WESTERN MASS NEWS MEDIA & THE KIEV REGIME: PARTNERS IN A DEADLY DANCE OF LIES

500,000 Ukrainians dead or grievously injured while Ukraine's regime in Kiev & their counterparts, western "news" outlets, skew the facts, ensuring the numbers keep on rising.

It was inevitable that due to the parlous state of western mainstream journalism for it to descend into abject jingoism in response to western self-interest being jeopardized by Russia and China. Just as it had descended to these same depths when its attempts to fix its interests in Syria. and before then in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan, so it has once more in respect of Ukraine.

Has it traditionally been what journalism was about? No, at least not in most past cases of war. But it has become the default stance of the mainstream legacy news and TV news networks for the last three decades at least. This stance is to unequivocally bolster western interests to the detriment of any and all principles involved, including those of international law and global wellbeing.

Of course there was the hand of western state officials in western journalism’s demise also. There is the scandal over journalist Andrew Gilligan where he inferred the UK government was ‘sexing up WMD claims’ to facilitate the attack on and invasion of Iraq. The attacks made upon Gilligan by the government at that time sought to destroy his reputation. Then there was the smashing of the Snowden laptops in the basement of The Guardian newspaper (by state officials or those sent by them) . This latter was a heavy hint to The Guardian that editors and owners would toe the line… or else. Which “coincidentally” they have done ever since. The Guardian has been one of the most vocally supportive of western state narratives on Ukraine ever since.

Only a few stalwarts such as journalists Daniel Ellsberg, Robert Fisk, John Pilger and Robert Parry remained as the western elite circus began to aim its guns toward Russia and China to provide examples of what true journalism was. The latter three of their number are now sadly deceased. The opinionated talking heads on BBC and CNN news broadcasts and online websites are not even pale shadows of these former dedicated true journalists who preceded them. This holds entirely true across the panoply of viewspapers that pretend to be communicating news in the West whereas all they do in reality is distribute accepted western state narratives.

So, after the disasters that were Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, it came to be Russia#s turn for treatment via Ukraine. The script provided by successive Ukrainian regime figures after the Maidan coup of 2014 was duly delivered as “news” to western audienes. Its illegal presidents, Poroshenko, then Zelensky, along with anyone and their dog that had something to do with the Kiev side of things were given the red carpet treatment in the West and whatever they said was treated as holy writ. What has transpired from 2014 to the present day has been the obedient passing along of whatever propaganda the Ukrainian regime wished to pass off as the reality. The stenographers of western media channeled it completely unfiltered to western populations creating an entirely false perception in the process.

What was good for Kiev was seen as good to go, inserted immediately into news articles and TV “news” programming for maximum effect. What was bad for those seeking autonomy in eastern Ukraine or for Moscow was also good to go and inserted alongside the former. All in a nice neat convincing and conditioning parcel of half-truths, omitted facts, obvious propaganda gambits and (for anyone truly in the know) outright lies.

Meanwhile, from 2014 to the present day, Kiev was given the green light by the West to bombard urban areas in eastern Ukraine, killing innocent, Russian-speaking men, women and children with complete impunity. All of course, totally unreported by a western press and media pretending to be completely unaware who maintained a deafening silence upon it. Residential tower blocks (of which there are a great many across Ukraine from Soviet times), hospitals and schools bore the brunt of these incessant attacks. Bodies littered town centres and leafy avenues alike. Editors and commentators in the West sat on their hands. No news of these events was to reach any western population if they could possibly help it.

Then we come to more recent events with the operation Russia has now conducted to remedy the silence that western opinion leaders have sought to enforce for these past long eight years of genocidal attacks by their proxies on the people of eastern Ukraine. And, of course the self-same mentality, still rigidly in force of portraying everything Kiev does as good, and everything Moscow does as bad.

Ukraine, brave, plucky little Ukraine was portrayed as steadily defeating the mighty ogre that is Russia which had descended upon it in an unwarranted, entirely unprovoked attack. All the abandonment of true journalism over the previous eight years in Ukraine and the two decades of bad-mouthing Putin and Russia were about to pay off. Fairy tales on one side and horror stories on the other were order of the day. And hellmend any resignation-happy fool among western media that did otherwise.

Ukraine, poor Ukraine they said… let us see your tears, raise your voices and open your wallets, in this black and white war tat is so wholly good versus evil. Everyone was enjoined and implored to get on board the ‘Hate Russia’ bandwagon or be cancelled, the modern day version of the village communal punishment mechanism, the stocks.

Readers and news watchers in the West heard constantly that Ukraine was achieving victory after victory against evil Russian forces who were perpetrating one vile atrocity after another with Russian generals salivating over killing babies, school kids, doctors and hospital patients (wastefully using some of the most expensive weapons ever devised). And what purpose was there in that, what possible strategic goal would be achieved in doing this? This was not an answer heard from western mass media. The message was simple and potent, ‘Russians are evil’, end of story. All propaganda designed to condition western audiences to the max. Over and over. Ukraine winning, Russia losing, Russia running out of weapons, taking enormous casualties, losing ground, being steadily defeated ushering in victory for noble, self-sacrificing, enormously brave little Ukraine.

But none of this was nor will it be of any avail. Russia will continue to wage its steady war of attrition ignoring all Kiev’s  PR stunts, facades and propaganda reflected across western mass media and continue to grind the Ukrainian army and its associated modern day Nazis to dust. The shock of this inevitable eventuality is now beginning to knock all the western fantasists back on their heels. Those of them who have lost their brains completely and have actually been believing their lies will be hardest hit. Those that simply played lie factory game to save their jobs and career prospects will give a cynical sneer and simply get on with the next round of distortions their job demands of them.

In the western world as a whole, the shock and horror that comes with the full recognition that the Kiev regime was defeated will hit very hard. The utter humiliation of that defeat and the knowledge that the entire western elite themselves were defeated as a result will be enormous. The furore will last around a week and be extremely intense. The mud will be slung in all directions. After a week, or perhaps two at most, the great western public will inevitably slip back into its normal routines, switching on their TV screen and taking in, as if nothing at all had just happened, whatever the next batch of conditioning it has to offer them.

UKRAINE & THE WESTERN THEATRE OF WAR: A MIX OF FARCE & BLACK COMEDY

In any theatre of war little is truly as it seems. With political & media elites brandishing verbal fig leafs to hide all inconvenient realities, what chance is there to learn the truth?

Western pseudo-military figures are marching daily to their safe little home stages to provide their own personal showpiece of hypocrisy mixed with hubris. Mixing metaphors terribly these innumerable clamouring pots are calling rather untarnished kettles black quite immune to the irony of their position. They prove over and over and over again that empty vessels treally do make the most noise. 

You might think the armchair generals of the West would have learned a lesson or two concerning how people see them after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. But no, no lessons were learned. Each time they simply set the stage for their very next performance. They bombed one nation after another and being no class act their performance generally also bombed in the estimation of their wider audience. But were they diverted from the task they gave themselves of hitting the next target in line? They were not.

The global audience, watching the deadly playacting of their leaders and their puppets in western media regarding what’s going on in Ukraine is more and more perplexed. They are told that losing is actually winning, no matter what your critical faculties may be telling you. Ukraine is winning hands down, Russia is dismayed with dissension in the ranks, collapsing morale in its army, enormous numbers of Russian troops are being lost in ‘meat wave’ attacks… and their commander in chief racking his brain for some way out of a mess that’s only getting worse. Poor Putin!

This is what western audiences have been promised and this is what they must get. The West be beaten? Never! But if this audience don’t get what was promised there’ll be trouble.They have been hearing about this successful play, its central devil of a character and the undoubted glorious ending for years now and they expect the same happy ending they have been promised. This is of course how it’s meant to be down here on God’s Golfball, isn’t it? The “good guys” win and the “bad guys” lose. Right? He’s up there watching and will SURELY make those evil Russkies turn around with their tails curled between their legs to beat a retreat abandoning the Ukrainian theatre of war. 

What other outcome could there possibly be? 

Surely this is the script being followed here. You’ve spun a good yarn up till now but… where’s the happy ending?

“Sorry, this is the author of the play here. I need to tell you a few little lies so you suspend any disbelief you might have. Besides, we would be seen as losers if we told you the bare facts. You surely don’t want a play like those Scandinavians put on depicting depressing, gloomy reality? Do You?”

“You want fantasy, don’t you?”

“You wouldn’t come to a play that makes you miserable, would you? 

“Just be happy with what we’re telling you…”

There’s a rustling of discontent as the play continues with saintly Ukrainians winning in every scene. But certain disquieting noises off stage are spoiling the show. There’s whispering going on here and there that is not part of the script. Word is going round that they’re actually losing! 

Why, the audience begins to ask, are we not hearing of Ukraine taking back villages, towns… and cities? All we’re hearing is generalized guff, opinion, assertion, and hearsay. Where are all the backdrops showing the images of massive Russian casualties that we were promised? Were there ‘meat wave’ attacks or were there not???

We paid good tax dollars for all the guns and missiles that were sent to Ukraine, billions and billions of dollars worth. Let’s see the amazing results of our investment in this story you are bragging about. We want to see what was promised. Where’s the collapse of the rouble into rubble scene that we read about in your advertising and the demise of the entire Russian economy tableau we came here to see as a major highlight??

And how come WE are the ones suffering instead of them???!

What’s going on????!!!

“Okay, get with the programme… all will be well. The new director, Mark Rutte says so.”

“Don’t worry… be happy. Everything’s under control. The management absolutely guarantees your total satisfaction.” 

(Reluctantly)) “Okay, okay… but bring on that happy ending, like right now, okay? 

Or we’re outta here.”

 

RUSSIA IS GRINDING THE UKRAINIAN ARMY DOWN TO COMPLETE DESTRUCTION

Russia swore that its special military operation would demilitarize & denazify Ukraine while ensuring it remained a non-NATO state. Those goals, set in 2022, are now very much in sight.

As a the western-backed Kiev regime runs out of options, as reservists, criminal and elderly conscripts are thrown as cannon fodder at the Russian military, as the encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Donbass grows ever tighter, as Ukraine's fuel dumps are decimated, as the West grows weary of Zelensky and his minions and begins to wind down its support… the Russian military machine has now upped a gear or two to ever more effectively grind the Ukrainian army down on itsroad to certain victory.

All the grand tales of Ukrainian valor, fed only by the seeming unlimited support of a death-hungry U.S. elite whipping on its British and European allies to further useless excess, will fall by the wayside as wails of disappointment and anguish take their place. Those tales of valor omitted talk of the ultranationalist death squads consigned to murder any hapless Ukrainian troops seeking to return to their families or surrender.

It was never remotely in doubt that Russia would take its special military operation to a successful conclusion. What remained in question only was the extent of her ambition in the face of a western world upping the ante and exhibiting the utmost unwillingness to engage Russian needs for security. The net result of this is that Russia is now minded to take as much of Ukraine as is needed to provide the permanent level of security it requires. The unwillingness of Kiev to accede to Russia's terms at the outset makes the prospect of other pro-Russian regions achieving liberation, regions far outwith the original plans for Russia’s operation.

So, the Russian military grinds its way onward, finding that they are increasingly facing weaker and weaker opposition, ever more poorly trained men facing them. Kiev has emptied the jails directly into the Ukrainian army. It has dragged men forcibly off the street, wrenching them from their families to send them barely trained to the front. This while it keeps its best trained and most experienced troops in the rear and in reserve. Perhaps three days or a week at most was devoted to training before they were sent to fight, die, desert or surrender.

Western mass media has been full of fairy stories concerning the entire Ukrainian situation from its outset, from Ukraine’s comedic president on down. Fantastical tales of "victories" and enormous Russian "losses" through ‘meat wave’ attacks complete with a wide range of jingoistic ranting mixed in with pseudo-sentimental sobbing over “poor Ukraine”, has created a pathetic spectacle of total denial and delusion across the West. Its populations have been ruthlessly lied to for the last two and a half years, lying that looks certain to continue all the way to the inevitably bitter end.

The shock now among the western political and media elites as the Russian army’s pincers connect and proceed to squeeze what remains of the collapsing Ukrainian army  can only be imagined. Paroxysms of anguish and rage can surely be expected. Both will be totally impotent of course in the face of what will be in Russia endlessly celebrated as 'The Second Great Patriotic War'. As great swathes of Ukraine increasingly fall under Russian control and vote to join Russia the paroxysms of agony among western elites will be excruciating. The joyous scenes witnessed in Crimea when it rejoined Russia in 2014 will likely be surpassed across the entirety of former eastern Ukraine and widely too of course across a now unmistakably, undeniably and magnificently resurgent Russia.

 

THE WORLD OUTSIDE THE WESTERN ORBIT IS GATHERING TO FACE THE WEST DOWN

Every school playground has seen this play out. When a tyrannical bully is constantly pushing his weight around there's only one sure way to face him down and make sure he STAYS down.

Children know the score and the script when there’s a bully around. You stay tight with your friends.

The western powers have thrown their weight around for a very long time now. The rest of the world is sick of it but until recently countries the West wished to manipulate, exploit and completely dominate were weak enough to be bullied into submission. Now they have the clear opportunity to change this situation and end the abuse they have suffered from the West forever.

It’s not surprising then that China has made it clear that it will assist Russia in defending itself if it comes to a fight. But China is not the only friend Russia has that may be relied upon to stand up to the collective western bully… far from it. The BRICS 2024 summit just ended shows this. It is no longer the case that the western powers can throw their weight around with impunity. Now there will be major costs to their actions.

The nations outside the western orbit of control, those that have now gravitated to or are gravitating to China and Russia within the BRICS group are organizing themselves into an ever tighter group. Mechanisms for trading in their own currencies rather than the US dollar are being put in place. The US dollar has been one of the main weapons the West has used against nations it intends to control. Through the US dollar, the world’s leading reserve currency and through the Petrodollar the USA can levy crippling sanctions on countries to coerce them to obey its command.

The unity felt by the BRICS nations and the 35+ nations who have expressed their wish to join signals the desire of the global majority to escape the malign and completely self-interested domination of the West for so long. They know that in unity lies strength and that this is especially important now that the USA and its allies have left a trail of devastation in recent times through their regime change wars. For them there will be no going back to their state of individual weakness. Those days are well and truly over.

In addition to the BRICS group there are other organisations of Eurasian and Asian states who have banded together to oppose beliggerent western desire to subjugate and exploit them. First of these is the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) .

Wikipedia:

‘The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan, formed in 2002. The Collective Security Treaty has its origins in the Soviet Armed Forces, which was replaced in 1992 by the United Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and was then itself replaced by the successor armed forces of the respective independent states.

Similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty (CST) establishes that an aggression against one signatory would be perceived as an aggression against all. The 2002 CSTO charter reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force. Signatories are prohibited from joining other military alliances.’

Next is the ‘Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’.

Wikipedia:

‘The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a Eurasian political, economic, international security and defence organization established by China and Russia in 2001. It is the world's largest regional organization in terms of geographic scope and population, covering approximately 24% of the area of world (65% of Eurasia) and 42% of the world population. As of 2024, its combined nominal GDP accounts for around 23%, while its GDP based on PPP comprises approximately 36% of the world's total.

As the saying goes, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If the western nations are going to act in unison against Russia in Ukraine then Russia will not by any means stand alone against them. Russia has a great many friends among the global majority who have for a long time now have suffered the interminable bullying of the western powers. They see their chance at last to shuck off the persistent threats of this bully by standing in unison with powerful others against it.

With the USA, UK and most EU nations apparently up for a fight against Russia it is only natural for Russia to band together with as many others as possible to fight against them. Through a misguided and fraudulent that they have sone god-given right to rule, threaten, coerce and punish other nations into obeying them the western powers have now split the world in two. By deciding to fight the rising powers of the east rather than work with them the western powers have become their own worst enemy. The failing trajectory of their economies just as those of Eurasia and Asia rise can only bring about one result… the final end of western domination and the quarantining of the West.

WILL THE WEST EVER ACKNOWLEDGE ITS TOTAL FAILURE IN UKRAINE?

What is the situation in Ukraine free of all western political bias & its mirror image across western mainstream media? Isn't the obvious truth that the West has been soundly beaten in Ukraine?

The Russian military is pushing relentlessly forward, liberating strategic villages and positioning itself to take small towns all across the Donbass region and in particular within the territory west of Donetsk City. The Ukrainian forces are putting up some resistance but holes in the Ukrainian defense line are leaving areas without the support needed. This is due to the increasing problems of lack of manpower, the virtual elimination of Ukrainian air defenses and of inability to replace ammunition. Over the last year and more Russia has vastly increased its military manpower with an estimated 1,400 volunteers per day entering the Russian military and going on to receive extensive training.

While Russia’s manpower resources have steadily increased, those of the Kiev regime have decreased at an unsustainable level. In the last many months the attrition rate of Ukrainian troops being taken off the battlefield dead or wounded has run at a level of approximately 1,000 per day. The Kiev regime has, at the same time, struggled to recruit and train additional troops. Ukrainian men are hiding in their apartments, sometimes venturing out disguised as women or are fleeing to the Romanian border in an attempt to escape mobilization. All Ukrainian men not yet in the army know that to be dragooned off the streets and sent to the front with minimal training is a death sentence.

More and more of those Ukrainians who have been frogmarched to the front, often elderly men who absolutely should not be there (the average of a Ukrainian trooper is reported to be 45) cannot possibly stand for long against the highly trained and constantly refreshed Russian troops, given regular downtime away from the front lines. The Russian troops are, in addition, highly trained as opposed to Ukrainian conscripts who receive 6 weeks at most), armed with the latest kit and equipment (again in contrast to the lack of weapons in Ukraine) and have a constant supply of the various resources needed to sustain life at the front. In addition, the Russian military has at least a six to one advantage, and sometimes as high as a ten to one advantage in firepower in terms of artillery. Russian logistical supply is becoming more and more problem free as battle lines are straightened. Add to all this a Russian military complex that is now in high gear, consistently producing more planes, drones, missiles, artillery, tanks, shells and ammunition all the time. With hypersonic and supersonic missiles on stream and a Ukrainian air force all but decimated, allowing Russia to rule the skies, being realistic what chance does Ukraine have?

The Ukrainian offensive the summer before last was conclusively defeated by Russia with the Ukrainian military not even reaching Russia’s defensive lines, never mind the locations aimed for far behind them. At the cost of over thirty five thousand lives the regime managed to take almost no territory, all of which has now been taken back by Russia. The western powers talk of the possibility of Ukraine mounting another offensive in 2025, but with Russia now in full flood, taking more territory every day that dawns and Ukraine struggling in almost every possible area, the chances of this occurring are decreasing every day and are essentially zero.

In addition to all this, if that were not enough, the western powers are both running out of military supplies to send to Ukraine while at the same time losing all ability or willingness to keep send endless $billions to a side quite obviously losing. While the West loses faith in an always atrociously bad bet in Ukraine the majority of the world’s great powers are uniting in opposition to these constantly bad bets the West keeps making. The Kazan summit just ended showed this with utmost clarity.

It must be evident to any serious observer by now that the independent military experts are correct when they say that Russia will prevail even if it is simply on the basis of a far greater ratio of resources compared to that available to the Ukrainian regime. This despite the pouring of weaponry and monetary support into Ukraine by the western powers, the level of which is set to diminish greatly over the coming months.

When it became clear that Russia had withstood the onslaught of western financial and economic sanctions, and even began to prosper economically while the West suffered, it was clear Russia would prevail. It would have been sensible and pragmatic for the western powers to convince Zelensky to halt his futile resistance when this became clear. It is obvious that the West was relying on a double whammy of a weakened Russia through sanctions and isolation by the majority of nations along with the expense of Ukrainian blood and treasure, to effect a victory. Now, after the complete failure of all the West, Zelensky and his military have done, there can be  no stopping Russia regarding the attainment of its goals. 

However the western allies and their media try to slice it the end will be humiliating for them. The USA and UK will be seen to have failed spectacularly. In addition it is inevitable that will see heads fall all across the EU. Brussels will have to eat crow and cough up billions from EU taxpayers to put rump Ukraine back into some kind of decent shape again. Russia will reinforce its governance in all its new territories, bringing all the benefits of Russian pensions, health care, education, salaries, infrastructure such as airports, rail lines, motorways etc. etc. 

Ten years from now the entire region will be transformed and any historian looking back will surely remark at the utterly disastrous folly of the West in engaging in an effort, pushed by the USA to weaken Russia that rebounded so disastrously upon them. The historians of the future will surely shake their heads in utter disbelief that such arrant and unmitigated stupidity, flagrant loss of life and catastrophic self-inflicted wounds could ever be allowed to take place.

 

GETTING BIDEN THROUGH TO JANUARY WILL MEAN THE SENSELESS DEATHS OF 100,000 UKRAINIANS

The depth of cynicism currently being displayed in the attempt to save the reputation of Joe Biden regarding Ukraine should make everyone sick to their stomachs.

Joe Biden has a long track history in relation to Ukraine. Sent by Barack Obama to essentially supervise America’s war there he has retained a morbid interest in pursuing that war ever since. Now that it has become clear that that war is being lost at an inconvenient time every effort is being made to keep the regime and its hapless army in place till Biden exits. It would not look good in his bio if the Ukraine war was lost on his watch. What kind of a legacy would that be?

Imagine the situation as it exists now. The Ukrainian army is down to forcibly snatching men off the street, giving them a few weeks training and then sending them to the most dangerous positions near the front lines. It is no exaggeration to call these men cannon-fodder. It is known that the most highly trained troops are being kept in reserve while the newbies are delivered to face the ‘meat grinder’ as best they can. It is highly unlikely they will even see a Russian soldier. The last known estimate of life expectancy for the average newbie arrival was around four hours. It is bad enough when the Ukrainian army is holding its own against the Russians. But totally cruel when the war is clearly lost and the whole exercise is just to get Joe to the exit reputation relatively unblemished.

It was known from relatively near the start how this would end. As soon as the western sanctions regime failed to weaken Russia, and the global majority refused to get on side with the western powers, Russia was always going to win. The Russian simply had an overwhelming preponderance of the resources required and in every regard. With over 1,000 km of frontline it was always going to take some time. But the end result was never in doubt once it was clear that Russia’s income stream would remain unaffected by the attacks made upon it by the West.

Neither could Russia afford to lose, far too much was at stake regarding its national security. The only thing that could have stopped Russia winning would have been direct intervention in Ukraine by the western powers via NATO. That option was barred right at the start due to the inevitability of a wider war erupting, quite possibly leading to an all-out nuclear war with Russia if that fateful step was taken. This was not from lack of trying by Zelensky and his minions. His recently unveiled ‘Victory Plan’ pleads for this as well as an immediate invite into NATO and the West guiding missiles deep into Russia.

With no NATO invite, no direct western military involvement in Ukraine and no strikes deep inside Russia Zelensky’s plan completely collapses. Nothing apart from these refused requests is going to significantly change the trajectory of the war. Even if Zelensky hangs on to a fraction of the already shrinking area of incursion within the Kursk region of Russia, even if the fabled F16s start to go on missions at long last, even if another thousand tanks and missiles are provided… Russia can more than match everything. The war is lost. There is no hope whatsoever for the Ukrainian regime’s victory. All such hope is fantastical wishful thinking and a willful state of denial.

So why are we now in this absurd position where Russia is clearly moving forward taking ever more land in a steady grinding down of the Ukrainian opposition with no sign of calls for talks to end this? The policy of western leaders is clearly to encourage Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian while the cause is lost without any possible shadow of a doubt. There are no miracles in such a one-sided war. Besides all else Russia has massive air superiority, superiority of ammunition and missile supply and a fast-expanding army able to replenish itself and provide regular rotation.

Ukraine cannot possibly hope for divine intervention. So what now?

The Ukrainian army by its own admission is near exhaustion. It’s best troops have either left the battlefield dead or wounded over the last two and a half years or are being held in reserve while the rookies are pushed forward to their inevitable slaughter. Meanwhile Zelensky’s decree prohibiting talking to the Russians stands and no western politicians other than Viktor Orban of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia are willing to talk with them. This while the compassion-worthy, mostly quite elderly, Ukrainian men dragooned into the army and sent to die will not die for Ukraine, they will die only to save the reputation of Joe Biden and nothing more. Talks to end the lost war of the West should have begun long ago and the chances in Minsk and Istanbul should not have been squandered. Now upwards of a hundred thousand Ukrainians will certainly have died by the time Joe Biden leaves the White House in one of the greatest and most sickening political scandals of modern times.

 

CAN THE BRICS GLOBAL MAJORITY CONTAIN THE USA & ITS PROXIES?

Is the effort of the USA and its allies to mold the world to its self-conceived image benign or malign, and if it is malign, are those affected now in a position to safeguard themselves against it?

There is still an opinion out there that the political elites of the USA, UK and EU along with a few others such as Australia, New Zealand and Japan are the predominant civilized powers holding the rest of the world’s barbarity a bay. This concept of the world as a wicked place only held together by dint of the good guys of the West doing so out of the goodness of their hearts is getting difficult to maintain however. Was it ever true? This is highly doubtful.

Was the British Empire for instance, an example of an outreach program seeking to do good for all it touched, or was it rather an aggressive policy of blatant exloitation? What about the desire by the British to get the Chinese hooked on opium so that the vast resources of China could come into British hands? Was the concept of U.S. exceptionalism and British superiority anything other than a means to an end, that end being continually in a position to more easily exploit the rest of the world and having a believable justification for it?

There are various opinions regarding the motivations of the political, media, military and intel elites of North America and the british Isles in relation to those nations’ very similar foreign policy. That it is quite obviously interventionist is hopefully an uncontroversial statement. Whether the motivations, and the consequences, of the pursuit of that interventionist foreign policy are benign or malign are the subject of this commentary along with the question of what, if anything, should be done about it.

We have seen many regime change wars rage since 9/11. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria the chief of them. There have been some successes in the short term in some cases while long term failures are more pronounced. Both predicated of course on what the precise goals were for these operations. For some, merely ‘taking out’ certain leaders/regimes may well have been enough of a success without any kind of nation-building project being successful afterward. Simply neutralizing the threat to the USA or West in general as perceived by them being enough.

Coming after most of these regime change wars we had the intervention in Syria of Russia which arguably stopped the western regime change project there in its tracks. A few years previously Russia’s red lines had been crossed in Ukraine. Meanwhile, relations with China were constantly being soured by the West leading to ever worsening relations on that front. The constant acts of intervention, and i other words by interference, by the western powers becme an observable every day occurrence.

Previous to more recent interventions were eras when generations of North American elites engaged in such acts as a matter of routine wherever it was perceived ‘U.S. interests’ were under threat. A great many of them took place in Latin America. The justifications used for these U.S. interventions and indeed for all those carried out by the elites of the western world as a whole seek to create a platform for action that amounts to a uniquely, self-awarded dispensation where international law need not apply. 

These justifications amount to the buzzwords we are all familiar with:

Democracy

Freedom

Human Rights

In the name of all three above the USA and its allies have given themselves the right to intervene whatever way they see fit globally where they assert any one of these elements is considered missing to any degree. In effect the USA and its allies act as if they have been tasked by some higher power to command and discipline any and all others they conceive to be requiring correction and restructuring. No ultimate authority (except conceivably a creator god) is required to provide the authority to do this. International law need not apply.

You may conceive the activity above to be urgently required, an essential civilizing effect that should be carried out in all our names. Presumably, if you have this opinion, you conceive of a far better world in prospect if it is carried out with maximum efficiency. But what of those who point to the democratically-elected leaders who were overthrown by these elites, or the dictators they managed to put in their place and who they supported because ‘they are OUR dictators’? How do these events sit with the idea that these powers world only to ‘do good’?

The means employed and the motivations behind using those means indicate the factor of self-interest is strongly at work. It is this self-interest (usually called ‘defending U.S. national interests’) which alloys the fine sentiments expressed, of building a better, more democratic, freer world where human rights are rigorously enforced for all. This all sounds so noble until we take a closer look. The track record on this score is patchy at best. And the motivation to gain advantage for self rather than engage in selfless good for all must inevitably play some, and possibly aeven the largest part of the enterprise.

Yet despite the flaws inevitably introduced by human nature into the proceedings we see the robust and always determined agenda to continually promote those policies that bring an enormous degree of western intervention worldwide. The virtuous circle constantly talked of where democracy, freedom and human rights will result from these interventions will quite predictably (based on recent experience) never be squared. Yet the interventions appear intended to go on essentially forever. Or until factors arise which bring them to a halt. What might these factors be?

This brings us to the question framed in the title of this commentary. Can those who have had their internal structures, whether political, military, religious or social, interfered with through western government initiatives for generations mount a challenge to this process and succeed in halting it completely? There have been very few instances where this exceptionally difficult task have achieved any success until now. Arguably China has been most resilient in this respect since the victory of the Chinese communist party over Chiang Kai-shek’s forces. With only very few successful attempts to initiate subversive elements within the resulting Chinese society it has managed to prevent any substantial regime change efforts.

In fact the rise of China as the single predominantly successful and economically powerful nation highly resistant to western interference has created a foundation upon which others now have an opportunity to stand. This is a process we see actively occurring on an almost daily basis as ever more nations seek a closer relationship with the BRICS group which acts as a central hub for nations looking to protect their national interests from the interventionist forces of the West. This trend, toward strengthening the barriers to western desires to intervene and manipulate the sovereign concerns of nations, for whatever justifications, appears to be one that will continue to grow. Now, with the recent ending of the Petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the USA another stick the U.S. elites have used to beat nations into line, is broken. 

Th days of western dominance, sought for whatever reason, benign or malign, is clearly now progressively ending and no reversal of this movement of nations to protect themselves is in prospect. The situation appears likely to grow progressively worse for the ambitions of the western powers to hold onto the remaining weapons of manipulation, persuasion and intervention they continue to employ. The continued use of these weapons is in fact motivating nations to even greater speed in their pursuit of protection against them. Therefore we can begin to make out the ultimate destination in which we are headed; to the full quarantining of western efforts to manipulate nations that now have the strength to protect themselves to the full from  such activity.

The ever-expanding BRICS group is the global majority’s answer to all that is described above. These nations have been on the receiving end of the purportedly benign actions of the West over centuries now. Weak and exploited for centuries one or two of them, in particular China and India, have in recent times, become economically strong. Strong enough to finally do something about those who would continually exploit them if allowed to do so (while protesting they are only out to help you). They say “Enough!” we won’t tolerate this any longer. And THIS is why BRICS is growing. And THIS is why the power of the West to do as they have done in the past, will shrink.

The world is changing… and the change is unstoppable. The western abusers and exploiters will now daily, weekly, monthly and yearly see their power, influence and ability to dominate, threaten and wage war on others, fade. Their time as the top dogs of our world is ending. And with that era ending a completely different reality will emerge and become the norm. That reality will emphasise peace, stability and tolerance of diverse systems of governance in a spirit of bridge building and trade fostering. A world very close to the dream of idealists down through the ages will emerge. The BRICS summit in Kazan over the last few days heralds the renewed possibility of a true civilization at last on Planet Earth.

THE WORLD IS MOVING TOWARD BRICS IN UNITY AGAINST THE RECKLESS WEST

The western powers have so aggressively overplayed their hand in seeking to maintain their global control that their victims have had no choice but to unite against them.

As the BRICS summit in Kanzan, Russia nears its end we can see most of the significant players outside the western sphere of influence lay down a marker for their long-time western oppressors. Their time of calling the shots and playing the part of global bully is fast ending. Like any criminals out of control they took things too far and now they will in due course serve the equivalent of jail time. We will not have all that long to wait until we see an effective quarantining of the mad dogs of the USA, UK and EU. This will not come about through the violence of war, but by the inexorable rise of economies far more robust and well-grounded than those of the West.

Meanwhile, as the nations of bRICS and beyond busy themselves with creating a new world, this overarching reality is something most commentators in the West are continually failing to address. Blinded by their own fixed notions and perpetual barrages of lies, one heaped upon another, they have not seen what’s coming down the pike toward them. Too busy slandering Vladimir Putin, Russia or Xi Jinping of China by creating innumerable barrages of  disinformation, they have made themselves wonderfully vulnerable. The BRICS summit and what it means for those of the West who think they are the perpetual masters of the world is an elephant in the room that is now almost embracing all four corners of that room. 

Up to and exponentially so after the events of 9/11 there was general agreement among western political elites that the USA and its allies would be the police force patrolling the world, threatening it, blackmailing it, coercing it, and punishing it at will. The air of superiority and exceptionalism evinced by this attitude created a permanent noxious stench wherever their interference took them. The overweening pride they exuded in their illegal acts afgainst international law has been slowly but surely bringing about their eventual fall. After 9/11 they took things beyond all reasonable limits and what we see now in and through BRICS is a direct result of the overreach they so unwisely engaged in.

The main decision arising from post-9/11 deliberations was that there would no longer be ANY toleration of  ANY non-U.S. obedient entities across the world. The overreach was embedded deep in a hubris concerning this decision and was an integral part of a deadly recipe.The decision made then remains in place and is what drives the out of control juggernaut of western interference we see now and which will now hit the wall of BRICS resistance. The western powers cannot stop themselves. They have neither the will nor the sense. They are completely unable to halt the process begun after 9/11 for one simple reason; it has no achievable end date, it is totally open-ended, there is no timetable nor any realistically achievable goal. All the entire project has done is ensure the USA and its allies forfeit just about any power and influence that they have in store which they have used to constantly abuse the world for so long now.

The utmost determination behind the goals set after 9/11 meant they simply could not backtrack, no one person and no group could question those goals let alone modify or ameliorate them. There was never going to be any authority with the power to do so. The machine created after 9/11 has no reverse gear, there is no Plan B.  What all this zombie-like destructive force built into the U.S. political superstructure that many call ‘The Deep State’ has achieved is the complete destruction of any internal integrity. Now lies are used like any other weapon, no limits are set, all is possible because the goal set is impossible to achieve. And of course that goal is complete global control, in effect the creation of a prison planet. Post 9/11 there was to be no true diplomacy, only propaganda and forward progress toward ever more pervasive totalitarian control. Anything that was good within previous western political systems was extricated and eliminated, replaced by the ranks of boneheads, hawks and warmongering zealots we see now, ultimately destined of course to do much, much more harm than they could ever do good.

So, lost in delusion are these boneheads, hawks and warmongering zealots that they cannot even dimly see that they are constantly weakening the thing called the West tht they have been determined to strengthen. Despite the clear evidence that the campaign to achieve the primary goals set after 9/11 have failed, this has only made them more dedicated to ever more reckless doubling down, creating ever more catastrophic outcomes. The recklessness involved at this stage is more evident than ever. Look at Israel, look at Ukraine. The West is going down by the day. It’s obvious. There is most likely no eventuality which they do not contemplate at this point with no weapon at their disposal excluded. This very definitely includes the use of nuclear weapons. At the very end the danger is that they will glimpse the truth and the folly of what they have done. They will see they have been the agents of their very own misfortune.

The stage has come when the people behind the post 9/11 project see enemies all around them. To paraphrase George W. Bush, the insane way they see things now in their blind arrogance is that if you are not for us you are against us. And more and more nations, due to the recklessness of these self-blinded western elites are showing every sign of now rising in unity against the madmen and women of the West, against the rabid lunacy of the West with its ever-increasing and never reducing aggressive, invasive, interfering and warmongering.

BRICS, the Shanghai Organisation and the Eurasian Union plus many other organizations are uniting ever more cohesively. More and more nations, those with the largest populations and economies in the east, middle east and far east are uniting more and more under the expanded BRICS security and economic defense umbrella. Up to forty nations are queuing to join BRICS and many more are undoubtedly looking to. The rise of the bRICS will ultimately quarantine the USA and its allies, stopping them from further damaging the world in pursuit of the mirage of world domination. They act as any good citizen would when confronted by the danger presented by such a rabid dog.

THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION MUST GIVE WAY TO THE BRICS DREAM

We are at the most dangerous epoch in human history. Forces of fragmentation, chaos & destruction are gaining ever-greater hold. In what can we hope for deliverance in these frightening times?

Could things get any more insane than now? Could the hopes and dreams we held close to our hearts in the Sixties of future peace and harmony become any less visible than now? 

We stand on the eve of destruction to employ the title of a popular protest song of the Sixties by Barry Mcguire.

Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction (July 1965).

Does it have to be this way? Is it inevitable that each decade brings more war, more disillusionment and less hope?

On this, the second day of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia we can see that hope for a better world does exist. Stability, tolerance, cooperation, dialogue and the search for a route to a civilization we can be proud of are ongoing within the ever-expanding BRICS group. On this second day of the summit its members are seeking that way forward to the better future we all deserve and must find for the sake of all who come after us.

The more things change the more they remain the same they say. In the Sixties we refused to believe that fundamental change was impossible. Subsequent events proved us wrong at that time. Our naive belief in love and peace didn’t last. A bare half a decade later we saw those hopes and dreams fall apart and ‘normal’ life resume. The archetypal norms reasserted themselves and all we had left was nostalgia for what could have been.

These days all the talk is of war and the threat of war. Sides have been taken more firmly than ever before. Diplomacy is dead and anything resembling a purported democracy in the West is fast dying too. Those who railed against the totalitarianism of the East are now steadily enforcing it on the populations of the West. Freedom of speech is transmogrifying into the control of speech in the West. More and more we are told what to say, the views to hold and the attitudes that we MUST have… or else.  Thinking now of how free we were down decades past, beginning arguably in the Sixties, brings the most mournful thoughts possible to our minds. 

We appear to be headed toward a full on prison planet where everything about us is known with judgment passed upon every aspect of our lives. We are constantly observed, targeted and sold things based upon those observations, castigated for some of them, punished for others and rewarded for those western states deem good. The vast systems holding ‘big data’ about us can be analyzed to provide every possible detail of our lives, using and abusing the data at will. Big Brother is arriving soon… and is determined that we do as he says.

Thankfully all is NOT lost. As unlikely as it may seem there is hope for something other than lives locked within a system that keeps you under surveillance 24/7 and demands you conform to its needs. Resistance against this dystopian nightmare began around two decades ago due to the determination of Russian president Vladimir Putin. In the wake of 9/11 and the western demand that all nations must be subservient to it he said no. Not with Russia anyway. He made it clear that Russia will remain an independent, sovereign nation determining its own future path, and will not act as a slave nation manipulated by any single nation or group of nations.

Slowly but surely since the words of Vladimir Putin spoken in 2007 at the then Munich Security Conference other nations have begun taking the same line. Notably among them China but also others such as India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Others too seek to become members of the BRICS alliance. All have asserted that another way exists than the way the western powers demand, of subservience to it and its institutions. Unless you have not heard, currently the total of nations wishing to join BRICS is over thirty, approaching forty. Nations ready, willing and enthusiastic in presenting another way forward rather than continued western domination and endless wars.

In recent times Saudi Arabia has stated that the deal it made with the USA fifty years ago to only use the dollar to trade in has expired and will not be renewed. The grip on world trade by the West using the petrodollar has been removed. Now dedollarization will continue apace, freeing up myriad nations from U.S. control via its unilateral sanctions. Thus the movement away from the draconian future the West wishes to impose on us all will now inevitably flourish and expand.

Here is our hope, hope even reflecting to some extent the innocent dreams of youth in those long gone years of the Sixties. Russia, China and the others are seeking the stability and peace that benefits trade, greater understanding and most important of all, mutual cooperation. Cultural exchange in an atmosphere of trust where nations hold peaceful coexistence at a premium cannot but generate greater mutual understanding.

That the forces of the West now operating in unison to destroy the effect of the BRICS nations, to weaken them and stop them rising, must be defeated, is obvious. Anyone who sees the reality of our common situation must surely hope so. The alternative vision, of a prison planet where the western warders suppress any and all resistance is just too awful to contemplate. A better world MUST be possible, this world of war as set in place by the western powers cannot be our legacy passed on to the children of the future. There has to be a better way.

That better way is through the building of a stable world where peace can thrive. That world has now become possible through BRICS. The possibility now exists where we can bring about a new dawn of civilization on our planet where we will no longer stand here helplessly on the eve of destruction. A better world is possible. The BRICS group can and will bring it into being.

BRICS AND A MULTIPOLAR WORLD - WHAT ARE THE WESTERN POWERS SCARED OF?

Might there be a better path for the USA & its allies to find their optimum place in the world rather than endlessly fighting all others to change them? Why not join them instead?

Today marks the start of the 16th BRICS summit which is taking place in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia. Discussions, decisions and agreements made over the next few days will change the geopolitical underpinnings of our world. The nations of the global south and Eurasia, those nations whose populations compose the global majority have chosen a different path from those of the collective west. That collective west, with its wars, its sanctions and constant interference in their affairs, is being brought to a condition of being quarantined as the mad dog of our world. The aim of BRICS is uninterrupted peace where trade can find the stability to bring nations together, free of the intolerance and aggression the West appears unable to extricate itself from.

There was never any need for the western powers to act as they did. The self-interest and avid desire to 'have it all' is now about to drive it into increasingly indebted isolation. For centuries the nations that comprise the West have sought only to exploit the weaker nations of the world to their continual benefit. BRICS is the result of an international backlash against all those centuries of economic abuse. Slowly but surely the nations the western powers exploited have combined together to resist the power and influence of the West. The process is ongoing and unstoppable at this stage. However, when the political stewards of the West finally have the courage and faith to acknowledge that all nations have a right to inalienable sovereignty they too will be gladly welcomed to the fold.

China has made enormous strides over the last thirty years in building her economy. Russia, on Vladimir Putin’s watch, has done the same over the last quarter of a century. Alongside these within the BRICS group India has also made great gains in this respect also. Now the entire African continent is poised for something similar. In general the nations of the global south, Middle East and in Latin America are tending to gravitate toward the BRICS group, i.e. to link up with Brazil, Russia, China and India. Nations that joined the group in recent times are Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. 

What is the purpose of the BRICS group?

The BRICS group was formed to enhance ease of trading between its members in an atmosphere of non-interference, equality, and mutual benefit. 

Up to forty countries including Algeria, Bolivia, Indonesia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Gabon, and Kazakhstan have expressed interest in joining the forum. The BRICS group has a bank embedded within its structure, the New Development Bank.

The latest primary goal of the BRICS group of nations is to increase the use of local currencies when trading. Currently the vast majority of trades are conducted in dollars due to stability, reliability and efficiency factors. The move away from the dollar is seen as necessary however as its use leaves countries open to economic blackmail and sanctions unilaterally applied by the USA, unaccountable to any universal law. The nations seeking to improve their trading networks and to get out from under the threat always held over them by the USA are therefore seeking in increasing numbers to join the BRICS group.

The political elites of the USA, naturally enough, see the above as a threat to their global dominance and are using a variety of methods including sanctions and even the use of the U.S. military to oppose, and if at all possible, to weaken the group. 

Inherently bound up with the BRICS group is the concept of multipolarity where power is shared by all nations rather than as it has been up till now, dominated by one nation and its allies, that nation being the United States of America. 

At the fall of the Soviet Union and with China still a relatively poor nation compared to the western powers, the USA found itself at the apex of power worldwide in what has become known as the ‘Unipolar Moment’. At this time it was believed that the USA, exercising its newfound and virtually unlimited power, would transform the world in its own image.

The advent of 9/11 and the reaction of the USA’s political elite to it brought into being an extremely powerful dynamic to minimize the power of all potential enemies and, where they deemed it necessary, to eliminate them completely. Thus began a campaign that continues to this day focusing on target nations, among whom are Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Venezuela, Nicaragua, North Korea and Cuba, some of which are BRICS nations of prospective BRICS nations.

Instead of fighting, along with its allies, to maintain its dominance over all others and in doing so first fragmenting the world, and then presumably knitting it all back together again under its sole command, is there perhaps not another, better way, to proceed? Essentially, all that needs to happen to achieve that alternative of a well-balanced, multipolar world is that the USA, UK and their allies stand down in their attempt to halt that process. This by somehow or other developing greater insight into the lack of harm in the long term to them, the destructiveness of their current policy, and into the beneficial effects of what will happen if they do this. Currently they are living in the past of former glories with a paranoid filter before their eyes thinking that others will behave as they have done to this point and begin to treat them as enemies. 

The very worst thing that is likely to happen in the short term is that their economic prospects will suffer to a degree. You might think that is bad enough and a good enough reason to keep pushing an aggressive, warlike stance against the rising powers of Russia, China and the rest. However, how much of the thinking going on among western elites is projection, that the Russians and Chinese those aligned with them will do to them what they would like to do to those they regard as enemies?

Is there really any reason to believe that the Russians or the Chinese want to act as global cops as the western powers have done for so long now? It is quite clear that their present behavior indicates a very different approach based upon a high degree of tolerance for diverse systems of governance and an absolute minimum of anything approaching an ideological stance. Their concentration is on coming to agreements that create the stability required for increased trade. 

If the USA, UK and EU dropped the idea that they are the indispensable nations and that collectively their duty is to force all other nations to mirror them, the world would 

It is certain that from this point onward we would see the newly-formed multipolar world embracing the new, non-aggressive US, UK and EU gladly within its trading network as members fully signed on to maintaining a tolerant ethos worldwide. From this point onward the valuable expertise and ingenuity of the North American people could reach new heights within a new and far more balanced, stable and peaceful world, as opposed to instigating wars that constantly fragment it.

THE BRICS BRUSH CAN SWEEP THE WORLD CLEAN OF ITS WARMONGERS

For those who dream of a world where nations build trust rather than bombs, & tolerance & interchange between them make peace rather than war the rule... we now stand at the cusp of that possibility.

In a few days time arguably the most important event in recent history will begin. That event is the BRICS summit from October 22nd to 24th in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. Old and new members will meet to discuss the next steps in reinforcing the trading network between them. The hot topic for this summit will be the creation of a system of financial transfers between all members that releases them from the grip of the USA and those confined to its orbit.

The movement away from the West and toward Eurasia and the East will be still further reinforced at the coming summit. Undoubtedly more nations will announce their interest in joining BRICS. In recent months Türkiye has expressed its strong interest. Some 30+ other nations have also done so in the past year. This alliance of trading nations is attracting all those countries who seek an alternative to the West-dominated systems that have dominated world trade for so long now. Institutions such as the G7 and G20, the IMF and World Bank.

The BRICS bank will provide investment capital under far better conditions than any western institution while the general ethos of the BRICS grouping will provide a safe, tolerant space for nations with all manner of governance systems. Building relations through trade and cultural exchange will replace the generally cold, threatening, intolerant and unforgiving systems of the West that have dominated the world until now. There will be an end to western sanctions regimes and none will be required within BRICS. The new systems being built within BRICS now will exclude the possibility of the USA or any other western nation imposing bilateral sanctions on any BRICS nation.

Increasingly local, national currencies are being used for trade across BRICS nations. The dependency on the US dollar as the world reserve currency is diminishing and in due course the USA will be unable to threaten, blackmail and impose sanctions on nations. The world outside the area controlled by the West will no longer be at the mercy of western “values” imposed as Holy Writ. Nations will be free to enjoy full sovereignty, an inalienable and treasured right that has been denied them until now. No longer will nations be coerced into assisting the West in its regime change wars of choice.

Slowly but surely as a result of the BRICS group growing in strength the political elites of the West with their attitudes of self-rewarding, self-regarding and self-interested exceptionalism and superiority will lose their power to threaten others either economically or militarily. They will sooner or later have to accept that in a world where there is multipolarity there is no place for any single nation or group of nations to have and exert overweening power, influence and right to command, threaten and punish others. The world of the past where the collective west demanded all others bow to it or else, will end.

The until now responsibility-free ability of the western elites to interfere worldwide, even to the extent of invading other nations, will be curtailed and ultimately ended altogether. There will be no obedience to the West’s demand that all work under the banner of ‘Western Values’ rather than the principles enshrined in the charter of the United Nations. That end game ploy to insist upon western dominance as opposed to collective responsibility within the UN will not stand. As the BRICS group expands, the ability of the USA to demand and exert unwarranted influence will shrink and ultimately will enter a time of full quarantine.

It will be up to the leadership of the USA and its partner nations to bite the bullet, acknowledge that they are nations equal to others but not superior to them. When this becomes fully internalized where the previous notions of exceptionalism and superiority have been fully exorcized from western elite minds, then these nations will be ready to join all others on the road to a truly civilized world. Though naturally there will be problems to resolve in that new world the chances that they can be resolved without threat, blackmail, coercion or violence will be exponentially greater than before. That world will see bridges built, not burned, hands reaching out in friendship rather than fists aimed at “adversaries” and every effort will go into building trust, not barriers. This new world awaits… and in just a few days time strong foundations for that world will be laid in Kazan.