Wednesday 27th of November 2024

a geopolitical tool of the first order.....

Warfare is a geopolitical tool of the first order; only wars of scale can measure the real strength of nations. For decades American claims of hegemony, and by extension that of the West, have been based on what has now proved to be a carefully constructed mythology of economic and military supremacy. This is Andrei Martyanov’s fourth book addressing this issue, now as it concerns the war in Ukraine. In America’s Final War, he lays out in detail the underpinning causes and extent of its self-deception. 

 

by  Andrei Martyanov 


Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”. 
Martyanov lays out Washington’s utter incompetence and shocking military amateurism. But then, he claims, the US doesn’t do strategy; it does business plans...

Through 2022-2023, Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) exposed US and NATO forces as legacy armies stuck in the 1990s, still viewing the world from that vantage point. The massive destruction of the West’s high-cost weaponry ensued, annulling their vaunted superiority. Western armaments, from anti-tank Javelins to APC Bradleys to air defense complexes such as the Patriot PAC3 or NASAMS, performed dismally and proved unready for what has become the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West’s support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals. 


The finance and tech-based economy is not a real economy; expeditionary warfare and doctrine is not real war. The global balance of power has shifted to Eurasia. Western Europe has become a collection of weak and fast deindustrializing economies which will increasingly become irrelevant against the background of the explosive economic, technologic, scientific and military development in Eurasia.
The world has noticed what has been exposed, and because of that, life as we knew it is no more. The rule of the West of the last half-millennium is over.

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multipolarity....

 

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov
The dividing line between the global majority and the Western planetary minority

 

The Western regimes rage in the face of current world events is, among other things, closely linked to the progressive understanding of the said regimes that the following point will be reached – a demarcation line that will be drawn between the multipolar world on the one hand and the small group of nostalgic for the unipolar era, on the other. While some might think that this will resemble a new “Iron Curtain” or a sort of “Berlin Wall”, de-facto new physical walls will certainly not be necessary this time, given the existence today of a much more powerful system of rupture between the true international community and the obvious minority of humanity. 

Time passes and the demarcation line to come finds itself closer and closer. Between our country – Russia, as well as the East in general, the Global South, the multipolar world order, the world majority – on the one hand, and the NATO bloc, the collective West and a few still puppet regimes, those nostalgic for unipolarity, the planetary minority – on the other. And this constitutes today a fact which is well understood not only in our camp of the world majority and the multipolar world supporters, but which is gradually beginning to be also recognized among Western elements, including among the Russophobes ones, recognized as such.

Contemporary reality

But the most interesting thing today is that, apart from the natural question of knowing where the said demarcation line will be located, is that the scenario is not written at all according to the Westerners’ schema during the Cold War period of the 20thcentury officially recognized as such. Particularly, when Western propaganda associated the socialist camp with closure and prohibitions, which in the pseudo-free world of the West could not exist.

Today, things are radically different. The humanity majority – that is, the non-Western world – remains absolutely open, especially – when it comes to mutually beneficial interaction. This applies to our country, Russia, as well as to China, India, Iran, most nations of Eurasia, Africa and Latin America. But all this absolutely does not suit the Western minority – accustomed to dictating the interaction rules to the whole world and that the overwhelming majority of profits should remain in its pocket. In order words, a global opening in its multipolar version does not suit Westerners in any way. Hence, the hysteria, rage and all kinds of threats with sanctions.

Furthermore, the Western minority understands perfectly that it now comes up against not only great powers from a military and/or demographic point of view, but also economic rivals who not only do not fall under the influence of unilateral economic sanctions practically infinite, but which are also capable of opening up new horizons and new opportunities within this framework. This without forgetting that Western economic interests today depend much more on markets belonging to the world majority, than the reverse. Just like the fact that in the context of the contemporary world, Western regimes are condemned, including with regard to economic competition, in which their domination has simply ended.

The defeat of the West

In this regard, the only dictatorial axis on a global scale is precisely, and only the planetary minority represented by Western regimes. And their hysteria continues to grow more and more both in the context of the imminent defeat on the military level, in particular within the framework of the Special Military Operation led by our country, as well as in general taking into account all the reality of the contemporary multipolar world – in the demographic, economic and informational components.

By the way, the countries of the BRICS, SCO, as well as quite simply the large part of the Eurasia, Africa and Latin America states must already be ready for the primitive accusations from the Western minority where the latter will assert by gesticulating that the defeat of the West against Russia is due precisely to the fact that the non-Western countries of the world have refused to follow the collective West in its attempts to isolate and to bring the Russian nation to its knees. Just like the fact that Western elements had nevertheless acted with the “best intentions”. But today it is obvious to everyone that no one intends to massively listen to this nonsense and lies.

Obligatory delimitation 

Generally speaking, the West likes to repeat at the same time that many countries, including those in the Global South, are not seeking to completely break off their relations with Western “partners”. As such, no one says the opposite. On this point, the main thing to remember is that a large part of non-Western states now set their own rules for interaction with Westerners. And the latter, accustomed for a long time to unilaterally dictating their “rules”, are obviously in no way satisfied with such an approach.

The demarcation line between the world majority and the planetary minority will take place. And then, given the colossal opportunities available to the nations of the global, non-Western, the majority of humanity, as well as the openness that characterizes them – the West naturally finds itself condemned. Condemned to live, whether he likes it or not, according to the multipolar world order rules, with all that implies. Because once again, it is worth remembering a simple rule – the minority adapts to the majority, and certainly not the other way around. It can not be otherwise. It is an axiom that the Western planetary minority has attempted to destroy over the past centuries and decades. But now these attempts have come to a definitive end.

 

Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur, political commentator, expert on African and Middle Eastern issues, exclusively for the internet journal «New Eastern Outlook»

 

https://journal-neo.su/2024/07/11/the-dividing-line-between-the-global-majority-and-the-western-planetary-minority/

 

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Disintegration....

The United States is undergoing a profound and radical transformation, all features of which point to the fact of its departure at an accelerated rate from its largely self-proclaimed status as a global hegemon.

The United States has lost ground in every single category that defines the power and status of a nation in relation to its rivals. This book delves into the reasons for a catastrophic decline of the American nation, addressing a range of factors from the economic (especially energy), to cultural, technological and military factors. America’s deindustrialized economy is now deeply affected by what can only be described as a massacre of her small and middle-size businesses and the implosion of the US commercial aerospace industry.

America’s only driver of real growth, the shale oil industry, is facing realities which may make the Great Depression pale in comparison.

Disintegration also seeks answers to the precipitous moral and professional decline of the always mediocre qualities of the American elites, from the corridors of political power to those of the military and business, now spiraling out of control. More alarmingly, the trend also points to the possibility of the actual physical disintegration of the United States as a unified entity—whether the divisions are ethnic or ideological.

The most profound fault line is cultural—between the Coastal self-proclaimed elites backed by the secular, liberal media and deep state, who promote the most radical ideologies as it concerns gender and race, and the working class majority whom the former polemicize as deplorables, Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, and climate and science denialists.

Investigating these factors sheds light on America’s future which holds very little promise for the country which had once proclaimed itself to be a shining city on the hill. The American collapse is not just coming, we are presently experiencing it. How can we deal with a catastrophe which is unfolding before our very eyes? Disintegration lays out some possibilities.

 

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ANDREI MARTYANOV is an expert on Russian military and naval issues. He was born in Baku, USSR, graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he worked as Laboratory Director in a commercial aerospace group. He is a frequent blogger on the US Naval Institute Blog. He is author of Losing Military Supremacy and The Real Revolution in Military Affairs.

 

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