Multipolar World Order

[justme]

Geopolitics are dynamic and rapidly change. If you are not constantly paying attention, you will fall behind.

But what we’re experiencing now is more than a test of the post-Cold War order. It’s the end of it.

That didn’t happen overnight. And what brought us to this moment will be the subject of study and debate for decades to come.

Meanwhile, the People’s Republic of China poses the most significant long-term challenge because it not only aspires to reshape the international order, it increasingly has the economic, the diplomatic, the military, the technological power to do just that.

And Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the world safe for autocracy through their “no limits partnership.”

Countries and citizens are losing faith in the international economic order, their confidence rattled by systemic flaws:

-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken September 13th, 2023

@3:33



Full transcript is here:
www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-remarks-to-the-johns-hopkins-school-of-advanced-international-studies-sais-the-power-and-purpose-of-american-diplomacy-in-a-new-era/



The world is becoming increasingly divided in blocs. There is the potential for war to dominate the next decades. Or perhaps the world find a way to get along?

[justme]

It's difficult to comprehend the magnitude of these changes. We have seen Russia, China, Iran, and other countries in the east not only increase economic ties, but military ties as well. We can now add North Korea to this equation:

Putin offered North Korea technological assistance to launch a satellite into space and said there are "possibilities" for military cooperation between them.

www.npr.org/2023/09/13/1199190066/russia-north-korea-putin-kim-jong-un-summit

President Vladimir Putin met North Korea's Kim Jong Un, possibly at Russia's most modern space rocket launch site, on Wednesday amid the forests of the eastern Russia.

www.reuters.com/world/what-is-space-launch-facility-where-kim-putin-are-meeting-2023-09-13/

At the same time we have seen BRICS expansion, along with OPEC + countries cutting oil production to counter western hegemony.

In the next several years we will see Iran and North Korea with Russian and Chinese tech and weapons. Risks of regional conflicts breaking out in the Middle East, Korean Peninsula, and Taiwan have increased. Any of these regional conflicts risk escalating to a power war. While the current Russia-Ukraine conflict does not give me confidence, I am optimistic global peace and prosperity can be achieved.

[justme]

Geopolitically speaking, Southeast Asia is the new Europe.

Southeast Asia is the manufacturing hub of the world. Additionally, it has the fastest growing economy and largest population center. The USA is competing with a peer to peer rival (China) in this region.

From the neocon's point of view, the USA cannot afford to spend so much money and resources in Europe. Europe realizes this, and the elites in the EU are afraid of being left alone.

The west was not prepared for a long artillery war against Russia, neither did they pivot their economies to a war footing due to economical and financial consequences.

Pre-2010 (unipolar world), the USA may have been successful in collapsing Russia's economy by exerting their influence. The rise of the global south has prevented this scenario.

The result of this disastrous western foreign policy has led to the destruction of Ukraine, tremendous human suffering and loss of life, accelerated de-dollarization, separated the world into geopolitical blocs, and is leading to the decline of Europe. There will be many financial / economic crisis over the next decade. We can already see this through protests in France, Poland, and throughout the EU. Countries in the EU are left with expensive energy, and the global south not buying their products due to excessive costs.

History textbooks will reflect the many mistakes made by the west.

[blustnmtn]

Upheaval is certainly afoot. US hegemony is in decline due to an incompetent and corrupt leadership enabled by a similar MSM and a lazy, selfish, Balkanized electorate. "Interesting Times"

[ratty]

Nice thread title!

[justme]

I wonder where the Houthis got this technology and equipment from?(sarcasm)

The USA has armed various proxy groups around the world since the end of WWII. In the new multipolar world order, Russia, China, and Iran now arm proxy groups with the claim they are helping a sovereign country defend itself.

"Report: Houthis successfully test hypersonic missile, plan to begin production"

According to the report, the Houthis are planning to begin manufacturing the missiles for use against targets in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden, as well as Israel.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-houthis-successfully-test-hypersonic-missile-plan-to-begin-production/

Military cooperation of The Eastern bloc continues to increase.

[justme]

France used to get uranium for pennies on the dollar from Niger. Now reports Niger will be selling their uranium to Iran:

Niger Termination of U.S. Military Ties Followed Accusation of Iran Uranium Deal

Niger’s decision to end its counterterrorism alliance with Washington came after senior U.S. officials accused the country’s ruling junta of secretly exploring a deal to allow Iran access to its uranium reserves, Nigerien and U.S. officials say.

The decision to end military cooperation with the U.S. was announced Saturday night by a spokesman for the Nigerien junta. It deals a serious blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to contain a sprawling Islamist insurgency in the Sahel, the semiarid region south of the Sahara. It could affect a $110 million base that was built by the U.S. and is used to fly surveillance drones over West Africa. It could also possibly force the withdrawal of more than 600 American troops still stationed in Niger.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/niger-termination-of-us-military-ties-followed-accusation-of-iran-uranium-deal/ar-BB1k25as

[justme]

[glennkoks]

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” ― Winston Churchill

Justme I would not count on a "western collapse" anytime soon. American's have been in tough spots before and we have pulled through. The Civil War, WWI, WWII etc. The Vietnam era hippies evolved into Reagan era conservatives. We will pull out of this nonsense when we really need to...

[justme]

Turkiye has been waiting for years to join the EU.

Now their foreign minister has indicated they are interested in joining BRICS+ instead.

"Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on 4 June during a trip to China that his country is interested in joining the BRICS+ group of emerging economies"

thecradle.co/articles/joining-brics-good-alternative-to-eu-turkiye

[nonentropic]

The key reason for the non EU entry is the requirement for a democratic system. They realize that this will never happen as Turkey slides towards a Theocracy.

I have no dislike of the BRIC+ but the reason is different from the inference.

A question, could a member of the EU join the BRIC+ community, not sure they are mutually exclusive.

[Sigurdur]

Jun 5, 2024 19:02:37 GMT nonentropic said:

The key reason for the non EU entry is the requirement for a democratic system. They realize that this will never happen as Turkey slides towards a Theocracy.

I have no dislike of the BRIC+ but the reason is different from the inference.

A question, could a member of the EU join the BRIC+ community, not sure they are mutually exclusive.

Good thing the US isn't interested in joining the EU. The US has slid to 3rd world tyrannical systems.

[justme]

"The rail network is part of China's Belt and Road Initiative in Europe, a major scheme announced by the Chinese government in 2013 which is intended to develop infrastructure across large parts of Asia, east Africa and Eastern Europe in what critics claim is a bid to dramatically increase Beijing's influence."

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinese-high-speed-rail-project-in-europe-hailed-as-miracle/ar-BB1nS0vJ

[blustnmtn]

Some historical perspective:

brownstone.org/articles/the-sorrows-of-empire/

[ratty]

Whitney Webb outlines how part of the globalist plan is to tokenise ALL natural resources (trees, lakes, etc) on the blockchain so they can be tradable financial assets, like CO2 ....