The US and NATO have never been sanctioned for starting wars. Why?

 

The reaction to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, no matter what you think about it, has exposed the West’s and Singapore's double standards

The West has taken an extreme stance against Russia over its invasion in Ukraine. This reaction exposes a high degree of hypocrisy considering that US-led wars abroad never received the punitive response they deserved.

If the current events in Ukraine have proven anything, it’s that the United States and its transatlantic partners are able to run roughshod across a shell-shocked planet – in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, to name a few of the hotspots – with almost total impunity. Meanwhile, Russia and Vladimir Putin are being portrayed in nearly every mainstream media publication today as the second coming of Nazi Germany for their actions in Ukraine.

There must be a convincing reason for a country to authorize the use of force, thereby committing itself to what could be considered ‘a just war’. Thus, the question: Can Russia’s actions today be considered ‘just’ or, at the very least, understandable?

In his now-famous speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Vladimir Putin poignantly asked the assembled global powerbrokers point blank, “why is it necessary to put military infrastructure on our borders during this [NATO] expansion? Can someone answer this question?” Later in the speech, he said that expanding military assets smack up to the Russian border “is not connected in any way with the democratic choices of individual states.”

The real cause for Moscow’s alarm came when the US and NATO began flooding neighboring Ukraine with a dazzling array of sophisticated weaponry amid calls for membership in the military bloc. What on earth could go wrong? In Moscow’s mind, Ukraine was beginning to pose an existential threat to Russia.

In December, Moscow, quickly nearing the end of its patience, delivered draft treaties to the US and NATO, demanding they halt any further military expansion eastwards, including by the accession of Ukraine or any other states. It included the explicit statement that NATO “shall not conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine or other states of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia.” Once again, Russia’s proposals were met with arrogance and indifference by Western leaders.

It’s not like Russia woke up on February 24 and suddenly decided it was a wonderful day to start a military operation on the territory of Ukraine. 

Anonymous

World War 3 in the making - Raising the stake

 The US and its western allies have been having an upper hand in international conflict, dictating the level of conflict and tension as they like by virtue of their superiority in military power. Whenever there is a conflict, the US and the West would be the coercive power, raising the stake as and when they like to the point of initiating a war, invasion and blasting a country to pieces. The overwhelming military power of the US and the West have turned them into the biggest bully in the international stage, breaking all rules and agreements, committing war crimes, invading countries using fabricate lies and disinformation. with impunity. No one, no country could stop the violations of all rule of law by the US and its allies. Basically the US and its allies call the shot. Period.

Syria was the first instance when this western recklessness was checked, in a similar way the American Empire was checked in the Korean War. Putting put a stop to American and western expansion and military adventure in Syria. The war is still going on but no further intrusion or occupation of more land by the West. Syria was a stalemate, a war that the Americans and the West could not win, unlike the cake walk in Iraq and Libya, and Afghanistan as well. The latter ended up with the American beating a retreat.

Now comes Ukraine. Until Putin puts his foot down, the American and the West was still dictating the agenda, pushing eastward to encroach into Russia's area of influence, bringing former Soviet influenced countries into Nato, a position the Americans and the West promised not to do so. Sensing the weakness in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia were on the cards to be absorbed into Nato. If these two states join Nato, American forces and weapons would be at the door of Russia, a very intolerable and unacceptable situation. Russia would then be very vulnerable to an attack by the West.

This is literally the straw that broke the camel's back. Putin has to act. Putin invaded Ukraine, doing something that only the Americans and the West could and would do. Invading a country is the privilege of the Americans and the West. Holy cow, the Russians got the guts to do what was the rights of the West. This is unspeakable. How dare the Russians behave in such an aggressive way! 

This rude shock has taken the Americans by surprise. Now all the forces and levers of the Americans would be used to press down Russia. A defiance Russia must be put in its right place. The stake must be raised. Only the Americans and the West could raise the stake in a conflict, short of threatening an invasion like against Iran or North Korea, or China.

The latest, not a single country in Europe can remain neutral. The nordic states have also been dragged in. It is with us or against us. Germany and France too have to toe the line. Every country in Europe outside the Russian sphere of influence must contribute weapons to Ukraine, ie, blood must be stained on every hand. Weapons are going to pour into Ukraine.

Surprise, surprise, Putin responded by raising the stake higher, putting his nuclear force to full alert. Wow, who is threatening who now? The Americans and their allies think they could bully and frighten the Russians. With this latest move, the Russians are threatening the Americans and the West with a nuclear war. The Americans have never been put in such a position before. So, are the Americans going to raise the stake and put their nuclear weapons on high alert as well, to frighten the Russians?

Syria was a stalemate. In Ukraine, the Russians are turning the table on the Americans and the West. You want to play rough, you want to threaten Russia with your superior military forces, Russia is responding by upping the stakes. 

Bring it on, America and the West. This is no boyish chicken game. This is for real. This move by Putin is a game changer. Going forward, it would be hard knocks versus hard knocks. There would be no retreat for the Russians, only pushing forward. Playing hard ball, World War 3, let's go for it.

The Americans have never been on this side of the game, the side under attack. They were always in charge, in control. Putin is now in charge, in control. Putin would throw punch for punch.

The spark to ignite Europe into a ball of fire has been scattered all around Ukraine. The Americans think they can supply weapons, through the European countries, like they did to Taiwan and could get away with it. Russia is going to stop the supply. This is war.  Supplying weapons and war machine are as good as participating in the war. The convoys would be attacked. The soldiers escorting the weapons and machine, if Americans or Nato countries, could be killed, the very reason to drag Nato and the Americans into the war with their soldiers. One step leads to another, and Europe would be the battle field.

Let's lay the red carpet to welcome WW3. It is coming, only when. 

It is not only Ukraine and the Ukrainians dying for it. Zelensky and Ukrainians may find some comfort in knowing that they are not alone. Let the drums roll.

Asians that think the Whites will treat them as equals must be dreaming

 Asians that think the Whites will treat them as equals must be dreaming. The Whites always have the mentality that they should rule the world, and that the whole world must remain subservient to them.

China's rise change the whole landscape and the Whites are afraid of loosing their superiority status and be overtaken by an Asian country, by a people different from them in skin colour and always thought of as backward. This is not acceptable.

Nowhere is the lesson more apparent than in South Africa, where the Whites are now the race no longer in control of the Blacks and being paid back in their old coins. This has apparently not been ignored by the Whites elsewhere and they are paranoid. They took the lands of the Native Americans and the Aborigines and culled the Native population through genocide to curb their ability for revenge.

India and China were fortunate not to be annihilated into near extinction like the Natives of North America and Australia. Their experience during the days of colonisation in the case of India, and the humiliation of China at the hands of the Whites and Japanese must never ever be forgotten.

The Whites are still attempting to exert domination and China and India need to be ready and able to deter those attempts. Asia is their next target after the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Africa and South America still do not pose any threat to them, but their turn will come. 

Anonymous

Sanctions on Russia Will Backfire

Beijing predicts Russia can weather the sanctions it’s been hit with in recent days, and that the U.S. and European allies will wind up suffering for supporting Ukraine.

Russia has largely adapted to dealing with punitive financial measures since 2014, when it was penalized for reuniting with Crimea.

Cutting off Russian banks from the SWIFT money messaging system will wind up hurting Europe roughly as much. The U.S. could also incur major costs in the future providing economic and humanitarian aid to allies, and that Europe could be destabilized by large numbers of fleeing Ukrainians. The fierce debate on refugee problems inside Europe could damage its unity at crucial moments.

China could provide some support for Russia to keep the punishments from biting too hard. Chinese companies are expected to scoop up discounted Russian oil if sanctions deter other buyers.

It could also provide a financial lifeline because the People’s Bank of China has a multi-billion dollar currency swap with its counterpart in Moscow, allowing the nations to provide liquidity to businesses so they can continue trading.

Russia has also worked to remove the dollar’s hold over its financial system in recent years -- selling most of its U.S. Treasuries in 2018 -- as it girded for potential sanctions. 

Anonymous

The sanction game coming to an end

 The Americans are still playing the sanction game to threaten and weaken the economies of enemy countries. When sanction is applied to a few countries, it works quite well. When sanction is applied to many countries, sanctioning a country like China or Russia is like sanctioning tens of countries because of their size, it would become the world sanctioning the Americans, when the Americans could only trade with themselves and the Anglo Saxon countries and a few European countries. The 'sanctioner' becomes the sanctioned.

When this stage is reached, not only the American economy will be hurt, the Anglo Saxon and pro American European countries would also be hurt badly. Imagine these countries could only trade among themselves while the rest of the world trade among themselves without them?

The effectiveness of sanction depends on two key factors, a big American consumption market and the American dollar being accepted as a currency. The rest of the world are selling to the Americans, working very hard, to produce goods for the Americans in exchange for that piece of fiat currency, the American dollar.

What if the world rejects the American dollar and refuses to accept it to pay for their goods? When this happens, the Americans would have no money to buy from the rest of the world. Their huge appetite for produced goods would go hungry and Wallmart and all the supermarts would be empty. And when the world did not or would not want to sell to the Americans, the sanction game is game over. No country would care a hoot whether they are being sanctioned or not when they are not selling into the American market.

Not only the sanction game would be over, meaningless, toothless, it would also be game over for the American economy and the American Empire. Every good thing when pushed to the extreme would turn negative. Weaponising of dollars, trade, SWIFT, etc would bring about their demise when alternatives are found. Weaponising the American market using sanctions too would be self destruct when it is no longer the biggest market or market of choice.

Why would the rest of the world work so hard to make goods to exchange for a piece of useless dollar so that the Americans can enjoy the fruits of labour of the world, without having to work for it? The Americans did not know how good the system has been for them for so long and are now inciting the world to tear it down. Well done America.

Look at the BRI chess board. in the previous article. When the world map turns red except for the Anglo Saxon and a few semi colonies and lackeys, the red countries would be trading among themselves without the need to trade with the Anglo Saxon countries and their semi colonies. That is happening gradually and the picture will be complete soon with another handful of countries in Latin America and Africa joining the fold.