The more the USA and the West tried to demonise countries like China and Russia, the more will people now dig out their vile, evil, inhuman and immoral dirt that they committed in the past, that were hidden in the closet.
The accusations of genocide in Xinjiang has already angered many Chinese to dig out the genocides committed by the Brits, Canadians, Australians (aka British criminals dumped by shiploads onto Australia) and Whites of USA against Native Americans and Aborigines in the past, that would otherwise be left in the closet and not well dispensed to younger generations on social media. Now, every crime against humanity that they committed in the past, are going to be displayed for all to be demonised in return.
China is not going to forget the century of shame and the arrogance of the Brits, Japanese and the collective West to force the opium trade onto China. A crime against humanity, clear and unambiguous.
Africans are not going to forget the slavery, exploitation and theft that the Anglo Saxons committed in the past against them. And the USA and the West still thinks the Africans are ignorant of those crimes, and still want to influence the Africans to forgive and forget so that they can inflict more of the sufferings on them.
Muslims are not going to forget the atrocities committed by the USA and the West in Iraq, Afghanistan and still ongoing in Syria, Palestine and Yemen. All are clearly crimes against humanity or war crimes that they thought could be hidden in the closet, with the help of the UN.
And they think that just an apology or two, sincere or not, is going to clean the slate. Not so easy for them just to sweep all this under the carpet. There are blood debts still held in silence by descendants that will have to be settled in time to come.
Japan still holds lots of blood debts against many Asian countries, and they know they have never been forgiven. The fact that they do not even admit their crime, and even denying, is making victims and descendants even more vindictive. That is why Japan's aim to spend more on militarisation is worrying for Asia and harbours a very sinister agenda.
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The same is being exposed in Europe since the war in Ukraine. The sanctions that the USA coerced the EU to impose on Russia is backfiring on all cylinders. It exposed the vulnerabilty of Europe's dependence on Russian energy, and they are planning to add more misery for themselves moving forward.
ReplyDeleteThe sanctions failure is evident and now morphing into using the oil and gas price cap as a toothless weapon against Russia. By imposing oil price cap on Russian oil, it was clearly going to be a catastrophic failure, with barely only few countries in the EU in favour, while the rest of the world are not participating, and are benefitting, particularly China, India and Saudi Arabia with even cheaper oil and bigger discounts.
The intention of introducing a price cap on gas is even more problematic now, with Qatar threatening to cut off all gas exports to the EU if they put the plan into gear. Many are asking if EU leaders are sane or just trying to scare Putin. Russia has already planned to move it's energy exports eastward and away from Europe, since the Ukraine War and even after that. Russia knows as long as the USA wants the energy market in Europe, and the Europeans can do nothing, the USA can have it for good, if the Europeans can tolerate the price and its effect on industries.
The oil price cap was an idea floated by Janet Yellen loosely, and they lapped it up as a realistic and pragmatic approach to cut off Russian funding for the Ukraine War, and it is definitely not going to be effective. It was and idea, as always, plucked from the air on the spur of the moment, and will face failure from the start without the rest of the world participating. And no country outside of the G7 are as silly as the EU leaders to take such a step.
As I mentioned above, all these actions are just exposing the vulnerablities of the West as they try to strangle Russia. And Putin is just watching and capitalising on such vulnerabilties the longer the standoff continues.
Now the USA is trying desperately calling and holding summits, when they are already sliding right down to the bottom in trustworthiness, dependability, leadership qualities, innovativeness, competitiveness and ability to convince.
ReplyDeleteAll they can think of is sabotage, demonise, fabricate, lie, cheat and steal. That is not the way people look at ability to lead. It is leading those that follow them to jump into the sewer. Europe is providing the example for the rest of the world to see, as one blind bloc that will follow the Pied Piper into ignominy.
Thankfully, ASEAN, or at least nine of the member countries are wise enough to see the edge of the cliff.
One stupid Asean country still blindly following the evil Americans, going against all the Asean countries. Or it was being coerced to do so?
ReplyDeleteQuite surprisingly, even the Phillipine President is telling the USA not to drag ASEAN into its geopolitical conflict with China and condemning Russia in Ukraine. China is ASEAN's biggest trade partner, and they are not going to destroy it all by following the USA's dictate to confront China. And Russia is not an enemy of ASEAN or posing any kind of threat.
ReplyDeleteUnsurprisingly, bribery is again being used by the USA, with talk of development aid thrown in. Too little too late! But all that aid promised is tied to the condition that ASEAN swallows the bait of confronting China and condeming Russia, not otherwise. See the drift?
With sensible leaders in ASEAN, the bait is not going to work. But beware of chaos being instigated and fabricated by the USA when threats and bribery fails. It follows the usual modus operandi in the USA playbook and never varies.