The US warned India once again. Brian Deese, White House top economic adviser, claimed on Wednesday that the consequences of New Delhi's "more explicit strategic alignment" with Moscow would be "significant and long-term."
What a bullying manner! This is an open threat by the US toward India on the latter's own business. When it comes to the Ukraine crisis, the US is blatantly displaying its hegemonic mentality - either you are with the US, or against the US. This echoes exactly the same slogan of George W. Bush, made in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Even if India has not "aligned" with Russia, and has kept a relatively balanced position during the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the US does not buy it. Remaining neutral makes no sense to the US. What Washington wants from New Delhi is completely standing by the US side.
The US is afraid that ties among China, Russia and India may further develop due to the Ukraine crisis, although systematic cooperation of the three countries is not rare.
Moreover, the US expects that everything goes well in terms of the Quad summit, which is scheduled to be held in Japan, tentatively by the end of June. Yet, if India does not make a statement in line with the US expectation, the summit may hardly take place. Constant warnings over "consequences" against India emerged from the US, revealing Washington's anxiety.
Before Deese's remarks, the US has already warned India more than once against constructing alternate payment mechanisms with Russia or buying more oil from Russia. Yet the threats turned out to be in vain, as India benefits from its ties with Russia, which can't be substituted by the US.
Also, India's response mirrors an increasingly obvious trend - the US has underestimated the antipathy the rest of the world holds for it. Not only India, but the majority of the general public in China and Latin American countries and other developing world have not taken sides with the US in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, even if the US believes it is standing on the moral high ground. They do not support sanctioning Russia.
Quite a few countries have long been bullied by the US. They have long developed a rebellious psychology. This time, the more sanctions Washington imposes on Russia due to the conflict, the more aversion the US will have to face.
The US has long believed it masters superior strength, values, and civilization, which in turn has given birth to its overbearing arrogance. As a result, when interacting with non-Western countries, the US either coerces them or issues warnings to them. Since Washington is used to dealing with others from a position of strength, its relations with other countries have never been on an equal footing.
That's why the world has been witnessing the US talking about the so-called democracy while it makes dictatorial orders toward other countries.
The resentment from non-Western countries toward such hegemonic arrogance has long been lurking. It is now surfacing during the ongoing Ukraine crisis, along with the real status of the US in international society - It has imposed sanctions on Russia yet has failed to reach expected effects; It claims to be on the justified side, but most countries believe it is the US-led NATO that has turned Ukraine into a pawn, threw it under the bus, and worse, attempted to prolong the war; It pushed India, one of its closest partners, to take sides, but only gained India's cold shoulder.
Since the outbreak of the conflict, Indian people seem to have been fed up with the US putting pressure on or threatening India. Many of them asked: What kind of a partner is this? New Delhi's current balanced diplomacy is thus warmly welcomed by the Indian public. This is a sign of their repugnance toward Washington.
Today, the US would be self-defeating if it stubbornly believes that whoever it cozies up to would feel honored and dance to its tune. Gone is the time when US warnings work.- Anonymous
'here’s why I think a confrontation between Russia / NATO may be very unlikely. The simple reason is that, particularly in today’s global economic depression (which is really what it is if you look past the fudged figures), the U.S. economy is nearly kept afloat entirely by its MIC, which has emerged as probably the most significant remaining U.S. export and manufacturing potential – its military arms. The retain this final vestige of economic authority, the U.S. has to keep up the ‘mythos’ and image of invincibility of its arms and military products.
ReplyDeleteGiven what you saw above in the report, it is an absolutely undeniable fact that at the minimum, in any Russia vs. Nato engagement, the opposing side would suffer some humiliating defeats to their vaunted systems like the F-35s, Patriots, U.S. Carrier Groups, advanced drones, missiles & PGMs, etc, etc. The scale of the shock and disruption this would create for the U.S. MIC is too heavy to bear. They would never risk their cashcows being ‘exposed’ on the world stage, and having all the mythical mystique stripped away.
Any even small incursion by the U.S. risks a massive image blowback that would destroy the credibility of American arms world wide. They cannot risk showing the world the superiority of Russian systems. Imagine the gungho U.S. sending in F-35s to help Ukraine only to see them get shot down by Russian S-400s? Do you realize the symbolic shockwaves the shootdown of American F117s over Serbia sent around the world? And do you realize that the entire F117 line was literally retired due to that ONE highly humiliating and symbolic event? What would happen when several of U.S.’s key systems are shown in high-definition youtube videos to be completely overrated when Russian systems expose them? It is too great a risk to bear. They cannot allow the last dying profitable sector of their economic engine to be taken offline.'
http://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-7/
A general who bombed Syrian cities into the ground has been appointed Russia’s top commander in Ukraine and is already suspected of ordering a missile strike that killed 50 civilians at a railway station.
ReplyDeleteThis is the kind of smear campaign the Anglo Saxon tribes have been releasing in their media. This one from the Telegraph. And the main media of their stooges and lackey countries would post them as news or even 'truth'.
When don't they publish all the butchers of Arabs and Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc etc and the name of the gangster generals that flattened all the cities and destroyed their economies? Oh, no such things, they never do such things, so no need to report, no need to condemn.
Always remember, what Mark Twain said - 'If you don't read newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed'. That was more than a century ago where all news was largely in print.
ReplyDeleteToday, besides print, there are speeches and videos, and using eyes and ears, we can honestly say - If you don't watch the MSM, you won't miss Knowing the truth. If you do watch the MSM, you are grossly misled about the truth. They not only misinform and fabricate untruths. They distort and contort. They have assassinated all those who bring people the truth.
Just watching the MSM demonising Russia is now as bad as the lies being invented to start the war in Iraq. And what was done about that by the UN, Human Rights and ICC? What is reported today on MSM is ridiculous, unrealistic, falsified to such an extent that the MSM has degenerated to become objects of ridicule. No more are they credible sources to look up to.
All the bullshitting in the MSM are purely bullshitting. Nothing else. Nothing to believe.
ReplyDeleteEach and every single bullshitting has been done purposely and intentionally.
There is nothing more to believe!
When the US$ Hegemony is lost, so will the Military Establishment start loosing it's endless funding. One supports the other. The Military Establishment provides the muscle to uphold the US$ Hegemony, while the US$ Hegemony provides the funding to keep the Military power in place.
ReplyDeleteThe debacle created by sanctioning Russia by the USA is pushing the US$ into unknown territory. Never has any small country got away with doing what a big and powerful country like Russia can do and is doing it with little survival consequences. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi tried and paid the ultimate price. Had they waited for today, things would have been different.
Now the next nail in the US$ coffin will be how the Saudis are going to play the game. With big oil markets like China and India, the Saudis have to compete now with energy exports from Russia going into these two big oil importers, and they cannot be blind to the changes going forward.
The Saudis, UAE and Qatar are aware that even the market in Europe is not of the scale to be exploited in Asia, and their refusing to take phone calls from Biden nor commit more oil supplies to Europe, despite all the Europeans converging on the Middle East lately with begging bowls.
The Saudis, UAE, Qatar and Others must now quickly device a solid plan to never buy or sell anything in USD, which will be suicidal.
ReplyDeleteGoing forward, it is prudent to only deal in a fixed-medium, without considerable deviation.