Superbus Vomitum: Our policies no longer have a shred of decency
Patrice Greanville
Observe our politicians and media, invariably speaking in arrogant Orwellian terms. These people are either convinced of our supremacy or cynically want us to believe that America still rules the world. Either way they are not fit to rule. In their mutually-reinforcing hubris, they haven't accepted that the economic and industrial epicenter already moved to Eurasia. That militarily the US is now more than matched by the Russians and certainly surpassed by their Russo-Chinese strategic alliance. The US now inhabits a world of peer military powers. Harder to swallow for the Neocon fanatics and professional chauvinists is this simple truth: if nuclear weapons didn't exist, Washington would have been put in its place a long time ago. Forced to behave like a regular nation. Nuclear blackmail and the ability to print trillions of dollars with impunity is the only thing that keeps Washington a significant player, and, let's face it, without its unmatched, actually obscene mass media muscle and cultural outreach, the bleeding out of US influence would quickly become a torrent. But the escapist idiocies cranked out by Hollywood and its celebrities still fascinate the world. the imbecilic syntax of social media, which blankets the globe and influences so many young people, is after all formulated according to American idiosyncrasies, where they were first created. As Alex Mercouris says, US media power is probably as important or even more significant than sheer financial clout in world affairs, notably so in an age of hybrid wars in which reality perception is among the first thing to be weaponised by scoundrel civilizations.
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Nord Stream explosions are a ‘tremendous opportunity’ – US
Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly in Washington, DC, September 30, 2022 © AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Washington can now step in as Europe’s top supplier of LNG, the Biden administration explained Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly in Washington, DC, September 30, 2022 © AP / Jacquelyn Martin
The US views the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as a “tremendous opportunity” to wean the continent off of Russian energy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on Friday. With winter approaching, Blinken said that the US wants Europe to decrease its fuel use.
Speaking to reporters in Washington, Blinken boasted that the US is now “the leading supplier of [liquefied natural gas] to Europe.” In addition to shipping its own fuel to Europe, Blinken said that the US is working with European leaders to find ways to “decrease demand” and “speed up the transition to renewables.”
“It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from [Russian President] Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs,” Blinken declared.
The US likely stands to gain the most from the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines, which were damaged by a series of explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm earlier this week. Washington has for years been trying to convince European leaders to swap Russian gas for its LNG, and the severity of the damage to the undersea conduits now means that Europe is “indefinitely deprived” of Russian gas via this route, Russian energy operator Gazprom stated on Friday.
In a speech on Friday, President Vladimir Putin blamed the explosions on “the Anglo-Saxons,” a Russian colloquialism for the US-UK transatlantic alliance.
“It’s obvious to everyone who benefits from it,” Putin explained. “Those who benefit are the ones who have done it.”
While the way is now open for the US to sell its more expensive LNG to Europe, the shortfall cannot be covered overnight. US exporters warned throughout the summer that they will not be able to ship enough gas to meet demand on the continent, and many of Europe’s import terminals are still under construction or in planning.
Meanwhile, energy bills are skyrocketing across Europe. In Germany, which faces the prospect of rapid “deindustrialization,” protesters took to the streets to demand the re-opening of Nord Stream 2, just days before the explosions. Food shortages have been predicted in Germany and firewood is in hot demand across the continent as citizens struggle to heat their homes.
“There’s a lot of hard work to do to make sure that countries and partners get through the winter,” Blinken said, suggesting, as EU leaders have also done, that Europe work to “reduce demand” for gas. (RT)
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