Three part report showing how the US has been attempting to contain Russia and China using "stirred-up Moslems" since the plan was designed back in 1978 by Zbigniew Brzezinski as proxies in order to prevent the loss of its global political, military and economic hegemony.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/05/29/zbig-m29.html
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Asked specifically whether he regretted the CIA’s collaboration with and arming of Islamist extremists, including Al Qaeda, in fomenting the war in Afghanistan, Brzezinski responded contemptuously: “What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?”
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This series pulls together many of the issues we been discussing here in C99 over the years.

The Empire of Chaos may have indeed met its match with China and Russia joining forces to finally push back. It WILL become a multi-polar world in the very near future. The question is, will the Empire and its EU satraps accept defeat peacefully or will it destroy the playing field in a futile attempt to maintain its hegemonic control over the entire world?

The conflict is shaping up to be between the Alanticists (US, Canada, EU, Australia) against Eurasia (Russia, China) aligned with the MENA and Global South (South America, Africa) with Japan and India torn between the two camps.

It is interesting that the US has set up the very conditions for its own demise as it had attempted to do against Russia using Muslim jihadist's as proxies to create a quagmire in order to bankrupt the country. What goes around, comes around. America is now stuck in a quagmire of its own making and has no idea how to extricate itself.

MLK's premonition has now become reality: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." America has since been doubling down on defense spending while the country rots from within.

NOTE: You can also find this series in a post at Moon of Alabama.

Will America Accept Its Defeat or Challenge the Bear and the Dragon? Part 1: Syria

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The US has lost the « extremist battle »- they were incapable of achieving the “regime change” objective in Syria. That was the awakening of the Russian bear from its long hibernation who realised how the US was trying to corner it. Moscow also relied on the Chinese dragon, which shares Russia’s goals to eliminate all extremists and jihadist terrorists in Syria.

Both Russia and China are now working closely to put an end to the uni-polar superpower and thus end US world dominance.

Will America Accept Its Defeat or Challenge the Bear and the Dragon? Part 2:

With the end of al-Ghouta battle and the defeat of Jihadists, Moscow is reaching its objectives in the Levant.

Despite the US, the EU and the mainstream media gathering to attack him and try to demonise his policy, the Russian President Vladimir Putin can now say:”veni, vidi, vici”.

The US estimated that Russia, by 2020, would be too strong militarily and economically to be isolated or weakened. This is why Washington tried its best to surround Russia and “cut its legs off” much before and close the oceans to its commerce and to its Chinese ally.

The last US attack, while hiding behind the EU, to attract Ukraine into the European orbit and stop the flow of the Russian gas to Europe – a vital resource of the Russian economy – was in 2014 and this pushed the Russian bear to wake up and decide to act and react accordingly.
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Lebanon, before Libya, managed to stay away from the US’s orbit and Russia, in 2006, was not yet ready to punch according to its weight. Libya was a Russian and a Chinese mistake at the UN and Russia believed it was not possible to do something to stop the process. But Syria is not going to be another Libya and Russia and China agreed, along with Iran, to stop once and for all the US unilateral dominance at the gates of the Levant.

Will America Accept Its Defeat or Challenge the Bear and the Dragon? Part 3:

Russia introduced China to Syria during the war when the Chinese navy arrived in the Mediterranean and reached the shores of Tartous and Lattakia to send a message to America and its allies that the monolithic dominance of the world was over.

There are thousands of Chinese jihadists who fought with ISIS and al-Qaeda and Beijing was concerned, willing to see all these killed in Syria. Cooperation between the Chinese and the Syrian intelligence services was established. Damascus has a unique and a very rich bank of information about foreign fighters many countries in the world would like to have access to, since over 80 nationalities of foreign fighters were allowed into Syria in a failed attempt to topple the regime and establish an Islamic State.

But Washington is still trying to protect its position, refusing to give up on the crown of world domination it has enjoyed for over a decade and it is ready to fight against the “axis opposing the US” using other means outside Syria. The US establishment and its allies are expelling Russian diplomats and imposing sanctions on China and Iran. The US defeat in Syria is obviously very painful.
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America is deploying missiles everywhere where its military bases are deployed all over the world and has never thought of using its energy and power to support the economy and peace. It is only focused on controlling states and the sources of energy regardless of the consequences, because there is no accountability for its doing.
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The US believes it can corner Russia, China and Iran: Russia has a 7,000 kilometre border with China, Iran is not Iraq and Syria is not Afghanistan. In Syria, the destiny of that a world be ruled by unilateralism is over. The world is heading toward pluralism.

The question remains: Is Washington prepared to accept its defeat and acknowledge that it has lost control of the world and pull out of Syria?