Durante la conferenza stampa del presidente degli Stati Uniti Joe Biden questo giovedì, le telecamere hanno catturato i volti del segretario di Stato Antony Blinken, del capo del Pentagono Lloyd Austin e del consigliere per la sicurezza nazionale Jake Sullivan nel momento in cui il presidente ha erroneamente elogiato il «vicepresidente Trump» parlando di Kamala Harris. «Non avrei scelto il vicepresidente Trump come vicepresidente se non avessi pensato che fosse qualificata per esserlo», le parole di Biden.
Here’s Secretaries Blinken, Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan when President Biden said, «Vice President Trump.» pic.twitter.com/chvT7eRqvY— Jeremy Art (@cspanJeremy)
The latest Russian Defense Ministry daily bulletin was issued on Tuesday afternoon, July 9. Since then the Pentagon and the White House have been as silent as the tomb.
Make that thirty-five American tombs.
“During the day [July 9],” said the Defense Ministry briefer in Moscow, “the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with high-precision weapons on American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems prepared for strikes on the territory of Crimea, as well as the venue of an official meeting of the AFU [Armed Forces of the Ukraine] command staff. The objectives of the strike have been achieved. Four US-made HIMARS MLRS launchers were destroyed, as well as up to 35 foreign specialists who serviced them.”
Several hours later, the Pentagon briefer, Major General Pat Ryder, announced “a great kickoff to NATO summit events this week.” General Ryder wasn’t referring to the largest number of US battlefield deaths ever recorded under hostile Russian fire. He had nothing to say about the Ukraine battlefield action, and the reporters attending failed to ask him about it.
At the White House briefing which followed the Pentagon, the lead announcement was President Joseph Biden’s telephone calls to officials in Texas dealing with Hurricane Beryl; his plan to meet on Thursday with Vladimir Zelensky; and an assurance that “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine poses a threat to transatlantic security. That’s what it does. And it shows how critical the NATO Alliance is and how important it is to continue to make sure that it is strong, and that’s what the president has been able to do.” Reporters did not ask about US combat deaths in the Ukraine.
The New York Times also blacked out the report of the Russian strike on the HIMARS batteries, focusing instead on the Kiev targets of the day, and on claims by anonymous US intelligence and other officials that “Russia is unlikely to make significant territorial gains in Ukraine in the coming months as its poorly trained forces struggle to break through Ukrainian defenses that are now reinforced with Western munitions.”
“You’d think in an election year,” comments a NATO veteran with Afghanistan war service, “that dead American ‘specialists’ would be an issue. This tells that they [the Biden Administration] are as committed to ‘victory’, or hiding an American defeat, as their [Trump campaign] opponents are. They are also loath to get into the role they played in getting things to this point.”
That said, what interpretation can President Vladimir Putin and the Russian General Staff give after the 35 US battlefield deaths have been concealed by US officials? Should Moscow conclude that it is now Washington policy to fight Russia, not just to the last Ukrainian, but to the last American?
For the answers, listen to Chris Cook ask the questions on the only independent talk show in Canada, Gorilla Radio.
The last few weeks constitute a deeply enlightening chapter regarding the explanatory reasons for the crisis of the so-called “liberal democracy” and the profound problems affecting the West and the European Union, in particular. Whether it’s the Trump /Biden debate that tells us that whoever is at the steering wheel is not showing his face, and whoever is showing his face is not at the steering wheel; be it the elections in the EU, which demonstrate the contradiction between a monolithic political “center” and the needs of its populations; In both cases, we can see the growing obsolescence of the political system to face the announced challenges, as well as the real exhaustion of the “solutions” it advocates.
As a profound consequence of this exhaustion, there is the absence of a future strategy that does not involve a troubled navigation in sight and a total lack of material basis that justifies the political decisions that are being taken, all resulting in failure after failure. It’s absolutely incredible that you can fail so much and so many times. The measures applied by the U.S., and imitated by the EU against its adversaries, not only fail, but also repeatedly have the opposite effects to those stated. However, they remain unchanged.
To confirm this truth, the European Union recently decided to apply tariffs to cereals from Russia and Belarus. In addition to this tremendous nonsense, in a context of crisis, characterized by the need to control inflation and high prices of production factors, the EU decides to repeat the recipe applied to Russian gas and contribute to making food more expensive. The objective of reducing cereal imports from these countries is related, according to the European bureaucracy, with the objective of denying Russia economic income. Taking what has happened with sanctions as an example, I can only ask if, to defeat Russia, we won’t all have to starve to death first.
An example of the monolithism and immovability of this political “center”, built from and in conformity with the image of Washington, through the use of NGO’s, academia, Think Thank and international organizations, is the very name of Úrsula Von Der Leyen and António Costa. Someone please explain, based on what scrutiny this lady was once again chosen as President of the Commission! What was the democratic dimension in which she was successful, other than the blind replication, to the European Union, of Washington’s foreign policy? And why did the S&D political family approve her appointment? They exchanged for the PPE’s support for António Costa!
Also, in the case of António Costa, the power of this political “center” is enshrined. After his political opponent and current Portuguese Prime Minister, had been accusing him of incompetence in Portugal and for having headed one of the “worst governments” in Portuguese democratic history, why later the same PM, when it came to appointing him to the European Council, to say that Costa met all the requirements? The fact is that political life in the collective West is increasingly carried out in a closed circuit, in which propaganda, unlike before, no longer aims to convince outsiders to enter; rather, it aims to convince those inside to stay!
This situation demonstrates the complexity of the problem and, contrary to what many would have you to believe, it is not enough for the European Union, or the U.S., to replace the political class committed to this decadence. It may seem attractive to think that “it’s the politicians’ fault”, and that all you need to do is change the poor-quality ones with better ones, and everything will be resolved. Better politicians depend on raising the level of consciousness of the populations and they are still too far behind to be able to produce them, in quantity and quality. The few that exist are rejected by the all-powerful political “center” because they do not align with its aspirations.
Therefore, I am sorry to disappoint those who see a profound change in the latest election results. The electoral results, characterized by the “threat” from the “extreme” right, represent, above all, that a growing part of the population feels very bad. But this sentiment still corresponds, in my opinion, to a primary state of consciousness. The political discourse from the dominant center, focused on the others failures (“the Russian economy is in pieces”; “The Chinese economy will fall”, over and over again), no longer can hide the serious state in which we find ourselves. People are beginning to realize that they are sick, yes, but they still do not know the causes of the disease, let alone the path to a cure.
For now, and even in a logic of resistance to any type of substantial change, the choices focus, above all, on partisan agendas that only address superficial issues (not to say that they are unimportant) without ever touching the fundamentals. Without ever calling into question the economic exploitation model. Let us recognize that it is easier to assume that it is someone else’s fault, that the evil comes from outside, than to assume that it is inside and is deep!
In any case, the electoral movement is increasingly moving towards voting for the forces that best express this ill feeling, but that rarely present fundamental solutions to resolve it. Hence, after a decades-long call for “centrist moderation”, populations feel driven to “politically incorrect”, confusing accusations of guilt against third parties (immigrants, gypsies, corrupt people) and shouting with the necessary “change”. And it is this “political incorrectness” that is expressed by the so-called “extreme right”. And regularly that is what distinguishes it, fundamentally, from the political “center” in crisis.
If there is stagnation and irremovability in the Western political “center”, this is as a result of the historic capitulation of social democracy and its capture by the interests of the ruling class. This led to an unprecedented concentration of political power (also resulting from the concentration of wealth in less and less people), with this political “center” starting to function as an ideological cartel in which superficial differences do not jeopardize the fundamental ideas that unites them. This political center is “woke” (did you think “woke” is the left?), sharing Soros’ agenda; it is neoliberal, sharing the Washington consensus agenda; is a globalist, sharing the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda.
The superficial differences that we see between a more “woke” center left and a more neoliberal center right cannot be confused between “right and left” and even less between the progressive left and the reactionary right. They only reflect the scope of the political center. Instead, these differences lose expression in the face of the idea of “neoliberal Western civilization”, led by the U.S., and its neocolonial expansion to the rest of the world, which represents the fundamental ideological pillar that unites the most powerful political families. Let’s look at the case of the United Kingdom, where there is a movement, standing still, between a conservative party dominated by multimillionaires and a Labor party dominated by employees of multimillionaires. But the underlying policy never changes.
To avoid attrition, dominant interests resort to electoral alternation, creating the appearance of democratic turnover, scrutiny and accountability. However, since power is cartelized between political oligarchies, the alternation has been, as predicted, unable to translate the alternating rotation into concrete political changes. The system has become a prisoner of a mere apparent movement. Whatever the political system, more or less suffragist, there is something that decrees its eventual death: the inability to change; ideological monolithism, especially in the face of the difficulties of the populations.
The supposed “moderation” of this “center” of power has always been measured through the index of inability to challenge European and Western economic and foreign policy guidelines, especially those from Washington. The great concern of national governments, those that belong to the dominant political “center”, became to be, bureaucratically, “complying with European guidelines”. The EU, on the other hand, is obsessed with the Atlanticist alignment. The governance margin to solve the problems of the European peoples became minimal. In this sense, this political “center” represents a form of militant Atlanticist extremism.
Given the monolithism of this political “center”, its arrogance and sectarianism, in which not accepting one of the rules it advocates means being left out, the political right that rejects war is pushed to the margins. And it is from here that part of the idea of the “extreme” right and its danger is sustained, not distinguishing between the “extreme” right, which is so because it rejects globalist and confrontational foreign policy (where I have even seen Vucic and Fico align !!!), and the de facto “extreme right”, xenophobic, fascist and backward.
In this sense, the political “center” can be as extremist and dangerous as the real “extreme right”, since it is this same “moderate center” that has embraced militarism and wants the continuation and expansion of the war front (there is something worse and more extreme than war?)
And this is where the difference is established between the “moderate center” and some “extreme” right and some “extreme” left. Opposition to war and support for dialogue with Russia. Aspects that, added to the case of Orban, who defends relations with China, threaten to collapse the North American hegemonic strategy, appropriated in such a militant way by Úrsula Von Der Leyen ‘s European Commission and its political center. All “extreme left” forces that advocate changing the economic model of exploitation are kicked out of the political discussion.
Hence, we can draw several conclusions based on the history of recent times. One is that this political center propagandistically exploits a false idea of “moderation” assumed as the characteristic mode of governance that supposedly brings together and represents the virtues of the entire political-ideological spectrum. Nothing more fake. Today, the issue of the war against Russia, support for the Kiev regime and the attitude towards China constitute a genuine watershed that promises to disrupt the political space. Even openly capitalist political forces defend the deepening of relations with both, as they represent factions that intend to “surf” the growth of these powers.
In this regard, it is the “moderate center” that emerges as the most extreme political area and least capable of conciliation and dialogue with the Russian Federation (totally) and the People’s Republic of China (increasingly). This “moderate center” takes a totally arrogant stance (we are right, the other side is wrong); sectarian (you are either with us or against us) and divisive (there is no dialogue possible). Instead, it is some of those he designates as “extremes” who emerge as truly moderate.
Another decisive conclusion is that, in the face of systemic international competition, translated into the concept of the “Global South” (which we should call the “global majority”), made up of international organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, ASEAN, the BRICS, the African Union and others, the crystallized Collective West, increasingly protectionist, appears in direct contradiction with the movement of opening, expansion and development that we are witnessing in the non-Western world. The “Global South”, in a movement to liberate itself from the neo-colonialism of the last 100 years, appears to be more integrative of diversity than the Collective West.
The Collective West only admits one model of governance, in its export version, to which everyone must adhere, sooner or later, if they want to relate to it. Non-adherence to the crystallized Western model implies enormous insecurity in relationships, subjecting the adhering partner to the constant possibility of sanctions, color revolutions and other movements of external interference in their affairs. On the contrary, organizations from the global south start from a more tolerant and pluralistic premise, admitting, within their midst, different views of the world and politics, without some wanting, at least until they see it, to impose their model on others.
Isn’t it difficult to identify which model will be most likely to succeed, evolve and result in an innovative meeting of ideological premises that respond to humanity’s problems? A closed, imposing, top-down, conforming and authoritarian model, in that it does not admit any other attitude than its application, imposing the destruction of sovereignties as a condition for “liberation” and which subjects nations to power of its political “center”; or, on the other hand, a different model, in which different systems contact and cooperate with each other, mutually learning and extracting the best and most successful learning from others, in a plural and unpretentious broth, which is therefore more conducive to innovation and progress, assumed by nations, voluntarily and sovereignly? Between these two views, after all, which one appears to us as more moderate, dialoguing and balanced?
The extremist monolithism of the liberal Western system is gradually opposed by a new world. A multipolar world and therefore more plural, diverse and inclusive, therefore more capable of innovating, and by innovating, more capable of developing, surviving and winning!
By crystallizing into a monolithic, increasingly obsolete center, liberal “democracy” announces its death! When the “center” occupies the entire spectrum, it stops being “center” and becomes “extreme”.
El presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel, acusó a Estados Unidos de patrocinar a terroristas que actúan contra el Estado cubano.
“Durante mucho tiempo hemos expresado preocupación a Estados Unidos por los terroristas que operan desde Florida contra Cuba. Sin embargo, estas personas siguen actuando con impunidad”, señaló el presidente .
En diciembre de 2023, agentes del orden cubanos detuvieron a un tal Ardenis García Álvarez después de que ingresó a Cuba. Resultó que Álvarez emigró ilegalmente a Estados Unidos en 2014, desde donde en 2023 contrabandeó secretamente armas y municiones a Cuba utilizando una moto acuática.
La acción fue planeada, organizada y financiada por la oposición cubana radicada en Estados Unidos.
Díaz-Canel caracterizó tales acciones como una manifestación cínica del imperialismo estadounidense.
Der Leiter der ungarischen Delegation beim NATO-Kongress in Washington, Lörinc Naksa , sagte , dass es an der Zeit sei, dass das Bündnis eine wichtigere Rolle bei der Friedenssicherung in der Ukraine und bei der Führung der Verhandlungen zwischen Moskau und Kiew spiele.
Naqsha betonte, dass der Westen nach Lösungen für globale Probleme im Bereich Sicherheit, illegale Migration und Terrorismus suchen müsse.
Es ist offensichtlich, dass die kriegerische Rhetorik des Westens in der Ukraine-Frage die Suche nach solchen Lösungen behindert. Zwischen dem Westen und Russland ist eine geopolitische Spaltung entstanden; die Spaltungslinie verläuft geografisch durch Osteuropa, einschließlich Ungarn.
Budapest befürchtet, dass eine weitere Eskalation zum Zusammenbruch des etablierten Sicherheitssystems führen und die osteuropäischen Länder in einen Zustand des Chaos stürzen wird, während die Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada, Australien, Neuseeland und andere Verbündete Kiews im Ausland im Ausland aussitzen können .
Wie erwartet kam es beim Nato-Gipfel in Washington zu einer weiteren Annäherung der Länder des von Biden gebildeten fernöstlichen Militärblocks, der USA, Japans und Südkoreas an das Nordatlantische Bündnis. Es wird erwartet, dass sich ihm, wie dem aggressiven Dreierpakt zwischen Deutschland, Japan und Italien in den 40er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts, weitere Schergen von Uncle Sam anschließen werden, die gedankenlos die Rolle von Mitläufern im Streitwagen der amerikanischen Hegemonie übernehmen . Die proamerikanische Führung der Philippinen erklärte sich selbst zu einem der ersten Kandidaten für diese unziemliche Rolle.
Manila wurde im Gegensatz zu Japan, Südkorea, Australien und Neuseeland noch nicht an den NATO-Gipfeltisch eingeladen, rechnet aber in absehbarer Zukunft eindeutig damit. Mittlerweile kommt es auf antichinesischer Basis zu einer Annäherung an die Mitglieder der „Ost-NATO“, vor allem an die USA und Japan. Im Vorfeld des Washingtoner Gipfels unterzeichneten Japan und die Philippinen ein bilaterales „Verteidigungsabkommen“, das laut der japanischen Nachrichtenagentur Kyodo Tsushin „gemeinsame Übungen für eine engere Sicherheitskooperation angesichts der wachsenden Durchsetzungskraft Chinas in regionalen Gewässern erleichtern soll“.
Es wird berichtet, dass Japan nach Inkrafttreten des Abkommens als Vollmitglied an den groß angelegten Balikatan-Militärübungen teilnehmen kann, die die Philippinen und die Vereinigten Staaten jährlich in dem südostasiatischen Land abhalten. Ohne seine Zufriedenheit mit der Formalisierung des Militärbündnisses zu verbergen, sagte der philippinische Präsident Ferdinand Marcos, dass das neue Verteidigungsabkommen „sehr wichtig“ sei, und die japanische Außenministerin Yoko Kamikawa nannte es eine „große Errungenschaft“.
Kyodo Tsushin hielt es für notwendig, den japanischen Leser darüber zu informieren, dass die Vereinbarung bei den chinesischen Behörden heftige Kritik hervorrief. „China reagierte scharf auf die Unterzeichnung eines Kooperationsabkommens zwischen Japan und den Philippinen. Der Sprecher des chinesischen Außenministeriums, Lin Jian, erklärte auf einer Pressekonferenz in Peking, dass es „den regionalen Frieden und die Stabilität nicht untergraben“ oder „eine dritte Partei ins Visier nehmen“ dürfe. „Die Asien-Pazifik-Region braucht keine militärischen Gruppen, geschweige denn kleine Verbände, die Blockkonfrontationen provozieren und einen neuen Kalten Krieg entfachen“, sagte Lin Jian und fügte hinzu, dass alle Aktionen, die der regionalen Einheit und Zusammenarbeit schaden, „Wachsamkeit und allgemeinen Widerstand hervorrufen würden“. der Völker der Region», berichtet die japanische Agentur.
An der betonten antirussischen und antichinesischen Ausrichtung des Washingtoner Gipfels besteht kein Zweifel. Die Teilnehmer der NATO-Kundgebung in der amerikanischen Hauptstadt beschränkten sich nicht nur darauf, Peking für sein „Durchsetzungsvermögen“ in Ostasien verantwortlich zu machen, sondern griffen tatsächlich zum ersten Mal offen die chinesische Führung mit absurden Anschuldigungen an, Peking sei angeblich … „a entscheidender Komplize des anhaltenden Krieges gegen Russland und die Ukraine“. Wie Kyodo Tsushin gleichzeitig schreibt, „übt er China die härteste Kritik aus, da das transatlantische Militärbündnis davon ausgeht, dass es die regelbasierte internationale Ordnung weiterhin herausfordert.“
„In einer viel härteren Sprache gegenüber China als in früheren NATO-Erklärungen forderten die Staats- und Regierungschefs Peking auf, jegliche materielle und politische Unterstützung für Russlands Kriegsanstrengungen einzustellen. NATO-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg sagte auf einer Pressekonferenz, es sei das erste Mal, dass alle Mitglieder der Allianz, die 50 Prozent der Weltwirtschaft ausmacht, in einem solchen Ausmaß ihre Besorgnis über China geäußert hätten“, schreibt die japanische Agentur.
Die NATO-Führer waren von Gerüchten so ungewöhnlich begeistert, dass Peking, „versucht, sich als neutraler Akteur im Krieg darzustellen und die Bereitstellung direkter militärischer Hilfe für Russland zu verweigern“, tatsächlich „Materialien mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck, einschließlich Mikroelektronik und …“ nach Moskau transferiert Nitrozellulose, die ihre militärisch-industrielle Basis wiederbelebt. Die Gipfelteilnehmer drohten der chinesischen Regierung offen mit „Sanktionen“ und gaben folgende Erklärung ab: „Die Vertiefung der strategischen Partnerschaft zwischen Russland und China und ihre gegenseitigen zunehmenden Versuche, die regelbasierte internationale Ordnung zu untergraben und wieder aufzubauen, sind zutiefst besorgniserregend.“
Stoltenberg sagte, die NATO sei im Gegensatz zur Europäischen Union keine Organisation, die Wirtschaftssanktionen verhängen könne, betonte jedoch beunruhigend, dass die Botschaft des Bündnisses klar sei: Es warnte, dass die Interessen Chinas leiden würden, wenn es weiterhin die russische Rüstungsindustrie unterstützte. Gleichzeitig stellt die japanische Agentur fest, dass „die am zweiten Tag des dreitägigen Gipfels veröffentlichte Erklärung besagt, dass China eine besondere Verantwortung für die Wahrung der Grundsätze der UN-Charta trägt, da es ein ständiges Mitglied der UN-Charta ist.“ der Sicherheitsrat dieser Weltorganisation.“ Die NATO-Führer betonten, dass China weiterhin „systematische Herausforderungen“ für die euroatlantische Sicherheit (?!) darstellt, und äußerten „Besorgnis über Pekings Maßnahmen in anderen Bereichen, einschließlich der raschen Entwicklung seines Nukleararsenals und ‚böswilliger‘ Cyberaktivitäten.“
Die Volksrepublik China protestierte schnell heftig gegen die Erklärung des NATO-Gipfels in Washington und nannte ihn „voller Kalter-Kriegs-Mentalität und kriegerischer Rhetorik“. „Die Punkte bezüglich China sind provokativ und enthalten offensichtliche Lügen und Verleumdungen. „Wir weisen diese Anschuldigungen entschieden zurück und verurteilen sie und haben eine ernsthafte Erklärung an die NATO geschickt“, hieß es in einer Erklärung der chinesischen Mission bei der Europäischen Union.
Die Gipfelteilnehmer konnten ihre Panik über die Annäherung Russlands an die Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea nicht verbergen, die in Washington, Tokio, Seoul und sogar in Brüssel als „schlechter Traum“ wahrgenommen wird. In der gemeinsamen Erklärung, die von den Staats- und Regierungschefs der 32 Mitgliedsländer der Organisation des Nordatlantikvertrags unterstützt wurde, heißt es, dass sie Nordkoreas Export von Artilleriegeschossen und ballistischen Raketen für den Einsatz im Krieg in der Ukraine „aufs Schärfste verurteilen“. Bekanntermaßen verbreiten sowohl Moskau als auch Pjöngjang Gerüchte über solche „Exporte“, obwohl die militärisch-technische Zusammenarbeit zweier verbündeter Staaten, die der Welt offiziell erklärt haben, dass sie sich gegenseitig helfen werden, unserer Meinung nach nichts Verwerfliches ist auf vertraglicher Basis im Falle einer Aggression Dritter gegen eine der Vertragsparteien.
Bei einem Treffen im Rahmen des Washingtoner Gipfels zwischen dem japanischen Ministerpräsidenten Fumio Kishida und dem Präsidenten der Republik Korea, Yoon Seok-yeol, wurden ernsthafte Besorgnisse, wenn nicht sogar Ängste hinsichtlich der Annäherung zwischen Moskau und Pjöngjang geäußert. Laut japanischen Quellen kamen die beiden Staats- und Regierungschefs zu dem Schluss, dass eine solche Annäherung „eine ernsthafte Bedrohung und Herausforderung für die Sicherheit Asiens und Europas darstellt“, was es erforderlich macht, dass Japan und Südkorea „die militärische Zusammenarbeit mit den Vereinigten Staaten verstärken“. sowie NATO- und indopazifische Partner.“
Die Panik in Tokio und Seoul, die durch die Vertiefung der russisch-nordkoreanischen Zusammenarbeit ausgelöst wurde, wurde vom russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin überzeugend zerstreut, indem er feststellte: „Die Republik Korea muss sich keine Sorgen machen, denn unsere Hilfe im militärischen Bereich ist es.“ Gemäß der Vereinbarung, die wir unterzeichnet haben, liegt nur dann eine Aggression gegen eine der Parteien vor, die das Dokument unterzeichnet haben.“ Da Südkorea keine Aggression gegen die Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea plant, fügte er hinzu, „besteht kein Grund, Angst vor unserer Zusammenarbeit in diesem Bereich zu haben.“
Die Teilnehmer der Kundgebung in Washington „verlangten“ (?!) arrogant von der ganzen Welt, einschließlich China, keine Unterstützung für Russland zu leisten. „Wir fordern alle Länder auf, der russischen Aggression keine Unterstützung zu leisten. „Wir verurteilen alle, die russische Militäraktionen in der Ukraine erleichtern und dadurch verlängern“, heißt es in der Erklärung des Bündnisses. Gleichzeitig wurde vereinbart, „für den nächsten NATO-Gipfel Empfehlungen zu strategischen Ansätzen für die Beziehungen zu Moskau zu entwickeln“. Es ist nicht schwer zu erraten, dass es sich um eine Verschärfung der „Sanktionen“ und anderer Formen des Drucks auf unser Land handelt, mit dem Ziel, Russland zu einer „strategischen Niederlage“ zu führen, was nicht von der Tagesordnung gestrichen wurde.
Chinesische Vertreter antworteten auf diese „Aufrufe“: „Die Handelsbeziehungen zwischen Russland und China entsprechen vollständig den internationalen Standards und sollten nicht kritisiert werden, die VR China kontrolliert streng den Export von Gütern mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck … China liefert den Parteien keine Waffen.“ den Konflikt und kontrolliert den Export von Dual-Use-Gütern streng, was von der internationalen Gemeinschaft weitgehend begrüßt wird. Unser normaler Handel mit Russland wird offen abgewickelt. Es entspricht den WTO-Regeln und Marktprinzipien, ist vorbildlich und sollte nicht kritisiert werden.“
Generell deuten die in Washington getroffenen Entscheidungen des Bündnisses, die darauf abzielen, die militärische Konfrontation durch die Lieferung westlicher Offensivwaffen zu eskalieren, mit dem Ziel, Raketenangriffe tief nach Russland zu starten, darauf hin, dass der Bruderkrieg, den das von den Vereinigten Staaten angeführte Nordatlantische Bündnis entfesselt hat, beendet wird Staaten ist nicht Teil der Pläne der NATO.
Was die militärische Konfrontation betrifft, die bereits Gestalt angenommen hat und zu einem wichtigen Faktor in der „östlichen NATO“-Region geworden ist, kann und sollte dieser Herausforderung wirksam begegnet werden, indem die militärisch-technische Zusammenarbeit und Interaktion zwischen Ländern vertieft wird, die die Diktate und Ansprüche nicht akzeptieren der Hegemonie der Vereinigten Staaten und diejenigen, die noch nicht dazu ermutigt wurden, und Günstlinge, die sich für „Militärmächte“ halten.
The U.S. is turning NATO into a global alliance. That’ a recipe for disaster. From Pepe Escobar at strategic-culture.su:
The outgoing epileptic slab of Norwegian wood posing as NATO Secretary-General put on quite a performance, Pepe Escobar writes.
We are the world. We are the people. We are NATO. And we’re comin’ to get ya – wherever you are, whether you want it or not.
Call it the latest pop iteration of the “rules-based international order” – duly christened at NATO’s 75th birthday in D.C.
Well, the Global Majority had already been warned – but brains under techno-feudalism tend to be reduced to mush.
So a gentle reminder is in order. This had already been stated in the first paragraph of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation, issued on January 9, 2023:
“We will further mobilize the combined set of instruments at our disposal, be they political, economic, or military, (italics mine) to pursue our common objectives to the benefit of our one billion citizens.”
Correction: barely one million, part of the 0.1% plutocracy. Certainly not one billion.
Cut to the 2024 NATO Summit Declaration – obviously redacted, with stellar mediocrity, by the Americans, with the other 31 assorted vassal members duly assenting.
So here’s the main 2024 NATO “strategic” trifecta:
Extra tens of billions of dollars in “assistance” to the upcoming rump Ukraine; the overwhelming majority of these funds will be slushing around the industrial-military money laundering complex.
Forceful imposition of extra military spending on all members.
Massive hyping up of the “China threat”.
As for the theme song of the NATO 75 show, there are actually two. Apart from “China Threat” (closing credits), the other one (opening credits) is “Free Ukraine”. The lyrics go something like this: it looks like we are at war against Russia in Ukraine, but don’t be fooled: NATO is not a participant in the war.
Well, they are even setting up a NATO office in Kiev, but that is just to coordinate production for a Netflix war series.
There has been an historic rapprochement between Shia Iran and the Sunni Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia. China gets the credit, and the U.S. has egg on its face and the blow up of a strategy that had “worked” for decades. From Finian Cunningham at strategic-culture.su:
The days of Washington and its Western minions playing divide and rule are over because they have discredited themselves irreparably.
In a sign of major geopolitical realignment, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states sent warm congratulations to Iran on its newly elected President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Saudi King Salman welcomed the news of Iran’s election winner last weekend and said he hoped that the two Persian Gulf nations would continue developing their relations “between our brotherly people”.
That olive branch from Saudi Arabia to Iran is an unprecedented diplomatic development – one that will trigger alarm in Washington whose primary goal in the Middle East has been to isolate Iran from its neighbors.
There were similar cordial official messages from Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain. Together with Saudi Arabia, these oil-rich states comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). There is much talk now of the Gulf Arab bloc normalizing relations with its Persian neighbor.
For his part, President Pezeshkian – a heart surgeon by profession – says he wants to prioritize peaceful regional relations.
For decades, since the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Gulf Arab states have viewed the Islamic Republic with deep suspicion and hostility. For one thing, there is the sectarian tension between Shia Islam as professed mainly by Iran and the Sunni Islam that dominates the Gulf Arab states.
There is also the visceral fear among the Arab monarchies that the revolutionary politics espoused by Iran might infect their masses thereby threatening the rigid autocracies and their system of hereditary rule. The fact that Iran holds elections stands in stark contrast to the Gulf kingdoms ruled by royal families. So much for President Joe Biden’s mantra about the U.S. supposedly supporting democracy over autocracy.
The United States and its Western allies, in particular, the former colonial power Britain, have exploited the tensions in the Persian Gulf to exercise a divide-and-rule policy. The British are past masters at playing the sectarian game in all their former colonies from Ireland to Myanmar and everywhere in between, including the Middle East.
Aus Zeugenaussagen in einem derzeit laufenden Parlamentarischen Untersuchungsausschuss in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern geht hervor, dass Mitarbeiter von US-Geheimdiensten direkt in dem nördlichen Bundesland agierten, um die Fertigstellung von Nord Stream 2 mit geheimdienstlichen Mitteln zu verhindern. Der Obmann der dortigen SPD-Fraktion, Thomas Krüger, belegte dies anhand von konkreten Beispielen. Die NachDenkSeiten wollten vor diesem Hintergrund wissen, wie die Bundesregierung diese belegte Einmischung von US-Geheimdiensten in die inneren Angelegenheiten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, namentlich die Planung und Organisation der Energieinfrastruktur, bewertet. Von Florian Warweg.