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#9. Jeffrey Sachs: Biden has destroyed Ukraine

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Well, first of all, this is purely money down the drain.
So if they want to rip up another $61 billion, which is not chump change, they seem intent on doing it, but it will mean nothing except more destruction for Ukraine.
The fact of the matter is, if you don’t listen to the nonsense in our mainstream media but listen to your show and others, people would know that this war has destroyed Ukraine.
And the longer it continues, the less there will be of Ukraine.
It’s very simple, actually.
If this goes on longer, Russia will capture more territory.
If it goes on long enough, Russia will capture Odessa, Kiev.
If we continue the way we’re doing, and this is a Biden project that goes back ten years now, will completely destroy Ukraine.
So the idea that this is siding with Ukraine is absurd.

Anyone who really follows events knows that we’re not siding with Ukraine.
We have paid for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to go to the front lines and die for more and more territory to be lost. Because the most basic point of this war, which is that we overthrew a government in Ukraine in 2014 that wanted neutrality so that we could push NATO enlargement, was reckless, stupid, and doomed to fail, and it failed.
Now Biden is just trying to hide the failure to get past November, but the failure is seen on the battleground every day.
If the Republicans play into this, its unbelievable shame on them.
They’re basically on the right side, although Biden bludgeons them every day.
You’ll be the one to lose Ukraine.
Well, the truth of the matter is Biden has been a disaster for Ukraine for a decade.
The disaster is there in the graves of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and lost territory.
This is a war that never should have happened.
It was about NATO enlargement, where the Russians said, no NATO on our borders.
And Americans who were following this, like our CIA director Bill Burns, who was then the US ambassador
to Russia in 2008, said, this is crazy. No way.
The entire Russian political class is against this.
But Biden and Obama and Hillary Clinton and Victoria Nuland, Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, they just barged ahead.
They’ve wrecked everything.
And now they want another $61 billion to get them past November.
It’s a disgrace.
It’s completely a disgrace.

To play devil’s advocate.
Let me give you the other side and then allow you to respond to that.
What do you say to people that maybe acknowledge there were certainly missteps with the expansion of NATO and the provocation, but nevertheless, Russia chose to respond to that with an invasion.
The situation in Ukraine is due to that invasion.
And so what do you say to people who think, well, so we are now responding to that invasion by funding, not committing American troops, but funding a resistance in Ukraine that wants to continue fighting?
Well, yeah, the war began ten years ago when Victoria Nuland not only passed out cookies on Maidan, but engaged in insurrection to violently overthrow a government in Ukraine.
Pretty stupid.
Pretty stupid to have a regime change operation on a country with the 2000 kilometer border with Russia.
That’s our american foreign policy.
That’s when this war started.
This war didn’t start in February 2022.
It started in February 2014.
It started with Nuland.
It started with Blinken.
It started with Sullivan.
It started with Biden, who was a key person in that whole thing.
And then the fighting went on for ten years.
And then in December 2021, Putin said, look, stop the NATO enlargement.
We can avoid an escalation.

I talked to the White House at that point.
Nah, we don’t stop anything.
They just thought they had all the cards.
We’re going to cut them out of this SWIFT banking system.
We’re going to bring the economy to the knees.
Bunch of nonsense by ignorant people.
And so Putin escalated.
He didn’t start the war.
He escalated the war.
And within, basically a week, Zelenskyy said, okay, okay, okay, we can be neutral.
And the Turks mediated negotiations.
And then, though the US government wants to hide all of these facts, which are sitting out there for those who know where to find them, the US intervened and told the Ukrainians, you keep fighting.
And we have our senators who say, this is the best the money can buy, because it’s Ukrainians dying, not Americans.
They’re weakening Russia.
Well, they’re not weakening Russia, but they are killing Ukrainians.
So this is not responding to Putin’s invasion.
The war started ten years ago, and we kept refusing every off ramp till this day, Robbie, you know, you hear Putin say, and if you listen, every day, we’re open to negotiations.
And then these fools in the US government say, there’s no one to negotiate.
They don’t want to negotiate.
And then President Putin says, oh, we’re open to negotiation.
Oh, there’s no one to negotiate, is what we hear from the US side.
This is just narrative.
It’s destroyed Ukraine, and they just rip up money like there’s no tomorrow.
So another 61 billion.
And now I hear from.
From you that the latest plan is to take the illegally confiscated assets of Russia because there’s no legal basis to do this and use that.
That’ll be really great for the international financial system. I’ll tell you.
Because these are people who don’t think ahead one day.
They just improvise day by day, and then they’ll find out,
oh, things don’t work out so well for the US dollar, for the US as reserve currency for the US place in the world, because these people are acting like clowns, frankly, day by day, not thinking ahead, doubling down on lost gambles and everything to tell a story so that they can get to the elections in the way they see fit.

Professor, I want to ask you about how the United
States gets out of this now, because I’m reminded of conversations that surrounded the war in Afghanistan for years, which was that we shouldn’t have gotten into it.
This is a mistake.
But now we’ve destabilized the country.
We’re in neck deep.
We can’t just stop funding and abandon this project.
And that’s a hamster wheel of sorts, right?
So there are some people that I think are gonna listen to this and say, well, I agree with everything you’re saying, but what do you do at this point?
Is it just a sunk cost?
Or is there some obligation to unwind this in a way that’s responsible and doesn’t leave Ukrainians high and dry?
Ukrainians are high and dry no matter what we do.
We’ve killed nearly half a million of them through this stupid project.
And the ones that throw good money after bad are the ones themselves that are personally culpable for this.
This is Biden’s project.
So this is the first starting point.
You don’t throw good lives after those already dead and good money after bad when you have an absolute failure and disaster on your hands.
By the way, this is like every American effort.
I’m old enough to remember Vietnam.
The same words said about Vietnam.
We do this over and over and over again in the US because our so called leaders have no sense and they don’t think ahead.
So, yes, we have to stop this.
But the one thing that we don’t do, and it’s really a bit of a mystery to me, it’s the worst I’ve seen in my whole lifetime.
We don’t negotiate.
Does Biden call Putin, say, we need to talk?
No, that would be weakness.
That would be appeasement.
They don’t even have the idea that you negotiate anything.
And, you know, if you try everything by a military approach and a failed one, and you do it in these proxy wars where it’s the people themselves in these countries that are dying on the front lines, and you don’t know anything about diplomacy?
Well, you make a complete mess of the world.
And so the answer is the first thing is the US and Russia should talk to each other because there’s a cause of this war and that’s NATO enlargement.
And by the way, that’s no secret and that’s not propaganda.
Even the secretary general of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, said that absolutely explicitly, as did the top negotiator for Zelensky, Davyd Arakhamia.
This is a war about NATO enlargement.
So why doesn’t Biden call up Putin, say, you know what, we gotta stop the war.
And that whole NATO enlargement that I was party to going back to the 1990s and to 2014 coup and all that was a bad idea.
Figure out how to stop the war, recognize mutual security, and stop the bloodshed and massacres in Ukraine.
If Biden were really acting like a president, thats what he would do.
Its been about a year since a group of economists wrote an open letter about you, accusing you of denying the agency of Ukraine peddling Putin talking points, all of those kinds of things.
It’s a year later.
How do you respond to them?
Well, I don’t respond.
I tell them I told you so.
I told them so from the beginning that this would be a complete disaster for Ukraine.
People don’t want to hear this.
They don’t understand.
They don’t know enough about American history.
I told them Ukraine is going to be like Afghanistan and boy is it like Afghanistan right now.
So they didn’t want to hear.
That’s not right. That’s not fair. Professor Sachs.
I was telling them facts.
I was giving them some good advice.
They didn’t want to hear that.
They wanted to hear about victory, glory, how Ukraine’s going to succeed, that great counteroffensive, all the rest, all the baloney.
But I said from the beginning that this would be a disaster.
I said this is just the latest Neocon debacle.
And I said explicitly it was going to leave Ukraine like Afghanistan and it was completely avoidable.
So that’s what I tell them. I’m sorry.
Listen, pay attention. Learn something.
That’s what I say to them.

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#8. Norway: cancellation and censorship of science

Introduction

On February 14, 2024, Professor Glenn Diesen[1][2][3][4] published several posts[1][2][3][4] on X in which he reports on the cancel and censorship culture, as practiced by the Norwegian Aage Borchgrevink[1]. Although Borchgrevink is listed on various websites and Wikipedia pages as a human rights activist, works at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, and is chairman of the Norwegian NFFO, the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association, he is not who he pretends to be.
What Glenn Diesen describes in the following articles, posted on X, corresponds with the experiences so many others and also I had with Aage Borchgrevink on X: there is zero willingness to be informed about the scientific facts regarding political issues. He distorts facts, creates misinformation, and is a USA propaganda activist, not a human rights activist. The same applies to the Helsinki Committee, and the NFFO.

1. The Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFFO)

…….. announced that they cancelled their participation as a co-organiser for a public debate about the conflict in the Middle East because I am one of the speakers. I wear this as a badge of honour. One of Norway’s leading propagandists who has been writing hit-pieces about me for years in the media just happens to be a chairman of NFFO who announced the cancellation. So, the person behind the organisation that cancelled their participation, because I am allegedly controversial, is the same person who has been working tirelessly to depict me as controversial to have me fired as a professor from the university. These are two cheeks of the same arse, but this is conveniently omitted by those reporting on this story.

I do not use the term “propagandist” lightly. This propagandist works for the Helsinki Committee, a “human rights organisation” financed by the CIA-cutout National Endowment for Democracy (NED). When Reagan established NED as an extension of the CIA in 1983, it was to manipulate civil society in other countries (see tweet below). NED and its proxies only focus on human rights in adversarial states and thus sell all great power conflicts as a fight between democracy and authoritarianism (good vs evil), while claiming the source credibility of a “human rights organisation” that enables them to dismiss critics as enemies of freedom. When this Norwegian “human rights activist” does not slander me in the media and shames my university for permitting academic freedom, he is campaigning against Julian Assange and other critics of the US.

This is not simply an issue to a silly propagandist discrediting NFFO. Censorship, cancellations and the corruption of institutions have detrimental effects on society. After a decade of war in Ukraine, Norwegians are still not exposed to any arguments and evidence that deviate from NATO’s narrative. Norway will give the US sovereign control over 15 military bases on its soil to confront Russia in the Arctic and Norway has become one of the most eager weapon suppliers in the Ukrainian proxy war – with almost no public debate about the impact on our security as only one argument is permitted and dissent comes with great social cost. Anyone attempting to explain the arguments of the opposing side can be denounced for “legitimising” the opponent and thus smeared as a “Putinist”.

Our discourse subsequently consists of clichés and slogans without substance, simplified and dumbed down to a narrative of goodies versus baddies in which ever-more weapons are the path to peace, diplomacy and negotiations are dangerous, and censorship is vital to protect our democracy.

All is not well with freedom of speech and academic freedom in this country. I have published 11 academic books, which have been translated into several languages. Yet, an organisation devoted to academic writing cancelled their participation as a co-organiser because a ridiculous NED-financed “human rights activist” has accused me of working for Russia. Also, the debate they withdrew support from is not even about Russia, but the Middle East…

2. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee

…….. should be designated as a propaganda organisation due to its funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): – Washington Post writes that NED has been the “sugar daddy of overt operations” and “what used to be called ‘propaganda’ and can now simply be called ‘information'”. – NED was inaugurated by President Reagan to conceal influence operations by US intelligence as work on democracy and human rights. – Documents released by the Reagan presidential library reveal that NED cooperated closely with CIA propaganda initiatives. – Allen Weinstein, a cofounder of NED, acknowledged: “a lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA”. – Philip Agee, a CIA whistle-blower, explained that NED was established as a “propaganda and inducement program” to subvert foreign nations and style it as a democracy promotion initiatives.

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee wrote a 7-page long article about me (plus front page), in which they pressured the university to terminate my employment as I allegedly violate international law by supporting Russian war propaganda. – This is a strange allegation as I have been very openly opposed to the war from day one, but my crime as a professor of Russian politics has been to engage with Russian media. And this is allegedly in breach of international law. – The article makes no sense and was published in a newspaper where the author’s wife is an editor, but it is nonetheless cited in numerous efforts to censor and cancel. – It is beyond absurd that government-funded “non-governmental organisations” masquerading as “human rights organisations” can routinely attack academic freedoms and manipulate civil society in our country to ensure there is only one acceptable narrativ

3. Tweets by Aage Borchgrevink

Notice how in all these tweets (and all his articles), he attempts to shame the university into cancelling dissent. Is this normal for a state-financed “human rights activist” and a chairman of an organisation for authors? Click picture to enlarge:

4. Borchgrevink’s cancellation

He is very proud to censor and cancel. Unworthy of an open society. Click picture to enlarge.

5. Professor Glenn Diesen about the Tucker Carlsen interview with Vladimir Putin

The subjects “propaganda“, “freedom of speech“, and “censorship” start at 16:34 in the video ”Is America in decline: The US could lose the war against Russia – CBC Weekly Talk (Azerbaijan)”

Anastasia Lavrina: I don’t know if you watched the last interview of Vladimir Putin to American journalist Tucker Carlson and immediately after the West started to criticize the journalist for this interview. Why do you think the West turned against the American journalist in this particular interview is there any specific issues on the agenda?

Glenn Diesen: Well, they denounced the interview as propaganda before had even been released so I think it’s quite obvious that this doesn’t look good in terms of our principle of free speech because a lot of the attacks you know calling him a Putin puppet and you know this kind of name calling it’s not just childish but it’s also completely devoid of any substance. There’s no real criticism of you know the questions he asked or the direction he took it, so I think it demonstrates I think an unwillingness to present the opposite side of the argument and this is a huge problem.
I always make the point that at least during the Cold War we knew what Moscow’s arguments were. We didn’t feel the need to censor it but these days there’s a huge amount of censorship going on now here in the west, not only censoring Russian media but also journalist academics within the West who dare to explain what the Russians are thinking, what they’re doing, are accused of legitimizing what the Russians are doing, and one sees the call for censorship and cancellation immediately arises, so I think that a lot of the war narrative which we have been building over the past two years is based on their flawed assumption.

I don’t think many people anymore in the west really know much about very basic facts which can be proven, so I think there’s a huge concern that the whole narrative for war is disappearing and so the the need for narrative control. I think this is the greatest concern, and why there was such a fierce opposition to the Tucker Carlson interview of President Putin.

6. Glenn Diesen about Arestovych, the former advisor of Zelensky, and propaganda

Click to read the tweet.

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Glenn Diesen: The Ukraine War & The Eurasian World Order

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#6. Russophobia

Updated: February 15, 2024

This post is a comment on the video “Ugly and Russophobic”, that was published on YouTube by Jeffrey Sachs. The video has been removed however, by Jeffrey Sachs. The United Nations has published a video about Russophobia as well: ‘Russophobia’ Term Used to Justify Moscow’s War Crimes in Ukraine (Briefer) | United Nations

I have watched Jeffrey Sachs’s video before it was removed, and I can and have to state therefore that he did not use the word Russophobia to justify Russian war crimes in Ukraine, at all. He explained, that the in the west started russophobia is used by the west to create hatred against Russia in order to make their own proxy war, their provoked war, their provocations towards Russia, legal, justified. A kind of: “It is necessary to kill the Russians.” Sachs is right.

I consider the conclusion of the UN, that the word russophobia is used to justify Russian war crimes, as a misinterpretation, misinformation, therefore false, and even very effective western propaganda for the war industry.

My comment on the word “russophobia”.

It started a long time ago. In 1956 I was 8 years young and sensed the intense fear of my parents for the Russians who invaded Hungary. My father was a Russophobe: the reason for that were Stalin, Khrushchev, and what he knew about communism.

Russophobia. “Anti-Russian sentiment, commonly referred to as russophobia, is dislike or fear of Russia, the Russians, Russian culture, or Russian policy. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as intense and often irrational hatred of Russia. It is often related to anti-Soviet and occasionally also to anti-Slavic sentiment.” (Wiki)

In my opinion russophobia is a logic result, caused by the Russian Tsars, and the leaders of the communist party that followed after, like Stalin, Khrushchev. The word russophobia today is therefore in my opinion only the fear for Russian politics and their leaders.

People in the west were, because of the taboo in the west to be interested in Russia, Russian culture and so on, not informed and mostly even misinformed about the Russian people, their culture. Western peoples assumed that Russians were enthusiastically following their leaders, and therefore to be disgusted.

The phobia for Russian political leaders however existed also in the Russian people, intensified sometimes to unbearable levels, transformed because of that into an unstoppable courage. Russian composer Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 evokes the first uprising of 1905, when peasants stormed the Tsar’s Palace.

Painting by Russian painter Makovsky: The Ninth of January, 1905

The 1917 Russian Revolution brought an end to the power of the Tsar era, the Russian royal dictators.

This shows that the western interpretation of the word russophobia is based on the same fear and disgust as the common Russian people experienced for their own leaders and their politics.

Therefore the word russophobia should be replaced by a word that fathoms the fear in peoples, worldwide, for the [totalitarian] regime in their country, and the absence of, or censored independent journalism, next to physical, emotional and mental punishments, torture, terrorism that these regimes practice against those who could be a threat for informing the people about facts, and create revolutions.

This kind of regimes are everywhere, and yes, also USA, EU, the entire “democratic” west, have regime-like governments that practice and/or contribute to censorship, shadow banning, torture, terrorism, murder, cruelties. [Julian Assange]

My conclusion: The phobia for Russia is not sustainable: it does not create any positive perspective or condition for a real future for mankind. The future is cooperation, and only cooperation, which is possible when there is a will to communicate, to talk, and to find the hard core of the problems, the truth of it. The common sense of solutions. Phobia is hatred, fear is hatred, it is a closed door to communication and negotiation. It is based on one-sided information, indoctrination, ignorance, is based on absence of self reflection. Factually Russophobia is based on the phobia for the True Self, the psychological dark side, the darkness of the unconsciousness within, whereabout Carl Gustav Jung spoke and wrote, and it is within every single human being.

Others are the mirror of the self. You see in another one what is inside of you, but are not aware of. You cannot remove the dirt from the glass of the mirror: it is not there. USA does the same with Russia, and all who are Russophobic should watch inside and check there that one should work at, and solve. USA is scared to watch and admit the existence of their own darkness. USA prefers to show the mask of The Saviour of Humanity. It works. USA shows how easy it is fool people, to control the media, to mislead people, to indoctrinate people, to create enemies, to create hatred, to fuel hatred, that make people believe that the war-industry is a deity, a holy must, and the war crimes are legitimate. Finally people like war. It is good. Their hatred grows into unstoppable passionate aggression, lust for war. There is even war in the social media, and if one is against USA, you are of course for Putin[post number 8], a Russian troll. I am against war. It is outdated and will sooner or later extinct all life forms. War has to be exterminated. It can! By truth.

Additional

  1. Russophobia – Professor Glenn Diesen – See Springer Link
  2. Biden sells weapon to majority of authoritarian regimes https://theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/…
    • Published: May 11, 2023
    • In: The Intercept
    • By: Stephen Semler
  3. Documentary (2019) “State Funeral“, the funeral of Joseph Stalin. / The documentary ends with: According to historical research, more than 27 million Soviet citizens were murdered, executed, tortured to death, imprisoned, sent to Gulag labor camps, or deported during Stalin’s regime. An additional 15 million people are estimated to have starved to death.
  4. Shostakovich Against Stalin – The War Symphonies
  5. Superpower. The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.’
  6. Julian Assange / Assange-phobia: the phobia of the US and NATO for being unveiled.
  7. More videos about the war in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDsR5P9Lkw3OWfPVecSMoR_iOLwwfVRoD
  8. See also my in Dutch written article: Russische trol?
  9. Video:

#3. Does US Militarism advance Global Security & Peace? With Prof. David Vine

Interview with Professor David Vine / Book: The United States of War
Interviewer: Zain Raza
Gepubliceerd: 18 april 2023
In: YouTube kanaal acTVism Munich

In deze aflevering van The Source praat Zain Raza met auteur en hoogleraar politieke antropologie David Vine over het Amerikaanse militarisme. We onderzoeken de omvang van Amerikaanse militaire bases over de hele wereld en de impact op de wereldwijde veiligheid. We onderzoeken ook de kosten van het Amerikaanse militarisme in binnen- en buitenland.

OVER DAVID VINE: David Vine is hoogleraar politieke antropologie aan de American University in Washington, DC. Davids nieuwste boek, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State, werd gepubliceerd door de University of California Press. Het boek was finalist voor de L.A. Times Book Prize in History 2020.

In this episode of The Source, we talk with author and professor of political anthropology David Vine about U.S. militarism. We examine the extent of U.S. military bases around the world and the impact on global security. We explore the costs of U.S. militarism at home and abroad as well.

ABOUT DAVID VINE: David Vine is Professor of political anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. David’s newest book, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State​, was published by the University of California Press. The book was a finalist for the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize in History.

#1. De noodzaak van een nieuw buitenland-beleid van de VS

The Need for a New US Foreign Policy
Geschreven door: Jeffrey Sachs
Op: 13 april 2023
In: New World Economy

Jeffrey Sachs (Oak Park, Michigan, USA, 5 november 1953) is een wereldberoemde professor economie, bestsellerauteur, innovatief docent en wereldleider op het gebied van duurzame ontwikkeling. Van 2001-2018 was Sachs speciaal adviseur van VN-secretarissen-generaal Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-2016) en António Guterres (2017-2018). Hij was ook adviseur van de laatste leider van de Sovjet-Unie, Michail Gorbatsjov, en van de eerste president van de Russische Federatie, Boris Jeltsin.

Een Google vertaling: Het buitenlands beleid van de VS is gebaseerd op een inherente tegenstrijdigheid en een fatale tekortkoming. Het doel van het buitenlands beleid van de VS is een door de VS gedomineerde wereld, waarin de VS de wereldhandels- en financiële regels opstelt, geavanceerde technologieën controleert, de militaire suprematie handhaaft en alle potentiële concurrenten domineert. Tenzij het buitenlands beleid van de VS wordt gewijzigd om de noodzaak van een multipolaire wereld te erkennen, zal dit leiden tot meer oorlogen en mogelijk tot een derde wereldoorlog.

De inherente tegenstrijdigheid in het buitenlands beleid van de VS is dat het in strijd is met het VN-Handvest, dat de VS (en alle andere VN-lidstaten) verplicht tot een mondiaal systeem gebaseerd op VN-instellingen waarin geen enkel land domineert. De fatale fout is dat de VS slechts 4 procent van de wereldbevolking heeft en de economische, financiële, militaire en technologische capaciteiten mist, laat staan de ethische en juridische claims, om de andere 96 procent te domineren.

Aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog waren de VS de rest van de wereld ver vooruit op economisch, technologisch en militair gebied. Dit is niet langer het geval, aangezien veel landen hun economieën en technologische capaciteiten hebben opgebouwd.

President Emmanuel Macron sprak onlangs de waarheid toen hij zei dat de Europese Unie, hoewel een bondgenoot van de VS, geen vazal van de VS wil zijn. Hij werd breed aangevallen in de VS en Europa voor het uiten van deze verklaring, omdat veel middelmatige politici in Europa afhankelijk zijn van de Amerikaanse politieke steun om aan de macht te blijven.

In 2015 beschreef de Amerikaanse ambassadeur Robert Blackwill, een belangrijke strateeg voor het buitenlands beleid van de VS, de Amerikaanse grootse strategie met uitzonderlijke duidelijkheid. Hij schreef: “Sinds de oprichting hebben de Verenigde Staten consequent een grootse strategie gevolgd, gericht op het verwerven en behouden van vooraanstaande macht over verschillende rivalen, eerst op het Noord-Amerikaanse continent, daarna op het westelijk halfrond en ten slotte wereldwijd”, en voerde aan dat ” het behoud van het primaatschap van de VS in het mondiale systeem zou in de eenentwintigste eeuw de centrale doelstelling moeten blijven van de Amerikaanse grootse strategie.”

Om het primaatschap van de VS ten opzichte van China te behouden, heeft Blackwill een spelplan opgesteld dat president Joe Biden volgt. Naast andere maatregelen riep Blackwill de VS op om “nieuwe preferentiële handelsregelingen tussen Amerikaanse vrienden en bondgenoten te creëren om hun wederzijdse voordelen te vergroten door middel van instrumenten die China bewust buitensluiten”, “een technologiecontroleregime” om China’s strategische capaciteiten te blokkeren, een gebouwd- van “machtspolitieke capaciteiten van Amerikaanse vrienden en bondgenoten in de periferie van China”, en versterkte de Amerikaanse strijdkrachten langs de Aziatische Rimlands ondanks enige Chinese oppositie.

De meeste Amerikaanse politici en velen in Groot-Brittannië, de EU, Japan, Korea, Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland steunen de agressieve aanpak van de Verenigde Staten. Ik doe niet. Ik beschouw de Amerikaanse benadering van China als in strijd met het VN-Handvest en vrede.

China heeft recht op welvaart en nationale veiligheid, vrij van Amerikaanse provocaties aan zijn grenzen. De opmerkelijke economische prestaties van China sinds eind jaren zeventig zijn geweldig voor zowel China als de wereld.

Gedurende de lange eeuw van 1839 tot 1949 werd China tot extreme armoede gedreven in een periode die werd gekenmerkt door Europese en Japanse invasies van China en Chinese burgeroorlogen. Groot-Brittannië viel in 1839 binnen om China te dwingen het verslavende opium van Groot-Brittannië te kopen. Andere machten stapelden zich op in de loop van de volgende eeuw. China is eindelijk hersteld van die rampzalige periode en heeft daarbij een einde gemaakt aan de armoede van ongeveer 1 miljard mensen!

De nieuwe welvaart van China kan zowel vreedzaam als productief zijn voor de wereld. China’s succesvolle technologieën – variërend van vitale behandelingen voor malaria tot goedkope zonne-energie en efficiënte 5G-netwerken – kunnen een zegen zijn voor de wereld. China zal alleen een bedreiging vormen voor zover de VS China tot vijand maken. De vijandigheid van de VS jegens China, die het arrogante Amerikaanse doel van dominantie vermengt met al lang bestaand anti-Chinees racisme dat dateert uit de 19e eeuw, creëert die vijand.

De gevaren van het buitenlands beleid van de VS reiken verder dan China. Het doel van de VS om de NAVO uit te breiden naar Oekraïne en Georgië, en daarbij Rusland in de Zwarte Zee te omsingelen, hielp de oorlog in Oekraïne aanwakkeren. Talloze naties zien het gevaar van deze benadering in. Grote landen van Brazilië tot India en daarbuiten streven naar een multipolaire wereld. Alle VN-lidstaten moeten zich opnieuw committeren aan het VN-Handvest en zich verzetten tegen aanspraken op dominantie door welke natie dan ook.

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