The inexorable royal rot will go on, a tawdry affair bring no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung.
Attacked by cognitive harshness throughout the spectrum, the Empire of Turmoilnow acts as a manic depressive inmate, rotten to the core– a fate more filled with dread than having to deal with a revolt of the satrapies.
Only brain dead zombies now believe in its self-billed universal mission as the new Rome and the new Jerusalem. There’s no unifying culture, economy or geography knitting the core together throughout an “arid, desiccated, political landscape sweltering under the brassy sun of Apollonian ratiocination, devoid of enthusiasm, very manly, and empty of human empathy.”
Unaware Cold Warriors still imagine the days when the Germany-Japan axis was threatening to rule Eurasia and the Commonwealth was biting the dust– therefore offering Washington, afraid of being pushed into islandization, the as soon as in a lifetime chance to profit from WWII to erect itself as Supreme World Paradigm orgasm savior of the “totally free world”.
And then there were the unilateral 1990s, when the as soon as again self-billed Shining City on the Hill indulged in tawdry “end of history” events– simply as harmful neocons, gestated in the inter-war period by means of the gnostic cabal of New York Trotskysm, outlined their power takeover.
Today, it’s not Germany-Japan however the specter of a Russia-China-Germany entente that terrorizes the Hegemon as the Eurasian trio efficient in sending out American international domination to the dustbin of History.
Get in the American “technique”. And predictably, it’s a prodigy of narrow mindedness, not even desiring the status of– ineffective– exercise in irony or desperation, yielding as it is from the pedestrian Carnegie Endowment, with its HQ in Think Tank Row in between Dupont and Thomas Circle along Massachusetts Avenue in D.C.
Making U.S. Diplomacy Work Better for the Middle Class is a sort of bipartisan report directing the present, bewildered Crash Test Dummy administration. One of the 11 authors included is none besides National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. The notion that a worldwide royal strategy and– in this case– a deeply impoverished and enraged middle class share the very same interests does not even qualify as a lousy joke.
With “thinkers” like these, the Hegemon does not even need Eurasian “dangers”.
Wan na speak with Mr. Kinzhal?
On the other hand, in a script deserving of Dylan’s Desolation Row reworded by The Three Stooges, proverbial Atlanticist chihuahuas are raving that the Pentagon purchased the partition of NATO: Western Europe will consist of China, and Eastern Europe will contain Russia.
Yet what’s actually occurring in those passages of European power that truly matter– no, infant, that ain’t Warsaw– is that not just Berlin and Paris decline to annoy Beijing, however mull how to get closer to Moscow without enraging the Hegemon.
A lot for microwaved, Kissingerian Divide and Guideline. One of the couple of things the infamous war criminal actually got it was when he kept in mind, after the implosion of the USSR, that without Europe “the US would become a remote island in the coastline of Eurasia”: it would stay “in solitude, a small status”.
Life is a drag when the (global) totally free lunch is over and on top of it you need to deal with not only the introduction of a “peer competitor” in Eurasia (copyright Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski) but a comprehensive tactical collaboration. You fear that China is eating your lunch– and supper, and nightcap– but still you require Moscow as the designated enemy of option, because that’s what legitimizes NATO.
Call The Three Stooges! Let’s send the Europeans to patrol the South China Sea! Let’s get those Baltic nullities plus pathetic Poles to impose the New Iron Drape! And let’s release Russophobic Britannia Rules the Waves on both fronts!
Control Europe– or bust. Hence the Brave New NATO World: white male’s burden revisited– versus Russia-China.
Up until now, Russia-China had been displaying limitless Daoist persistence in handling those clowns. Not anymore.
The key gamers in the Heartland have actually clearly translucented the royal propaganda fog; it will be a long and winding roadway, however the horizon will eventually reveal a Germany-Russia-China-Iran alliance rebalancing the international chessboard.
This is the supreme Imperial Night of the Living Dead problem– thus these lowly American emissaries frantically scurrying around multiple latitudes attempting to keep the satrapies in line.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, China-Russia construct submarines like there’s no tomorrow geared up with cutting-edge rockets– and Su-57s invite sensible guys to a close conversation with a hypersonic Mr. Kinzhal.
Sergey Lavrov, like an aristocratic Grand Seigneur, took the trouble of informing the clowns with a stark, erudite differencebetween rule of law and their self-defined “rules-based worldwide order”.
That’s excessive for their collective IQ. Maybe what they will sign up is that the Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Relationship, and Cooperation, initially signed on July 16, 2001, has just been extended for 5 years by Presidents Putin and Xi.
As the Empire of Chaos is incrementally and inexorably expelled from the Heartland, Russia-China are jointly managing Main Asian affairs.
In the Central and South Asia connectivity conference in Tashkent, Lavrov detailed how Russia is driving “the Greater Eurasian Partnership, a unifying and integrational summary in between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans that is as totally free for the motion of goods, capital, labor and services as possible and which is open to every country of the typical continent of Eurasia and the integration unions created here.”
Then there’s the upgraded Russian National Security Method, which clearly outlines that developing a collaboration with the US and hitting win-win cooperation with the EU is a difficult task: “The contradictions in between Russia and the West are severe and are tough to resolve.” By contrast, tactical cooperation with China and India will be expanded.
A geopolitical earthquake
Yet the defining geopolitical development in the 2nd year of the Raging Twenties may well be China informing the Empire, “That’s enough”.
It began over two months back in Anchorage, when the formidable Yang Jiechi made shark fin’s soup out of the powerless American delegation. The piece de resistance came today in Tianjin, where Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng and his manager Wang Yi decreased mediocre royal bureaucrat Wendy Sherman to stagnant dumpling status.
This searing analysis by a Chinese think tank evaluated all the essential issues. Here are the highlights.
— The Americans wanted to make sure that “guardrails and borders” are developed to prevent a degeneration of U.S.-China relations in order to “handle” the relationship responsibly. That did not work, due to the fact that their approach was “horrible”.
— “Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng hit the nail on the head when he said that the U.S. “competitors, cooperation and confrontation” triad is a “blindfold” to include and reduce China. Conflict and containment are important, cooperation is profitable, and competition is a discourse trap. The U.S. needs cooperation when it is in need of China, however in areas where it thinks it has a benefit, it decouples and cuts off supplies, blocks and sanctions, and is willing to clash and confront China in order to contain it.”
— Xie Feng “likewise provided two lists to the U.S. side, a list of 16 products requesting the U.S. side to correct its wrong policies and words and deeds toward China, and a list of 10 top priority cases of China’s concern (…) if these anti-China problems caused by the U.S. side’s bent are not fixed, what is there to talk about in between China and the U.S.?”
— And then, the sorbet to choose the cheesecake: Wang Yi’s three bottom lines to Washington. In a nutshell:
- “The United States need to not challenge, denigrate or even try to subvert the socialist road and system with Chinese characteristics. China’s road and system are the option of history and the option of individuals, and they concern the long-term welfare of 1.4 billion Chinese people and the future destiny of the Chinese nation, which is the core interest that China need to stick to.”
- “The United States need to not attempt to block or perhaps disrupt China’s advancement process. The Chinese individuals definitely have the right to a better life, and China likewise deserves to modernization, which is not the monopoly of the United States and involves the basic conscience of humanity and international justice. China advises the U.S. side to expeditiously raise all unilateral sanctions, high tariffs, long-arm jurisdiction and the science and innovation blockade troubled China.”
- “The United States need to not infringe on China’s nationwide sovereignty, not to mention undermine China’s territorial integrity. The problems related to Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong are never ever about human rights or democracy, however rather about the significant rights and wrongs of fighting versus “Xinjiang self-reliance”, “Tibet self-reliance” and “Hong Kong self-reliance”. No country will enable its sovereign security to be jeopardized. As for the Taiwan problem, it is a leading priority (…) If “Taiwan self-reliance” dares to provoke, China deserves to take any ways required to stop it.”
Will the Empire of Mayhem sign up all of the above? Of course not. So the inexorable royal rot will go on, a tawdry affair bring no remarkable, aesthetic pathos deserving of a Gotterdammerung, barely eliciting even a glance from the Gods, “where they smile in trick, looking over wasted lands/ Blight and scarcity, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and intense sands,/ Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and hoping hands”, as Tennyson immortalized it. Yet what truly matters, in our realpolitik world, is that Beijing does not even care. The point has actually been made: “The Chinese have actually long had enough of American arrogance, and the time when the U.S. attempted to bully the Chinese is long gone.”
Now that’s the start of a brave new geopolitical world– and a prequel to a royal requiem. Many a sequel will follow.