Posted on 03/11/2023 9:37:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Besides spending America into bankruptcy, Joe Biden's legacy as president can be summed up with: If President Trump built it, he broke it.
Which brings us to the Middle East.
According to Reuters:
DUBAI/RIYADH, March 10 (Reuters) - Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed on Friday to re-establish relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East from Yemen to Syria.
The deal, brokered by China, was announced after four days of previously undisclosed talks in Beijing between top security officials from the two rival Middle East powers.
Let's stop right there. Beijing did these negotiations as the great power broker for the region, the one they all turned to for fair mediation?
Beijing? That great peacemaker Beijing?
And America was cut out of the action? The U.S. got told about it after the deed was done, same as everyone else?
Gabriel Noronha has an interesting analysis in the Washington Examiner:
Gone are the days when the Rose Garden was packed with peacemakers heralding the Abraham Accords. Today, Middle Eastern leaders are flocking to the Forbidden City for the "Beijing Dialogues."
China has brokered a resumption of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia. It's a coup for Beijing’s reputation in the region and a blow to American interests. The Iranian and Saudi national security advisers shook hands on either side of Wang Yi, the top Chinese diplomat, while dozens of Chinese state-owned media cameras clicked away.
Which marks quite a failure for Joe Biden, given that nobody wanted him to be involved in any brokered negotiations with the Iranians, despite all the sucking up he's done for Iran. They didn't want the U.S. involved, they wanted the ChiComs to take care of this.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That’s indeed a big loss of influence for the U.S. in the region and could actually shift the balance of power, given Beijing’s alliance with Russia. The Chicoms already have the hooks in in various outposts of the Middle East through their Belt and Road initiative, and they’ve made big inroads in Afghanistan and Iraq, cleaning up on the influence front after the American pullouts.
Iraq, which is an oil barony, recently declared that it would accept payments for its oil shipments in yuan, allowing Beijing to get the hooks in even deeper.
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Iraq, which is an oil barony, recently declared that it would accept payments for its oil shipments in yuan, allowing Beijing to get the hooks in even deeper.
One could add that it was our stupid trade deals that gave China the money they needed to do all of this, and that's as much the Republicans' fault as the Democrats'.
I would like to say that this country deserves whatever happens to it, but it's our children who will pay for the mess we made.
Only God can save this country now, because we sure can't.
It is apparent that on FR, this regime cannot get anything right at all - zilch, nada! Oh, except for Ukraine. That one we are all behind! All the way to WWIII.
“Concerning a BRICS expansion, Lavrov stated that Algeria, Argentina, and Iran had all applied, while it is already known that Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Egypt and Afghanistan are interested, along with Indonesia, which is expected to make a formal application to join at the upcoming G20 summit in Bali.
Other likely contenders for membership include Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Senegal, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. All had their Finance Ministers present at the BRICS Expansion dialogue meeting held in May.”
BRICS+
China is the driving force behind BRICS. Apparently sovereign nations are scrambling for some protection from the western woke green globalists. BRICS+ is now a counterbalance to the west’s ability to put a country in an economic stranglehold. Also, in reaction to the globalists, Russia will soon achieve client state status to their Chinese benefactors. As North American production is being throttled by the climate scam, BRICS will have a greater control of world energy production than OPEC did. Look at how much of the world’s food production will be coming out of the Chinese allied nations. The Woke Green Western Globalists v China and the rest of the world. We might be on the wrong side.
More here:
https://asiatimes.com/2013/10/a-pax-sinica-in-the-middle-east/
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidpgoldman/status/1634198296842457091
https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/pax-sinica-of-sorts-taking-shape-in-middle-east/
US media is so slow to catch up with what’s going on in much of the world. The shaping of these developments has been news in other parts of the world for some time.
Major US media dismantled their foreign bureaus at the end of the Cold War, once headed by journalists who had long covered and had deep knowledge of their regions and staffed with experienced foreign correspondents. Now that we are headed back to a new Cold War footing, I don’t have much hope they will go back to the old model. Too much has changed.
“That’s indeed a big loss of influence for the U.S. in the region and could actually shift the balance of power, given Beijing’s alliance with Russia.”
But you don’t understand. According to the Neocons and their Cheerleaders it’s: Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine...
...and some future Republican Administration will deal with the damage from that policy.
(but not in our lifetimes - as people in other countries remember...remember everything, just as MBS showed this week when he jettisoned the US for Iran/Russia/China)
From the start I have been saying that whoever “wins” the war in Ukraine, China will be the real winner and they know it (already they are winning on a number of fronts thanks to our leaders’ foolishness).
Right at the very beginning of the Russian invasion last year, an influential academic at a hawkish Chinese think tank used a Chinese idiom to describe it:
“The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind”
(figurative meaning: “to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger”)
Then says “The bigger question that the United States is unwilling to face is, who is the mantis and who is the cicada?” China is obviously the oriole. So are we the cicada or the mantis? And which is Russia? Does it matter?
Have a look at a praying mantis attempting to capture a cicada:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A7tqJoVGs
As you can see, both are large insects. The mantis is strong, and intelligent for an insect, with amazing reach, but the huge, noisy, primitive cicada is also very strong, well-armored and has an enormous wingspan. Both are likely to be damaged or weakened in such a fight. Meanwhile, the oriole stalks from behind.
Link to essay by Chinese academic Chen Feng’s essay (you’ll have to run it through Google translate or Siri). Long, but well worth the read — and keep in mind it was written back at the beginning of March 2022):
https://m.guancha.cn/ChenFeng3/2022_03_02_628308
I don’t believe this nullified a single Abraham accord.
I wouldn’t get quite as pessimistic as this writer.
When Trump comes back, there will be more nations signing on.
Brandon’s goal is to unite the world against the U.S. He’s doing great so far.
Saudi Arabia sees Iran for what it is. An agreement like this does not mean SA all of a sudden trusts Iran any farther than it can drop kick it.
I believe this is more of a head fake than a 180 degree turn in relations.
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