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The Simple, Brutal Reality Of ‘Eastern Powers’
There's a bull market in geopolitical counter-narrative. A raging, raging bull market. It's been going on for nearly a decade now.
Generally speaking, that counter-narrative takes the form of push back against Pax Americana and it's almost always couched in terms that reflect a penchant for "Whataboutism" on the part of Washington's strategic adversaries.
It's all propaganda, which is to say it's all cynical and designed primarily to poison the well such that autocrats and dictators can deflec
Ukraine was because of NATO? Tsk. I thought he told Tucker that it was because a Polish soldier pissed into the borsh of his great great great grandfather… I’m starting to think this Putin guy is a liar…
NB: Do you know (I mean, I know you do but do the rest of the readers here know) which country China “lost” the most land to? Russia… And not a little (albeit strategic) speck like Taiwan but big beautiful huge chunks of land… enough to make a country or two. If Xi is willing to stare down the US to get Taiwan, what will he do to get back greater Manchuria?
One person told me once that land stolen by Russia is more important to China than Taiwan ever was. This could be the basis behind the friendship. China plays the long game, keep thy enemies close.
H- Thanks for this wonderful little reminder of how fortunate we are to live in the United States of America.
I admit this is the first time I hear about that “key pillar of the fair multipolar world “ called the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The name alone suggests who’s “daddy” in that relationship.
I am not that open to the possibility that a world under Putin might actually be a better place. That’d likely be a version of Russia on a bigger scale. No thanks! Under Xi? I don’t know – still a long shot but a more likely.
“Western” nations need to do more to counter the extreme amounts of foreign propaganda that countries like Russia and China are pushing on social media and fringe “news” outlets.