A Tale of Two Ports: A Potential Shift in Indian Ocean Maritime Politics?

January 8, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A Tale of Two Ports: A Potential Shift in Indian Ocean Maritime Politics? (archived)

De-Dollarization Kicks Into High Gear

April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The US dollar is essential to US global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.
De-Dollarization Kicks Into High Gear

Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by Conor Gallagher

Russia, Iran, and India are speeding up efforts to complete a new transport corridor that would largely cut Europe, its sanctions, and any other threats out of the picture. The International North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC) is a land-and sea-based 7,200-km long network comprising rail, road and water routes that are aimed at reducing costs and travel time for freight transport in a bid to boost trade between Russia, Iran, Central Asia, India.
Russia’s “Sanction-Proof” Trade Corridor to India Frustrates the Neocons

H/T: Alex Christoforou

Moon of Alabama: In The Multipolar World Iran Will No Longer Fear US Sanctions

July 20, 2022July 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

When U.S. president Joe Biden recently held a number of talks in the Middle East, Iran was one point on his agenda. The U.S. has made it clear that it does not want to reenter into the nuclear deal with Iran. It is instead again attempting a ‘maximum pressure’ strategy to pressure Iran into additional concessions.
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In his book The Great Chessboard the former National Security Advisor of the United States Zbigniew Brzeziński wrote:
“Potentially, the most dangerous scenario [for America] would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.”
Joe Biden has finally managed to create that.
In The Multipolar World Iran Will No Longer Fear US Sanctions

Harpers Declares It’s Over – The ‘American Century’ Is Gone

July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Harpers Declares It’s Over – The ‘American Century’ Is Gone

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Empire Burlesque

H/T: Franc Analysis

The oligarchs response to the loss of global full spectrum dominance will be increased military action. Their ability to foment support for aggression by the American citizenry will be used as a response to the success of China’s model of foreign investment in trade and reproduction, which will become the scapegoat for dwindling purchasing power caused by financialization of the American economy.
Posted by: Wilikins | Jul 13 2022 16:13 utc | 27

The Empire is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Pepe Escobar
Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans
The Empire is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan

Cutting Through the Fog Masking ‘a New Page in the Art of War’

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Cutting Through the Fog Masking ‘a New Page in the Art of War’

In the larger geopolitical spectrum, the non-stop war of attrition by the Empire against Russia with Ukraine as a pawn is a war against the New Silk Roads; Maidan in 2014 took place only a few months after the launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), then OBOR (One Belt, One Road) in Kazakhstan and Indonesia. It’s also a war on the Russian concept of Greater Eurasia Partnership. In sum: it’s an all-out war on Eurasia integration.