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Swordsmyth
04-06-2018, 02:42 AM
The US’ recent multidimensional asymmetric offensive against all manner of Russian interests isn’t the random symptom of psychotic Russophobia that it’s being presented as, but is part of a comprehensive strategy for pressuring Moscow to abandon its close cooperation with China & Iran in exchange for a “New Détente”, a scenario that shouldn’t be ruled out if Trump gets his way during the upcoming meeting with President Putin.

Many people are struggling to find any rhyme or reason behind the US’ anti-Russian moves over the past couple of years, especially the ones that Trump was supposedly forced into by the “deep state” out of the mistaken belief that it would relieve the fake news-driven Russiagate pressure on his administration, but the answer to it all is a lot simpler than it appears. The fact of the matter is that everything that’s happening is intentional and part of a comprehensive strategy for getting Russia to abandon its close cooperation with China & Iran in response to the US’ multidimensional asymmetric offensive against its interests, although it’s proven itself to be a failed plan that requires urgent reform. Whether it’s the West’s “Russian propaganda” witch (https://orientalreview.org/2017/09/13/state-sponsored-intimidation-fara-goes-too-far/) hunt (https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201711091058966841-russiagate-rt-fara-us/) or the Skripal (https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201803241062838388-skripal-psychosis-the-west-gets-wacky/) chemical weapons false flag scandal (http://regionalrapport.com/2018/03/26/diplomatic-expulsions-tit-tat-butno-big-deal/), every single anti-Russian move that’s been undertaken in the last few years is designed to advance this objective.
Taking Apart The Multipolar Triangle Iran: There was credible (http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2064005/trump-will-try-smash-china-russia-iran-triangle-heres-why-he-will) speculation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0TH4GeocI) right after Trump’s 2016 victory (https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/dear-foreign-friends-heres-why-trump-won-clevelander) that his administration would try to split the Russian-Chinese-Iranian multipolar triangle in Eurasia, and that’s exactly what the President and his team are trying to do, albeit in a different fashion than what people might have expected. Trump rightly calculated (https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201507161024716952/) that Obama’s unprecedented outreach to Iran through the 2015 nuclear deal was being taken advantage of by Tehran and that the Islamic Republic never had any serious intentions in agreeing to the tacit quid-pro-quo (https://orientalreview.org/2015/08/14/polar-reorientation-in-the-mideast-us-iran-i/) being offered at the time to replace Saudi Arabia as America’s preferred regional partner. Accordingly, he decided to pivot away from his predecessor’s policy and use nothing but “muscular means” to coerce Iran into submitting (https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/iranians-should-be-thankful-trump) to the US’ military might, which is a work in progress and one that will certainly be made all the more difficult by Tehran’s mastery of asymmetrical responses.
China: As for China, Trump also learned from the mistake of his predecessor who at one time offered the People’s Republic a global partnership through the so-called “G-2 (https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-united-states-and-china-a-g-2-in-the-making/)” or “Chimerica (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-10-11/call-it-chimerica-the-u-dot-s-dot-and-china-grow-ever-closer)” concept but was rebuffed by a Beijing that’s both too proud to share world leadership with America and also reluctant into being tricked to take on responsibilities that it didn’t agree to or anticipate at the time. It wasn’t coincidental that the G-2’s failure was soon thereafter followed up by China’s announcement of its One Belt One Road (OBOR) global vision of New Silk Road connectivity in order to economically reform the structural basis for the “Washington Conesus” and consequently facilitate the emerging Multipolar World Order (https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/21st-century-geopolitics-multipolar-world-order). Trump’s Kraken (https://orientalreview.org/2017/12/27/trump-agent-chaos-k-kraken/)-like answer to this challenge was to continue with Obama’s Hybrid War (https://orientalreview.org/press-release/) policy in targeting the most vulnerable “Global South” transit states (https://orientalreview.org/2016/03/04/hybrid-wars-1-the-law-of-hybrid-warfare/) for China’s transnational infrastructure megaprojects simultaneously with the commencement of a trade war (https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201803101062312628-trump-tariff-trade-war-against-the-world/) against the People’s Republic.
Russia: Iran’s full-blown ideological resistance to striking a “deal with the devil” and China’s unflinching commitment to challenging the US’ unipolar dominance of the world mean that there’s no realistic chance that either of them will budge from their previous refusals to abandon the other in exchange for an alleviation of American pressure on their countries, thereby pointing Trump in Russia’s direction because he considers it to be the “weakest link” in this multipolar arrangement. After all, Russia has always insisted with total sincerity that it wants nothing more than an equal relationship with what it still continues to call its “Western partners”, which logically entails them respecting the country’s so-called “sphere of influence” in the former Soviet space. Previous US administrations smacked away Russia’s olive branch every time it was offered, but Trump seemed to actually be interested in cutting a deal with Moscow before the “deep state” intervened to stop him.


Describing The “New Détente” Trump realized that Russia is digging in its heels by deepening its partnerships with China and Iran in response to the “deep state’s” multidimensional asymmetric aggression and that this policy has been nothing but counterproductive to America’s predominant New Cold War interest in “containing” China. Furthermore, the President seems to have convinced the “patriotic” and “pragmatic” elements of the “deep state” that this is the case and that it’s impossible for America to make any tangible progress in stopping the Silk Road if it has to multitask between “containing” China, Iran, and Russia in vastly different theaters and with completely different methods. It’s much better, the billionaire businessman likely reckoned, to walk back some of his administration’s unnecessarily aggressive moves in Europe and perhaps elsewhere as part of his country’s “mutual concessions/compromises” with Russia for a “New Détente” than to continue with this completely failed policy of pressure.
What the US wants from Russia in exchange is simple, and it’s that it expects Moscow to scale back its strategic partnerships with Tehran & Beijing and to not interfere with Washington’s “containment” campaigns against both of them. Russia is already passively allowing (http://theduran.com/does-anyone-still-seriously-think-that-russia-and-israel-arent-allies/) the US and its allies to “contain” Iran in Syria out of self-interested prudence in preventing World War III (https://sputniknews.com/politics/201704101052503997-russia-unlikely-counter-us-strikes/), but it has yet to pull back from its Silk Road relationship with China. It’s unclear exactly how the US envisions Russia doing this in a “plausibly deniable” way that mirrors the Iranian approach and avoids provoking a hostile reaction from China, but whatever it is that Washington has in mind, it hopes that Moscow will agree to it so that President Putin can forget about international drama and completely focus on fulfilling the comprehensive domestic reform agend (https://orientalreview.org/2018/03/06/okay-constructively-criticize-russia-even-president-putin/)a that he plans to carry out (http://tass.com/politics/995013) during his fourth and final term.
It’s impossible to speculate on whether Russia is even interested in such a scenario at this point in time given all that’s transpired between it and the West in the past year alone, but playing “devil’s advocate” for a moment, there might be another enticing reason aside from the domestic one why Moscow might decide to “play ball”. The increasing polarization of the world economic system into globalization-spreading China and protectionist-espousing America is broadly returning International Relations to its Old Cold War-era bipolarity in advance of its eventual transition to multipolarity, and it’s here where Russia could play a pivotal role in leading a new Non-Aligned Movement (Neo-NAM (https://orientalreview.org/2018/03/24/russias-s-400s-are-the-key-to-a-neo-nam/)) that helps other countries “balance (https://orientalreview.org/2017/09/01/russias-foreign-policy-progressives-trumped-traditionalists/)” their relations with both superpowers. The US might begrudgingly be forced under the current circumstances and the objective limits of its power to accept the relative curtailment of its influence over some countries by Russia so long as Moscow fulfills a similar role vis-à-vis them and China.

If Russia is swayed by the carrot-and-stick combination of the Trump Administration’s possibly sincere commitment to a “New Détente” in exchange for an alleviation of multisided and sometimes humiliating pressure against it, then the geopolitical implications would be profound since Moscow would be ascending into the perfect position for “balancing” Eurasian affairs. It wouldn’t just have China’s tacit support for this initiative but America’s too because each superpower would appreciate Moscow becoming a “balancing” force vis-à-vis the other and freeing them up to focus on their rival in other areas of concern, mostly in Africa. As such, Russia could count on being courted by both of them and finally fulfilling its grand strategic goal to “balance” Eurasia, though provided that this speculative deal goes through in the first place and is actually respected by the US afterwards.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-05/what-us-really-wants-russia

dannno
04-09-2018, 02:03 PM
Probably

AuH20
04-09-2018, 02:11 PM
Would China sell out Russia if the reward was lucrative enough? China is a globalist creation which stretches back to Kissinger and most notably tied to the infamous Clintons.

AuH20
04-09-2018, 02:19 PM
Why would Russia trust the west, after so many broken promises?

pcosmar
04-09-2018, 05:40 PM
Think of the stupidest and most moronic geopolitical moves you can,, and then understand that these folks are seriously that psychotic.

As proven by past actions and present moves.