6/15/2022

When small countries ruled the world

 There was a time when small little countries could conquer and rule the world. This was made possible by superiority in arms against natives of the world that were not nation states, mostly tribal in nature, and poorly armed, mostly still in the bow and arrow stage against the firepower of European invaders with guns and cannons. Disorganised and poorly equipped tribes were a mismatch to the might of modern military states. When faced with a superior and organised state like China, the little European states ganged up to tear apart an old dragon, relatively weak and far from its glorious days.

Today, some small states still think they could take on big states, threatening big states and wanting to go to war with big states. Not a single European state, not England, France or Germany, could take on Russia singly. They are a shadow of themselves in their glorious days of empires. And we have foolish states like Ukraine, taunting and challenging Russia, massacring Russians in Ukraine, on the borders of Russia, and think it could get away with it. And we have big states thinking that with their supply of weapons, little Ukraine could come up victorious against the second most powerful military power in the world, with the biggest arsenal of nuclear warheads. 

This is the insanity of today's European leaders, unable to appreciate the change in the balance of power. And there are even smaller states like Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, thinking they could sit on top of Russia to pull its whiskers and no harm would come to them.

In East Asia we have similar situations happening. South Korea, and little Japan still think they could provoke and threaten China and Russia, and like the little European states, failing to appreciate that the big powers are now China and Russia and they are midgets in comparison. And they too foolishly think they could start a war with China or Russia and win.

Further down south, Asean states are beginning to wisen up and open their eyes to the new realities. So far only two Asean leaders had openly acknowledged that it is futile to take on China, ie Mahathir and Duterte. Vietnam, the strongest of the Asean states, knew, after having taught many lessons on land and in the sea, has quietly toned down its rhetoric against China, and grudgingly cooperate with China in its economic development for its own good. Of course there are still a few Asean states that think taking sides against China is ok, with the backing of the USA. 

And going further down under, a sillier state, many times smaller and weaker than Ukraine, openly taunts China, sending antique aircraft and submarines into the South China Sea to challenge China when the Americans have to think twice to do that. Australia wants to declare war on China! Lunatics. What have they got to fight against China? Their nuclear submarines, just ordered, would only arrive in 2040. And its miserable air force and navy were even smaller than Singapore.

The small states of colonial days were lucky to have mightier war machine and weapons against weaker big states that did not have them. Today, the big states are not only big, but have superior weapons in quantity and quality than the small states. What drugs are the leaders of these small states smoking or taking to think they could do what the small states of colonial times did and be on the winning side?  Does it need much intelligence to understand the new balance of power? Any bright secondary school kids could see the mismatch. But the leaders of small states could not and every day thumping their chests like big apes but without the weaponry to fight a winning war.

When small countries could rule the world was an aberration, a blip in the history of civilisaton. Today, small states better wake up from their wild ideas and face the harsh reality that they are small states and better to behave like small states before being consumed by the big states and end up like Ukraine. 

Ukraine is an excellent example for small states to learn how to behave as small states, and to stop hallucinating in their wet dreams. They are allowed to jump around like little spoilt brats because the big states allowed them to. When the big states have had enough of their irritation, they will be spanked real hard by the big states. There will be no exceptions. Oh, Israel did not think so, and acting and behaving like old colonial states, everyday thinking, talking and planning to attack Iran or any Arab states. They think they are invincible and they could destroy Iran without themselves being destroyed. Such pure arrogance.

Little and small states, please be smart and behave accordingly. Stop thinking that they can punch above their weight against the big states. The Americans are unable to protect their little proxy states if other big states decided to whack the proxy states.

13 comments:

Virgo49 said...

https://youtu.be/AMzvTZE6Rmw

Good morning Mr RB and All
Above commentary- "Who will win?
China or Nato"
Another- China's warning to the UAssA.
No need further warnings and wasted time dialogues.
Cheers

Anonymous said...

The reason why some smaller states think they can take on big countries like China and Russia is the devil pushing them behind their backs, promising help and prodding them on. Ukraine is a perfect example.

Here in Asia, it is the same story. The Japs think they can revive their glory days, not realising that China is now not the same country as in the 20th century. And who is behind the Jap's insolent behavior, even talking about defending Taiwan if war breaks out? One precision nuclear strike on Tokyo will surely shut their big mouth. The answer as to why the Japs behave as they do is that it is always the same old suspect that is prodding them on and also creating all the chaos around the world. The Japs knows that taking on China by itself is out of the question, unlike the old days.

By the way, I personally do not place too much optimism that Malaysia and Philippines will close ranks with China, looking at the developments so far. Other than trade reliance of both countries, there is much animosity between them in development projects and claims in the South China Sea. The Philippines, like India, is playing one side against the other. Do not be fooled.

If not war, the USA will create other problems, like spreading diseases, causing energy shortages by using sanctions against big oil producers to curb their production, and hope to bring them down and collapse their economy. The whole world now suffers together with those countries sanctioned with all the energy supply curbs. Ironically, the fact that none of the prominent countries under sanctions have fallen the way the USA and the West assumed they will, have not fooled the Russians and will reveal the futility of using sanctions to curtail them.

In effect the whole agenda of the Evil Doer is to create global chaos so that they can exploit it, like the sanctions on Russian oil and energy crisis. What the USA did not count on was the damage done to the EU that will weaken them and may lead to fragmentation. Forget about the talk of unity and solidarity among the EU countries on the surface. Underneath, the currents of anxiety and fear looms large going into winter.

The whole idea of the USA putting so much focus in Ukraine and Europe is the oil market that they are eyeing. Weaning the Europeans away from Russia is clearing the way for them to muscle in on the energy market in Europe. This has been apparent right from the start of the NORD stream 2 project, which if allowed to continue will kill their hopes of fulfilling their agenda. Europe is sacrificed but all that is collateral damage in the eyes of the USA.

Anonymous said...

The Americans are very clear that they could not take on China or Russia as both are nuclear powers. Their main target is to undermine Europe, weaken them, and turn them into American colonies.

One by one the European country will fall when oil, gas and essential stuff are cut off from Europe and the Americans would come in to offer them the same at many times the price they used to pay. European countries would be the victims of American debt traps.

Anonymous said...

Sometimes fiction sounds more realistic than facts if you believe in what the USA says about Venezuela. They still claim that that stooge Juan Guaido is the Interim President of Venezuela.

Now Biden is begging Venezuela (and Iran as well) to produce more oil and the USA is going to lift some sanctions on them. So, that is it, sanctions are leading to the energy crisis, clear and unambiguous. And who created all that? And who is Biden really going to beg for all that oil from Venezuela? Not from that stooge Juan Guaido but President Nicholas Maduro. Imagine ostracising, admonishing, demonising and trying to remove him from power illegally and now crawling to him to beg him to produce more oil to help the USA? That must be the most humiliating performance I have ever seen of a USA President stooping so low in history to beg an enemy for help. Shameless is all I can think of!

Oh, well, they did try to get their former enemy, Vietnam to help to contain China. Wonder when Biden will go down on his knees to beg forgiveness from Putin and release more oil. What a joke!

Anonymous said...


RE: Anonymous 10:08am

Halo! Mr. Anonymous 10:08am.

You have posted a very good and accurate analysis of the situation. This will help people to open their eyes and understand that the whites especially the Anglo-Saxon US and Uk are really evil and up to no good.

A political observer

Anonymous said...

Biden is going to Saudi Arabia to preach freedom of choice and democracy but telling the Saudis not to sell oil to China in RMB, or else.

This is what are friends for. Bullying, threatening and intimidating. Freedom of choice, the Americans and their democracy are good for the world, not forcing anyone to take sides.

Well, many fools are still falling for it. This time the Saudi is not going to see him. No entry for Americans.

Anonymous said...

Saudi Arabia is under a new King, tentatively Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who on the surface is not seeing eye to eye with Biden, who has publicly admonished and demonised him before. Saudi Arabia has always been a staunch ally of the USA under the previous King.

Biden is trying to mend fences with MBS in times of desperate need and is going to meet MBS, to ask him to produce more oil and of course to coerce him not to deal with China by selling oil to them in Yuan.

How MBS will respond will be interesting. If the outcome of the talks is not conducive to what Biden wants, MBS may face problems with his rule. There are so many factions fighting for power and succession in Saudi Arabia, and the USA will surely capitalise on this and use this as a bargaining chip, if all else does not work out with MBS. Destablisation is on the cards if the worst case scenario unfolds.

Saudi Arabia's support for the US$ hegemony is of paramount importance to the USA. It is the USA's trump card. Saudi oil reserves, like gold before, is being used as the backing for the US$ hegemony. Take that away and the US$ becomes fiat money. So, the expectation is that the USA will use whatever means they can to subdue MBS and force him to steer away from selling oil to China in Yuan.

Will Mohammed bin Salam succumb to the threats? I think he will, to preserve his rule as King.

Anonymous said...

Biden would likely whisper to him that he might not see the next sunrise if he does not do the bidding of the Americans.

southernglory1 said...


Re: Anonymous 2:10pm and 2:26pm

You may be right and also you may be wrong.

You may have overlooked the facts that Saudi Arabia now has Russia and PRC behind its back.
And Russia and China are not lame ducks. One is a powerful polar bear and the other is a mighty ferocious dragon. The show is an open book. We have yet to see the evil satanic eagle being humbled in the Middle East. Remember besides military power which both Russia and China can more than matched the evil empire what ellse can the diabolical United States show. Arrogant U.S. is just waiting to be humbled and destroyed by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

Southernglory1

Anonymous said...

Not easy to block an assassin's bullet.

Anonymous said...

Duterte obviously survived the CIA by heeding the warning of not being too close to China. That could be a lesson for Mohammed bin Salman. So, it all depends on how MBS handles the game of Russian Roulette. It is his call, not Russia or China's.

Anonymous said...


America is a mad society. Even Bi-damned and Donald Tramping duck could be the next target of the assassins. Anyway good riddance if both or all American leaders are assassinated by their own disgruntled citizens.

Eagles Eyes

Anonymous said...

Actually Trump himself was wary of being assassinated before he left office.

By the way, do you believe in that circus about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? The one who assassinated Kennedy, Lee Oswald, was eventually assassinated by another assassin, Jack Ruby? And had Jack Ruby, who assassinate Lee Oswald not died in prison, they may have to invent another assassination to cut off all trails and links to the CIA.

Likewise, does anybody believe that Jeffrey Epstein really committed suicide in his cell? And can anyone believe that the cameras failed to work at the right place and time of his suicide? The stakes are too high and too many high end personnel are connected if he squeaks and they make sure that he does not. Now, the fear is that the Israeli woman, Giselle Maxwell may face the same ending in prison. But they cannot do it too fast, and only have to ensure she has no way of communicating with anybody outside.