Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Pentagon has produced its latest National Defense Strategy (NDS), a report made every four years to provide the public and the government with a broad overview of the US war machine's planning, posturing, developments and areas of focus.
The problem is both are targets, but targets of different groupings in the neo-con and neo-liberal branches of the elites.
One grouping, the Victoria Nuland/Antony Blinken neo-cons are eurocentric with family history hatred of things Russia and work for resource (oil, minerals, foodstuffs) groupings of American Oligarchy, the old money. They want to split up Russia and "stans, stripping them of resources ala South America.
The other branch, William Burns, et al neo-libs, work for the new money, the fashion goods, high tech industry, Silicon Valley, Pharma, etc, who want China (and India) kept down as a source of cheap labor, and to eliminate intellectual competition from their sectors.
The dithering back and forth between a pivot to Asia (re-enslave China): or deconstructing Russia isn't anything new, it was already a serious issue under Obama, a man of no principals and no convictions. That plus it burned him that Putin was smarter.
Because for 20 plus years when it was needed the USA has lacked a president with the intellect, convictions, and holding power to stay any single course, the constant jostling between the neo-cons and neo-liberals over doing their masters bidding has thrown the ships tiller back and forth. It's just luck and timing that Russia came out first on the beating stick.
And now here we are with Russian and Chinese officials openly discussing their plans to create a multipolar world while Chinese pundits crack jokes about the US empire's transparent ploys to turn Beijing against Moscow over the Ukraine invasion:
"Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?
A short memory is an infectious American disease. No one remembers Korea, the Chinese involvement, when even at that very early stage of its development into a major power after being used and abused by all and sundry during WWII, it was still able to supply all that was required to fight the USA, still stuck (by choice ) with 30,000 troops) on the the border, between North and South Korea, also known as the Military Demarcation Line.
And that was a very long time ago. The feeble Joe Biden hadn't even reached puberty at that time so probably missed seeing the ability of country like China change its allegiances, if and when required. Look at it now. If he and his war stooges think there is one chance in a million of convincing China to ever see the imperialist USA as a better associate / partner / friend than Russia, it is time for him to discard his role as front man for BlackRock, Vanguard and Big Pharma and join a Washington church group whose sole motivation is the 'second coming', because that will be the only thing which will save him from an ignominious end.
Of course, he would need to check with Israel to see if the 'second coming' is OK with them first.
I just posted "Putin's Peace, Petrodollar Pain: the petroruble is Putin's Omicron to end the West NATO virus." It quotes from Aaron Mate, the US Peace Council, Scott Ritter & Michael Hudson. And I've added Putin's speech after invading, so readers can hear from the horse's mouth.
I find it quite strange that nobody in the US power-think-tanks realised that they were actually pushing Russia into the arms of China. Russia tried over & over to join NATO, and/or form an alliance with it, and with Europe & the US. Even back in the time of the Maidan coup in Ukraine, the EU was not offering Ukraine a very attractive deal, which is why they started to look to Russia (a fatal move for their independence, of course).
Did they really not realise?
Was it just unbelievable arrogance?
Or did they maybe have the destruction of Russia as a goal all along? After all, the western oligarchs who treated Ukraine - and Russia back in the 1990s - as their piggy banks, probably would have just preferred for Russia to collapse, if not completely spontaneously, then with a little help from their "friends".
Meanwhile whilst Australia fixes its sycophantic gaze with one eye on London and the other on Washington, it missed the obvious Chinese move into the Solomon Islands. Papua New Guinea is next! Then guess what - Australia has Chinese military bases around us just like USA has military bases around China. Australia has become the knight that "protects" Washington's king. Australia now risks being the example of what could come next for the USA if USA continues with its policy of unipolar dominance.
Washington is engulfed by sociopaths and narcissists, who, like the Roman emperors at the end of that empire, make decisions now, based on a might and set of ideals long dead, by their time, and replaced by only greed and bluster.
What we're seeing are policies driven by the marriage of unaccountable corporate and political power exactly as Eisenhower described in his Military Industrial Complex speech. Populations are reduced to propagandized props, just along for the ride. Our ultimate destination would seem to require the use of a rather large handbasket.
The hysterical, foaming at the mouth hatred of Russia, is proving to be a winning formula so far as ostensible public opinion is concerned - and that is never reliable, given the polished, seamless propaganda machine - and the template for dealing with China, if Russia fails in its objective. China is a much larger economy and population, but smaller land mass, and Russia has the oil, rare metals and nuclear capability to match the West's. China has reiterated its loyalty to Russia, it has no limits, so together they are formidable. But Russia was seen as the gateway, the hole in the dike -if the idea of regime change could be leveraged and managed, whereas that is far more problematical in China where popular elections are not a consideration.
The greatest danger is the failure of the West to understand it, really understand, at both the intellectual and gut level. Perhaps the sanctions will bring it home because they are calculated to backfire with resonance: it would then be a case of shooting yourself in both feet - but saving your life. And the planet itself.
It strikes me that America‘s gonna be torn asunder by internal division: culture war. Maybe the unipolar hegemon will be China. America is being looted, people see it and they are both pissed off and armed to the teeth. I think America’s founders were prescient when they enshrined the right to “keep and bear” in that constitutional amendment, you know, #2.
Heck, Apple STILL manufactures in China....zero tariffs! After all that (frankly, racial) hoopla...dint affect Corporate Murica ONE WHIT. So much for principles. Oh , but cost increases DID get passed in. Thank You DC!
Wow, once again Caitlin is on point. The preservation of the Pax Americana as the singular world empire is something the intelligence industry is willing to kill humanity to achieve. They would happily rule over a graveyard earth than lose power to another.
You've been consistently dishonest so I have no reason to believe you ever lived in China or taught Uighur girls.
I have visited China, and know China quite well and they have no beef with the minority populations, unlike western nations (see race relations in the US/UK/AUS). What you are doing is called projection. You are projecting what the west has done to first nations. How many native Americans and Australians speak their native tongue?
Caitlin, te adoro; Tu artículo, es más interesante de lo que esperaba, lo que no sabíamos y lo que si se, se me hubiese escapado; Lo cierto, es que China solo entro en el tablero de ajedrez, por el exceso de ambición de ee.uu. ¿Quién les diría a estos cretinos de imperialistas y genocidas hasta la medula, que la Globalización sería un premio para las plebes Globales y el fin del imperio? Algún dia el dicho de que la avaricia rompería el saco, no está mal del todo, como proverbio estrella ¿Quién lo diría de una certinidad, como un proverbio, ni, aunque fuere confuciano? fg.
The problem is both are targets, but targets of different groupings in the neo-con and neo-liberal branches of the elites.
One grouping, the Victoria Nuland/Antony Blinken neo-cons are eurocentric with family history hatred of things Russia and work for resource (oil, minerals, foodstuffs) groupings of American Oligarchy, the old money. They want to split up Russia and "stans, stripping them of resources ala South America.
The other branch, William Burns, et al neo-libs, work for the new money, the fashion goods, high tech industry, Silicon Valley, Pharma, etc, who want China (and India) kept down as a source of cheap labor, and to eliminate intellectual competition from their sectors.
The dithering back and forth between a pivot to Asia (re-enslave China): or deconstructing Russia isn't anything new, it was already a serious issue under Obama, a man of no principals and no convictions. That plus it burned him that Putin was smarter.
Because for 20 plus years when it was needed the USA has lacked a president with the intellect, convictions, and holding power to stay any single course, the constant jostling between the neo-cons and neo-liberals over doing their masters bidding has thrown the ships tiller back and forth. It's just luck and timing that Russia came out first on the beating stick.
From Caitlin.....
And now here we are with Russian and Chinese officials openly discussing their plans to create a multipolar world while Chinese pundits crack jokes about the US empire's transparent ploys to turn Beijing against Moscow over the Ukraine invasion:
"Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?
A short memory is an infectious American disease. No one remembers Korea, the Chinese involvement, when even at that very early stage of its development into a major power after being used and abused by all and sundry during WWII, it was still able to supply all that was required to fight the USA, still stuck (by choice ) with 30,000 troops) on the the border, between North and South Korea, also known as the Military Demarcation Line.
And that was a very long time ago. The feeble Joe Biden hadn't even reached puberty at that time so probably missed seeing the ability of country like China change its allegiances, if and when required. Look at it now. If he and his war stooges think there is one chance in a million of convincing China to ever see the imperialist USA as a better associate / partner / friend than Russia, it is time for him to discard his role as front man for BlackRock, Vanguard and Big Pharma and join a Washington church group whose sole motivation is the 'second coming', because that will be the only thing which will save him from an ignominious end.
Of course, he would need to check with Israel to see if the 'second coming' is OK with them first.
I just posted "Putin's Peace, Petrodollar Pain: the petroruble is Putin's Omicron to end the West NATO virus." It quotes from Aaron Mate, the US Peace Council, Scott Ritter & Michael Hudson. And I've added Putin's speech after invading, so readers can hear from the horse's mouth.
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/putin-peace-petrodollar-pain
I find it quite strange that nobody in the US power-think-tanks realised that they were actually pushing Russia into the arms of China. Russia tried over & over to join NATO, and/or form an alliance with it, and with Europe & the US. Even back in the time of the Maidan coup in Ukraine, the EU was not offering Ukraine a very attractive deal, which is why they started to look to Russia (a fatal move for their independence, of course).
Did they really not realise?
Was it just unbelievable arrogance?
Or did they maybe have the destruction of Russia as a goal all along? After all, the western oligarchs who treated Ukraine - and Russia back in the 1990s - as their piggy banks, probably would have just preferred for Russia to collapse, if not completely spontaneously, then with a little help from their "friends".
Meanwhile the REAL globalist Empire glories in and profits from the squabble.
The UN/WEF alliance has no nationalistic limitations hobbling its think tanks.
It takes a simple binary view of the world which Thomas P Barnett used to call the CORE vs the GAP.
If you live in the GAP you have two choices: Migrate or die.
If you live in the CORE you have no choice. Accept migrants, poverty and debt.
You will own nothing and be happy.
https://francesleader.substack.com/p/the-totalitarian-global-coup?s=w
Meanwhile whilst Australia fixes its sycophantic gaze with one eye on London and the other on Washington, it missed the obvious Chinese move into the Solomon Islands. Papua New Guinea is next! Then guess what - Australia has Chinese military bases around us just like USA has military bases around China. Australia has become the knight that "protects" Washington's king. Australia now risks being the example of what could come next for the USA if USA continues with its policy of unipolar dominance.
Washington is engulfed by sociopaths and narcissists, who, like the Roman emperors at the end of that empire, make decisions now, based on a might and set of ideals long dead, by their time, and replaced by only greed and bluster.
What we're seeing are policies driven by the marriage of unaccountable corporate and political power exactly as Eisenhower described in his Military Industrial Complex speech. Populations are reduced to propagandized props, just along for the ride. Our ultimate destination would seem to require the use of a rather large handbasket.
The hysterical, foaming at the mouth hatred of Russia, is proving to be a winning formula so far as ostensible public opinion is concerned - and that is never reliable, given the polished, seamless propaganda machine - and the template for dealing with China, if Russia fails in its objective. China is a much larger economy and population, but smaller land mass, and Russia has the oil, rare metals and nuclear capability to match the West's. China has reiterated its loyalty to Russia, it has no limits, so together they are formidable. But Russia was seen as the gateway, the hole in the dike -if the idea of regime change could be leveraged and managed, whereas that is far more problematical in China where popular elections are not a consideration.
The greatest danger is the failure of the West to understand it, really understand, at both the intellectual and gut level. Perhaps the sanctions will bring it home because they are calculated to backfire with resonance: it would then be a case of shooting yourself in both feet - but saving your life. And the planet itself.
It strikes me that America‘s gonna be torn asunder by internal division: culture war. Maybe the unipolar hegemon will be China. America is being looted, people see it and they are both pissed off and armed to the teeth. I think America’s founders were prescient when they enshrined the right to “keep and bear” in that constitutional amendment, you know, #2.
Heck, Apple STILL manufactures in China....zero tariffs! After all that (frankly, racial) hoopla...dint affect Corporate Murica ONE WHIT. So much for principles. Oh , but cost increases DID get passed in. Thank You DC!
Wow, once again Caitlin is on point. The preservation of the Pax Americana as the singular world empire is something the intelligence industry is willing to kill humanity to achieve. They would happily rule over a graveyard earth than lose power to another.
China has been conducting genocide for decades, but US companies have not said a peep and we just had the Olympics there. 10% for the big guy!
You've been consistently dishonest so I have no reason to believe you ever lived in China or taught Uighur girls.
I have visited China, and know China quite well and they have no beef with the minority populations, unlike western nations (see race relations in the US/UK/AUS). What you are doing is called projection. You are projecting what the west has done to first nations. How many native Americans and Australians speak their native tongue?
I have had the same conclusion for some time now...we are playing with Fire here...
Caitlin, te adoro; Tu artículo, es más interesante de lo que esperaba, lo que no sabíamos y lo que si se, se me hubiese escapado; Lo cierto, es que China solo entro en el tablero de ajedrez, por el exceso de ambición de ee.uu. ¿Quién les diría a estos cretinos de imperialistas y genocidas hasta la medula, que la Globalización sería un premio para las plebes Globales y el fin del imperio? Algún dia el dicho de que la avaricia rompería el saco, no está mal del todo, como proverbio estrella ¿Quién lo diría de una certinidad, como un proverbio, ni, aunque fuere confuciano? fg.