We all know about the wishful thinking enveloping the "low-cost" war on Iraq -- from Paul Wolfowitz's "We are the new OPEC" to the fantasy of Washington being able to decisively intimidate all potential challengers, the EU, Russia and China.
And we all know how it went spectacularly wrong. Even as that trillionaire adventure, as Minqi Li analyzed in The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, "has squandered US imperialism's remaining space for strategic maneuver," the humanitarian imperialists of the Obama administration still have not given up, refusing to admit the US has lost any ability to provide any meaningful solution to the current, as Immanuel Wallerstein would define it, world-system.
There are sporadic signs of intelligent geopolitical life in US academia, such as this at the Wilson Center website (although Russia and China are not a "challenge" to a supposed world "order": their partnership is actually geared to create some order among the chaos.)
And yet this opinion piece at USNews is the kind of stuff passing for academic "analysis" in US media.
On top of it, Washington/Wall Street elites -- through their myopic Think Tankland -- still cling to mythical platitudes such as the "historical" US role as arbiter of modern Asia and key balancer of power.
So no wonder public opinion in the US -- and Western Europe -- cannot even imagine the earth-shattering impact the New Silk Roads will have in the geopolitics of the young 21st century.
Washington/Wall Street elites -- talk about Cold War hubris -- always took for granted that Beijing and Moscow would be totally apart. Now puzzlement prevails. Note how the Obama administration's "pivoting to Asia" has been completely erased from the narrative -- after Beijing identified it for what it is: a warlike provocation. The new meme is "rebalance."
German businesses, for their part, are absolutely going bonkers with Xi's New Silk Roads uniting Beijing to Berlin -- crucially via Moscow. German politicians sooner rather than later will have to get the message.
All this will be discussed behind closed doors this weekend at key meetings on the sidelines of the Group of 20 in Australia. The Russia-China-Germany alliance-in-the-making will be there. The BRICS, crisis or no crisis, will be there. All the players in the G-20 actively working for a multipolar world will be there.
APEC once again has shown that the more geopolitics change, the more it won't stay the same; as the exceptional dogs of war, inequality and divide and rule keep barking, the China-Russia pan-Eurasian caravan will keep going, going, going -- further on down the (multipolar) road.
And we all know how it went spectacularly wrong. Even as that trillionaire adventure, as Minqi Li analyzed in The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World Economy, "has squandered US imperialism's remaining space for strategic maneuver," the humanitarian imperialists of the Obama administration still have not given up, refusing to admit the US has lost any ability to provide any meaningful solution to the current, as Immanuel Wallerstein would define it, world-system.
There are sporadic signs of intelligent geopolitical life in US academia, such as this at the Wilson Center website (although Russia and China are not a "challenge" to a supposed world "order": their partnership is actually geared to create some order among the chaos.)
And yet this opinion piece at USNews is the kind of stuff passing for academic "analysis" in US media.
So no wonder public opinion in the US -- and Western Europe -- cannot even imagine the earth-shattering impact the New Silk Roads will have in the geopolitics of the young 21st century.
Washington/Wall Street elites -- talk about Cold War hubris -- always took for granted that Beijing and Moscow would be totally apart. Now puzzlement prevails. Note how the Obama administration's "pivoting to Asia" has been completely erased from the narrative -- after Beijing identified it for what it is: a warlike provocation. The new meme is "rebalance."
German businesses, for their part, are absolutely going bonkers with Xi's New Silk Roads uniting Beijing to Berlin -- crucially via Moscow. German politicians sooner rather than later will have to get the message.
All this will be discussed behind closed doors this weekend at key meetings on the sidelines of the Group of 20 in Australia. The Russia-China-Germany alliance-in-the-making will be there. The BRICS, crisis or no crisis, will be there. All the players in the G-20 actively working for a multipolar world will be there.
APEC once again has shown that the more geopolitics change, the more it won't stay the same; as the exceptional dogs of war, inequality and divide and rule keep barking, the China-Russia pan-Eurasian caravan will keep going, going, going -- further on down the (multipolar) road.
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