America Has No Allies, Only Hostages
The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation's relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year.
Arce also spoke of warm relations with Russia and China.
“We are going to reestablish all relations," he told EFE. "This government has acted very ideologically, depriving the Bolivian people of access to Cuban medicine, to Russian medicine, to advances in China. For a purely ideological issue, it has exposed the population in a way that is unnecessary and harmful."
Arce expressed a willingness to “open the door to all countries, the only requirement is that they respect us and respect our sovereignty, nothing more. All countries, no matter the size, who want a relationship with Bolivia, the only requirement is that we respect each other as equals. If that is so, we have no problem.“
If you know anything about US imperialism and global politics, you will recognize that last bit as brazen heresy against imperial doctrine.
The unofficial doctrine of the empire-like cluster of international allies that is loosely centralized around the United States does not recognize the sovereignty of other nations, much less respect them as equals. This empire takes it as a given that it has every right to determine what every nation in the world does, who their leaders will be, where their resources will go, and what their military posture on the world stage will be. If a government refuses to accept the empire's right to determine these things, it is targeted, sabotaged, attacked, and eventually replaced with a puppet regime.
The US-centralized empire functions like a giant blob that slowly works to absorb nations which have not yet been converted into imperial client states. It is rare that a nation is able to escape from that blob and rejoin the unabsorbed nations like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba in their fight for self-sovereignty, and it is encouraging that it was able to do so.
We saw the dynamics of the imperial blob explained quite vividly last year by American political analyst John Mearsheimer at a debate hosted by the Australian think tank Center for Independent Studies. Mearsheimer told his audience that the US is going to do everything it can to halt China's rise and prevent it from becoming the regional hegemon in the eastern hemisphere, and that Australia should align with the US in that battle or else it would face the wrath of Washington.
"The question that's on the table is what should the Australia's foreign policy be in light of the rise of China," Mearsheimer said. "I'll tell you what I would suggest if I were an Australian."
Mearsheimer said China is going to continue to grow economically and will convert that economic power into military power to dominate Asia "the way the US dominates the western hemisphere", and explained why he think the US and its allies have every ability to prevent that from happening.
"Now the question is what does this all mean for Australia?" Mearsheimer said. "Well, you're in a quandary for sure. Everybody knows what the quandary is. And by the way you're not the only country in East Asia that's in this quandary. You trade a lot with China, and that trade is very important for your prosperity, no question about that. Security-wise you really want to go with us. It makes just a lot more sense, right? And you understand that security is more important than prosperity, because if you don't survive, you're not gonna prosper."
"Now some people say there's an alternative: you can go with China," said Mearsheimer. "Right you have a choice here: you can go with China rather the United States. There's two things I'll say about that. Number one, if you go with China you want to understand you are our enemy. You are then deciding to become an enemy of the United States. Because again, we're talking about an intense security competition."
"You're either with us or against us," he continued. "And if you're trading extensively with China, and you're friendly with China, you're undermining the United States in this security competition. You're feeding the beast, from our perspective. And that is not going to make us happy. And when we are not happy you do not want to underestimate how nasty we can be. Just ask Fidel Castro."
Nervous laughter from the Australian think tank audience punctuated Mearsheimer's more incendiary observations. The CIA is known to have made numerous attempts to assassinate Castro.
If you've ever wondered how the the US is so successful in getting other nations around the world to align with its interests, this is how. It's not that the US is a good actor on the world stage or a kind friend to its allies, it's that it will destroy you if you disobey it.
Australia is not aligned with the US to protect itself from China. Australia is aligned with the US to protect itself from the US. As a Twitter follower recently observed, the US doesn't have allies, only hostages.
As the recently released Palace Letters illustrated, the CIA staged a coup to oust Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam because he was prioritizing the nation's self-sovereignty. Journalist John Pilger wrote in 2014 after Whitlam's death:
Australia briefly became an independent state during the Whitlam years, 1972-75. An American commentator wrote that no country had “reversed its posture in international affairs so totally without going through a domestic revolution”. Whitlam ended his nation’s colonial servility. He abolished royal patronage, moved Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supported “zones of peace” and opposed nuclear weapons testing.
The primary difference between the coup in Australia and the one in Bolivia was that the Bolivians refused to roll over and take it while we shrugged and said no worries mate. We had every option to become a real nation and insist on our own self-sovereignty, but we, unlike the Bolivians, were too thoroughly propagandized and placid. Some hostages escape, some don’t.
The US empire got rid of Whitlam, and then when we elected in 2007 a Prime Minister who was considered too friendly with China they did it again; in order to facilitate the Obama administration's "pivot" against Beijing the pro-China Kevin Rudd was replaced by the compliant Julia Gillard. World Socialist Website reports:
Secret US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks in December 2010 revealed that “protected sources” of the US embassy were pivotal figures in Gillard’s elevation. For months, key coup plotters, including senators Mark Arbib and David Feeney, and Australian Workers Union (AWU) chief Paul Howes, secretly provided the US embassy with regular updates on internal government discussions and divisions within the leadership...
Rudd had proposed an Asia-Pacific Community, attempting to mediate the escalating strategic rivalry between the US and China, and opposed the formation of a Quadrilateral military alliance between the US, India, Japan and Australia, aimed against China.
Gillard, who had cultivated her pro-US credentials through Australia-US and Australia-Israel leadership forums, was literally selected by the US embassy as a reliable replacement to Rudd. In her first public appearance after knifing Rudd, she demonstrated her devotion to Washington by posing for a photo op with the US ambassador, flanked by US and Australian flags. She soon had a phone call with Obama, who had previously twice postponed a planned visit to Australia under Rudd.
The centrality of Australia to the US preparations for war against China became apparent in November 2011, when Obama announced his “pivot to Asia” in the Australian parliament, rather than the White House. During the visit, Gillard and Obama signed an agreement to station American Marines in Darwin and allow greater US access to other military bases, placing the Australian population on the front line of any conflict with China.
Gillard’s government also sanctioned the expansion of the major US spying and weapons-targeting base at Pine Gap, agreed to the US military’s increased use of Australian ports and airbases, and stepped up Australia’s role in the US-led top-level “Five Eyes” global surveillance network, which monitors the communications and online activities of millions of people worldwide.
Rudd’s removal marked a turning point. US imperialism, via the Obama administration, sent a blunt message: there was no longer any room for equivocation by the Australian ruling elite. Regardless of which party was in office, it had to line up unconditionally behind the US conflict with China, no matter what the consequences for the loss of its massive export markets in China.
This is what we're seeing all around the world now: a slow motion third world war being waged by the US power alliance against the remaining nations which have resisted being absorbed into it. As the most powerful of the unabsorbed nations by far, China is the ultimate target of this war. If the empire succeeds in its ultimate goal of stopping China, it will have attained a de facto planetary government which no population will be able to oppose or dissent from.
I don't know about you, but I never consented to a world where powerful nuclear-armed forces wave armageddon weapons at each other while fighting for planetary domination and subverting less powerful nations if they don't play along with their cold war games. Detente and peace must be sought and obtained, and we must all work to live together on this planet in collaboration with each other and with our ecosystem.
This omnicidal, ecocidal way of living that the oligarchic empire has laid out for us does not suit our species, and it will drive us to extinction along with God knows how many other species if we do not find a way to end it. Rulers historically do not cede their power willingly, so we ordinary human beings as a collective are going to have to find a way to destroy their propaganda engine, force an end to imperialism, and build a healthy world.
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Spot on, Caitlin. China knows this, and I believe they are playing along defensively, using our own weapons against us, particularly in the case of Covid-19. There may well be a unique or "novel" virus that can be deadly IF CONTRACTED AND NOT TREATED PROPERLY. They contained it to Wuhan while they learned how to treat it.
This is pure speculation, but I believe it conforms with the facts that have slowly been revealed in 2020. China has a good, close relationship with WHO and cooperated early. They knew the technocratic globalists intended to destroy the Western economy to maintain their own control and decided to play along with the plandemic, setting the example of locking down Wuhan and providing "evidence" of the effectiveness of that response. In reality, Covid-19 quickly burned itself out in Wuhan and in the rest of China, which they were able to keep quiet by 1) properly protecting protecting the most vulnerable, 2) properly treating those who did get sick and 3) properly assigning cause of death when there were co-morbidities. They simply allowed the Western elites to destroy the Western economies. They informed Putin, who played along with a brief lockdown of his own. I blame neither Xi nor Putin for this. It was a purely defensive move worthy of jujitsu experts.
Meanwhile, in the West, the highest level conspirators held a public and open planning session at Event 201, funded largely by Gates, where they made sure all ducks were aligned even to media involvement and the increasing censorship of skeptics. The Gates funded WHO and Imperial College used an inflated infection fatality rate and Neil Ferguson's serially failed models to panic government and health care officials (not all of whom were "wittingly" cooperating with conspirators but certainly had incentives to do so) into a number of ill-advised responses. The corporate media followed its marching orders by boosting the fear. A critical piece was the flawed RT-PCR tests, which Kary Mullis had always said should NOT be used as a diagnostic test. Testing of stored samples from 2019 were suppressed to make it seem like there was no illness in 2019 that could have been associated with the flawed testing mechanism. Democratic governors either knowingly cooperated by seeding nursing homes with patients with active respiratory infections, or were frightened into doing so by warnings of an overwhelmed hospital system. This was contrary to the advice of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The resulting epidemic of a wide variety of respiratory infections within nursing homes (including flu, bacterial pneumonia and assorted corona viruses that have circulated among human populations for millennia) were attributed to the new chimera (pun intended) SARS-CoV-2 via the meaningless RT-PCR test which detects RNA fragments from a wide variety of sources that were present in the original Wuhan influenza-like-illness (ILI) seasonal outbreak. The death rate was enhanced by ignoring Chinese experience with the treatment of the virus such as high dose intravenous vitamin C and the already known efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine+zine+zPak. Instead, patients were killed with poorly managed ventilators and forced DNRs.
After the plandemic burned through nursing homes and other vulnerable populations in April, it burned itself out in May as all ILIs do in the warmer weather of spring. The slight resurgence in the southern US has been fully explained as a normal sub-tropical pattern by Ivor Cummins. Meanwhile, testing has been increased to fanatical levels, resulting in thousands of "false positives" that may be as high as 80-90%, all interpreted as "new cases," with the population panicked by predictions of a "2nd wave." Of course, there's ALWAYS a surge of ILIs during "flu season," and in 2020-2021 these will largely be attributed to Covid-19 via the meaningless RT-PCR test. Even the totally unrelated deaths from undiagnosed cancers, other diseases and suicides will contribute by increasing the usually meaningful "all cause death rate." Unwilling to leave anything to chance, the "witting" and "unwitting" participants in the scam are encouraging mandatory use of face masks, ignoring the RCTs (random controlled trials) published in the CDC's own journal that show no statistically significant slowing of the spread of ILIs, and other studies that show people who wear masks for long periods are MORE likely to contract respiratory infections. Meanwhile, the purchased fact checkers smear experts like Russell Blaylock, who have explained the scientific reasons why masks are dangerous. Dr Blaylock endures ad hominem attacks accusing him of profiting from skepticism, while fact checkers ignore the enormous financial incentives of corrupt people like Gates and Fauci.
I know the web of corruption I've described will be labeled a "conspiracy theory," but I challenge anybody to refute any of the details I've presented, not through logical fallacy but reasoned rebuttal of the facts and logic. I wrote that SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera because it has never been isolated and purified. Its existence is not based on any real scientific evidence. Like many mythical creatures such as Lochie or dragons, it may or may not be real, one definition of a chimera. It is a "model" constructed like a jigsaw puzzle from fragments of RNA that have been attributed, with no evidence, to a theoretical "novel" virus. The fragments are taken from other corona viruses to which has been added a section of RNA from HIV, the more common definition of chimera. The RNA sequencing that has been done was accomplished using RNA fragments detected by various RT-PCR tests done on people with a variety of Covid-19 symptoms, none of which are unique to the "disease" labeled Covid-19, but are found in several ILIs and co-morbid individuals
Conceived in the Rockefeller Foundation's "Lock Step" scenario of 2010, planned at Event 201 and executed through the Gates/WHO/Fauci plan/scamdemic, it now continues as the RT-PCR "casedemic." I'm afraid there is no end in sight. The "witting" conspirators are experts on Bernays' teachings.