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In Politics Necessities Will Always Beat ‘Values’
When in 2018 the royal thugs send by the Saudi clown prince Mohammad bin Salman killed the Qatari lobbyist Jamal Khashoggi the Democrats made a huge issue out of it.
That was mainly because Khashoggi, a life long Muslim Brother propagandist, had been a columnist at the Washington Post where he published under his own name op-eds which were written in the Qatari embassy. Later the Qatari’s used his death to intensify their anti-Saudi agitation.
Biden needed the Post’s support and joined the Qatari campaign.
“We were going to in fact make them pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are,” Biden said of the Saudi government during a presidential debate in November 2019.
“They have to be held accountable,” Biden added.
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The problem with such statements of ‘values’ is that – in the end – necessities will win. Biden needs lower oil prices to raise the chance for the Democrats to at least keep a majority in the House.
The Senate is already lost as Senator Joe Manchin, despite being a nominal Democrat, is blocking most things the Democrats wanted to achieve.
On Friday Biden’s flight to Riyadh was less dramatic than the humiliation of Canossa but still significant. He was greeted at the airport by only a minor prince. When president Trump had first arrived in Riyadh he had been greeted by the Saudi king.
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At their first meeting clown prince Mohammad bin Salman had visibly fun with the humiliation of Biden.
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The next day, when the other rulers of the Golf Cooperation Council arrived, MbS was at the airport and greeted everyone in person.
That he defeated the U.S. president like this has won MbS a lot of new prestige in the Gulf region and beyond.
As for more oil … none will be coming. The Saudis will stick to the current OPEC+ agreement that limits the output of its member states. When the agreement ends later this years the Saudis may increase their output but analysts doubt that they can currently produce much more than they already do. Way more likely is that the recessions in Europe and the U.S. will soon decrease the demand for oil and that prices at the pump will fall. That then could induce OPEC+ to prolong its agreement.
Joe Biden is known to be a revengeful man.
MbS should take great care of his personal security.
Talk of ‘values’ is also a big thing for the arrogant leaders of the EU and some of its member states. By sticking to those over the Ukraine issues they committed to suicide their own economies. Necessities will catch up with them and I predict that it will take less than four year for them to crawl to Moscow and to ask for forgiveness of their sins.
Saudis are now buying Russian oil.
Posted by: wagelaborer | Jul 16 2022 17:52 utc | 2
That’s not news. What’s “news” is sideline G20 deals that MSM studiously omits, because it belies “free world” superiority.
The west press corpse ended the week by working over time to make hay out of Biden’s and MBS’ “fist bump” courtesy call. In this body language alone, I see nothing more than pity for a dotard. MBS came out of February having declared, he doesn’t care what Biden thinks. Macron blabbed at the G7 that KSA, OPEC, has no “spare capacity” to sell out the RF at a loss to fulfill Yellen’s racketeering ops or Blinken dealing GCC-crack to the Knesset.
Who’s the ‘Pariah’? After Snubbing Biden, Saudi Aramco Agrees to Build Massive Refinery in China, March 2022
The facility will be able to produce 300,000 barrels of oil per day and will have a 1.5 million metric ton-per-year ethylene cracker and a 1.3 million metric ton-per-year paraxylene unit.
Then there’s the BRICS 14 prep in bilateral settlement, FX reserves, banking, and insurance. IN imports 85% of energy and has prepared to salvage Exxon, Shell, and BP Sakhalin I, II PSA assets.
• India’s Central Bank, RBI announces International Trade Settlement in Indian Rupees
• ndia asks state-run firms to consider buying Russian oil assets
• ndian Firms Signed Contracts To Receive Export Payments From Russia in Yuan
Below is partial schema so-called resource-rich developing nation networks that haven’t sanctioned the RF ghosting Gy plans to impose universal bid-rigging “price cap” regimen, because G7 earnestly believe their war machine can embargo what they do not possess AND slay IMF imperial basket *flation.
• BRICS expects Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to join group soon
“Their total foreign exchange reserves are $4 trillion.” Turkey has already entered RF consumer market, according to RU trade presses.
SCO (2001 NGO): CN, RU, IN, PK, KZ, KG, TJ, UZ, AM*, AF*, AZ*, BY*, TR*, LK*, KH*
CPEC (2015 FTA): CN, PK, MN*, RU*, KZ*, KG*, TJ*, AF*, IN*
OPEC (1960 FTA): IR, IQ, KW, NG, SA, VZ, LY, AE, AL, AO, GQ, CG, GA; plus OM*, s-SS*, SS*, BN*, RU*, MX*, AZ*, KZ*, MY*, BH*, EC*, ID*, QA*
BRICS (2009 FTA): CN, RU, BR, IN, ZA; AR*, DZ*, EG*, ID*, IR*, CM*, ML*, SN*, TH*, UZ*, FJ*, ET*, KZ*, SA*, TR*, EG*
* observer, dialogue, or applicant member
Posted by: sln2002 | Jul 16 2022 18:56 utc | 13
Second halve:
But denying Russian children that junk might be the straw that breaks NATO’s back. Not only are Russian children better off without such gruel but NATO’s other targets, China primarily, are sponging up all these experiences both big and small. China must pay particular attention to NATO’s East European machinations for not only does she share a massive 4,200 km border with Russia but China knows, should East Europe fall to NATO, she too is slotted in for a date with NATO’s butchers, who have made no secret about any of that.
If we reduce these struggles to a few basic variables, we see NATO amassing its forces on Russia’s borders, whilst Russia, China and Iran, like seasoned boxers, keep their heads down and their fists up in preparation for the slug fest coming their way. The questions then are who should prevail, BIR or NATO and what, if any, are the rules in this looming no holds barred war?
Militarily, BIR must have the edge. Russian sappers will dig in deep into Eastern Ukraine and God help any NATO lemmings sent to wrest it back from them. Economically, Germany once again needs Russian oil but, as Russia has a willing China to supply her technological needs, Germany is in for cold comfort this winter with no heat and no money to pay for it.
As is Japan, which is following the German model of fighting needless wars on two fronts with Russia’s embargoed oil to the north and China’s growing navy to the south. Still, if Japan feels self destruction is worth an American pat on the head, they should go full steam ahead into their own abyss, which Siberia’s icy winds will bring them this winter.
Although we can discount the threats of General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s former supreme commander for Europe and NATO’s other Colonel Blimps to blow the Crimean bridge for the Walter Mitty nonsense that it is, we can expect more probing, more excursions to unearth Russia’s Achilles Heels, Russia’s soft underbellies. Although Ukraine was to be that Achilles heel wedged into Russia’s underbelly, that has, alas, proved to be nothing more than an expensive NATO wet dream. Eastern Ukraine is Russia’s Toulon, L’Eguillette, “the Needle” from where Bonaparte destroyed the British Navy, liberated Toulon, secured Southern France and allowed the Armies of the French Republic to march on Cologne and the Netherlands, where they drove out the House of Orange’s Royal parasites and established the Batavian Republic.
Those were heady days we might yet relive. Although NATO‘s crackpots are ranting that conspiracy theorists (sic) are rallying behind the Dutch farmers, Canadian truckers and British trade unionists as once they rallied behind the Boer (and Irish) heroes of the Second Anglo Boer War, far more important than those empty vessels are NATO academics like Carole Nahle of Surrey University and NATO’s Middle East Institute being paid to claim that Russia is running out of gas and oil and Irish state controlled media giving her a free platform to spout her nonsense. If Russia was low on fuel, then Japan, Shell and other NATO oil companies would not have invested so heavily in extracting those phantom reserves.
That Carole Nahle is regarded as an oil expert just shows how deeply NATO is mired in the sludge Dutch farmers are lacing Dutch authorities with. Although the heads of the British and American secret services can, like drunken bar bums, issue as many threats to destroy China as they wish, and von der Leyen and NATO’s other jumped up tea ladies can make as many self enriching plans to rebuild the failed Ukrainian state as they like, reality, the same reality Napoleon’s la Grande Armée and Hitler’s Wehrmacht met in Eastern Ukraine, is the toughest of all task masters.
Germany, with Holland, has surrendered her Central Bank’s discipline to von der Leyen’s wet dreams of eternal NATO bondage, to being the toothless attack dogs for Joe and Hunter Biden, and Klaus Schwab’s other unaccountable stakeholders. As NATO piles up the children’s body bags in the Alley of the Angels, in Gaza, in Syria and Yemen, these arrogant criminals forget that the artillery men of Luhansk and Donbas also have dreams, children and long memories, the same dreams and memories that two centuries ago got the French to storm Versailles and put the fear of God into despots everywhere.
Although the Bastille and Versailles are safe for now, NATO tyrants and their flunkeys, and not just Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksas, are once again becoming fair game. Although the Dutch farmers and the Canadian truckers still lack their Napoleonic Grande Armée, they are following La Marseillaise’s calls to aux armes, citoyens! formez vos bataillons! to “Grab your weapons, citizens! Form your battalions!” so that tyrants and traitors will tremble and tumble like skittles. For me, for British trade unionists, Sri Lankans, Dutch farmers, Canadian truckers and tens of millions worldwide, the imprecations and invocations of La Marseillaise are music to my ears, just as they are warnings to Trudeau, Schwab, von der Leyen, Zelensky and Macron to beware the coming deluge their greed fomented.
I don’t quite know what to make of BIR. Given the context, Bejing, Iran, Russia makes the most sense. Otherwise, Hayes spells out humanity’s enemies and places them front and center while hinting at a different interpretation on what happened in response to the French Revolution that’s been under the carpet for 200 years. The trend since the English Civil War is to return the Feudal-Fascists to power while putting the boot to the necks of the commonfolk again and again, most recently after WW2 as further episodes of our 4,000+ year-old Class War as We the People struggle to gain the Four Freedoms. Few know of Giambattista Vico, but his Principj di una Scienza Nuova Intorno alla Natura delle Nazioni per la Quale si Ritruovano i Principj di Altro Sistema del Diritto Naturale delle Genti was revolutionary at the time and in many respects remains so, part of which informs my theory of historicity and its cyclical yet linear nature.
Luce’s American Century is in hospice. Ready to re-emerge is Wallace’s Century of the Commonman as Human Capital is finally wedded to Capital so a more universal human development can proceed and displace the Creditor Oligarchy that over the centuries in its various forms has stunted and shoved commonfolk back down the stairs.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jul 16 2022 21:41 utc | 50
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