Mike Whitney — The Unz Review Feb 26, 2023
The future of humanity will be decided on a battlefield in Ukraine. That’s no exaggeration. The conflict between the United States and Russia will determine whether global economic integration will expand within an evolving multi-polar system or if the “rules-based order” will succeed in crushing any opponent to its Western-centric model. This is what’s taking place in Ukraine today, in fact, all of the recent government-prepared documents related to national security identify Russia and China as the greatest threats to US hegemony. For example, take a look at this brief clip from the 2021 Congressional Research Service Report titled Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress:
The U.S. goal of preventing the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia… is a policy choice reflecting two judgments: (1) that given the amount of people, resources, and economic activity in Eurasia, a regional hegemon in Eurasia would represent a concentration of power large enough to be able to threaten vital U.S. interests….
From a U.S. perspective on grand strategy and geopolitics, it can be noted that most of the world’s people, resources, and economic activity are located not in the Western Hemisphere, but in the other hemisphere, particularly Eurasia. In response to this basic feature of world geography, U.S. policymakers for the last several decades have chosen to pursue, as a key element of U.S. national strategy, a goal of preventing the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia.” (“Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress”, US Congress)
That sums up US foreign policy in a nutshell; “prevent the emergence of a regional hegemon” at all cost. Now check out this summary of the 2022 US National Defense Strategy by Andre Damon at the World Socialist Web Site:
These documents, which were not seriously discussed in the US media, make clear the fundamental falsehood that the massive US military buildup this year is a response to “Russian aggression.” In reality, in the thinking of the White House and Pentagon war planners, the massive increases in military spending and plans for war with China are created by “dramatic changes in geopolitics, technology, economics, and our environment.”
These documents make clear that the United States sees the economic rise of China as an existential threat, to be responded to with the threat of military force. The United States sees the subjugation of Russia as a critical stepping stone toward the conflict with China.” (“Pentagon national strategy document targets China”, Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site)
These two excerpts are by no means a comprehensive summary of US foreign policy objectives, but they are a pretty effective thumbnail sketch. Bottom line: The war in Ukraine is not about Ukraine. America’s clearly articulated strategic objectives are as follows: To weaken Russia, topple its leader, take control of its vast natural resources and move on to containing China. Simply put, Washington’s escalating aggression in Ukraine is a Hail Mary pass aimed at containing emerging centers of economic power in order to preserve its waning position in the global order.
This is the geopolitical chess match that is being played behind the cover of “a war against Russia’s unprovoked aggression.” People should not be hoodwinked by that absurd deception. This war was concocted as a desperate attempt for the United States to defend its flickering global hegemony. That’s what Ukraine is really all about. It’s a clash between the warmongering western oligarchs who have a stranglehold on the US media and political establishment and the emerging economies that are using the market system to link their resources and manufactured goods to countries around the world through “high-speed” infrastructure and cooperative development.
So, the question everyone must ask themselves is this: Do you want to see more economic integration, lower prices, more shared prosperity and less war or another 80 years of onerous and arbitrary sanctions, color-coded revolutions, regime change operations, genocidal interventions and bioweapon warfare (Covid-19)? Which do you want?
Perhaps, you are one of the millions of Americans who believe that China is an enemy of the United States. Perhaps, you are also unaware of the role the US played in creating modern China. Here’s a question for you: Did the US and western corporations move their operations en masse to China to escape the high costs of production in the US?
answer– Yes, they did.
And, did they betray US workers because they didn’t want a fair wage to interfere with their excessive profit-making?
answer– Yep.
And, did they offshore their businesses, outsource their product manufacturing and do everything in their power to make themselves winners while robbing American workers of the opportunity of making a decent wage so they could put food on the table?
answer– They sure did.
Then who is actually responsible for the rise of China?
answer– Western corporations are responsible. If Americans want to blame someone, blame them!
But now the corporate mandarins and other elites are unhappy with China because China will not allow them to take control over their markets, financial system and currency as they have in America. So now these same cutthroat corporations want us to fight a war with the monster that they created?
Can you see that? Can you see that the relentless provocations against China have nothing to do with US national security or US interests. We are being led by the nose to fight and die for the cadres of voracious western oligarchs who have settled on China as the next target of their grand looting operation.
But let’s forget the past for a minute and focus on the future, after all, that’s what really matters, right?
Well then, which country has a more “positive vision” for the future: China or the United States?
Have you ever heard of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, the massive, multi trillion-dollar infrastructure plan that is the centerpiece of China’s foreign policy? It is the biggest infrastructure program in history and more 150 countries have invested in the plan already. It is a development-oriented project aimed at increasing connectivity through high-speed rail, shipping lanes and ports, skyscrapers, railroads, roads, bridges, airports, dams, power stations, and railroad tunnels. By increasing the speed of travel, China’s products and merchandise will get to markets faster generating greater prosperity for itself and for the other countries involved. And, keep in mind, the BRI will link countries around the world in a high-speed system that will not require its participants to follow a specific economic model dictated by Beijing. In other words, the Belt and Road Initiative is free market economics without the politics. It’s a “win-win” situation for everyone, a guarantee of mutual prosperity absent political manipulation, coercion or exploitation.
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The venal oligarchs that run the US can’t even imagine a project of this scale or potential. In fact, they can’t even pony-up enough money to keep the trains on the rails in America. The profits these billionaire parasites extract from their activities invariably come from stock buybacks, tax evasion, and other sleight-of-hand, debt-layering ponzi-scams that benefit no one and merely shift more of the nation’s wealth into their own bulging bank accounts. Of course, ripping off the country would be bad enough, but now we see how this same class of miscreants have settled on public health as a means for amplifying their political power so they can impose repressive, police-state measures that greatly curtail the freedom of the entire population. In short, they want absolute social control and they aren’t going to let-up until they get it.
Where is the “positive vision” in this behavior?
There isn’t one. America used to be a country of ideas, ideals and vision. Now it is an oligarch-run detension center in which all hope for the future has been ruthlessly extinguished by a handful of mercenary billionaires.
At least, in the case of China, we can imagine a better, more prosperous world that is interconnected and more accessible to everyone. But what about the United States? Are we supposed to believe that fighting a war in eastern Europe is going to improve our lives? Are we supposed to believe that the only way “we can stay on top” is by pushing everyone else down? Are we expected to hate China and Russia even while our own government demonizes 80 million of us for voting for the wrong presidential candidate or for not supporting the terrorists who burn and loot our cities or for believing that the people in East Palestine are more deserving of our support and assistance than the Nazi stormtroopers in Kiev?
The fact is, our leaders cannot imagine devoting public resources to a giant interconnected infrastructure project like BRI, because that would mean less lucre for themselves. So, they’ve decided to destroy it just like they destroyed Nord Stream. Just read the press reviews on this groundbreaking project. Western journalists can’t find a ‘good word’ to say about it. A vast area in the center of America was fiendishly nuked with vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate and isobutylene, but the western media would rather criticize China’s ambitious BRI project than hold their paymasters accountable. Go figure.
The same rule applies to Russia. The Biden team and their wealthy allies don’t want closer relations between Germany and Russia because closer relations mean more prosperity for both countries, and Washington can’t have that, which is why they blew up the pipeline that was Germany’s lifeline to cheap fuel. That’s how Washington solved the problem. It pushed Germany and Russia down so the US could remain on top. Who doesn’t see this?
In contrast, the Belt and Road Initiative provides a positive vision for the future, which is an idea that the majority of the world supports. It puts us on a path to an interconnected world in which people can raise their standards of living, make a meaningful contribution to their communities, and enjoy their own culture and traditions without fear of being sanctioned, incarcerated or bombed to death. This is an excerpt from China’s Global Times:
The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has already become a well-received international public good and an important platform for international cooperation…
“BRI transcends the outdated mentality of geopolitical games, and created a new model of international cooperation. It is not an exclusive group that excludes other participants but an open and inclusive cooperation platform. It is not just China’s solo effort, but a symphony performed by all participating countries….
Since the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was proposed in 2013, the initiative has always been development-oriented, and consistent efforts have been made to ensure that it is high-standard, sustainable and people-centered….
By August, China’s goods trade with countries participating in the BRI had reached around $12 trillion and the country’s non-financial direct investment in those countries surpassed $140 billion. … By the end of 2021, Chinese enterprises had invested $43 billion in the construction of economic and trade cooperation zones in BRI countries, creating more than 340,000 local jobs, official data showed…
China is open to other countries’ and regions’ participation in the BRI and is considering connecting with infrastructure initiatives proposed by other nations to provide more good-quality public goods for the world…. China hopes to join hands with all partners to advance the high-quality development … stressing that China aims to strive for global connection rather than fragmentation, for mutual opening-up rather than shutting doors, for mutual integration rather than zero-sum games. (“BRI remains open, inclusive for all, transcends the outdated mentality of geopolitical games“, Global Times)
What is the American-led project that rivals the Belt and Road Initiative?
There isn’t one. The US allocates over $1 trillion per year for lethal weaponry and war-making, and trillions more to bail out the Wall Street banksters, and trillions more to shut down all the businesses across the country that were forced to comply with the diktats of billionaire elites who wanted to inject the population with their toxic slurry, but zero for any global infrastructure project that would peacefully bring the world’s people closer together through commerce and recreation.
No one is saying that China is perfect, at least, I’m not. Nor do I want to live in China. I don’t. I’m an American and I plan to die here.
But I’m not blind. It’s easy to see that this war with Russia has nothing to do with “unprovoked aggression.” That is merely a smokescreen that’s being used to conceal the real objective, which is to preserve America’s global hegemony. What we need to do now, is honestly analyze ‘what is happening’; try to understand ‘why it is happening’, and, then, figure out what the outcome will be if the United States prevails. In other words, do we want to perpetuate an oligarch-controlled system that crushes Russia, contains China, starves Europe of the energy it needs, sabotages the Belt and Road infrastructure plan and reinforces the same failed policies that brought us Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq?
Do we want that? Do YOU want that?
The American people want their government to cooperate with other nations in order to create a more prosperous and peaceful world. They don’t want a new world order and they certainly don’t want a Third World War.
The man next door is a teacher
and he was saying that all the kids are in school at the moment
i asked is that unusual then ?
He told me there is a rent boys strike, and homosexuals are going absolutely potty
saying the boys get paid enough and they are being greedy and should be back in work.
I have led rather sheltered life and this was all a bit of a shock for me
Putin’s recent speach can be broken down into two parts. The first sets out the situation, and crimes committed by the NWO Nazis, and in part 2, Putin outlines Russia legal case for all out war.
Before the SMO, Putin used every road to peace and was either lied to, or ignored. So Russia legally entered UKraine.
Putin has now done the same legal dance with regard to NATO. Putin now says the US has attacked sovereign Russia, so war can commence at any time.
Now, I can’t actually prove how intelligent, or thicko the US Nazi sect is, but my guess is that they are in full exceptionalism mode, and have no idea of what is going on.
The Chinese made a peace proposal to the US. Yesterday, Jake Sullivan rejected that peace path. This is really important.
The US has walked into the legal trap, and because they simply don’t recognise international law, they don’t see how they’ve completely screwed their chances. The Chinese peace deal was a door to walk away from a nuclear WW3. Jake Sullivan closed that door.
Putin doesn’t make these speaches in isolation. All sorts of things are going on behind the scenes, such as legal submissions to the UN, including evidence. Even if there are diligent US sheeple at the UN, and they brief the WH and S-dpt, it’s likely that they don’t listen, like ‘feck the EU’ , or feck the UN.
It’s like the US Nazi sect just ignores important intelligence.
The US has been legally charged, all the paperwork has been signed off at the UN, and Russia now has the legal right to act anyway it sees fit.
The only thing to decide, is timing. It could all boil down to Sarmat delivery dates.
Because of Putin’s speech, and the Chinese peace plan rejection, I think Russia will attack first, because they have the advantages, and the best defenses. I read that US nuclear hardware is over 30yrs old, and there’s an expected 30% failure rate.
Its geography all over again. Globalists have taken control waging war overseas. While spilling poison and drafting balloons, letting south border porose at home.
-A BOOK I DIDNT READ-
The Coming China Wars.
Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won.
by Peter Navarro 2006.
DEDICATION
One of the consequences of raising children in this world is that they
make you think a lot more about the future. Because of the storms
brewing in China, the future our children now face appears to be,
at best, highly uncertain. At worst, it could be one that the philosopher
Thomas Hobbes might describe as “nasty” and “brutish”—if no longer short.
Threats of terrorism and some nuclear or biological cataclysm are
not at the epicenter of my concern about the future. Although these
threats are all too real, as a professional economist, I must leave them
to be pondered and parsed and, I hope, countered by qualified political
and military strategists.
Rather, as a professional economist, what deeply concerns me is a
single country—China. China has put itself on a collision course with
the rest of the world. The Coming China Wars will be fought over
everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and leading edge technologies
to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel, and eventually to our
most basic of all needs—bread, water, and air. Unless all
of the nations of this world—including China—immediately address
these impending conflicts, the results will be catastrophic.
This book is dedicated to preventing that catastrophe—and to the
children. May they not be engulfed by the maelstrom.
A threat to hegemony is not the same as a threat to life. It’s the hegemony under threat which is the threat to life, and it must go.
The US is playing the role of an as***le as in here:
https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~cslui/JOKE/leader.html
But it won’t succeed because it has overdrawn its trust-account with the rest of the world.
Imagine that instead of only German sneering in private with ‘with friends like that’ you have the whole world aghast at the US treachery against its own ally and the West’s main manufacturing power house. Imagine a German that even were it to be given unlimited energy to run its industries it won’t be able to and has to start at the very beginning because most of its plant has solidified materials clogging its production pipes.
I wish the author of this article had elaborated on the tax-evasion techniques being used by these socially irresponsible corporations because it is not those that move their production facilities abroad that evade paying taxes at home but even most of the ones operating at home find loopholes that enable them to do so. In short like we say in the oilpatch, the West is f**cked.
I must admit that the Chinese are imaginative and that has to do with their ‘alphabet’. Whereas our phonic alphabet system demands of us to only remember only 26 characters the Chinese conceptual alphabet system of runes requires them to know about 10,000 characters for them to be learned, so I am told, so their brains turn out to be prodigal compared to the rest of the people and that makes them exceptional in solving problems and have runaway imagination.
I say this because despite what the author of this article emphasizing the ‘do-good’ aspects of the Chinese takeover of the international system there are dark sides also associated with it and to make easier for us mortals of less imaginative powers the Chinese have made it easy for us in the above ‘Belt and road Initiative’ logo above with a depiction of camels and a Bedouin leading camels in the desert. Now go read this small children’s bedtime story and you will figure out just like many port authorities all over the world have figured out about the Chines altruistic motives.
That little story can be found here:
https://www.bedtimeshortstories.com/the-arab-and-the-camel
Not mentioned in this article is the original reason given for industry moving to China- pollution! It was hyped up and cleaner was DEMANDED in the 70’s, and it was dirtier, and the country IS (relatively) cleaner now. When I was young, used to swim in the Delaware river, and it was full of “tarballs”. Now, with all the population, I drink it, and there ARE NO tarballs. Yes, not even in the population’s consciousness now, tho it should be! Truth be told, IT IS CLEANER
and you can see and breathe now, and it should be a consideration. With the loss of industry, went the smokestacks and NOBODY misses those! Along with all those jobs that went to China went the pollution, and we CAN see it!!!
People demanded cleaner, and they did get it. The vinyl chloride in Ohio, and the pollution (other than the cars) would be a whole lot worse – DEFINITELY!!!
(Remember pre-fake pandemic China, people were wearing masks then because of thick air?) It WAS a tradeoff!
(end of devils advocate rant)
China does all this without the idea of One God that makes people insane and many fake preachers rich. The One God is found in the “Muh Dick” of the Black male American and the “Muh Wallet” of the White male American. If he asks “What can I do for my country?” the answer is usually “Kill!”
According to the Redacted newsletter, the U.S. has ramped up oil sales to Germany, France and Italy and Spain alone increased its US purchases of oil by 88%. Seeing as how today’s western price rises are called Putin’s War Premium or Russia’s War Premium, these rising US profits following America’s destruction of Nordstream should rightly be called the US Terrorism Premium. It would be the most accurate of them all.
Kudos to you Mr Whitney. Your neutral critical analysis is so RIGHT ON.
May president XI and Putin remain strong and healthy to fight off the evil oligarchs from the city of London , Israehell, Washington DC, and Wall street along their minions.
I see the US/UK ‘Axis Of ZOG’ as two drunks supporting each other while staggering down the street… shouting their mouths off before slipping down the sewer pipe.
The first thing we have to realize is that the war in the Ukraine is a Rothschild war. The Ukraine is a Rothschild IMF basket case and it is being used mainly for Rothschild ends.
It is not China’s Belt & Road Initiative. It is the initiative mainly of the Rothschild dynasty along with China which is as much a prodigy nation of the Rothschild dynasty as is Israel. Its plan is major actually the southern BRI route through Afghanistan and Iran into the Middle East where a “Greater Israel” is planned to be the HUB of major trade routes to and from the far East, Africa and Europe.
The US and NATO are complete shills of that dynasty which directed the plans of Kissinger (Rothschild’s agent) in the early 1970’s laying down all of the conditions to invest vast amounts of Western capital, technology, machinery, into China while using Western markets to buy up the low-cost labor goods. It was all planned and totally foreseeable that every Western nation which was at the time a creditor nation would be turned into a debtor nation within 20 years. The effects of failing tax revenues with the off-shore tax havens for the major multinational and other major Western investors, plus the resulting dramatic increase in the crippling deficit financing in the West was also clearly foreseen by the Rothschild dynasty and directly served their long-range interests.
The only real hegemonic game being played here is that of the Rothschild’s. The US is as much of a pawn of that dynasty today as it was all throughout the entire 20th century. The US and NATO are doing the Rothschild bidding through the war in the Ukraine under their control, and most likely in order to push the prospects of Israel being the major trade hub of the globe. Expect the real blood letting, theatrics in the Ukraine to escalate this year and Syria toppling to Rothschild/US/Israeli control.
The Western corporatocracy which is behind the UN-WEF-NWO agendas is made up of the international banking cartel, the major Western multinational corporations, and our governments which are all controlled by the Rothschild tentacles and money power. The financial betrayal of the people of the West, therefore, comes down to the banking cartel planning and controlling everything at very long range.
Whitney asks, “Do you want to see more economic integration, lower prices, more shared prosperity and less war or another 80 years of onerous and arbitrary sanctions, color-coded revolutions, regime change operations, genocidal interventions and bioweapon warfare (Covid-19)? Which do you want?”
For posing such a question, I have to view Whitney and Unz as Rothschild shills. More economic integration, lower prices, will not give us more prosperity. That is what the globalists (I.E. THE CORPORATOCRACY) promised with open trade with China and other third-world nations in the world – “a shared prosperity” with the rest of the world – as we gave everything away to make the international set (that new class of transnational globalists) extremally rich while we turned our heads away from exponential debt thinking naively (as PCR has) that control of the leading reserve currency would balance everything out.
The US and the rest of the West have been played for complete suckers, with the real objective being to build a so-called New World Order completely controlled by the money changers surrounding the temple of our freedom, self-determination and our faith in one another and in God.
It is the same Western corporatocracy supporting the UN Agendas, 9/11, the WEF, the CFR, which pulled off the Covid scam to usher in their technocratic NWO, and which is mounting the war in the Ukraine. It is the very same financial dynasty which is totally running that corporatocracy. They want to weaken the West and to attain global hegemony and they want to ensure that their prodigy nation, China, does not go off on its own with Russia and other Asian and European nations to develop independent of their controls. So, not only will we not have prosperity with these monsters in control but as long as we continue to tolerate them we will most certainly have “80 years of onerous and arbitrary sanctions, color-coded revolutions, regime change operations, genocidal interventions and bioweapon warfare (Covid-19)”.
@Peter Petherington on February 27, 2023 at 2:00 pm
I almost choked on my cigarette..
ZIO/USA/UK are the main enemies of
the world since 1913/18 !
only chinas leaders could free the world
from grip of Rothschilds-Soros-Rockefellers
when awakened but still china is sleeping
about those suckers .
It is almost like Mike Whitney reads Yukon Jack. China going up, Jewmerika going down into the lowest of hells. China is acting in China’s interest, Amerika is acting in Rothschild Jew interest.
TOLD YOU SO:
The New American
U.S. Officials: China Considers Sending Russia Artillery and Ammunition
Will Biden or Blinken or Zelensky or Nulander listen to China’s peace proposal.
NOT A CHANCE.
Showdown at Minot AFB (which has B-52s on nuclear alert) AGAIN!
ZH – Air Force Relieves Six Leaders At Nuclear Base Over “Loss Of Confidence”
(Alert: they were “relieved” because they refused to carry out illegal orders)
Deja Vu over again, remember when BIG DICK Cheney tried to hijack Minot nuclear weapons for a nuclear false flag in Iraq, but the aircrew ditched into Barksdale AFB and a bunch of airmen were killed or “relieved of duty”
WTF are the Biden Zionuts up to? They are losing the war in Ukraine, what kind of big false flag are the planning??????????????
Wiki’s sanitized version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_nuclear_weapons_incident
On 29 August 2007, six AGM-129 ACM cruise missiles, each loaded with a W80-1 variable yield nuclear warhead, were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52H heavy bomber at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and transported to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
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Faux News version:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/air-force-relieves-commanders-leaders-north-dakota-nuclear-bomber-missile-base
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Mmm unless its part of the plan to have permanent enemies and shortages? 1984 did have oceania eurasia and east asia (i think!)