{"id":193760,"date":"2019-08-25T08:17:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T08:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193760"},"modified":"2019-08-29T05:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T05:58:42","slug":"suddenly-west-is-failing-to-overthrow-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193760","title":{"rendered":"Suddenly West is Failing to Overthrow \u201cRegimes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andre Vitchek \u2013 New Eastern Outlook Aug 22, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_157549\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/iraq_bombing-2003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157549\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157549\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/iraq_bombing-2003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraq 2003<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would begin. And the nation, totally shaken, in pain, and in disarray, would collapse like a house of cards, once the first NATO boots hit its ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Such scenarios were re-enacted, again and again, from Yugoslavia to Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But suddenly, something significant has happened. This horrific lawlessness, this chaos stopped; was deterred.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The West keeps using the same tactics, it tries to terrorize independent-minded countries, to frighten people into submission, to overthrow what it defines as \u2018regimes\u2019, but its power, its monstrously destructive power has all of a sudden become ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It hits, and the attacked nation shakes, screams, sheds blood, but keeps standing, keeps proudly erect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">What we are experiencing is a great moment in human history. Imperialism has not yet been defeated, but it is losing its global grip on power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Now we have to clearly understand \u2018Why?\u2019, so we can continue our struggle, with even greater determination, with even greater effectiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">First of all, by now we know that the West cannot fight. It can spend trillions on \u2018defense\u2019, it can build nuclear bombs, \u2018smart missiles\u2019 and strategic warplanes. But it is too cowardly, too spoiled to risk the lives of its soldiers. It either kills remotely, or by using regional mercenaries. Whenever it becomes clear that the presence of its troops would be required, it backs up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Secondly, it, the West, is totally horrified of the fact that there are now two super-powerful countries \u2013 China and Russia \u2013 which are unwilling to abandon their allies. Washington and London do all they can to smear Russia and to intimidate China. Russia is being provoked continuously: by propaganda, by military bases, sanctions and by new and newer bizarre mass media inventions that depict it as the villain in all imaginable circumstances. China has been provoked practically and insanely, \u2018on all fronts\u2019 \u2013 from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and the so-called \u2018Uyghur Issue\u2019, to trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Any strategy that could weaken these two countries, is applied. Yet, Russia and China do not crumble. They do not surrender. And they do not abandon their friends. Instead, they are building great railroads in Africa and Asia, they educate people from almost all poor and desperate countries, and stand by those who are being terrorized by both North America and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thirdly, all the countries in the world are now clearly aware of what would happen to them, if they give up and get \u2018liberated\u2019 by the Western empire. Iraq, Honduras, Indonesia, Libya and Afghanistan, are the \u2018best\u2019 examples. Submitting themselves to the West, countries can only expect misery, absolute collapse and the ruthless extraction of their resources. The poorest country in Asia \u2013 Afghanistan \u2013 has totally collapsed under NATO occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The suffering and pain of the Afghan and Iraqi people is very well known to the citizens of Iran and Venezuela. They are not giving up, because no matter how tough their life is under sanctions and the West-administered terror, they are well-aware of the fact that things could get worse, much worse, if their countries were to be occupied and governed by the Washington and London-injected maniacs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">And everyone knows the fate of the people living in Palestine or Gollan Heights, places which have been overrun by the closest ally of the West in the Middle East, Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, there are other reasons why the West cannot get any of its adversaries to kneel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One is \u2013 that the toughest ones are left. Russia, Cuba, China, North Korea (DPRK), Iran, Syria and Venezuela are not going to run away from the battlefield. These are the most determined nations on earth. These are the countries that have already lost thousands, millions, even tens of millions of their people, in the fight against Western imperialism and colonialism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">If one is following the latest attacks of the West carefully, the scenario is pathetic, almost grotesque: Washington and often the EU, too, are trying hard; they are hitting, they are spending billions of dollars, using the local mercenaries (or call it \u2018local opposition\u2019), and then they quickly withdraw after wretched but anticipated defeat. So far, Venezuela has survived. Syria survived. Iran survived. China is fighting horrible Western-backed subversions, but it is proudly surviving. Russia is standing tall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This is a tremendous moment in human history. For the first time, Western imperialism is being not only defeated, but fully unveiled and humiliated. Many are now laughing at it, openly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But we should not celebrate, yet. We should understand what and why this is happening, and then continue fighting. There are many, many battles ahead us. But we are on the right track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Let them try. We know how to fight. We know how to prevail. We have already fought fascism, in many of its forms. We know what freedom is. Their \u2018freedom\u2019 is not our freedom. Their \u2018liberty\u2019 is not our liberty. What they call \u2018democracy\u2019 is not how we want our people to rule and to be ruled. Let them go away; we, our people, do not want them!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">They cannot overthrow our systems, because they are, precisely <strong><em>our systems<\/em><\/strong>! Systems that we want, that our people want; systems we are ready to fight and die for!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong><em>Andre Vltchek is philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He\u2019s a creator of\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/andrevltchek.weebly.com\/\">Vltchek\u2019s World in Word and Images<\/a>, and a writer that penned a number of\u00a0books, including\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/6025095450\">China and Ecological Civilization.<\/a>\u00a0He writes especially for the online magazine\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/journal-neo.org\/\">\u201cNew Eastern Outlook.\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journal-neo.org\/2019\/08\/22\/suddenly-west-is-failing-to-overthrow-regimes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It  happened regularly in the past from Yugoslavia to Iraq. 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