As we approach next week’s big summit between the U.S./NATO and Russia over tensions in Ukraine it’s important to understand just where things between everyone stands. Russia’s Foreign Ministry, normally the soul of understatement and infuriating politeness, has been ratcheting up the blunt over the past couple of months.
Nothing else seems to get the attention of U.S. and European so-called diplomats and decision-makers.
These are people who arrogantly believe it is their right and privilege to demean everyone else they don’t respect or agree with. They sincerely don’t like it when it comes back at them.
To that point, the recent dustup between Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova and the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell was outstanding. Zakharova is thorough, eloquent, and nearly always correct. She accomplishes these things because she has the truth on her side.
Borrell published an interview with the German propaganda rag, Die Welt, which read like an application for his long-term commitment to Arkham Asylum for solipsism bordering on insanity in which he complained Russia had no right to make demands of the EU or NATO.
“Demanding security guarantees and ending the eastward expansion of the EU and NATO is a purely Russian agenda with completely unacceptable conditions, especially with regard to Ukraine,” Borrell added.
According to him, the Russian Federation presented its agenda in writing for the first time. “Only the winners do this: they say that this and that are my conditions,” Borrell said.
The problem for Borrell is that the Russians are the winners in this standoff. In every way Russia has the tactical and strategic advantage here and only EU recalcitrance and the madness of EU technocratic ideologues, like Borrell, keeps this from being acknowledged.
Borrell, like Eurcrats Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel, Christine Lagarde, etc. were all placed in power by Davos to effect the very outcomes we’ve been unfortunately treated to. They have zero skin in the game of Europe. There are no bad outcomes for them other than if they don’t do as they are told.
And they are being told to be uncompromising, reality-denying dickheads.
So, as always, these insults by Borrell are a feature, not a bug, of EU policy. People like Borrell may be incompetent, but that too is a feature, not a bug. He was chosen precisely because he’s a moron who will say and do whatever he is told to do.
So, the real question is, which is embedded in all of Zakharova’s comments in the linked piece above, are the people pulling the strings of Europe incompetent or do they really want no useful relations with Russia?
By the way both of those things can be true here. They are incompetent because they want no relations with Russia going forward.
“The form of Mr. Borrell’s claims against us and the mode in which Brussels expressed itself over many years was extremely strange and, in many cases, impermissible. Now it makes no sense to put forward any claims addressed to us. Nobody has the right to do so. As for the statements that the diplomatic service of which Mr. Borrel is in charge has been mass-producing, they contain demands formulated in a very peculiar way. For instance, ‘Russia must’ or ‘Russia is expected.’ As if we were members of the European Union or NATO and all of a sudden it has turned out that we did something wrong, or we had no right to present a draft for a joint discussion.“
I’ve said many times that the EU lives in this bubble where they still think they are important to the global economy even as they implement policies which do nothing but consume the previously stored wealth of Europe making it less important to its trade partners with each passing day.
They truly believed that they had Russia in a monopsony arrangement (single buyer) with natural gas deliveries and that without the EU market Russia’s economy would collapse and they would be able to dictate terms.
Because, you know, winners do this.
Competing Imperial Agendas
The problem is, as Pepe Escobar mostly points out in his latest piece, that Nordstream 2 was never really a core project for Russia and/or Gazprom. It could have been if the EU has ever been an honest broker over energy supplies.
The tired Evil-US narrative that Escobar weaves, however, is pure fiction. The EU has always been driving the bus on its own policy. It’s not a U.S. only thing. The goal has always been to leverage the EU’s market to dictate terms to their energy suppliers. The U.S. military and financial clout was the means by which to enforce the ever-changing terms, like any good Mafiosi would, while simultaneously draining the U.S. of its vibrancy.
Unfortunately there are too many within the alternative political commentary space which includes, Escobar, Caitlyn Johnstone and Bernard at Moon of Alabama, who cannot let go of this idea of the Evil US Empire because they see Europe as the victim rather than a co-conspirator in the Empire of Chaos.
Russia, however, understands this completely. It understands as Zahkarova makes explicitly clear that NATO is the military arm of EU expansionist policy.
“The top European diplomat must have forgotten that for those EU member countries which are also NATO members – there are 21 of them – the alliance remains the basis of their collective defense and a platform for its implementation,” Zakharova said. “In other words, the EU’s Brussels delegated to NATO’s Brussels the lion’s share of its military sovereignty.”
Sa-wing batter!
The best part is Zakharova doesn’t stop there but then brings up the inconvenient truths about the bombing of Belgrade in 1999 by NATO. It’s a much-more-than-gentle reminder that Borrell’s ‘diplomacy’ is only an extension of U.S. military power.
Now, that we’ve put the EU firmly back where it belongs — at the kid’s table — let’s turn to next week’s summit and where things stand. What Borrell is angry about is that by putting forth this draft treaty Russia is pushing all discussion of a political and economic nature to the background.
What’s going on in Ukraine is no longer about energy deliveries, pipelines, or any of that stuff. Putin has reset the terms of the conflict to a purely military, facts-on-the-ground conflict.
By doing this he puts the negotiations for any resolution right on the shoulders of the military power in the region. This would be the U.S.
The Limit of Politics
The tactical move here is simple. Isolate the terms of the conflict, in this case military, into the realm where you have the most control to press them to your maximal advantage. It’s Sun Tsu. Don’t fight on ground prepared by your enemy.
This is exactly what Putin and his Foreign Ministry under Sergei Lavrov, for whom Zakharova speaks here, have done.
The political arena is where Davos is strong — control over the narrative, the media, etc. It is the military one where NATO and the U.S. are unwilling to engage because ultimately it’s unwinnable even as a political tool.
The messaging is clear. This is a matter of military, security and cultural importance, economics does not matter. Pipelines be damned. Politics be damned. We have the missiles to wipe you out and we will use them, making a mockery of NATO and the U.S. as a military power.
This is why Biden and Putin’s latest phone call was so ‘constructive.’ As I’ve been saying for months, the U.S. wants out of Europe, to depreciate NATO. NATO is big business for a lot of Eurocrats, Neocons, MIC members and the rest of the usual suspects.
But that’s not the big thing at stake here, what’s left of the U.S.’s reputation as the leading military hyper-power in the world is. So, Biden needs a way out of Ukraine with some of those illusions still intact. Incompetents like Borrell and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock do not understand this at all.
She tried to set the tone for the new German government and was summarily put in her place by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Now she’s in D.C. to be told what her marching orders will be.
Putin, Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu understand the need for continued confidence in the U.S. and do not want the U.S. humiliated here, even if many peace-motivated commentators in this space (like Escobar) do. Humiliating the U.S. just pushes Russia even further into China’s long-term orbit since neither the U.S. nor Europe will be able to balance China’s power if that occurs.
Protecting what’s left of Davos’ influence within these corridors of power is still primary to them. They are actively losing the U.S. They lost India in Q4. Russia and China are gone. But NATO can be salvaged and morphed into a Europe-led thing allied with the United Nations if need be.
You take away NATO and the U.S.’s ability to threaten, you take away a lot of Davos’ ability to push policy where they want it to go.
That is why Biden will ‘surrender’ Europe to Putin when they sit down to talk in Geneva. Because no one can afford for these illusions to be punctured with a NATO rout. If that happens then where do these people retreat to? How do they keep themselves in the game?
In a recent editorial by Douglas MacGregor he reminded us of the fundamental problem underlying the world.
As John Kenneth Galbraith warned, “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right.”
It no longer matters what Davos midgets like Borrell think is unacceptable. Blackmailing the world with nuclear war over a shithole like Kiev is what is wholly unacceptable. They tried it and have failed.
Russia is stating, Belarus is wholly with us now. Soon the Donbass and the rest of Southern Ukraine will be as well.
Statements like Borrell’s about how there can be no decision on Europe without including the EU is hilarious when the EU can’t decide if solar power is sufficiently green.
When talks open in Geneva between Russia and the U.S. for a new European security architecture it will be singularly focused on this delicate way out the quagmire everyone involved willingly placed themselves in.
The Russians aren’t playing games however. The war is already over.
NATO lost. The EU lost.
And the winners are dictating terms militarily.
Neocon Fervor
The only question left is whether rogue agents within any of these organizations — The intelligence complex, NATO, the EU — starts something between now and then to sabotage these ceasefire talks and ‘force Russia to invade’ Ukraine.
Enter the Neocons who do not believe in any restraints on their behavior. They will risk everything to maintain the hope of their final victory. They will sacrifice everyone else in their monomaniacal quest for the aggrieved Trotsky’s vindication.
This is where the antics of Baerbock and Victoria Nuland come into play. There has been a near-deafening chorus of neoconservative pearl-clutching and fire-breathing as we approach Geneva. You can feel the desperation from them over every issue — Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Putin’s energy politics, etc.
Baerbock’s dressing down and Nuland’s disappearance from the spotlight tell you that the Neocons are off the Davos reservation and have been acting on their own.
It seems there is no end to their depravity. I am highly skeptical that Kazakhstan erupts in a conflagration over LPG prices like what has happened yesterday. It smacks of ‘aggressive negotiations’ on the eve of an important summit.
That said, I expect Kazakhstan will work out about as well as the recent failed attempts in Belarus and Armenia.
And once this is put down and the summit is over then the EU and Borrell can be brought back into the conversation to discuss economic considerations again. But given how deeply toxic the EU’s relationship is with all of its neighbors, including Turkey and the UK, I doubt Russia will do anything else but dictate those terms as well.
Nordstream 2 is not a core project for Gazprom. It can be left to rot. German Chancellor Scholz is on his way to Moscow to salvage the situation. This should be a hoot because it’s a core need for Germany.
Remember, my thesis is that Davos wants permanently poisoned relations with Russia but no war there. The EU’s war on its own people is the only war it can handle right now. It’s having a hard enough time keeping the eastern European countries from bolting.
Davos needs peace to maintain control over Europe because with a hot war in Ukraine the entire raison d’etre of the EU dissolves — preventing war on the European continent. The EU would split in a heartbeat if that happened.
On the other hand, the Neocons need a war there to keep NATO entrenched like ticks because without Ukraine and the likelihood of the U.S. pulling out of the Middle East entirely in 2022, they have nothing left.
But at the same time the Neocons are facing the end of their 100-plus year project to vindicate Trotsky and win the revolution by overthrowing the evil Putin. Ukraine represents a similar existential crisis for them if it is settled peacefully.
It is these diametrically opposed agendas that 1) further proves I’m right we’ve reached Peak Davos and 2) makes this situation still very very dangerous.
But it is ultimately why Russia can and will dictate final terms in Europe because that’s what winners do. Let’s hope I’m right because if the Russians lose here, we all do.
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Tom, Love your writing. Right out of the gate, “Arkham Asylum”! I had never seen that in print, but immediately got the connection, the reference. Not sure how many might get it, but WTF that’s great insight! Thanks! Keep it up.
“That said, I expect Kazakhstan will work out about as well as the recent failed attempts in Belarus and Armenia. ”
Oh that aged well. hmm.
But besides of that I see very interesting views on this blog here. Still I don’t get why China is not part of the Davosians??! As the Covid mania has lead there to a totalitarian QR-control regime which to me looks exactly as what one would expect from what they might have planed.
People in Peking cannot leave a certain radius or move to certain areas dictated by QR codes. They are trapped like cattle in their own country. Exactly how one would expect a dystopian nightmare.
Can you explain how they are not part of the plan, please?
China ARE the plan.
The Davosians plan to emulate their technogulag globally.
Some commentators think that the East/West paradigm is a fraud:
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/false-eastwest-paradigm-and-the-end-of-freedom/
I come back to this blog’s comments section regularly to read challenges to Tom’s work.
I appreciate your comments here, ivor.
The Obama foreign policy team is back! Drinking tiger blood and winning!
If we accept your premise that Davosians are just Eurotrash with delusions of grandeur, still playing the Great Game, then this seems like excellent analysis.
But if the Davosians are actually globalists, to whom nationalism is tres jejeune, and whose aspirations are convening a global council with its own global currency, it might be a little off.
Your theory demands that Putin stand firm and see the US withdraw from Europe. Mine requires that Putin either accept his seat at the global table (which means he will capitulate somehow) or be imminently framed as the antagonist in a fake cyberattack (which the IMF have been rehearsing)
You would call that Russia “losing”?
What form might the US withdrawal from Europe take? I appreciate the US might try to soften the blow, but how might the US position be communicated publicly?
P.S – The Kazakhs have 400 tons of gold. I wonder if they can hang onto it.
Kaz also produces most Uranium in the world! I guess CIA want to give it to China or Russia. Dumb clucks!
They want to control it to stop central asia from developing and divert it back to Europe.
Since Tom mentioned Pepe Escobar, here is his latest column on Kazakhstan:
Escobar: Maidan In Almaty? Oh Yeah, But It’s Complicated
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-maidan-almaty-oh-yeah-its-complicated
I really can’t help but be suspicious here after: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Maidan, etc.
1] High LNG prices (due to idiotic EU green planning) sets off the protests.
2] US Embassy warning of this a month ago.
3] Rebels seemed to plan for the internet outage
4] Preprinted material & posters
5] Support of US & UK companies
It is becoming more and more difficult to see this as spontaneous and more and more like a Ray Epps scenario.
The tragedy is that the West has no plan for rebuilding these countries, only destroying what is there… it reminds me of what they are doing to the US right now.
All IMHO.
Putin’s Russia is part of Davos.we are introducing ubiquitous QR codes. Putin is just as much a scoundrel and a puppet as the other bosses of Europe and the US dems
Putin must love the irony.
Putin has repeatedly said the last days of the Soviet Union were a tragedy, Checkov, Andropov and several other 80 year old Soviet has-beens ascended into the Kremlin and could barely remember what day it was much less run the country.
The Soviet union collapsed not long after. Gorbachev was a relative youngster, but by the time the previous generation had their turn in power the Russian economy couldn’t prop up the Kremlin. Gorbachev was too little too late.
Now the USA is run by a scared 80 year old man who obviously has no idea what is happening. The US economy is suffocating under health tyrants that have locked everything down for “two weeks”, and US debt levels are rising faster than FAANG stock prices.
Kudos to you, Ivordeacon, as you’ve gone right to the heart of a burning question, namely, who and what does team Davos actually consist of? The answer to that question bears heavily on the equally important question, who is actually onside with the not remotely great reset?
The nefarious agenda of the GR seems clear enough to me, but, absent all of the government stooges who, in their younger impressionable years, attended Kommander Klaushwitz Kamp. e.g. Macron, Merkel, Ardern, Trudeau, etc. it becomes more difficult to tell who is genuinely with the program.
Xi and Putin most certainly did not attend KKK. Of course, neither did build back better Biden, who, despite that terrible gap in his otherwise stellar resume, is clearly onside.
From where I sit, the best reason to suppose that Xi and the CCP aren’t on the team, despite their imposition of a social credit score dystopia in China that is the envy of Kreepy Klaus and others poobahs of the so called developed world, is that, as things shake out, Xi and the CCP are Han supremacists, who almost certainly deeply distrust and detest the descendants of people who ran roughshod over China for centuries. An elephant never forgets, particularly an Asian one. I suspect much of the aforesaid dynamic also applies to the case of Putin and Russia who don’t trust any reindeer games run by Europeans.
I think you hit reply to the wrong comment. I am not Ivordeacon.
I think Ivordeacon is a couple sandwiches short of a picnic. Tom always seems to reply to him for some reason, not so much to other regular commenters
Yup – the Davosians will need to force the Russians and the Chinese to the table if they are to get their Great Reset. And they are trying – they certainly see the Chinese model as a smaller version of the technogulag they hope to impose across the world.
Tom thinks the Davosians are just Eurotrash, but when you examine the membership it’s a Benetton ad. Look at Rishi Sunak’s father-in-law, for example.
If Tom’s right, Putin and Xi will stand firm (and the Davosians will then blame one of them for their controlled demolition of the global financial system.)
If I’m right, they will co-operate.
Hi JB,
Most commenters here are just agreeing with or indicating how much they appreciate Tom’s analysis, so presumably there’s only so much he can say to them apart from “much appreciated”, which he often does.
I have three main areas of contention with Tom – which one am I getting wrong?
1 – Private crypto will soon be outlawed in favour of a global version, and Satoshi was probably an NSA cutout
2 – Davosians are globalists seeking global governance and their own global currency, not just Eurotrash seeking a new European Empire
3 – The Davosians are planning a crisis event (which I believe will be a fake cyberattack that they will blame on Putin or some other patsy) to get us to beg for their emergency universal basic income and Great Reset.
How refreshing. Will add that to Thomo’s summary of the insanity and have a good sleep. As my dad would say “ your bed is to small for a tiger to hide under and I have already locked the bedroom window. Now off to sleep!
Excellent and right dead center of the target, Tom
Tom, Russia looks like an EU extension with its compulsory Sputnik Vaccine and QR code mania exploding all over Moscow and St. Petersburg. Putin and Klaus Schwab go back 30 years. What if it’s all just theater?
Tom writes “The goal has always been to leverage the EU’s market to dictate terms to their energy suppliers.”
Why do you believe the target is energy suppliers? Why can’t the target be greater control over wimpy Europeans who accepted Brussels rule without a vote?
He who controls Europe’s energy supply effectively controls Europe. Soros wanted to be that guy, and he is pissed that Gazprom / the Kremlin is stealing his thunder. Controlling energy supply would allow Soros unlimited influence over member countries, and profits could bribe more EU officials while funding his extremism all over the world.
That is why Soros ordered Obama to stage a coup in Ukraine in the first place; Soros wanted to control the toll booth for most of western Europe’s natgas supplies. Gazprom built Nordstream I and II giving Russia control. Europe can’t mess with, much less invade, their supplier. It might be a nice annuity stream, if Europe pays in something besides IOUs with Christine Lagarde’s worthless signature on them. Given the demographics of western Europe and skyrocketing debts, perhaps wishful thinking.
Nordstream is an electric fence that keeps the yipping mutt that is western europe off Russia’s lawn.
Putin negotiated bigger energy deals with China and India … you know, PAYING CUSTOMERS.
Crypto is a bogus tulip flower (no bulb) with about as much intrinsic value (dead in week!). China and India have food, electronics, fabrics, plastics, chemicals, etc. Actual things that Russia needs.
Power of Siberia *IS* (for Russia anyway) all the things crypto purports to be but is not
Tom-
great article. you identify and properly label all the key characters in this theater of the Davos-absurd confronting Russian sanity.
You should do this more often. Often, you bury your lead, your key points, at the end, preceded by seemingly endless yes-no-maybe, obfuscation and obscuritantism.
This way is much better. Make your case clear and up front and don’t get lost in irrelevant asides. (like that protocolgy exam of German multi-party maneuverings that don’t matter AT ALL, because the evil empire has already won there, its over – game set match).
You see the big picture and you can paint it well. Kudos. Stay on message!
It is probably too ‘neat’ to equate EU with ‘Davos’ principles and US a victim of ‘Davos’ : there is an internal struggle is the ‘North Atlanticist’ elite over how to take their joint, but US-CIA-and-dollar-dominated, empire forward…..
This was a great column that took me a night to digest and even think of something to say. However, today’s news of hard lockdowns in China (due to a/the virus) portending future supply chain disruptions (ie stoking Western inflation) seemed to make something click.
I wonder if China & Russia are not coordinating through the SCO? Both want to see major changes in US foreign policy, with a Western withdrawal from their respective borders: in Eastern Europe & the South China Sea.
I think this is one of the most overlooked Zero Hedge articles of last year:
America Has Lost The Trade War With China, And The Real Pain Has Yet To Begin
China is laying siege to the USA by slowing down production and delivery of goods. It doesn’t take much to hang up US production, just one missing item can do it. So much stuff is sourced through China they can affect all supply chains. Semiconductors are just the canary–because the chains are so long and complex, and specialized materials are required, etc. But it is happening everywhere.
I have a little manufacturing company and I am seeing this in supply lines. I sent an order to China for printed circuit boards (US prices are astronomical because of various factors). They don’t get back for a week, then they quote, then I send money, then they sit on it, then I call and they say they are having problems with some process… etc. But all the suppliers are like this, it is not an isolated incident. They are sandbagging.
So just as in laying siege, the attackers have the food outside the castle and wait for the people inside to starve.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/america-has-lost-trade-war-china-and-real-pain-has-yet-begin
So, at any time China can put its foot on the US jugular with factory goods and Putin can do similarly to the EU with oil.
The current thesis out there is that interconnected trading relations bring world peace, as nations trading and depending on each other make war difficult and less likely. But is that presupposition true?
In the Late Bronze Age civilizations were similarly interconnect and interdependent. And all it took was the disappearance of one raw material to bring the whole thing crashing down: Tin from Afghanistan used to make Bronze:
1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)
https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4
So, while the world is now interdependent, it is without redundancy and therefore more fragile. That might be a good thing in a Unipolar World; but in a Multipolar World the opposite may be true?
So, I suspect this won’t come to an end until the United States & Europe (Davos) accept Russia & China as equals. IMHO
ther’s a fundamental schism between the US Supremacist Empire and the Russia-China-Iran-etc sovereign nations.
The US Empire is shaped and sustained by imagination illusion deception assertion dictat and thug force. The Russia-China-Iran-etc sovereign nations.have their foundations in material reality. Their world exists by perceiving negotiating and adapting to cold, hard objective evidential reality.
The nature of US Empire is to regard the sovereign nations as untamed wildlife to be fooled and trapped into becoming docile livestock.
Negotiating with the US will not be an honest process until the Empire and its World-View has withered and died.
This is EU negotiating tactics being called out, they just ignore the counter proposals and keep repeating themselves. Ask Vaoufakis and the Brexit negotiators and Iran…now Russia is telling them to go fuck themselves, because, like the Americans, “they are not agreement capable” until reality is jammed down their throat. I hope your analysis proves correct.
Russians will eventually lose because their country is too big and too nationality diverse to be able to control their territory in this century. Their only power is military and they cannot fight billions of people with their 144M population. Unless they use nuclear weapons which can only prolong their current existence but at the same time ends the human civilization.
Others have thought this about Russia..like Hitler and Napoleon..they were wrong. It’s size is also an advantage. It’s too big to conquer. The 7000 nuclear weapons help too.
They were not wrong, just lousy army leaders. Too big to conquer? This is illogical by design.
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Older people, as a generalization, tend to be a lot less technology savvy than younger people — but at least in theory the elderly are supposed to have vastly more life experience and wisdom.
The geriatric “supreme court” (lower case on purpose) proved today that they are no better than 81 year olds Pelosi and McConnell or the dementia patient in the oval office.
Dimwit Sotamayor stood out for her unbelievable ignorance about a virus that has been in the media everyday for the last two years. She proved beyond a reasonable doubt and beyond any doubt that — like the geriatrics in Congress and the oval office — she should have retired long ago. She has neither technical understanding nor wisdom.
No matter how these geriatric losers end up “ruling” (or drooling?), what a humiliating embarrassment for the United States.
The soviet union fell, at least in part, when a ten year long parade of 80 year olds simply could not keep themselves nor their failing economy upright.
Washington DC is filled with people who’s best days were decades ago, and the lack of any bench or any JV team means they cannot attract enough new blood to prop up the system.
Just humiliating to be an American and watch the basket cases on the court today.
The entire Western world is now cursed with such imbeciles as their national leaders, and not by accident.
After all, if you are a globalist and want to be seen as the Harlem Globetrotters of geopolitics, you need some Washington Generals to make you look good.
Most people will not beg for global governance until they see national governance failing.
The reaction time in Kazakhstan was lightning fast following all the lessons learned and assimilated from Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Syria and others. Now CSTO has found its purpose for the first time. SCO security wing stated their readiness if asked for. This is the difference from “Exceptionalism” of doing, failing and doing the same thing in a loop until it burns out. This shows who the winners are and will be. (Caveat: Awaiting final outcome in Kazakhstan.
Chess moves…
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-admin-weighs-proposing-cuts-us-russian-forces-eastern-europe-rcna11080
Hi Tom. I believe you are on to something about which I was thinking for a while. Talking about Escobar, Moon of Alabama etc. “who cannot let go of this idea of the Evil US Empire” is quite accurate, which I have also observed for quite a while. The assertion that “US does all evil” and thus reaching a final conclusion is way too simplistic. IMO. We should ask ourselves the question “Which US”? That is why I like to refer to powerful interest groups rather than nation states. There are different centers of powers at play in the west. In Andrew Korybko’s last article(s) about Kazakhstan, he interestingly mentions about Anti-Russia and Anti-China groups in Pentagon, placing the blame on the Anti-Russian group as the instigators of the color revolution attempt there. I think he is spot on. However I prefer to name them differently. Instead of Anti-Russian group, I like the term ‘Davos’ which represents a broader ideological plane, which includes the Davos crowd, Trotskyists (neocons of the US), City of London (Chatham House), Anti-Russian establishment (globalist deep state of the US), British intelligence etc. I see all as one centralized group of power. This group is obviously in retreat mode all over the world. In the US, BBB narrative has failed, their narrative about the pandemic is failing big time (thanks to many courageous scientists like Dr.McCullough, Dr.Malone and pioneers like RFK Junior etc.). In the sphere of foreign policy and geostrategy, they lost in Belarus, Armenia, Afghanistan and now in Kazakhstan (Central Asia and the Caucasus). They are hanging on EU but for how long? Poland and Hungary are revolting openly. In the US, Biden conceded the management of the pandemic to the States and there are some important indications like chief Justice Roberts talking about federal overreach today at the SCOTUS hearings. Things are changing fast but not necessarily in a good way for Davos. There is lots of hope and light can already be seen at the end of the tunnel.
CSTO with HQ in Russia sending troops to Kaz…
https://southfront.org/breaking-csto-units-preparing-to-repel-terrorist-aggression-against-kazakhstan/
We would love to hear a podcast with Marc faber and you I think it would be a great exchange of ideas
this woman drinks too much Russian vodka. I wouldn’t take Putin and his henchman the Foreign Ministry too seriously.
Ukraine is a meaningless shithole except for one thing. The bureaucrats in the West is using it as a front for stealing billions of dollars. That’s the only reason anyone gives two shits about Ukraine.
For Russia however it is a little different. Ukraine is a very strategic place geographically and has been in the Russian sphere of influence for longer than the USA has been a country. It’s like saying the USA has strong reasons to be alarmed at China’s influence over Mongolia.
I mean really, except for Joe and Hunter, and all the rest of the evil extractors of wealth, who in the West cares? Do we really need corn or wheat from Ukraine? LOL. It’s an economically small, insignificant, bankrupt backwater. No offense intended.