Biden: a strategy to provoke Russia and China

Once again I read with attention an editorial in the Bogotá daily El Espectador, which falls into the systematic politics of manipulation of the United States, a power in decline, which seeks with truculent propaganda methods to halt its imperial decline, fuelling tensions over a new Cold War with Russia and China. It is the expansion of its strategic interests with NATO forces into Russia's defence areas that are generating the tensions, as the Russians are encircled by more than 80 NATO military bases. With China something identical is happening, the Americans are quelling tensions in Taiwan and the underlying reason is the controls of the Taiwanese microchip industry, then they sign the AUKUS security agreement with the UK and Australia, which opens another front of tensions and an arms build-up in the Indo-Pacific region.

Last year, El Espectador, published another controversial editorial: "Fraud and manipulation at the World Bank" about the scandal of the manipulations of IMF director Kristalina Georgieva when she served as head of the World Bank. She was accused of exerting pressure to change economic performance data in favour of China. Behind the accusations were US manoeuvres against strategic interests in China and Russia to block funds to cash-strapped governments close to China and Russia.

The investigators were lawyers WilmerHale, a law firm controlled by Robert Mueller, the former FBI director in the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The same one who was involved in the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, which turned out to be set-ups organised from London. The same one who was a protagonist on the weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Now they return and fall into the political manipulations of the White House with the editorial: "Drums of war and democracy at risk" with the argument that in the face of the loss of the global influence of the United States (...) other countries, defenders of freedoms, have not known how to react" and they finish with the argument that "as the power of China and Russia increases, all the free citizens of the world suffer. However, critics in Colombia and around the world view what is happening with passivity and even complacency".

An editorial that seems to have been copied from White House encyclicals, lacking objectivity in the scrutiny of international politics. Chinese imperial policy is not based on the export of its political system and cultural values, but on the control of trade, based on the supremacy of new technologies and on the three axes of the New Silk Road without interfering in the internal political affairs of countries. Russia's foreign policy is also not based on exporting its political values, but rather on expanding its economic and strategic interests.

Russia has reiterated that it has no interest in invading Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainians have taken to the streets of Kiev to reject the White House's lies and manipulations about the Russian invasion, and Ukraine's own president, Volodymir Zelensky, has questioned the Russian invasion claims.

It is clear that the editorialist has a biased view of the new tripolar world order that dominates the world, a new world order that goes beyond the political system prevailing in the US, Russia and China. 

The Biden administration's escalating tensions against Russia are not about control of Ukraine, nor about saving the world's democratic system, they are about dominating the European gas market against Russia, given that the Russians are the largest gas suppliers in Europe, and about increasing NATO members' defence investments, resources that will ultimately fall into their coffers. The current imperial struggles in the world are not based on ideological principles of left and right, nor on democracy and authoritarianism. The struggles are about supremacy in the dominance of new technologies, trade and consumers. Conclusion: the Biden administration's strategy is to provoke Russia and China, but what it is generating is a strengthening of the alliance between the two Eurasian powers.
 

@j15mosquera