Iran and Saudi Arabia announce the resumption of diplomatic ties in Beijing.
Posted on 03/14/2023 10:15:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The shocking announcement that China had brought together bitter rivals Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic relations in a deal negotiated in Beijing is a stunning defeat for America, threatening the basis of our Middle Eastern and world diplomatic power.
Iran and Saudi Arabia announce the resumption of diplomatic ties in Beijing.
If, as it appears, Saudi Arabia is no longer a reliable ally that can be counted upon to keep the Armageddon-mongering mullahs in Iran at bay while warming up to Israel, then the entire power calculus of the Middle East is shattered.
At a minimum, American prestige and perceptions of our power have dramatically crashed, though our propaganda media are doing their best to prevent the domestic public from understanding this. The Chinese triumph in the Middle East, pushing aside America as the significant other, is one of the principal, if not the worst, signs of the disaster that the Biden presidency has unleashed. This is very bad news for us, our European and Japanese/Korean/Taiwanese allies dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and Israel.
In trying to comprehend how a catastrophe of this magnitude could have unfolded, I have been searching for explanatory factors. One that, perhaps strangely, didn't occur to me, was the Nordstream pipeline sabotage. Ron Unz is an independent thinker, whose views I not infrequently disagree with, but who is always worth considering because he does not allow the media propaganda line to interfere with his thinking.
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The enormous scale and extreme difficulty of these deep water demolitions led German investigators to quickly declare that a state actor had likely been responsible. Yet strangely enough, this huge event received minimal coverage in the American mainstream media. After briefly quoting anonymous government officials who absurdly suggested that the Russians had destroyed their own pipelines, our press immediately lost interest in the story, which soon disappeared with almost no follow-up or investigation. A gigantic environmental disaster seemed to draw negligible media interest from the legions of normally hair-trigger environmentalists.
The obvious reason for this strange lack of curiosity and the resulting blanket of silence was the likely identity of the perpetrators, which had grave political implications. Top American leaders had issued numerous public threats against those pipelines and seemed to rejoice in their successful destruction, so there seemed an overwhelming likelihood that our own country had played a central role in the illegal attacks, among the worst peacetime examples of industrial terrorism in world history. If enough Europeans began to suspect that their American allies had destroyed energy infrastructure so vital to Germany and the rest of the continent, our NATO alliance would be dealt a devastating blow and might be set on the road to dissolution.
One of America's most powerful international weapons is its overwhelming control over the global news ecosystem, and a complete blanket of media silence was soon enforced, causing that huge event to quickly fade from public consciousness. When someone such as Prof. Jeffrey Sachs mentioned what had probably happened on Bloomberg TV, he was quickly yanked off the air. The information that Sachs imparts and that yank-off moment speaks volumes about the propagandistic "global news ecosystem" and is worth viewing:
Absolutely no sympathy for the fate of the 9/11 Saudis. Nevertheless if you were running Saudi Arabia would you trust your well being and existence on an alliance with the US?
Especially a US that has loudly proclaimed that it wants to stop using oil.
I no longer care what happens in the Middle East, and that includes Israel.
Pres Trump called all of this.
And, like Bannon says, knew exactly what was at stake, and, why preventing Russia and CCP from teaming up, was crucial.
Next, will be their partnering w/the mullahs, etc.
the US MSM has almost completely ignored the China-brokered peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Its a huge deal - it obviates the whole reasoning for US security “guarantees” to Saudi Arabia, and the foundation of US mid-east policy for the last 30+ years.
China has now taken our seat at the head of the Mid-east diplomacy table.
Also now imagine Saudi Arabia as a general member of “BRICS” and both Iran and Saudi Arabia giving the middle-finger to Pedo Joe and his neocon masters.
MANY people here on FR exactly saw this. We don't love Russia, but we don't hate it either - and all the stupid, woke neocon arseholes in DC have done is drive them together, along with much of the 3rd world.
For that, the paid childish, deep-state trolls here will call you "Putin Puffers."
Sideshow Bob, the WH spokesmop, is still trying to figure out what could have happened at her favorite store, Nordstrom.
Jackass president Biden has turned president Trump’s efforts to create world of balance and harmony into a topsy tervey mess of chaos and destruction. When will the madness end?
“Jackass president Biden has turned president Trump’s efforts to create world of balance and harmony into a topsy tervey mess of chaos and destruction. When will the madness end?”
That is exactly what has happened.
Ha!
Well, we know who they work for, then, don’t we?
Yep.
Trump reviewed all of this, very precisely, at his YUGE Iowa speech, last night.
The chance to be part of a prosperous BRIICSS-centred future is cooling a lot of jets. Israel & Iran will end up making nice.
Your post #6 is an excellent summary.
Not quite as much of blatant censoring like what Fox did to Newt Gingrich on "Outnumbered" back in 2020, but still pretty obvious.
Next? The announcement China has brought Germany and Mexico to their side... Elections have consequences...
“among the worst peacetime examples of industrial terrorism in world history”
People need to get their stories straight. We can either be fighting a proxy war, or it can be peacetime. It’s not both.
The dollar will lose its reserve currency status
Now substitute "China and Mexico" with "US and Ukraine".
Should paint an interesting picture, no?
And as far as the trolls? I'm pretty certain the stateside ones won't be going to the bunker with their paymasters/handlers.
Nordstrom (in German) is North stream.
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