PEPE ESCOBAR, ANALYST SPECIALIST IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
The West won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. It was predictable that, sooner or later, the heirs of Chinese civilization would formally identify the hegemon as the main source of chaos, inequality and war on the entire planet...
A long walk under persistent flurries of snow produces a powerful sensation on the skin and in the soul. But those selected stops and enlightening conversations crystallize disparate vectors a year after the start of this phase of the proxy war between the United States/NATO and Russia.
This is how Moscow welcomes you: the undisputed capital of the multipolar world of the 21st century.
One reflection jumps out at you: President Putin’s speech last week was a game changer when it comes to demarcating the red lines we now face.
His words acted like a powerful drill drilling into the short-term memories of the Collective West. Not surprisingly, it had a somewhat sobering effect in contrast to the non-stop binge of Russophobia in NATO space.
Alexey Dobrinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, has correctly described it: “it is a methodological basis for understanding, describing and building multipolarity”.
For years, some of us have been showing how the emerging multipolar world is beginning to be built as a global space that goes far beyond physical and economic high-speed interconnectivity.
Now, when we reach this stage, it is as if Putin and Xi Jinping, each in their own way, are conceptualizing the two fundamental civilizational vectors of multipolarity. This is the deeper meaning of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership, invisible to the naked eye.
Metaphorically, it also says a lot about Russia’s turn to the east. A turn towards the rising sun, now irreversible, which was the only logical path to follow.
As it is, with a hegemon reeling and furious and lost in its own daze, the PRC has a little more freedom than the Russian Federation, since the Middle Kingdom is not, yet, under the same existential pressure as which they have submitted to the Russians
Even if the hegemon’s ultimate goal is the Chinese “threat”, Russia is a giant obstacle in the Hegemon’s warmongering path no matter what.
Putin’s ability to assess an extremely delicate geopolitical moment, through a dose of raw realism, is something worth examining. And then there is Foreign Minister Lavrov, who put the icing on the cake, calling the hapless American ambassador to order: Oh yes, this is hybrid warfare and other. NATO mercenaries, as well as their junk hardware, are legitimate targets.
Dmitry Medvedev, vice president of the Security Council, made it clearer: “Russia risks being torn apart if it stops a special military operation (SMO) before achieving victory.”
This message is very important because it is a public signal to the Chinese leadership: this is the official and immovable position of the Kremlin.
The Chinese restore the Mandate of Heaven
All of these vectors continue to evolve with the inevitable political fallout from the sabotage of the Nord Streams, the first military attack against the European Union with state-of-the-art terrorism.
In tandem with Putin, the Chinese Foreign Ministry chose this geopolitical/existential moment to finally take off its gloves, it did so with this flourish: a document that instantly became a massive hit in the Chinese media and was scrutinized with relish throughout the East. from Asia.
In a dizzying enumeration of all the lethal follies of the Hegemon, for decades, the Foreign Relations text constitutes a point of no return for Chinese diplomacy, characterized, always, by passivity, ambivalence, moderation and extreme courtesy. .
So such a change is another “achievement” of the chinophobia and mendacious hostility exhibited by American neoconservatives and neoliberals.
For scholar Quan Le, the writing recalls the traditional way (in modern language) of how Chinese rulers spoke to their people before going to war.
In fact, it is an axio-epistemo-political proclamation that justifies a war, which in the Chinese universe means a war ordered by a Higher Power capable of restoring Justice and Harmony in a Troubled Universe.
After such a statement, the Chinese warriors were ideologically equipped to mercilessly attack the entity judged to be disturbing the Harmony of the Universe: in our case, the neoconservative and neoliberal psychopaths commanded by the American elite.
Of course, in the Chinese universe there is no place for “God”, much less in a Christian version; “God” for the Chinese means the trinity Beauty-Goodness-Truth, Celestial Timeless Universal Principles. The closest concept to understand for a non-Chinese is the “Dao”: the Way. Thus the Path to the Beauty-Goodness-Truth trinity symbolically represents Beauty-Goodness-Truth.
Beijing has already spoken, but the West Collective has no idea what the Chinese said. They have issued an axio-epistemo-political proclamation that gives them legitimacy to restore the Timeless Celestial Universal Principles. They will be, fulfilling the Mandate of Heaven, nothing less.
The West won’t know what hit them until it’s too late. It was predictable that, sooner or later, the heirs of Chinese civilization would formally identify the hegemon as the main source of chaos, inequality and war on the entire planet.
To put it bluntly, in street language, to hell with this American bullshit of hegemony justified by “manifest destiny.”
Here we are. Do you want Hybrid Warfare? We’ll return the favor.
Returning to the Wolfowitz Doctrine
A former CIA adviser has published a sobering report on “a pebble on a rocky road”: the possible end of the Kiev regime now that some elite-sent parrots are contemplating an “exit” with minimal loss of face.
It never hurts to remember that back in the year 2000, in the world before September 11, the rabid neoconservative Paul Wolfowitz justified a geopolitical decision: Russia had to be provoked with a war in Ukraine. In this unforgettable seminar, held in Washington, Wolfowitz pledged to finance the destruction of Russia.
Everyone remembers Wolfowitz’s doctrine, it was essentially a vulgar rehash of Brzezinski’s ideas: to maintain permanent US hegemony it was paramount to prevent the emergence of any potential competitor.
The result? We now have two competitors, experts in nuclear technologies, united by a comprehensive strategic partnership.
As I finished my walk, paying due respect to the heroes of 1941-1945, I had an inescapable feeling, as much as Russia is a master of riddles and China a master of paradox, their strategists are now working full-time on how replenish all the threads of the Hybrid War against the Hegemon.
