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THE RUSSIA-IRAN-CHINA SEARCH FOR A NEW GLOBAL SECURITY ORDER ***
While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
THE RUSSIA-IRÃ-CHINA SEARCH FOR A NEW GLOBAL SECURITY ORDER
By Pepe Escobar
The original of this article is at: The Cradle
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You may also read this article by Pepe Escobar at: https://sonar21.com/ –
The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about an inevitable array of sanctions coming by early 2025 and/or a possible collapse of the international financial system.
Last week, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his list of delusional US demands was welcomed in Beijing by Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping as little more than an annoying gnat. Wang, on the record, stressed that Tehran was justified in defending itself against Israel’s shredding of the Vienna Convention when it attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
At the UN Security Council, China now openly questions not only the state terror attack on the Nord Streams but also the US–Israel combo’s blocking of Palestinian statehood. Moreover, Beijing, just like Moscow recently, hosts Palestine’s political factions together in a conference aiming to unify their positions.
Next Tuesday, only two days before Moscow celebrates Victory Day, the end of the Great Patriotic War, Xi will land in Belgrade to remind the whole world about the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese embassy by the US, UK, and NATO.
Russia, meanwhile, provided a platform for the UNRWA – the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has sought to defund – to explain to high representatives of BRICS-10 the cataclysmic humanitarian situation in Gaza, as described by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
In short, serious political business is already being conducted outside of the corrupted UN system, as the United Nations disintegrates into a corporate shell with the US dictating all terms as the largest shareholder.
Yet another key example of BRICS as the new UN: Russian Security Council chairman Nikolai Patrushev met in St. Petersburg with his Chinese counterpart Chen Wenqing on the sidelines of the 12th International Security Summit, congregating over 100 nations, including the security heads of BRICS-10 members Iran, India, Brazil, and South Africa, as well as Iraq.
The SCO security show
But the key crossroads these past few days was the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense summit in Astana, Kazakhstan. For the first time, the new Chinese Defense Minister, Dong Jun, met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, to emphasize their comprehensive strategic partnership.
Dong, significantly, stressed the “dynamic” nature of China–Russia military interaction, while Shoigu doubled down, saying it “sets a model for interstate relations” based on mutual respect and shared strategic interests.
Addressing the full SCO assembly, Shoigu emphatically refuted the massive western propaganda drive about a Russian “threat” to NATO.
Everybody was at the SCO defense ministers’ meeting – including, at the same table, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Belarus as an observer. Minsk is eager to join the SCO.
The interlocking Russia–Iran–China strategic partnerships were totally in sync. Apart from Dong meeting Shoigu, he also met Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, who lavishly praised Beijing’s condemnation of the Israeli terror air strike in Damascus.
What is happening now between Beijing and Tehran is a replay of what started last year between Moscow and Tehran, when a member of the Iranian delegation on a visit to Russia remarked that both parties had agreed on a mutual, high-level “anything you need” relationship.
In Astana, Dong’s support for Iran was unmistakable. Not only did he invite Ashtiani to a security conference in Beijing, mirroring the Iranian position, he also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the delivery of humanitarian aid.
Shoigu, meeting with Ashtiani, provided extra context when he recalled that “the joint fight against international terrorism in Syria is a vivid example of our long-standing friendly relations.” The Russian defense minister then delivered his clincher:
The current military-political situation and threats to our states oblige us … to common approaches to building a just world order based on equality for all participants in the international community.
A new global security order
Establishing a new global security order is right at the heart of BRICS-10 planning – on par with the de-dollarization debate. All of this is anathema to the collective west, which is incapable of understanding the multifaceted, intertwined Russia, Iran, and China partnerships.
And the interaction goes on in person. Russian President Vladimir Putin will be visiting Beijing later this month. On Gaza, the Russia–Iran–China position is in complete sync: Israel is committing genocide. For the EU – and NATOstan as a whole – this is not genocide: the bloc supports Israel no matter what.
After Iran, on 13 April, changed the game in West Asia for good, without even using their finest hypersonic missiles, the key question for the Global Majority is stark: in the end, who will restrain the genocidals, and how? Diplomatic sources hint this will be discussed face-to-face by Putin and Xi.
As one Chinese scholar, with unique aplomb, remarks:
This time, the barbarians are facing a 5,000-year continuing written civilization, armed with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Mao thought, Xi’s dual circulation strategy, Belt and Road, BRICS, renminbi digitalization, Russia and China unlimited, the world’s most powerful manufacturing industry, tech supremacy, economic powerhouse, and the backing of the Global South.
All that against a polarized Hegemon in turmoil, with its genocidal aircraft carrier in West Asia totally spinning out of control.
US threats of a “clear choice” between ending several key strands of the Russia–China strategic partnership or facing a sanctions tsunami don’t cut it in Beijing. The same applies to Washington’s wishful attempts at preventing BRICS members from ditching the US dollar.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has made it quite clear that Moscow and Beijing have nearly reached the point of abandoning the US dollar in bilateral trade. And the outright theft of Russian assets by the collective west is the ultimate red line for BRICS – and all other nations watching with horror – as a whole: this is definitely a “non-agreement capable” Empire, as Lavrov has been emphasizing since late 2021.
Yaroslav Lisovolik, founder of BRICS+ Analytics, dismisses the Hegemon’s threats against BRICS as the road map toward an alternative payment system is still in its infancy. As for Russia–China trade, the non-dollar high-speed train has already left the station.
Yet the key question remains: how will Russia–Iran–China (RIC), as BRICS leaders, SCO members, and simultaneously top three “existential threats” to the Hegemon, be able to start implementing a new global security architecture without staring down the genocidals.
The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Cradle.
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THE RUSSIA-IRÃ-CHINA SEARCH FOR A NEW GLOBAL SECURITY ORDER
By Pepe Escobar
The original of this article is at: The Cradle
https://thecradle.co/articles/the-russia-iran-china-search-for-a-new-global-security-order
You may also read this article by Pepe Escobar at: https://sonar21.com/ –
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UNDERSTANDING MILITARY EXERCICES
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CONGRESS CRIMINALIZES THE NEW TESTAMENT
RUSSIA REMEMBERS, THE UNITED STATES FORGETS
HOW THE WORLD VOTED ON PALESTINE
143 COUNTRIES VOTED FOR LIFE, RIGHT AND LAW AND ORDER IN THE WORLD
THE 9 COUNTRIES THAT VOTED AGAINST THE RESOLUTION TO STAND FOR THE PALESTINIAN´S RIGHT AS WE HERE UNDERSTAND IT WERE:
ARGENTINA, CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, ISRAEL, MICRONESIA, UNITED STATES, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, NAURU AND PALAU.
THE 25 COUNTRIES THAT WERE UNABLE TO SEE, HEAR OR SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE ALL LIVING IN AND THEREFORE -AS IT CAN BE SUPPOSED- ABSTAINED TO VOTE ON THE UN RESOLUTION ON PALESTINE WERE:
ALBANIA, AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, CANADA, CROATIA, FIJI, FINLAND, GEORGIA, GERMANY, ITALY, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, MALAWI, MARSHALL ISLANDS, MONACO, NETHERLANDS, NORTH MACEDONIA, PARAGUAY, REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SWEDEN, SWITZERLAND, UKRAINE, UNITED KINGDOM AND VANUATY.
SUMMARY: 143 VOTES FOR PALESTINE- 9 AGAISNT– 25 ABSTENTIONS
THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA AND THE WAR ON HUMANITY TO BE CONTINUED.
HASTA CUANDO?
Dr. Philip Giraldi May 03, 2024, GLOBAL RESEARCH,
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA
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“NETANYAHU´S COLONIAL PROJECT”.
OS ESTADOS UNIDOS PROVOCAM DELIBERADAMENTE CRISES NO CONTINENTE EUROPEU
US deliberately provokes crisis on European continent
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OPPOSITION TO THE SLAUGHTER
COLLEGE KIDS ARE PUTTING CLERGYMEN TO SHAME
OPPOSING THE SLAUGHTER OF PALESTINIANS IS AN EXPRESSION OF ANTI-SEMITISM?
OPOR-SE AO MASSACRE DE PALESTINIANOS É UMA EXPRESSÃO DE ANTI-SEMITISMO?
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STUDENTS ARE TAKING THE LEAD DENOUNCING GAZA ATROCITIES
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PEPE ESCOBAR ELABORATES ON CLAIM THAT RUSSIAN SHOT DOWN AN ISRAELI F-35
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The United States and its pack of poodles in the rest of the G-7 spent the day down playing Iran’s military strike on Israel as a nothing burger. That is not true. This attack was significant on both a tactical and strategic level and is a defiant warning to both Israel and the United States to keep their powder dry or run the risk of Iran launching a massive strike on Israel that it will not be able to defeat.
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WESTERN TROOPS ALREADY A REALITY ON RUSSIAN BORDERS
Foreign mercenaries behind incursion in Belgorod. By Lucas Leiroz VT– By Lucas Leiroz – April 10, 2024
Brazilian journalist, geopolitical analyst. Graduated from the Cultural Extension Program of the Brazilian War College. Researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies. Professionally, he works as a journalist and geopolitical analyst. Researcher in the “Crisis, Development and International Relations” research group at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. At the invitation of the Russian Delegation in Geneva, he presented a report on the use of chemical weapons by the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council and at the OSCE’s “Supplementary Discussions”.
WESTERN TROOPS ALREADY A REALITY ON RUSSIAN BORDERS
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KIEV REGIME CONTINUES TO PROMOTE NUCLEAR TERROR
HUNTER BIDEN´S COMPANY ACCUSED OF SPONSORING CROCUS HALL MASSACRE
RUSSIA LAUNCHES PROBE INTO US AND NATO OFFICIALS INTO THE FUNDING OF TERRORISTS
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EUROPEAN VALUES
“After banning Russian media in the EU, they want to silence European MPs suspected of disseminating “hostile narratives” – According to a draft document seen by POLITICO, the Renew group linked to French President Emmanuel Macron will next week present legal amendments in Parliament that, among other measures, propose barring the use of the chamber’s facilities for the purpose of undermining “EU values or for the purposes of disseminating hostile information by authoritarian regimes.” Question: who will detect these mysterious “authoritarian state narratives” in parliamentary debates and speeches ? The Thought police? @LauraRuHK”
EUROPEAN VALUES FOR EVERYONE TO SEE
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WESTERN HATRED OF RUSSIA ROOTED IN SUPPORT FOR NAZIS AND BUREAUCRATIC SCLEROSIS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF NATO AND UKRAINE
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“ESSA É UMA DERROTA CÓSMICA PARA A OTAN“… “40 PAÍSES CONTRA A RÚSSIA; 113 BILHÕES DE DÓLARES GASTOS; 18 000 SANÇÕES SEM RESULTADO…” ESSA É UMA DERROTA CÓSMICA DA OTAN-NATO-EU-USA EM RELAÇÃO A RÚSSIA SOBERANA.
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–THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT–
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KILLING CHILDREN BY STARVATION. WHAT´S MORE DO WE NEED IN ORDER TO SAY NO- BASTA?
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ARAB LEAGUE SHOCKS THE WORLD
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LATIN AMERICA SUPPORTS PALESTINE
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SCOTT RITTER: IDF SLAUGHTERS INNOCENTS IN RAFAH
WHY BRAZIL´S LULA IS RIGHT – ISRAEL BEHAVING LIKE NAZIS
As some of you know I strongly disagree with those who believe the Holocaust was a fabrication or exaggeration. I will be happy to debated the subject with anyone, anytime, anywhere. With my position firmly established on that point then you will understand that I am not trivialing accusing Israeli authorities of behaving with the same ferocity and lack of humanity as the Nazis. Brazil’s President Lula created quite a stir the other day when he accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza in the same fashion that the Nazis tried to exterminate the Jews in World War II.
Let’s start with ghettos. The Nazis rounded up Jews and forced them into ghettos. They were walled in and the exits were guarded by soldiers. That is exactly the situation the people of Gaza face. Just look at the similarities in the following videos.
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WHY BRAZIL´S LULA IS RIGHT – ISRAEL BEHAVING LIKE NAZIS
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Brazil’s Lula Compares Netanyahu to Hitler: How Fascist Is Israel’s War on Palestinians? By Prof. Juan Cole, February 20, 2024
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LULA RELEASED THE CRY CONTAINED IN THE THROAT OF MILLIONS ACROSS THE WORLD
Lula soltou o grito contido na garganta de milhões
21 de fevereiro de 2024
Joédson Alves/Agência Brasil
Emiliano José
Lula, ao denunciar o terror contra Gaza, o genocídio em andamento, ao compará-lo à matança de judeus por Hitler, deixou escapar o grito preso na garganta de milhões de pessoas indignadas e cheias de compaixão. Quer a paz, quer impedir a continuidade daquele massacre. Corajosamente, chama os dirigentes mundiais a uma posição a favor da fraternidade entre os povos. Ao deixar escapar esse grito, desnuda políticos e de modo especial a imprensa empresarial brasileira, cuja cobertura envergonha quem pense em jornalismo:
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POPULAÇÃO E ECONOMIA DOS PAÍSES BRICS+
POPULATION AND ECONOMY OF BRICS+ COUNTRIES
On the table: The BRICS+ in the first column. The population of each country in the second column. The Gross Domestic Product of each country In the third column.
“…” – A STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF BRASIL, LULA DA SILVA.
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