The Multipolar World Order (yes, it's coming)

[Bill Ryan]

Wow.

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[Bill Ryan]

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[pounamuknight]

The empire used to brag about their multilateral sanctions superhero power

But as a multipolar horizon gets brighter, this modern day siege weapon begins to recede

Making imperial oligarchs cringe

And fearmonger into WMD levels of cringgge

[Vicus]

Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye: Truces, not peace 04 Apr 2023



As reconciliation efforts sweep through West Asia to mend ties between old foes, the new China- and Russia-brokered deals will not usher in real peace until the US stops prolonging conflict

The mid-March Moscow summit between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was notable for being publicized in advance. Since the outbreak of the Syrian war, Assad's foreign visits have not been publicly revealed until after they have occurred. This small but significant detail suggests the Syrian president has a newfound confidence in the political and security conditions outside his national borders.

While the participants kept a tight lid on leaks, informed sources from both Moscow and Damascus disclosed to The Cradle that the Syrian and Russian presidents discussed the following issues:

Economic ties: With a focus on Syria's energy sector, Putin expressed Russia's readiness to invest in the production of electricity in the Levantine state, which post-conflict, suffers from a 75 percent deficit in production. Putin also expressed Moscow's willingness to help Syria meet its vital grain needs.

Relations with Turkiye: While in Moscow, Assad reportedly refused to hold a four-way meeting between the deputy foreign ministers of Syria, Turkiye, Russia, and Iran. The Syrian president reiterated that Turkiye occupies Syrian lands, and negotiations between the two countries cannot advance from the security to the political level without a clear and public pledge from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to withdraw his military forces from the occupied territories, and open the main roads linking Syrian provinces - particularly the Latakia-Aleppo road, known as the M4 highway.


However, Moscow pressed its case, and reportedly reached an agreement between Damascus and Ankara stipulating that their negotiations would continue and move to the political level, with the main item on the table being Turkish withdrawal from Syrian lands. The basis for a much-awaited summit between Assad and Erdogan will be discussed at a later date.

The sources say that, for domestic political purposes, Erdogan needs to meet Assad before Turkiye's May presidential elections, to convey to voters that he seeks to stop the war at his country's southern borders, intends to repatriate the approximately three million Syrian refugees back home - a hot topic for voters - and to assure the Turkish Alevi electorate that he is not hostile to their sect, to which his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu belongs.

Relations with Saudi Arabia: Putin, who has been leading the mediation efforts to normalize Saudi-Syrian relations, briefed Assad on the results of his talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS). According to official sources in Damascus and Moscow, Putin's initiative has made progress in reactivating critical communication between Damascus and Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia's strategic shifts

On 23 March, 2023, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the start of talks with Syria to reactivate consular work, which is a prelude to the return of normal diplomatic relations between the two countries, as reported by Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.

Sources speaking to The Cradle have confirmed that any potential progress in Syrian-Saudi relations are the result of these Russian mediation efforts, and are unrelated to the game-changing Saudi-Iran agreement struck in Beijing on 10 March. The sources believe that a meeting between Riyadh and Damascus may occur after the end of the month of Ramadan.

While the success of Saudi-Iran negotiations under Chinese auspices, and the potential breakthrough in Saudi-Syria relations under Russian sponsorship, suggest a strategic eastward turn for the kingdom, sources close to Riyadh emphasize that there is no change in the Saudi-US relationship.

While Riyadh's relations with Washington have experienced declines in the past, recent shifts in the global political, economic, and military landscapes have prompted MbS to diversify his country's partnerships, while preserving the strategic alignment with Washington.

continue: https://www.sott.net/article/479034-...uces-not-peace

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[shaberon]

In this whole topic nothing surprises me, except Dr. Assad saying Saudi Arabia is "out" and them doing a "local pivot" to "where I am". Any custodian of pilgrimage sites ought to be thinking about those peoples who are heavily drawn from one's neighbors. But of course it was a type of subverted puppet regime.

On the previous page I posted some stuff which was potentially sympathetic towards the Carbonari. The reason is as reflected in a user comment to Pepe Escobar's Moscow Diary, Capital of the Multi-polar World:

I'm half Greek so I share your efforts to liberate humanity from the chains of Capitalism. However I respectfully suggest to you that Capitalism is a very detailed form of government where the elite and money lenders run the whole society of the rich, for the rich and by the rich in detriment of the rest of the population.

Well, that includes the Fascist and the Antifascist Totalitarians. Doesn't care about left or right. It does care about property, such as the amassing of large central banks, so the other post mostly looked in Germany. And so the relevance to this is how did we land ourselves in this situation, what is it. Why is it like a defective, dead limb of "multi-polar?"


What are "multi-polar" people stepping away from?


One thing I have noticed is that there is a one world currency movement, it is not a private party like Davos--I cannot quite remember if it is part of the U. N.--still has Jesuits involved.


To be fair of course, many Jesuits are interesting and never really did anything wrong. And in one sense, this may have been decent early relations with China, by attempting to spread religion but without the thought that it also meant a conversion to European culture. To the extent that Jesuits tried to protect ancestor worship from the pope. And then it is thought their early captures of Confucian writings were responsible for that Age in Europe called Enlightenment. This is the same thing they are later accused of infiltrating and subverting. Here are a few reflections on their visits from Jesuits in China 1842-1954:


Within two hundred years, members of the Society of Jesus, commonly called Jesuits, became advisors of monarchs, missionaries to foreign lands, defenders of the poor and the papacy, making enemies of those jealous of their power and influence. Such enemies, who finally forced Pope Clement XIV to suppress the Jesuits...


That was 1773, but, the same society comes back and returns to China ca. 1842, after the Opium Wars, and:


The resentment felt by many Chinese following the annexation of Chinese territory by Europeans during 1898 resulted in growing unrest in the empire. The Chinese felt humiliated and defeated after the invasion of Russia, Germany, England and France, and by the concessions demanded after their defeat. As a result, a new wave of antiforeign fervour grew among the Chinese...



On 22 January 1922, Costantini made an official visit to the president of the Chinese Republic, and held discussions with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M Wang. Considering the expansion of foreign influence in China and the internal movement toward an independent nation, Wang wanted in future to deal with the representative of the pope, and not with foreign legations concerning matters relating to the Catholic missions. In suggesting a new agreement...


During 1925, there was an increase in anti-Christian propaganda. Reports were coming into the French legation with slogans like ‘Christianity is a poison to the Chinese’; ‘Christianity was the place where was born the diplomats who sold our country’; ‘Christianity is the soul of international capitalism’. Christianity was believed to serve imperialism in order to conquer China, with priests as spies of imperialism. The history of Christianity in China was seen as a way to conquer China by means of opium...


That represents Restoration. The fact that they did not die when suppressed in 1773 is for example Early Modern:


The presence of ex-Jesuits, who continued their labors as secular priests, also played a role in sustaining the church.


This wasn't a Nuremberg Trials, nobody went to prison. Their offices were closed. In some cases this may barely have affected the people themselves. So, it is not an excuse why they could not have had anything to do with the French Revolution. Technically, no, not as a body or not officially, but if they can "sustain a church" in China, what can they do closer to home?

How they got there was in the World of the Pope, Spain got the West and Portugal got the East:


Following the passing of Ricci in 1610, the Jesuits fell out of favor with the state officials at Nanjing, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty. In a series of indictments, the Jesuits were charged with disturbing social order, hijacking the teachings of Confucius, and conspiring with the Portuguese crown.


Macau offered the Jesuits resources necessary for the maintenance of the mission and their own livelihood; in return, the Jesuits advocated for the Portuguese agenda of the city before the Chinese state.


This did not take two hundred years. Considering the society was only founded in 1540, among early Missions:


As early as 1546, two Chinese boys enrolled in the Jesuits' St. Paul's College in Goa, the capital of Portuguese India. One of these two Christian Chinese, known as Antonio, accompanied St. Francis Xavier, a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, when he decided to start missionary work in China. However, Xavier failed to find a way to enter the Chinese mainland...


It is not unusual for the Chinese to enter Indian schools, they had been going for a thousand years already. After this early foothold, colonialism sucked the life out of India's educational system, which led to breakdowns and poverty. From latter-day followers of Xavier, finally as the result of a lot of Missions:


However, one should not overlook the fact that the Jesuit financial policy grievously aggravated the difficulties of that church. Their missionaries involved themselves in business ventures of various sorts; they became the landlords of income-producing properties, developed the silk industry for Western trade, and organized money-lending operations on a large scale. All these eventually generated misunderstanding and tension between the foreign community and the Chinese people. The Communists held this against them as late as the mid-twentieth century.


None of this is news to China. Did France or Portugal ever host Confucian missions and have to deal with whatever the Confucians are trying to pull?

It is true that Christianity was in China since ca. 600 in the form of the Church of the East, which, of course, has nothing to do with Rome. There, the Pope has always had the difficulty of a non-unified Italy and questions about what his temporal powers are. The first important ally was the relatively distant France, and the significant rival was Venice. So the Holy Roman Empire was created as a power base. That is not in Italy either, which means that eventually, in the Italian peninsula, there is difficulty determining if one's alliances run to a Germanic king, or to the Pope under the unlikely name of Guelph:


The Ghibellines were the imperial party, while the Guelphs supported the pope.

The names were probably introduced to Italy during the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. When Frederick conducted military campaigns in Italy to expand imperial power there, his supporters became known as Ghibellines (Ghibellini). The Lombard League and its allies were defending the liberties of the urban communes against the Emperor's encroachments and became known as Guelphs (Guelfi).

The division between Guelphs and Ghibellines was especially important in Florence, although the two sides frequently rebelled one against the other and struggled for power in many of the other northern Italian cities as well. Essentially the two sides were now fighting either against German influence (in the case of the Guelphs) or against the temporal power of the Pope (in the case of the Ghibellines).



This is memorable since it catches one of the first people I think of as writing this same political tale in symbolism:


After the Tuscan Guelphs finally defeated the Ghibellines in 1289 at the Battle of Campaldino and at Vicopisano, the Guelphs began infighting. By 1300, the Florentine Guelphs had divided into the Black and White Guelphs. The Blacks continued to support the Papacy, while the Whites were opposed to Papal influence, specifically the influence of Pope Boniface VIII. Dante was among the supporters of the White Guelphs. In 1302 he was exiled when the Black Guelphs took control of Florence.


The Pope usually relies on France for security. We found that Marquis de La Fayette was a Constitutional Monarchist, i. e., there is such a thing as a type of revolutionary to install a king. This happened quite temporarily in France, until around 1830, the French Bourbons were removed and replaced by Liberals.


The Bourbons had returned to power after the abdication of Napoleon, 1815. The simultaneous effect in Italy from the Congress of Vienna:


Only the Savoy kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont remained outside the Austrian system designed and imposed on Italy by the Austrian foreign minister Klemens, Fürst (prince) von Metternich. Under Russia’s secret protection the Savoy government proved dependably reactionary.

In the Papal States the restoration, achieved principally by the diplomacy of the cautious secretary of state, Ercole Cardinal Consalvi, brought increasing government centralization. Educated men who had held positions of responsibility under the French and Italian governments resented bitterly the restoration of clerical control over all aspects of public life.

Many judicial and administrative reforms of the French era survived, but concessions made to the church in a concordat concluded in 1818, as well as financial retrenchment, hampered the progress of the bourgeoisie.


Then likewise in Italy, I think we can find a parallel to the difference between de La Fayette and Robespierre, similarly with Garibaldi and Mazzini:



Already in existence under French rule, apparently with a vaguely nationalist program, the society gained strength and formulated more-definite constitutional aims. The southern bourgeoisie was determined to take part in political life and to promote its interests openly. From the south the lodges of the Carbonari quickly spread to the Marche, the Romagna, Piedmont, and Lombardy.


The moderate Liberals, most of them Carbonari, had demonstrated a readiness to compromise with the absolute monarchs. They had distrusted democrats and republicans who sought to achieve Italian unification by political revolution and force of arms. Among these were the Adelfi, a secret society of the followers of Filippo Buonarroti. Ultimately, the task of organizing new cadres of democratic and republican opponents of the restoration governments fell to Giuseppe Mazzini, scion of a bourgeois and Jacobin family of Genoa. Exiled in 1830 at the age of 25, Mazzini turned away from both Carboneria and Buonarrotism and established his own organization, Giovine Italia (Young Italy).


In 1836 Mazzini, who had established relationships with democratic revolutionaries in other countries and cofounded Giovine Europa (Young Europe), left Switzerland and settled in London.

Mazzini’s democratic and republican movement was crumbling. In February 1853 an insurrection against the Austrians failed in Milan.


In 1857 Italian nationalists founded the monarchist-unionist Italian National Society, which supported the policies of Cavour. Under the presidency of Manin and the vice presidency of Garibaldi...

Although he did not outlaw conspiratorial movements, Cavour was determined to solve the Italian question by international politics rather than by revolution. At a secret conference held at Plombières, France, in July 1858 he arranged with Emperor Napoleon III for French military intervention in the event of Austrian aggression against Piedmont. Cavour’s goal was the complete expulsion of Austrian troops from the peninsula. In return for this help Piedmont had to cede Savoy and the county of Nice to France and outlaw the Mazzinian movement...

On October 26, 1860, Victor Emmanuel II met with Garibaldi on Neapolitan soil and was greeted as “king of Italy.”

And then we see a tactic of Capitalism around 1860:


Many peasants espoused an especially violent form of brigandage, which, though fomented and often assisted by emissaries of the exiled Francis II, was a form of class warfare against the agrarian bourgeoisie. Men on horseback occupied villages in the south, killed Liberals, and raised the white flag of the Bourbon kingdom.



The main issue of political debate in late 19th-century Italy was land ownership. Liberal governments insisted that the municipalities should sell off most of the common land to private owners...



Yes, of course. You rig up a land confiscation system, I can understand that armed mobs are going to attack you.

Has it not long since been realized that such "owners" respond to nothing but force?


To summarize then yes, M. de La Fayette and Garibaldi were both Monarchists who belonged to Masonic Egyptian Rites, which were new in the 1800s due to discoveries. At the time, this would have corresponded to "not convinced" about the Templar Heritage myth, and at least being open-minded that something Egyptian may have value or wisdom. There is a rapid disconnect from English Masonry, which, in turn, gets its hands on the Frankfurt Lodge. M. de La Fayette had just literally been fighting the Rothschild Hessian merceneries in America.

The new United States had diplomats in France, Spain, and The Hague, not Prussia. And yet we are going to get a guy to go copy the Prussian Bank as if it were an obelisk covered with ancient hieroglyphs.


I believe this type of secret society also had its followers in Greece. Rebels against what was already known as the Money Power. Otherwise I expect most revolutions in Europe were a copycat industry, run by radicals, advocating the removal of monarchs so that for example what happened to Italy would continue. Transfer of land and other wealth to the few by a legalized system.

Russia had the political awareness of it all along, but not these kind of Lodges.


I am not sure how there could be an issue of "Russia and China presenting an alternative system" when they already have experience in identifying and removing the objectionable classes. More like they are picking off parasites. Then there is a domino effect across the Middle East which is supposed to be impossible. Even Tanzania says it does not need dollars for bilateral trades. It is in the Swahili culture which has 300+ million members. These people have an upsurge in Asian male DNA from ca. year 1,000. I would not tend to say India is making any "new alternative". They used to do stuff like this, pre-colonialism.


It seems to me that Western mono-polism is an aberration which was not there and then it was placed there, then it grew and we see it has run its course. The German bakery from 1688 with increased demand may have been forced to close, but, their weapons foundries are doing extraordinary. I do not think the products will be used for many victories, but there is a small chance they may actually be used.

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Pranksters Vovan and Lexus posing as Zelensky tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a "Digital Euro" in October that will give central banks control over how citizens can spend money:

"There will be control. You’re right. You’re completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 €, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous...

I don’t want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country’s currency, for instance, you know, the Chinese currency, the Russian currency... I don’t want Meta, Google, or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe."

Central bank digital currencies are the latest battleground in the ongoing struggle for individual liberties. Without global awareness, central banks will pull off a massive violation of human rights, and citizens will cheer them on while they do it.

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[Bill Ryan]

It's very hard not to smile at this.

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[arwen]

Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron

BY JAMIL ANDERLINI AND CLEA CAULCUTT
APRIL 9, 2023

The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview.

ABOARD COTAM UNITÉ (FRANCE’S AIR FORCE ONE) — Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China.

Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.”

He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One.

Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically endorsed Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy and Chinese officials constantly refer to it in their dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced the West is in decline and China is on the ascendant and that weakening the transatlantic relationship will help accelerate this trend.

“The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview. “The question Europeans need to answer … is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction,” he said.

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BRICS to surpass G7 in share of global economic growth – Bloomberg
19 Apr, 2023



The bloc of developing countries will be a larger driver of development than the Western Group of Seven major economies

Members of the BRICS group – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – are expected to outpace the US-led G7 in terms of their contribution to the world’s economic growth, from this year, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

According to the outlet’s calculations – based on the latest IMF data –the BRICS countries will contribute 32.1% of the world’s growth, compared to the G7’s 29.9%.

The Group of Seven nations (G7) – consisting of the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan – has long been considered the most advanced economic bloc of countries on the planet. Russia was a member, until 2014, when it was expelled due to the fallout from the Western-backed Maidan coup in Ukraine.

The report indicated that in 2020, the contributions from BRICS countries and the G7 to global economic growth were equal. Since then the performance of the Western-led bloc has been declining. By 2028, the G7’s contribution to the world economy is predicted to decrease to 27.8%, while the BRICS will account for 35%.

Bloomberg calculations show that China will be the top contributor to global growth over the next five years, with its share set to be double that of the US. China’s share of global GDP expansion is expected to represent 22.6% of total world growth by 2028, the outlet wrote. India is projected to contribute 12.9% of global GDP.

“In total, 75% of global growth is expected to be concentrated in 20 countries and over half in the top four: China, India, the US and Indonesia. While Group of Seven countries will comprise a smaller share, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and France are seen among the top 10 contributors,” the outlet wrote.

A recent study by a UK-based macroeconomics research firm has also found that the gap between the two groups in terms of global economic weight is expected to continue to grow. The analysts noted that China and India have been experiencing robust economic growth, and more countries are interested in joining BRICS.

Earlier this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that “more than a dozen” nations have expressed interest in joining BRICS, including Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bangladesh have acquired equity in the New Development Bank, the funding organization of BRICS.

Last year, BRICS countries proposed the creation of their own currency in order to move away from the US dollar and the euro in mutual transactions.


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BRICS set to surpass G7 in economic growth
The member states of the BRICS group, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, are expected to surpass the US-led G7 states in economic growth expectations, according to a Bloomberg report.

Bloomberg estimates that the BRICS nations will contribute 32.1 percent of global growth, compared to the G7’s 29.9 percent, based on the most recent IMF figures.

According to the Bloomberg analysis, the G7 and BRICS nations each contributed equally to global economic growth in 2020. The western-led bloc’s performance, however, has since declined. The G7 is expected to make up just 27.8 percent of the global economy by 2028, while BRICS will make up 35 percent.

“In total, 75 percent of global growth is expected to be concentrated in 20 countries and over half in the top four: China, India, the US, and Indonesia. While Group of Seven countries will comprise a smaller share, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and France are seen among the top 10 contributors,” Bloomberg reports.

The report comes as BRICS has been receiving more and more interest from other states wanting to join.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that “more than a dozen” countries have shown interest in joining BRICS this year, including Algeria, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

Other countries such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Bangladesh have acquired equity in the BRICS’ New Development Bank.

The US Dollar has become more unreliable for dollarized economies due to rising interest rates regulated by the US Federal Reserve (FED) and the bank’s weaponization of the dollar through financial sanctions.

In addition, the west, especially Europe, is facing a growing energy crisis resulting from sanctions targeting Russian energy markets due to its invasion of Ukraine and the US sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline. Germany has also begun to shut down its remaining nuclear power plants.

In January, Lavrov said that the BRICS countries will discuss creating a common currency at the group’s upcoming summit this August.

Referring to the current US dollar-dominated international financial system, which exposes participant countries to the threat of economic sanctions imposed by Washington, Lavrov claimed that “serious, self-respecting countries are well aware of what is at stake, see the incompetence of the ‘masters’ of the current international monetary and financial system, and want to create their own mechanisms to ensure sustainable development, which will be protected from outside dictates.”

On 13 April, Brazil’s President Ignacio Lula da Silva called on the member states of BRICS and countries that seek to become part of it to replace the dollar in foreign trade.

“Every night, I ask myself why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar,” he said, adding the question, “Why can’t we do trade based on our own currencies.”

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Russia and Cuba will continue to work on the formation of a multipolar world order, Sergey Lavrov said during a meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana.
Lavrov noted that the Russian side is satisfied with the way the political dialogue between the two countries is developing.
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[Miller]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=OCcZShH7GuM

George Galloway's short but succinct closing thoughts from the latest MOATS.

[Bill Ryan]

I have to confess, I did like this fun image.

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