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The geopolitical chessboard is in perpetual shift – and never more than in our current incandescent juncture.

A fascinating consensus in discussions among Chinese scholars – including those part of the Asian and American diasporas – is that not only Germany/EU lost Russia, perhaps irretrievably, but China gained Russia, with an economy highly complementary to China’s own and with solid ties with the Global South/Global Majority that can benefit and aid Beijing.

Meanwhile, a smatter of Atlanticist foreign policy analysts are now busy trying to change the narrative on NATO vs. Russia, applying the rudiments of realpolitik.

The new spin is that it’s “strategic insanity” for Washington to expect to defeat Moscow, and that NATO is experiencing “donor fatigue” as the sweatshirt warmonger in Kiev “loses credibility”.

Translation: it’s NATO as a whole that is completely losing credibility, as its humiliation in the Ukraine battlefield is now painfully graphic for all the Global Majority to see.

Additionally, “donor fatigue” means losing a major war, badly. As military analyst Andrei Martyanov has relentlessly stressed, “NATO ‘planning’ is a joke. And they are envious, painfully envious and jealous.”

A credible path ahead is that Moscow will not negotiate with NATO – a mere Pentagon add-on – but offer individual European nations a security pact with Russia that would make their need to belong to NATO redundant. That would assure security for any participating nation and relieve pressure on it from Washington.

Bets could be made that the most relevant European powers might accept it, but certainly not Poland – the hyena of Europe – and the Baltic chihuahuas.

In parallel, China could offer peace treaties to Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, and subsequently a significant part of the US Empire of Bases might vanish.

The problem, once again, is that vassal states don’t have the authority or power to comply with any agreement ensuring peace. German businessmen, off the record, are sure that sooner or later Berlin may defy Washington and do business with the Russia-China strategic partnership because it benefits Germany.

Yet the golden rule still has not been met: if a vassal state wants to be treated as a sovereign state, the first thing to do is to shut down key branches of the Empire of Bases and expel US troops.

Iraq is trying to do it for years now, with no success. One third of Syria remains US-occupied – even as the US lost its proxy war against Damascus due to Russian intervention.

The Ukraine Project as an existential conflict

Russia has been forced to fight against a neighbor and kin that it simply can’t afford to lose; and as a nuclear and hypersonic power, it won’t.

Even if Moscow will be somewhat strategically weakened, whatever the outcome, it’s the US – in the view of Chinese scholars – that may have committed its greatest strategic blunder since the establishment of the Empire: turning the Ukraine Project into an existential conflict, and committing the entire Empire and all its vassals to a Total War against Russia.

That’s why we have no peace negotiations, and the refusal even of a cease fire; the only possible outcome devised by the Straussian neocon psychos who run US foreign policy is unconditional Russian surrender.

In the recent past, Washington could afford to lose its wars of choice against Vietnam and Afghanistan. But it simply can’t afford to lose the war on Russia. When that happens, and it’s already on the horizon, the Revolt of the Vassals will be far reaching.

It’s quite clear that from now on China and BRICS+ – with expansion starting at the summit in South Africa next month – will turbo-charge the undermining of the US dollar. With or without India.

There will be no imminent BRICS currency – as noted by some excellent points in this discussion. The scope is huge, sherpas are only in the initial debating stages, and the broad outlines have not been defined yet.

The BRICS+ approach will evolve from improved cross border settlement mechanisms – something everyone from Putin to Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina have stressed – to eventually a new currency way further down the road.

This would probably be a trade instrument rather than a sovereign currency like the euro. It will be designed to compete against the US dollar in trade, initially among BRICS+ nations, and capable of circumventing the hegemonic US dollar ecosystem.

The key question is how long the Empire’s fake economy – clinically deconstructed by Michael Hudson – can hold out in this wide spectrum geoeconomic war.

Everything is a ‘national security threat’

On the electronic technology front, the Empire has gone no holds barred to impose global economic dependency, monopolizing intellectual property rights and as Michael Hudson notes, “extracting economic rent from charging high prices for high-technology computer chips, communications, and arms production.”

In practice, not much is happening other than the prohibition for Taiwan to supply valuable chips to China, and asking TSMC to build, as soon as possible, a chip manufacturing complex in Arizona.

However, TSMC chairman Mark Liu has remarked that the plant faced a shortage of workers with the “specialized expertise required for equipment installation in a semiconductor-grade facility.” So the much lauded TSMC chip plant in Arizona won’t start production before 2025.

The top Empire/vassal NATO demand is that Germany and the EU must impose a Trade Iron Curtain against the Russia-China strategic partnership and their allies, thus ensuring “de-risk” trade.

Predictably, US Think Tankland has gone bonkers, with American Enterprise Institute hacks rabidly stating that even economic de-risking is not enough: what the US needs is a hard break with China.

In fact that dovetails with Washington smashing international free trade rules and international law, and treating any form of trade and SWIFT and financial exchanges as “national security threats” to US economic and military control.

So the pattern ahead is not China imposing trade sanctions on the EU – which remains a top trade partner for Beijing; it’s Washington imposing a tsunami of sanctions on nations daring to break the US-led trade boycott.

Russia-DPRK meets Russia-Africa

Only this week, the chessboard went through two game-changing moves: the high-profile visit by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the DPRK, and the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg.

Shoigu was received in Pyongyang as a rock star. He had a personal meeting with Kim Jong-Un. The mutual goodwill leads to the strong possibility of North Korea eventually joining one of the multilateral organizations carving the path towards multipolarity.

That would be, arguably, an extended Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). It could start with an EAEU-DPRK free trade agreement, such as the ones struck with Vietnam and Cuba.

ORDER IT NOW

Russia is the top power in the EAEU and it can ignore sanctions on the DPRK, while BRICS+, SCO or ASEAN have too many second thoughts. A key priority for Moscow is the development of the Far East, more integration with both Koreas, and the Northern Sea Route, or Arctic Silk Road. The DPRK is then a natural partner.

Getting the DPRK into the EAEU will do wonders for BRI investment: a sort of cover which Beijing does not enjoy for the moment when it invests in the DPRK. That could become a classic case of deeper BRI-EAEU integration.

Russian diplomacy at the highest levels is going all out to relieve the pressure over the DPRK. Strategically, that’s a real game-changer; imagine the huge and quite sophisticated North Korean industrial-military complex added to the Russia-China strategic partnership and turning the whole Asia-Pacific paradigm upside down.

The Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, in itself, was another game-changer that left collective West mainstream media apoplectic. That was nothing less than Russia publicly announcing, in words and deeds, a comprehensive strategic partnership with the whole of Africa even as a hostile collective West wages Hybrid War – and otherwise – against Afro-Eurasia.

Putin showed how Russia holds a 20% share of the global wheat market. In the first 6 months of 2023, it had already exported 10 million tons of grain to Africa. Now Russia will be providing Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Somalia and Eritrea with 25-50 thousand tons of grain each in the next 3-4 months, for free.

Putin detailed everything from approximately 30 energy projects across Africa to the expansion of oil and gas exports and “unique non-energy applications of nuclear technology, including in medicine”; the launching of a Russian industrial zone near the Suez Canal with products to be exported throughout Africa; and the development of Africa’s financial infrastructure, including connection to the Russian payment system.

Crucially, he also extolled closer ties between the EAEU and Africa. A forum panel, “EAEU-Africa: Horizons of Cooperation”, examined the possibilities, which include closer continental connection with both the BRICS and Asia. A torrent of free trade agreements may be in the pipeline.

The scope of the forum was quite impressive. There were “de-neocolonialization” panels, such as “Achieving Technological Sovereignty Through Industrial Cooperation” or “New World Order: from the Legacy of Colonialism to Sovereignty and Development.”

And of course the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) was also discussed, with major players Russia, Iran and India set to promote its crucial extension to Africa, escaping NATO littorals.

Separate from the frantic action in St. Petersburg, Niger went through a military coup. Although the end-result remains to be seen, Niger is likely to join neighboring Mali in reasserting its foreign policy independence from Paris. French influence is also being at least “reset” in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Burkina Faso. Translation: France and the West are being evicted all across the Sahel, one-step at a time, in an irreversible process of decolonization.

Beware the Pale Horses of Destruction

These movements across the chessboard, from the DPRK to Africa and the chip war against China, are as crucial as the coming, shattering humiliation of NATO in Ukraine. Yet not only the Russia-China strategic partnership but also key players across the Global South/Global Majority are fully aware that Washington views Russia as a tactical enemy in preparation for the overriding Total War against China.

As it stands, the still unresolved tragedy in Donbass as it keeps the Empire busy, and away from Asia-Pacific. Yet Washington under the Straussian neocon psychos is increasingly mired in Desperation Row, making it even more dangerous.

All that while the BRICS+ “jungle” turbo-charges the necessary mechanisms capable of sidelining the unipolar Western “garden”, as a helpless Europe is being driven to an abyss, forced to split itself from China, BRICS+ and the de facto Global Majority.

It doesn’t take a seasoned weatherman to see which way the steppe wind blows – as the Pale Horses of Destruction plot the trampling of the chessboard, and the wind begins to howl.

(Republished from Sputnik International by permission of author or representative)
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  1. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    Ukraine is liable to bring the end of NATO as well as the end of the Biden Presidency!! I wonder how much Ukrainian aid money is being sent back to the Biden family? The Ukraine fiasco brings the West nothing but more trouble and greater risk!!

  2. My biggest question at the moment is why was Blinken, Yellen then Kissinger in China.

    I believe they were or are trying to sell a carve-up of Russia to them, a “if you stay neutral you can take Russia north of you?”

    This war in Ukraine will only continue, the U.S has no plans to end it until either they or Russia are removed from the chessboard.

  3. For this author to refer to the patriotic Jews in charge of the US as “the Straussian neocon psychos who run US foreign policy” prove he’s a classic anti-Semite and likely a Holocaust revisionist.

    I will work hard to have him indicted under Europe’s wonderful Holocaust Denial laws.

    Love live the US and Israel, two countries beloved by nearly everyone around the world.

  4. Anonymous[122] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    My biggest question at the moment is why was Blinken, Yellen then Kissinger in China.

    I believe they were or are trying to sell a carve-up of Russia to them, a “if you stay neutral you can take Russia north of you?”

    OBVIOUSLY, for only one reason.

    A kindergarten, simpleton’s attempt to use the so-called Prisoner’s Dilemma against both Russia AND China.

    Here’s my layman’s broad strokes take:

    The Empire of Lies approaches BOTH Russia and China, telling them the same thing:
    “The other guy’s selling you out! But, since we are nice, we want to cut a deal with you first. Why don’t you abandon your brother, throw him under the bus, and WE (you and the West) can cut a deal to divide the spoils between us. Sound good?”

    It’s all BULLSHIT, of course. The United States is, to quote Sergei Lavrov, “NOT agreement-capable”. As in, we act like the con-artists we are, lying and worming our way out of promises. Remember the promise of “NATO will not move even one-inch eastward”. The Russians remember that.

    The Chinese aren’t biting either. On their social media, they put it like this: The West is telling us “Help us kill your friend, so we can kill YOU next”. China is not dumb enough to go for any deal with the West.

    All the China-Russia Alliance has to do is stay calm and solidly united, and the Western world tyranny eventually chokes, bleeds out, and dies.

    Which is certainly the plan, and a pretty good deal for humanity, if you ask me.

    •�Replies: @pyrrhus
    , @The_Masterwang
  5. Protogonus says: •�Website
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Suspect that the Blinken, Yellen, and Kissinger visits are a revelation that China is NOT a neocon target but rather a form of maskirovka, since the PBOC has been in the hands of the talmudists since the days of Mao. The neocon goal is to reinstall Khodorkovsky in Russia, who was ousted by Putin & Co. That’s it—there is no remaining geopolitical drama:

    https://www.academia.edu/76372363/To_Sevastopol_With_Love

    Note that to read the article, simply SCROLL DOWN.

  6. Notsofast says:

    Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta, I can’t give it away on 7th Avenue
    This town’s been wearing tatters, uh huh

    as i type this about “some girls”, pandora plays me “exile on main street”, if i don’t get some shelter get some shelter, i’m, going to fade away….

  7. Notsofast says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    really… you can’t figure it it out? and you believe in carving up russia?!?! if anything russia could crave up the u.s. and china, if they wanted to apportion china, but why would they? i hope with all my heart, that russia reapportions the u.s. (for which there is grave need, imho, if the american people are to survive as a sovereign nation(s)).

    by the way blinken, yellen and the dinosaur kissassenger, were in china to beg the chinese, to continue buying u.s. ponzi treasuries, if they don’t, well goodbye u.s. ponzi masters, if they do, well they have you, even more by the short hairs. you better learn to be more respectful of your new chinese masters, otherwise you will have a hard time passing your reeducation exams, (i can’t wait to give them to you, see you there!).

    •�Agree: Joe Levantine
    •�Replies: @Anonymous
    , @24th Alabama
  8. 4HONESTY.com says: •�Website
    @cousin lucky

    You have very good points!
    The rapid collapse of the US power structure (which ought to include strong European allies), is self inflicted!

    De-industrializing Germany, through anti-Russian boycotts, is insanity. Long ago they de-industrialized the USA.

    Destroying the dollar and trust in US world order, by stealing Russian money, and cutting Russia out of the SWIFT payment system, is insane and suicide.

    Forcing Russia, a natural white ally of Europe, into economic and military alliance with China is simply stupid beyond belief!

    https://truthrevolution.net/ukraine/
    Russia’s Ukraine war: NATO membership or death! The WHOLE TRUTH vs. media cover-up

    https://sincerity.net/ukraine/
    Media disinformation questionnaire: Russia–Ukraine-war obfuscation-index

    •�Agree: Ann Nonny Mouse, Decoy
  9. The U.S is undergoing a revolution of change politically, the old narrative is being exposed for the lie it was.

    Trump was the disruptor and Bidet the reaction by the establishment, but the cracks are opening fast with daily exposure of the real power behind the system and how they are big players in elections.

    The politicians of the likes of the Mitch McConnells and McCarthys’, Pences of this world are just place holders, non-entities who are there in history by the thousands but nobody reads about them because they are not leaders but opportunists.

    We are going through a period of change the old legacy media are atrophying and new forums of a more democratic type emerging, the old guard are trying to take control but the more they try the more their idea of democracy is exposed as a bastardization of the word democracy.

    The battle will not be in Ukraine, it will be in the U.S for the minds and heart of America, can the Americans wake up?

  10. JR Foley says:

    August 23 big meeting with Amtrak Joe and Japan ( we did nothing 1919-1945 !!!) and South Korea ( first we went North over the 38th–got our asses kicked back to South of 38th and then Called on UN and USA to HELP —the North has invaded us) and then–Douglas MacArthur arrived—later the biological weapons from Fort Detrick under Isshi Shiro ( Head Man of Harbin 731) and then AGAIN–biological weapons in West Ukraine.

    USA should be punted from UN and must be removed from Europe —each major country can cut an Agreement of Non-Aggression with Russia –but Poland/the Baltics will buck this reality

    Archie Bunker was perhaps dead accurate about his Polish son-in-law –Meathead….

  11. JR Foley says:
    @cousin lucky

    Quoting Putin—- Baltic States are out of order as is Ukraine—great deal for Africa from Russia:

    “We discussed this with our African friends yesterday. And I drew attention to the ten thousand tonnes of our fertilizers that are stored in the Baltic ports. It’s very strange, right? Our fertilizers are there. Our companies said: ‘We will give it away for free.’ OK then. Let’s say someone doesn’t want us to earn money on this, and let the money go to war, as they say. But we are giving it away for free,” Putin told reporters.

    •�Replies: @Kratoklastes
  12. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Blinken, Yellen then Kissinger in China.

    Blinken was there to try to sort out Taiwan – and left having been told “Taiwan is part of One China“… at which point the US State Department updated its information page on Taiwan to reflect precisely what Blinken was told.You would never know that if you only read the MSM – even DuckDuckGo has de-amplified it.

    Yellen was there to try to convince China not to accelerate their de-dollarisation – because there’s ~1.5 trillion in US government debt that has to be rolled over in 2023/24, and China’s playing a leading role in encouraging the extinction of transactions-demand for USD via commodity markets.

    Kissinger was there because Blinken and Yellen left with empty hats and pink arses.

    Face it, bro… the US is finished.

    Global de-dollarisation started in 2008 when the major industrial and resource powers – China and Russia – realised that the US was toast.

    As the Chinese were deciding they would no longer play Hop Sing on the global remake of Bonanza the US was too busy wanking itself to death over the elevation of a freshman Senator by the Pritzker oligarchs – the ultimate ‘AA’ hire, and the man who made “Assassination Tuesday” a thing… the Great Beige Hope: Rastus Hopey-Changey.

    Rastus was the US-history equivalent of Caligula making his horse a senator.

    •�Thanks: Joe Levantine
    •�LOL: Notsofast
  13. Let’s be frank…..the entire world is sick of the jewing.

    Not only are Russia and China and the BRICS tired of the jewing……the American people are waking up and saying they are sick of the jewing too. Normies are asking, “How come we can’t talk about the jews?”

    IDK.

    You would think those super smart jews would get the hint and maybe stop the jewing……or at least pull back a little bit.

    Ukraine is one of those areas where the jews really need to just let it go.

    I bet I have talked at least a half dozen young men out of joining the service, when I explain to them they will just be fighting stupid wars for neocon jews.

    Heads up neocons. When your number one golem of gullible southern white boys no longer wanna put up with your shit…..you’ve got a big problem.

    •�Agree: Kratoklastes
    •�Thanks: Buck Ransom, Anonymousrgc
    •�Replies: @Liosnagcat
  14. @Kratoklastes

    And contrast what this high-V bullshit-artist cunt from the US State department says in this briefing – US statement, May 24 2023 with this taken straight from the US State Department ‘relations with Taiwan’ site.

    The United States approach to Taiwan has remained consistent across decades and administrations. The United States has a longstanding one China policy, which is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three U.S.-China Joint Communiques, and the Six Assurances. We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.

    Now consider the 1972 Joint Communiqué:

    The US government continues to show itself as entirely untrustworthy.

    If it is ‘representative’ of its people (its own assertion, and the assertion of believers in ‘democracy’), nobody should trust an American in any social, professional or industrial domain.

    And – under the principles falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus[1] and frangenti fidem, fides frangatur eidem[2] – everyone who has [contractual] obligations to the US government or its thralls, is obliged to break them. BDS, bitchez.

    cf the Declaration of Independence:

    when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Bold emphasis mine. DUTY. Not “choice”.

    \\
    [1] False in one [thing], false in everything.
    [2] Faith must be broken towards those who break faith. This is slightly more onerous than the usual frangentibus fidem fides non est servanda” – no faith is due to those who have broken faith – which makes the withdrawal a matter of choice (after all, you can continue to do a thing when the obligation to do it has ceased). The milder form is consistent with the exceptio non adimplenti contractus, which makes continued contractual obligations entirely optional when another party to the contract breaches. I prefer the exhortative form: it has superior consequences.

    •�Thanks: Notsofast, Showmethereal
    •�Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @Showmethereal
  15. @JR Foley

    The African countries have known for almost two generations that the Eurotrash – led by the US – are vehemently opposed to increased use of (phosphate) fertiliser in Africa.

    The Eurotrash saw that increased use of such fertilisers enabled India to reach food security in the 1970s – and to become a net exporter of foodstuffs without being ‘encouraged’ by RN gunboats. The so-called ‘Green Revolution’ that lifted the entire subcontinent out of chronic food insecurity.

    The last thing that the Eurotrash parasitic fuckbags want, is for Africa – especially Sub-Saharan Africa – to achieve food security.

    They’re worried that the fuzzy-wuzzies will breed like flies and will invade Europe – when the thing that makes people migrate en masse is having your country fucked by the [neo-]colonialists… and the thing that makes people more likely to stay at home is improving living conditions.

    I think it’s still the case that more (phospate) fertiliser gets used on US golf courses, than gets used in the whole of Africa. That was certainly true in the late 90s when I first became aware of the reason for the Eurocrat blockade regarding the purchase of fertiliser using aid money.

    The Eurotrash would rather that aid funds get used building a dam where –
     ♦ the project design and construction is done by Eurotrash firms at ‘cost-plus’;
     ♦ the project budget blows out and is augmented by debt;
     ♦ the project timeline extends;
     ♦ the project output furnishes none of the forecast benefits, or does so at higher cost;
     ♦ the government defaults on the debt or sells the asset at a loss.

    Aid-recycling. It’s why the Africans remain mired in poverty, famine and lack of development – like the Irish did before them, and the dot-Indians, and any of a long list of ethnies who have felt the ‘benevolent’ tickle of Perfidious Albion.

    •�Replies: @Looger
    , @Liosnagcat
  16. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Curve-up has been the aim since 1918 but properly documented by NSC in 1948

    East of Russia from Pacific to Yenisey – to Japan (US)
    Central part from Urals to Yenisey – to China
    Western part from Dnipro to Urals – to EU (DE) ((US))
    Western part from Beskydy to Dnipro – to PL-EU (DE) ((US))

    China’s part of the deal – making sure Russia not using tactical nukes on Beskydy Tunnel
    Hence Putin must remain in power for now to secure the TNWs

    •�Replies: @tikki
    , @Derer
  17. pyrrhus says:
    @Rabbi Shlomo

    You’ve got a good deadpan comic routine going!

  18. pyrrhus says:
    @Anonymous

    Well, nobody is going to be carving up Russia, which has an ever more powerful conventional military and 6000 nukes…Russian doctrine provides that there will be. no more wars fought on its territory…

  19. JWalters says:

    Thank you Mr. Escobar, for another highly informative and insightful report.

    “Washington under the Straussian neocon psychos is increasingly mired in Desperation Row.”

    And the Global Majority, outside the Collective West, now understands clearly that those Straussian neocon psychopaths are the center of the Talmud Empire controlling the Collective West, and aiming to rule the world (from Jerusalem).
    https://archive.org/details/from-yahweh-to-zion-laurent-guyenot

    And that this Talmud Empire, as the financial center of the British Empire, inflicted it colonial piracy on the rest of the world, and is now trying to inflict the same colonial tactics on Russia. The open rebellion against that Empire was on vivid display at the recent Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg.

    Putin’s team has done a brilliant job of bringing people around the world together to finally stand up against the predatory Empire. And even as it is going down to a crashing defeat, it bluffs and puffs and pretends it is going to rule the world.

    But its mask is coming off in Israel, where its monster face is revealed in its ruthless persecution of the Palestinians. And it’s also coming off in its attack on Russia via Ukraine, where its utterly callous disregard for goyim lives – be they Ukrainians, Russians, Germans, Brits, Americans, etc. – is on brazen display.

    It only remains for the citizens of the Collective West to find out they are being ruled by a ruthless Talmud Empire which is looting and killing them through money-laundering wars and manufactured financial crises.
    https://warprofiteerstory.blogspot.com/p/war-profiteers-and-israels-bank.html

    The amped up inflation we are now living through is another stealth heist by this criminal banking cabal, partly brought on by the 100 billion dollar heist in Ukraine, and its related economic sanction warfare. (Not to mention the recent plandemic.)

    The Talmud Mafia will drag us further into the abyss if we let them. Their yes-men political puppets are betraying their own citizens for a foreign entity and a fistfull of dollars. They need to be called out for treason.

    •�Agree: werpor, ld
  20. Pepe, your article and some great comments remind me of the subtitle of John Perkins´ book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: The Shocking Inside Story of How America Really Took Over the World.

    •�Thanks: JR Foley
  21. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    President Biden is sending another arms package to Taiwan and he is also sending more United States troops and weapons into Syria! In the United States the buildings, bridges, schools, prisons, and railroads are falling apart! From sea to shining sea the ” criminals ” rule the streets and the governments! Instead of a society we have a madhouse of depravity, debt, substance abuse, and mass killings! This is a lunatic freak show that worships nothing but money!! Integrity and honesty are no longer signs of a strong upbringing; they are now deemed as human flaws in the way of Satan and more money!! Not even god can help up!!

    •�Agree: werpor
    •�Replies: @werpor
    , @Skeptikal
  22. @Kratoklastes

    As the Chinese were deciding they would no longer play Hop Sing on the global remake of Bonanza

    There you have it, in half a sentence.

    •�Replies: @JR Foley
  23. Mark G. says:

    The British empire fell apart when its government debt to GDP ratio reached 250%. It could no longer fund the large military needed to hold its empire together. The United States currently has a debt of 31 trillion dollars and a GDP of 24 trillion. It is now close to running a two trillion dollar a year deficit and this is likely to continue as all the Boomers retire and stop paying taxes and start collecting Social Security. GDP growth may stall due to all the Boomers leaving the work force and the dysgenic welfare and immigration policies of the last 60 years leading to a less productive future work force.

    A 250% debt to GDP ratio for the U.S. would be 60 trillion dollars. We will probably get to that within 20 years. So, the death of the American empire is in the near future.

    •�Replies: @OldWhiteMan
    , @katesisco
  24. TG says:

    However, TSMC chairman Mark Liu has remarked that the plant faced a shortage of workers with the “specialized expertise required for equipment installation in a semiconductor-grade facility.”

    Translation: TSMC wants to import third-world refugees to Arizona so that it doesn’t have to pay more than a sub-poverty wage.

    •�Replies: @PJ London
    , @Showmethereal
  25. SteveK9 says:

    Translation: it’s NATO as a whole that is completely losing credibility, as its humiliation in the Ukraine battlefield is now painfully graphic for all the Global Majority to see.

    Pretty humiliating for Russia as well. They were supposed to knock off Ukraine in a couple of weeks. The plan to quickly topple Zelensky went awry, and there was no real good backup plan. The fact that the Kremlin was willing to turn Crimea back to Ukraine and ‘lease’ it from them again (Lukashenko revealed that) in the ‘peace deal’ negotiated in Istanbul, demonstrates this is true, without a doubt. Could be lucky for Russia that the US rejected that.

    At this point, the only explanation for what is happening is simply that Russia cannot do more. And by that, I don’t mean physically, I mean politically. It would seem President Putin judges that the Russian people would not stand for a general mobilization of the population and industry. Young men in Moscow prefer nightclubs to trenches, and they are probably not convinced that they have to fight. Then there are the oligarchs, who are still hoping to make money in the West, send their kids to Oxford, and enjoy lunches in Paris.

    Where this is going? Who knows? You will keep reading that Ukraine is running out of manpower. Wonderful, the Slavs are not dying out fast enough. And, there are a couple hundred thousand Poles waiting to be used next, and who knows who else? Perhaps the long term favors Russia, but I would not be sure of that.

    •�Replies: @Kagan_ovich
    , @katesisco
  26. Xafer says:

    Nice read Pepe. Currency substitution is not difficult actually. Because it does not have to a shared national currency. It just needs to be a trade currency, with trade surpluses being able to be accepted at major debt, capital and commodity markets and its covert-ability in any global currency. Besides, who would like to repeat the Greece experience with shared national currency?

    The technical infrastructure of such digital trade currencies already exists e.g. Asian currency unit (ACU). The governing legal and regulatory framework is also present as in digital trade currency frameworks, which does not require new regulatory and legal regimes.

    Another important point that some scholars make is that for settlement in national currencies to work, all partners should have bilateral zero trade surpluses or deficits. It is a wrong assumption. The correct requirement is that the new trading block should have, in collective, a net zero trade surplus and deficit, provided that each national currency of a block member country can be easily converted into any other block member country currency.

  27. Anonymous[389] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    if anything russia could crave up the u.s. and china, if they wanted to apportion china, but why would they

    It seems you are worried China will turn against Russia. LOL. It will never happen. Why carve up Russia, when you can just live as equals with Russia. EQUALS – that’s the Chinese style.

    if they wanted to apportion china, but why would they?

    Yes, “why would they?”. It’s also very laughable if anyone could do anything to China without dying in the process. Among other things, Russian intelligence agencies already think China has 1,500 nuclear warheads on mobile ICBMs (not 300 to 600 as in Western sources). That is right now, today.

    NATO says China will have 1,500 thermonuclear weapons by 2030, but Russia says China was already at that level by 2020. How large will the Chinese nuclear arsenal be by 2030? Maybe 2X what it is now.

    This might concern the West, but Russia should actually feel good and be reassured. Their friend China continues to get stronger, and remains VERY reliable as a friend.

    No indication of China wanting to take anything from Russia.

    Pls consider the user name of the poster who spoke of China taking Russian land – that is someone who chose a Chinese-sounding name. I can call myself Ivan, Sergei or “guy in Moscow”, it doesn’t mean I’m Russian.

    •�Replies: @Notsofast
    , @LarryD3
  28. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    The United States of America is addicted to extortion and killing people!! It does not know how to operate any other way! Government leaders can be bribed or blackmailed but the ordinary people are the ones that are suffering. How long are the people of Germany going to suffer from United States extortion before they demand leaders that the United States does not own??

    If World War III does not blow up this planet; the United States of America will eventually run out of vassals, stooges, fools, and leeches and find itself completely alone !! Not even god can help us!!

  29. Rahan says:

    Shoigu was received in Pyongyang as a rock star.

    What, sent to reeducation? Heh.

  30. PJ London says:
    @TG

    No what he is saying is that Americans are too stupid and uneducated to install or run sophisticated machinery.
    Academically US is so far behind Taiwan, China, S Korea and Japan that they might as well be Zambians.
    The only centres of educational excellence in the US are dominated almost entirely by students from Taiwan, China, S Korea and Japan, who would much rather be in Taiwan, China, S Korea and Japan, but enjoy the endless research money poured into the defence contracts for US Universities.
    PS China has demonstrated a direct jump from 14Nm chips to 1 Nm chips, bypassing the whole chip industry battling to bring them down to 5Nm and 4Nm.

    •�Replies: @Anonymous
  31. @Kratoklastes

    The U.S isn’t finished, the world thought Russia was finished, the U.S will re-invent itself but it is not finished, it has a lot of sole searching to do.

    Don’t think a powerful China or Russia will be any different from the U.S, they start out with good intentions then they change when new generations take over and don’t have the struggle and only look for riches and privilege and they view the world as their oyster.

    •�Replies: @dogbumbreath
  32. Anonymous[218] •�Disclaimer says:
    @PJ London

    PS China has demonstrated a direct jump from 14Nm chips to 1 Nm chips, bypassing the whole chip industry battling to bring them down to 5Nm and 4Nm.

    Huh?!? You’re kidding. Maybe in a Chinese lab?

  33. Notsofast says:
    @Anonymous

    agree on your premise, i didn’t intend to say russia would consider cutting up china, i was trying to point out that the russians have the premiere military and defense industries in the world today. if they wanted to be underhanded pricks, threatening other nations through gunboat “diplomacy”, they could but why would they? the current decaying hegemon has been getting their way with these means for so long that they didn’t even notice when the russians surpassed them technologically. the smo has revealed the west as toothless paper tigers.

    the russians and chinese, have never been closer and have played a brilliant game of good cop, bad cop with the west, that has left western economies in tatters. ww3 started 3 1/2 years ago when u.s. release their covid bioweapon on the world. that seems to be the point at which the chinese and russians had enough and coordinated their response to this murderous attack. the s 550 anti-ballistic missile system was put into service in dec 21, this system can take down icbms in space, as well as satellites, it is no coincidence that they issued the west one last warning that same month.

  34. Thanks, Pepe.

    Looks like doors beginning to close on gay disco.

    1. The coup in Niger is interesting. A long-standing French puppet displaced as crowds chant “Long Live Russia” … French language downgraded … French forces asked to leave neighbouring countries like Mali, Central African Republic …

    2. Syria officially revoked BBC accreditation.
    Can no longer report from that country.
    Finally enough with long years of bias.

    In the official statement, the Syrian information ministry stated that the BBC has deliberately provided, on multiple occasions, biased and false news reports, giving a distorted picture of reality in Syria.

    https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/07/11/706858/How-BBC-British-Propaganda-Machine-Peddles-Lies-Gets-Away

    •�Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  35. @SteveK9

    Agree, as of today Russia lost this war
    (and those signed leases of Crimea and DNR/LNR mentioned by Lukashenko are the best evidence of that)

    The options that Putin (still) has, in no particular order:

    1. Nuke with TNW Beskydy tunnel + few sites in the western Ukraine and freeze status quo per treaty

    2. Continue as it is (effectively do nothing) which leads to:
    a) real (as opposed to staged) military coup and hardliners using SNW on NATO in Old Europe
    b) formal defeat per treaty and dissolution of Russian Federation

    Only Option 1 gives Putin personal physical security, but I am not sure he is strong at “game theory”, plus China clearly told him not to use the TNWs, his only lifeline

    I think the most likely is option 2b and the least likely is option 1 –
    so in my view Putin is already a dead man walking

    •�Replies: @Derer
  36. Barr says:

    Russia has effectively ceded Armenia Azerbazian Iran border to Turkey Isreal and Azerbaizan hurting Iran and Armenina and sacrificing Armenia . Russia doesnt understand or appreciate Iran’s vulnerabilities to NATO Israel US presence on Iran ‘s Zenguer corridor .

    Russia needs Turkey for trades Turkey offers the holes it needs for naviagtion,sanction relief and trade .This is understandble .This vulenrabilities are being exploited by UAE Qatar,Turkey and also by Israel helping and hurting Russia.

    Russia though seems to be making progress in Africa.

    Iran will cooperate with Russia .It has no alternative.
    Russia will tolerate Turkey .It has no alternative.

    Israel has reinvent itself given the softening of resistance abroad and hardening of resistance within and immiediately outside and teh world cedeing everything to it ,that it needs and more . You can fatten a beast to its death . More doles ,more application of antimsetism laws ,more vetoing in UN wont save Israel from itself .

    America is drowning in debt in personal life and seeing confused healthy faces from central America in places and parts of America that even Americnas arent aware exist .Dirt drugs duungeon dredegry and despair describe its many cities . Country is mortaged to foreign lobbyists and beholden to unproductive fractious ideas .
    Todays democracy in America is a combination of oligarchy and mobocracy .Former controlling the money and later the daily experience of life . America will not no longer fight for its existence if invaded .If asked to sacrifice for renewal,it wont .It’s definition of renewal borders on lunacy,recidivism ,and idiocy – all couched in religiously or politically correct language of tokenism.

    China and ASEAN may aspire to eventual world dominance but the world is already in unruly grasps by multiple players and none is effective .

  37. @cousin lucky

    I wonder how much Ukrainian aid money is being sent back to the Biden family?

    Neocons are making a killing keeping this war going. IMF (US controlled) approved another 115 BILLION loan to the Ukraine regime. ALL common practice lending rules have been ignored; i.e how will Ukraine pay if the regime is defeated and ultimately loses the war…. which it will?

    Read about the scam here:

    https://johnhelmer.net/how-to-fight-a-war-with-advertising-slogans-winning-means-not-losing/

  38. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Don’t think a powerful China or Russia will be any different from the U.S, they start out with good intentions then they change when new generations take over and don’t have the struggle and only look for riches and privilege and they view the world as their oyster.

    On the contrary, the USA started with good intentions and didn’t change but rather the “system” was hijacked by the British Empire (City of London bankers) multiple times after 1776. The Brits (City of London/Neocon/Deep State) never accepted American independence. The final nail in the “good ol US of A” coffin was hammered home when JFK was assassinated. The USA has been going downhill since.

    Unless the British (City of London/Neocon/Deep State) and it’s agents are able to hijack Russia (1917 Bolshevik’s Revolution, 1991 USSR dissolution) and China (1841 Treaty of Nanking) again, then your prediction won’t ever come true.

    •�Replies: @迪路
  39. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    certainly not Poland – the hyena of Europe

    I hates them Polacks.


    Video Link

    •�LOL: rushed boob job
    •�Replies: @Notsofast
  40. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    •�Replies: @JR Foley
  41. LarryD3 says:
    @Anonymous

    “Russian intelligence agencies already think China has 1,500 nuclear warheads on mobile ICBMs (not 300 to 600 as in Western sources)”

    I think it was more than a decade ago when some Russian sources insisted that China’s figure was closer to two thousand warheads. It appeared that the post-Mao generations did follow the late leader’s injunction to be ready for any kind of war, nuclear or conventional. But as is well known it was only lately that Xi Jinping fulfilled the conventional part of the buildup. It is unlikely that any of the Big Three (US, Russia, China) would resort to their tremendous nuclear stockpiles.

    •�Agree: Showmethereal
  42. Notsofast says:
    @Priss Factor

    thank you for that documentary footage of a young, patriotic pole volunteering for the waffen ss. you can understand why he later shortened his name to zbigniew brzezinski.

    •�Thanks: JR Foley
    •�LOL: michael888
  43. @Arthur MacBride

    Ref Niger (tg)

    1. Niger’s new government has decided to impose sanctions on the EU in response to the sanctions it has imposed on them.
    In particular they have banned the shipment of uranium. France receives 40% of its uranium from Niger… #info

    2. Joint statement from Mali and Burkina Faso:

    “Any military intervention against Niger would amount to a declaration of war against Burkina_Faso and Mali. ”

    and

    “Any military intervention in Niger would result in the withdrawal of Burkina Faso and Mali from ECOWAS.”

    •�Thanks: Bro43rd, littlereddot
  44. Priss Factor says: •�Website

  45. Looger says:
    @Kratoklastes

    “The last thing that the Eurotrash parasitic fuckbags want, is for Africa – especially Sub-Saharan Africa – to achieve food security.”

    All Sub-Saharan Africa has to do to achieve food security is stop killing farmers. Place is practically all fallow, including giant swaths of the Congo, Madagascar, and Zimbabwe, which used to feed the whole place all by itself. Granted this was with a lower population but farming methods are more advanced too.

    It’s not just white farmers being slaughtered. Black farmers are the first to go when a shakeup happens and a peasant army rabble is cobbled together. Machetes and fire kill sharecroppers with their eighteen yams, barely a road bump for the Toyotas. They might stop to kidnap any surviving children.

    Buying fertilizer is just a stop gap, I wouldn’t call it a permanent solution. And there has to be land that’s utilized and generationally improved, for it to matter at all.

    Yeah right, Europe’s really holding Africa back!!! All that western medicine and urban amenities. I guess miniature populations and high infant mortality rates have fallen down the pre-1950 memory hole???

  46. @Mark G.

    The USA as we know it doesn’t have 20 more years, probably much less.
    The silver lining in this cloud is that Zionism will perish without its patron, the USA.

    •�Agree: JR Foley
    •�Replies: @Liosnagcat
  47. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    I believe they were or are trying to sell a carve-up of Russia to them, a “if you stay neutral you can take Russia north of you?”

    And, in such a case, have Russia nuke PR China. I guess it saves them using their own nukes on China. As if the Chinese are so stupid.

  48. maskazer says:

    Thanks for all the latest news. The Empire which now resembles the last days of Al Capone is at the end of its rope for sure. A few more chess moves, then it would have to accept defeat. It’s sheer folly on the part of Washington to continue on with this Neocon financial stupidity when it already lost the centre of the board to a Multipolar World Order.

  49. IronForge says:

    The Dynamics of the Global Economies have fragmented distinctively from the U$Dollar; and the Energy Markets have diversified from the PetroU$D.

    Global Powers CHN+RUS are exiting from the AngloMurican Masonic-Zionist Hegemony’s Gravitational Grasp (Final Coffin-Nails being Physical Gold Accumulation, BRICS_NewDevelopementBank, and Consumer Electronics Chip Mfg); and their Major Energy Trade Partners are joining them on mutually beneficial Terms via Non-U$D/€UR BRICS/SCO/SilkRoad TradeBlock Venues.

    ***

    Summarized for the New and Casual Reader:

    RUSsia+CHiNa(Capital Letters are their Standardized Abbreviation Codes) no longer can be subjugated by the Western Plutocracy(e.g., WorldEconForum_Davos Billionaires featuring Soros and Schwab) that own NATO/G7+VassalStates(Operated by Lieutenant_Oligarchs+Simp-Tools featuring Biden/Blinken/Nuland-Khagan/Yellen/von_der_Leyen/Stoltenberg/Zelenskyy).

    The U$Dollar and €URoDollar are no longer necessary/needed to Trade with RUS+CHN, their Trade Blocks, and with Major OPEC_Plus Energy Suppliers as Saudi Arabia(KSA) and United Arab Emirates(UAE) have joined their Trading Blocks. The Blocks already have RUS and IRaN as Major Crude/Diesel/NatGas Exporters. CHN and INDia are Major Energy Importers; and are eliminating the utilization of the U$Dollar and €URoDollar for those Trades and replacing them with Theirs and their Trade Partners’ Currencies.

    Their Physical Gold Holdings alongside the Chinese_¥uan/Indian_₹upee/Russian_₽uble/Emirati_Dirham also serve as Trade Settlement Vessels.

    The AngloMuricans, their Western Currencies/DebtSecurities/Corporates/TradePolicies Exploited Everyone.

    What were the West expecting?

  50. Backward says:

    The usual hot air by Pepe the China-paid shill, forever deluding the naive with the impending geopolitical shifts of his imagination.

  51. Brosi says:

    ZOG owns Ukraine just like ZOG owns the US. Of course the capital of ZOG is Jerusalem, why else on earth would Putin move the Russian embassy there.

    So here we have the Israeli navy running the Russian embargo of Ukraine. Israel is not a member of Zato[Nato] and has a powerful navy close by that can be used to apply more pressure on Russia and break the blockade. ZOG has spoken.

  52. Anonymous[179] •�Disclaimer says:

    The comments and articles are mostly either snow or dust, although https://www.unz.com/pescobar/geopolitical-chessboard-shifts-against-us-empire/#comment-6085080 has some content. .

    The US tried to take the Russian Federation (RF) to avoid an RF/EU alliance, The US loss of the Ukraine conflict will cause an RF/EU alliance, as Pescobar says ( https://www.unz.com/pescobar/geopolitical-chessboard-shifts-against-us-empire/ ).

    In consequence, the US will fail badly. The US system of domestic has been incompetently lead and failing since the JFK assassination. US politics will fail completely, leading to a de facto and possibly formal division of the country. Precedent is the “sanctuary cities”.

    US cities will become deserted ruins with a feral p0pulation. The US countryside will refuse to take in city inhabitants, who are unskilled and too dangerous, dumb, and yet too organized to live around safely.

    Internationally, the world will revert to spheres of influence. The People’s Republic of China (PRC)/RF alliance will fail, as land transport is several times as expensive as sea transport and the sea lanes of trade will become unreliable once the US stops suppressing local wars. Local conflict of interest (e.g. PRC diversion of India’s Ganges River) will eliminate most global trade.

    Africa will starve. Precedent for that: Burma during WW II. Local famine could not be fed because all shipping was committed to WW II support.

    US will fall back to mid-ocean, both Atlantic and Pacific, and will be lucky to hold that. It will attempt to retain AUKUS and Japanese alliance, but may not succeed.

    All the above became unavoidable when the US lost its expeditionary capability to domestic political conflict, but tried to use covert ops and bluff to take down RF. Military talks, BS walks. It’s all a simple “fall of an Empire” scenario.

    Trying to blame it on this or that group — waste of time, except sometimes tactically. In a “fall of Empire” situation, every group is your enemy except your own and perhaps members of your coalition, if your group has any. Fact is, it’s been that way during the noontime of the Empire. The generation that fought WW II has been treated as an enemy since 1946, and its descendants are still treated that way today, when they have declined from 100% to about half of the US population, and both White and Black have had their pre-1945 society destroyed. The fall of Empire just brings that out in the open.

  53. Punchthem says:
    @Rabbi Shlomo

    Is “anti Semite” a dirty word or insult.?

  54. For the West things are complicated:
    – China turned out not to be the fools that the West believed and have built an incredible empire.
    – The Russians are tough and will not be easily invaded.
    – Africans are waking up from racist lethargy and they will have to be paid well or they will look for another way.
    – Latin America is getting tired of being the backyard for garbage from the north.
    The biggest difficulties would be the Chinese and Russian atomic bombs and therefore the West should continue killing and robbing in Africa and Latin America as long as it can.
    Ultimately the West must distance itself from the myth of the white man’s burden because racism and greed are not in style these days and learn to live as human beings.

  55. @Robert Dolan

    I bet I have talked at least a half dozen young men out of joining the service, when I explain to them they will just be fighting stupid wars for neocon jews.

    Well done, sir!

  56. @OldWhiteMan

    . . . Zionism will perish without its patron, the USA.

    Doubt it.

    It flourished under its former patron, the British Empire, and it will flourish under its next one. It’s a smart little virus, keeping its host alive until it has another to jump to.

  57. @Kratoklastes

    The last thing that the Eurotrash parasitic fuckbags want, is for Africa – especially Sub-Saharan Africa – to achieve food security. . . They’re worried that the fuzzy-wuzzies will breed like flies and will invade Europe. . .

    If they’re worried about that, why have they been importing them by the millions since 2015?

  58. Every empire in history has been “driven to an abyss” – of its own making. All civilizations eventually face the war they are trying to avoid; everybody wants to avoid WWIII: so, that is the conflagration that awaits mankind. Paradoxically, unless this simple syllogism is accepted our destruction cannot be averted.
    https://patternofhistory.wordpress.com/

  59. JR Foley says:
    @Priss Factor

    Ukraine Nazis losing 500 per day since the Big Counteroffensive beginning April Fool’s Day 2023–when Canada sends its 2,000 force and 4 Leopard tanks disguised as Bandera Force–they might last–4 days???

  60. Churchill didn’t ever call Poland the hyena of Europe AFAIK.

    I wish people would desist.

    He said in his post-war history of WW2 that they joined the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia “with hyena appetite”.

  61. JR Foley says:
    @Buck Ransom

    Ben Cartwright Canadian –Pop –then Adam ( disappeared after first season) Dan Blocker – “aw shucks paw” and of course Michael Landon ( Jew) as Little Joe.

    Today Big Joe is in DC with loaded diapers and attack dogs. Hunter on the Ponderosa dating Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump only eats hamburgers so Hop Sing not in vogue?

    •�Replies: @Buck Ransom
  62. It looks like Gonzalo Lira is alive and trying to escape from the Ukraine.

    https://www.rt.com/news/580645-gonzalo-lira-ukraine-torture/

    Others here, keep us updated and report any other current news you may have about Lira.

  63. werpor says:
    @cousin lucky

    America is a golden calf and we will suck it dry, chop it up, and sell it piece by piece until there is nothing left but the world’s biggest welfare state that we will create and control. This is what we do to countries that we hate. We destroy them very slowly.
    Benjamin Netanyahu

    •�Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  64. Emslander says:

    Russian diplomacy at the highest levels is going all out to relieve the pressure over the DPRK. Strategically, that’s a real game-changer; imagine the huge and quite sophisticated North Korean industrial-military complex added to the Russia-China strategic partnership and turning the whole Asia-Pacific paradigm upside down.

    Lots of things can be “imagined”. Reality, however, is what bites.

    That’s why our ministry of diplomacy has been taken over by the warmongers, including the people who believe that nuclear war is a satisfactory way to commit suicide over the failure to change the reality of natural gender divisions and babies in the womb. This is their last stand, because Trump will win the Presidency from the DC jail and put a stop to their regime. Vicky Nuland is the girl with her finger pressing boldly against the trigger.

  65. katesisco says:
    @SteveK9

    Koreas still separate, add to that Sudan and possibly Yemen, US military absorbing entire US economic profitability, so much so that new corporate US businesses are directing their marketing to the US PET OWNERS in their distributing of grain stores, and the future does indeed look bleak.

    Has the world accepted the US military strategy of developing small local wars that embroil local powers? Is every local community protecting a cabal of power that focuses on a single family without roots, encouraging then acquiring new construction they use for income while the family is evicted with the loss of middle class? Where do we go from here?

  66. HT says:

    The USA had a nice run but the changes of the last 80 years cannot be overcome. The US government is corrupt to the core including a permanent “security state” within the government that controls the elected politicians. Every institution is now dominated if not controlled by Jewish elites, all of which hate the traditional white Christian America and have worked tirelessly to destroy it. Throw in the new demographics with the country soon to have a white minority and the USA is done as the primary superpower of the world.

  67. Agent76 says:

    July 21, 2023 Neocons Want War With China

    Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with Zhou Enlai in 1971, preparing Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The Mr. Kissinger Goes to Beijing saga was an “unofficial”, individual attempt to try to mend increasingly fractious Sino-American relations. He was not representing the current American administration.

    https://globalsouth.co/2023/07/21/neocons-want-war-with-china/

  68. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    My biggest question at the moment is why was Blinken, Yellen then Kissinger in China.

    I believe they were or are trying to sell a carve-up of Russia to them, a “if you stay neutral you can take Russia north of you?”

    The problem is, the US and the West are exposed to be untrustworthy. What’s worse is, sub-Saharan Africa is beginning to realize that colonialism never ended. It was sugarcoated with the “We Are The World” BS. All those usual craps that the US and the West pulled on other countries for the past 70 years will not work anymore.

    The catalyst was not the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but rather the how the US and Western Europe weaponized their respective reserve currencies and without due process confiscated Russian assets. Sure, they did that to smaller countries countless of times but this time it is different. With the sanctions on Russia and China, the rest of the world began to see clearly what they had done to them for so many decades.

    Everyone knows that any agreement with the West will not be followed once the West achieved its objective. Similarly, in the future, any trading will be done with currencies back by something tangible instead of printed nonchalantly by the West. A printed dollar technically is a promissory note. In the West and the West, it is a promise to invade and regime change if you don’t tow the line.

    •�Thanks: Deep Thought
  69. CK II says:

    Partnership with Africa…KEK. You cannot partner with Africans, you can only trick them into taking their natural resources. For the most part Africans are too dumb and too lazy to develop anything beyond a straw hut. If it were not for Western handouts most of them would be dead by now.

    I do agree that this proxy war is most likely the single biggest strategic blunder in the history of the US. It could really accelerate the collapse.

  70. @werpor

    In response the American Congress gave that murderous weasel repeated standing ovations, American “leaders” make pilgrimage to the Tenth Legion Wall, even remotely assassinate the weasels enemies. Americans occupy the weasel’s enemy countries, give the weasel untold billions$, block any UN etc objection to the weasel’s murders in Palestine…
    … and NOT ONE public protest about any of this …

    •�Replies: @werpor
  71. tikki says:
    @Kagan_ovich

    1948, KMT was still ruling China. According to CIA video on china, anti America and Taiwan slogan was widely used to motivate development and innovation during the cultural revolution.

  72. JimmyS says:

    Zelenskyy will be pleased that his latest supply of US military assistance has arrived safely

    •�LOL: JR Foley
    •�Replies: @Notsofast
  73. @Kratoklastes

    Hey Boss, good comment, as per your usual. I wonder if you and some of the others have seen and read the good and wise words of Gerald Celente?

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gerald+celente

    Video Link


    Video Link

  74. cousin lucky says: •�Website

    It never ceases to amaze me just how detached the United States public remains as our country swirls swiftly down the toilet!!

    ” No One Gives A Shit” should be a daily TV show showing how little the American people want to be bothered as their country falls completely apart!! It is as if caring about this country is no longer allowed; is that why Tucker Carlson was removed from his TV show??

    How is it that Joe Biden is still our president after Hunter’s laptop exposed such massive corruption and bribery?? When the shit finally hits the fan and the supermarkets are empty and the banks are closed who is going to be able to deal with the chaos???

    •�Agree: Cyclingscholar
    •�Replies: @JR Foley
  75. Pepe: two questions for you. Where is Israel in all of this? Could they ever switch sides and admit reality and go with China? Secondly on your world tours and with your world contacts do you ever discuss the temerity of US personal sanctions on individual Russians? Most, if not all of these Russian oligarchs like Abramovitch are Jews; when they have their assets seized there is no yelping from the usual Jewish/Zionist crowd. Why is that? And how can the US seize the assets of individuals that had nothing to do with initiating the Ukraine war. Will it not boomerang on them or Canada some day.

  76. Hopefully Russia and PR China will never again join sanctions against anybody imposed by the Western dominated “international” UN community as they have done in the past, and will lift any they have already imposed following Western initiatives.

    •�Replies: @Showmethereal
  77. Notsofast says:
    @JimmyS

    the ghost of kiev. the caption should read: “i didn’t know f-16’s had propellers”.
    fill it in with concrete, tell him it’s a minisub and drop him into the blacksea.

  78. Thank God for Russia, the ZUS and their zionist NATO creation are getting their ass handed to them, this is not Yugoslavia or Afghanistan or Iraq or Libya or Syria, this Russia with a powerful military and nukes and is kicking ass in the Ukraine, this is a Waterloo for the ZUS and its terrorist mercenary army aka NATO.

    Its about damn time that the ZUS global bully gets its ass kicked.

  79. werpor says:
    @Arthur MacBride

    Odd thing, those standing ovations. President Biden went to Canada earlier this year and addressed their parliament in Ottawa. The capacity crowd gave Biden repeated standing ovations. I suppose Biden is a proxy for Benjamin Netanyahu. If a Rothschild appeared in the Knesset, would he receive a standing ovation? I’d bet the Jews would be swinging from the Chandeliers.

    America was never free of Jewish money power. Jews were somewhat constrained in the Old World; they had a reputation. But Americans never noticed. The marketing of the United States as a free and democratic society obscured the majority population from the truth. Americans had that Bible and swore on it. I always wondered about that crack in the Liberty Bell.

    Jews are masters at propaganda and deception. The entire capacity of industrial output in the United States in the 19th Century was financed with European money. Jewish banking interests in Europe well understood that underwriting the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. would create financial panics.

    Panics in financial markets, offered cover for various policies to be implemented, which “gradually and then suddenly” wrested complete and absolute control of the United States from its citizens, while delivering that control into the hands of the banking elite in Europe. This was a formal takeover. Before 1913 the banking structure was deliberately undermined. Andrew Jackson resisted. Abraham Lincoln played into the hands of the ever deceptive Jews. …And paid for it with his life when he objected to the bankers monopoly over providing money at high rates of interest!

    These practiced deceivers love war. Wars are enormously costly. Lending money to entire countries pays enormous dividends. War affects everyone. After 1913 the United States government introduced the income tax. Then Americans in 1917 found themselves embroiled in the Great War. Why? Because there is nothing more costly than war. And because the terms of the armistice ensured that Palestine would be given to the Jews.

    Coincidentally under the cover of the Great War — renamed WW I, after WW II was over — the Jews financed the Russian Revolution in 1917. Funny coincidence that. Russia remains the prize still!

    Jews are Gods chosen people, so they say! And Jewish destiny is to control the entire planet, so they say! Jews are fanatically devoted to achieving their objective. True it’s a scam. The same way as a Ponzi scheme is a scam. Jews are fanatics. Very few people in North America truly understand this. Jews are fanatics. In Europe they were somewhat contained since Europeans at one time, well and truly understood, how different Jews are from almost any other people. They are fanatically devoted to their tribe. Of course being Jewish is rewarding but their subjugation is Fascist. And evil! Many Jews admit it.

    Unfortunately Americans were deceived. Their religions led them to believe the stuff they read in the Bible. Or believe the interpretation. Jews are the scum of the Earth. What will it take for enough people to understand how badly they have been deceived? Maybe it is too late.

    Jews understand the power of seduction. They understand brainwashing. They understand the power of money. They understand the power of the bribe. They understand power more than any other people. They prey on weakness. They can never, ever, be trusted. Never!

    Standing ovations are signs of worship. Jews are used to subjugating the Goy. Hollywood is the high church in America. Americans do not worship anything except, money, fame, power — Jewish gods, all! No wonder some of the earliest settlers in America were fanatical themselves about the dangers of false gods. Thousands of Americas settlers came to America before, but especially after the Glorious Revolution. Why?

    People then understood wars had to be financed. They understood the objectives of the Roundheads. Thousands left England because they hated being persecuted for their beliefs. But of course few people have a grasp of history. One certain fact most people in the 16th Century were anti-Semitic — though they did not call themselves anti-Semitic. They just did not trust or like Jews.

    Why was it that on March 31, 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella signed an edict — the Alhambra Decree, expelling the Jews from Spain? Prejudice is to pre-judge. Experience of something or someone is not prejudice — it is simply a matter of experience.

    •�Agree: Druid55
  80. Priss Factor says: •�Website

    France ready to bomb Niger, and Africans in France…

    NY NY

  81. The Chinks are right that NATO is an instigator and a tool the American Empire globalizer plutocrats use to try to keep control of the World Island or Eurasia. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire controls NATO.

    The Russkies responded to the Ukraine Proxy Weapon aggression of the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire by using military force.

    The Russkies know history. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire has pulled the proxy weapon stunt numerous times on the Russkies. In the 1890s and the early part of 20th century the JEW/WASP Ruling Class was using the Japanese as a proxy weapon to poke the Russian bear. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class cooked up some crud about a “Slav Menace” and they nudged the Nips towards war with Russia.

    Back then the ruling class of American Empire was wary of Russkies flowing down the Chinese coast out of the north and they used the Nips to halt the Russkies.

    Now it’s about oil and natural gas and keeping the Germans down and the Russians down and the US military in.

    Let the Krauts have a nuke deterrent; get the US military out of Europe; and be done with it.

    ABOLISH NATO NOW

    •�Thanks: JR Foley
  82. @Notsofast

    When we get to the place where the U.S. Government is the
    only buyer of U.S. debt, our currency will be worthless

  83. The American Empire is an electronic empire. Chalmers Johnson said it was an empire of military bases, but I won’t listen to anybody with the name Chalmers.

    The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency and it is electronically conjured up out of thin air. Nothing but government force backs the US dollar. The debt-based fiat currency US dollar system is only backed up by the American Empire’s ability to project military power.

    Electronics are the whole damn ballgame. You need a certain level of brainpower to think up ways of using electronics to project power. The attacks on the founders of Silicon Valley and the attacks on those who created a means to measure intelligence seem to be originating from boobs who take for granted what previous generations have done.

    Stagnation is thick in the air of California and the entirety of the American Empire. Maybe the people attacking the ones who created the electronics industry in Silicon Valley and devised systems of measuring intelligence are just burning the candle at both ends. They know or they sense that the global financial system is slowly imploding but they remain silent about that. Instead, they use their energy to attack the ones who created all the systems that are now imploding.

    The dollar might yet get flushed, but it’ll be the last electronic financial currency turd circling the bowl. The Federal Reserve Bank might keep raising the federal funds rate to keep the dollar turd at the back of the pack as they’re downward spinning towards the global financial implosion crapper drain.

    Tweets from 2014 and 2015:

  84. Let the sub Saharan Africa and the Africans be China’s and Russia’s ward and let them feed them and be more dependent on them to feed them as time goes on as the population of sub Saharan Africa grows with no ability to feed its own population. And let them play doctor for them too.

    •�Agree: Pop Warner
  85. A fascinating consensus in discussions among Chinese scholars – including those part of the Asian and American diasporas – is that not only Germany/EU lost Russia, perhaps irretrievably, but China gained Russia, with an economy highly complementary to China’s own and with solid ties with the Global South/Global Majority that can benefit and aid Beijing.

    That is hilarious. The “consensus” has often been wrong of late. China will betray Russia when it suits their desires, and Putin will simply have to swallow it.

    Russia has been forced to fight against a neighbor and kin that it simply can’t afford to lose; and as a nuclear and hypersonic power, it won’t.

    This too is utterly hilarious. Russia lost Ukraine many years ago, even before Stalin conquered them after Ukraine was set loose in the treaty after WW1. Ukraine has had national aspirations for centuries, and Ukraine has lived under Russian oppression reluctantly. Those days have ended, and Russia can fuss, and send as many missiles into Ukraine all he wants, but Ukraine is gone. Ukraine is a neighbor, but it isn’t kin.

    •�Replies: @anonymous
  86. Skeptikal says:
    @cousin lucky

    ” Instead of a society we have a madhouse of depravity, debt, substance abuse, and mass killings! This is a lunatic freak show ”

    And ceaseless propaganda and widening censorship of alternative, healthier ideas.

  87. Translation: France and the West are being evicted all across the Sahel, one-step at a time, in an irreversible process of decolonization.

    Great news!

    Let’s hope France returns the favor and sends their darkies back to the motherland, a population exchange if you will. I’m sure Pepe would prefer they stay there to muck up the glorious French nation, but my mind is always towards human rights and reciprocity so it would be the humane thing to repatriate their blacks in light of recent geopolitical events.

    •�Agree: SaveWesternCiv
    •�Replies: @littlereddot
    , @joy
  88. @Mr_Chow_Mein

    Because the US govt wanted to talk and it’s full of Jews?

  89. @Anonymous

    The prisoners’ dilemma doesn’t happen if the “prisoners” can communicate. A Russian official visited China immediately after Yellen and was shown far greater respect. They didn’t cut her loose to eat mushrooms after meetings.

  90. @JR Foley

    For the remake, Ben Cartwright and his sons are gonna have to give up their 10-gallon hats and get some minimalist, saucer-sized headwear.

  91. The same bullshit year after year… BRICS is coming folks, something BIG is happening. Yeah, what? Trying to govern the poor brown masses into a revolt against the evil empire, easier on paper. I’ll just sit and sip my Victory coffee and gin, while Pepe Emmanual Goldstein blathers on about the coming revolution

    •�Agree: Cyclingscholar
    •�Replies: @littlereddot
    , @anonymous
  92. Teutonic says:
    @Rabbi Shlomo

    Dear Rabbi,

    You are aware the khazar mob in Washington is following the protocols. Sadly for you
    internet has woke up so many ppls. Do you deny these straussian neocon pshychos run the
    us foreign policy. Better you check their names and their actions.

  93. @Frankdiddler

    So says the frog enjoying his “lovely warm bath”.

  94. JR Foley says:
    @cousin lucky

    You forgot –the 31 Trillion Dollar DEBT –who is going to repay this overdraft–Mainstreet?

  95. 迪路 says:
    @dogbumbreath

    The term hijacking doesn’t really reflect the relationship between Jewish bankers and the founding fathers of the United States.
    If you look up the Warburg family tree, you’ll find that the Bradford family, one of the founding fathers of the Mayflower, was already married to the Warburg family.
    They’re conspirators, collaborators.
    The Kennedys were outsiders, nouveau riche, people who didn’t understand how Jewish power could be so powerful.
    If Washington’s marriage ties weren’t so strong, the whole family might have been killed.

  96. anonymous[105] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Quartermaster

    ((Quartermaster)) still living in the Cold War. Still desperate for Russian defeat. Face it, asshole: you fought for the wrong side. Now, the big chickens are coming home to roost.

  97. anonymous[313] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Frankdiddler

    One thing about Americans: their gape-mouthed stupidity is matched only by their insouciance.

  98. @Pop Warner

    Let’s hope France returns the favor and sends their darkies back to the motherland, a population exchange if you will.

    I totally agree with you.

    But why stop there?

    All immigrants should be sent back to the lands of their origins. Not only in France, but also the Americas, and Australia etc.

    Blacks to Africa
    Asians to Asia
    Whites to Europe

    Two thumbs up!!!

  99. joy says:
    @Pop Warner

    good reciprocity.
    Blacks uninvited can ask Niger to defray the cost of them living in France and France can return the money it has stolen and repair lands it has destroyed.
    Haiti can jump into the fray.

  100. The geopolitical “chess board” long ago shifted away from empire. The US, China and Russia have been able to survive this shift for awhile, but all three are on the chopping block now. All three have “leaders” that are unwittingly doing everything they can to accelerate their disintegration.

  101. US decline=Party Time. Fewer war mongerings, imperialism, war bases,degenerate/based “culture”, colonialism, f the eu vassals, the failipines, japan-land, and “south” Korea–more puppets in the us empire’s circus of endless expansion and scams- lies.

    •�Agree: littlereddot
  102. Sarita says:

    The I in BRICKS (I for India) should be replaced with Indonesia or Iran because India is a treacherous regime allied with the US and Israel.
    India hates China.

  103. katesisco says:
    @Mark G.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/boom-bust-bailout-process-that-placed-nations-debt/5827600
    The US will not continue Social Security but institute a new tax of some form probably to be introduced during the next round of pseudo elections.

  104. “Donor fatigue” is hardly the only factor. People are sick and tired of ZelenskyYs outrageous sense of entitlement to NATO (aka Amerika) armaments and inevitably, the lives of American men and women. Ukraine is just one more corrupt third world shithole. Leave it to suffer the fate history delivers.

  105. @Kratoklastes

    Thank you for posting that. I try to emphasize that to all those who are brainwashed that “China wants to invade a sovereign country called Taiwan”. It states clearly the US gov acknowledged BOTH sides of the Chinese civil war agreed they belonged to China. Same as UN vote on Resolution 2758. The government in Taiwan represented all of China because they felt they were the rulers of all of China. Nobody spoke of this garbage of separating the two until the 2000’s. One China is what kept the peace. To get rid of it means the Chinese civil war will reignite

  106. @TG

    Refugees cannot run those plants nor install the equipment… sorry. He is stating plain fact. They had to bring thousands of engineers there to even start the project

  107. @Poupon Marx

    I like Mr Celeste and have heard many times over the years. As to the second video. He is correct pretty much. The only thing is China didn’t “accidentally” sabotage itself. It did zero Covid on purpose. Those who read Chinese media know the government warned no more fast growth for the sake of fast growth. It was going for “quality” in the future. That is why there is very little post Covid stimulus (no free checks to cause major inflation and drive up the debt like in the US). Zero Covid was about being ready for biological warfare. China specifically sacrificed its economy for full spectrum war preparation. Apart from that he is indeed correct.

    •�Thanks: littlereddot
    •�Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @Anonymous
  108. @Commentator Mike

    In the case of North Korea it was a peculiar one though. I am against nuclear proliferation. Something is amiss that India and Pakistan – while not being afforded the titles as “official” nuclear powers- they didn’t face the same sanctions as North Korea has. It doesn’t make sense.
    At the same time – I don’t know why the Kim’s went through all this rather than rely on Russia and China for their nuclear umbrella. Their brains and money could have been put to other things (frankly even to advance their conventional weapons further). Recall for a time in the 2000’s both Koreas along with Russia and China were talking about building rail to connect all four to be linked with ports etc. That would have been great for all in the region except Japan and the US. Now we are at this…. But is Russia going to loose North Korea from sanctions? This will be very interesting. We know both China and Russia help them evade some – but there is still a lot.

  109. @Showmethereal

    Thanks. A valuable insight. Celeste is my kind of guy. Straight talking, down to earth, hates bullshit and fluff, and is true to his belief and moral code.

    From Wikipedia: (ABC disparages him for “pessimism”)

    Forecasting

    Hugo Lindgren and ABC News have labelled Celente’s predictions “pessimism porn” for their doom and the alleged eschatological thrill some people receive from imagining his predictions of the collapse of civil society in the wake of a global economic crisis.[6][7]

    His forecasts since 1993 have included predictions about terrorism, economic collapses and war. More recent forecasts involve fascism in the United States, food riots and tax revolts.[3][8][9][10] Celente has long predicted global anti-Americanism, a failing economy and immigration woes in the U.S.

    In 2009 Celente predicted turmoil which he described as “Obamageddon”, and he was a popular guest on conservative cable-TV shows such as Fox News Sunday and Glenn Beck’s television program.[citation needed]

    In April 2009 Celente wrote, “Wall Street controls our financial lives; the media manipulates our minds. These systems cannot be changed from within. There is no alternative. Without a revolution, these institutions will bankrupt the country, keep fighting failed wars, start new ones, and hold us in perpetual intellectual subjugation.”[11]

    Celente has said, “smaller communities, the smaller groups, the smaller states, the more self-sustaining communities, will ‘weather the crisis in style’ as big cities and hypertrophic suburbias descend into misery and conflict”, and forecasts “a downsizing of America”.[9]

    William Howard Kunstler also prophesies mass movements to smaller communities and emigration from the Sewage Cities of Americur.

  110. Anonymous[846] •�Disclaimer says:
    @Showmethereal

    China specifically sacrificed its economy for full spectrum war preparation

    It seems that the Chinese were still naive as to exactly how far the United States, or more broadly the Western world, would go to stay on top.

    Maybe they were thinking sanity would still prevail, or at least thought there were lines (full-on biological warfare) that even the most evil would not cross. How wrong they were! The United States will stop at absolutely nothing, something in which I take no pride.

    In fact, it is probably no exaggeration, and I say this with zero hyperbole, that there are powerful factions in the U.S. that are contemplating pre-emptive nuclear warfare against China. They calculate that the U.S. would, in some shape, survive such a nuclear war, while China, with its previously miniscule (practically non-existent) arsenal, would suffer a mortal blow, never to recover in the next several centuries. A worthwhile price to pay, in some circles. The dismay in Washington at the discovery of China’s on-going nuclear build up is quite palpable.

    The long term play for China would be to calculate a level of defense spending such that would not hinder the economy’s growth. The economy is the prime determinant of both peacetime and wartime power, and in this world, sadly, power is everything.

    Couch it in whatever terms you want, argue from moral grounds, but as seen in the Iraq, Afghanistan, Libyan and Syrian wars/invasions, Western POWER will still crush you without an iota of mercy, with many in the West rejoicing at the murder of millions – this is the world the United States has built, and wants to maintain.

    China must never, ever strike first, but must take steps to keep from being backed into a corner like Russia was.

    Spend say 2% of GDP on defense (of which 1/10 should be on strategic nukes) and counterattack in media, diplomacy, business and trade, and settle in for a very, very long (thinking might be 100 year long) Cold War with the 4 Eyes.

  111. @Anonymous

    It seems that the Chinese were still naive as to exactly how far the United States, or more broadly the Western world, would go to stay on top.

    This is an excellent point.

    I think it is human instinct to expect other people to act in a way that we ourselves would.

    The Chinese and Russians, while perhaps not expecting the US to be fully altruistic, did expect that they would at least be rational. I think they now realise that the US is totally bonkers. Who in his right mind would force his two biggest rivals together? But the US did so, and is still doing so. ….. This single fact alone continues to boggle my mind.

    The long term play for China would be to calculate a level of defense spending such that would not hinder the economy’s growth. The economy is the prime determinant of both peacetime and wartime power, and in this world, sadly, power is everything.

    It would be ironic that the USA would crumble because of overspending on its military……just like the way the USSR met its end.

    In fact, I speculate that this is precisely the game plan that China and Russia are taking on now. The war in Ukraine is proceeding at a slow pace, grinding up men, materiel and money. A new front is being opened up in West Africa.

    China is niggling the US sense of arrogance/insecurity by steadily increasing its military strength. The US has an innate need to overwhelm, over power others, illustrated by its hubristic official policy of Full Spectrum Dominance.

    For every warship that China produces, the US feels that it has to field multiple numbers of it. Only it seems the US just cannot quite keep up.

    Meanwhile the Petrodollar is being undermined. Saudi Arabia has flipped sides. Countries queue up to join BRICS. The basis for funding the US military is withering.

    China and Russia must keep up the steady pressure. Cracks will be appearing very soon.

  112. @Anonymous

    Very good points. Yeah Chinese civilization is different. Whereas Russia is now in full on confrontation with NATO – China is still trying to “play nice”. But yeah as to military spending – yeah like everything else China believes in value for money. It is more similar to Russia with military spending (many weapons systems it learned from them initially anyway) is not for the profit of the defense contractors – but for best use of tax dollars. Then of course economy of scale is another matter. So that’s why I think the 2% isn’t really a number China per se cares about. I mean in some ways you can argue China will have “too many” ships and planes at the rate it is building.

    But yeah hopefully we won’t see any further escalation. But humans being humans we can never tell. Will the US de-escalate??? Big question

  113. @cousin lucky

    I suspect the money for Ukraine that ends up in the pockets of US elites never actually leaves THE US.

  114. @Showmethereal

    The latest IMF rating of economies in PPP terms shows China already 25% bigger than the USA, and, of course, VASTLY more productive. The bird has flown, but don’t tell the Five Eyes scum, or they’ll chew their heads off in rage.

  115. @Anonymous

    The sneak nuclear attack concurs exactly with Western elite psychopathy. The ambition, plain from the ever increasing tsunami of deranged race hatred spewing out of the Anglosphere in particular, is genocide. The Chinese cannot, under any circumstances, replace the God-ordained West as global leader. Even a ‘democratic’ China is still yellow and inferior, in the mind of these psychopaths. Hence the frenetic global drive by the USA to perfect bio-weapons.

  116. @Poupon Marx

    China has only just begun its rise. This sort of wishful ‘China is Collapsing’ shite is a real little cottage industry in the racist and shit-scared West, as IT enters its dying days.

  117. @Showmethereal

    Russians tried to play nice with the Western “partners” for too long and look where it got them.

    •�Replies: @Showmethereal
  118. @Commentator Mike

    Yeah. Though all that shows me is the Russians aren’t the warmongers NATO makes them out to be.

    •�Replies: @littlereddot
  119. @Showmethereal

    I think NATO/West surprised us all, not just Russia and China. We all expected a little back room arm twisting and manipulations etc….but nothing as blatant and downright suicidal as what they have been doing.

    It is as if they actually think that the rest of the world is stupid.

    I compare it to like when a teenager tells you a lie to your face. He actually thinks that you will believe him. You are pissed that he lies, but even more pissed that he is insulting your intelligence.

    •�Agree: Showmethereal
  120. Derer says:
    @Kagan_ovich

    Are you serious? What planet you came from? He decided on right option: Going slow will bring beneficial results…Biden’s bribery demands will bring dedollarization, inflation, unsustainable debt, civil upheaval and one more the Germany’s approaching “storm”.

  121. Derer says:
    @Kagan_ovich

    I presume all this happening during Putin holidays, away from the button of 6000 nuclear weapons. He should be warn about this.

  122. antibeast says:
    @Anonymous

    It seems that the Chinese were still naive as to exactly how far the United States, or more broadly the Western world, would go to stay on top.

    The Chinese are not naive at all. They had expected something like Ukraine to happen but didn’t anticipate that the Europeans would so quickly surrender their sovereignty to the US/NATO. And that’s why the Chinese are preparing for any military contingency in Taiwan which the US Deep State wants to turn into another Ukraine.

    China must never, ever strike first, but must take steps to keep from being backed into a corner like Russia was.

    The Russians were the ones naive enough to believe that as long as they suck up to the Western elites, Russia would be treated as their ‘partner’ (as Putin would have it). But Russia ended up being treated as a semi-colony by the Western elites with Russian Oligarchs as their compradors.

    Spend say 2% of GDP on defense (of which 1/10 should be on strategic nukes) and counterattack in media, diplomacy, business and trade, and settle in for a very, very long (thinking might be 100 year long) Cold War with the 4 Eyes.

    In response to Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’, Xi had made his strategic move — China’s BRI — around the 4 Eyes. This was a few years before Trump’s trade and tech war which the Chinese had anticipated with Obama’s failed TPP. Now that the West has sanctioned Russia by seizing its assets, the Chinese are taking no chances by selling off its holdings of US T-bills and moving forward with using its own RMB currency in international trade and investment.

    China’s deployment of its own DF-17 hypersonic missiles was in response also to Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ which planned to move 60% of US naval assets to East Asia. So was the deployment of its own J-20 fifth-generation fighter jet, reportedly the best in the world. Lately, China has reportedly planned to increase its nuclear stockpile with longer-range DF-41 ballistic missiles.

    The Anglos (4/5 Eyes) want to sacrifice Europe and Asia to maintain their global hegemony. That’s why they want to pit NATO against Russia as well as Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines against China as part of their game plan for WWIII. In their calculus, the Anglos think they can escape the death and destruction of WWIII unscathed by letting the Europeans and Asians fight and kill each other.

  123. antibeast says:
    @Mr_Chow_Mein

    My biggest question at the moment is why was Blinken, Yellen then Kissinger in China.

    Because they are Jews and the Jews want to strike a deal with China.

    I believe they were or are trying to sell a carve-up of Russia to them, a “if you stay neutral you can take Russia north of you?”

    No the Jews didn’t talk about Russia. They wanted to talk about their Petrodollar System.

    This war in Ukraine will only continue, the U.S has no plans to end it until either they or Russia are removed from the chessboard.

    No they didn’t talk about the war in Ukraine either. They wanted the Chinese to go slow on their plans to drop their Petrodollar by assuring them that they don’t plan on imposing financial sanctions on China the way they did Russia.

    •�Replies: @littlereddot
  124. @antibeast

    assuring them that they don’t plan on imposing financial sanctions on China the way they did Russia.

    Ironically, it has come to a point where any US sanctions on China will only speed up the demise of the Petrodollar.

    It is like a gangster threatening his victim with a gun, but his victim already knows that he is out of bullets.

    He knows his reign of terror is over, but engaged in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable.

    •�Replies: @antibeast
  125. antibeast says:
    @littlereddot

    Ironically, it has come to a point where any US sanctions on China will only speed up the demise of the Petrodollar.

    Imposing financial sanctions on Russia and seizing Russian financial assets in the West was the last thing the US had done to bring about the demise of the Petrodollar. That financial harakiri not only forced China but the entire world to move away from the Petrodollar.

    It is like a gangster threatening his victim with a gun, but his victim already knows that he is out of bullets.

    The delusional Yanks in the US Deep State think they still have their Empire of US military bases but little do they know that their US Empire will run out of Petrodollars soon. Ergo, No Petrodollars = No US Empire.

    He knows his reign of terror is over, but engaged in a desperate attempt to avoid the inevitable.

    The Jews know the US Empire is finished. And that’s why they want to protect their private wealth by investing their Petrodollars outside the USA. It’s the Yanks in the US Deep State who are completely delusional about their US Empire. Even the war in Ukraine was really about preserving the US Empire by expanding NATO and sacrificing Europe. The biggest loser is not Russia but Europe. Cannibalizing its European allies is the last desperate attempt of the US Empire to avoid its inevitable demise.

    •�Replies: @littlereddot
  126. @antibeast

    The biggest loser is not Russia but Europe.

    I totally agree. When this is all over, the folks that will hate the US the most, are not going to be the Russians or Chinese. It will be the Europeans who finally realised that they have been manipulated and used by their US “friends”.

    •�Replies: @antibeast
  127. antibeast says:
    @littlereddot

    When this is all over, the folks that will hate the US the most, are not going to be the Russians or Chinese. It will be the Europeans who finally realised that they have been manipulated and used by their US “friends”.

    When the fat lady sings, then the Europeans will finally realize that their European nations have been turned into Brzezinski-style ‘Chessboard Republics’. After Ukraine, Poland could be next. Then the Baltic States. Then Finland and Sweden, followed perhaps by Germany? In the ‘Grand Chessboard’ of Europe, someone has to play the role of pawns to be sacrificed by the US Empire.

    •�Agree: littlereddot
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