The successful Color Revolution in Bangladesh, further Western enabled chaos in Myanmar, and an aborted Color Revolution in Thailand have all occurred this week under the cover of the Zionist Genocide, the awaited/expected at any moment Iranian and Resistance counterattack, along with the Ukraine conflict with its newest twist in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
{All these events are connected to the Multipolar world’s rise and the attempt by the Outlaw US Empire to keep its superiority and the plunder it takes in from its efforts.}
Finally! It's taken me forever to find someone who is analyzing and illuminating what this is truly all about! Thank you!
Thanks for your applause. Most of what's published here at the Gym is related to geopolitics and the fracturing of the world into the Global Majority and what's controlled by the Outlaw US Empire. I highly suggest becoming familiar with the work of Dr. Michael Hudson if you aren't already beginning with his magnum opus "Super Imperialism." He has a website where the vast majority of his non-book publications can be found. This link goes to a very recent talk he gave for Italians in English that he felt conveyed the essence of Hudson 101, https://michael-hudson.com/2024/07/barbarism-or-civilization/
The four podcast transcripts that precede the above are also outstanding.
I've been a follower of his for some time and was quite impressed he is advising Dr. Jill Stein where I have heard him speak several times of late.
This being said, I am strictly a nobody who spends their life reading as I am also a retiree. I don't watch nor own a TV - smart Phone or any of those other newfangled intentional and deliberate diversions. Would you be so kind to tell me if I am completely off with my personal opinion?
Like you I firmly believe all of this is related - the USA is in it's final throws and this all boils down to the new trade routes and shipping lanes and the fight for control. I believe the war in Ukraine is a war of attrition to keep Putin confined to prevent him from moving on and succeeding in the middle east. I also believe the most recent escalation is purposely designed in order to obstruct his efforts to help Iran - although he has already succeeded monumentally in doing so. I also believe Netanyahu is doing everythng humanly possible to deliberately escalate this confrontation so they will insert Hillary Clinton and remove Kamala Harris under the alleged guise of having no foreign affair experience. Ironically Hudson eluded to one of these hypothesis but I forget which one. I just recall thinking I wasn't wrong for him to have said the same. I read an article several months ago that stated the USA's greatest fear (those who're truly in charge) is that Putin will succeed in the middle east and finally being peace. And then Pepe Escobar wrote something similar regarding Putin being being summoned by Saudi Arabia(?) as a mediator to resolve the conflicts.
Several years ago, Putin made a public vow to end the Outlaw US Empire's hegemony which I reported at the time, and he's publicly repeated that vow a few since. You could read that goal within the "security ultimatum" served to the Empire and NATO in December 2021, which I also reported at the time (all that at my VK). The Empire announced its primary goal to the world in 1996 and again in 1999--to attain Full Spectrum Dominance of the planet and its people, to which 911 was made to facilitate that plan. My review of history informs me that the reality is the USA began to work toward that goal during WW2 by a faction we would now call the deep state that existed within the USG during FDR's terms, and also existed outside in the private business domain.
Regarding contemporary events, you're essentially correct, but as alluded to above, the battle's been ongoing for many decades. The most recent shot over the Empire's bow was published yesterday by China's MFA in English, "The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does," that's in the form of a Word Doc that can be accessed from this link, https://english.news.cn/20240809/381383c0a8344ee4acac9f3088ab1527/c.html
When it's understood that Neoliberalism is the ultimate Ponzi Scheme, it's easy to see why as many nations and people as possible are controlled by its institutions, for all the top class's "wealth" consists of everyone else's debts, and the latter must be continually raised for the former to also raise. Back in the 1980s, the term used was Debt Peonage, which ought to be self-explanatory--but at the time it was seen as only being done 3rd and 4th nations instead of the entire world as it is today.
Yes, I read Marat's article this morning and felt it was related to China's paper. Twenty-five years ago while in college I read Simon de Beauvoir's paper on the Marquis de Sade and his Libertine philosophy, the latter most interesting her since it was very close to how the Fascists/Nazis and colonialists behaved. IMO, there's also a sect within the Deep State that holds the same "values" which people like the fictional Dr. Lecter use to fascinate and control others--think Charles Manson or Jim Jones, or the seduction used by Ronald Reagan and others.
Thank you for the very good analysis in this article. There is always hope, because every force creates a counterforce. Every coup and color revolution and every alliance of corrupt national elites with the West creates poverty and misery among the population. This usually leads to these elites being "removed" again at some point. In addition, color revolutions are currently a major issue in SOC and ASEAN.
Interesting that the Bangla Desh regime change followed the visit of the same US 'Diplomat" (a Chinese American called Hu) who had been instrumental in prompting Imran Khan's removal in Pakistan.
In the long term, I have come to see these US moves as entirely counterproductive-which is to say, for 90% of the Globe's people welcome. The net results of US intrigues in South Asia- the former Raj- seem to include the Washington nightmare of a consolidation of the I and C in BRICS.
Having cleverly wrecked the longstanding policy of dividing Russia and China, and thrown in Iran as a bonus, the US is now undermining its own attempts to use India against China.
Both moves represent a diplomatic shifting of tectonic plates that are almost impossible to credit: India and China have been on the verge of war since the 1950s. The demise of the Soviet Union became certain when Nixon et al managed to split China away from its alliance.
Looking at the past few years we see, one after another, amazing achievements, in reverse, authored by the State Department: Saudi Arabia joining with Russia and getting together with Iran, for example. The use of force to push Iraq into Iran's arms and to empower the shi'ites that Saddam had suppressed. Pushing Thailand (see above) into BRICS and ending its long career as a client of imperialism. Forcing Indonesia- still ruled by the remains of the Death squads that Obama's parents helped organise, away from The Philippines and Australia towards China and Russia. Even North Korea, so long sanctioned and impoverished, has benefitted from US Foreign policy stupidity- from the brink of disaster it has returned to become a viable basis for Korean re-unification. They must be waiting for the US to sanction south Korea or insult its people to the point where they orddr the bases closed.
Similar things might be said about Japan, occupied for eighty years and still treated like shit by its American masters, and thew aforesaid Philipinnes where the US has staked its all on comprador corruption.
And that is why there is no chance of China 'invading' Taiwan- it knows that any day now Washington will hand it over on a plate, not because it wants to but because its Foreign Policy is controlled by idiots who care more about meaningless elections in a nandful of swing states than they do about anywhere else in the world. Which is why Israel is the one exception: it is a domestic political matter.
The second is this map Pepe Escobar posted to his Telegram that shows geographically why Pakistan and Bangladesh are strategically essential to BRI, https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/12337
The reality is that all of these countries, including even Malaysia, are creatures of the Raj and demonstrations (cf Palestine and Israel) of Britain's use of divide and rule tactics to maintain their power in places where they were a tiny minority even among the military.
The US, as heir to the Empire, is desperately trying to ensure that places like the sub-continent, including Sri Lanka and Myanmar does not find its common interests served within the loose embrace of BRICS.
The St Martin Island story would be incredible were the US not involved- there are clearly rooms full of nerds (of all sexes) in Washington going over the Atlas with magnifying glasses searching for strategically located 'choke points' - great work if you can get it., and a quick way of paying off student loans.
This article explains the origins of the Indo Pacific concept in geopolitics:
"...when Hitler came to power in Germany, Hess was appointed Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party. A special professorship in defense geography was created for Haushofer at the University of Munich.2
(Hess had been Haushoffer's ADC in WW1. Haushoffer had given Hitler and Hess lessons in geopolitics while they were imprisoned and while Hess was taking dictation of Mein Kampf.)
"The designation of the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical region arose in Haushofer’s global imperial strategy, aimed at carving out a new “Pan-region” (similar to Pan-America under U.S. hegemony) in the Far East, to be led by Germany, Japan, and Russia/USSR. The goal was to overcome British and U.S. colonial control of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific regions, with the object of creating a new Indo-Pacific imperium under German-Japanese hegemony that would be capable of countering at the global level the dominance of the Euro-Atlantic super-region by the old colonial powers. In contrast to the Euro-Atlantic, Anglo-American imperialist control of the Indo-Pacific was seen by Haushofer as vulnerable to a German-Eurasian alliance. Haushofer thus grounded his analysis in the notion of an “imperialistically disputed Pacific.”3
"Haushofer’s ideas attracted enormous interest in the United States up to and during the Second World War. In the view of Hans W. Weigert, writing in the Council of Foreign Relations publication Foreign Affairs in July 1942, Haushofer’s Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean was “the Bible of German geopolitics,” commonly considered in the United States to be a “super science.” At West Point, it was held that Haushofer had made possible Hitler’s victories in both peace and war. In Weigert’s Foreign Affairs article, Haushofer was condemned for having destroyed “the unity of the white race” in his advocacy of an alliance with Japan and other Eurasian powers against Britain, the United States, and France. (Haushofer himself was a racist, characterizing France as a “half-African power” and employing the notion of the “master races.”) “The German-Russian non-aggression pact of August 9, 1939,” Weigert observed, “was Haushofer’s greatest triumph.” It raised the possibility of a Central European-Eurasian alliance, and a global dominance of the “World Island” of Eurasia of the kind warned against by Halford Mackinder, the British founder of geopolitics.4 In 1939, following the Nonaggression Pact, Haushofer wrote: “Now finally, the collaboration of the Axis powers, and of the Far East, stands distinctly before the German soul. At last, there is the hope of survival against the Anaconda policy [the strangling encirclement] of the Western democracies.”5...
I also left a comment on Larry Johnson today. Again, I'm copying the text here for the sake of simplicity.
"Many people still think that there will be negotiations, treaties, documents and then the situation will stabilize again. No, the USA and its brainless poodles will continue to provoke and escalate until everything explodes. Even if Russia and China show superhuman patience and even if Iran does not directly retaliate against Israel. The BRICS+ and the SOC are the guarantee for the demise of US hegemony. The European vassal regimes know that they will be tried in a court of law if the war ends. This also applies to Netanyahu. Internally, they will create dramatic scenarios and establish a permanent state of emergency as a result. Externally, they will cross every red line of Russia, China and Iran until they have no other choice but to strike back massively. Medvedev has hinted at this. But that is not necessary. Logic already says so.
"For now, at least, as Russian patience, although unrivaled, has its limits. This is precisely why Moscow keeps warning against further escalation, but to no avail. The political West is determined to cause the complete destruction of the entire world with its certifiably insane actions and policies."
I see it the same way. And one more thing about any elections. No matter who or what is elected, the system, the oligarchs behind it, have created a monster, the Deep State, where I'm not sure anyone has full control over it anymore."
"Deep states" existed before; they were prominently within the pre-WW1 European Monarchies, what Mayer called "the forces of order." They were defeated by the war and by the political forces the war unleashed, what Mayer called the "forces of movement" form which he derived the "Old Diplomacy" and "New Diplomacy" concepts. IMO, it's possible to see those same forces along with the old and new on the march once again. I'm not the only one to see the very close similarities. What's unfortunate is the inability to construct a physical barrier between the USA and the rest of the planet.
As he states, this American operation is strategic in nature and predictably seeks to destabilize China's periphery and the Belt and Road Initiative that goes through Bangladesh.
What is also interesting is that this operation seeks to apply pressure against India--as suggested by his article and the other pieces above.
As Henry Kissinger once said: "To be an American adversary is dangerous, but to be an American friend is fatal."
Despite being a member of the USA's anti-Chinese "Quad" group, India will likely discover the truth of this warning.
Where does that second map come from? It is very incorrect!
Indonesia in 1910 was a Dutch colony, not British - and it had already the present borders. It included the Western part of New Guinea. It was the Eastern part that was German and that after World War I came under Australian control.
It's very complex socio-politically. Much of Myanmar is just 75 years removed from the Stone Age, its ethnic complicity being just as jumbled as New Guinea's. And that makes divide and rule too easy.
Thank you once again Mr. Sanchez. I didn't believe any concise post could educate and deliver even a portion of understanding of the recent Bangladesh events and tie them back to their origin and related ongoings so well. I know nothing of the region. Not my area. My entire experience of Bangladesh dates back to 2011 when an official microwaved some sort of was apparently once a fish, in foil, resulting in not just the most foul odor imaginable but the frantic evacuation of the campus building where the summit occurred, a UHCL TX branch. It was rather humorous when we were eventually told we likely weren't poisoned or attacked but that one of our global partners had an assistant traveling with them that was unfamiliar with microwave ovens. Not a fantastic look for a cyber security delegation. I'm assuming the food catered was not trusted as every attempt to accommodate customs are thoroughly planned and paid for. The alligators on campus were more trusted than us from the west. I'm still clueless about that region of the world and lack the time and motivation to research further, your writeup and links are aiding in my not feeling so bad about my ignorance of that quadrant. Thank you again, blessings.
You're not alone regarding the lack of South Asian knowledge, which is why I cobbled those articles together so the reader would have it all there with pointers on where else to go. Just the exploration of India's 10,000 years of history and its connections to other peoples beyond the region takes a lifetime of study plus the additional effort needed to place it all into context.
Thank you, Karl. I like M K Bhadrakumar? I read the las5 one on his blog but I missed the first one. A superfluous question — will these colour revolutions ever stop? No need to answer, it is a rhetorical question.
{All these events are connected to the Multipolar world’s rise and the attempt by the Outlaw US Empire to keep its superiority and the plunder it takes in from its efforts.}
Finally! It's taken me forever to find someone who is analyzing and illuminating what this is truly all about! Thank you!
Thanks for your applause. Most of what's published here at the Gym is related to geopolitics and the fracturing of the world into the Global Majority and what's controlled by the Outlaw US Empire. I highly suggest becoming familiar with the work of Dr. Michael Hudson if you aren't already beginning with his magnum opus "Super Imperialism." He has a website where the vast majority of his non-book publications can be found. This link goes to a very recent talk he gave for Italians in English that he felt conveyed the essence of Hudson 101, https://michael-hudson.com/2024/07/barbarism-or-civilization/
The four podcast transcripts that precede the above are also outstanding.
I've been a follower of his for some time and was quite impressed he is advising Dr. Jill Stein where I have heard him speak several times of late.
This being said, I am strictly a nobody who spends their life reading as I am also a retiree. I don't watch nor own a TV - smart Phone or any of those other newfangled intentional and deliberate diversions. Would you be so kind to tell me if I am completely off with my personal opinion?
Like you I firmly believe all of this is related - the USA is in it's final throws and this all boils down to the new trade routes and shipping lanes and the fight for control. I believe the war in Ukraine is a war of attrition to keep Putin confined to prevent him from moving on and succeeding in the middle east. I also believe the most recent escalation is purposely designed in order to obstruct his efforts to help Iran - although he has already succeeded monumentally in doing so. I also believe Netanyahu is doing everythng humanly possible to deliberately escalate this confrontation so they will insert Hillary Clinton and remove Kamala Harris under the alleged guise of having no foreign affair experience. Ironically Hudson eluded to one of these hypothesis but I forget which one. I just recall thinking I wasn't wrong for him to have said the same. I read an article several months ago that stated the USA's greatest fear (those who're truly in charge) is that Putin will succeed in the middle east and finally being peace. And then Pepe Escobar wrote something similar regarding Putin being being summoned by Saudi Arabia(?) as a mediator to resolve the conflicts.
Tell me how far off I am?
Several years ago, Putin made a public vow to end the Outlaw US Empire's hegemony which I reported at the time, and he's publicly repeated that vow a few since. You could read that goal within the "security ultimatum" served to the Empire and NATO in December 2021, which I also reported at the time (all that at my VK). The Empire announced its primary goal to the world in 1996 and again in 1999--to attain Full Spectrum Dominance of the planet and its people, to which 911 was made to facilitate that plan. My review of history informs me that the reality is the USA began to work toward that goal during WW2 by a faction we would now call the deep state that existed within the USG during FDR's terms, and also existed outside in the private business domain.
Regarding contemporary events, you're essentially correct, but as alluded to above, the battle's been ongoing for many decades. The most recent shot over the Empire's bow was published yesterday by China's MFA in English, "The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does," that's in the form of a Word Doc that can be accessed from this link, https://english.news.cn/20240809/381383c0a8344ee4acac9f3088ab1527/c.html
When it's understood that Neoliberalism is the ultimate Ponzi Scheme, it's easy to see why as many nations and people as possible are controlled by its institutions, for all the top class's "wealth" consists of everyone else's debts, and the latter must be continually raised for the former to also raise. Back in the 1980s, the term used was Debt Peonage, which ought to be self-explanatory--but at the time it was seen as only being done 3rd and 4th nations instead of the entire world as it is today.
I read an article today from Marat Khayrullin and also remembered
an article about Kagan, Nuland.
https://t.me/voenkorkhayrullin/3121
https://consortiumnews.com/nl/2015/03/20/a-family-business-of-perpetual-war/
Yes, I read Marat's article this morning and felt it was related to China's paper. Twenty-five years ago while in college I read Simon de Beauvoir's paper on the Marquis de Sade and his Libertine philosophy, the latter most interesting her since it was very close to how the Fascists/Nazis and colonialists behaved. IMO, there's also a sect within the Deep State that holds the same "values" which people like the fictional Dr. Lecter use to fascinate and control others--think Charles Manson or Jim Jones, or the seduction used by Ronald Reagan and others.
I also had the feeling that the articles are related.
After almost 50 years, I can still remember the terrible images from Pasolini’s Salo. The film based on the Sade...
Sick people...
Thank you Karl also for this link.
Thank you for the very good analysis in this article. There is always hope, because every force creates a counterforce. Every coup and color revolution and every alliance of corrupt national elites with the West creates poverty and misery among the population. This usually leads to these elites being "removed" again at some point. In addition, color revolutions are currently a major issue in SOC and ASEAN.
Interesting that the Bangla Desh regime change followed the visit of the same US 'Diplomat" (a Chinese American called Hu) who had been instrumental in prompting Imran Khan's removal in Pakistan.
In the long term, I have come to see these US moves as entirely counterproductive-which is to say, for 90% of the Globe's people welcome. The net results of US intrigues in South Asia- the former Raj- seem to include the Washington nightmare of a consolidation of the I and C in BRICS.
Having cleverly wrecked the longstanding policy of dividing Russia and China, and thrown in Iran as a bonus, the US is now undermining its own attempts to use India against China.
Both moves represent a diplomatic shifting of tectonic plates that are almost impossible to credit: India and China have been on the verge of war since the 1950s. The demise of the Soviet Union became certain when Nixon et al managed to split China away from its alliance.
Looking at the past few years we see, one after another, amazing achievements, in reverse, authored by the State Department: Saudi Arabia joining with Russia and getting together with Iran, for example. The use of force to push Iraq into Iran's arms and to empower the shi'ites that Saddam had suppressed. Pushing Thailand (see above) into BRICS and ending its long career as a client of imperialism. Forcing Indonesia- still ruled by the remains of the Death squads that Obama's parents helped organise, away from The Philippines and Australia towards China and Russia. Even North Korea, so long sanctioned and impoverished, has benefitted from US Foreign policy stupidity- from the brink of disaster it has returned to become a viable basis for Korean re-unification. They must be waiting for the US to sanction south Korea or insult its people to the point where they orddr the bases closed.
Similar things might be said about Japan, occupied for eighty years and still treated like shit by its American masters, and thew aforesaid Philipinnes where the US has staked its all on comprador corruption.
And that is why there is no chance of China 'invading' Taiwan- it knows that any day now Washington will hand it over on a plate, not because it wants to but because its Foreign Policy is controlled by idiots who care more about meaningless elections in a nandful of swing states than they do about anywhere else in the world. Which is why Israel is the one exception: it is a domestic political matter.
Two items of interest have surfaced. The first is this article and the letter Hasina wrote where she said the following,
“I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of St. Martin Island and allowed America to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal.” https://sputnikglobe.com/20240811/how-mackinders-heartland-theory-of-geopolitics-helps-explain-bangladeshi-pm-hasinas-ouster-1119725428.html
The second is this map Pepe Escobar posted to his Telegram that shows geographically why Pakistan and Bangladesh are strategically essential to BRI, https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/12337
Yes, both links are important.
The reality is that all of these countries, including even Malaysia, are creatures of the Raj and demonstrations (cf Palestine and Israel) of Britain's use of divide and rule tactics to maintain their power in places where they were a tiny minority even among the military.
The US, as heir to the Empire, is desperately trying to ensure that places like the sub-continent, including Sri Lanka and Myanmar does not find its common interests served within the loose embrace of BRICS.
The St Martin Island story would be incredible were the US not involved- there are clearly rooms full of nerds (of all sexes) in Washington going over the Atlas with magnifying glasses searching for strategically located 'choke points' - great work if you can get it., and a quick way of paying off student loans.
This article explains the origins of the Indo Pacific concept in geopolitics:
"...when Hitler came to power in Germany, Hess was appointed Deputy Führer of the Nazi Party. A special professorship in defense geography was created for Haushofer at the University of Munich.2
(Hess had been Haushoffer's ADC in WW1. Haushoffer had given Hitler and Hess lessons in geopolitics while they were imprisoned and while Hess was taking dictation of Mein Kampf.)
"The designation of the Indo-Pacific as a geopolitical region arose in Haushofer’s global imperial strategy, aimed at carving out a new “Pan-region” (similar to Pan-America under U.S. hegemony) in the Far East, to be led by Germany, Japan, and Russia/USSR. The goal was to overcome British and U.S. colonial control of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific regions, with the object of creating a new Indo-Pacific imperium under German-Japanese hegemony that would be capable of countering at the global level the dominance of the Euro-Atlantic super-region by the old colonial powers. In contrast to the Euro-Atlantic, Anglo-American imperialist control of the Indo-Pacific was seen by Haushofer as vulnerable to a German-Eurasian alliance. Haushofer thus grounded his analysis in the notion of an “imperialistically disputed Pacific.”3
"Haushofer’s ideas attracted enormous interest in the United States up to and during the Second World War. In the view of Hans W. Weigert, writing in the Council of Foreign Relations publication Foreign Affairs in July 1942, Haushofer’s Geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean was “the Bible of German geopolitics,” commonly considered in the United States to be a “super science.” At West Point, it was held that Haushofer had made possible Hitler’s victories in both peace and war. In Weigert’s Foreign Affairs article, Haushofer was condemned for having destroyed “the unity of the white race” in his advocacy of an alliance with Japan and other Eurasian powers against Britain, the United States, and France. (Haushofer himself was a racist, characterizing France as a “half-African power” and employing the notion of the “master races.”) “The German-Russian non-aggression pact of August 9, 1939,” Weigert observed, “was Haushofer’s greatest triumph.” It raised the possibility of a Central European-Eurasian alliance, and a global dominance of the “World Island” of Eurasia of the kind warned against by Halford Mackinder, the British founder of geopolitics.4 In 1939, following the Nonaggression Pact, Haushofer wrote: “Now finally, the collaboration of the Axis powers, and of the Far East, stands distinctly before the German soul. At last, there is the hope of survival against the Anaconda policy [the strangling encirclement] of the Western democracies.”5...
https://monthlyreview.org/2024/07/01/imperialism-in-the-indo-pacific-an-introduction/
Thanks bevin! An amazing tale deserving further investigation.
This article by Mark Wauck is a good addition to your analysis.
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/us-continues-to-prep-for-war-on-china
I also left a comment on Larry Johnson today. Again, I'm copying the text here for the sake of simplicity.
"Many people still think that there will be negotiations, treaties, documents and then the situation will stabilize again. No, the USA and its brainless poodles will continue to provoke and escalate until everything explodes. Even if Russia and China show superhuman patience and even if Iran does not directly retaliate against Israel. The BRICS+ and the SOC are the guarantee for the demise of US hegemony. The European vassal regimes know that they will be tried in a court of law if the war ends. This also applies to Netanyahu. Internally, they will create dramatic scenarios and establish a permanent state of emergency as a result. Externally, they will cross every red line of Russia, China and Iran until they have no other choice but to strike back massively. Medvedev has hinted at this. But that is not necessary. Logic already says so.
"For now, at least, as Russian patience, although unrivaled, has its limits. This is precisely why Moscow keeps warning against further escalation, but to no avail. The political West is determined to cause the complete destruction of the entire world with its certifiably insane actions and policies."
https://www.globalresearch.ca/nato-neo-nazi-junta-nearly-blew-world/5864918
I see it the same way. And one more thing about any elections. No matter who or what is elected, the system, the oligarchs behind it, have created a monster, the Deep State, where I'm not sure anyone has full control over it anymore."
"Deep states" existed before; they were prominently within the pre-WW1 European Monarchies, what Mayer called "the forces of order." They were defeated by the war and by the political forces the war unleashed, what Mayer called the "forces of movement" form which he derived the "Old Diplomacy" and "New Diplomacy" concepts. IMO, it's possible to see those same forces along with the old and new on the march once again. I'm not the only one to see the very close similarities. What's unfortunate is the inability to construct a physical barrier between the USA and the rest of the planet.
Brian Berletic's article on the American regime change operation in Bangladesh:
"What’s Behind Regime Change in Bangladesh"
https://journal-neo.su/2024/08/11/whats-behind-regime-change-in-bangladesh/
As he states, this American operation is strategic in nature and predictably seeks to destabilize China's periphery and the Belt and Road Initiative that goes through Bangladesh.
What is also interesting is that this operation seeks to apply pressure against India--as suggested by his article and the other pieces above.
As Henry Kissinger once said: "To be an American adversary is dangerous, but to be an American friend is fatal."
Despite being a member of the USA's anti-Chinese "Quad" group, India will likely discover the truth of this warning.
Where does that second map come from? It is very incorrect!
Indonesia in 1910 was a Dutch colony, not British - and it had already the present borders. It included the Western part of New Guinea. It was the Eastern part that was German and that after World War I came under Australian control.
Thanks for that excellent explanation, Karl. I've been wondering about that neck of the woods.
It's very complex socio-politically. Much of Myanmar is just 75 years removed from the Stone Age, its ethnic complicity being just as jumbled as New Guinea's. And that makes divide and rule too easy.
Excellent article and composition of 3 others. Well done!
And you are right, in the West we get very little/no news about this region, even in the alt media.
good overview and analysis karl.. i have been following it, but you've given me more links to read!
Thank you once again Mr. Sanchez. I didn't believe any concise post could educate and deliver even a portion of understanding of the recent Bangladesh events and tie them back to their origin and related ongoings so well. I know nothing of the region. Not my area. My entire experience of Bangladesh dates back to 2011 when an official microwaved some sort of was apparently once a fish, in foil, resulting in not just the most foul odor imaginable but the frantic evacuation of the campus building where the summit occurred, a UHCL TX branch. It was rather humorous when we were eventually told we likely weren't poisoned or attacked but that one of our global partners had an assistant traveling with them that was unfamiliar with microwave ovens. Not a fantastic look for a cyber security delegation. I'm assuming the food catered was not trusted as every attempt to accommodate customs are thoroughly planned and paid for. The alligators on campus were more trusted than us from the west. I'm still clueless about that region of the world and lack the time and motivation to research further, your writeup and links are aiding in my not feeling so bad about my ignorance of that quadrant. Thank you again, blessings.
You're not alone regarding the lack of South Asian knowledge, which is why I cobbled those articles together so the reader would have it all there with pointers on where else to go. Just the exploration of India's 10,000 years of history and its connections to other peoples beyond the region takes a lifetime of study plus the additional effort needed to place it all into context.
Thank you, Karl. I like M K Bhadrakumar? I read the las5 one on his blog but I missed the first one. A superfluous question — will these colour revolutions ever stop? No need to answer, it is a rhetorical question.
You'll want to read and distribute the following, "The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does," which is in English and can be accessed at the following link, https://english.news.cn/20240809/381383c0a8344ee4acac9f3088ab1527/20240809381383c0a8344ee4acac9f3088ab1527_XxjwshE007082_20240809_CBMFN0A001.docx