21-12-2015, 07:18 AM
Much of alternative understanding of Putin leadership is that he is the spanner in the inevitability of the NWO. Novorussiya. Syria. China. The SCO. A gold back Ruble and Yuan. An alternative to the dollar based hegemonic system that brings on a crash of the US debt system. The Russian S-400 missile defense system creates a virtual no-fly zone over Syria. And so on.
There are becoming more and more problems with this interpretation.
First, President Mevedev recently visited China. (If I could read Russian I could give more details.) Apparently, China has sent communicated its unhappiness with the current direction of the RF. Paraphrasing, China thinks says that Russia is now in a strategic dead end with its Ukrainian and Syrian as well as its economic policies.
Here are some of the strange events. Despite Russia's support for Assad or any Syrian official has ever been seen representing his country in any of the meetings. Russia in what can only be described as confused is it negotiations with the US, which it apparently knows is dedicated to its subservience. It's supposed war against ISIS, now includes a new policy of arming the Free Syrian Army, which is clearly composed of Islamists. Russia knows that the US sponsors ISIS, and has only pretended to attack it. Now, the Saudis have put together a coalition of 34 groups and have somehow provided a representative in the alleged future peace talks. Russia is all in on the deal.
In the meantime, Israel has bombed Damascus and killed a Hezbollah leader. Hezbollah apparently is beginning retaliation by sending a rocket into Israel. But Hezbollah a key ally in the fight against the FSA, et. al., gets no support when Israel attacks. Assad is not happy; but he doesn't count. The US, the UK, France have continued to bomb ineffectively, except for the highly effective bombing attack by US aircraft destroying many Iraqi fighters opposing ISIS forces. The oil convoys are now switching to Iraq routes protected by the newly invading Turkish forces occupying Mosul.
Russia is only displaying its weakness in this gambit.
And then there is the Donbass. The Kremlin wants it to just go away. Minsk I. Minsk II. Minsk III?
The Russian economic policies seem for the most part to be a copy of The Empire. The Russian Central Bank recently raised rates to 17%. There have been all kinds of proposals to break away from the West, including one from the Orthodox Church to provide free interest loans within Russia. Putin continues to be proud of how Russia continues to meet its commitments to the West, while the Ukrainian government has been allowed to default on its debt to Russia by the IMF.
The Putin led Kremlin appears to be a mass of confusion.
My read: Putin hopes to (somehow) become a global player again by leveraging his gambits in the Ukraine and Syria and by his closer ties with China. So far, his bizarre efforts appear to be failing badly. He would have to abandon the neo-liberal model for another economic model. I doubt he has any intention to do that. It may not even be possible.
There are becoming more and more problems with this interpretation.
First, President Mevedev recently visited China. (If I could read Russian I could give more details.) Apparently, China has sent communicated its unhappiness with the current direction of the RF. Paraphrasing, China thinks says that Russia is now in a strategic dead end with its Ukrainian and Syrian as well as its economic policies.
Here are some of the strange events. Despite Russia's support for Assad or any Syrian official has ever been seen representing his country in any of the meetings. Russia in what can only be described as confused is it negotiations with the US, which it apparently knows is dedicated to its subservience. It's supposed war against ISIS, now includes a new policy of arming the Free Syrian Army, which is clearly composed of Islamists. Russia knows that the US sponsors ISIS, and has only pretended to attack it. Now, the Saudis have put together a coalition of 34 groups and have somehow provided a representative in the alleged future peace talks. Russia is all in on the deal.
In the meantime, Israel has bombed Damascus and killed a Hezbollah leader. Hezbollah apparently is beginning retaliation by sending a rocket into Israel. But Hezbollah a key ally in the fight against the FSA, et. al., gets no support when Israel attacks. Assad is not happy; but he doesn't count. The US, the UK, France have continued to bomb ineffectively, except for the highly effective bombing attack by US aircraft destroying many Iraqi fighters opposing ISIS forces. The oil convoys are now switching to Iraq routes protected by the newly invading Turkish forces occupying Mosul.
Russia is only displaying its weakness in this gambit.
And then there is the Donbass. The Kremlin wants it to just go away. Minsk I. Minsk II. Minsk III?
The Russian economic policies seem for the most part to be a copy of The Empire. The Russian Central Bank recently raised rates to 17%. There have been all kinds of proposals to break away from the West, including one from the Orthodox Church to provide free interest loans within Russia. Putin continues to be proud of how Russia continues to meet its commitments to the West, while the Ukrainian government has been allowed to default on its debt to Russia by the IMF.
The Putin led Kremlin appears to be a mass of confusion.
My read: Putin hopes to (somehow) become a global player again by leveraging his gambits in the Ukraine and Syria and by his closer ties with China. So far, his bizarre efforts appear to be failing badly. He would have to abandon the neo-liberal model for another economic model. I doubt he has any intention to do that. It may not even be possible.
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl