ANDREW KORYBKO—The Russian economy weathered the West’s unprecedented sanctions regime, but Russia’s grand plans to create alternative financial institutions and pivot to the non-West haven’t been as successful. This analysis here about how the latest BRICS Summit achieved nothing of tangible significance at all points out how none of this association’s ambitious initiatives were rolled out. It also hyperlinks to proof that the Chinese-based New Development Bank and the SCO Bank surprisingly comply with US sanctions.
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DAVID CRONIN—Another example of crass incongruity can be found in how the EU recently approved a scientific research grant for a pancreatitis project run by Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The grant was signed on 21 October – just a few days after Israel attacked two of the three hospitals still functioning (albeit barely) in northern Gaza.
Why is the EU prepared to support Israeli medical projects at the very same time Israel is annihilating Palestine’s medical system?
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GODFREE ROBERTS—America is leading the West in a death spiral. Its greatest entrepreneur, Elon Musk, is a Western media punching bag1, once-mighty Boeing and Intel are bankrupt, its economies are in recession2 and its foreign policy is decided by Israel. 4 No Western leader, and neither American Presidential candidate is fit to run a business, let alone a country whose economy is collapsing as its debt reaches Weimar Republic levels.
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INDRAJIT—The Resistance made a strategic bet on rocket and tunnel technology 30 years ago and it’s playing out now. America made a corresponding bet on jets and avarice and now les jeux sonts faits. The strategic decisions leading to this war happened in the 1980s and neither side is changing. As Lenin didn’t say, there are years when decades happen, and these are those years indeed.
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EDITOR—Geoanalyst Mark Sleboda finds it hard to believe that Trump can deliver on his ultrafast peace promises in Ukraine. Trump—and maybe his advisors, too— betraying a great deal of typical American imperialist arrogance and ignorance on this subject—are in for a rude awakening, he warns. As well, Trump’s promise that he won’t start any wars is liable to be affirmed or falsified by the Deep State surrounding all US presidents, representing the ruling class that actually controls America’s course. Brutally put, it is Trump’s intellectual laziness and massive ignorance about international affairs and history that makes him unable to play a more assertive role in domestic and foreign policy. Whether this is good or bad depends on the observer’s viewpoint.
