The British Empire was built on its control of the seas and oceans through the major ports around the world. When the British lost control of the maritime choke points, they lost their Empire.
The Americans continued with the control of the oceans with their armada of aircraft carriers, warships and submarines to sustain the American Empire and hegemony. It was all about military power and might, about wars and war machine.
In the 21st Century, other than the countries that were duped or instigated to go to wars by the Americans, the rest of the world is more or less at peace with each other. Countries have wisen up not to get involved in destructive wars of the American Empire that only benefited the Americans but very costly for those combatants with lost of lives and resources. Wars are very expensive, destructive and wasteful. No country wants to go to war. They are tired of wars. Why fight a war when they could spend all their time and resources building their country and economy for the betterment of their people?
When war is irrelevant, economics become more important than war machine and weapons. Successful, rich and powerful countries would be measured in the strength of their economies, not warships or weapons of mass destruction, albeit these are necessary to protect their own wealth and freedom from being attacked and wars.
The next super power to dominate the world would depend on its industrial power, its economy and wealth. Control of the seas and oceans, maritime choke points are still important, but need much more than these. Industrial power, scientific and technical power and control of natural resources especially energy and raw material.
China's BRI is a way of controlling the land and sea routes around the world. But this is done peacefully through cooperation with willing countries and partners. When the BRI is fully developed, the world would be efficiently interconnected by sea and land routes, and roads and rails are equally important to faciliate international trade and commerce. In this area China is ahead of the Americans and one up in the game of world influence.
Energy and raw material are vital to economic success. China is signing up agreements with many countries in Africa and other parts of the world for rights to the mine minerals needed for industrial development. This is strategic thinking and planning on the part of China, to corner the supply of mineral resources and also energy.
While the Americans are still playing their wargames, selling and trading weapons, China is very busy signing up oil and gas supplies from major producers. Iran signed a 25 year agreement to supply oil to China, Qatar signed to supply oil for 27 years, Sudan also signed a similar agreement with Saudi Arabia next. On top of these, many to come, China also have long term agreement of oil supply with Russia, all major oil producers. Oh, the US also has a 20 year agreement to supply oil and gas to China at relatively cheap price. And with the recent discovery of its massive oil fields in China, China is guaranteed of continuous supply of oil for the next 30 years at least. America may have sufficient oil for itself, but Europe is going to face the big squeeze when most of the oil are going to China, contractually.
The other big factor in world domination is of course chips. Chips is the new oil of the 21st Century. The Americans knew and try to cut China off the supply chain. The initial exuberance that China would be killed in this chip war is starting to evaporate. China is furiously catching up with the Americans and the West by developing its own chips and closing in rapidly. 7nm chips is now ready for full production. China also invented the first 5nm chips solely on its own. 3nm and 2nm are on the way. When China is self sufficient in its chips supply chain, development and production, no longer dependent on the West, it would be the end of the American and western chip industry.
Sea ports, China bought quite a few and developing many around the world, maritime and land routes, high speed trains, control mining rights of oil and gas and minerals, and self sufficiency in chips production and designed, China would be in a league of its own as the number one world economy. The Americans and the West would be chasing and falling further and further behind China.
The Americans and the West can keep on beating their war drums and deluding themselves that they are winning this war for supremacy and world dominance. China on the other hand is strategically planning a bigger war across all fronts, including strengthening its own military power to level up with any military foes. The war that China is fighting is a war without bullets, without bloodshed, a peaceful pursuit of industrial might, technological advancement and a strong economy intertwined with the rest of the world, bringing prosperity to all its trading partners in a win win formula for all.
The American and western formula of military dominance and one winner takes all, hegemony, is passe, is history, no longer relevant in the 21st Centrury.
PS. China and the BRICS countries are planning to replace the greenback as the main world reserve currency. This would be the final straw that would bring the American Empire to its knee.
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I really squirmed in my seat reading Germany's atrocious claims that Russia is committing 'War Crimes' by targeting energy infrastructures in Ukraine. When NATO was carpet bombing Yugoslavia for more than two months, in 1999, day and night, they were also targeting such energy infractuctures. That was not a 'War Crime'? They did the same in Iraq and Vietnam. And Germany, a member of NATO itself, had the audacity to talk about such similar targeting by Russia as 'War Crimes'. Why not just say that only they can do this sort of thing, using the UN Rubber Stamp, and no one else must do it? Is the existence of the UN just to cater to their agenda?
Another atrocious claim made is that Russia is using Winter as a weapon in the war, or 'Weaponising Winter'. What the fxxk are they talking about? Those hypocrites really think that the whole world is stupid to believe in their hubris. The USA and the West is really desperate because they could do nothing about the situation in Ukraine, eg the destroyed energy infrastructures, and are just using propaganda in an attempt to demonise whatever Russia is doing.
When the greenback is replaced, the USA will go back to the stone age, not just go down on it's knees. They no longer will have the licence to print fiat money from thin air, and continue to export their inflation globally. The inflation issue in the USA today is due to countries doing trade outside the US$, particularly in the oil trade, and cutting their demand for keeping large reserves of US$. That already is happenning. What if it extends beyond the oil trade into commodities. The damage to the US$ is obvious and exacerbating.
Does the world realise how the USA is going to sort out the hundreds of trillions of derivatives issue and repay it's foreign debts if the greenback turns into green banana notes? The house of hot air will collapse.
China Must Let ‘Extraordinary’ Protests Continue, Arrogant US Envoy to Beijing Says
China shouldn’t interfere with “extraordinary” protests against strict Covid curbs that broke out across the country, the US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said Tuesday.
“We just have to see how this plays out,” Burns said. “It’s obviously a very important event for the people of China. And we’re watching it, of course, with great care and great attention.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also said earlier Tuesday that protests should be allowed to continue. “We’ve been very clear that people have a right to protest without fear, and we don’t think that that right should be hindered or interfered with,” Jean-Pierre said.
Burns and the White House expression of support for the protests is evidence that the US is somehow fomenting them.
China’s top body in charge of police and public security pledged late Tuesday to crack down on “hostile forces” and their “sabotage,” and vowed that “illegal and criminal acts that disrupt social order” won’t be tolerated.
The Americans think China is a part of their Empire and they have the right to tell China what they want.
Too bad those days are over.
China is luring the rats out as it did in Hong Kong. China knows who is fermenting the protest and has already mentioned 'hostile forces'. Instintively, the rats know that China will come down hard on 'hostile forces' agitating protestors and the protest seems to be dying down and they are lying low.
Talking about allowing the protest to continue, who the hell are they to try to teach China how to rule the country? If China were to talk about allowing the Black Lives Matter protestors or Capitol Hill protestors to be allowed to continue their protest in the USA, what do you think the USA will say? The USA will run amok like rabid dogs.
Without being able to have concrete proof that Russiangate is in fact real, after years of investigation, they still keep up the narrative that Russia is interfering in USA internal affairs. How hypocritical are the Anglo Saxon nuts? Much of the world has already seen through the USA and Western hypocritical behavior and it no longer works. The Africans already told them off straight in the face.
The USA still thinks China is under their rule and wants China not to use Chinese on board the Tiangong Space Station. How obnoxiously arrogant can they be! Just this incident alone makes people see their bellicosity, insanity, immorality and unreasonable animal behavior. Even animals behave better and know their limits. And, as Robert de Niro said, even gangsters have morals.
It is noteworthy that the MSM of the West is not reporting on the result of the just concluded elections in Taiwan, and the resignation of Tsai as leader of the DPP.
This is a big issue and it reflects the thinking of the Taiwanese people, in stark contrast to Tsai's bellicose policy and behavior towards China. It indirectly is telling the USA to fxxk off interferring in the cross Straits relationship between China and Taiwan.
The USA had to maintain it's military edge to protect it's US$ hegemony. And roping in all the allies are supposed to help it to make it last. It is all inside the arrangment that they formulated. It was to be a hegemony they thought would last to eternity.
The countries that formed the BRICS have choosen to differ, and after seeing and sometimes suffering all the miscarriages of justice through the US$ hegemony by the USA, do not now subscribe to keeping and supporting the US$ hegemony and letting the USA run down everyone with their unlimited money printing flooding the world without restrain.
The faster the US$ hegemony ends, the better will the world be.
Meanwhile, on the Western Front:
'Putin is going to create a vast, uninhabitable no-man’s-land in the center of Ukraine that will separate east from west and end Ukraine’s existence as a viable, contiguous state. This is what a military-imposed settlement looks like. It’s not ideal and it doesn’t necessarily stop all the fighting, but it does address Russia’s basic security requirements which Washington chose to ignore.
Rest assured, that Washington will not like this settlement and will never agree to the new borders. But the United States will not have the final say-so in this matter and that is extremely important, because Washington’s role as the “guarantor of global security” is now a thing of the past.
Russia is going to decide Ukraine’s borders and that’s just the way it’s going to be. So, yes, we can expect to hear the gnashing of teeth at NATO Headquarters and the UN and at the White House, but to little effect. The matter is settled unless, of course, the US and NATO want to commit ground forces to the conflict which, we think, will precipitate a split in NATO that will inevitably lead to its collapse.
Either way, Ukraine’s fate is going to be decided in Moscow not Washington, and that reality is going to have a significant impact of the distribution of global power. There’s a new sheriff in town and he is definitely not an American.'
Link to full article:
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/putins-remedy-a-fragmented-toothless-ukraine-separated-by-a-100-kilometer-wide-no-mans-land/
Just keep digging on how the white men massacred the native Americans and stole their land, how they hunted the Africans to be exploited as their slave, how they shoot and kill black African Americans everyday, how they discriminate against the blacks and coloured people, how Black Live Matter....
The white racist Americans know no shame. Maybe they did not have mirrors to look at themselves.
The Americans always think only they can think, scheme and attack other people. Putin would make them feel the pain for the very thing they did to others.
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