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.
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.
“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)