If you don't read M. K. Bhadrakumar's blog, you should. A retired Indian diplomat, his analysis of world events is objective, informed and inspired by humanistic principles. In the post I've linked to he discusses China's upcoming attempt at shuttle-diplomacy between Russia and NATO as the latter's leadership appear to be losing their minds. Russia is humiliating NATO, which figured that the combination of crippling sanctions and a Western-trained Ukraine would have at least severely weakened Russia, if it didn't lead to the collapse of the Putin government and the reconquest of the Donbas.
Bhadrakumar mentions French President Macron's defending his recent outburst about sending French troops to fight Russia in Ukraine:
Just two days earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke up that he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of putting Western boots on the ground in Ukraine in order to prevent a Russian victory. Li Hui is expected to visit Russia, the EU headquarters in Brussels, Poland, Ukraine, Germany and France.
The Chinese spokesperson Mao Ning kept the expectations low by adding that “Behind this, there is only one goal that China hopes to achieve, that is, to build consensus for ending the conflict and pave the way for peace talks. China will continue to play its role, carry out shuttle diplomacy, pool consensus and contribute China’s wisdom for the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.”
Macron spoke up after a summit of European leaders in Paris on Monday. But in diplomacy, there is always something more than what meets the eye. Macron later insisted that he had spoken quite deliberately: “These are rather serious topics. My every word on this issue is weighted, thought through and calculated.” Nonetheless, representatives of most of the 20 participating countries at the Paris conclave, especially Germany, later took a public position that they had no intention to send troops to Ukraine and were strongly opposed to participation in military operations against Russia.
To which I say that if that is the case, then Macron needs to be removed from power and confined for treatment in a mental institution. Even those idiots who yammer about international law and that Putin's invasion was "unprovoked" cannot deny that Ukraine was governed by a super-corrupt oligarchy who had destroyed an already moribund economy, that its security forces were dominated by bonafide NAZIS and that its claims to being a democracy were fraudulent.
For THIS we risk World War III? Israel can commit a genocide with our assistance but we must threaten nuclear war because Russia is winning the war we orchestrated against it?
This is what you have to understand. Our oligarchs are, for the most part at least, absolute idiots. As such, they will stumble us all into nuclear war the same way that the oligarchs of 1914 blundered into World War I. [Everytime I've encountered some claim that the cunning British orchestrated the whole thing to weaken Germany I see only an elaborate hypothesis with little in the way of evidence.]
There are no genius masterminds behind this. The moral frauds weeping crocodile tears for the Ukrainians while aiding and abetting the slaughter of Palestinians, all the while incapable of grasping the way the rest of the "international community" views their complete hypocrisy? The military-industrial complex pursuing short-term profit above all else, and giving us airplanes that fall from the sky and fighter-jets that simply don't work and tanks that get a half-mile to the gallon and require constant, expensive maintenance? The fat, stupid, slothful neo-con chickenhawks writing their imbecilic, masturbation fantasies? The retail-chain owners getting themselves blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein for raping pubescent girls on his island?
They're just a bunch of racist, greedy psychopaths and sociopaths who have so much power because our culture has become so confused and addled (perhaps by over a century of propaganda and manipulation of an already gullible and stupid collective mindset) that it can't comprehend how to sweep them aside.
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Meanwhile, the spectre of Donald Trump haunts both Europe and China, which, hopefully, may boost the latter’s chances at winning Europe’s trust. (Bhadradkumar)
Excellent post and I fined many of your points inline with mine. I do however question the involvement of the Chinese. I lived in Hong Kong for eight years terminating in 2019 so I have seen enough of the Chinese to know not to trust them. I'm sure many Hong Kongers would be in agreement. Your blog reminds me of just how hypocritical the whole mess these Fuckwads have put the world in. Just this morning I was watching Democracy Now and was sickened at the sight of a dying malnourished Palestinian girl ten years old. I see later that Australia is asking Israel to finally show proof of the Palestinians involvement with the UNWRA scandal. Instead of debating "boots on the ground" in Ukrain our shit head prime Minister should perhaps put boots on the ground in Gaza and defy Israel with a fuck you and feed some starving people. I remember a time when Canada was a respected Peace Force.
zoombats,
I don't have a lot of faith in an entity like the Chinese Communist Party or anyone who rises to the heights within such an entity. The Chinese can be fairly ruthless within what they consider to be their sphere of influence.
But at the same time, I don't think they're possessed of the same mania for conquest that infects the minds of USians and their European forefathers. That particular set of oligarchs still believes that the imperialism of the 19th Century can be retained, even after it's already been lost.
As well, I think the mental caliber of the Chinese and Russian foreign policy leadership is vastly superior to the delusional mediocrities who have inherited the Anglo-American Empire.
That includes Trump, who no doubt has difficulty restraining the open expression of his racist contempt for the Chinese. (As I've said, his reasonable views about Russia are no doubt influenced by his appreciation for the money they've given him and the caucasian nature of the women in Moscow and St. Petersburg.)
With the support for the genocide in Gaza our rulers have completely exposed themselves. I pray that as a society we don't let yet another crime against humanity get a pass.
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