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    Diogenes of Babylon posted an update 5 years ago

    US-NATO vs Russia-China in a Hybrid War to the Finish

    “What happened in the past few days between Anchorage and Guilin continues to reverberate. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that Brussels “destroyed” the relationship between Russia and the EU, he focused on how the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership is getting stronger and stronger.

    Not so casual synchronicity revealed that as Lavrov was being properly hosted by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guilin – scenic lunch in the Li river included -, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken was visiting NATO’s James-Bondish HQ outside Brussels.

    Lavrov made it quite clear that the core of Russia-China revolves around establishing an economic and financial axis to counterpunch the Bretton Woods arrangement. That implies doing everything to protect Moscow and Beijing from “threats of sanctions by other states”; progressive de-dollarization; and advances in crypto-currency.”

    https://www.unz.com/pescobar/us-nato-vs-russia-china-in-a-hybrid-war-to-the-finish/

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      Billy Bob replied 5 years ago

      Well maybe Nikita Khrushchev‘s statement “We will bury you “ to Nixon will ring true.
      I remember when Russia and China were buds and both totalitarian communist countries. One does not lightly let go of a friend.

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        FiatLux replied 5 years ago

        It will be interesting to see where Russia-China relations go. Historically, the Russians and Chinese have a lot of mutual dislike and disdain for each other. And Russia is hardly communist anymore. But none of that matters if geopolitics makes an alliance necessary. (That’s assuming the whole thing isn’t pure theater. I’m never quite sure.)

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          Diogenes of Babylon replied 5 years ago

          Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?

          “Perhaps our greatest Chief Justice John Marshall said, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

          “A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is,” said Tom Paine, who was echoed by the father of the Constitution, Madison himself:

          “Democracy is the most vile form of government. Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”

          By the end of a long life, Thomas Jefferson concluded: “A Democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.”

          Democracy and autocracy — of which monarchies and dictatorships are examples — are forms of government, not objects of worship. It is the country that engages the heart, not the system of government by which the country is governed.”

          https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/autocracy-vs-democracy-or-china-vs-america/