The Crack in the World Widens
The countries of the Earth are taking sides as the American Empire faces new crises around the world.
Ukraine is the fault line of a widening split between the white-majority nations of the world, in Europe and North America, especially, and those led by people of color in Greater Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
Racism has reared its ugly head in this international struggle. Whether the US and Europe wanted it, the war has spotlighted the racial divisions in our world. It is becoming the white nations against the nations of color.
It is especially visible as refugees stream out of Ukraine. Poland has welcomed more than two million. It was just a year ago that Poland sent troops to its border with Belarus to make sure no Middle Eastern refugees set foot on Polish soil. The same attitude applies to other eastern European countries with their barbed wire for Syrians and their Welcome Wagon for Ukrainians.
The same is true for the US where more than one hundred thousand Ukrainian refugees have been authorized to enter the US, from Mexico of all places. The racism of the Biden regime reeks.
Small wonder that when a recent poll by the Democracy Institute and the London Sunday Express asked Americans who they would rather see kicked out of office, Putin or Biden, the majority said Biden (52 percent) over Putin (43 percent).
No matter how much US media wants to cover it up, Ukraine has a Nazi problem. They are the front line soldiers who were poised to invade the two Peoples Republics in the Donbas, when Russia jumped the gun. They are also likely to be in the forefront of staging atrocities to be blamed on Russia, and have been caught on video executing wounded Russian soldiers.
As a result, many countries of the world, including the US, may soon have their own Nazi problem. They like what they see. That’s why so many thousands are scrambling to join the war in Ukraine. When they return home, who knows what kind of mayhem they will commit.
When a vote was held in the United Nations General Assembly on condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the crack became apparent. Despite great pressure from the Empire, much of the Global South (the non-white parts of the world that used to be known as the Third World) abstained.
Sentiment in those countries may not be pro-Russia, but it is certainly anti-Empire. They understand the tactics used by NATO and Biden to goad Russia into an invasion. Foremost in those tactics was the massing of Ukrainian troops on the border of the Donbass, where two small Peoples Republics had been created in 2014, and had endured eight years of fighting against the Azov Brigade of Nazis which had been incorporated in the Ukraine military.
As important in the NATO strategy was the threat, whether true or not, to make Ukraine part of NATO. This would bring NATO missiles within range of major Russian population centers.
After the fighting began, the US redoubled its flow of weapons to Ukraine, which in effect, has sabotaged peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia continues its goals of demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
On the propaganda front, most people in the West have no access to Russia’s view of the origin and continued collision of the two armies. In the Global South, it’s a different matter with advocates of both sides expressing their views. This is why the West and the Global South have diametrically differing views of the conflict.
How do the world’s people see events in Ukraine?:
In the West: Ukraine is the victim of unwarranted aggression by Russia.
In the Global South: Russian soldiers are having their last showdown with Nazi soldiers, and are standing up to NATO and US aggression.
How can two such opposing views exist? Much of it is the lack of a free press, and free discussion in most of the world, including the US, where our self-appointed guardians of right thinking, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the mass media filter the news.
How is anyone to know what is going on? One way is if both sides agree on a certain issue. There haven’t been many occasions of this happening lately. Paying close attention to the facts on the ground, and the circumstances in which those facts occur, can help us.
Things to look out for are news articles citing unnamed sources. For the mass media, these unnamed sources are usually from the “intelligence” community, and it is likely they have an ax to grind.
One indicator of falling public support for the US position around the world is the most recent vote on April 7 expelling Russia from the UN’s Human Rights Committee. In the original UN vote, March 2, on condemning Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the vote was 141 in Favor; 5 Against; and 35 Abstentions.
The Propaganda War
But a month later, the vote was nearly equal in the UN General Assembly. There were 93 votes in favor of Russia’s removal from the Human Rights Committee; 24 Against, and 58 Abstentions. In addition, there were another 12 from the Global South that were shown as not voting.
The US efforts to win more support for its position against Russia seems to be going in reverse. This time around 93 countries supported the US, while 94 countries did not.
Russia does not have a long history of colonialism, as do most of the countries on the other side (NATO, et.al.). Plus, Russia, and in the past, the Soviet Union, were often seen as defenders of the countries emerging as the Global South. In this case, the past does matter.
The War Could Spread
Ukraine is not the only country on Russia’s border that could threaten Moscow with missiles.
The same threat could come from the following countries that border Russia or are close by:
Finland: The formerly neutral nation is having a change of heart. Along with Sweden, Finland, which borders Russia, is considering joining NATO.
The Baltic States; Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: These three mini states that border Russia or Belarus, used to be part of the Soviet Union. Now they have hostile right-wing governments, and lots of Russian citizens who feel oppressed. So far they haven’t been inundated with weapons by NATO.
Poland: Another right-wing government that is hostile to Russia (and to the EU, for that matter). It borders Belarus and Ukraine, which borders Russia. The US recently built a big new missile installation in Poland that Moscow takes as a threat.
Romania: Even though this country hasn’t accepted as many refugees as Poland, it is still part of the NATO program. In 2019, a new missile base, similar to Poland’s, went operational over the protests of Moscow.
Any one of these countries could serve as a flashpoint for military action unless NATO, the US and Russia reach agreement on reasonable security accomodations for Moscow. Only Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia of all the nearby countries, seem to be currently on speaking terms with Moscow, and none of them directly border Russia.
What is wrong with NATO? As if there wasn’t enough bloodshed and battles in Ukraine, the so-called “North Atlantic” organization is now taking belligerent swipes at China, which so far has remained neutral on Ukraine.
Many critics are now saying that the US and NATO are preventing Ukraine from negotiating a truce or treaty with Russia. If true, they are playing with the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, and ultimately, with all our lives if the fighting escalates.
Oil and a Deepening World Recession?
Even without more wars, the economic situation around the world has been sent in a nosedive due to the high cost of oil. Pakistan may be the first country to go bankrupt, but it will likely not be the last.
The silver lining from the oil crisis is that this is the perfect time for a massive worldwide program to build solar and wind energy. This could not only save the environment, but it could save lives. Will the countries of the world seize the moment?
Here’s a start, issued by the International Energy Agency:
Whatever the ultimate end of the fighting brings, the after effects, even years later, will be dramatic. The rapid social and political changes of the 21st Century have just been ramped into high gear. Good luck to us all!