Garland Nixon lucidly explains why though neither Russia nor China have proclaimed it openly and formally, there is a strong organic de facto alliance between the two leading Eurasian powers. A formal declaration of strategic unity would give the neocons a gift, says Garland, and that is to be delayed or prevented as long as possible. Meanwhile, the dynamics of the world continue to respond to the new realities on the ground: the economic and military growth of Russia and China, and lately also Iran; the drifting of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and India toward the Beijing/Moscow axis, and the hollowing out of the Western bloc’s military hardware as a result of the Ukraine adventure, which has shown the shallowness of the West in terms of industrial military production. In a few years, neither NATO nor the EU may exist at all, which would be a good thing for humanity.
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ELENA PANINA—While there are indications that Japan will join AUKUS, the Chinese civilization still have an almost bloodthirsty bone to pick with Japan as a result of both the first and second Sino-Japanese wars. I read what the Chinese people say, and cannot but come to the conclusion that they will wipe Japan off the map with relish. Yet, they are a serious people and they are not disrespectful or take decisions about the lives of others on a whim. They also do what they say they are doing and do not play.
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MATT EHRET—Not only is Iran a key player in the Greater Eurasian Partnership serving as a strategic hub for the southern route of China’s BRI, but it is also a keystone of the Russia-Iran-India-led International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) which has become a major force synergizing with the BRI.
Iraq and Iran themselves are in the final stages of building the long-awaited Shalamcheh-Basra railway which will unite the two nations by rail for the first time in decades while also offering a potential extension to the already existent 1500 km railway through Iraq to Syria’s border.
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PAUL EDWARDS—The fate of humanity in the immediate future will be determined by the undeclared but entirely real war between the American Empire and Russia and China. Both gigantic and exceedingly powerful nations are perceived and treated as enemies, one already engaged in proxy war with America in Ukraine, and the other menaced and provoked by American policy on Taiwan.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—The all-out demonisation of revolutionary leaders is an old habit that has become almost an industry in the capitalist West. The defamation of a leader about whom the masses are not just massively ignorant but aggressively disinformed is a devious shortcut to the demonisation of a nation and its threatening system, in this case communism, the direct antidote to capitalism, threatening, that is, to the class interests of the bourgeois elites that control the West.
