Putin on the globalist destruction of the Middle East
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neo-conservative think tank that operated between 1997 and 2006. It openly advocated for the total global military domination by the United States. PNAC members held the highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration, including Robert Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) , Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and others.
PNAC is noteworthy for its focus on Iraq, a preoccupation that began before Bush became president and predates the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (Which begs the question – how authentic was 9/11?)
Some of the members of PNAC, such as Vin Weber, were also government lobbyists for military industrial companies such as Lockheed Martin, and other Fortune 500 companies. The more war, the higher the profits….
In this outtake, Vladimir Putin talks about arming terrorists in one MENA (Middle East and North Africa) country, yet fighting against them in another – “Where is the logic?” – he asks. However, if you look at it from the perspective that the intention was never to rehabilitate, but to destabilise – then it is all very logical indeed.
If it suddenly seems to you that all of this is happening deliberately – that’s because it is. At the end of the clip is the infamous 2007 speech by ex-NATO General Wesley Clark, on the US plan “to take down 7 countries in 5 years.” They may not have met their deadline, but we are now assured that Clark was not making it up.
Mr Clark himself commanded the NATO-led Kosovo War.
28 Comments on "Putin on the globalist destruction of the Middle East"
penury on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 4:49 pm
Makes true Americans sad, and the flag wavers scream more anti-Putin slogans.
Anonymous on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 5:01 pm
‘PNAC’, might not ‘officially exist’, at least on paper any longer, but it is still very much in business. Just read the manufactured reality produced by the Lame-stream Media for all the proof you need. All ‘PNAC’s dreams of a world in state of low to medium level chaos have come true, thanks to their tireless efforts.
Apneaman on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 5:26 pm
Anonymous, there is plenty of chaos and if it was all intentional, then they have done a masterful job. Hell, it’s such a mess and to me I see an enormous amount of incompetence, stupidity and bureaucratic bloat. Hey that could be manufacture or at least manipulated too.
A Record of Unparalleled Failure
“So here are five straightforward lessons — none acceptable in what passes for discussion and debate in this country — that could be drawn from that last half century of every kind of American warfare:
1. No matter how you define American-style war or its goals, it doesn’t work. Ever.
2. No matter how you pose the problems of our world, it doesn’t solve them. Never.
3. No matter how often you cite the use of military force to “stabilize” or “protect” or “liberate” countries or regions, it is a destabilizing force.
4. No matter how regularly you praise the American way of war and its “warriors,” the U.S. military is incapable of winning its wars.
5. No matter how often American presidents claim that the U.S. military is “the finest fighting force in history,” the evidence is in: it isn’t.”
I think much of the system runs in this fashion by design and is partly to blame for the general dumbing down of the western world. Critical thinkers are at a disadvantage in this world and speaking out is a career and social death sentence.
Are the rules better off broken?
There’s such a thing as too obedient, says Oliver Burkeman, as the Simple Sabotage Field Manual shows
“The thing most people find hardest to believe about the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is that it isn’t a joke. It really was a top-secret document, created in 1944 by the predecessor to the CIA, and it really was distributed to agents working behind enemy lines in the second world war. (It was made public in 2008 and now gets rediscovered online every year or two.) The manual is a guide to the art of “purposeful stupidity” – easy ways in which the citizens of occupied Europe might be encouraged to lower morale and wreak havoc in their workplaces, thereby helping bring down the Axis powers. What’s amazing is that it reads like a description of every modern jobsworth you’ve ever encountered.”
Whatever the successes or failures of the US geopolitical strategy. Three things must be noted. The US and the West in general is captured by supremely wealthy and potent financial interests, we can call them banking cartels or families. Second and I quote from George Orwell 1984 “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” Their is much truth to that in our reality and in the so called War on Terrorism . Thirdly, the sense of chaos and disorientation of Western policies is precisely because they are not acting as countries per say but as a ruthless super financial entity. Thus the push for Globalization and the tearing down of national boundaries for the sake of free trade. The creation of transnational organizations that dictate to countries. Regions of the world very underdeveloped are ruthlessly exploited and at times destroyed to allow capitalist vultures to take over economically and/or politically
Anonymous on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:21 pm
Funny. I am reminded of that scene from that jewish propaganda movie, schindler’s list, where some jews tried option#2.
Of course, this jew had gawd(the director) on his side. Wonder how many foot draggers in the real world had that option?
You know its not exactly hard to sow chaos. The old adage its easier to destroy, than create, comes to mind. The masters of empire in washingdum and tel Aviv have come to realize, chaos can be harnessed to suite their ends just as readily as peace and order can. Pepe Escobar does not refer to amerikans as the Empire of Chaos by accident, or because he thinks it sounds cool.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:26 pm
Once all the oil is pumped out of the Middle East, we can say goodbye to those people. Without any actual industry, last thing is they dynamite-belt each other to oblivion, long as we don’t let them come over here.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:30 pm
Look it how the defective website
Has a broken right margin.
Should the site owner fix it?
Of course not!
Everything should be broken,
Nothing should work.
Everybody should be stupid
Everybody should be fat
Those 3 rules govern America.
Wouldn’t want to break the rules.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:31 pm
Oops. 4 rules. Would not want
The website to allow us to fix iPhone errors
Either. That would violate rule #2.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 4:35 am
Putin is the #1 statesman of our time and most effective saboteur of the US global empire / NWO / Judaic State or whatever fancy name you want to give to the aspirations of the Sanhedrin. He is my #1 hope for the survival of Europe. Or to put it more naughtily, more provocative: he is the Hitler of the 21st century, but this time with much better cards; “Hitler” as in “standing up against the Sanhedrin”. And his best card is China, where Germany had merely Japan and ally from hell Italy.
And perhaps tonight it will become clear that Putin’s most desired ally, but still a US colony, I mean Europe, could begin to move over from Washington to Moscow, when in the election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, US #1 satrap Merkel will get a huge electoral slap in the face…
…and the anti-immigration party AfD could become #2, out of the blue, before Merkel’s CDU. If this does happen, the pressure on Merkel not to run again as chancellor next year, or even step down prematurely, will increase.
And even der Spiegel admits that next year Marine le Pen could become president of France. Marine le Pen and AfD are pro-Putin and pro-Trump. If additionally Trump will become president, the Sanhedrin will be out of business, slightly more than 100 years after it took over the US from the WASPs and the global European love fest can begin, from Portland to Boston, to Amsterdam, to Berlin, to Moscow and Wladiwostok…
…and the construction of a more segregated, multi-polar world of “Great Civilizations” can begin and where mass migration and “multiculturalism” will be things from the past. A multi-polar world where the Han and Aryan blocks will be the carrying pillars of that new global order. And within the European block (Trumpen-Reich, EU and Russia), Russia will need to be accepted as a fully fledged great European power and no longer an oligarch annex of the West like between 1991-2000.
But we are not there yet. PNAC is down but not out. But it is on life support, best illustrated by the fact that one of the most loyal and fanatical supporters of the US empire Brzezinski has given up on “benevolent hegemony”:
Brzezinski admits that the US can’t begin to hope to dominate everybody else and the died-in-the-wool geostrategist uses the occasion to launch yet another, now more modest, US Grand Strategy that should replace global hegemony aspirations. Summary:
1. There is no power in the world that alone can dominate the rest (true)
2. Russia could become a leading European state (true)
3. China will continue to rise and could become America’s equal and likely rival (true)
4. Europe will not become a global power and will continue to align itself with Washington (dubious assumption)
5. Blames developments in Muslim world on western colonialism (dubious assumption; it wants to return to its own roots, not out of resentment but because it is what it is)
My counter analysis:
1. Paris-Berlin-Moscow is inevitable because of the rise of China alone
2. Once the exceptionalist dream of America ruling it all will be over for every American to see, The European-Americans will have a good look in the mirror and secede and join Greater Europe as a sovereign partner in a sort of “white Roman-Christian Commonwealth”
3. All the Anglo dominated post-WW2 institutions like UN, IMF, WB, etc are going to be replaced by new institutions tailor-made for a multi-polar world located in Eurasia
4. Greater Europe and China will find a new model for colonization-lite of Africa and other hopeless territories
5. Turkey will succeed in setting up a neo-Ottoman empire once the West retreats from the Middle East, build on Turkey, Sunni parts of Syria and Iraq, KSA and Sunni Golf states. Later North-African states will follow
theedrich on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 4:42 am
Hillary will magnify the MENA wars. And engage in dangerous adventurism in eastern Europe. She has basically broadcast her intentions by covertly sending U.S. arms from Libya (on the day she let our ambassador be killed there) to Syria and by demonizing Russian president Putin. If the DC bribery snakepit persists in continuing down this road, we are going to force Russia (and probably also China) into World War Three with us. The idea that American “democracy” (actually bribe-ocracy) can be imposed on other countries by destroying them (à la Germany in WW II) is typical of the Zionistas and other sociopaths in DC. Whatever aspersions may be cast at Putin for his past actions, today he is the most rational leader on the planet.
The American masses, however, are much more interested in entertainment and race mixing as portrayed on the Jewbox than the survival of our civilization. So they will get the future they have merited.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:54 am
Best sign that the game is changing is the fact that China did NOT roll out the red carpet for the US Prompter reader and made him exit his plane by the emergency exit at the G20 meeting. No ‘royal’ welcome or significant level greeters. Basically, the finger … in a diplomatic way, of course.
“A White House official said Obama was our president and Air Force One was our plane.”
I love the reply:
“The Chinese official angrily responded “This is our country. This is our airport.”
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:11 am
“Chinesen blaffen Amerikaner an”
(“Chinese bark at Americans”):
Chinese officials behaved less than diplomatic when Americans arrived in China for the G20 summit.
“It is our land”, was the first thing the Chinese said, referring to the artificial fly poop islands in the South China Sea, the pretext the Chinese use to 1) get access to fossil fuel reserves suspected there and 2) drive the US navy out from their doorstep.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:52 am
“”Das ist unser Flughafen. Das ist unser Land.””
Correction, makati is correct, it did not refer to the SCS.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:12 am
“Hangzhou G20: China’s ambitions for global leadership”
We can pretty sure that Putin knows that the Middle East will explode as oil prices decline. That will leave $trillions in stranded assets that will crush the Western banking system, and the Western industrial, and military machine. Now that he has gotten US nuclear weapons out of Turkey, his next move will, most likely be, to see to their removal out of Eastern Europe. Russia is not enamored by the Western military attempt to corral them. The Russians see it as a threat. Holding the last oil card ensures that to eliminate that threat all they have to do is wait. Not too far into the future the West will desperately need Russian oil. Most likely the Russians would rather be paid in gold than blood.
“Perhaps Americans would care to pause a little and contemplate which alliance would best serve their interests after the end of Pax Americana. “
All through history China has been controlled by its warlords. That has not changed. The communist party was the vehicle that they used to propel themselves to stratospheric levels of wealth, while leaving the country an ecologically, and financially bankrupt disaster.
Although probably too late, the best move that the West could make would be to leave China as far in the rear view mirror as possible. Unfortunately, when China crashed she will take the rest of the world with her, no matter how far away they are!
Northwest Resident on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:20 pm
Once the Middle East explodes and the Western banking system (which is synonymous with the global banking system) collapses, my bet is that the U.S. and its allies will reclaim all or almost all of the Middle East oil. They will do this after the dust settles a little and starvation, disease and rampant local conflicts decimate the populations. What’s left of those populations will be systematically exterminated as needed by scorched earth and mass casualty policies, the “humanitarian” logic being that what the heck, they’re all going to die anyway. There will be no international press to cover this event, no CNBC or MSNBC or other “news sources” to highlight the humanitarian suffering. Worldwide, people won’t give a damn because they’ll be struggling for survival in their own little geographical neighborhood with no time or bandwidth to give a shit about anything else. It’s a fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves and the world into — “we” being humanity in general.
Like Jack Nicholson says in “The Witches of Eastwick” — did God plan it this way, or did he make a mistake?
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:34 pm
NWR, there is not much “profitable” oil left in the ME. Nor in most of the rest of the world. No profits, no oil, at least for the peasants. That means you and me. The Oily Age will be over. There will be no interest in the ME, or oil, by anyone. Eating and survival will be the primary concern of most of the 7+ billion of us.
As Short said, when the crash comes, it will take down the world financial system and kill the economies of most 1st and 2nd world countries. And, yes, it will also hurt 3rd worlders, but to a lessor extent. The poor will hardly notice the change. That means the end of any semblance of BAU, forever. That’s how I see it.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:13 pm
Followup on the Chinese greeting to world leaders.
Obama exits his plane to arguments and no reception…
“From 2002 through early last year, the Pentagon conducted 11 flight tests of the nation’s homeland missile defense system. The interceptors failed to destroy their targets in six of the 11 tests — a record that has prompted independent experts to conclude the system cannot be relied on to foil a nuclear strike by North Korea or Iran.”
Typical America made junk systems, aircraft, ships, etc.
Do you still feel safe and protected, Americans? LOL
““From 2002 through early last year, the Pentagon conducted 11 flight tests of the nation’s homeland missile defense system. “
Better than 50%, which, unless you are Russian, gives the US able time to disintegrate them. This is called “chicken” at 18,000 miles an hour. You would have to be a real suicidal nut case to take a shot like that.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:55 pm
Short: Missile time from Moscow to LA or DC is now less than 20 minutes. From subs, even quicker. No “second shot”.
Last time I did math, 6 misses out of 11 shots was a 55% miss rate. 1,000 (low guess) nukes aimed at the US means that about 550 will get thru. And, I would bet a lot more than that.
Especially if there is an EMP burst over Kansas just prior to launch. After all, there is nothing in America that an enemy would want to save. No worthwhile resources left. Certainly not the serfs.
There is no place to hid in a nuclear war, and, by all of the current signs, that is what is coming. Duck & Cover!
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:02 pm
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, there are TWO nuclear super powers on this planet!
Anyone else, in a head to head, is the equivalent to chopped meat. Small scale neutron weapons have made armored warfare obsolete. If he wasn’t dead, you could ask Saddam Hussein.
Hussein lost the equivalent of 700 T1 Russian tanks in three days, while the US lost no M1 Abrams and 5 men. They probably got run over by a half-track! The reason that the Allies had no resistance is that when they got there the resistance had all died? There was a photo on the internet that showed an Iraqi soldier with his gun melted into his hand. It didn’t stay up very long. The US has one opponent on this planet, and they will soon also have all the oil. It would be best if the US started talking to them while they still have something to talk about!
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:16 pm
“Short: Missile time from Moscow to LA or DC is now less than 20 minutes. From subs, even quicker. No “second shot”. “
18 minutes, because it is suborbital. The last time that I noticed, there is absolutely no suicidal tendencies in Russians — outside of vodka.
The Russians and the US have over 2000 deliverable nuclear weapons. You are never going to get them all. One Trident, or Russian equivalent remaining is more than enough to finish the job.
Like I said the Russians are not suicidal – is someone in the DOD?
Anonymous on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 10:02 pm
mak, I seriously doubt that the 6/11 claim is remotely true either. It often under-appreciated, and seldom reported fact that uS military test results are often faked, for a variety of reasons. Mostly to do with $$$. When it comes to intercepting missiles with other missiles, I think this has to be one of the biggest frauds in the history of warfare, or just of frauds period. No one has the technology, sensors or computing power, to reliably build a system that can shoot down supersonic missiles 50% of the time. I don’t give two shits what the professional liars @ raytheon or General Dynamics, or the jews with there yiddish dome ‘defence’ claim. None of their claims about their missile defence systems can be independently, or even operationally verified.
Slower moving cruise missiles, yes. Supersonic or ballistic missiles, no. I don’t buy the claim the uS(or anyone) can shoot these down at anywhere near the rates the builder’s claim, if at all. Shooting down missiles, with other missiles, has been likened to shooting down a bullet with another bullet. And its barely more technically feasible today than it was when the idea first appeared a few decades ago. The US cant even build jet fighters, ships, or helicopters that work properly anymore. Something they used to have SOME competence at. You think they can shoot down a supersonic missile 50%, or 55% if you prefer, in flight?
Dont think so.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:19 pm
Me neither, Anon. I was just using the articles stats. If there are any that can, I believe they belong to the Russians. not the US.
penury on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 4:49 pm
Makes true Americans sad, and the flag wavers scream more anti-Putin slogans.
Anonymous on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 5:01 pm
‘PNAC’, might not ‘officially exist’, at least on paper any longer, but it is still very much in business. Just read the manufactured reality produced by the Lame-stream Media for all the proof you need. All ‘PNAC’s dreams of a world in state of low to medium level chaos have come true, thanks to their tireless efforts.
Apneaman on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 5:26 pm
Anonymous, there is plenty of chaos and if it was all intentional, then they have done a masterful job. Hell, it’s such a mess and to me I see an enormous amount of incompetence, stupidity and bureaucratic bloat. Hey that could be manufacture or at least manipulated too.
A Record of Unparalleled Failure
“So here are five straightforward lessons — none acceptable in what passes for discussion and debate in this country — that could be drawn from that last half century of every kind of American warfare:
1. No matter how you define American-style war or its goals, it doesn’t work. Ever.
2. No matter how you pose the problems of our world, it doesn’t solve them. Never.
3. No matter how often you cite the use of military force to “stabilize” or “protect” or “liberate” countries or regions, it is a destabilizing force.
4. No matter how regularly you praise the American way of war and its “warriors,” the U.S. military is incapable of winning its wars.
5. No matter how often American presidents claim that the U.S. military is “the finest fighting force in history,” the evidence is in: it isn’t.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175854/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,_a_record_of_unparalleled_failure/
I think much of the system runs in this fashion by design and is partly to blame for the general dumbing down of the western world. Critical thinkers are at a disadvantage in this world and speaking out is a career and social death sentence.
Are the rules better off broken?
There’s such a thing as too obedient, says Oliver Burkeman, as the Simple Sabotage Field Manual shows
“The thing most people find hardest to believe about the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is that it isn’t a joke. It really was a top-secret document, created in 1944 by the predecessor to the CIA, and it really was distributed to agents working behind enemy lines in the second world war. (It was made public in 2008 and now gets rediscovered online every year or two.) The manual is a guide to the art of “purposeful stupidity” – easy ways in which the citizens of occupied Europe might be encouraged to lower morale and wreak havoc in their workplaces, thereby helping bring down the Axis powers. What’s amazing is that it reads like a description of every modern jobsworth you’ve ever encountered.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/02/rules-better-off-broken-oliver-burkeman
onlooker on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:08 pm
Whatever the successes or failures of the US geopolitical strategy. Three things must be noted. The US and the West in general is captured by supremely wealthy and potent financial interests, we can call them banking cartels or families. Second and I quote from George Orwell 1984 “The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” Their is much truth to that in our reality and in the so called War on Terrorism . Thirdly, the sense of chaos and disorientation of Western policies is precisely because they are not acting as countries per say but as a ruthless super financial entity. Thus the push for Globalization and the tearing down of national boundaries for the sake of free trade. The creation of transnational organizations that dictate to countries. Regions of the world very underdeveloped are ruthlessly exploited and at times destroyed to allow capitalist vultures to take over economically and/or politically
Anonymous on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:21 pm
Funny. I am reminded of that scene from that jewish propaganda movie, schindler’s list, where some jews tried option#2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veztNJQyRJg
Of course, this jew had gawd(the director) on his side. Wonder how many foot draggers in the real world had that option?
You know its not exactly hard to sow chaos. The old adage its easier to destroy, than create, comes to mind. The masters of empire in washingdum and tel Aviv have come to realize, chaos can be harnessed to suite their ends just as readily as peace and order can. Pepe Escobar does not refer to amerikans as the Empire of Chaos by accident, or because he thinks it sounds cool.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:26 pm
Once all the oil is pumped out of the Middle East, we can say goodbye to those people. Without any actual industry, last thing is they dynamite-belt each other to oblivion, long as we don’t let them come over here.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:30 pm
Look it how the defective website
Has a broken right margin.
Should the site owner fix it?
Of course not!
Everything should be broken,
Nothing should work.
Everybody should be stupid
Everybody should be fat
Those 3 rules govern America.
Wouldn’t want to break the rules.
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 3rd Sep 2016 6:31 pm
Oops. 4 rules. Would not want
The website to allow us to fix iPhone errors
Either. That would violate rule #2.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 4:35 am
Putin is the #1 statesman of our time and most effective saboteur of the US global empire / NWO / Judaic State or whatever fancy name you want to give to the aspirations of the Sanhedrin. He is my #1 hope for the survival of Europe. Or to put it more naughtily, more provocative: he is the Hitler of the 21st century, but this time with much better cards; “Hitler” as in “standing up against the Sanhedrin”. And his best card is China, where Germany had merely Japan and ally from hell Italy.
And perhaps tonight it will become clear that Putin’s most desired ally, but still a US colony, I mean Europe, could begin to move over from Washington to Moscow, when in the election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, US #1 satrap Merkel will get a huge electoral slap in the face…
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wahl-in-mecklenburg-vorpommern-afd-koennte-zweitstaerkste-kraft-werden-a-1110817.html
…and the anti-immigration party AfD could become #2, out of the blue, before Merkel’s CDU. If this does happen, the pressure on Merkel not to run again as chancellor next year, or even step down prematurely, will increase.
And even der Spiegel admits that next year Marine le Pen could become president of France. Marine le Pen and AfD are pro-Putin and pro-Trump. If additionally Trump will become president, the Sanhedrin will be out of business, slightly more than 100 years after it took over the US from the WASPs and the global European love fest can begin, from Portland to Boston, to Amsterdam, to Berlin, to Moscow and Wladiwostok…
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/673864204923879428
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVs0T8xU8AAy2oJ.jpg:large
…and the construction of a more segregated, multi-polar world of “Great Civilizations” can begin and where mass migration and “multiculturalism” will be things from the past. A multi-polar world where the Han and Aryan blocks will be the carrying pillars of that new global order. And within the European block (Trumpen-Reich, EU and Russia), Russia will need to be accepted as a fully fledged great European power and no longer an oligarch annex of the West like between 1991-2000.
But we are not there yet. PNAC is down but not out. But it is on life support, best illustrated by the fact that one of the most loyal and fanatical supporters of the US empire Brzezinski has given up on “benevolent hegemony”:
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/17/toward-a-global-realignment/
Brzezinski admits that the US can’t begin to hope to dominate everybody else and the died-in-the-wool geostrategist uses the occasion to launch yet another, now more modest, US Grand Strategy that should replace global hegemony aspirations. Summary:
1. There is no power in the world that alone can dominate the rest (true)
2. Russia could become a leading European state (true)
3. China will continue to rise and could become America’s equal and likely rival (true)
4. Europe will not become a global power and will continue to align itself with Washington (dubious assumption)
5. Blames developments in Muslim world on western colonialism (dubious assumption; it wants to return to its own roots, not out of resentment but because it is what it is)
My counter analysis:
1. Paris-Berlin-Moscow is inevitable because of the rise of China alone
2. Once the exceptionalist dream of America ruling it all will be over for every American to see, The European-Americans will have a good look in the mirror and secede and join Greater Europe as a sovereign partner in a sort of “white Roman-Christian Commonwealth”
3. All the Anglo dominated post-WW2 institutions like UN, IMF, WB, etc are going to be replaced by new institutions tailor-made for a multi-polar world located in Eurasia
4. Greater Europe and China will find a new model for colonization-lite of Africa and other hopeless territories
5. Turkey will succeed in setting up a neo-Ottoman empire once the West retreats from the Middle East, build on Turkey, Sunni parts of Syria and Iraq, KSA and Sunni Golf states. Later North-African states will follow
theedrich on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 4:42 am
Hillary will magnify the MENA wars. And engage in dangerous adventurism in eastern Europe. She has basically broadcast her intentions by covertly sending U.S. arms from Libya (on the day she let our ambassador be killed there) to Syria and by demonizing Russian president Putin. If the DC bribery snakepit persists in continuing down this road, we are going to force Russia (and probably also China) into World War Three with us. The idea that American “democracy” (actually bribe-ocracy) can be imposed on other countries by destroying them (à la Germany in WW II) is typical of the Zionistas and other sociopaths in DC. Whatever aspersions may be cast at Putin for his past actions, today he is the most rational leader on the planet.
The American masses, however, are much more interested in entertainment and race mixing as portrayed on the Jewbox than the survival of our civilization. So they will get the future they have merited.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:54 am
Best sign that the game is changing is the fact that China did NOT roll out the red carpet for the US Prompter reader and made him exit his plane by the emergency exit at the G20 meeting. No ‘royal’ welcome or significant level greeters. Basically, the finger … in a diplomatic way, of course.
“A White House official said Obama was our president and Air Force One was our plane.”
I love the reply:
“The Chinese official angrily responded “This is our country. This is our airport.”
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:11 am
“Chinesen blaffen Amerikaner an”
(“Chinese bark at Americans”):
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/g20-gipfel-zoff-zwischen-china-und-den-usa-a-1110809.html
Chinese officials behaved less than diplomatic when Americans arrived in China for the G20 summit.
“It is our land”, was the first thing the Chinese said, referring to the artificial fly poop islands in the South China Sea, the pretext the Chinese use to 1) get access to fossil fuel reserves suspected there and 2) drive the US navy out from their doorstep.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:52 am
“”Das ist unser Flughafen. Das ist unser Land.””
Correction, makati is correct, it did not refer to the SCS.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:12 am
“Hangzhou G20: China’s ambitions for global leadership”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37241315
1300 million people with an average IQ of 100 and solid work ethic, just like us westerners.
Perhaps Americans would care to pause a little and contemplate which alliance would best serve their interests after the end of Pax Americana.
Cloggie on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:14 am
Video of the “barking incident”, not really that spectacular as the China-man said it to an aid, not Obama himself:
http://www.infowars.com/this-is-our-country-tempers-flare-as-obama-arrives-in-china/
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 12:52 pm
We can pretty sure that Putin knows that the Middle East will explode as oil prices decline. That will leave $trillions in stranded assets that will crush the Western banking system, and the Western industrial, and military machine. Now that he has gotten US nuclear weapons out of Turkey, his next move will, most likely be, to see to their removal out of Eastern Europe. Russia is not enamored by the Western military attempt to corral them. The Russians see it as a threat. Holding the last oil card ensures that to eliminate that threat all they have to do is wait. Not too far into the future the West will desperately need Russian oil. Most likely the Russians would rather be paid in gold than blood.
http://www.thehillsgroup.org/depletion2_022.htm
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:14 pm
“Perhaps Americans would care to pause a little and contemplate which alliance would best serve their interests after the end of Pax Americana. “
All through history China has been controlled by its warlords. That has not changed. The communist party was the vehicle that they used to propel themselves to stratospheric levels of wealth, while leaving the country an ecologically, and financially bankrupt disaster.
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/08/china-and-the-new-world-disorder/
Although probably too late, the best move that the West could make would be to leave China as far in the rear view mirror as possible. Unfortunately, when China crashed she will take the rest of the world with her, no matter how far away they are!
Northwest Resident on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 1:20 pm
Once the Middle East explodes and the Western banking system (which is synonymous with the global banking system) collapses, my bet is that the U.S. and its allies will reclaim all or almost all of the Middle East oil. They will do this after the dust settles a little and starvation, disease and rampant local conflicts decimate the populations. What’s left of those populations will be systematically exterminated as needed by scorched earth and mass casualty policies, the “humanitarian” logic being that what the heck, they’re all going to die anyway. There will be no international press to cover this event, no CNBC or MSNBC or other “news sources” to highlight the humanitarian suffering. Worldwide, people won’t give a damn because they’ll be struggling for survival in their own little geographical neighborhood with no time or bandwidth to give a shit about anything else. It’s a fine mess we’ve gotten ourselves and the world into — “we” being humanity in general.
Like Jack Nicholson says in “The Witches of Eastwick” — did God plan it this way, or did he make a mistake?
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 5:34 pm
NWR, there is not much “profitable” oil left in the ME. Nor in most of the rest of the world. No profits, no oil, at least for the peasants. That means you and me. The Oily Age will be over. There will be no interest in the ME, or oil, by anyone. Eating and survival will be the primary concern of most of the 7+ billion of us.
As Short said, when the crash comes, it will take down the world financial system and kill the economies of most 1st and 2nd world countries. And, yes, it will also hurt 3rd worlders, but to a lessor extent. The poor will hardly notice the change. That means the end of any semblance of BAU, forever. That’s how I see it.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:13 pm
Followup on the Chinese greeting to world leaders.
Obama exits his plane to arguments and no reception…
Putin gets Red Carpet treatment and welcome…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-04/after-snubbing-obama-china-gives-putin-red-carpet-treatment-warns-against-protection
Signs of the times…
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:27 pm
In other war news:
“From 2002 through early last year, the Pentagon conducted 11 flight tests of the nation’s homeland missile defense system. The interceptors failed to destroy their targets in six of the 11 tests — a record that has prompted independent experts to conclude the system cannot be relied on to foil a nuclear strike by North Korea or Iran.”
Typical America made junk systems, aircraft, ships, etc.
Do you still feel safe and protected, Americans? LOL
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 6:30 pm
Ref to above:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-04/boeing-gets-mind-boggling-2-billion-bonus-despite-failed-missile-defense-system-test
And the beat goes on…
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:36 pm
““From 2002 through early last year, the Pentagon conducted 11 flight tests of the nation’s homeland missile defense system. “
Better than 50%, which, unless you are Russian, gives the US able time to disintegrate them. This is called “chicken” at 18,000 miles an hour. You would have to be a real suicidal nut case to take a shot like that.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 7:55 pm
Short: Missile time from Moscow to LA or DC is now less than 20 minutes. From subs, even quicker. No “second shot”.
Last time I did math, 6 misses out of 11 shots was a 55% miss rate. 1,000 (low guess) nukes aimed at the US means that about 550 will get thru. And, I would bet a lot more than that.
Especially if there is an EMP burst over Kansas just prior to launch. After all, there is nothing in America that an enemy would want to save. No worthwhile resources left. Certainly not the serfs.
There is no place to hid in a nuclear war, and, by all of the current signs, that is what is coming. Duck & Cover!
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:02 pm
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, there are TWO nuclear super powers on this planet!
Anyone else, in a head to head, is the equivalent to chopped meat. Small scale neutron weapons have made armored warfare obsolete. If he wasn’t dead, you could ask Saddam Hussein.
Hussein lost the equivalent of 700 T1 Russian tanks in three days, while the US lost no M1 Abrams and 5 men. They probably got run over by a half-track! The reason that the Allies had no resistance is that when they got there the resistance had all died? There was a photo on the internet that showed an Iraqi soldier with his gun melted into his hand. It didn’t stay up very long. The US has one opponent on this planet, and they will soon also have all the oil. It would be best if the US started talking to them while they still have something to talk about!
shortonoil on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 8:16 pm
“Short: Missile time from Moscow to LA or DC is now less than 20 minutes. From subs, even quicker. No “second shot”. “
18 minutes, because it is suborbital. The last time that I noticed, there is absolutely no suicidal tendencies in Russians — outside of vodka.
The Russians and the US have over 2000 deliverable nuclear weapons. You are never going to get them all. One Trident, or Russian equivalent remaining is more than enough to finish the job.
Like I said the Russians are not suicidal – is someone in the DOD?
Anonymous on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 10:02 pm
mak, I seriously doubt that the 6/11 claim is remotely true either. It often under-appreciated, and seldom reported fact that uS military test results are often faked, for a variety of reasons. Mostly to do with $$$. When it comes to intercepting missiles with other missiles, I think this has to be one of the biggest frauds in the history of warfare, or just of frauds period. No one has the technology, sensors or computing power, to reliably build a system that can shoot down supersonic missiles 50% of the time. I don’t give two shits what the professional liars @ raytheon or General Dynamics, or the jews with there yiddish dome ‘defence’ claim. None of their claims about their missile defence systems can be independently, or even operationally verified.
Slower moving cruise missiles, yes. Supersonic or ballistic missiles, no. I don’t buy the claim the uS(or anyone) can shoot these down at anywhere near the rates the builder’s claim, if at all. Shooting down missiles, with other missiles, has been likened to shooting down a bullet with another bullet. And its barely more technically feasible today than it was when the idea first appeared a few decades ago. The US cant even build jet fighters, ships, or helicopters that work properly anymore. Something they used to have SOME competence at. You think they can shoot down a supersonic missile 50%, or 55% if you prefer, in flight?
Dont think so.
makati1 on Sun, 4th Sep 2016 11:19 pm
Me neither, Anon. I was just using the articles stats. If there are any that can, I believe they belong to the Russians. not the US.