Hello Karl. Sorry to call you by your first name. But I think that's standard in internet communication. It's not meant to be disrespectful.
You are following developments in Russia and Eurasia as a whole very closely. Hence my following questions to you.
The multipolar world is already a reality. More and more countries are seeing the weakness of the hegemon and its vassals. The emperor has no more clothes. He is naked. Although he can still do a lot of damage. Nevertheless, more and more countries are daring to resist the dictates of the USA and the West and act in their own national interest. However, there are different conditions, problems and grievances within the many states, as well as different interests and even hostilities between the states themselves. The differences between India and China are a prominent example of this. But this also applies to many other countries.
🔹How do you see the future or the possibility of a peaceful solution to these issues in the next 5 to 10 years?
🔹How do you assess the escalating credit problem in China? Credit also means an exponential increase in money and inflationary risks, and at the same time credit also means debt from others. Sergei Yuryevich Glazyev harshly criticized this in Telegram to China and described it as an enormous risk.
🔹The Serbian leadership has sold Serbia to USNATO. Quietly and secretly. Even though 90% of Serbs support Russia. How do you see that?
🔹I see no other option for Hungary than to join the SOC and the BRICS. If Hungary doesn't do this, the West will destroy Hungary economically. Your opinion on this? Will Hungary go in this direction?
🔹Turkey is geostrategically important for all sides. Until now, Turkey has always tried to sit on two chairs at the same time. Now it seems as if either joining the SOC or remaining in NATO is coming closer to a decision. I can imagine that Russia and China will not put pressure on Turkey on this point. But remaining in NATO would always give the US leverage. How do you see that?
No problems; at least you spelled it correctly! The issues within and between nations will take time to become normal, by which I mean friendly and productive in the win-win sense articulated by Xi. The Age of Plunder's many decades of fomenting such antagonisms for Plundering nation benefits will take time to heal and lots of interpersonal communication. But the die is cast and IMO all Global Majority nations want a harmonious balanced future as that's the best possible outcome. The Plundering and divisional exploitation went on for 500+ years and still continues in a very diminished manner, thus it will take perhaps a century or more to attain harmony within the Global Majority--there's no instant pill to resolve the sickness sown by the Plunderers. So, for the short-term, some progress will be attained. The regional approach promoted by Russia seems logical. The one major policy the Global Majority must adopt is the sort of Foreign Agent Law that Georgia just enacted along with the complete cessation of involvement with NATO nations in the security field with an eye to promote sovereignty. The other item needing implementation by the Global Majority is the Global Security Initiative.
The problem of credit use isn't only confined to China but has a long and very ugly history that's mostly been kept hidden. Equitable distribution of economic resources must be done to obviate the need for credit--the question ought to be: Why is credit needed, and if it's needed, who/what should supply it? That digs into core policy aspects of political-economy and how it should be structured. In discussions with Dr. Hudson on the issue, it's clear that China needs to come up with a permanent answer to the above question before its FIRE sector grows any larger.
On Serbia, I'm not well versed, and thus can't really comment, although I know Russia supports the Serbs as best it can.
On Hungary, Orban has shown himself to be very astute, and I salute his efforts. Currently, he's the most visible head of the European Mutiny and his efforts are exposing the dictatorial nature of EU/NATO that's contributing to the change seen in the European electorate. How BRICS and SCO decide to expand their membership will be the determining factor of how many nations eventually become part of those organizations. IMO, the Greater Eurasian Partnership and EAEU institution makes more sense at this moment. In his fight with the EU, Orban isn't without tools to use the best of which as I mentioned is his exposure of the colonial nature of European nations relations with EU/NATO. As for the West's ability to "destroy Hungary economically," IMO you vest too much ability with the West. The sanctions regime that colonized Europe has also destabilized it greatly thus causing the great political turmoil we're seeing, so we see pushback already happening that will grow in intensity.
Some years ago, I noted that Turkey's national interest lies with Russia and Eurasia as EU/NATO will never actually accept them despite the Turk's NATO membership that resulted from WW2 politics. When will the Turks leave NATO IMO is impossible to answer. If any nation is to become a BRICS or SCO member while remaining in NATO, Turkey would be that nation, although IMO Turkey would need to leave NATO to do so. The Turkish economy's suffered a large amount of damage from "US leverage" specifically manipulation of the Lira. When the earthquakes happened, Russian and China were the first to render aid in copious amounts while the West provided very little--same with Armenia. The age of ethnic based international organizations IMO is fading and with it is Erdogan's Pan-Turkic ideal as it's oppositional to the Global Majority effort to unite one and all regardless under the ideal of a shared future for Humanity.
As I told my troops back when I was a Platoon Leader: I look white, but inside I'm purple just like all of you. And that's a credo I've had my whole life and clearly colors my POV. As I tell people who wonder how I got my Sanchez surname, I tell them I'm an Iberian Visigoth: a mutt just like them.
I also see the timeframe mentioned as realistic. With one caveat: there are too many factors that can influence future developments.
Putin said the following in a brief interview with a Russian journalist in Sochi in January 2014. It was during the coup in Kiev, shortly before the Winter Games. In a nutshell:
The journalist asked Putin why Russia and China were not immediately doing everything they could to bring down the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Putin replied that this could be done. But that would throw the whole of humanity into economic and social misery that would bring death to millions of people. As I understood it, the world must first create structures and conditions that make it independent of the US dollar and the USA. Only then could this be done. And we are now observing this process. He said something else that I found absolutely authentic and honest. He said that as president, he saw it as his life's work to develop and modernize the huge Russia in terms of infrastructure, economy and social affairs. But unfortunately, he had to allocate considerable funds and resources to the defense against Western aggression. Something he saw as a waste. Both in terms of the aforementioned and his lifetime. I was very impressed by this way of thinking.
Perhaps you can't imagine how it feels to be a thoughtful person living in the middle of an asylum full of lunatics and in the midst of spiritual and intellectual poverty. On top of that, you are threatened and bullied by the lunatics. It's almost unbearable. Full of envy, I look into another world.
But back to the topic above. No one can know what will happen when humanity is freed from Western dictates. Multipolarity also means different interests and if oligarchic structures gain the upper hand again at some point, the world might not become more peaceful and humanistic. However, I hope that doesn't happen. I won't live to see it anyway.
"BRICS Futurological Forum Challenges Western Paradigm of History." that I suggest reading that encapsulates the ideas behind what I wrote above. And those ideas aren't just Russian. Here's the key sentence from the report:
"International participants of the Forum stressed in their speeches the irreversibility of the change and the multipolar world order based on mutual respect of the identities and interests of states and peoples."
"NATO's Washington Summit declaration mentioned China a total of fourteen times, labeling the Asian nation as a "challenge" to the alliance's "interests, security and values." The statement is another sign that the sun is setting on the West's unipolar moment, veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik....
"According to the alliance, "the deepening strategic partnership between Russia and the PRC and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut and reshape the rules-based international orders" has been "cause for profound concern."
"“It’s important first to understand that when NATO mentions a ‘rules-based international order’, they are referring to a geopolitical order in which wealthy Western nations determine the ‘rules’ in order to serve their own best interests, often at the expense of what is actual international law,” veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik."
Yes, neither of us will live to see what evolves by 2100, but the indicators exist and continue to gain greater visibility.
Because my comment is also relevant to my questions here, I am copying it here.
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"What I am writing now is fiction. Not anymore. But let's not let that deter us from talking about it too.
For me personally, there is no doubt that AI and robotics will take over the majority of warfare in the future. Just as it will in the civilian economy and even in government administration. But we're not quite there yet.
What is the present about? A victory over Russia and China? Yes, that is probably true. But it must be added that it is about preventing the "new world order", which we know as "multipolar" and is already a reality to some extent. Secondly, it is still about control over the world's natural resources and markets. Russia and China are the pillars of resistance and must be liquidated. Whether this objective is feasible is another question. But I would like to clarify a completely different question, or rather it seems important to me to answer it. The military battlefield is only one aspect among several. The use of nuclear weapons would render everything else meaningless. Be it on purpose or by accident. My fiction completely excludes this option. This means that I grant the oligarchic decision-makers some residual sanity.
Political service providers are a factor of uncertainty. Even more so if, as a result of negative selection, incompetent personnel are appointed to certain key positions and do idiotic things and act unpredictably. But the strategic decisions are made by big business. This is where I finally come to the real question.
Let's look at China. Black Rock, Vanguard, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Buffets & Co, the big corporations are in China doing business. The same circles are behind the attacks on Russia and China at the same time. Russia and China know this. How does that fit together? Are they mutually dependent? Is China leaving a door open for these oligarchs, in case their destructive attacks are unsuccessful, so that these oligarchs can fit into the new world order? Still better than a nuclear war.
Nothing is one-dimensional. So the processes are not limited exclusively to the military aspect. But what I just wrote is still incomprehensible to me."
Hello Karl. Sorry to call you by your first name. But I think that's standard in internet communication. It's not meant to be disrespectful.
You are following developments in Russia and Eurasia as a whole very closely. Hence my following questions to you.
The multipolar world is already a reality. More and more countries are seeing the weakness of the hegemon and its vassals. The emperor has no more clothes. He is naked. Although he can still do a lot of damage. Nevertheless, more and more countries are daring to resist the dictates of the USA and the West and act in their own national interest. However, there are different conditions, problems and grievances within the many states, as well as different interests and even hostilities between the states themselves. The differences between India and China are a prominent example of this. But this also applies to many other countries.
🔹How do you see the future or the possibility of a peaceful solution to these issues in the next 5 to 10 years?
🔹How do you assess the escalating credit problem in China? Credit also means an exponential increase in money and inflationary risks, and at the same time credit also means debt from others. Sergei Yuryevich Glazyev harshly criticized this in Telegram to China and described it as an enormous risk.
🔹The Serbian leadership has sold Serbia to USNATO. Quietly and secretly. Even though 90% of Serbs support Russia. How do you see that?
🔹I see no other option for Hungary than to join the SOC and the BRICS. If Hungary doesn't do this, the West will destroy Hungary economically. Your opinion on this? Will Hungary go in this direction?
🔹Turkey is geostrategically important for all sides. Until now, Turkey has always tried to sit on two chairs at the same time. Now it seems as if either joining the SOC or remaining in NATO is coming closer to a decision. I can imagine that Russia and China will not put pressure on Turkey on this point. But remaining in NATO would always give the US leverage. How do you see that?
No problems; at least you spelled it correctly! The issues within and between nations will take time to become normal, by which I mean friendly and productive in the win-win sense articulated by Xi. The Age of Plunder's many decades of fomenting such antagonisms for Plundering nation benefits will take time to heal and lots of interpersonal communication. But the die is cast and IMO all Global Majority nations want a harmonious balanced future as that's the best possible outcome. The Plundering and divisional exploitation went on for 500+ years and still continues in a very diminished manner, thus it will take perhaps a century or more to attain harmony within the Global Majority--there's no instant pill to resolve the sickness sown by the Plunderers. So, for the short-term, some progress will be attained. The regional approach promoted by Russia seems logical. The one major policy the Global Majority must adopt is the sort of Foreign Agent Law that Georgia just enacted along with the complete cessation of involvement with NATO nations in the security field with an eye to promote sovereignty. The other item needing implementation by the Global Majority is the Global Security Initiative.
The problem of credit use isn't only confined to China but has a long and very ugly history that's mostly been kept hidden. Equitable distribution of economic resources must be done to obviate the need for credit--the question ought to be: Why is credit needed, and if it's needed, who/what should supply it? That digs into core policy aspects of political-economy and how it should be structured. In discussions with Dr. Hudson on the issue, it's clear that China needs to come up with a permanent answer to the above question before its FIRE sector grows any larger.
On Serbia, I'm not well versed, and thus can't really comment, although I know Russia supports the Serbs as best it can.
On Hungary, Orban has shown himself to be very astute, and I salute his efforts. Currently, he's the most visible head of the European Mutiny and his efforts are exposing the dictatorial nature of EU/NATO that's contributing to the change seen in the European electorate. How BRICS and SCO decide to expand their membership will be the determining factor of how many nations eventually become part of those organizations. IMO, the Greater Eurasian Partnership and EAEU institution makes more sense at this moment. In his fight with the EU, Orban isn't without tools to use the best of which as I mentioned is his exposure of the colonial nature of European nations relations with EU/NATO. As for the West's ability to "destroy Hungary economically," IMO you vest too much ability with the West. The sanctions regime that colonized Europe has also destabilized it greatly thus causing the great political turmoil we're seeing, so we see pushback already happening that will grow in intensity.
Some years ago, I noted that Turkey's national interest lies with Russia and Eurasia as EU/NATO will never actually accept them despite the Turk's NATO membership that resulted from WW2 politics. When will the Turks leave NATO IMO is impossible to answer. If any nation is to become a BRICS or SCO member while remaining in NATO, Turkey would be that nation, although IMO Turkey would need to leave NATO to do so. The Turkish economy's suffered a large amount of damage from "US leverage" specifically manipulation of the Lira. When the earthquakes happened, Russian and China were the first to render aid in copious amounts while the West provided very little--same with Armenia. The age of ethnic based international organizations IMO is fading and with it is Erdogan's Pan-Turkic ideal as it's oppositional to the Global Majority effort to unite one and all regardless under the ideal of a shared future for Humanity.
As I told my troops back when I was a Platoon Leader: I look white, but inside I'm purple just like all of you. And that's a credo I've had my whole life and clearly colors my POV. As I tell people who wonder how I got my Sanchez surname, I tell them I'm an Iberian Visigoth: a mutt just like them.
I also see the timeframe mentioned as realistic. With one caveat: there are too many factors that can influence future developments.
Putin said the following in a brief interview with a Russian journalist in Sochi in January 2014. It was during the coup in Kiev, shortly before the Winter Games. In a nutshell:
The journalist asked Putin why Russia and China were not immediately doing everything they could to bring down the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. Putin replied that this could be done. But that would throw the whole of humanity into economic and social misery that would bring death to millions of people. As I understood it, the world must first create structures and conditions that make it independent of the US dollar and the USA. Only then could this be done. And we are now observing this process. He said something else that I found absolutely authentic and honest. He said that as president, he saw it as his life's work to develop and modernize the huge Russia in terms of infrastructure, economy and social affairs. But unfortunately, he had to allocate considerable funds and resources to the defense against Western aggression. Something he saw as a waste. Both in terms of the aforementioned and his lifetime. I was very impressed by this way of thinking.
Perhaps you can't imagine how it feels to be a thoughtful person living in the middle of an asylum full of lunatics and in the midst of spiritual and intellectual poverty. On top of that, you are threatened and bullied by the lunatics. It's almost unbearable. Full of envy, I look into another world.
But back to the topic above. No one can know what will happen when humanity is freed from Western dictates. Multipolarity also means different interests and if oligarchic structures gain the upper hand again at some point, the world might not become more peaceful and humanistic. However, I hope that doesn't happen. I won't live to see it anyway.
Sputnik today has a short report on a BRICS symposium, https://sputnikglobe.com/20240711/brics-futurological-forum-challenges-western-paradigm-of-history--1119338608.html
"BRICS Futurological Forum Challenges Western Paradigm of History." that I suggest reading that encapsulates the ideas behind what I wrote above. And those ideas aren't just Russian. Here's the key sentence from the report:
"International participants of the Forum stressed in their speeches the irreversibility of the change and the multipolar world order based on mutual respect of the identities and interests of states and peoples."
As a counterpoint to the NATO Summit, I suggest this report, https://sputnikglobe.com/20240711/nato-tantrum-over-chinas-challenge-to-rules-based-order-sign-of-decline-of-wests-hegemony-1119343085.html
Here're some excerpts:
"NATO's Washington Summit declaration mentioned China a total of fourteen times, labeling the Asian nation as a "challenge" to the alliance's "interests, security and values." The statement is another sign that the sun is setting on the West's unipolar moment, veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik....
"According to the alliance, "the deepening strategic partnership between Russia and the PRC and their mutually reinforcing attempts to undercut and reshape the rules-based international orders" has been "cause for profound concern."
"“It’s important first to understand that when NATO mentions a ‘rules-based international order’, they are referring to a geopolitical order in which wealthy Western nations determine the ‘rules’ in order to serve their own best interests, often at the expense of what is actual international law,” veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik."
Yes, neither of us will live to see what evolves by 2100, but the indicators exist and continue to gain greater visibility.
Today, in a comment on an article by SIMPLICIUS, I asked a question that has been on my mind for some time and is also important here.
"Can the West Still Win? Analyzing Claims of Ukraine's Coming Tech Supremacy Over Russia"
SIMPLICIUS
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/can-the-west-still-win-analyzing
Because my comment is also relevant to my questions here, I am copying it here.
———
"What I am writing now is fiction. Not anymore. But let's not let that deter us from talking about it too.
For me personally, there is no doubt that AI and robotics will take over the majority of warfare in the future. Just as it will in the civilian economy and even in government administration. But we're not quite there yet.
What is the present about? A victory over Russia and China? Yes, that is probably true. But it must be added that it is about preventing the "new world order", which we know as "multipolar" and is already a reality to some extent. Secondly, it is still about control over the world's natural resources and markets. Russia and China are the pillars of resistance and must be liquidated. Whether this objective is feasible is another question. But I would like to clarify a completely different question, or rather it seems important to me to answer it. The military battlefield is only one aspect among several. The use of nuclear weapons would render everything else meaningless. Be it on purpose or by accident. My fiction completely excludes this option. This means that I grant the oligarchic decision-makers some residual sanity.
Political service providers are a factor of uncertainty. Even more so if, as a result of negative selection, incompetent personnel are appointed to certain key positions and do idiotic things and act unpredictably. But the strategic decisions are made by big business. This is where I finally come to the real question.
Let's look at China. Black Rock, Vanguard, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Buffets & Co, the big corporations are in China doing business. The same circles are behind the attacks on Russia and China at the same time. Russia and China know this. How does that fit together? Are they mutually dependent? Is China leaving a door open for these oligarchs, in case their destructive attacks are unsuccessful, so that these oligarchs can fit into the new world order? Still better than a nuclear war.
Nothing is one-dimensional. So the processes are not limited exclusively to the military aspect. But what I just wrote is still incomprehensible to me."
I'm amazed at President Putin's versatility ....
President Biden introduced him to speak today at the NATO meeting - What? Well Pres. Biden meant to introduce x-President Zelenski ....!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009567490/biden-zelensky-putin.html
I'll get to the 'other' Pres. Putin speech later on!
at live Press Conf he has just called VP Harris VP 'Trump' and not corrected. 1st Question.
He is done.
Every single Q so far has challenged his 'ability' to continue ....
He is not giving in .... but he is not convincing. Loud sound of egg shells crackling around the oh so silent room ...
... now he is putting his slipper into China ... and getting Europe to curtail trade with China ..
Europe, Japan and NATO to build more 'weapons capacity' ...
... no good reason to talk to Putin right now ... Russia has lost over 350,000 dead and wounded!!! ....
... claims that Hamas not popular in West Bank!
EVERY single Q challenged his 'capacity' - this is unprecedented. My interlude over.
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