable, stabilizing economic set of policies including health care, infrastructure, etc etc.
They see that both parties have failed them.
II think that’s partly responsible for DJT’s popularity. He was very savvy about the public mood dissatisfied with the endless regime change wars. That was part of his pitch.
☕️ time.
Just sayin.
Thanks for this review, Larry. I see another aspect of the terrorism fight – China had a horrid problem of Terrorism in Xinjiang (considered by the US when blowing up GIs in Afghanistan, but now are American besties), which has disappeared due to China’s efforts to combat terrorism. The same could be said about Syria and Russia (In an active war), or Chechnya. Seems Russia and China have experience to share with SCO countries where terrorism remains a problem.
I recall a short terrorist outbreak in Kazakhstan (where Ural crude also could be used for diesel) with Lindsey Graham pledging support for the jihadists, quenched in a few days with SCO support. Personally, I think western intel was penetrated as I recall a rapid withdrawal of the police which encouraged the opposition to “exit their bunkers” where they were promptly arrested (or killed). It follows the Libya or Syria or Iran playbook… Of course the Saudi’s probably wrote the checks…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-the-kazakhstan-uprising-an-attempted-jihadi-takeover-
You can almost feel the earth buckle and ripple under your feet! Tectonic forces at work.
This makes me believe that Russia will receive (possibly even free) support from China, India, Iran etc for their efforts in the Ukraine. As these states are in a very real sense also in an existential battle with the US/NATO. Russia could probably do it alone, but with the backing of these others, it cannot fail anymore.
Which is scary and fascinating at the same time. The global hegemony is losing power, and they won’t like it a bit.
Yes Mr Johnson…
I’ve always considered the US our friend, always dividing US citizens and their government.
But we Europeans have chosen to be vassals where we the US… should have raised that pouting, defiant gorilla, taught him good manners.
Undoubtedly, it is always interesting to hear Putin’s sober and well-founded speeches.
Unexcited, he hits the nails on the head.
For someone like me, always enlightening.
Here in Switzerland you won’t find politicians like that anymore. In Germany, the politicians only throw around morally contaminated formulas in their speeches.
Just say something that appeals to common sense……… you don’t hear that anymore.
Well, Putin is an outstanding politician, and so is Lavrov.
We once had heads like that….. in Switzerland “Christoph Blocher”, in Germany “Franz Josef Strauss”,
Otto Graf Lambsdorf, Weizsäcker, Wehner, Barzel, Erhardt, Adenauer etc.
Today there is no longer any discussion in Parliament, only nods. It is more similar to the SED versaammulneg in the GDR, where it was only “nodded off”.
Unfortunately, there are hardly any people here who listen to Putin.
And so everyone here knows about the UKraine war………. from Swiss television, which only does stupid propaganda.
Europeans did not choose to be vassals but were occupied militiarily and economically.
The solo American husbandry of the world since the implosion of the communist construct in the East in 1990 has been a disaster, the time’s ripe for a multi country leadership of the world, a new reserve currency, more up-to-date international institutions that are genuinely independent, and not leaned upon by the Americans as was shown most recently in the IAEA team’s visit to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
USA used to inspire nations with our soft power not anymore…one man one vote has turned into a corptocracy, equality before the law has tuned FBI into one parties Mafia hit men…movies and music are terrible…Culture/morals is terrible like raunchy post-modernism rest of world wants none of… City on the hill tuned into US inner cities worse than war zones… etc etc etc
So, since about 1990, we bullying nations. The problem is 3/4 of the world has been sanctioned, coup, or invaded at one time or another and do not forget. We also bribe with IMF, world bank and other mechanisms to get our way in countries but now China has surplus capital to do the same – even more generously so – by just forgiving like 20 African nations debt. For all these reasons I expect SCO will be resounding success.
The Danger is – will Western elites accept second class status after ruling world for 450 years or pull the Sampson Option. We are in very dangerous times.
They will get real mad then move to their mansions in Dubai, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Rio, Bali, Lamu, Tokyo. Leaving the rest to rot.
They will then incorporate a new company and not give a care for those left behind.
The international rich are
highly mobile. And bitches.
Good luck trying to keep SCO together.
Anyway, what about the Quad agreement? The US, India , Japan and us little Aussie battlers.
What can’t help in all this is just how unbelievably bad Biden is. Worst of all isn’t his trying to shake hands with people who aren’t there but the way he is dividing his own country.
His VP and administration don’t help much either.
SCO been here for longer than QUAD , and QUAD wont last long considering india choose not to follow US diktat and aussie govt choose to follow US orders and will have no submarine force until US can spare old 688 boat for them
Good luck trying to keep USA/EU/NATO together.
Larry asks: “Will the United States and NATO wake up…?” The short answer is “no”. Putin told them as far back as 2007 in Munich. Did they stir from their opium (ie power) induced dreams then, or at any time since, right up to and including last December’s security ‘ultimatum’? No they didn’t. What Putin was saying to the US in Munich, and ever since, is that there is no such thing (never has been and never will be) as an exceptional nation. The Russians are profoundly well qualified to make this observation given their tumultuous history since 1917. The notion of American exceptionalism has evolved from being a smug and vain conceit (based on real power in the not so distant past) to become a mystical belief (based on false and utopian hopes for the future). The first and most important pre-condition for the US “waking up” is to shake off the dream/nightmare of American exceptionalism. That done, perhaps the US can re-learn the art of conversation as an equal among equals. That is all Putin has ever asked for. I’m not holding my breath. So the real question for me is: what would it take – and in what circumstances – for the US to consign the notion of its own exceptionalism to the dustbin of history’s bad ideas? I suspect that the answer to that question might be somewhat unpleasant to contemplate.
In german media, they tell stories that Xi is distancing from Putin.
I think they take their wishes for reality.
Looks like the clowns at the European Commission are moving ever closer to turning the EU into the USSR Mk II…
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_5443
Bert Huber says “In german media, they tell stories that Xi is distancing from Putin.”
Surely you also know that we tend to hysteria and inaction without “leadership”. Look at the maps of Germany since the Middle Ages until 1871 and you see the reason. Small states without sovereignty. One should always keep that in mind.
Read what the Pope has said about this war in Ukraine. He said Russia was “justified” in moving into those areas to defend against the Kiev aggression and called the actions of the West in arming that regime “immoral.”
The MSM is not interested but the Catholics leaders around the world must take note and follow.
From another Hunter not named Biden. Fear and Loathing in America. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your age. Relax — This won’t hurt.
The US noticed something at this meeting, as I noticed a flow of anti-Iranian propaganda in the MSM following this event. Formosa was no more a situation all of the sudden, as like with the old AFU graveyards from march in Izum , no : an Iranian girl died in a religious-county-jail. HEADLINES !!!
How many browns chaps died in custody in the US last year ? More than one. Does anyone bother on the MSM ? Sure not !
So, what the hell ? Did the US fear being put on a terrorist states list .. by Iran ? Ho the Irony !
Thanks SO much for this article, Larry! I needed its forward-looking optimism badly. I love my country (United States) and believe deeply in its foundations. But we have gone so completely wrong that only something like the SCO and other non-western aligned state organizations might bring us back to our senses. It will take a long time. I come more and more to believe that inwardly cheering for the SCO and the coming of a new multipolar world is actually cheering for the USA too — for all that we were meant to be. We are certainly better than this nasty, polarized, disintegrating country we’ve become!
Perhaps one day Europeans will realize that that it’s not in their interest to blindly follow US whims and turn their backs on Russia. If that day comes, the US will be downgraded to not even a regional power.
I always have to laugh by the neos who talk about adversaries as being an evil threat. Adversary traditionally meant opponent. It’s only recently changed into enemy. I live in Alabama. Auburn and Alabama have a very strong adversarial relationship. Yet, when they meet on the sports field, neither side has ever attempted to kill each other at half time.
China, Russia and South Korea spent a lot of money studying the fall of the Soviet Union. All three came to the conclusion that having military threats and funding such a thing was dumb and needed to be a thing of the past. South Korea figured out that reunifying with North Korea would bankrupt them.
China and Russia came to the conclusion that future wars would be economic. Both focused on the idea that domestically improving their own infrastructure and education were going to make their own countries strong. The number of universities in China that produce STEM graduates has grown dramatically in the past 22 years. By 2016, China was building one new university every week and surpassed both Europe and the US in graduates.
In 2016, the top seven countries with STEM graduates were China with 4.7 million, India with 2.6 million, US with 568,000, Russia with 561,000, Iran with 335,000, Indonesia with 206,000, and Japan with 195,000. The top seven produce over 11 million more STEM graduates than the US does.
In the meantime, the infrastructure of the US is failing, our education system has failed, income levels have the biggest divide between the haves and have nots ever, and we’ve lost that common interest that defines a society.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the US had a once in a lifetime opportunity to facilitate a healthy world absent from the fear of continuous wars. Instead it decided to abuse it’s position as the sole remaining super power. If we are lucky, we may end up as a peer of the upcoming powers. I’m afraid that at best we will end up as a second tier power.
Regarding Putin’s remarks about the operation in Ukraine, his bland assessment of Ukraine’s push back and their terrorist activities against civilians was infuriating to this reader, being out of harms way; one has to consider the state of mind and soul of the Donetsk and Donbass dwellers, in the midst of daily terror outrages unleashed against them, with Russia appearing to be quite content to carry on its military operation according to an unmovable plan. No mention of demilitarisation or denazification. No mention of the need to strengthen Russia’s presence in the theatre of operations. Pity for the Donbass; for those in and for those left behind – whoever survives the nazi pogroms (It appears that Putin is being deceived by his military counsellors)
As for his reference to “climate change”, he is following the official globalist party line without question, although tempered by a good dose of current realism. He has been seduced by “science so called” both touching climate and the virus and the jabs.
When a good man and ruler has bad or ignorant or crooked counsellors his leadership will be inevitable tainted and marred, “Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness” (this principle applies to any man in position of authority)
“When a good man and ruler has bad or ignorant or crooked counsellors his leadership will be inevitable tainted and marred, “Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness” (this principle applies to any man in position of authority)”
Couldn’t agree with you more on everything you said!
When speaking as a diplomat, one often must temper one’s language. I do not imagine that Putin speaks so diplomatically to his domestic audience.
“ There is a new and potentially more powerful player on the world stage and the United States may be relegated to the peanut gallery and forced to watch.”
Of course, the United States could just blow up the world instead. There may be some insane neocons who would prefer that fate.
Or get Blinken and Nuland the superman outfits they always wanted. Hopefully then they will sit in the corner and play. Biden likes Lego.
I like the PGA/LIV metaphor!
Much as I admire Mr. Putin, I was disappointed to hear him mention “Climate Change” and imply the need to reduce “Carbon”. Life on earth is carbon based. The greatest “Green House Gas” is water vapor. So yeah, let’s reduce “Carbon” and get rid of water vapor. Sounds like a plan?
I heard recently that USA’s primary export now is “Apps”. That will feed us. And when all the vehicles are electric, how do we charge all the batteries? Not just in USA, but everywhere this madness obtains. What happens when another arctic frost comes south in the winter? Anyone remember Texas in February 2021? Anyone aware of what is termed “The Medieval Warm Period” and the “Little Ice Age”? I’m NOT a “Climate Denier”. I just believe climate is constantly changing. And that humans have little to do with it and less ability to do anything about it.
My advice about climate AND SCO is: Learn to live with it. With grace, humility, and cooperation.
I’d guess that he is supporting the West’s obsession with climate change because it’s so stupid and harmful.
Evaluate both China and Russia’s commitment to ‘climate change’s by reference to their actions, not their words.
For example, Russia is engaged in a massive expansion of coal mining and exports, particularly in Tyra. This in itself tells you all you need to know.
Strategically it makes sense for both nation to play the western game. Xi and Putin know that most western leaders are weak, stupid, cowardly and gullible.
Russia and China can sing the climate change hymn, knowing that it weakens their western adversaries, while at the same time doing whatever they want to mine their resources, safe in the knowledge that they will never be challenged.
The force and geopolitical importance of the SCO were generated by financial measures against Rusia. Confiscating assets, getting out of SWIFT of a big country as Russia were in my oppinion the “mortal” mesures making “City of London and Wall Street” in a position of loosing their main way to control the “world”, the “hungry” for the west money. They create a “cathaclism” among big countries willing now to get ride of “paper money”. This made SCO more powerfull. The SCO is now a rising “star” mainly due to the stupidity of the west financial power that showed to all “world” they can make you poor in a second by use of “paper printed money”. Russia showed to the same “world” how to avoid and even turn into advantage this “financial control”. This is what makes SCO more attractive today, the hope there is a way to avoid “financial slavery”.
It’s amazing that our globalist ruling class, whose arrogant entitled greed is almost matched by their degeneracy, sought to and failed hard to build a new world order , and is now watching an actual new world order being constructed that they not only do not control, but from which they are wisely excluded. We Americans and the rest of the West need not just national liberation, but civilizational liberation.
Exactly how I understood the SCO meeting and the speeches of both President Putin and XI.
Note that the below expose on the story has NO facts to dispute the story. However, the story I sent out was represented as being new. It was not, it is very old, 5 years, and originated with a suspect site. So we must view it with great suspicion
FAKE NEWS 2017: If you were surfing social media sites over the weekend, you might have seen an “explosive” story from some outfit called “YourNewsWire,” which said a dying 79-year-old CIA agent named Malcolm Howard claimed on his deathbed that he was involved in the controlled demolition of World Trade Center 7, the third building brought down on 9/11. Snopes.com has labeled the story false – and notes that YourNewsWire is a well-known fake news site. The bogus deathbed confession parallels very closely another phony story from the site (run by a former BBC producer), which asserted that a dying MI-5 agent admitted assassinating Princess Diana. Some observers, by the way, assert that YourNewsWire has been “used by the Russians as a proxy site to spread disinformation.”
Note that the below expose on the CIA agent story has NO facts to dispute the story. However, the story I sent out was represented as being new. It was not, it is very old, 5 years, and originated with a suspect site. So we must view it with great suspicion. I withdraw my support of it. I do not withdraw my evaluation that building 7 was brought down by conventional controlled demolition. Mr. Johnson’s only retort was that it took a long time to wire a building for conventional controlled demolition. That is not proof that it was not done. The observed facts, that the building only had scattered fires on the observed side proves that the fires could not have made the building collapse into its own footprint. The NIST had to withdraw its conclusion that fires alone caused the building to collapse. If a few, or even many, randomly placed fires, could bring down a building, they would not pay those firms big bucks to do it. No one on our side has claimed it was an ad hoc act. We claim it took months to prepare all three buildings. I appologize for the CIA agent story. That does not alter the facts which anyone can plainly see if they look at the video. https://www.bitchute.com/video/0nwR88z9Etiu/
FAKE NEWS 2017: If you were surfing social media sites over the weekend, you might have seen an “explosive” story from some outfit called “YourNewsWire,” which said a dying 79-year-old CIA agent named Malcolm Howard claimed on his deathbed that he was involved in the controlled demolition of World Trade Center 7, the third building brought down on 9/11. Snopes.com has labeled the story false – and notes that YourNewsWire is a well-known fake news site. The bogus deathbed confession parallels very closely another phony story from the site (run by a former BBC producer), which asserted that a dying MI-5 agent admitted assassinating Princess Diana. Some observers, by the way, assert that YourNewsWire has been “used by the Russians as a proxy site to spread disinformation.”
It is a bullshit story. Jimmy, you show your ignorance and lack of experience in these matters. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to wire WTC 7 for a controlled demolition without anyone entering that building seeing it in the weeks preceding 9-11. Not an opinion. It is a hard fact. You just don’t want to accept it. I can’t fix that.
WILL THE UNITED STATES AND NATO WAKE UP TO WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MEETING OF THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION?
No, they won’t. This is a rhetorical question for the Western population at large. It’s similar to knowing that 50% of the high school students in Massecheussetes are not able to identify the state on a map … or asking people on the street to distinguish between Austria and Australia.
That said, the latest SCO meeting is the most momentous event since Columbus landed in the Caribbean in 1492. It’s a “new world” … and it will be a “better new world” without the colonial empires that the West used for 500 years to suck the blood out of non-western peoples and cultures.
Recognizing the good and the bad, the eminent historian Carroll Quigley asked the question in his epic histology “Tragedy and Hope: a History of the World in our Time” whether the British Empire, at the end of the day, was worth it. He gave an emphatic, “Yes” … given (western) art and literature, (western) science, (western) technology, and, most importantly, (western) law.
This is easily refutable as those writing prescient eulogies to Queen Elizabeth II have recently discovered. One easily forgets the British scheming that went on behind the scenes to precipitate WWI and WWII to incite Germany and Russia against each other to protect British control over the Eurasian continent through their naval control over the world’s sea lanes. Or … one forgets that the definition of mercantile capitalism assumed the theft of natural resources from foreign lands. Or … one forgets the devastating effects of the British Opium Wars against China in the 18th Century that lasted until the 1920s. Or … one forgets that the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya against British rule occurred in the 1950s with an estimated 90,000 killed and more incarcerated under appauling conditions. (Wikipedia OFFICIALLY lists 12,000 killed … but I believe the former number.)
India? This is easy. One can dwell on the Amritsar Massacre in 1919 and the like when the British opened fire on unarmed protestors. Better, as depicted in the recent popular British serial , “Upton Abbey,” a bankrupt British aristocrat goes to India to recover his fortune and, of course, comes back wealthy. What would you expect? This is part of British history covering centuries; it has become part of British lore. Most telling, it was an expectation for all of those who partook. The question: “But whose wealth was it?”
Hence, I can easily answer Carrol Quigley’s question: “No, the British Empire wasn’t worth it. It will forever be a stain on British history and Western Civilization.” The best that the British can do is hope that people forget. Fortunately, the death of Queen Elizabeth II demarcates an official end to that era. May she and our memories of the British (and the derivative Anglo-Saxon) Empire rest in peace.
The SCO (and similar organizations) are that “better future” for all of us.
“They have enjoyed the luxury of the dominance of the U.S. Dollar as the international reserve currency. It was the Golden Rule at work–those with the gold make the rules”.
A rather time-worn metaphor since the U.S. Dollar is a currency not money. And it isn’t backed by anything, much less gold. If there is a ‘golden rule at work’, I would suggest that China and Russia, and Turkey and India have real money, GOLD. See also J.P. Morgan.
In my humble opinion, all Americans need to understand that for the most part the American people are good, the country is good, the constitution and the bill of rights are good. It is the United States State Department that is not good. You can call them Zionists or Neocons, globalists , or even Satanists but they certainly leave a path of destruction everywhere they set their eyes on.
When the dollar is no longer the reserve currency, the average American is going to be holding stocks, bonds, and dollars that are worth 10 percent if they are lucky. The policies of Victora Nuland, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab are not good for anyone but themselves and their demented version of reality.
Rodolfo,
Very true, except in your case, for us it’s personal.
Yeah, its time, the 2legged rats running things have to go. It is that simple.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin both have always maintained and history of our Republic and its founding reasons for a revolution to begin with, all three, even though the American Revolution was not a human individual per say, all have always maintained that unfettered economic activity is absokutely essential if prosperity happiness and national security are to be realized. Mr. Putin has said at least as much repeatedly in his speeches and comments over the last few years, Mr. Trump from the get go has maintained economic prosperity is essential to national security and the health of not only our country but all people. and he was/he did/is willing to go it alone against the globalists about it to achieve that principle.
It is remarkable to me it is very refreshing, edifying really to read and listen to Mr. Putin because to me what he talks about is very much what America is about in regards to the prosperty of people and their countries, that this must be the job number one of those with responsibility in all forms of endeviurs of governments and non government organizations that beyond that the peace and happiness in this world lies in this direction.
What us realky truly wonderful here is these folks in the SCO have laid down the guantlet yet did so in the most diplomatic and non finger pointing way possible, it says everything about the organization and its members, mature critical thinking honest adults in the room.
Can not say how much if a relief it is for myself personally that this positive change in the world has begun and how earnest, how united this effort is, we all serious as a heart attack, and by we that implies everyone on this planet, needed a sanity check, also a check against what lurks and is operating aling the fringes of the shadows, for too long, having committed unspeakable things to people, all in the name of some elitist end game.
Enough is enough if that. Too long has this entity ruled from secrecy, its agents stirring trouble instigating conflict dividing the peoples of this world destroying everything good beautiful and true, subverting undermining and destroying time hinored traditions, its proxies done its filthy foul deeds, too long it has poisoned everything with its depravities and its sins.
Its such a great thing to see these countries united in such common cause. How they first do not want to fight this evil, they just want it to go away, to be left alone, thats all.
That is exactly in principle what I as an Anerican only ever wanted, just to be left alone, to have enough to be able to live humbly have enough to buy the kids and my old lady something nice once in a whike, pay the bills, and keave a bit extra fir my family when i get my dirt nap. Or as Vox Day puts it in his great style, to plant a tree under which you will never sit to enjoy its shade and its fruit but yours down the road of life will. And aint that what life is at its essence after all?
And why not nations and peoples why not should they just want to be left alone?
The great thing here is positive change in this world is become an inevitable thing now.
That thing creepin’ along the fringes if shadows is beating its head against a bulwark it can not defeat in Ukraine, its no longer got a free riegne as its enjoyed too long across the globe, its days are growing short. I think its institutional orders are starting to collapse. But being so monolithic having infested so many things in possession of so much agency and its agents vast, its got a lot of enertia, and what at its core runs it is not going to go away easily. If anything, what it is because it is something truly evil and it seems its centered on America and Great Briton, its going to take it out on us something awful and foul before it goes away.
Only thing a Man can do is be prepared and keep an ear to the ground. Have a few trustworthy friends and protect the lived ones and helpless vulnerables. And never take council if you fears. As fear is a weapon of IT, because the really great thing is it an’t beat you if your don’t loose your nerve. Plan for the absolute worst it can do to you, because when it falls short of that you win more easily. Check Zeroes too.
I’m having a lot if empathy for them good folks in Europe. They all got a bum rap with the clown show Brussels conned them all into. Its a tiny world over in those parts, too close for comfort it if drops in the pot and goes kenetic. Yet, it just may have to go that way, cause when you squint look out at the horizon theres some truly nasty BS entrenched deeper than a tick in a houndog, and what that thing is is been entrenched a ling time, its not gonna let go till something bad breaks and the picthforks and hanging ropes come out.
But there’s this to it all too, what’s got it’s greasy meathooks wrapped tight as can be around the levers of power, its difficult to break that grip, its a total grip, but once that grip is loosened, and it dont need to be by much, that grip fails altogether and fast, real fast, like totally, and its minions and agents fold as quickly, its an altogether total fail, the institutions go with it, everything about IT collapses. Its just real hard to break that grip at first.
In some respects it kind of seems that is actually begun. Though it may be IT striking out too as things begin to not go it’s way that its acustomed to. Its akin to The God Emperor when he walked onto the stage. How She who they thought could never lose, did. It rocked their institutional power, IT’s never fully recovered, it’s still after TGE, IT’s consumed with hin, and us good folks really after all, cause it’s us dirt people who had the audacity to defy IT, to keep defying, refuse to comply with IT’s rules, which is in a way hikarious, cause there are no rules for IT, how thats the only rule, and because too many, way too many are begun to defy and refuse to comply, for instance like with the death vax “mandate”, like who made up these rules anyways? What gives? We never signed up for that and it ain’t in the contract either. The main thing is a plurality and not just any run if the mill olurality refused to be jabbed with something just too darned suspicious to be trusted in the first place. That kind of plurakity, its got thee ol’ gimlet hairy eyeball. The harder you push this plurality the more stradfast it becomes. It’s that whole audacity and great motive power thing some folks got in their bones, maybe you got to be American to understand, but its real it exists its imposdible to coerce and use force with. It just refuses to comply, “I WON’T!” and MYOB! Or BFYTW! Thats consent and its withdrawal, powerful stuff, stuff that created America and the birth if ordered Liberty, could be said it’s the plurality of Rational Anarchist’s, or rather the honorable resistance, you heard if them right? A rather infamous of late alphabet agency attached the unsavory designation of Domestic Violent Extremists, DVE’s, or bestowed upon this plurality the honor of recognition for stuubornly defying that agency’s overlords maybe, and refusing to wuietly go away clinging to outmoded old dead white guy fashioned time honored traditions, Bibles and their Rifles? Huh?
But thats just it. When a world of people who only just want to be left alone decide, choose, make the choice, see its choise here thats the sticky wicket, when a plurality, in this case, at least, half the goid folks on Earth choose to say enough! a funny things happens, whatever IT is, is auto-deligitinized. Snap! Its not evident at first, but it happens none the less. Because and this is just my personal insights and opinion, IT, whatever it really is, IT never was legitimate to start with, all it had was power, because all there is is power, and IT has the power to hurt, the unequivicable power to hurt.
I got power, you got power, everyone’s got power, my power is the power to say No. I got my Rifle too, thats power to hurt, combined its great power, how you choose to use this power is the interesting thing. That thing, for me and me alone, is the power to say No is really in practice my greatest power, see its my mind thats the weapon, my voice my Rifle are simply instruments if the central primary weapon the one between my ears and this is where IT goes wrong, it thinks its got power over me, but it dont. Period. End of it. So in a sense i am considered by “authorities” to be the most dangerous man alive. All because i say “I WON’T!” My rifle is a fine thing, its mine, it is my property and thats the first thing about it. I ain’t giving it up, I won’t, and thats that. Understanding this power is power, its when i understand that IT understands that I understand it understands is where the rubber meets the road and legitimacy is the issue, or non-issue, as IT only has the legitimacy i give it with my consent and when i withdraw my consent then IT’s got some problens, and that applies to good ol’ leave me alone me and to the SCO, to the good people of the Donbas Arc who only want the Ukies just to leave them alone, to Russia and her people her motherland and how those guys just want NATO to back off and leave them alone, just as they pinky swore, not one inch east, back when.
IT, has got itself in a serious pickle, Putin’s meat-grinder is of IT’s own making, IT can not back down, even to the last Ukrainian and every western fool who contracts to fight there IT can scrounge and grift into sticking their dicks in Putin’s meat-grinder. Its the long game here you got to look at. IT stacked the deck across the European Union with it’s lackeys and agents, IT has ordered them to systematically using Putin and his Russian people as a straw-man, to get something done IT could never do any other way. What that is i really do not know but IT is up to no goid and it’s gonna utterly destroy Europe, more precisely its economy and economic activity. For what God only knows. For more power, well thats a no brainer but for what, why, something is going on and its a depature from IT’s SOP. At least in scale and scope. It almost smacks of desperation. Like IT has got to do something or else. And nothing is beyond the pale. I mean you can almost feel it here, there’s like some thing thats about to break with the obiden regime, they are going to real soon like pull some truly nasty BS with us good folks. Somethings up like never before.
Maybe “the center can not hold” after all? And things are desperate. The banksters in dire straights and no bail out is gonba save their arses this time maybe? When it comes to that cartel of money grubbers when they say jump everyone says how high master?
Is BRIC’s and the advent of all its new members precipitated the collapse of the institutional order of the west which IT rules? That hegemon is utterly tied to its skim operation with its monoploy of the dollar being the only cross border transfer of wealth/commodities/energy medium. Is things that on a knifes edge where just the experimental and testbed use of the BRIC’s system started a collapse within that bankster cartel monoploy, and we. cant see it but IT’s reacting. And whats going on in Europe/Ukraine is evidence there of?
Putin is sounding more and more like Reagan, compared to our bozos in Washington DC.
I fear it is erroneous to say that the United States does not have leadership, based on the obvious debility of Joe Biden. The U.S. does have leadership, but unfortunately we (to include US citizens as well) don’t know who that leadership actually is.
Of course it is obvious that Joe Biden has nothing to do with actual leadership. He merely tries to mouth whatever he is told, though not even that entirely successfully. But somebody is writing those speeches, programming the teleprompters, etc., and they are speaking on behalf of the true leaders of the U.S. government.
Yet not one of us can name any of those leaders individually with any certainty. Which makes them all the more dangerous. How can you hold someone accountable if you don’t even know who they are?
But it does nobody any favors to claim that Russia believes the U.S. is leaderless, because it does not. In fact, Russia’s secret services probably know more about America’s true leaders than Americans themselves do.