Well, if that is their plan, they seem to be failing. They've not only failed to weaken Russia and China but have pushed them closer together - and pushed a lot of other nations into alliance with them too. As for Europe, maybe we really are gone, or maybe there will be some kind of revolt.
Türkiye aims to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Erdoğan
Hurriyet ^
Posted on 9/18/2022, 6:19:46 PM by FarCenter
Türkiye aims to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, noting that the group’s next meeting in India will be a venue to further discuss this issue.
This is very true. They will be very unhappy if we get into WW3 over countries they never heard of. This is a constraint on US adventurism--support is inches deep. As long as nothing goes terribly wrong we wave the flag and go about our daily routine without bothering about the people at the other end.
Thanks very much for this primer, Mark. I happened to just view a The Duran video from yesterday addressing the SCO Summit and some of these same issues:
Our 'elites' are driving the policy-making car (Congress need not apply), but we sure as hell could piss in the gas tank and put sand in the transmission. All by doing literally nothing we could shut this country down--from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam.
As always the question is "to whose benefit" is this game; it is certainly not to mine or those whom I know. Unfortunately we bear costs from the inflation and shortages that result from the sanctions and other actions of our installed president and other "leaders."
Well, if that is their plan, they seem to be failing. They've not only failed to weaken Russia and China but have pushed them closer together - and pushed a lot of other nations into alliance with them too. As for Europe, maybe we really are gone, or maybe there will be some kind of revolt.
Big. Big.
Türkiye aims to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Erdoğan
Hurriyet ^
Posted on 9/18/2022, 6:19:46 PM by FarCenter
Türkiye aims to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, noting that the group’s next meeting in India will be a venue to further discuss this issue.
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h/t Luongo.
The typical American cannot name all fifty states or find them on a map. Imagine the blank looks you'd get trying to talk about this.
This is very true. They will be very unhappy if we get into WW3 over countries they never heard of. This is a constraint on US adventurism--support is inches deep. As long as nothing goes terribly wrong we wave the flag and go about our daily routine without bothering about the people at the other end.
Thanks very much for this primer, Mark. I happened to just view a The Duran video from yesterday addressing the SCO Summit and some of these same issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV26025Kx8I
All indications are that your presentation and warning are very important and prescient.
Our 'elites' are driving the policy-making car (Congress need not apply), but we sure as hell could piss in the gas tank and put sand in the transmission. All by doing literally nothing we could shut this country down--from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam.
As always the question is "to whose benefit" is this game; it is certainly not to mine or those whom I know. Unfortunately we bear costs from the inflation and shortages that result from the sanctions and other actions of our installed president and other "leaders."
Out of sight, out of mind. Until ...