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Written by Eric Zuesse.
The reason, in a nutshell, is that America’s neoconservatism (or aggressive insistence that it must remain the world’s leading nation) is antagonizing so many previously neutral or “non-aligned” nations to shun America, so that the steam is going out of the U.S.-led effort to salvage Ukraine as a U.S. ‘ally’. America’s existing ‘allies’ need to “follow their leader,” but other nations don’t — and, increasingly, they are not.
On 28 May 2014, at the very height of American neoconservatism, and just three months after America’s coup had grabbed control over Ukraine in February 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama arrogantly announced to America’s future generals:
The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. That has been true for the century passed and it will be true for the century to come. … Russia’s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China’s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us, and governments seek a greater say in global forums. … It will be your generation’s task to respond to this new world.
He was telling his country’s future military leaders that all nations except America are “dispensable.” That was his message to the military. He also was telling the BRICS, and other developing nations, that the U.S. military is tasked to keep them down. They didn’t like this; America now was clearly, there, making enemies of them. They knew it, but kept quiet about it, and set about protecting themselves from it.
The idea to make Ukraine — the nation that has by far the nearest border to potentially blitz-nuking Russia’s central command in the Kremlin barely 300 miles or a five-minute missile-flying-distance, away from The Kremlin — the idea to make Ukraine the springboard to checkmating Russia, and to thereby forcing it to join the American ‘alliance’ or empire (which is what actually happened), displays just how far the U.S. Government intends to go, in order to “expand NATO” and — and to take control, ultimately, over the entire world (including China). This now-blatantly displayed intention threatens all “non-aligned” or independent nations.
The U.S.-led sanctions against Russia have especially been, to all of the non-aligned nations, a warning of what could be done to themselves, if they decide to disobey the American behemoth. They are responding to that threat, by setting up the means to overcome those sanctions against themselves, when and if the U.S. Government starts to demand these nations to comply with America’s dictats — to force them to obey.
On May 29th, Bloomberg News headlined “How BRICS Became a Real Club and Why Others Want In”, and reported that “countries of all political stripes, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, are clamoring to join, setting up potential friction at the club’s Aug. 22-24 summit in Johannesburg.” Then, on June 1st, Bloomberg bannered “BRICS Nations Say New Currency May Offer Shield From Sanctions”, and reported that
BRICS nations asked the bloc’s specially created bank to provide guidance on a how a potential new shared currency might work, including how it could shield other member countries from the impact of sanctions such as those imposed on Russia.
The foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa convened in Cape Town earlier Thursday to discuss how the bloc can win greater global influence and to challenge the US. While they didn’t reach firm conclusions, the use of alternative currencies was among the prominent talking points.
The BRICS are looking to “ensure that we do not become victims to sanctions that have secondary effects on countries that have no involvement in issues that have led to those unilateral sanctions,” Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s minister of international relations, told reporters after the meeting.
While she didn’t mention Russia directly, the country has been hit by widespread sanctions from Western powers over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. …
They all know that they are in America’s cross-hairs now.
On June 3rd, Alexander Mercouris, in a superb 10-minute video, “Modi and Lula, done dealing with Zelensky. BRICS new currency”, presented his citation and analysis of numerous information-sources, especially the read-outs from G-7 attendees and foreign ministries, which drew a devastating picture of the Biden Administration’s hyper-aggressive style of international diplomacy, and of how it appalled foreign leaders of non-aligned nations, and has made them even more determined than before to say no to America.
Back on 20 March 2003, the U.S. Government invaded and destroyed, entirely on the basis of lies, Iraq, a nation that had never threatened or endangered America; and this was followed by similarly lie-based invasions and destructions of Libya in 2011-, and of Syria in 2012-, and of Yemen in 2015- — just to mention a few — and now there isn’t much of an international appetite remaining for America’s neoconservatism The harder that the U.S. Government is pushing non-aligned nations to become U.S. ‘allies’, the more repulsive it is appearing to them to be, and the more that it is driving them away.
I strongly recommend that Mercouris video: it is well worth its 10 minutes.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
amerikans are malevolent and evil—there is no controversy ; they are increasingly incompetent and deluded. one can argue the nazis were less evil less deluded in the 1930’s—by 1941 they were amerikans—over ambitious bumbling unfocused grandiose—the ugly obese amerikan has suicided—the internal organs are rotted soaked in fentanyl and lgbt phantasies
while many americans may disagree with you (including anti war ones) they all without exception believe their country is the best. they all are guilty either directly or indirectly in that arrogance and should receive the same sentence. the us regime and evil ideology should be destroyed, at any cost to its inhabitants who should be ignored the way the us dismisses other populations
in a armed conflict against nato russia will lose. wait, slow down the hate man, continue reading until the end: i mean in a “conventional way” russia would lose against nato (and she knows that very good). that’s why she should retaliate in an atomic way, in a preemptive and decisive strike. only with a fast hypersonic nuclear reponse she will have a chance to survive.
last year and this year russia sold more energy than before of the smo. and made record profit. btw the only reason why sauerkrauts and pollaks didn’t freeze last year is very simple: they bought russian oil and gas. directly or indirectly, it does not not matter, at the end only cash matters.
sure. russia sold energy with much cheaper prices than market prices were. russia has lost lucrative european energy markets and has to sell oil and gas using all kind of straw men. ural blend oil sold with price of just $45 instead of $80. india and china exploit russia.
prices go up and down in the world market. for every producer.
last year and this year russia sold more energy than before of the smo. and made record profit. btw the only reason why sauerkrauts and pollaks didn’t freeze last year is very simple: they bought russian oil and gas. directly or indirectly, it does not not matter, at the end only cash matters. russia economy is stable (which makes snowden only happy), usa almost default, germany in a big recession, etc.
russia is moving to era similar that of soviet union in 1984-85 when energy prices went sharply down.
market prices go up and down but the point here is that russia has been forced to sell its oil and gas much below market prices. kreml is in deep trouble.
not forced at all, they wouldn’t sell a drop of oil if there wouldn’t be an attractive/ interesting profit. in deep trouble = stable economy, bric member, friendship with china and india. you have an interesting definition of ‘trouble’ ha ha ha i can understand you eddy, left a country full of fatties to live in another one full of hotties
so what has happened since spring 2022?
-failed fast russian victory
-russian military weakness and shortcomings revealed
-natural gas price sunk from 250 €/mwh to just 25 €/mwh
-russia forced to sell oil 35$/barrel below market prices
your cope has no limits loser
russia’s oil and gas revenue tumbled by 45% in the first three months of 2023 amid sanctions. meanwhile, the ruble is coming off its worst week against the dollar in a year. a recent paper said russia’s recession in 2022 was actually twice as bad as official data implied.
the majority of vessels carrying russian oil and oil products are owned and/or insured in the eu and g7 countries (67% and 71% in november, respectively – and 63% and 73% in january). the low share of ownership and/or insurance of vessels outside the eu and g7 demonstrates that russia has so far had little success in finding alternative shipping and insurance service providers.
this illustrates how strong a set of tools the price cap coalition has to force down russia’s oil revenues by lowering the price cap.
jürgen grabowski = jonas strandval =
z – it’s winding down
= fat incel emo soyboy from helsinki who has nothing better to do on a saturday evening than to miserably spam this site and manipulate the likes (it’s one person posting usually at the same time, same ips, same rhetoric, same grammar mistakes – only the fake names are different).
genichesk, june 4. /cbs/. units of the dnieper battlegroup eliminated 37 ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed two ukrainian army’s boats and two pickup trucks during an attempt to cross the dnieper river and reach two islands, a regional emergency services official told journalists on sunday. in addition, units of the dnieper battlegroup destroyed two enemy boats and a 120 mm mortar with the crew in the area of korobelov island in the kherson area.
the most important way to cut russia’s export revenues further will be to drive down the oil price cap. the russian government collects taxes on the difference between production and transportation costs of oil and the selling price, so lowering the price cap to a level that is close to the cost of production will deprive the government of the ability to fund the war from oil revenue.
so my herbivore ‘mongol eyes’ boy, how is the weather in helsinki today? depressing? hey , you know a good way for committing a suicide? join the afu 😆 try it!
the weakness of russian federal budget is based on dependence on energy sector. cutting teeth of that will shrink budget 55%. does russia have even vat (value added tax) ?
yes it has. a standard vat rate of 20% applies to most goods and services in russia. a reduced vat rate of 10% applies to food, children’s clothes, books, medical equipment and some services.
the british empire ended in suez, the american empire will end in ukraine
simple answer: it’$ money is no longer worth anything!…
and the qe/nirp/zirp experiment that past 21 years that just got authorization from an illegal treasury secretary that previously was the federal re$erve chairman that is a blatant conflict of interest and breach of trust is printing more w0rthle$$ $usd in the illusion that it will save and create more jobs…
but jobs for whom?… from zerohedge “all new us jobs since the covid crash have gone to foreign-born workers”
question: and is this the reason the russian federation through it’s banks and energy continue to allow russian citizens to come and go as they please to the u.$. with h1-b status and it’s edifice un wh0reh0u$e that it continues to bear witness to it’s crimes through it’s own duplicity as a member -refusing to leave it?… allowing the continued systematic destruction of it’$ neighborhood and lives starting with yugoslavia in the 90s, georgia in 2007… and then of course maidan 2014…???
jürgen grabowski = jonas strandval = jan kotke = z – it’s winding down = fat incel emo soyboy from helsinki who has nothing better to do on a saturday evening than to miserably spam this site and manipulate the likes (it’s one person posting usually at the same time, same ips, same rhetoric, same grammar mistakes – only the fake names are different).
you are pathetic looser and can’t stand the fact that russian “special military operation” was gigantic blunder of putin.
“russian electricity was like putting sewage into drinking water. glad it’s over.”
– fingrid’s jukka ruusunen