Multipolarity must be the cherished goal for all good people everywhere
There is nothing more important for world peace and prosperity than multipolarity. Why? Because it is the only effective antidote to the main cause of all world wars, ie, the US bully.
The US has so far has killed many millions of innocent civilians throughout the world – and the toll is only growing.
One estimate puts the death toll of US wars at 4.5 million since just 2001. And before that, the Korean War killed 2.5 million Koreans. If that is not genocide, I don’t know what is. It’s amazing that the US has had any allies at all at that rate. But don’t worry. US support for the Palestine genocide is repulsing what is left of US allies.
Of course, for the US side, the drawback of war is the price tag. Elitists think war is good for the economy, because it generates jobs, but the math doesn’t add up to profit because every dollar spent on war comes out of the taxpayer’s pocket. That’s no bargain for the little guy.
That’s why we now face a $34 trillion debt and an additional trillion dollars a year on just the service to that debt. Economists worth their salt tell us that’s unsustainable no matter how you look at it. Any elementary school student would come to the same conclusion.
Further, a look at the Palestine genocide (please don’t call it a war, it targets civilians) and the huge death toll of the US-provoked Ukraine war alone shows that the US is a professional assassin that absolutely must be stopped, if only for the sole reason that it has dragged us to the threshold of a nuclear Armageddon. From this standpoint alone, multipolarity is the only hope for the survival of planet earth.
War kills the poor in the Third World and strangles the US, which is no longer anywhere near a rich country for the little guy.
Finally, the gross abuse of other countries’ sovereign rights – in the form of sanctions and theft of savings entrusted to the care of the US banks, has contributed mightily to a powerful push by the BRICS+ countries to de-dollarize world trade. The Saudis just recently pulled the carpet out from under the petrodollar, which for all intents and purposes no longer exists. A dollar that is no longer used in international trade settlements will slowly lose both its purchasing power and its reserve status.
We’re in a lot worse trouble than our elites in Washington would dare tell us.
And that is just part of the cost of our unipolar world where the US has the rest of the world on tenterhooks waiting for the first nuke to fall.
Folks, the multipolar world where there is no maniacal hegemon threatening the well-being of all is the only hope we have. In a multipolar world, every country’s sovereignty is respected and that means no bully dares to claim it all for himself. The world’s most powerful actors, ie, China and Russia, are both totally dedicated to the multipolar world order and they won’t allow any country to swallow up the rest or slap sanctions on anyone. Which is why BRICS+ has a long and growing waiting list for membership.
And yet, with elections coming up, no one in US media dares raise this all-important issue of the unipolar world vs the multipolar world. The rich lobbies are so far able to muzzle all candidates on this key issue. In the televized debates I am fairly certain you won’t hear the word multipolarity mentioned by the moderators or candidates.
Though no one dares raise this issue, I daresay that any candidate who refuses to talk about it is not worth voting for. That’s the dilemma we’re in. The thing we need the most is forbidden! No satisfied populace lives under such conditions.
All but a handful of candidates for US federal office are owned lock stock and barrel by their rich donors, chiefly the Israel lobby AIPAC, which brought us the genocide in Palestine, and the weapons makers that keep the US constantly at war and in a debt that only gets deeper.
Thus your choices this November are: world war III or the total extinction of the Palestinian people.
But in fact, each of the two scumbags on the ticket this year are capable of giving you both.
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Our thanks to CL for the below link, who writes: Keep in mind that George Soros has a network of allies in the Judicial System who go after critics of Israel.
Gordon Kromberg, one of the prosecutors in the Assange case was biased toward Zionism. He has been accused of politicized behavior, exactly the wrong trait for anyone involved in the field of justice – but unfortunately, a commonplace in US politics. We MUST reject this practice and purge out the legions of people like Gordon Kromberg.
They need an orange jump suit, not a sinecure in the Justice Department.
https://theintercept.com/2021/07/17/julian-assange-extradition-gordon-kromberg/
If you stop and think about it, the ideology of Zionism, deeply entrenched in US politics, has been perhaps the most dangerous factor in US foreign and defense policy and, aside from causing unjust wars against civilians, has been behind much of the gross injustice we experience constantly in daily life. Already we have seen university students being publicly blacklisted for supporting Palestine.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy was deeply stained with Zionism and contributed mightily to the atrocities suffered by the Palestinian people. Everything Trump has said about the Palestinians betrayed a deep personal hatred of these long-suffering persecuted people. Needless to say, this is NOT American and we don’t need racial bias in the White House.
The dehumanization of the Palestinians is comparable to Hitler’s dehumanization of the Jews and the consequences are the same.
America must reject this dangerous ideology.
We fought racist Nazis in WW II and we shouldn’t have to be fighting it in our own midst.
Our anti-Arab bias in politics has poisoned our relations with the Middle East, and has caused death and suffering in that part of the world that will never be forgotten by the Arabs we once hoped to make friends with,
References
In case you wonder about the “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine: https://donhank.substack.com/p/so-the-russian-incursion-in-ukraine
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America will always be remembered for its wholehearted support for the Gaza genocide
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Here’s your daily air strike update for June 28, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
28.06.2024
Lebedev: The Russian Armed Forces attacked the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the “Kraken” in the Nikolaev region
Maria Krylova
The Russian army struck the area where the Ukrainian Armed Forces and militants of the neo-Nazi formation "Kraken" (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation) are deployed in the Nikolaev region. [The Kraken – along with the Azov Battalion – are some of the cruelest, most vicious, far right (Nazi), Russophobic militants in Ukraine. They are sometimes used as barrier troops to shoot in the back any soldiers who appear to be retreating or surrendering to the Russians. Near the beginning of the war, the US Congress passed a law banning the transfer of US weapons to the Kraken and the Azov Battalion, but eventually this ban was dropped. The US is thus increasingly showing its true colors, becoming more and more Nazi-sympathetic] This was reported to RIA Novosti by the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev.
According to him, multiple strikes were inflicted at about 3:30 near the village of Galitsinovo. There were positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Kraken.
The underground reported at least seven strikes. Three of them were accompanied by a large burst of flame and detonation for about 25 minutes.
Medical workers were called “as if on alarm” and, during curfew, accompanied by military personnel, were taken towards Galitsinovo, Lebedev said.
He also added that the consequences of the strikes are currently being established.
Earlier, he reported about a strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the area near Nikolaev, from where HIMARS installations fired into Crimea. According to him, the installation itself or the missile warehouse could have come under attack. [I have since heard at least one western commentator say that these HIMARS were fired from Odessa, but that is contradicted by Tsargrad, which insists they were fired from a factory in Nikolaev (see my yesterday’s newsletter)]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit two electrical substations in the Zaporozhye region
June 28, 2024
Troops of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked two electrical substations in the Zaporozhye region. The governor of the region, Yevgeny Balitsky, announced this today, June 28.
“Today the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out two strikes on electrical substations in the Zaporozhye region. A targeted terrorist attack on a substation supplying the Tokmak municipal district was recorded,” he wrote in his telegram channel.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
EXPLOSIONS IN ODESSA ON JUNE 28: LOCATION OF THE STRIKE, CONSEQUENCES, PHOTO-VIDEO
A series of explosions occurred in Odessa city and oblast, associated with the attack of Russian missiles. We tell you everything that is known about the strikes on June 28 in Odessa.
The mayor of Odessa Trukhanov reported an explosion in the city
A powerful explosion occurred in Odessa. The incident was reported by the mayor of the city, Gennady Trukhanov. “An explosion was heard in the city,” he wrote on his Telegram account.
No other details of what happened were provided. At the moment, an air raid alert has been declared in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Odessa and Nikolaev oblasts.
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported the sounds of explosions in Kharkov. According to them, the incident occurred outside the city.
At the moment, an air raid alert has been declared in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Odessa and Nikolaev oblasts.
A series of powerful explosions occurred in the Odessa oblast. Thick black smoke is visible in the Ilyichevsk region.
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VLAD SHLEPCHENKO
28 JUNE 2024
PYONGYANG SENDS MILITARY TO DONBASS: WHICH KOREAN UNITS WILL ARRIVE IN JULY?
A commotion has occurred in the media henhouse of the West. Several sources reported that North Korea is sending its military to help Russia. So far, these messages look like attempts to “pump up” the topic of the Russian and North Korean threat. Read more in the report from Tsargrad.
Pentagon Press Secretary Patrick Ryder made a statement about the dispatch of North Korean troops. Of course, the information was made public in the best traditions of Hollywood: the journalist asked a representative of the American military department a question, and he gave an affirmative answer.
I think that if I were a North Korean military leader, I would question my decision to send my troops as cannon fodder. We saw what losses the Russian troops suffered, Ryder said at the briefing. [Obviously this western journalist wanted to bolster the disinformation that Russia had been suffering tremendous losses when in fact it was the Ukrainian side that had horrendous losses]
German Russophobe propagandist Jürgen Nauditt said that we [Russia] are talking about sending military personnel from engineering units. According to him, the first of them will arrive in Donetsk in July.
The American think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) included in its latest report a report from the South Korean television company TV Chosun, which reported that there could be talk of sending three or four engineering brigades.
The North Korean military operates 10 engineering brigades, and Chosun TV has estimated that North Korea could receive up to $115 million from Russia each year if it sends three or four engineering brigades.
— reports from ISW.
Question of credibility
It should be emphasized that so far there has been no official or at least authoritative confirmation of this information from our side. It should be understood that such information campaigns do not start just like that.
Suffice it to remember how in the winter and spring of this year the entire Western press moaned and screamed that just a little more and Ukraine would break, the front would collapse, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces would die or surrender. The purpose of the hysteria was to unfreeze US military aid to the Ukrainian regime.
On the other hand, in the previous two years of the special operation, American intelligence services repeatedly “leaked” information, which was later confirmed.
Iranian Express
Western informed sources reported negotiations between Russia and Iran on the purchase of drones back in July 2022, many months before these vehicles appeared on the battlefield.
True, the reports lacked specifics, and experts assumed that Russia would buy completely different drones from those that were ultimately purchased. Nevertheless, in essence, the “leak” turned out to be true: we really received a lot of drones that turned out to be extremely useful on the battlefield.
North Korean shell stream
The situation with the supply of shells from North Korea developed similarly. It was Western intelligence agencies and South Korean intelligence that reported large-scale supplies of shells, loading points and a possible range of ammunition being shipped to the DPRK.
Cuban volunteers
Less credible was the hysteria about Russia's "recruitment" of foreign volunteers, especially Cubans. Western media presented the case in such a way that Russia was almost kidnapping Cuban citizens by force, and in the hundreds. Havana denied these reports.
After some time, it became clear that the Cubans (and not only) were really fighting for us; Entire units are staffed by foreigners. But no one kidnapped or lured them: they sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense, and not with recruiters, and no one in their homeland persecutes them for this.
Dreams Come True
American intelligence does not get paid for nothing. Thanks to the huge number of satellites in orbit and iPhones in the pockets of elitists, Americans are well aware of who took what where and what they said. However, in the media, information is not released in full, and when published it is also ideologically colored, at times taking on a completely idiotic appearance.
By the way, the famous military correspondent Alexander Sladkov wrote that it would be nice for us to attract North Korean contingents to our side, starting in August 2022. Sladkov noted that, unlike other countries, North Korea is very careful about our common history: for example, all the monuments to our soldiers who gave their lives for the liberation of the country are in well-maintained condition. [Interesting point. The US committed no less than genocide in North Korea in the 50s, killing 2.5 million people, mostly innocent civilians. No wonder the N Korean leadership does not trust the US and eyes us askance. Yet our media propagandists keep suggesting that N Korea is just mean and hates poor little US for no reason at all.]
FOR SEVERAL YEARS MILITARY CORRESPONDENT SLADKOV AGITATED FOR ATTRACTING THE NORTH KOREAN MILITARY TO THE NORTH. SCREENSHOT FROM TG CHANNEL "SLADKOV+"
In turn, political scientist Alexey Yaroshenko, in a conversation in T, noted that the idea of the DPRK as a backward country was formed by Western propaganda.
They are backward in only one sense: in the sense of the development of a consumer society. In terms of military-technical and scientific development, the DPRK is a fairly strong and developed power. Therefore, a strategic partnership with such a developed country is a plus for us. A normal ally, with developed military-technical potential.
Bottom line
If the information about the dispatch of the DPRK military is confirmed, then this is positive news for us. People write in comments on social networks:
Following the engineers, we are waiting for the Korean PMC. [private military company]
It is doubtful that the Koreans would agree to send their units to the front line, into the thick of it, although this cannot be ruled out. It is more likely that they will take on work in the rear: laying roads, bridges, arranging warehouses. Who knows: maybe it will even come to the construction of reinforced concrete arched shelters for aircraft.
In fact, the scheme that NATO dreamed of could be realized: stand on the Belarusian border and free up units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine [?] for the front. In our version, contingents from the DPRK can take on auxiliary work, which will allow our command to amass forces in the directions of future attacks.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
DMITRY KUNTSOV
JUNE 27, 2024
SIX BATTALIONS OF THE APU IN THE GORLOVSKY DIRECTION REFUSED TO FOLLOW COMBAT ORDERS
The command intended to use them in a counterattack - Arestovich*
In the Gorlovka area, 6 battalions of Ukrainian armed forces refused to carry out the order of their command to launch a counterattack.
[a battalion can have up to 1000 soldiers]
As noted by military blogger Yuri Podolyaka, information about this has now been distorted in that these formations allegedly abandoned their positions.
He noted that information about this case was announced by a former adviser to the head of the Ukrainian regime, Alexei Arestovich.
As Podolyaka noted, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine assembled battalions for a counterattack, and they, in turn, refused to go into it, but did not leave their duty stations.
“If six battalions had withdrawn from their positions and left, there would have been a breakthrough that would have already been talked about in Washington. And I really hope that someday this will be the case. But this is not the case yet,” the blogger noted.
However, he added, discipline in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is rapidly falling, which is due to increasing losses, as well as an understanding of the futility and hopelessness of the situation.
At the same time, cases of mass desertion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not uncommon. A few days earlier, a group of Ukrainian convicts who were sent to a training center immediately escaped as soon as they received weapons.
Currently, to combat widespread desertion, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have established a reward for information about persons intending to leave their positions without permission, and have removed the punishment if the fugitives independently returned to their place of service.
* included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a special operation in Ukraine, which, according to him, was caused by the need to protect the residents of Donbass. He noted that Russia had no other choice.
The West condemned Moscow's actions, deciding to support Kiev with financial assistance and weapons. In this regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasized that the geographical objectives of the special operation in Ukraine have changed, and they will not be completed within the territories of Donbass only.
Europe is still confident that sanctions can stop the Russians, and therefore suffers losses and a destructive impact from its own decisions on its own economy. Respectable citizens in Europe do not understand why prices in stores are rising, and fuel is becoming more expensive, and why the Kiev authorities do not compromise in order to sit down at the negotiating table with the Kremlin.
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Gotta respect these Jewish activists
I am always disheartened when someone criticizes or condemns Jews or Jewish groups that oppose Zionism or side with the Palestinians. For example, some complain that they didn’t act earlier or aren’t working hard enough. I always tell them our side needs all the help we can get and anyone who takes the side of humanity must be encouraged.
Let us remember that almost all we know about the Nakba is based on information found and compiled by Jewish researchers like Ilan Pappé.
Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
المؤرخون اليهود الجدد يواجهون زيف السردية الصهيونية (alkhanadeq.org.lb)
Friday, June 28, 2024 11:59
New Jewish historians confront the falsity of the Zionist narrative
Demonstrations of anti-Zionist Jews
Jewish researchers, thinkers, and activists have recently emerged at the forefront of opponents of the Israeli aggression on Gaza. They criticized not only the ongoing war in Gaza, but also Zionist thought and the narratives on which it was built. While these voices have always been present, their presence has never been as prominent as it has been during the past weeks, especially among American Jews and the movements they initiated in Washington and New York.
In view of the growth of this movement, this article presents some of the works of anti-Zionist Jewish thinkers, researchers, and activists, who, due to their Jewish origins and affiliation with Western culture, have a greater ability to overcome the sensitivities inherited from World War II and thus confront the Zionist narrative barriers. Perhaps the spread of their actions on the Internet outside the scope of media restrictions had a role and resonance in the rise of anti-Zionist Jewish movements in the northern countries since the 2014 Gaza War, and in the midst of the brutal war on Gaza today. How do these people view Zionism as a genocidal project, and how do they confront the Zionist narrative and expose its falsity and deception of the cultural and human history of Palestine and its authentic people? With a pessimistic view of the future of this entity and the inevitability of its demise.
Ilan Pappé’s writings on Palestine (the best of those who wrote about ethnic cleansing in Palestine, and even the most prolific of the modern historians) are important in two ways: He considers that the Zionist project in Palestine is genetically a project of extermination, and he does not infer this from anti-Zionist sources, but rather from sources in Israel itself. The second important and main idea is that he considers that Palestinian resistance is an inevitable result of the Palestinians, whom he considers the true owners of the land, being subjected to that genocide. As for combating Zionist narratives, Magor Mattei (a doctor specializing in trauma and addiction) considers in one of his articles a comment on the events of Gaza 2014 as if they were today: “Whether in Vietnam, Rwanda, or Syria, humanity stands by, either complicitly, unconsciously, or helpless. As it always does, in Gaza today we find ways to justify bombing hospitals, annihilating families as they eat dinner, and killing pre-teen children playing soccer on the beach.” [This is documented in the award-winning documentary Born in Gaza.]
Mattei adds, "The powerful party in Israel succeeded in portraying itself as the victim, while those who were killed and maimed became the perpetrators." Recently, a clip of an interview he conducted with the famous comedian Russell Brand was circulated, which became popular on social media. One of Matty's repeated comments is that the children of Palestine do not suffer from post-trauma, because it is a daily and continuous event for them and has never stopped.
In the same context, Gideon Levy (born in Tel Aviv to a father from Czechoslovakia, and holding a law degree from the University of Prague) pointed out that Zionist ideology played a fundamental role in demonizing every dissenting and critical opinion and not recognizing it. Raz Segal (a resident of the United States and an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies) also focused on the genocide in Gaza and considered it a disgrace to the Israelis who have long remembered the Holocaust and the extermination of Jews in Europe and today are committing against the Palestinians what is worse than the Holocaust. In contrast, Gideon Giladi focused on racism in Israeli society, and Avi Shlaim, a university professor and diplomatic historian, spoke about the dilemma of the Arab Jew inside Israel.
In light of these views adopted by new Jewish historians, the Jewish anti-Zionist movement escalated in Europe and the United States of America. On the other hand, many positions emerged that revealed the falsity of the slogan of the Jewish state and the inevitability of its demise. Shlomo Sand (professor and teacher of history at Tel Aviv University), Israel Finkelstein (an Israeli archaeologist, honorary professor at Tel Aviv University and head of the Faculty of Archeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa) and a group of Israeli archaeologists showed the falsity of the myth of the divine right of the Jews in Palestine. They exposed the falsity of the Zionist claims about Jerusalem and the Temple. They also refuted the Zionist myths that were founded on the Jewish right to the land of Palestine to the exclusion of other peoples, and the exclusion of the Palestinian people from this established historical right.
A number of senior Israeli archaeologists joined Finkelstein in supporting his theory. For his part, Professor Yoni Mizrahi - an independent archaeologist who previously worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency - agreed with Finkelstein's opinion, and said, "The Elad Association did not even find a sign with the words ' “Welcome to the palace of David,” even though their position on that matter was settled, as if they were relying on sacred texts to guide them in their work. In the same context, Israeli experts believe that the main goal behind the excavation activities is to push the Palestinians to leave the Holy City and expand the Jewish settlements there.
All of these opinions, analyses and research confirm that this entity is headed for inevitable demise and that the future of its continuation has become doubtful, or even closer to the end than ever before.
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Israel deliberately starves Palestine. The US countenances the atrocities, bans the news
https://israelpalestinenews.org/in-rafah-83-of-refugees-report-no-access-to-food-day-265/
In Rafah, 83% of refugees report no access to food – Day 265
CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG JUNE 28, 2024 BARUCH GOLDSTEIN, GAZA DEATH TOLL, GAZA PIER, MEDICAL EVACUATION, MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL, OCTOBER 7, TORTURE
In Rafah, 83% of refugees report no access to food – Day 265
Palestinians gather, waiting for drinking water in one of the IDP camps in Khan Younis, June 25 (photo)
Yet another malnutrition death; Gazans surrounded by sewage, garbage, insects; starvation setting in; out of 10,000+ medical evacuations needed, 19 permitted to leave; Gaza’s ambulance rescue service about to stop due to lack of fuel; Biden admin about to release part of suspended bomb shipment; Congress votes to conceal Gaza death toll; much more.
By IAK staff, from reports.
More here
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Jeff Brown’s amazing Substack
Five colorful graphs: electricity, highways, steel, cement and shipbuilding are all you need to see about which country has the world’s biggest real economy. It’s not Europe or Uncle Sam.
June 27, 2024 admin 2 Comments China Writers' Group
There has been a lot of discussion over the last ten years about how big the economies of China and USA are. World Bank and IMF announced ten years ago, 2014, that China surpassed the USA in total GDP, using Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) benchmarks, not based on exchange rates. PPP is the only accurate way to compare countries’ GDPs, as exchange rates grossly distort reality.
The West’s Big Lie Propaganda Machine (BLPM) keeps up the lie that the USA is “Number One” and even China prefers to bill itself as “Number Two”, to not increase the already high levels of Sinophobia being keep at a fever pitch by the BLPM. I wrote about this previously (http://chinarising.puntopress.com/2017/12/10/china-loves-being-number-two-behind-the-us-officially-of-course-china-rising-radio-sinoland-171210/).
Cut through the propaganda and reality rears its ugly head. These five shocking and revealing graphs put real numbers on the barrelhead. They demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is China which has the largest and most productive economy in the world – hands down.
Here is a sample. Shipbuilding. The minuscule US share didn’t even get a piece of the pie chart
The rest of the categories look very much like this. The US can’t begin to compete. Don’t even bother to read what the Western press writes on this subject.
Oh, but we’re going to whip the Chinese in an upcoming war! Maybe China will sell us the warships needed to attack them, huh?
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What is Multipolarity & Agenda 2-30
Why We Need to be Vigilant
REGIS TREMBLAY
JUN 28
This is one of the most important shows I’ve done. Nobody I know of in the US alt media is talking about these very important things that impact our lives and a very humanity. Blaz Kavcic explains Multipolarity, Agenda 2030, who are the globalists, and what are the four main dogmas of modern imperialism. This is Part I or a three part series.
REa
This kind of useless enmity doesn't have to be! China and Russia both want the right to manage their near/afars, but don't cast an envious, acquisitive glance at their near neighbours. There are certain areas of water on their coastal shores that they may claim to, but haven't fought over. In contrast, the US has espoused the Monroe Doctrine and has used its miltary to rule the America's with impunity. Today, of course, the US is the biggest hypocrite of them all, slamming Russia for intervening in the illegal Kiev coup government's attack on Donbass and other former Ukraine Eastern provinces. The fact is that these provinces voted to return to Russia. They wanted no part of an illegal, fascist government in Kiev! No Western nation will admit that the Russian ethnics have a right to self determination as they argued for Bosnia from Serbia in 1999. What's sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander!