Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Nov 3, 2022
Look at the chart above. The chart explains everything.
It explains why Washington is so worried about China’s explosive growth. It explains why the US continues to hector China on the issues of Taiwan and the South China Sea. It explains why Washington sends congressional delegations to Taiwan in defiance of Beijing’s explicit requests. It explains why the Pentagon continues to send US warships through the Taiwan Strait and ship massive amounts of lethal weaponry to Taipei. It explains why Washington is creating anti-China coalitions in Asia that are aimed at encircling and provoking Beijing. It explains why the Biden administration is stepping up its trade war on China, imposing onerous economic sanctions on its businesses, and banning critical high-tech semi-conductors that are “are essential not just… for virtually every aspect of modern society, from electronic products and transport to the design and production of all manner of goods.” It explains why China has been singled-out in the US National Security Strategy (NSS) as “the only competitor with both the intent and, increasingly, the capability to reshape the international order.” It explains why Washington now regards China as its biggest and most formidable strategic adversary that must be isolated, demonized and defeated.
The chart above explains everything, not just the hostile diplomatic jabs that are designed to discredit and humiliate China, but also the openly belligerent policies that are aimed at Russia as well. People need to understand this. They need to see what is really going on so they can put events in their proper geopolitical context.
And what “context” is that?
The context of a Third World War; a war that was thoroughly-planned, instigated and (now) prosecuted by Washington and Washington’s proxies. That’s what’s really going on. The increasingly violent conflagrations we see cropping-up in Ukraine and Asia are not the result of “Russian aggression” or “evil Putin”. No. They are the actualization of a sinister geopolitical strategy to quash China’s meteoric rise and preserve America’s dominant role in the world order. Can there be any doubt about that?
No. None.
This is why we are experiencing the redivision of the world into warring blocs. This is why we are seeing the roll back of 30 years of Globalization and massive suppyline disruption. And this is why Europe has been thrust headlong into frigid darkness and forced deindustrialisation. All of these suicidal policies were concocted for one purpose and one purpose alone, to maintain America’s exalted spot in the global system. That is why all of humanity is presently embroiled in a Third World War; a war that is designed to prevent China from becoming the world’s biggest economy; a war that is designed to preserve US global primacy. Check out this excerpt from an article at the World Socialist Web Site:
An October 19 Financial Times article by Edward Luce, entitled “Containing China is Biden’s explicit goal,” sounded the following alarm: “Imagine that a superpower declared war on a great power and nobody noticed. Joe Biden this month launched a full-blown economic war on China—all but committing the US to stopping its rise—and for the most part, Americans did not react.
“To be sure, there is Russia’s war on Ukraine and inflation at home to preoccupy attention. But history is likely to record Biden’s move as the moment when US-China rivalry came out of the closet.”
Moreover, last week, a top Biden administration official indicated that the US was preparing new bans on China in key hi-tech areas. Speaking at the Center for a New American Security, Alan Estevez, the under-secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, was asked if the US would ban China from accessing quantum information science, biotechnology, artificial intelligence software or advanced algorithms. Estevez admitted that this was already being actively discussed. “Will we end up doing something in those areas? If I was a betting person, I would put down money on that,” he said….
Luce concluded his Financial Times article cited above by declaring: “Will Biden’s gamble work? I’m not relishing the prospect of finding out. For better or worse, the world has just changed with a whimper not a bang. Let us hope it stays that way.”…(“Biden’s technology war against China”, World Socialist Web Site)
Once again, look at the chart. What does it tell you?
The first thing it tells you is that the hostilities we see in Ukraine (and eventually Taiwan), can be traced back to a fundamental shift in the global economy. China is growing stronger. It’s on a path to overtake the United States economy within the decade. And with growth, come certain benefits. As the world’s biggest economy, China will naturally become Asia’s regional hegemon. And, as Asia’s regional hegemon it will be able “to settle regional disputes in its own favor and to de-legitimize U.S. regional and global leadership.”
Can you see the problem here?
For nearly two decades, the US has oriented its foreign policy around a “rebalancing of forces” strategy called the “pivot to Asia”. In short, the US intends to be the dominant player in the world’s most populous and prosperous region, Asia. Can you see how China’s rise derails Washington’s plan for the future?
The United States is not going to let this happen without a fight. Washington is not going to let China muscle-it-out of the markets that it plans to dominate. That’s not going to happen. And if you think that’s going to happen, you’d better think again. The United States will go to war to avoid a scenario in which the US plays “second fiddle” to China. In fact, the foreign policy establishment has already decided that the US will engage China militarily for that very objective.
So, our thesis is simple; we think WW3 has already begun. That’s all we’re saying. The ructions we see in Ukraine are merely the first salvo in a Third World War that has already triggered an unprecedented energy crisis, massive worldwide food insecurity, a catastrophic break-down in global supply lines, widespread and out-of-control inflation, the steady reemergence of extreme nationalism, and the redivision of the world into warring blocs. What more proof do you need?
And it’s all economic. The origins of this conflict can all be traced back to the seismic changes in the global economy, the rise of China and the unavoidable decline of the United States. It is a case of one empire replacing the other. Naturally, a transition of this magnitude is going to generate tectonic changes in global distribution of power. And along with those changes will come more flashpoints, more devastation, and the looming prospect of nuclear war. And this is precisely how things are playing out.
So, how does the chart explain what is happening in Ukraine?
Washington’s proxy war in Ukraine is actually aimed at China not Russia. Russia is not a peer competitor and Russia does not have the economic wherewithal to displace the United States in the global order. NordStream, however, did pose a significant risk to the US by greatly strengthening Moscow’s economic relations with the EU and particularly with Europe’s industrial powerhouse, Germany. The Moscow-Berlin alliance—which was mutually beneficial and key to German prosperity—had to be sabotaged to prevent further economic integration that would have drawn the continents closer together into the world’s biggest free trade zone. Washington had to stop that in order to preserve its economic stranglehold on Europe and defend the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Even so, no one expected the US to blow up the pipeline itself in—what appears to be—the greatest act of industrial terrorism in history. That was truly shocking.
In essence, Washington sees Russia as an obstacle to its “pivot” plan to encircle, isolate and weaken China. But Russia is not the greatest threat to US global primacy; not even close. That designation belongs to China.
The Third World War is being waged to contain China not Russia. What the war in Ukraine suggests is that—among foreign policy elites—there is general agreement that, The road to Beijing goes through Moscow. That appears to be the consensus view. In other words, US powerbrokers want to weaken Russia in order to spread US military bases across Asia. Ultimately, the military will be called upon to enforce Washington’s economic rule over its new Asian subjects. If that day ever comes.
We think it is extremely unlikely that Washington’s ambitious plan will succeed, but we have no doubt that it will be implemented all the same. Tens of millions of people are likely to die in a desperate attempt to turn-back the clock to the fleeting ‘unipolar moment’ and the equally short-lived American Century. It is a tragedy beyond comprehension.
In Greek mythology, Hector was a Trojan prince and the greatest warrior for Troy during the Trojan war. Hector led the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, killing countless Greek warriors.
Speaking of ‘trojans’, is America going ‘limp’?
Somebody said the US sees Russia as the military threat that can hold back their dominance while China is the economic threat. For an aggressive bully nation that likes to throw pissy little countries against a wall once in a while to show the world who’s boss, a war-capable Russia must frighten them really badly.
That’s why to fight them they need a coalition, a gang, and apart from a few former-Soviet satellite countries they’re struggling to put an able force together. And had the British not blown Nordstream as they demanded it’s likely the sanctions commitment of their European vassals would have broken down.
I think that if NATO/US forces enter Ukraine, then this will go global and the Russians will see anything as fair game, gone will be All US/NATO Flat Tops and Naval Support ships, that means no US Convoy’s to re-supply Europe, Ship convoy’s won’t even make it to the San,francisco Golden gate bridge. The US/NATO Navy in the Black Sea will be gone in 60 seconds, just one question, How many armies’ have frozen to death on the battlefield trying to defeat Russia ?
White America, like Europe, has to drag half the indolent world along with it; if it stopped doing that, it would not have to worry about China, which, ultimately, is dragged along by us too, making these wars fake. Even more basically, it is only the Mammonite view that cares about this at all, as humans are not meant to be the motors of penny “growth”, which is incredibly childish
Whitney dresses it all up as a suicide.. when of course we know it’s actually a murder….
there is NO America and hasn’t been for decades.. at least in the sense to which he alludes..
China is the single greatest contributor to the value of the dollar by using its manufacturing-might to buy Federal Reserve debt.
And the U.S. is the single greatest contributor to China’s manufacturing-might.
Might the two have something to do with each other?
A world war would certainly make money velocity more important to dollar value than issuing debt…
When the US loses the PETRO Dollar it will become one of the poorest nations on Earth PERIOD. It no longer will be the world’s reserve currency. Bretton Woods died and so the PETRO Dollar was created and gold, after the loss of the requirement for currency after Franklin Van Rosenvelt sold the US which went into receivership to the owners of the Federal Reserve (3rd Bank of the US Corporation – US has always been a corporation and never has it had a thing to do with common law or the law of the land.
Here is a part of what James Traficant stated that was written about the 1933 Banking Holiday as the US was already owned by the Banking Cabal starting in 1871 with the Organic Act and Why Washington DC is NOT A PART OF THE UNITED STATES CORPORATION (All letters are capitalized which designate Corporate ownership since Alexander Hamilton sold the US as collateral to the Banking Cabal of Jewish Banking as the Federalists were all traitors since the Bill of Rights in the Constitution stated that only Congress can mint money which it has never done since the Bank of North America Corporation and 1st Bank of the United States Corporation as 65% of the 10 million script of the bank was owed by foreign interests)
The Bankruptcy of the United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
“Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.
The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’
The US has been under Marshall Law since Lincoln in 1861 and has never retracted this (The actual flag of the US was the Union Jack where the Stars are in a blue field indicating that it is now and always has been the British East India Corporation and the next flag with stars were all Hex stars while Washington’s flag was all Blue with black Hexstars with no stripes.)
The US created the Soviet Union and Red China as Jewish Fabricated Freemasonry, (earlier Cathars, Templars and the initial order of King Herod Agrippa III and his inner circle created the Mystic Force). Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion 1600-1913 by Nahum Sokolow is the length of time in the making and the Haskalah or Jewish Nationalists wrote it along the lines of Maimonides and Zohar et al., STATED “Freemasonry will be our nursery to carry out our plan of global dominance”.
Freemasonry is all Jewish organized from beginning to end and they acknowledge this as after the fat stooge Albert Pike issued the statement to all Freemasons that Lucifer is God and Jesus is Adoni to which Lucifer did not exist until the 3rd century a re-writing by Jewish Scholar and Scribe Jerome. The real god (not anything to do with the creator as god is the term used for the Kings of all Demons (Solomon who never existed) and the books of Solomon (Over a dozen of Demon Craft) is named Halal or Halel (Strongs Concordance) or the Shining One(s) as Jews are the only Hu (the sound of a breath) Mans and consider themselves the equal of their God which is in Akkadian, Chaldean and Sanskrit of the first name of their “God” Shaddai meaning God of Desolation. It matches up with the Vedic once again as Kali, Destroyer of Worlds as Judaism began it’s sickness upon all life back in the ancient India of the Indus Valley also know as the Kush Empire (I). Any religion associated with these Aryan Brahmans of the high desserts of Central Asia and Siberia, as Abram (No such name as Abraham which is made up later) or Brahma consider themselves the only creation of their god and are all equal to their god and are soulless fools if you read the Talmudic Law, Kabbalah (Demon Craft) and the Pentateuch or original foundation which is wildly sick and destructive gets worse with the Torah (From the Egyptian Tarot) and later written in Greek and then updated in their Testament of the Torah as the Septuagint.
All countries are on the smae side owned by the same sick Jewish Banking Cabal and Financiers and the 2 Equity firms, Blackrock and Vangard.
Christianity has nothing to do with the Essene who was the spear in the side of the Jewish Rabbis and an inversion of not only Jewish Rabbinical false law as these are pagan religions, but Christianity and Islam are fraudulent as well.
Theodore Herzl stated in Basel Switzerland that the Goyim pigs (Cattle and no better than the rest of creation which they HATE as they are working to eliminate all life on earth and have done it as we passed the point of no return decades ago with Geoengineering the last nail in the coffin ) of Freemason we will eliminate when we no longer need them.
The same policies that is applied to the AFRICANS in the Americas to keep them in their decayed state, is being applied to the rest of the world.
The fall for the U.S.A is imminent. Sick people cannot think rationally.
Mystic and Yogi
James Reinhart, Thanks, All Truths.
We in the Mystical Order are well aware of the Asiatics who called themselves Jews
Judaism is an African religion.
This is a spiritual war.
The Masses have no ideas.
No Jesus, No Mahummed.
All lies for the last thousand years.
It is White Supremacy
The highest form of science is Magic.
Jews holocaust in Germany is a Fraud
Protocols, yes how to control people.
Third eye
Mystic and Yogi
Jahi Sami–Ethiopians are half-Indian but stupider
The real is problem our illustrious (de)leters sold us to the Chinese who promised the fools
running the Deep State, like Kissinger, that they would do what they were told by the NWO. Well as anybody who has ever done business with mainland Chinese THEY LIE. So when Xi & Co double crossed the City of London back 2014 the back peddling started. Now China is threat ?!?