F. W. ENGDAHL—Putin did not need to describe “this.” Everyone present knew he meant the savage destruction of life, feeling of worth, and pride for most Russians after 1990. If anyone in the US or the EU thought about Putin’s comments—coming amid an unprecedented US and NATO vilification and demonization campaign against the Russian Federation and Putin personally, including economic sanctions—they most likely saw it as confirmation of Washington claims that Putin’s Russia was out to rebuild the Soviet Union.
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ALEX LO—The purest expression of this US strategy in Asia has been Australia’s costly deal for nuclear-powered submarines under the Aukus security partnership with the United Kingdom and the US.
In a new book, Australian investigative journalist Andrew Fowler has delivered the proverbial smoking gun, courtesy of David Gould, former British undersecretary for defence hired by Canberra as consultant for a programme to replace the country’s ageing submarines.
“Gould revealed for the first time what has long been suspected: one of the submarine’s most important requirements would be to work with the Americans in the South China Sea,” Fowler wrote in Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty.
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ERIC ZUESSE—His answer was duplicitous. At 1:03:52 he had condemned “the neocon ideology, which is bankrupting our country” (which is true), then said, “That money is not being used for self-defense. That money is used for world domination and to make America the policeman of the world. NATO is the instrument of that. I am not going to abolish NATO.” So: he won’t abolish the instrument of America’s being the policeman of the world. Clearly, then, he’s not really against neoconservatism. But he continued there as-if it’s not so: “I’m going to change the function of NATO so that it becomes an instrument of peace.”
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EDITORS—Garland and Laith discuss the situation in the Middle East, Africa, Ukraine, etc., marveling at the arrogant ineptness of the US empire, so well typified by the figure of an utterly corrupt and senile Joe Biden strutting across the world stage pretending that the collective West and Washington remain the Paramount arbiters of world history. Laith updates Garland on the situation in the Arabic sphere, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah, the amazing resistance of Gaza fighters despite the odds, the treacherous moves of Saudi Arabia, and the admirable posture of the Houthis. The reality is that the Empire and its vassals are in deep trouble, much of it of their own choosing, and product of basing their power in an obsolete global political and economic system whose immense contradictions, falsehoods, and anti-human exploitative values are pulling it apart before our eyes, whether it be in the battlefields of Ukraine, Gaza, Southern Lebanon or the Red Sea, not to mention the mounting problems at home with increasingly restive populations, as the recent elections in Britain and especially France reflect.