Check Mating Washington in its Own Backyard with BRICSIANSE
Russia and China appear determined that Ukraine and Georgia will
be the «line in the sand» for any further encroachments by George Soros- and
CIA-led «R2P» revolutions in the Eurasian space. It is also clear that Putin
outsmarted Obama in his own backyard.
by Wayne MADSEN
Strategic
Culture
As Brazil passes the baton of hosting the World Cup to Russia,
Presidents Rousseff and Putin will turn their attention to politics — BBC
Reports
The United States and its closest allies have attempted to isolate
Russia and President Vladimir Putin from the world stage. As a result of
Western support for the Ukrainian regime that came to power through violence in
Kiev, actions taken by Western powers against Russia have included expelling
Russia from the G-8 of capitalist powers, the freezing of the assets of Russian
government officials and Russian banks, and imposing travel bans on Russian
citizens.
However, Putin has check-mated U.S. President Barack Obama in the
American president’s own backyard. Obama’s defenders fancy their president as a
master of «11-dimensional chess». However, what is transpiring in Brazil at the
summit of the BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
has shown the world that it is Putin, not Obama, who is the master of
11-dimensional chess. In fact, Obama could never even make it to the chess
board.
Putin
is visiting Brazil where he is participating in the 2014 summit in the city of
Fortaleza. The BRICS summit comes as members of the Obama administration,
including neo-cons like Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Victoria Nuland, have instituted plans for increased sanctions against Russia,
bringing them to the level as those directed against Iran, Syria, and Cuba.
Putin and his BRICS colleagues will sign an agreement in Fortaleza
on establishing a BRICS development bank that will help bypass the neo-cons’
attempt to isolate Russia from international banking networks. Any
strengthening of sanctions in the same manner that U.S. sanctions have been
imposed by Washington on Iran, Syria, and Cuba runs the risk of punishing
Brazilian, Indian, Chinese, and South African banks and other corporations,
something that could land the Obama administration in hot water before the
World Trade Organization court that rules against trade practices that violate
WTO regulations.
Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Beach
Jacobson has as her primary mission the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolas
Maduro and his replacement with the «Holocaust grandchild» Henrique Capriles
Radonski and the prevention of Zelaya de Castro from being elected President of
Honduras..
The legacy of the Obama administration is that its Cold War-era
policies directed against Latin America have permanently ended America’s
long-standing political and economic domination of the Western Hemisphere.
Obama put the final nail in the arcane Monroe Doctrine that stipulated the
United States would bar non-Western Hemisphere nations, including the powers of
Europe, from intervention in the Americas.
The interventionist policies in countries like Venezuela and
Honduras carried out by Nuland’s fellow neocon ideologue Roberta Jacobson, the
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, have resulted in a
large contingent of Latin American leaders joining Putin, Chinese President Xi
Jinping, and the other BRICS leaders in Brazil for a summit where the United
States will not have a seat at the table.
In fact, the United States and its imperialistic policies will be
a major subject in Brazil, a country that has seen its telecommunications,
including the private calls and e-mail of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
routinely spied upon by the U.S. National Security Agency.
Putin is making the most of his six-day visit to Latin America. He
forgave Cuba’s debt to Russia while visiting Havana and also stopped in
Nicaragua and Rio de Janeiro. While in Cuba, Putin met with former Cuban leader
Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul Castro, Cuba’s president, two leaders who
continue to infuriate the neo-con and right-wing power centers of Washington.
Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro, center, meets with Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin, right, in Cuba on Friday. Putin began a Latin
American tour to boost trade in the region. July 12, 2014.
Putin also attended the final game of the World Cup in Rio. Russia
is the host of 2018 World Cup. Putin also visited Argentina where he signed a
deal on nuclear energy. The interest of Iran, Argentina, Nigeria, Syria,
and Egypt in joining BRICS may soon see the group’s acronym become
«BRICSIANSE». Such a development would triumph the nations of the world that
refuse to take orders from Washington and the presence of Syria would spell
ultimate defeat of the Obama doctrine of «R2P»,
or «Responsibility to Protect» pro-U.S. and Western
intelligence agency-financed opposition leaders intent on replacing
anti-American governments with pro-U.S. regimes. Syria joining BRICS as a full or
associate member would drive a stake through the heart of R2P.
The Obama administration could not convince a single South
American leader to avoid the BRICS summit in Brazil. In fact, two of the South
American leaders sitting down with Putin, Xi, Rousseff, and the other leaders
in Brazil, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and Suriname’s President Desi
Bouterse, have been the subject of CIA- and State Department-linked
destabilization efforts and sanctions threats. Also in attendance at BRICS are
Argentina’s President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia’s President, Evo
Morales Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel
Santos, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar,
Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes, Peru’s President Ollanta Humala, and
Uruguay’s President José Mujica. America’s sanctions against Russia and its
saber-rattling against China on behalf of Japan and the Philippines have fallen
on deaf ears in South America.
The teenager-like antics of Nuland, Jacobson, along with those of
U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice and U.S. ambassador to the UN
Samantha Power, are sure to be discussed in sideline gossip by the leaders
gathered in Fortaleza.
President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos and President of Brazil,
Dilma Rousseff.
The presence of President Santos of Colombia is particularly
noteworthy. Santos recently defeated a right-wing candidate supported by the
same Obama administration’s interventionists who have helped disrupt the
economy of Venezuela. The losing candidate, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, had the full
support of Santos’s right-wing and pro-Israeli/pro-U.S. predecessor Alvaro
Uribe. Recent disclosures have shown that Uribe instituted an NSA-like national
communications surveillance system aimed at his opponents. Zuluaga’s ties with
the same elements who are trying to depose Maduro in Venezuela have not been
lost on Santos. He continues to engage in peace negotiations in Havana with
left-wing DARC guerrillas and improve ties with Venezuela much to the chagrin
of the CIA operatives who live in splendor in the Miami area of Florida.
While in Rio, Putin managed to cast off U.S. efforts to isolate
him internationally by meeting with Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla
Persad-Bissessar and Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne, in
addition to Hungary’s Prime Minister Victor Orban, Namibian President Hage
Geingob, Gabon’s President Ali Bongo, and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Merkel and Rousseff have much in common as both had their personal cell phone
conversations monitored by NSA, a fact that Putin, who has provided asylum to
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was likely sure to have mentioned in passing.
The only attempt the United States could make to have any Latin
American officials criticize contact between Western Hemisphere leaders and
Putin was to arrange for Trinidad opposition leader Keith Rowley to condemn his
country’s prime minister’s private trip to Brazil. Rowley criticized
Persad-Bissessar and her grandson for meeting with Putin and other leaders in
Rio because the trip was made during a labor dispute involving Trinidad’s
immigration department. The power of Washington to influence events in the
Western Hemisphere has truly plummeted to new depths.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets his Chinese counterpart Xi
Jinping in Fortaleza, Brazil (RIA Novosti / Mikhail Klementiev)
The agenda of the BRICS nations is as diversified as that of any
G-7 meeting, no longer called G8 after Russia was expelled. On the BRICS summit
agenda are trade, development, macroeconomic policy, energy, finance,
terrorism, climate change, regional security, drug smuggling and trans-border
crime, industrialization of Africa, and, kin what should serve as a wake-up
call to Wall Street, the World Bank, European Central Bank, the International
Monetary Fund, and other tools of western capitalism, international financial
institution (IFI) reform.
The security operations by BRICS in Afghanistan stand to replace
those of the United State after the withdrawal of its troops from that country.
Russia has led BRICS efforts on dealing with money laundering and cross-border
crime and it has drawn the participation of Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, China,
Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in its efforts.
Observers from Mongolia and Armenia also joined the talks. In the area of
security, synergism is apparent between the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization (SCO) that brings Russia and China into a common security policy
with central Asian states like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Russia and China
appear determined that Ukraine and Georgia will be the «line in the sand» for
any further
encroachments by George Soros- and CIA-led «R2P» revolutions in the Eurasian
space. It is also clear that Putin outsmarted Obama in his own
backyard.
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