IPEF and the fake 'international order'

'Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) is a modest attempt to patch together a non-China economic alliance in the wake of the TPP’s failure.

The mental calisthenics needed to understand Biden’s plans. Sorry but I do not see how this is going to work out at all. Yet, despite all of the confusing aspects, all of those nations including Singapore have signed on. This vague proposition is just noise. There is no formal agreement or countries voting to approve. It’s just another half baked Biden distraction for woes at home. I do not see any economic goals, no new markets, no reduced tariffs. I do not see how any of it is supposed to help the economies of the signatories. Yet the White House says this: “It is by any account the most significant international economic engagement that the United States has ever had in this region”

Mr. Blinken: “U.S. Aims to Constrain China by Shaping Environment Around It. China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to do it. Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.”'

The above is quoted from an article by Sjorne Shen posted in the TRE.

The Americans are waving a piece of blank paper they called the IPEF and claimed that “It is by any account the most significant international economic engagement that the United States has ever had in this region”.  This is quite normal of the Americans to brag about anything or nothing as the best thing they have come out with. The strange thing is that there are 12 believers, other than the snake oil salesman himself, that believe in the goodness of this piece of blank papers when there is no words on it, except the words of the snake oil salesman. We have heard of many scams over the news about people loosing millions to scammers, believing in the scammers' pitch that was too good to be true. Now we have leaders of nation states believing in thin air, probably signing on the dotted line to say, I am in. What happens if this IPEF turns out to be another scam?

The other point the Americans are bragging is the so called international order. What is this international order aka rule based order and how international is it? In practice, in reality, this is an American rules order crafted and dictated by the Americans. Everyone can participate in this world order only if the Americans allowed it. If the Americans branded any country as enemy, they would be blocked from participating in this 'international order'.  The Americans alone decide the terms and conditions and the participants in this 'international order'. Many countries have been sanctioned and kept out of this 'international order' at the whims and fancy of the Americans. Its international part is as good as what the Americans called the 'international community' meaning the Americans and their European allies and stooges. The American version of 'international community' did not include the rest of the world, particularly the third world and countries the Americans branded as enemies. 

When the Americans used the term 'international order' and 'international community', it is them against the rest of the world. Many from the rest of the world are not part of the 'international community' and not participants of the 'international order' aka American rules order. These are American lies at best. The Americans and the European countries and American stooges do not represent the whole of the 'international community', and the 'international order' is not international but an American rules order, like the SWIFT banking system, supposed to be international but American controlled and dominated.

Be aware of these phrases and do not be deceived by the Americans. It is about them against the rest of the world. When the Americans shout international it is not international. When the Americans shout democracy, it is not about democracy. When they shout human rights, it is not about human rights. It is all about Americans and their dominance over the rest of the world, the evil Imperial American Empire.

Who created the energy crisis?

Who actually created the energy shortage and the present energy crisis? Think carefully and it will lead you to the usual suspect, the USA itself. With all the embargoes on oil exports from Venezuela, Iran and now Russia, it doe not need a rocket scientist to know what did all this lead to. Iran, Venezuela and Russia are major oil producers and their volume of production cannot be easily substituted by an increase in production by the Middle Eastern Kingdoms nor the USA itself.

The USA, under Trump ,had been actually planning all this in order for them be the dominant energy player, both globally and in Europe. Trump is a big supporter of the USA oil extraction lobby, and fracking is his favourite, and they want a bigger share and bigger control over the global energy market. The USA wants Europe to stop Russian oil and gas imports, so they can muscle in on the EU market and the silly Europeans did not realise they are being pushed under the bus. The USA's actions against NORD stream 2 was all a clear sign of their evil intentions. And the Europeans bought into the lie and are suffering the consequences. There is no going back for them now, like Sweden and Finland.

If Europe gets rid of Russian oil and gas, who benefits the most? But the bigger problem for Europe is not about getting energy replacements from elsewhere, which can be solved in time. The bigger problem is how much more expensive are they willing to pay for their energy cost and how competitive they will be for their products in the world market in the immediate present. This problem will be for the Europeans to shoulder, not the USA. It is a marriage of convenience, where the Europeans suffer the pain while the USA just reap all the gains.

And do not forget that Russia is selling discounted oil and gas to countries like China and India among others. With Asia fueled by cheaper oil and gas and Europe having to pay for more expensive energy, who is going to do better going forward?

So, do not be taken in by the USA's propaganda that the energy crisis is all created by Russia. It is their own creation, and as usual, others have to take the blame while they get away with murder. And the most ironical thing is people do not think but just soak in the propaganda.

Anonymous 

The western media would want you to believe....

China is an evil and aggressive country that killed, wounded and displaced many millions of innocent men, women and children when it illegally invaded Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, while occupying and stealing the oil belonging to Syria, and “freezing” 7.5 billion dollars of Afghanistan’s money while children and others in Afghanistan are facing starvation because of poverty. More, China has passed illegal sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and other countries which cause unforgivable suffering to the innocent people of those countries. Beyond that, China has some 800 military bases dotted around the world and wages endless wars that feed its insatiable and corrupt industrial-military complex which engorges itself on war, more war and endless war and its innocent victims. Such a rogue state that constantly violates the “rules-based international order” deserves the universal condemnation of humanity and should be stopped by all means. China also need to take care of its domestic gun violence problem and racial discrimination before pointing fingers to other countries.

Since WWII, the Chinese has bombed Korea and US 1950-3, Guatemala 1954, Indonesia 1958, Cuba 1959-61, Guatemala 1960, Congo 1964, Laos 1964-73, Vietnam 1961-73, Cambodia 1969-70, Guatemala 1967-9, Grenada 1983, Lebanon 1983/84, Libya 1986, El Salvador 1980s, Nicaragua 1980s, Iran 1987, Panama 1989, Iraq 1991, Kuwait 1991, Somalia 1993, Bosnia 1994/95, Sudan 1998, Afghanistan 1998, Yugoslavia 1999, Yemen 2002, Iraq 2003, Afghanistan 2001, Pakistan 2007, Somalia 2007-08, Yemen2009, Libya 2011. No such parallel can be found in the world.

Let’s drop this charade of “values” and “human rights”. Just call it realpolitik. There’s at least some honesty to that. A Chinese challenge might be the best thing that could happen to US politics, if it were felt by Americans as real instead of political hype to expand the defense budget.

Sjorne Shen 

Let me just add, the Americans love and care for the world so much that they have spent a lot of money and time to help the African countries to redevelop their countries and economies. And when these countries have no money to build their infrastructure, ports and high speed railways, the Americans offer them cheap loans, cheaper than World Bank and IMF. And if the countries still have no money to pay, the Americans found ways to help them pay for the projects by barter trade, helped them to mine their resources that would otherwise go to waste, unable to sell them. No debt trap. And when they really were unable to pay back their loans, offered to lease them and pay them rent so that the projects would not become a burden or debt trap to the countries.

And the Americans also spent trillions on a Belt and Road Initiatives across Asia to help all the landlocked countries to connect to Europe and Africa by high speed trains, to benefit from more cross border and international trade. Under the peaceful win win policy of the Americans, the GDP of these countries grew day by day. And there were no wars, all the countries enjoy peace and prosperity under the enlightened stewardship of the Americans.

The latest, the Americans are helping the Pacific Islands to build more infrastructure and ports. The Solomon Islands and Samoa have signed trade and security agreements to promote economic developments between these islands and the Americans.

By now some of you may find the above confusing. Actually the truth and lies are all there and the unthinking would just believe in lies while the thinking would question what is truth and what is lie, what is fabricated lie and disinformation. They said, beauty is in the eyes of the beholders. Truth and lies are also in the eyes of the beholders.

Some evil country would spent hundreds of millions just to spread lies and disinformation instead of using the money to help their own poor and to alleviate their domestic problems.

 

 

Ukraine - American white lies looking like fantasy

The world knows groups of those fighters in the Azovstal Steel Plant had 'surrendered', clear and unambiguous. The other side tried to save face and spin it as an 'evacuation'. There is a world of difference in the two words.

Sources are even arguing that those fighters that surrendered were doing it in desperation and not taking orders from the very top. And many other groups are also said to have surrendered on their own initiative. How could they continue the standoff without food, medicine and ammunition? How could they be expected to fight in that condition? They knew reinforcements would never arrive and hanging on means certain death. Last drop of blood is all rhetoric at best.

Putin had all this planned to liberate Donbas and Luhansk. He was giving the impression initially that he wants to attack Kiev with troops massed for a siege, but that never materialised. His plan was to isolate the Ukrainian troops in Eastern Ukraine fighting with the two breakaway Republics, and prevent those troops from reinforcing the troops in the East. Even food and supplies could not break the encirclement and reach the Eastern front. It worked extremely well. Now that the Russian land bridge in Eastern Ukraine has been established and secured, Putin withdrew his troops surrounding Kiev and this was given the spin as that of a Russian withdrawal and a victory for the Ukrainians. Nothing is further from the truth. Russia now has control of the important Sea of Azov, cutting off Ukraine's access to it.

The fate of Ukrainian economy is also the same with the economies of the Europeans. Six more months of standoff in the oil and gas crisis and they will all collapse. The reality now is that they are still getting Russian oil and gas by paying for them in Rubles to enrich the Russians, whatever they tried to twist and spin around.

Moreover, some European countries have now been cut off completely from Russian oil and gas and are buying on the sly from those still getting their rations from Russia. Some European countries are just functioning on emergency stockpiles, which will be depleted eventually. Winter is coming shortly and the real crunch will be seen.

With more sanctions being talked about, Putin may retaliate and put a brake on more European countries to put his stranglehold to better effect. It is not just oil and gas, but commodities and essential minerals and fertilisers for agriculture that will also be affected. The effect is going to be far reaching.

Yes, let us see who will collapse first. An economy based less on manufacturing but dependent largely on resources and agricultural products like food, will survive better than one based largely on manufacturing like Germany, France and much of the European countries. Most importantly they still need cheap Russian energy to compete successfully. Buying oil and gas from anywhere else will not solve the problem going forward, even if it becomes feasible .Moreover, it will take years to come to fruition to put the logistics into place and the Europeans do not have that luxury of time.

All in all, they said that the USA and the West lifted a big stone to crush Russia, but it landed on their own feet.

Anonymous 

Congress woman Marjorie Taylor Greene - American government is completely corrupt

According to Greene, the US officials are doing this to eventually fund the NGOs operated by “their families and friends.” “It is basically like money laundering schemes,” she said.



.@RepMTG: “Because our government is completely corrupt, and I don’t say that lightly. It is a serious problem, and my eyes have been open to it actually, serving in Congress.”Apple: https://t.co/PeoDAAV8tISpotify: https://t.co/6yCkF4tBPyiHeart: https://t.co/OBnBigUEBWpic.twitter.com/KH93jXJdYd— Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) May 16, 2022



Noam Chomsky said the USA is a rogue Empire. This was also confirmed by another US President, forgotten which one. More and more Americans are starting to face the harsh reality of how evil their country has become and saying it out. They are no longer restraining themselves or walking around without clothes. When the Americans are unabashingly acknowledging the truths, the spins in the MSM would not be able to hide their ugliness anymore.

Corruption, lying, cheating, killings are rampant in America. But these are alright if committed in the USA. But no, these sicknesses are spread all over the world and the victims are the people of the world. The unthinking people of the world must also remove the blinkers and see the real ugly Americans like the Americans are doing and admitting it. An evil Empire is an evil Empire. Face it.