Ordezko edo proxy gerlak (43)

Proxy war

Proxy war – a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate

Ordezko gerlaz:

Oraingoa:

Errusia versus (Ukraina, AEB, EB, NATO)

Laster ikusiko duguna:

Txina versus (Taiwan, AEB, EB?, NATO)

Gerla horien atzean dagoena: sistema multipolarra versus sistema unipolarra¹

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Warren Mosler

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Randall Wray

Randall Wray: Dirua hasiberrientzat

Randall Wray: dirua hasiberrientzat (elkarrizketa)

“Whaever is doable is financially affordable”, alegia, “Egingarria den edozer eskuragarria da

finantzen aldetik.”

Randall Wray: Egin al dezakegu diruak guretzat lan egin dezan?

Randall Wray: nola MTM-k mundua salba dezakeen (elkarrizketa)

“Whar matters is resoursez, not money”, alegia, “Axola duena baliabideak dira, ez dirua.”

Sarrera:

Chaos in West Africa. And a whole bunch of geopolitical tug of war!

Some African countries who are pro-West are threatening to wage a war against Niger after the coup!

What the hell is their business??? These are the ones in ECOWAS – an informal group of 15 West African nations.

In turn, Mali and Burkina Faso say they will defend the new gov in Niger!

Then you have something that looks like another proxy war between US/France and Russia.

The coup leaders are pro-Russian; and Wagner group is active there as well.

Just a lot of madness. And certainly not something that’s good for ordinary Africans.

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Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton

Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton

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Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton

Neocolonialism: This Nigerian newspaper notes how France (with US backing) militarily overthrows African governments that oppose its interests.

West African nations are forced to use the colonial CFA franc and hold their foreign-exchange reserves in the French Treasury.

France has the first right of refusal on major projects and natural resource use.

“The whole of the commanding heights of the Francophone economies are controlled by France”.

https://vanguardngr.com/2019/02/how-fr

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Victor vicktop55@vicktop55

Elena Panina, director of the Institute of Russian Strategic Studies:

“Moscow will by no means allow Washington to break the strategic nuclear parity. For this will put an end to Russia’s state sovereignty.

Our country at any cost will retain a guaranteed opportunity for a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States and its allies. That is why we need the entire territory of Ukraine, as well as the withdrawal of the US and NATO military infrastructure to positions as of May 27, 1997.

The armed conflict in Ukraine was programmed by the American establishment back in 1996, when it was decided to expand NATO to the very borders of Russia.

By the way, this move was then subjected to harsh criticism from the author of the concept of the Cold War and the containment of the Soviet Union, George Kennan. On February 5, 1997, in The New York Times, he called NATO expansion “the most fatal mistake of American policy in the post-Cold War era” that would “push Russian foreign policy in directions we decidedly do not like.”

What is happening now. Russia, finally, is doing exactly what “decidedly dislikes” America. But they don’t like it because the active resistance of the Russians threatens it with the loss of positions not only in Europe, but throughout the world.”

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18 h

I agree: Serbia’s future is in the west.

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686405557089869824

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Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686374483815485441

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Spriter Team@SpriterTeam

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TASS@tassagency_en

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23 h

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686283457008164864

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Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton

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@tobararbulu # mmt@tobararbulu

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DD Geopolitics@DD_Geopolitics

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Dirk Ehnts@DEhnts

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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

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Sprinter@Sprinter99800

Al Mayadeen English@MayadeenEnglish

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686423840971280396

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sarah@sahouraxo

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686804908694007819

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George Szamuely@GeorgeSzamuely

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686804650136137728

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William Huo@wmhuo168

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abu. 2

Joe Biden to ask Congress to fund Taiwan arms via Ukraine budget https://on.ft.com/3DXLd2t

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Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton

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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle

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@BenjaminNorton erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Ex diplomat: The far-right “Modi government’s lurch toward the American camp” and “India’s lackadaisical approach toward the SCO” helps US plans to expand NATO into Asia. Modi “weakens the SCO’s solidarity when it is needed most”, assisting the US so-called Indo-Pacific strategy

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Pavlina R Tcherneva@ptcherneva

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Mick Wallace@wallacemick

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Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso, speech to the UN:

Let me say to those who are listening to me now that I speak not only on behalf of Burkina Faso, my country which I love so much, but also on behalf of all those who suffer, wherever they may be.

I speak on behalf of those millions of human beings who are in ghettos because their skin is black, or because they have a different kind of culture, those whose status is hardly higher than that of an animal. I suffer, too, on behalf of those Indians who have been massacred, trampled on and humiliated and who, for centuries, have been confined to reservations, so that they do not have any aspirations to any rights whatsoever, so that their culture cannot become enriched through contact with other cultures, including that of the invader.

I speak out on behalf of those who are unemployed because of a structurally unjust system which has now been completely disrupted, the unemployed who have been reduced to seeing their lives as only the reflection of the lives of those who have more than themselves.

Full speech: https://marxists.org/archive/sankar

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abu. 2

Niger authorities have opened borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Chad.

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Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand

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“Deterrence ≠ strategy,” says Warwick Powell @baoshaoshan, adjunct professor at the Queensland University of Technology. He emphasizes building peace institutions, not just military. “What we need in our equation is not a narrow militaristic game plan.”

Bideoa, hemen: https://twitter.com/i/status/1686670324778323968

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By arming Taiwan and spying on China, the US is destabilizing relations

Mike Krupa

The United States has recently announced that it will be dispatching a $345 million military aid package to Taiwan consisting of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment, small arms ammunition, and anti-air and anti-armor weapons. The equipment will be sourced by drawing down existing US military stocks, which allows the material to be made available to Taiwan in a relatively short period of time. According to the Pentagon, the package contains “capabilities that Taiwan will be able to use to bolster deterrence now and in the future.” For its part, Taiwan’s defense ministry thanked the Biden administration “for its staunch commitment to Taiwan’s security.”

The military aid package was consistent with a policy direction declared by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a statement made at the conclusion of his visit to China in June 2023. “We do not support Taiwan independence,” Blinken said shortly after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross strait differences. We remain committed to continuing our responsibilities under the Taiwan Relations Act including making sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.”

Blinken: US Does Not Support Taiwan Independence

Bideoa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtZ3R0Fzcg

For its part, China has accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot,” with a Chinese spokesperson declaring that the military aid package will not “shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland.” The official policy of China is to seek the peaceful reunification of Taiwan with mainland China. The US policy of arming Taiwan is viewed by the Chinese government as illegitimate interference in the sovereign affairs of China and has led to a heightening of tensions between the US and China over the Taiwan issue that at times appears to be pushing the two nations to the brink of war.

In an effort to alleviate the tensions surrounding US-Chinese relations, and to maintain an open channel of communications that is lacking through normal diplomatic connectivity, the Director of the CIA, William Burns, recently visited China, where he held meetings with his Chinese counterparts on a number of security-related issues. Whatever goodwill Burns hoped to achieve through his intervention, however, was quickly quashed when, in mid-July, while addressing the Aspen Security Conference, the CIA director openly bragged about the progress his agency was making regarding the recruitment of spies inside China. “We’ve made progress and we’re working very hard to make sure we have a very strong human intelligence capability to complement what we can acquire through other methods,” Burns said.

Left unsaid was the fact that the CIA had lost most, if not all, of its human spying networks inside China in 2010.

Burns’ comments were noted by Chinese officials, with a foreign ministry spokesperson declaring that China will “take all necessary measures to safeguard national security” against any American spy networks. The Chinese official was quick to point out the inconsistency of US behavior, which had Secretary of State Antony Blinken complaining to Chinese officials during his visit about Chinese cyber attacks at the same time Burns was bragging about the CIA recruitment of Chinese spies. “The US on the one hand keeps spreading disinformation on so-called ‘Chinese spying and cyber attacks’, and on the other hand tells the public about its large-scale intelligence activities targeting China,” the spokesperson said. “This in itself is quite revealing.”

Blinken’s complaints were seemingly bolstered by a recent announcement by US officials that suspected Chinese malware had been detected in telecommunications software located in Andrews Air Force Base, on the island of Guam.  According to senior US cybersecurity officials, the suspected Chinese malware could be used to cut off power, water, and communications to Andrews Air Force Base, and to any other military installation, or even private homes and businesses, where it might be installed.

While the US has provided no public evidence to sustain its claims regarding Chinese malware, it should be noted that the US allegations mirror reported US cyberattacks against Iran where, in a program code named “Nitro Zues,” US intelligence hacked into critical Iranian military and civilian infrastructure to install malware which would allow the US to disable Iranian power plants, transport infrastructure, and air defenses.

Whether the US allegations of Chinese malware are true, or if they are merely a projection onto China what the US would do—and has done—against any potential adversary, is not known at this juncture. What is known is the fact that the US, by continuing to arm Taiwan, is engaged in destabilizing activities which, when combined with admitted espionage activities being carried out against China by the CIA, constitute a threat China has every right to respond to, using whatever means possible.

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Poland needs to hear RFK Jr.’s Message of Peace

A Guest Essay by Mike Krupa

Mike Krupa

To say that Poland is at the forefront of the West’s proxy war with Russia, in which Ukraine’s horrible losses from the Western perspective are seen as a “relatively low cost”, would be an understatement. One can always count on Warsaw to lead the charge in NATO and the EU for further escalation of tensions with Russia, whether through another round of useless sanctions, more deliveries of weapons to Ukraine or irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric from the highest officeholder himself. To paraphrase the late senator John McCain’s famous line about his attitude towards Iran, the view of the vast majority of the Polish political and media elites on the war in Ukraine can be summed up as “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Moscow.”

One cannot also ignore the fact that the current reckless position of Warsaw vis-à-vis Moscow is carefully stoked by the Biden Administration. It’s no coincidence that it was in Poland where Joe Biden essentially called for regime change in Moscow.

It has been a long time since an American president or a prominent American politician visited Warsaw without the obligatory reference to the potential danger of Russia lurking just around the corner. Much of the current Polish ruling elites’ unrelenting position on the Ukrainian war stems from the support it receives from official Washington – the White House, Congress, American media, and the pro-war (most often neoconservative) think-tank complex. This is how the eminent Polish scholar of international relations, Stanisław Bieleń, assesses the spiritus movens of Warsaw’s seemingly inherent stance regarding Russia: “Poland during the period of ‘real Socialism’ never engaged as heavily in an anti-American campaign as the current Republic engages in an anti-Russian campaign. In the face of America, even the one waging ‘dirty wars’ (like the Vietnam War), Poles did not feel hostility.”

Bieleń notes that after 1989 “in addition to various objective conditions (from dramatic history to neighborly asymmetry of power) we are dealing with the dominance of subjective factors – the psychological and cultural, as well as the instructions of external forces.” One is reminded also in this context of the critical observation made by Aleksander Bocheński, one of Poland’s most prolific writers of the realist political tradition: “All characterizations of our nation mention, as one of its chief defects, the excess of feelings over reason. It would seem only right to seek balance by strenuously training reason.”

One of the few American statesmen who saw Poland in a different light than the current crop of warmongers and ideologues, who have for decades occupied the heights of power and influence in Washington D.C., were President John F. Kennedy and his brother, former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy.

Both Kennedys knew Poland well, not only through personal and familial connections, but also by having visited the country – JFK in 1939 and 1955, RFK in 1964. They both understood the vulnerable geopolitical position of Poland, a frontline state in any potential war between the capitalist West and communist East.

On October 1, 1960, then-senator John F. Kennedy addressed the Polish American Congress in Chicago. Commenting on the limitations of, as he called it, “the policy of liberation,” JFK stated: “We do not want to mislead the people of Poland or Hungary again, that the United States is prepared to liberate them. Therefore, within the general framework of present events, what policies should we carry out? What can we do to maintain the spirit of independence? What can we do to help, in Thomas Jefferson’s words, the disease of liberty to spread? Poland is a satellite government, but the Poles are not a satellite people. We have no right, unless we are prepared to meet our commitments, to incite them to national suicide.” And while he did not advocate for abandoning Poland to the whims of the overlords in Moscow, the future president clearly understood how harmful a policy of building up expectations of the Americans “coming to the rescue” can be in Eastern Europe and preferred a policy of cautious realism. Something which definitely cannot be said of today’s geopolitical overlord to which Polish politicians officially report, i.e. the United States.

This strain of realism, grounded in the urgent need for an enduring peace, was also present in Robert Kennedy’s reflections on his 3-day visit to Poland in June 1964. Worth noting is that the current presidential hopeful and son of the former attorney general, Robert Kennedy, Junior, accompanied his father on this trip. In his official statement after the visit published on July 1, 1964, RFK Sr. noted that “The bond that links our two countries is a reality of great potential. It puts Poland in a special position in the world for Poland has political ties with the Soviet Union and personal ties with the United States. Poland, therefore, has a unique opportunity to contribute to European security and the easing of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.” Despite being clearly grounded in the Soviet camp, RFK saw an opportunity for Poland to contribute to a de-escalation of tensions at the height of the Cold War (the Cuban Missile Crisis having occurred just two years before). This is a message that needs to be clearly articulated once again today, in the current context, and there is no better messenger than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Without a doubt an epic, groundbreaking and public speech in Warsaw would go a long way to bringing this renewed message of peace to Polish minds. When Americans speak, Poles listen. If Barack Obama could make a candidate’s speech in Berlin in 2008, why not RFK Jr. in Warsaw? Such a speech would be a strong response to the dangerous rhetoric, which was spouted twice in Poland by Joe Biden, who essentially called for escalating the proxy war with Russia, without regard for the tragic costs of this clearly provoked conflict. Coming from a Kennedy, I have no doubt it would inspire not only a shift in Polish, but also Western thinking about this war, whose potentially dangerous consequences grow ever clearer with each passing day. A shift not in the minds of the warmongers, but in the hearts and minds of millions of Europeans, who constitute the core of public opinion and don’t wish to see the Old Continent turned into a nuclear wasteland. It would be an exercise in “training reason,” as Bocheński wrote, the likes of which Warsaw has not seen coming from an eminent American figure.

In the statement quoted above, Robert F. Kennedy went on to state: “Our objective is clear. It is to facilitate the reconciliation of Eastern and Western Europe in association with the United States. This is the only sure guarantee against nuclear war whether by design or by accident. It is also the surest means of fostering our common prosperity.” These are words that in no way have lost their relevance and there is no better place to make the case for rescuing civilization from the apocalypse of nuclear war than Warsaw, which still bears the scars of total annihilation resulting from a politics of genocide, terror, subordination, hubris, and totalitarian ideology. If Robert Kennedy Jr.’s recent and groundbreaking foreign policy address is the standard to measure his commitment to seriously ending the garrison state in America and its military imperialism abroad, he should not hesitate to bring that message up close and personal to Eastern Europe, to Poland.

During his historical visit to Poland, Robert F. Kennedy would point out that, “You know, my brother would not have been elected if it weren’t for the Polish vote.”

I am certain the “Polish vote” in the United States would very much appreciate a candidate who does not see Poland as an instrument of destructive and provocative anti-Russian politics, but seeks Poland’s survival and well-being as a crucial bridge in East-West relations, a country and a nation that has a unique opportunity to contribute to European security and the easing of tensions between the United States and the Russian Federation. A country that shuns the reckless policy of hubris, fake moral posturing, being a willing executioner of the policy preferences of the American military-industrial complex and one that takes to heart the words of President Kennedy: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

Mr. Kennedy, Warsaw is waiting.

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