While the multinational companies are trying to relocate production to other Asian countries, this takes time, effort and money. One can only imagine what the Chinese leader and one of the world’s richest men (Gates) talked about during their meeting in Beijing last week. Pressure on the Biden administration was likely from big retailers in the US–Walmart, Target, CVS, and the rest–who could foresee their shelves going bare in the event of a serious altercation between the US and China.
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EDITOR—The Prigozhin rebellion analysed. The West’s military machine has degraded, it cannot intimidate and exert the same blackmail it did a generation ago. That’s why the Hegemon is finished. Meanwhile, the Russians and Chinese have patiently prepared for a long world war. Plus: Col. Douglas Macgregor’s provocative views on the mounting pressure in the Russian Stavka (high command of the armed forces) to finish the Ukraine war before NATO finds an excuse to intervene openly and en masse.
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MK BHADRAKUMAR—What we do not know is at what point Russian intelligence got wind of it. The Kremlin acted forcefully, decisively and with foresight in real time to scotch the coup attempt within hours. By Saturday evening, the foreign intelligence chief Sergey Narishkin announced that the coup attempt had failed. The Russian authorities were waiting for Prigozhin to make his move. It is only natural that Russian intelligence kept a strong presence right inside the Wagner tent all through. Damn it, it is a war zone where Russia’s fate is hanging in the balance. The lyrics of the famous Sting song come to mind: ‘Every breath you take / And every move you make / Every bond you break / Every step you take / I’ll be watching you…’
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GEORGE TRENIN—The West may not currently have the ability to drag Central Asia over to its side, but this does not mean that it will give up on such attempts in the future. In this respect, Western countries are using their traditional “soft power” tools: Non-Government Organizations (NGO) and media outlets.
“In Bishkek alone, 18,500 such organizations are registered. Contrary to the constituent documents, many of them interfere in the political life of the country, including by financing the organization of political rallies in Kyrgyzstan,” says a note to the draft law on the tightening of control over NGOs that has been submitted to the Kyrgyz parliament.
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THE SAKER—I am on record as saying that Russia has been at war with the Empire since at least 2013. Yes, that war is 80% informational, about 15% economic and about 5% kinetic. But it was (and still is) a very real war: the Empire lost that war on January 8th 2020 and the USA lost this war on January 6th, 2021. What is taking place now are truly mopping up operations, especially after the Joint Declaration of Russia and China! Objectively, General Ivashov by his open letter is serving the interests of the CIA/MI6 PSYOPs, now the entire Western media can say “Russian generals are opposed to Putin’s aggressive campaign against the Ukraine”.
