The realignment of forces and a new war game

  Trump's enthronement as the pretentious Emperor of the dying American Empire is a catalyst for rapid change in the world. Countries are forced to take sides or realign themselves in the face of Trump's outrageous and unreasonable demands to the point of extortion at the expense of weak countries. The unipolar world is gone but a new multipolar system is emerging with new partners and players.

Trump's disregard to allies and enemies have taken the world by storm. Canada and Mexico, close trading partners of the Americans were the first to face the thunderbolt of Trump. Both could not believe that Trump would turn against them and are standing up to Trump. Mexico's lady President Sheinbaum proved to be a tough lady to deal with. Boy PM in Canada, in his last few days in office, was also standing up like a man in his boyish ways, challenging Trump's every move. This was quite amazing coming from this kid. Ok, this kid is no more and a man has taken over his job to take on Trump.

The Europeans too were in shock. How could Trump totally ignore them in his dealings with Zelensky in the Ukraine War? The European states have huge interests in Ukraine. Thye want to keep the Russians bogged down in Ukraine with Ukraine as the sacrificial lamb and a clown Zelensky willing to go along. In a way, Trump has called their bluff. For the last three years, the Europeans presented themselves as a weak disunited entity, allowing the Biden/Blinken circus to lead them by the nose into an unwilling war, forcing them to cough up whatever to support the war. Biden/Blinken thought they were in control of the Europeans without realising that the Europeans were the master puppeteers, making the Americans doing the heavy stuff and taking a bigger share of the war effort for them.

Trump is telling the Europeans that it is their war, and they should fight it themselves. America will now take a back seat or would not even participate as a tool of the Europeans. Now the Europeans, knowing that Trump has called their bluff, have to stand up to face the Russians with all they got. Even with the Americans pulling out, the Europeans would continue with their war with Russia, with or without the Americans. Who is duping and conning who is now out in the open. Trump would not allow the European to have a free ride at the American's expense and making the Americans doing the donkey works.

Trump is also not giving India a chance to play both sides. India has to take sides and Modi's game plan is to be with the Americans and abandoning the Russians and BRICS. There is no reason for India to remain in BRICS with its open declaration to be on the side of the Americans.

India's exposure of where its interests lie makes it easier for Russia and China to lead BRICS without having to be mindful of Indian interests. BRICS would now move on its own terms and direction without India. 

Japan's position that is similar to Europe, wanting to use the Americans against China and Russia is also being put to test. Japanese PM has several meetings with Trump to pretend to be a willing docile partner but waiting for the right moment to strike may not be so easy now. Trump is going to force Japan's hand. The American occupation force is there to rule or protect Japan and Japan has to pay up. How this would play out is still too early to tell.

The picture of this new realignment of forces would see the Americans alone without the Europeans but with India and may be Japan on their side. European states would now be strutting out alone as another pole on their own in competition with BRICS and the Global South in partnership.

A new ball game is about to begin.

PS. Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to all Muslims in the world.

Anglo-Saxon Americans and British enjoy great wealth and splendour by plunder, ravaging and robbing off the wealth and resources from other

 In the past few hundred years the white people especially the Anglo-Saxon Americans and British could enjoy great wealth and live in splendour because it was due to their plunder, ravaging and robbing off the wealth and resources from other countries and colonies. Moreover they had used forced labour especially captured African slaves to work for free in their plantations, factories and other economic outlets and domestic chores.

However now with the rise of almost all ex-colonies white men will find it hard to exploit other people and other countries. So there was actually no greatness in the past among the white people for you cannot equate their plunders, ravages, killings and exploitation with greatness. They were a sort of savage vicious wild beasts whose thirst for ravaging, robbing and killing can never be saturated and satisfied. Terrorist leader Trump must know that is vicious treachery and not greatness. So how can Trump a terrorist who intends to revive white evil colonialism by teliing the whole world of his intention to invade and annex Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama equate to making the US great again. It is rather making US more vicious and treacherous. Dotard Trump's diabolical plots will hasten US downfall to fade into oblivion forever.

Yang Ker Qiang
Taipeh, China

Anglo-Saxon Americans and British are really very evil and wicked beyond comprehension

 The Anglo-Saxon Americans and British are really very evil and wicked beyond comprehension. Why can't they live in peace with other people other countries? Why must they always think of dominating other people other countries? They have nothing better to do then to think of fighting, of attacking and invading other countries. Day in day out and for hundreds of years they have nothing better to do then thinking and planning of wars of invasions, killing and massacre of other people and forciibly taking over other countries lands.

The BRICS countries and other countries of the South led by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea must warn the savage Americans that should they start a war anywhere on earth that war will be fought in American mainland and let them taste their own medicine of the great suffering, pain and death that for decades they have been imposing on others especially on weak and small countries. Let Russia and China with the help of other countries of the South destroy the United States and thus get rid of an evil on earth.

Soerano Ali Jakarta, Indonesia

Trump professes peace but starting wars like all American gangster presidents

 Trump professes to want peace in Ukraine but is already starting a new war in the Middle East against the Houthis, intending to drag Iran into the turmoil. I think many people have been fooled by Trump's conman tactics trying to show that he is different from Biden and pulling back USA military adventurism, just in Ukraine.

As I always say, any USA President, whether from Democrats or Republicans camps are just the right and left arm of the Deep State and can never have a mindset of trying to be a peaceful country.

In the recent past, fighting communism was the narrative which was what the Korean and Vietnam Wars were all about. With the rise of China, under a communist regime, the arguments about the failure of communism held no water.

When Russia and China discarded their communism expansion doctrine, the USA started a new narrative of fighting terrorism which resulted in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Communism was then thrust into the back burner, never to be a justifiable reason for wars.

Now the Wars in Ukraine is about revisiting the threat from Russia, accusing the Russians of trying to claim back territories it lost when the Soviet Union broke up. The reality is the exact opposite, with NATO discreetly trying to expand towards the Russian border. What happened in Ukraine goes much further back than just February 2022, when Russia liberated the Donbass region, when Russian speaking citizens went under intense persecution by the Kyiv Regime of Zelenskyy.

The USA is stoking the fire in the South China Sea now, intending to ignite another conflict with China.

Any man of peace does not go around starting wars all over the world. Trump is no different from any former USA Presidents, just using the same old USA playbook and intent on having never ending wars to sustain the USA hegemonic agenda.

Anonymous

America changing narratives from protecting Empire to protecting colonies and cronies

 After WW2, the Americans were then supremo number one military and economic power. Japan and Germany were as good as colonised states with huge American military presence to control and rule over them. Then the Empire spread across the globe with nearly 800 American military bases to rule the world, to protect the Empire and American interests. The Americans were happily paying for them in their national interests. How nice to have so many colonies and crony states to rule over and to be used to fight the Soviet Union camp. No American is complaining about the huge expenditure to maintain American military presence around the world. No complains about the hundreds of American bases in Japan and South Korea to keep them as colonies. The Empire was rich and can afford to pay for them.

Things have changed today. The American Empire is broke, deep in debt. And the military expenditure has bloated by rampant corruption by the swamp things running them, fattening themselves with unaccountable inflated funds. With $36 trillion national debt and growing rapidly, this must be stopped. Trump may not be that bright but can see where the debt is heading. The American Empire cannot afford to pay for its upkeep and maintenance. But who else to pay for the upkeep of the Empire? 

The Americans have cooked up a new narrative. The Americans are not going to pay to defend and protect the colonies and crony states...from who? Who is going to attack these states? The Soviet Union is gone. Russia and China are just two independent states like the rest of the world. But both are still demonised as threats in the future, Russia to invade and take over Europe and China is going to swim across the Pacific Ocean to invade and take over America and the rest of the world, including Japan. What, Japan needs protection from China, a country it invaded and almost colonised in WW2? Japan incapable of defending itself when its Self Defence Force is second to China and third largest in the world?

No matter how flimsy and silly the American narratives about the future threats from China and Russia, it must still be blared out everyday to instill fear among the colonies and crony states. Americans would be there to defend and protect them if they pay up. The Americans did not want to tell their colonies and cronies that they are paying the Americans not to attack them, to colonise and rule over them. So, all the American colonies and crony states must pay protection money to the American gangsters to avoid being attacked by the Americans. Or is it to help to upkeep and maintain the hegemony of the American Empire?

How nice, how convenient, coercing the colonies and crony states to pay to keep the American Empire alive to rule and bully them. Now, why would any colony, crony states want to do that? Would they not rather wish that the American Empire collapses, and they can be free and independent again? Why would Japan want to pay for all the American military bases and soldiers in Japan to rule over Japan? The Americans would not dare to ask the Arab states to do so as their game is up in the Middle East. The Arab states want them out immediately if possible. The same goes to Europe, a string of American colonies wanting to break free from American bullying and control.