Duality: different outlook and concept

With thanks to Nat South

FT Headline 21 March 2023

“The logic of events dictates that we [Russia] fully become a Chinese resource colony,” the person said. “Our servers will be from Huawei. We will be China’s major suppliers of everything..By the end of 2023 the yuan [renminbi] will be our main trade currency”.

President Xi Jinping is two days into his official state visit in Russia, which has included some barbs thrown by U.S. officials from afar. Nightly reports 👇https://t.co/s7Px3g48Yt

— POLITICO (@politico) March 21, 2023

John Kirby:

“As far as this bilateral relationship is concerned, Russia is indeed China’s junior partner.”

The Guardian

“Kremlin propaganda depicts the summit as consolidation of a partnership. That is a fiction for bruised Russian egos. The Chinese president is not Putin’s friend, he is a patron taking homage from a client.“

The amount of unadulterated projection in one article is telling:

“The invasion of Ukraine was an epic blunder. Before it, Putin had options. He had hedging positions with the west; influence bought with gas. Now he is an indicted war criminal running a glorified petrol station for countries that don’t care about western sanctions, with a side hustle in leasing mercenaries to warlords.”

Notice the absolute need to rehash:

1. Russia is a “glorified petrol station”, again taking that quote, said here last year, but orginally from Senator McCain, who back in 2014 said that “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country.” “All it – all he’s got is gas and oil.”  Surreal level of crass ignorance with sheer hubris thrown in for good measure.

2. President Putin is now a “war criminal”, so the timing of the ICC announcement wasn’t by chance, it was done deliberately to set into concrete the narrative, as well as bury the 20th brutual and bloody anniversary of the U.S. and UK led invasion and wholesale destruction of Iraq.   Remember that President Putin was indicted for the removal of children away from a war zone, to safer place.  Now this is the kind of activity, that the U.S. carried out on a grand scale at the end of the Vietnam war, in an operation known as “Operation baby-lift“.

Needless to say that some of these ‘kidnapped’ children has indeed returned to Ukraine, (ore reunited with family here), helped by Russian authorities and with Ukrainian officials, here’s the very same Guardian story, recounting one family reunion.  Strange kind of war crime, hypocrisy when you consider the content of the next paragraph.

3] Deflection on a grand scale. Noticeably,  none of the elites in Washington or London have ever been indicted as war criminals for their heinous advocacy of atrocities in the Middle East, “a rule for thee, not for me”.  A prime example would be Madeleine Albright, former US Secretary of State, in a 1996 CBS 60 minutes interview where she publicly admitted that she thinks the deaths of half a million Iraqi children were ‘worth it’, (a cursory look at her career here).

4] The various Washington created PMCs don’t count as mercenaries, nor do the death squads of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s count as mercenaries.   Is this Guardian grifter alluding to the African governments who chose to hire a certain Russian company?   A quite arrogant take in an article that was published days after a high-level Second International Parliamentary Conference “Russia-Africa” took place, with dozens of African leaders.  President Putin stated that more than $20B in debts from African states was written off.   A stark constrast to endless implementation of U.S. sanctions that contribute to misery, poverty and hunger in places such as Yemen and Syria, as well as the food shortages in Africa, not helped by Ukrainian grain going elsewhere and also Russian grain exports that are hindered due to Western sanctions.

There is a noticeable US Government and Western MSM’s propensity to emphasise that Russia’s a “junior partner” to China, in a very derogatory manner, as evidenced by a growing raft of articles and acerbic comments.

Another case of crass Western MSM with their dose of sour grapes, mixed with vindictiveness.  Again, a complete failure to take even a nanosecond, a long hard look in the mirror.

All of this well-known projection by Western experts and MSM, is just a continuous massive exercise in several of the “5 Ds”:

deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, or destroy.

a. Deny atrocities or warcrimes done by the “rules-order based” countries. Any attempt to make comparisons is reduced to ‘whataboutism’.

b. Degrade any possibility to compare and analyse events objectively. A case in point is the disparaging reference to Russia as a “glorified petrol station“.

c. Disrupt any meaningful attempt to understand a situation or ability to consider different points of view, by putting on a pedestal a highly calumnious statement such as “side “hustle in leasing mercenaries to warlords.”

d. Deceive through hype and pure speculation, by stating that anything from an adversial countries is propaganda, lies or misleading. Take for example: “He had hedging positions with the west: influence bought with gas.” 

e. Destroy the reputation of adversaries through constant drip-fed allegations and accusations, (as is the case with children evacuated out from the war zone).

And finally another category: DISTORT, everything that is done or said in an adversarial country to imply a sinister or criminal intent.

Lastly, obviously, it is off-limits for Western presstitute to imply in any form or shape that a relationship with the U.S. takes the exact form as described.  So, only Russia can be viewed as being subservient, where President Putin is paying homage as a client state to the patron, China’s president Xi Jinping.

Quoting John Kirby, “Russia is indeed China’s junior partner.”

As opposed to the EU, Japan, Australia being a U.S. resource, defence and industry colony??? All of the U.S.’s partners, so called “liberal democracies”, are, using this logic, by default “junior partners” or Wasington’s ‘underlings’.