This is probably one of the most important stories you're not going to hear about from the MSM. World history is changing.
The Post Cold War era and geopolitically system is over. Almost 20 years of a faux Pax Americana is over. The US is no longer a Hyper Power.
tldr: Putin is saying (with evidence desu) that the US and its vassals (the EU, anglosphere, and other allies) are no longer the sole power in the world. Russia and China, and their allies, now have as much if not more influence in some aspects of geopolitics and trade (commodities, supply chains, etc). He also said there could be populist revolutions in these countries (which we've seen but have mostly been suppressed like in the US) and that the world is about to go through major changes soon.
We're at an inflection point in world history desu, shit is about to change really fast. Just wait until China starts asserting itself militarily in Taiwan for example. History didn't stop with the end of the USSR like so many boomer neoconservatives wanted to believe.
Putin: Unipolar Order Has Ended
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>The Challenge of the US
>Braml sees the greatest challenge to Germany’s future foreign policy not in Moscow or Beijing, but in Washington. Germany must once again pursue its economic and geopolitical interests on its own, is the core thesis of his book—not only against Russia and China, but also and above all against the United States.
>“If the European Union is to be a ‘global player’ and not a plaything of other powers, Germany above all must decisively correct its foreign policy toward the US as well,” he demands. Germany’s interests were “not always identical or compatible with those of other states, not even with those of the supposed protective power, the United States.”
>Germany and Europe—Braml likes to write “Europe” when he means German interests—should “no longer give in to the transatlantic illusion that the ‘protective power’ the US helps to ensure the security and prosperity of the Old World. Otherwise, they risk becoming collateral damage in the global conflict between the ailing world power, the US, and the rising China.
RUSSIA IS THE FUTURE
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>And further, “The strategic and economic interests of their European allies now no longer coincide with those of the leading American power in a whole range of areas.”
>“If it comes to serious conflicts of interest with the Western leading power, Europe will be left completely blank strategically,” was the disturbing realization from the Trump administration’s unilateral breach of the nuclear agreement with Iran, he said.
>And so it goes on for pages. Under President Joe Biden, relations between Europe and the US had improved somewhat, Braml says, but “domestic political developments in the US” could propel Trump back into office. In addition, “the Democrats are also pursuing an ‘America First’ policy for domestic political reasons alone.”
>In retrospect, Braml also comes down rather harshly on US foreign policy. Washington had “all too often merely invoked noble values to conceal an interest-driven power policy,” he writes. Nowhere, he says, had this been more evident in recent decades than in the Middle East. “The 2003 Iraq War was a war of aggression in violation of international law.” Time and again, he says, the US had created its own enemies, as in Iran, “which it subsequently had to fight at great expense.”
More Chinese companies follow western sanctions because west is their biggest market. China is not a Russian ally. Putin and his crumbling oligarch regime can eat shit.
How so? The US world order is stronger than its been in years.
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>The leading moral power, the United States,” had “not escaped unscathed,” he sums up. “During the George W. Bush administration, Washington lost its way and has not found it again to this day.” For other reasons, too, “Washington is currently failing as the guarantor of the liberal world order on which Germany and Europe depend.”
>Braml does not leave it at the charge that the US will fail as Europe’s “protective power” in the future. He accuses Washington of trying to solve its problems at the expense of Europeans.
>But that did not mean, he continues, “that the US will withdraw from the world. Rather, Washington will try even more to control geostrategically important regions such as Europe, the Middle East and Asia through realpolitik and conceal this approach with lofty values.” Therefore, he said, Europe must be put in a position to “solve its own problems.”
>In view of the escalating conflict with China, he says, it can be assumed that “the United States will try harder than before to turn the military dependence of its allies into support for US geo-economic interests.” Germany and the Europeans would therefore “find it more difficult in the future to safeguard their economic, trade and monetary interests vis-à-vis their ‘protective power,’ especially when it comes to China.”
Putin's level of smug lately is infectious
He's winning the military war against Ukraine and the economic war against globohomo at-large
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The US will “use any means to contain or even push back China’s rise. For Europe, this can have serious consequences, as our economy is strongly interconnected with China.” In the “new systemic competition between China and the US,” Europe risked becoming “the central loser” if it “does not quickly become capable of making decisions and taking action to defend its interests.”
According to Braml, the alliance with the US was attractive as long as the US “focuses on maintaining a liberal international order,” “guarantees free trade” and “takes care of security and stability”—in other words, as long as the German economy had unhindered access to global raw materials, sales markets and investment opportunities in the slipstream of American armies.
This was no longer the case, he said. “The strategic and economic interests of its European allies now no longer coincide with those of America’s leading power in a whole range of areas.” Braml explicitly warns against further indulging in the “transatlantic illusion that the United States would return to its old virtues and also look after Europe’s interests.”
“The opposite is more realistic,” he says. “For the US to regain either its former strength or dominance would be possible in a now multipolar world only at the price that others, especially Europe, would have to pay. To avert imminent collapse and preserve its dominant world power, US leaders will do everything they can to assert their interests even more ruthlessly and to pass them on to friend and foe.”
Look at how many countries did NOT follow the sanctions against Russia. It's broken.
Like 3 African countries?
5/5 this is a good part
Rearming to Become a Nuclear Power
>Braml does not go so far as to call for the dissolution of NATO or withdrawal from the military alliance. In the current situation, he considers that to be “security policy hara-kiri.” What mattered, he says, was to “embark on the path toward a European defence capability that is independent of the United States, with the long-term goal of an alliance of equals.” Germany, he said, must “focus on a strong and capable Europe,” become stronger economically and technologically, and develop “the euro into a geo-economic tool of power.”
>But throughout the book, it is clear that in the longer term, Braml sees not only a rupture but also an open military conflict with the United States as inevitable. That is why he urges Germany be upgraded not only to Europe’s greatest military power, but also to a nuclear power. He favours German participation in the French nuclear force, the “force de frappe.”
>France’s nuclear deterrent was “from the very beginning also motivated by its ambition” to “maintain its great power status and free itself from military-strategic dependence on the United States,” he says, justifying his demand. Under international law, “it would be perfectly possible for Germany to co-finance France’s nuclear weapons in order to participate in the French shield.” President Emmanuel Macron had indicated his willingness to do so.
>Braml also attaches great importance to “the closest possible collaboration between the defence industries,” especially the planned Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS), with which “the Europeans would reduce not only their military but also their technological dependence on the United States and assert their own sovereignty.”
>hyperpower
>has to ask israel for permission before selling weapons
Why are mutts like this?
Nothing ever happens. Take your meds stupid mutt
Can you blame him? Russia's oil profits have doubled despite the sanctions, and the Ruble (which was Biden's main talking points for 'owning le ruskies') is now stronger against the dollar than it was before the war. Now they control, as Zelensky said, more than 20% of Ukraine and if they keep successfully pincering and encircling Ukrainian forces in the east, they could potentially control much more before the war is over.
Weird source but:
>BRICS group (Brazil, India, China, South Africa). 41% of the world population.
>The countries of OSC (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan).
>Azerbaijan and Moldova have abandoned anti-Russian restrictions. But the most surprising position is Georgia.
>Latin America (Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile, Peru).
>ASIAN countries minus Singapore
>The Middle East (Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran …..surprisingly also US allies U.A.E and Saudi Arabia. (and Pakistan)
>The Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
australiannationalreview.com
And that was as of March.
This essentially already happened though, it's now playing out in real time.
This is unironically another pivot point in human history, leaf.
>Russia actually thinks after his fuck up in Ukraine that he'll be able to stick a bunch of Russian proxies in charge of the west.
At this point only reason Le Pen didn't get two shots in the back of her head was she lost, Cold War 2 is back on and the CIA will lynch any Russian cucks in the west who look like they're going to get power.
He would have been better to say this if he hadn't fucked up in Ukraine
Surely not. Our nations reps and leaders are extremely old geriatrics and you think curmudgeon and crones are not capable of upholding the US as a superpower that is adapting and forward thinking and utilizing cutting edge technology. This is a fallacy of the highest order. We believe as a nation that people who are almost 100 years old are the best leaders on planet earth and will take us strongly in to a bright bright future. Just turn on cspan and watch those geriatrics roll.
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Cool if true I guess. I got nothing to lose
Yeah that's great, but I ain't reading all that shit. I don't care what happens to this country. Let the niggers fix it.
>Cold War 2 is back on
That's exactly what I'm saying though, the pure fact we're back in a multi-polar cold war implies the unipolar hyper power era is over.
Forgot the source, what he's saying is it's actually going to be good for the people of our countries.
>He said there will be a "change of elites" in the West as part of the "revolutionary" shift initiated by the Ukraine war and the US-Europe overreaching: "Such a detachment from reality, from the demands of society, will inevitably lead to a surge of populism and the growth of radical movements, to serious social and economic changes, to degradation, and in the near future, to a change of elites," Putin said.
zerohedge.com