The climate rings false when the English and the Americans joined forces to recover a contract worth 35 billion euros to build several nuclear-powered submarines that Australia had already signed with French operators in 2019. To measure the blow struck , we must compare with the 36 Rafales aircraft bought by India, almost delivered, for an amount of 8 billion, or the 2 Mistral helicopter carriers for an amount of one billion, already paid for by Russia, that France had refused to deliver. If this isn’t a declaration of war, it looks like it.
This American decision comes just a month after the Taliban entered Kabul. The day before, the UN was in the process of organizing a quest to recover with difficulty a billion in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan. France is committed for 100 million euros. The United States for 60 while they block the assets of the Afghan central bank which amount to 10 billion. This is proof that the United States does not care about the entire international community, in particular, the “allies”.
On August 20, I wrote that “in Afghanistan, the United States keeps control”. On the 26th, I titled: “G7: the United States masters of time, places and issues in Afghanistan”. In another article, I recalled Nixon’s unilateral announcement in 1971 to end the convertibility of the dollar into gold. When the Europeans went to demand accountability, the response was scathing: “the dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem”. I paraphrase then: “Afghanistan is our business but it is your problem”. Biden gave the Europeans the unsolvable Afghan problem. He has a free hand to plunder the world on all fronts.
Speeches have no value. Yesterday they proclaimed the Taliban to be terrorists, today he says the danger is the Chinese Communist Party. In practice, they need money to pay off 30 trillion in debt turned into private profit.
Containment of Chinese expansion is a joke. It is about taking back control of the global economy. If we read in hollow, “America First” emphasizes that we are more “first”. Trump or Biden, Presidents change, but they are Americans first. Will Macron continue to follow them?
Ary Yée Chong Tchi Kan
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