De Onthullende Yoeri Albrecht Affaire 18

De Italiaanse freelance journalist Thomas Fazi, gespecialiseerd in Europese aangelegenheden, bekend als auteur van ondermeer The Battle for Europe: How an Elite Hijacked a Continent — and How We Can Take It Back (2014), schreef onder de kop ‘How America Controls Europe’ in het internationale tijdschrift Compact van 27 juni 2023 dat:

One of the tenets of the realist school of international relations is the ‘rational-actor assumption’: the notion that states, or at least great powers, think and act in a manner that they believe will advance their own interests. The current Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the wider NATO-Russia proxy war playing out in the background, largely validates this theory. The conflict’s three main actors — Ukraine, Russia and the United States — are all pursuing strategies that one may or may not agree with, but which can hardly be considered irrational. Ukraine understands itself to be fighting for its survival, while Russia believes it is pushing back against an existential threat: Ukraine’s de facto integration into NATO. The United States, even if it doesn’t say so, is clearly using the conflict to pursue geopolitical advantage in the Eurasian region by bleeding Russia, driving a wedge between Moscow and Brussels, and revamping NATO. In all three of these cases, the rational actor assumption holds.

There is a glaring exception, however: the European Union. A rational, self-interested approach, at least from the perspective of Western European countries (which have no reason to share their Eastern counterparts’ existential fear of Russia) would have focused on reaching a diplomatic solution to the conflict and re-normalizing economic relations with Russia as soon as possible. Instead, since the start of the conflict, European nations have unquestioningly deferred to US strategy, placing heavy sanctions on Russia and joining America’s proxy war by providing ever-growing levels of military aid to Ukraine and supporting the narrative that the conflict can only be resolved with Ukraine’s total military victory. This strategy, contrary to that of the other major actors involved, has jeopardized Europe’s strategic interests, from both an economic and a security perspective.

On the economic front, it was obvious at the outset that cutting off relations with Russia was going to hurt Europe more than its adversary. Indeed, Russia has emerged largely unscathed from the sanctions, if not strengthened, while Europe is still reeling from the knock-on effects of that decision, most notably a “massive and historic energy shock” that crippled industry and households alike. Just last week, the eurozone officially fell into recession due to soaring inflation. (The United States, in contrast, is profiting from the situation, because it has forced Europe to rely on importing much more expensive American natural gas).

https://compactmag.com/article/how-america-controls-europe

De  oorlogszuchtige voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, Ursula von der Leyen, op sleeptouw genomen door Joe Biden, een president die niet geheel compos mentis is. 

Met andere woorden, in plaats van een diplomatieke oplossing te zoeken waardoor de EU zichzelf niet in de voet zou schieten, heeft de politieke en bureaucratische elite in Brussel en de aangesloten lidstaten zich laten meeslepen in een voor Europa zelfvernietigend conflict. Maar juist op dit onderwerp, deze context van de uitgelokte proxy oorlog met Rusland, rust voor de Europese politiek en pers een taboe, terwijl toch op donderdag 8 juni 2023 bekend werd dat de: ‘Eurozone sinks into recession as cost of living crisis takes toll,’ en de inflatie in mei ruim 6 procent was. 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/08/eurozone-sinks-into-recession-as-cost-of-living-crisis-takes-toll#:~:text=Figures from Eurostat, the EU's,consecutive quarters of negative growth     

Bovendien is de VS erin geslaagd de macht van Europa te breken. De Indiase geopolitieke expert S.L. Kanthan meldde op 3 juli 2023 onder de kop ‘The fall of Europe’ het volgende:

In 2008, the EU’s economy was 10% larger than that of the U.S.

Now? The U.S. is 50% larger than the EU!

Europe has been Japanified. 

This is the price of being a vassal of the US, which has stymied (in het slop helpen. svh) Europe in many ways:

The real estate bubble and subprime mortgage crisis from Wall Street, which pulled Europe into the scam. Europe never recovered from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.

Technology: The US made sure that Europe never developed alternatives to the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon - e-commerce and cloud computing, Apple etc. 

Europe has also fallen behind in startups, AI, green energy, quantum computing and virtually every critical thing.

The number of European companies in the global Fortune 500 list has dropped dramatically as well.

The US bombed countries and forced Europe to accept millions of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia etc. 

Proxy war with Russia has also forced Europe to become dependent on the US for energy. The de-industrialization of EU continues.

The biggest culprits are the ruling class of EU and individual European countries. Incredible traitors who are destroying their own people. 

And the average European citizen is so clueless and brainwashed that this collective suicide is just unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/Kanthan2030/status/1675735670558715905

Door het ontbreken van een alternatief voor de neoliberale idelogie zijn de Amerikaanse neoconservatieven onder zowel Republikeinse als Democratische presidenten erin geslaagd de macht naar zich toe te trekken. Na het Midden Oosten in een chaos te hebben veranderd zijn deze extremisten de drijvende kracht geworden achter de uitgelokte proxy war in Oekraïne om een regime change te forceren in Moskou. De huidige Europese politieke kaste gehoorzaamd, en wel omdat zij de eigen directe belangen voorop stelt. Door het veroorzaken van chaos in de meest bevolkingsrijke continent verwachten de neocons de opkomende macht van Azië te breken. Alleen op die manier menen zij de alleenheerschappij over de wereld te kunnen grijpen, en hopen zij hun droom over wereldheerschappij te verwezenlijken. Dat wij hier niet te maken hebben met gemarginaliseerde gangsters, moet duidelijk zijn aan het feit dat de neocons de meest invloedrijke pleitbezorgers waren van de desastreuze inval in Irak, en van de radicalisering van het huidige zionistische regime in de zelfbenoemde ‘Joodse staat.’

Wat betreft hun verlangen naar hegemonie verschilt deze machthebbers in niets van heersers als Dzjengis Kahn en Adolf Hitler. Vanzelfsprekend blijft de ‘Wille zur Macht’ niet beperkt tot de onderwerping van Rusland, ook China zal de directieven van Washington en Wall Street moeten gaan gehoorzamen. Vooruitlopend hierop waarschuwde op 24 augustus 2016 Crispin Rovere, lid van de Australische Labor Party, onder de kop ‘A Review of RAND Corporation’s “War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable”’:

Among US analysts, war with China is no longer a taboo subject. RAND Corporation has now tackled the issue head on, publishing a lengthy analysis titled: 'War with China: Thinking through the Unthinkable‘. So far, Paul Dibb and Mike Scrafton have provided two excellent assessments on what this means for Australia. This review evaluates RAND’s assessment itself.

RAND presents four conflict scenarios over two different time periods: low-intensity and high-intensity, short and long duration, and occurring either in 2015 or 2025. The low-intensity conflicts are fairly straightforward; however, RAND’s high-intensity 2025 scenario draws a number of contestable  (aanvechtbare. svh) conclusions, namely that:

• Escalation to the nuclear level in any US-China conflict, however intense, is very unlikely;
• War would be far more devastating for China, with an estimated 25%-35%  reduction in GDP after one year, as opposed to a 5%-10% reduction for the US;
• A long conflict would test the internal stability of the Chinese state; and
• The prospect of major land operations is low, unless the war was on the Korean peninsula.

RAND’s ultimate conclusion is summed up by this quote: ‘China could not win, and might lose, a severe war with the United States in 2025.’

Vooruitlopend op de geplande gewelddadige confrontatie met China, die het risico met zich meebrengt van een Derde Wereldoorlog tussen nucleaire grootmachten, werd zomer 2012 bekend gemaakt dat de: 

US is planning to move the majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has revealed. He said that by 2020 about 60% of the US fleet would be deployed there, in the clearest indication yet of the new US strategy in Asia.’ Last November, President Barack Obama announced that the Asia-Pacific region was a 'top priority' of US security policy. His comments were seen as a challenge to China, which is striving to be the main regional power.

‘By 2020, the navy will reposture (herpositioneren. svh) its forces from today's roughly 50-50% split between the Pacific and the Atlantic to about a 60-40 split between those oceans,’ Mr Panetta told the annual Shangri-La Dialogue conference.

‘That will include six aircraft carriers in this region, a majority of our cruisers, destroyers, combat ships and submarines.’

Mr Panetta said the US would aim to increase the number and size of the training exercises it conducts alongside its allies in the region.

He said US budget problems and cut-backs would not stop the changes, adding that the US defence department had money in a five-year budget plan to achieve its goals.

‘It will take years for these concepts, and many of the investments we are making, to be fully realized,’ he said.

‘But make no mistake, in a steady, deliberate and sustainable way, the United States military is rebalancing and brings enhanced capabilities to this vital region.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-18305750 

Het agressief expansionisme van Washington wordt door de overgrote meerderheid van de Amerikaanse satellietlanden in de NAVO gesteund. Op 10 mei 2023 berichtte CNN:

The opening of a NATO liaison office in Japan would mark a significant development for the Western alliance amid deepening geopolitical fault lines, and is likely to attract criticism from the Chinese government, which has previously warned against such a move.

The Nikkei Asia first reported plans to open the office in Japan last Wednesday, citing unnamed Japanese and NATO officials.

NATO has similar liaison offices in other places including Ukraine and Vienna. The liaison office in Japan will enable discussions with NATO’s security partners, such as South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, on geopolitical challenges, emerging and disruptive technologies, and cyber threats, Nikkei reported last week.

In a statement to CNN last week, a NATO spokesperson said: ‘As to plans to open a liaison office in Japan, we won’t go into the details of ongoing deliberations among NATO allies.’ She added that NATO and Japan ‘have a long-standing cooperation.’

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/10/asia/japan-foreign-minister-hayashi-nato-intl-hnk/index.html 

Hoewel de Europese NAVO-leden en de EU de gang van zaken goedkeuren komt het verzet onder de Amerikaanse intelligentsia op gang. Onder de kop ‘To Foreign Policy Veteran, the Real Danger Is at Home’ meldde The New York Times op 1 juli 2023: 

Richard N. Haass says the most serious threat to global security is the United States. Everywhere he has gone as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard N. Haass has been asked the same question: What keeps him up at night? He has had no shortage of options over the years — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, climate change, international terrorism, food insecurity, the global pandemic.

But as he steps down after two decades running America’s most storied private organization focused on international affairs, Mr. Haass has come to a disturbing conclusion. The most serious danger to the security of the world right now? The threat that costs him sleep? The United States itself.

’It’s us,’ he said ruefully (droevig. svh) the other day.

That was never a thought this global strategist would have entertained until recently. But in his mind, the unraveling of the American political system means that for the first time in his life the internal threat has surpassed the external threat. Instead of being the most reliable anchor in a volatile world, Mr. Haass said, the United States has become the most profound source of instability and an uncertain exemplar of democracy.

‘Our domestic political situation is not only one that others don’t want to emulate,’ he said in an interview ahead of his last day at the Council on Foreign Relations on Friday. ‘But I also think that it’s introduced a degree of unpredictability and a lack of reliability that’s really poisonous. For America’s ability to function successfully in the world, I mean, it makes it very hard for our friends to depend on us.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/richard-haass-biden-trump-foreign-policy.html 

Een insider als Richard Haass mag dan wel waarschuwen voor de agressieve buitenland politiek van zijn land, ook op dit onderwerp rust een taboe voor de polderpers en de polderpolitiek. Zowel links als rechts staan met een kadaverdiscipline achter het Amerikaans militair-industrieel complex. Beide beseffen niet hoe gevaarlijk de ‘onvoorspelbaarheid’ en het ‘gebrek aan betrouwbaarheid’ die ‘echt giftig is’ voor de wereldvrede. Zij weigeren te luisteren naar een vooraanstaand expert als Haass, die van binnenuit weet dat de politiek van Washington ‘het erg moeilijk [maakt] voor onze vrienden om op ons te vertrouwen.’ Omdat zowel de Nederlandse pers als de politiek de afgelopen vier decennia gecorrumpeerd is geraakt zijn zij ziende blind geworden. Daar zullen we een hoge prijs voor gaan betalen. Maar door de hier heersende zelfcensuur zal er geen verandering optreden, tot natuurlijk de wal het schip keert. Meer daarover de volgende keer.

 

Eén van de corrupte, uiterst onnozele, kongsi's in Nederland. 'En gelachen dat we hebben.'