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A long, walking meditation impregnates on us how President Putin's address - rather, a civilizational speech - last week was a game-changer when it comes to the demarcation of the civilizational red lines we are all now facing. It acted like a powerful drill perforating the less than short, actually zero term memory of the Collective West. No wonder it exercised a somewhat sobering effect contrasting the non-stop Russophobia binge of the NATOstan space.
Alexey Dobrinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Russia, has correctly described Putin's address as "a methodological basis for understanding, describing and constructing multipolarity."
For years some of us have been showing how the emerging multipolar world is defined - but goes way beyond - high speed interconnectivity, physical and geoeconomic. Now, as we reach the next stage, it's as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two key civilizational vectors of multipolarity. That's the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.
Metaphorically, it also speaks volumes that Russia's pivot to the East, towards the rising sun, now irreversible, was the only logical path to follow as, to quote Dylan, darkness dawns at the break of noon across the West.
As it stands, with the wobblin', ragin' Hegemon lost in its own pre-fabricated daze, the real runners of the show feeding burning flesh to irredeemably mediocre political "elites", China may have a little more latitude than Russia, as the Middle Kingdom is not - yet - under the same existential pressure Russia has been put under.
Whatever happens next geopolitically, Russia is at heart a - giant - obstacle on the warmongering path of the Hegemon: the ultimate target is top "threat" China.
Putin's ability to size up our extremely delicate geopolitical moment - via a dose of highly concentrated, undiluted realism - is something to behold. And then Foreign Minister Lavrov provided the sweet cherry on top, calling the hapless US ambassador for a hardcore dress down: oh yeah, this is war, hybrid and otherwise, and your NATO mercenaries as well as your junk hardware are legitimate targets.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council, now more than ever relishing his "unplugged" status, made it all very clear: "Russia risks being torn apart if it stops a special military operation (SMO) before victory is achieved."
And the message is even more acute because it represents the - public - cue to the Chinese leadership at the Zhongnahhai to understand: whatever happens next, this is the Kremlin's unmovable official position.
The Chinese restore the Mandate of Heaven
All these vectors are evolving as ramifications of the bombing of the Nord Streams, the only military attack - cum industrial terrorism - ever perpetrated against the EU, leave the Collective West paralyzed, dazed and confused.
Perfectly in tandem with Putin's address, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose the geopolitical/existential moment to finally take the gloves off, with a flourish: enter the US Hegemony and its Perils essay cum report, which became an instant massive hit across Chinese media, examined with relish all across East Asia.
This blistering enumeration of all the Hegemon's lethal follies, for decades, constitutes a point of no return for trademark Chinese diplomacy, so far characterized by passivity, ambivalence, actual restraint and extreme politeness. So such turnaround is yet another proud "achievement" of the outright Sinophobia and mendacious hostility exhibited by American neocons and neoliberal-cons.
Scholar Quan Le notes that this document may be regarded as the traditional form - but now filled with contemporary wording - the Chinese Sovereigns used in their millenary past before going to war.
It is in fact an axio-epistemo-political proclamation justifying a serious war, which in the Chinese universe means a war ordained by a Higher Power capable of restoring Justice & Harmony in a troubled Universe.
After the proclamation the warriors are equipped to strike mercilessly at the entity judged to be troubling the Harmony of the Universe: in our case, the psycho Straussian neo-cons and neoliberal-cons commanded as rabid dogs by the real American elites.
Of course in the Chinese universe there's no place for "God" - much less a Christian version; "God" for the Chinese means the Beauty-Goodness-Truth trinity, Timeless Heavenly Universal Principles. The closest concept for a non-Chinese to understand is Dao: the Way. So the Way to the Beauty-Goodness-Truth trinity represents symbolically Beauty-Goodness-Truth.
So what Beijing did - and the Collective West is completely clueless about it - was to issue an axio-epistemo-political proclamation explaining the legitimacy of their quest to restore Timeless Heavenly Universal Principles. They will be fulfilling the Mandate of Heaven - nothing less. The West won't know what it hit them until it's too late.
It was predictable that sooner or later the heirs of Chinese civilization would have had enough - and formally identify, mirroring Putin's analysis, the upstart Hegemon as the premier source of chaos, inequality and war across the planet. Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder, in a nutshell.
To put it bluntly, in streetwise language, the hell with this Americana crap of hegemony being justified by "manifest destiny".
So here we are. You want Hybrid War? We will return the favor.
Back to the Wolfowitz Doctrine
A former CIA advisor has issued a quite sobering report on a pebble along the rocky way: a possible endgame in Ukraine, now that even some elite-run parrots are contemplating a "way out" with minimal loss of face.
It's never idle to remember that way back in 2000, the year Vladimir Putin was first elected as President, in the pre-9/11 world, rabid neocon Paul Wolfowitz was side by side with Zbig "Grand Chessboard" Brzezinski in a huge Ukraine-US symposium in Washington, where he unabashedly raved about provoking Russia to go to war with Ukraine, and committed to finance the destruction of Russia.
Everyone remembers the Wolfowitz doctrine - which was essentially a tawdry, pedestrian rehash of Brzezinski: to keep permanent US hegemony it was primordial to pre-empt the emergence of any potential competitor.
Now we have two nuclear-powered, tech savvy peer competitors united by a comprehensive strategic partnership.
As I finished my long walk paying due respect by the Kremlin to the heroes of 1941-1945, the feeling was inescapable that as much as Russia is a master of riddles and China is a master of paradox, their strategists are now working full time on how to return all strands of Hybrid War against the Hegemon. One thing is certain: unlike boastful Americans, they won't outline any breakthroughs until they are already in effect.
Reader Comments
I'm getting very depressed
Western society is completely rancid at this point since there never was a failsafe preventing "them" from rising to the top anyways.
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Ever notice how the Ruskies are attacking Ukraine infrastructure? Has no one thought that the Ruskies might be fighting back, over here, more covertly. This covert spy war, spills into our reality all the time, we just don't get to see all the pieces.
If the truth ever came out about what both sides have done to each other in the last 24 months, it would be frightening.
What matters? Certainly not our individual or collective ego. There is no hope in the world despite what the ego tells us. The world's only hope lies in there not being any hope here because the world is the projection of the ego's hopelessness. There is genuine hope in our minds, however, when we decide against this despair and choose the Holy Spirit as our Teacher. In that single decision for salvation we pass beyond the futile dreams of guilt and attack, recognizing they hold nothing that we want. Who except the insane would choose the pain of death when the joyful promise of eternal life is held out to them? That promise is ablaze in your mind, the mind that is reading this, the mind that is One.
There is no way we can know anything until we release the blocks that prevent us from true understanding. These barriers are the thoughts of guilt buried in a mind that thinks it is split and separate from it's Creator, and everything else it thinks it perceives, thus it that demands that the body be made real as a defense, including the brain that was specifically made not to understand that all problems stem from the mind's faulty decision making. As long as the decision for the ego remains intact we can never achieve true understanding. Only forgiveness can release us from this "fool-proof" (though not God-proof") prison of guilt and judgment.
When we hold ourselves apart from others, we make the separation real in our mind.
No one stands outside the Atonement principle, which says that the oneness of God's Son has never been fragmented. For our minds to be healed, all that is needed is that we share the purpose of healing with everyone and everything, undoing the ego's myth of separation and differentiation. There is only one person, one teacher of God that is needed to save the world: us . [Link]
All our heart ever wished for is to be at peace in its home in God.
To end the 'dream' of suffering all we need do identify with the indwelling Spirit of God in all of us, perceiving that relationships are mirrors of the mind's decision and not a means to complete ourselves; to recognize shared instead of separate interests as our only purpose for being in this illusory world of separation and fear.
Take heart, because we are all of us going home together. I'm sharing the Atonement message that the separation was an aberrant and illusory thought. Nothing has to be done because the knowledge God's Son had in creation never left him. Yet while he slept, the Holy Spirit held the Atonement in safekeeping and extended its healing throughout the Sonship, patiently awaiting its sure acceptance. We cannot awaken from the dream by ourselves, at another's expense, for the rock on which salvation rests is that no one loses and everyone gains.
As you note, Yeats realized in his time what we are experiencing in our time.
from Vacillation; Verse IV
My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.
(The whole poem: [Link] )
"... love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discords; in palaces, treason; the bond crack’d between son and father. … We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves"
So powerful. Fits quite well as a contemporary analysis of our times
I can now see why the 380.000 mobilized Russian soldiers are not employed yet, and why China now openly sides with Russia.
The links are excellent, such as the one to the Chinese position.
Nothing new here this was already planned years earlier & we are seeing/witnessing how the system works. We will see some new hybrid military technology unleashed that will reveal its efficacy or failure in Combat. The ultimate crucible. So far the Drones & Russian Terminator seem to be most prevalent & working for Russia very well.
The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter. The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, studying with real ordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth-producing effects of drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is chemist, physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special subject as are relevant to the taking of life. In the vast laboratories of the Ministry of Peace, and in the experimental stations hidden in the Brazilian forests, or in the Australian desert, or on lost islands of the Antarctic, the teams of experts are indefatigably at work. Some are concerned simply with planning the logistics of future wars; others devise larger and larger rocket bombs, more and more powerful explosives, and more and more impenetrable armour- plating; others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents, or for breeds of disease germs immunized against all possible antibodies; others strive to produce a vehicle that shall bore its way under the soil like a submarine under the water, or an aeroplane as independent of its base as a sailing-ship; others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre . But none of these projects ever comes anywhere near realization, and none of the three superstates ever gains a significant lead on the others. What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover.
Do you think the three superstates Orwell‘s prescience was talking about in 1949 are China/Russia/U.S. ? Lol
How could/would Orwell have possibly known in 1949, some 74 years earlier ? Lol -
Stupefying ignorance on so many levels.