Posted on 07/17/2022 6:35:17 AM PDT by JonPreston
LONDON (Reuters) - The Ukraine war shows that the West's dominance is coming to an end as China rises to superpower status in partnership with Russia at one of the most significant inflection points in centuries, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.
"We are coming to the end of Western political and economic dominance," Blair said in a lecture entitled "After Ukraine, What Lessons Now for Western Leadership?" according to a text of the speech to a forum supporting the alliance between the United States and Europe at Ditchley Park west of London.
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He’s a Klaus Schwab fascist.
“Brilliant” insight from a limp-wristed leftist that helped make it possible...
Tony looks ready for his mad tea party.
Another way of saying it: Tony Blair said “Hey, look at this mess I helped create.”
He’s a Klaus Schwab Nazi fascist.
Corollary: it also moves in the Northern Hemisphere.
Only “President Biden” (meaning his unknown teleprompter writers) could have been so incompetent and/or sabotage-minded that they have successfully managed to:
1. Drive Russia and China together as a military alliance. [Keeping Russia and China divided has been a top U.S. strategic imperative since the 1950s.]
2. Drive both Saudi Arabia AND Iran [otherwise enemies] to request to join the BRICS [Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa] economic and currency zone. {The U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency aka the petrodollar? Gone with the wind.}
3. Drive Russia, Iran and India together, to create the the International North-South Transport Corridor, short-cutting the Suez Canal and making the EU irrelevant to trade.
Way to go, Team Biden!!
The International North-South Transport Corridor:
“The duration of the journey is less than 25 days, as opposed to the approximately 40 days it now takes to move cargo from Russia to India through the Baltic Sea – North Sea – Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal – Red Sea -Arabian Sea route.”
Russia has started using an alternate route to ship goods to India, through Caspian Sea and Iran, bypassing the Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal route. Russia dispatched a test cargo to India from St. Petersburg via Iran on Saturday, operationalising the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). According to Russia Briefing, Iran’s state-owned shipping firm has announced the first transit of Russian products to India via the INSTC.
Economic Times, quoting Dariush Jamali, director of a joint-owned Iranian-Russian terminal in Astrakhan, reported that goods originating in St. Petersburg are on their way to Russian city Astrakhan, which is the Caspian port city located on the delta of Volga river. In Astrakhan, the cargo will be reloaded at the Solyanka Port in the city. They will then go across the Caspian Sea to Iran’s Anzali Port, where they will be carried by road through Iran to the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. The goods will again be loaded onto ships at the Iranian port, and from there the goods will be delivered to India’s largest container port in Navi Mumbai.
Two 40-foot (12.192-meter) containers of wood laminate sheets totalling 41 tonnes were included in the test shipment. The duration of the journey is less than 25 days, as opposed to the approximately 40 days it now takes to move cargo from Russia to India through the Baltic Sea – North Sea – Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal – Red Sea -Arabian Sea route. Aside from shortening the time it takes for transport between India and Russia, INSTC is seen as a feasible alternative for Indo-Russian trade in the face of present international issues. The journey time will shorten even more after a rail route Iran is constructing is completed.
I wonder what his CCP code name is.
Thanks in no small part to Blair himself, the UK Aristocracy, UK Prog Socialists and good old UK Marxists.
Screw the UK.
This Slavic death fest is just another chapter of the European civil wars that is eroding Western culture. The Chinese are indeed overjoyed. They now know the Russians simply do not have the conventional capability to defend Siberia and their rich, underpopulated, Far Eastern Asian/Pacific territories. If somehow their nuclear response were neutralized, China would move fast and Russia would be much smaller. Europe and the US could and would do nothing.
Thanks for that, Travis, very interesting stuff
100%
Just a few days ago, I heard that India’s population will overtake that of China by the end of next year. Why? China has used harsh policies restricting the size of families, while India hasn’t. Therefore I predict that the period where China is the world’s leading nation will be short — a couple of decades at the most.
Same song today in Zerohedge:
Escobar: In Eurasia, The War Of Economic Corridors Is In Full Swing
Mega Eurasian organizations and their respective projects are now converging at record speed, with one global pole way ahead of the other.
The War of Economic Corridors is now proceeding full speed ahead, with the game-changing first cargo flow of goods from Russia to India via the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) already in effect.
Very few, both in the east and west, are aware of how this actually has long been in the making: the Russia-Iran-India agreement for implementing a shorter and cheaper Eurasian trade route via the Caspian Sea (compared to the Suez Canal), was first signed in 2000, in the pre-9/11 era.
The INSTC in full operational mode signals a powerful hallmark of Eurasian integration – alongside the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and last but not least, what I described as “Pipelineistan” two decades ago.
Caspian is key
Let’s have a first look on how these vectors are interacting.
[rest at link]
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-eurasia-war-economic-corridors-full-swing
The major factor that is really hampering the growing, economically rational BRIC trading block is a commonly held stable currency that all the partners can trust. Almost all the trade is done in Western hard currencies or crude barter agreements which leads to disagreements.
We pushed Putin right into the arms of China and Iran. Thanks Brandon.
China already has access to any natural resource they want in Siberia, they can simply buy it from a friendly seller, and they don't need it to house or feed their people. Japan will be the the Target of Chinese expansion (for good reason), then South Korea.
China won't touch Russia until China is Administering several Protectorates that USED TO BE US States, and the Philippines.
> I wonder what his CCP code name is. <
I think it’s “Bush’s Stooge”. But I could be wrong.
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