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JohninMK wrote:Then we have this take on the German/Chinese trip

ZH has the latest up from Pepe Escobar with the quote ending of it below. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-berlin-goes-beijing-real-deal


   Berlin – Moscow – Beijing
   Solid German business sources completely contradict the “message” delivered by the German Council on Foreign Relations on the trip to China.

   According to these sources, the Scholz caravan went to Beijing to essentially lay down the preparatory steps for working out a peace deal with Russia, with China as privileged messenger.

   This is – literally – as explosive, geopolitically and geoeconomically, as it gets. As I pointed out in one of my previous columns, Berlin and Moscow were keeping a secret communication back channel – via business interlocutors – right to the minute the usual suspects, in desperation, decided to blow up the Nord Streams.

   Cue to the now notorious SMS from Liz Truss’s iPhone to Little Tony Blinken, one minute after the explosions: “It’s done.”

   There’s more: the Scholz caravan may be trying to start a long and convoluted process of eventually replacing the US with China as a key ally. One should never forget that the top BRI trade/connectivity terminal in the EU is Germany (the Ruhr valley).

   According to one of the sources, “if this effort is successful, then Germany, China and Russia can ally themselves together and drive the US out of Europe.”

   Another source provided the cherry on the cake: “Olaf Scholz is being accompanied on this trip by German industrialists who actually control Germany and are not going to sit back watching themselves being destroyed.”

   Moscow knows very well what the imperial aim is when it comes to the EU reduced to the role of totally dominated – and deindustrialized – vassal, exercising zero sovereignty. The back channels after all are not lying in tatters on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Additionally, China has not provided any hint that its massive trade with Germany and the EU is about to vanish.

   Scholz himself, one day before his caravan hit Beijing, stressed to Chinese media that Germany has no intention of decoupling from China, and there’s nothing to justify “the calls by some to isolate China.”

   In parallel, Xi Jinping and the new Politburo are very much aware of the Kremlin position, reiterated again and again: we always remain open for negotiations, as long as Washington finally decides to talk about the end of unlimited NATO expansion drenched in Russophobia.

   So to negotiate means the Empire signing on the dotted line of the document it has received from Moscow on December 1st, 2021, focused on “indivisibility of security”. Otherwise there’s nothing to negotiate.

   And when we have Pentagon lobbyist Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin advising the Ukrainians on the record to advance on Kherson, it’s even more crystal clear there’s nothing to negotiate.

   So could this all be the foundation stone of the Berlin-Moscow-Beijing trans-Eurasia geopolitical/geoeconomic corridor? That will mean Bye Bye Empire.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 6 2022 4:56 utc | 113 on MoA

flamming_python wrote:
Wishful thinking as always
Kept hearing all about this Beijing-Moscow-Berlin axis for years now
Nothing ever came of it and nothing ever will, until there is an outright anti-Western revolution in Germany. Which I don't see any prospects of. Because this country is not fully sovereign, and to the extent that it is - it's firmly in the Western camp not in the Eurasian one. And it has done very well for itself in the Western camp. That prosperity is a thing of the past now of course, but it will take them many more years to realize it.
Forgot who mentioned it, maybe on Alexander Mercouris's channel - but the core problem was that the German elite wanted to have their cake and eat it too. In that they wanted to keep expanding east and orchestrating colour revolutions to bring to power anti-Russian nationalist regimes; while at the same time having all that cheap Russian energy and Siemens taking all the juicy contracts in Russia, etc...
And in fact they managed it - up until the point when they themselves sanctioned their own companies and Russia's own energy supplies, and screwed their own industrial economy over
Can't make this up.

Sure it sounds a wishful thinking, but only from today's perspective.
Two decades ago, it was a widely discussed agenda. I will remind you that Europe was ruled then by the people like Schroeder, Berlusconi and Chirac. People have a weak memory, and if we are looking at the worms who drain the continent now it is really hard to remind yourself the difference in human capital.

This is what turned the Plan B in Langley, or wherever the masters of the puppets really sit. Degradation of the Euro ruling caste took more than 2 decades, I guess that billions invested, and migrant crisis to be unleashed - but finally they succeded.

Issue with the Germans is not that they want to have a cake and eat a cake, but the fact of how the German economy is constructed.

Whereupon the EU elites in Brussels, and in several other capitals among them Berlin, Paris and others - have so much sunk into the depths of self-worship and self-regard that they have persuaded themselves of their own propaganda. The 'garden' that Borrell was talking about.

You really think Germany is ready to do so now, with China?

According to one of the sources, “if this effort is successful, then Germany, China and Russia can ally themselves together and drive the US out of Europe.”

08:00 09/19/2022 (updated: 22:08 09/24/2022)

It's time to get rid of illusions. The West is waging war to destroy Russia

Russian-Ukrainian political scientist Volodymyr Kornilov

The story of Bucha-2.0 (a provocation with allegedly discovered "mass graves of the victims of Russian aggressors" in Izyum) is clear evidence that along with the development of the military conflict in Ukraine, the information special operation against Russia is also intensifying. The point here is not even in the reaction of Kyiv - these are concocting primitive fakes against our state and army around the clock, without stopping. An indicator is how this provocation was immediately picked up by Western politicians, who are already calling for the urgent creation of an "international tribunal" to punish Russia, and the media, in unison, making unfounded statements about "mass executions and torture in Izyum" on their front pages.

Fake is primitive and easily refuted. But from this unanimous reaction of the West, it is clear that it absolutely does not matter to anyone there how and when the people buried in the cemetery died. "Guilty" was appointed in advance - and it should be Russia. Because only this verdict fits into the overall strategy of the current campaign in Ukraine.

And this campaign, as we see, has nothing to do with Ukraine. Whatever happens to the Ukrainians, whoever kills them (even the Armed Forces of Ukraine or foreign mercenaries), no matter how many of them die, the West is completely indifferent. Since he is waging war on this territory not for the Ukrainians, and even more so not for Ukraine. We must speak honestly and openly: the West is waging a bitter war against the Russian state as such. And less and less often covers this with a fig leaf of chatter about "defending democracy." Increasingly, it is directly said that Russia must be destroyed. Forever and ever! Irrevocably!

One of these days one of the leading American experts of Polish origin Janusz Bugaisky published the book "A Guide to the Disintegration of Russia". It should be especially noted that the book is not a reaction to the Ukrainian special operation, it is a natural continuation of everything that this Kremlinologist has been publicly speaking and writing about for many years. At the beginning of 2019, that is, three years before the SVO, he published a policy article "Managing Russia's Disintegration" on the pages of the influential Washington newspaper The Hill.

It was not just a forecast or theoretical reasoning of some dreamer, it was a direct call to action by a notorious Russophobe. Suffice it to recall that Bugaisky then openly encouraged the White House to act: "Washington must promote regional and ethnic self-determination within the Russian Federation. <...> The collapse must be justified logically." And he argued at the same time which regions of the state destroyed by the West should receive independence, and which ones would need to be given to Ukraine, Finland, Japan and even China.

It cannot be said that Bugaisky's article was the only theoretical work on the topic of the disintegration of our state and its disappearance from the world map. But the rest of the reports (in any case, in the public domain) still sought to disguise direct calls for the forced collapse of Russia with arguments about the need to "disperse" and weaken our state. As, for example, it was with the sensational study of the American intelligence corporation RAND, created by order of the US Department of Defense in the same 2019.

Recall that the authors of that report directly outlined the goal: the development of a strategy for the fight against Russia, so that "it would overexert itself militarily or economically." And as recommendations, they advised to reduce to a minimum the supply of Russian gas and oil to Europe, provide lethal weapons to Ukraine, and discredit Russia at the international level. In general, everything that the United States is now putting into practice, forcing its loyal satellites to follow this disastrous path. However, the call to dismember Russia in this analysis was only read between the lines.

Now, however, the masks are being shed, now the cadre Russophobes can openly formulate their old dreams. The other day, on the pages of the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, the former commander of NATO forces in Europe, and now retired general Ben Hodges, wrote a resonant article "Prepare for the disintegration of Russia". Hodges is now, perhaps, one of the most active "talking heads" on the Ukrainian crisis on Western television. And discount it calls are definitely not possible.

The general justifies his dreams of the collapse of our state with our ethnic diversity and his hopes that the economic sanctions of the West will create a situation in which it will be impossible to feed 144 million people. The American obviously did not think how applicable these arguments are to his native country, which has been torn apart in recent years along racial and national lines, as well as economic difficulties caused by the same anti-Russian sanctions.
With the light hand of Hodges, this idea was happily picked up and developed by smaller figures operating in the ideological field of Russophobia. New Eastern Europe magazine, published in Poland, publishes an article with a telling title: "The Deconstruction of Russia and the Reconstruction of the 'Post-Russian Space': A Risky But Inevitable Scenario". The authors call on the West to lead the process of disintegration of our state already now.

They are echoed by the Canadian-British professor of Ukrainian origin Taras Kuzio on the pages of the website of the main mouthpiece of Russophobic theorists Atlantic Council*. He also happily announces the beginning of the process of "the collapse of Putin's Russian empire".

Almost word for word, Hodges' theses are repeated by Vladimir Yushkin, the chief Estonian Kremlinologist, on the pages of the website of the International Center for Defense and Security. True, adding data taken from themselves about the allegedly developing "colonization of Siberia by the Chinese" - Estonian analysts clearly do not know how to use statistics.

All these "prophecies" were brought to a completely official level by the president of the same Estonia, Alar Karis. Opening the NATO Military Committee conference in Tallinn last Friday, he openly admonished the alliance's chiefs of staff with a call to abandon "the fear of destabilizing the situation in Russia." We emphasize that this is no longer some retired general, not a private person with a professorship - this is the official head of our neighboring country, a member of NATO. And he, unashamedly, calls on the high command of the alliance for a conscious policy of undermining and creating a situation of instability in Russia. What other evidence does anyone need of who and for what the collective West is fighting?

The ideological body of European liberals, The Economist magazine, devoted its latest issue to how the West should ensure Ukraine's victory over Russia. Apart from the traditional advice on further arming the Kyiv regime, the magazine explicitly demands: "The West should try to drive a wedge between the regime and the Russian people." To this end, Western leaders are being urged to bet on Russian liberals who have fled abroad, who, under these conditions, can be safely called traitors. And how else to call people who are now openly used by the enemies of Russia, who are now not hiding, to implement an unrealizable plan to dismember our common Motherland!

Thus, we can safely say that the collective West has already moved from talk to action and is openly challenging the very existence of the Russian Federation. Its ideologists and a number of top politicians do not hide the fact that, by using the conflict in Ukraine, they deliberately create an existential threat to our state. The sooner we ourselves officially recognize this, the more effectively we will be able to move to a different stage of both relations with our neighbors and the special operation itself in Ukraine.

We still adhere to certain gentlemen's rules of the game that were adopted after the end of the Cold War. But now the stakes have been raised too high. No, the author does not in any way call for copying the criminal actions of Ukraine. We, unlike them, do not kill children, do not torture prisoners of war, do not exterminate civilians.

But in the face of increasing threats to the citizens of Russia, we are left with no choice but to act much more decisively in relation to military infrastructure that is also used by civilians, in relation to decision-making centers, in relation to those individuals who are directly responsible for terror and killings, wherever they are, and those states that pursue a hostile policy. In the end, we must not forget that in the event of an existential threat to Russia, we have much tougher responses. They must be constantly reminded of all those who want to test our Motherland for strength.

* The organization is recognized as undesirable in Russia.