Posted on 06/12/2023 3:51:22 AM PDT by FarCenter
The Hybrid War 2.0 against the Global South has not even started. Swing states, you have all been warned.
U.S. Think Tank Land hacks are not exactly familiar with Montaigne: “On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
Hubris leads these specimens to presume their flaccid bottoms are placed high above anyone else’s. The result is that a trademark mix of arrogance and ignorance always ends up unmasking the predictability of their forecasts.
U.S. Think Tank Land – inebriated by their self-created aura of power – always telegraphs in advance what they’re up to. That was the case with Project 9/11 (“We need a new Pearl Harbor”). That was the case with the RAND report on over-extending and unbalancing Russia. And now that’s the case with the incoming
American War on BRICS as outlined by the chairman of the New York-based Eurasia Group.
It’s always painful to suffer through the intellectually shallow Think Thank Land wet dreams masquerading as “analyses” but in this particular case key Global South players need to be firmly aware of what awaits them.
Predictably, the whole “analysis” revolves around the imminent, devastating humiliation to the Hegemon and its vassals: what happens next in country 404, also known – for now – as Ukraine.
Brazil, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are dismissed as “four major fence-sitters” when it comes to the U.S./NATO proxy war against Russia. It’s the same old “you’re with us or against us” trope.
But then we are presented with the six major Global South culprits: Brazil, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey.
In yet another crude, parochial remix of a catch phrase referring to the American elections, these are qualified as the key swing states the Hegemon will need to seduce, cajole, intimidate and threaten to assure its dominance of the “rules-based international order”.
Saudi Arabia and South Africa are added to a previous report focused on the “four major fence sitters”.
The swing state manifesto notes that all of them are G-20 members and “active in both geopolitics and geoeconomics” (Oh really? Now that’s some breaking news). What it does not say is that three of them are BRICS members (Brazil, India, South Africa) and the other three are serious candidates to join BRICS+: deliberations will be turbo-charged in the upcoming BRICS summit in South Africa in August.
So it’s clear what the swing state manifesto is all about: a call to arms for the American war against the BRICS.
Neocon Democrats and neocon Republicans pushed all these countries into this BRICS situation, and the neocons still have the effing nerve to then criticize them?!
“Strategic Culture” is a Russian propaganda publication.
The author of this article is listed as “Pablo Escobar”. That’s the name of a major Colombian drug lord, who was killed 30 years ago.
For the goal of this article that pseudonym just signifies the sentiment of “Death to ameriKKKa!”
“The author of this article is listed as “Pablo Escobar”.”
The author’s name...per the actual article...is “Pepe Escobar”.
Typo...or wishful thinking...by the original poster.
Various regions of countries of Earth do not blindly worship the crook politicians of the USA. Who knew?! I for one am shocked by such a revelation. Sarcasm of course. The crook politicians of the other countries have got their own ideas about how to manage the mafia style affairs of industries and commerce.
PEPE Escobar, not Pablo.
My mistake. Still - a Russian propaganda publication registered in Moscow and owned by the Russian government.
They chose a pseudonym and it just rhymes while it does not match exactly.
Here are a few others of equal value.....
-Vietnam
-Iraq
-Afghanistan
-Stolen election
-Awarding a brain-dead whacko who can't cobble two words together as our so-called President
-Ukraine
-COVID
-Over $30 TRILLION in debt
We look like fools to ourselves and, more importantly, the rest of the world.
Yeah, we have our own propaganda though don’t we?
In fact, that and the corruption here makes the US not a whole lot better than any other country and as of late, we are in banana republic zone.
Every other country sees this so why stick with the USA? Why not start a new coalition like BRICS?
On 16 March 2023, Russia announced that it supported Algeria’s bid to join BRICS.[81]
On 25 April 2023, it was announced that 19 countries had expressed interest in joining BRICS.[82]
Countries that have applied for membership
Algeria[80] (applied in 2022)
Argentina[80] (applied in 2022)
Bahrain[83]
Egypt[83]
Indonesia[84]
Iran[80] (applied in 2022)
Saudi Arabia[83]
United Arab Emirates[83]
In addition, Afghanistan,[78] Bangladesh, Belarus, Comoros, Cuba, the D.R. Congo, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau,[85] Kazakhstan,[79] Mexico, Nicaragua,[79] Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal,[79] Sudan, Syria, Thailand,[79] Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe have expressed interest in membership of BRICS.[86][87][88][89][90]
Many of those countries are small and a joke like Venezuela, Cuba but many are not. Brazil is big, and Saudi Arabia got the oil. Pakistan, even though a mess, has 250 million people. Then there’s Mexico. I doubt they would bite the hand that feeds them but if some other hand starts feeding them, who knows? It’s obvious they could care less what we think these days but they do manufacture a lot of stuff for us.
The biggest thing that should concern us:
BRICS countries will likely discuss the feasibility of a new common currency or similar at the 2023 BRICS summit in South Africa.[104] Fair and easier international trade as well as a major reduction in costs of transactions would be some of the reasons why the countries could forge a currency union, according to Mikatekiso Kubayi, a BRICS specialist.[105] Former White House senior advisor Joseph W. Sullivan, writing for American magazine Foreign Policy, asserted that “a BRICS-issued currency would be different”, as it would be comprised by challengers to the Western-led international that “in the order the scale of GDP, now collectively outweigh not only the reigning hegemon, the United States, but the entire G-7 weight class put together.”[106] Sullivan maintains that the BRICS would also be poised to achieve a level of self-sufficiency in international trade that has eluded other currency unions, such as the Eurozone, because of the geographic diversity of its members, which enables a broader range of goods and services.[107]
Neocon, neocon....... you got to say neocon twice.
Whois returns the following data:
Domain:strategic-culture.org
Registrar:Regional Network Information Center, JSC dba RU-CENTER
Registered On:2010-06-08
Organization:Privacy protection service - whoisproxy.ru
State:Moscow
Country:RU
For the sake of clarity, I personally think all sides in the larger geopolitical conflict going on are heavily involved in "propaganda publication." The Biden, Putin and -- to wander into another Freeper passion of the moment -- Ukraine governments certainly are. One could guess that far more nations are as well.
What is certain is that there are geopolitical realignments going on, and we as America are playing it poorly, for having adopted the same game as the others. Lies are no substitute for truth, corruption no substitute for honesty, and propaganda no substitute for open discussion and debate.
As we are about 4% of the world's population, sooner or later, we will have to start acting like that is a reality. Whether it was Gingrich's "world policeman" chatter or Biden's "lead the liberal world," one thing is very clear.
$32,000,000,000,000 in debt and steadily growing is a very foolish game indeed, as was industrialization which the Clintons so accelerated and of which the likes of Perot warned about. The warnings from Washington in 1786, as with the warnings from Eisenhower in 1961, have been ignored to our peril.
I was about to post about the name mixup. It was the first thing I noticed. For a second, I thought, well, there must be other people unfortunately named Pablo Escobar, but after reading the first two sentences, I knew this was a Pepe piece.
I’ve been reading Pepe for over 20 years now, off and on (mostly off these last years), and used to fondly think of him as my fave whackadoodle commie. (As in I’d read a new piece by him with the thought “wonder what Commie Pepe is going on about today?”) Yes, he’s a commie, typical South American variety. He’s also very smart and has an uncanny ability to pick up on various world developments and various puzzle pieces and fit them together, and often has an amusing writing style.
You have to read his stuff with great shovelfuls of salt, but he’s often onto something or other. He used to be obsessed with what he called “pipeline-istan”. While it’s true that pipelines are of vital strategic interest, they are not the *sole* reason for various conflicts on the soil above them, and I think he went too far in that vein. Still, interesting bits of info that could be verified via other sources when one bothered to look. Yes, a some pieces of the puzzle, but not the whole picture puzzle.
Anyway, he was writing about China’s BRI and how the US was stupidly pushing Russia into a very reluctant alliance with China over 20 years ago, and made some sense there (if one simply laughed at his overblown prose and hatred of the American Empire). Anyway, you kinda have to take Pepe with a sense of humor and read his stuff kinda “ inside out” if you want to read it at all.
I’m not surprised he’s writing for a Russian organization these days.
Agree all way about the propaganda wars. That’s been going on forever, though.
All good propaganda has an element of truth in it, and this does. And it’s amusing. What I will watch with interest, though, is the meeting of these BRICS and BRICS+ big shots in South Africa later this summer. How many will survive it? Will there even be a South Africa in August?
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Best wishes.
An excellent point. Dysfunction shows itself without much urging. After all the USSR and, important to me, the DDR simply dissolved. Ditto for the "debt" of Argentina, poster child of abrogations throughout the 20th century.
Sometimes fighting against only prolongs the time before dysfunction cannot be further suppressed. My favorite, in the moment, is the fine and sad City of San Francisco, wherein the idiot Democrat mayor bypassed the Democrat Board of Supervisors, bypassed the Democrat state super-majority, bypassed the idiot Democrat Governor of the state, and said "Biden isn't doing enough" to help the city. Dysfunction. It's what's being served in Idiotville.
Walk away.
For what it’s worth, BRICS is a Lyndon LaRouche initiative dating from the late 1980’s. Same for the Belt and Road initiative, which LaRouche originally termed the “Silk Road Initiative”. LaRounche’s organization was a total Trump supporter from the minute Trump announced his candidacy, to the point that it created a schism in their organization between those who wanted to put all their resources to work for Trump and those who didn’t. LaRouche was a conservative Democrat. Our lack of political savvy is preventing an alliance between patriots and conservative Democrats which is in error. ERROR.
The American Empire just indicted a former President on phony process charges, ala Pakistan-istan.
Are we laughing now?
“publication registered in Moscow and owned by the Russian government.”
Didn’t know that. Thanks for the info...
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