Americans are in for a rude awakening. Our proxy war against Russia is failing, and will be added to a long list of failed efforts at inciting conflict and overthrowing governments by U.S. elites since the end of WWII. U.S. efforts to replicate our disastrous Ukraine project using Taiwan as a pawn against China will fail in similar fashion, with possibly far more disastrous consequences. Unlike Iraq or Libya, China and Russia won’t back down. Russia has shown itself to be far more than “a gas station with nukes,” while the U.S., having sold off its industrial base, is little more than banksters with nukes.

Our sanctions regime against other nations has back-fired, pushing Russia and China into a close alliance, and speeding up the process of nations across the globe seeking a fairer alternative to our “rules-based international order,” which more closely resembles “Calvinball”. The rules-based order amounts to little more than financialized debt peonage for third world nations, while it enriches a small global elite. BRICS is growing rapidly as an economic powerhouse. None of this had to be. Genuine diplomatic efforts that treated Russia’s concerns regarding NATO expansion as legitimate would have prevented this war, and saved the lives of hundreds of thousands on both sides of the conflict. Global warming’s effects may already be outpacing our ability to cope. But without international cooperation and less war, our chances of coping successfully are nil.

Bruce Currie

Concord

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