Tag Archives: Cold War 2.0

Cold War 2.0 update. The recently released PLA white paper.RTChina to build ‘world-class’ military in new strategy as US ‘stirs up rivalry’ between major powers

Two can play that game.Cold War on. US military-industrial complex elated.Sputnik InternationalChinese Flotilla Sails Between Okinawan Islands of Japan - Reports

Andrei Martyanov leaves a key piece out of this post, one that he and others have mentioned previously. The political jostling for control between the Western-leaning liberals (or so-called fifth column), the Russian oligarchs, and military-intelligence is over in Russia. Putin had been balancing these factors previously. Now the Stavka (General Staff) won and is control of Russian policy. This happened some time ago. It began after Kosovo and the eastward Nato expansion under Bill...

The eagle has conveniently forgotten that the original, Ancient Silk Road linked the dragon with the Roman empire for centuries – with no interlopers outside of Eurasia, muses Pepe Escobar. Consortium NewsPEPE ESCOBAR: The Eagle, the Bear and the Dragon

The Kremlin is keenly aware that there could be no sensible dialogue with the United States anymore.… American geopolitical "strategies" are as primitive as people who devise and implement them and Putin is also keenly aware of that--he knows that the US is at war with Russia.... Reminiscence of the FutureHe Still Thinks That It Is A TV Show. Andrei Martyanov, Russian ex-pat and former Soviet military officerSee alsoeconomicintesect.comSteve Bannon Is a Fraud, Totally!Frank Li | Chinese...

President Putin sees this plainly: “The Americans keep on indulging in these games as the actual goal of such games is not to catch Russia in violations, and compel it to abide by the treaty; but to invent a pretext to ruin that treaty – part of its belligerent imperial strategy”. Or, in short, to impose a ‘rule-less, US, global order’. What is happening is that Bolton and Pompeo seem to be precisely taking Trump back to the old 1992 Defence Policy Guidance document, authored by Paul...

Zero HedgeFormer Fed Governor Warns Of "Several Decade Cold War" With China Tyler Durden

The crazies gets crazier. President Trump seems to have lost control of them, prompting the question, who is the president now anyway.Just as with Iraq and WMD, the New Times and the Washington Post are driving the crazy.The NationMore Cold War Extremism and Crises Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton UniversitySee also As the United States squeezes China economically through an escalating trade war, it is...

Economic warfare is heating up. Can kinetic warfare be far behind?TASSSanctions Against Russia Do Not Work, New Measures Should Be Introduced - US SenatorSee alsoThe imperialist powers feeling their oats.As Peters sees it, the economic war is aimed at China.Hey, make up your mind, is it China, or Russia, or Iran, or Venezuela, or Cuba, or ? — anyone refusing to become either a US puppet state, a vassal paying tribute (like European countries), or a colony being exploited.Looking more and...

Cold War 2.0 is heating up. Arms race on. Fort Russ NATO GAINING STRENGTH AND MOMENTUM IN E. EUROPE – Shoigu Paul Antonopoulos SHOIGU FORMS 70 NEW UNITS IN RESPONSE TO NATO BUILDUP ON RUSSIA’S BORDER Joaquin Flores