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
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Three Other Writers With Thoughts On Ukraine
Hezbollah: Flying drones to Karish gas field conveyed message to Israel
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says its recent flying of three unarmed drones toward the Karish gas field was aimed to warn Israel not to conduct any extraction operation prior to resolving a long-standing maritime border dispute between Beirut and the regime in Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah: Flying drones to Karish gas field conveyed message to Israel
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Israel’s Karish Offshore Gas Field: Facts and Figures:
Meanwhile, Israel, Egypt, and the European Union are expected to sign a memorandum of understanding on increasing gas exports, though it is difficult to see what immediate practical effect this will have. Israel’s Ministry of Energy will also open another round of bidding for licenses to explore in its EEZ. The degree of interest shown in this round will indicate how international energy companies currently regard the attractiveness of Israeli prospects.
Russia’s energy revenue higher now than just before Ukraine war, U.S. official says
Russia may be getting more revenue from its fossil fuels now than shortly before its invasion of Ukraine, as global price increases offset the impact of Western efforts to restrict its sales, U.S. energy security envoy Amos Hochstein told lawmakers during a hearing on Thursday.
Russia’s energy revenue higher now than just before Ukraine war, U.S. official says
Russia, Ukraine, and the USA: Trapped in a Cultural Script
Europe Must Learn To Cheat On Its Sanctions (Just Like The U.S. Is Doing It)
April 01, 2022 – Moon of Alabama
The European Union and China will hold a virtual summit today. Before the summit started Brussels has strewn rumors that it would pressure China to not support Russia.
China is of course rejecting any pressure and retaliates by pointing out Europe’s weak strategic autonomy:
Europe Must Learn To Cheat On Its Sanctions (Just Like The U.S. Is Doing It)
Comment by the Author of The New Dark Age:
Has the EU really been ‘captured’by the US? I think not! The major European powers, Germany, France, Italy and Holland (along with the UK), are an integral part of the Imperialist Bloc. When you talk about their interests being harmed, you are conflating the interests of the capitalist classes (and their essential servants) with those of the working people of these countries. Since when have the ruling classes of the Imperialists given a flying fuck about their working classes! They have vast amounts of capital, they’re not touched by the any of it, anymore than by the fake Pandemic. As with ‘traditional’ wars fought by capitalism, this is just another kind of war and as with traditional wars, it’s not only about markets and competing capitalist classes, it’s about destroying capital! It’s just as much a World War as the previous ones, but fought in an entirely different way, using different weapons. It has consumed (or is on the process of consuming) even more surplus capital than WWI/II, you just don’t see it! When will the left wise up? They got conned by the Bug and they’re now being conned by the Sanctions War on the planet!
The New Dark Age
Ukraine’s history and NATO’s role explained
March 14, 2022
There is a war in Ukraine. Outwardly, it looks like an armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All political forces, including Left, have spoken out about these events. The range of assessments: from humanistic-emotional (“people are dying, stop the war”) to purely class (“The West is pushing two oligarchic regimes”). In fact, this conflict has deep roots. When analyzing the situation, we must take into account both the national content of the class struggle and the class content of the national struggle.
Ukraine’s history and NATO’s role explained
Canada’s fury at Russia’s recognition of the DPR & LPR shows its continuing subservience to US Empire
There has been a great deal of russophobic and sinophobic frenzy of late in our so-called mainstream media and on the part of politicians in Washington, Canada, the U.K. and Germany. What are the underlying reasons for this? Is it true that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is ‘imminent’?
Canada’s fury at Russia’s recognition of the DPR & LPR shows its continuing subservience to US Empire (Archived)
America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies
The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia
America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies
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