StrypeyThe new Cold War is ramping up. In the red corner, China, taking up the challengers spot vacated by the collapse of the USSR. In the blue corner, the US, worn down by decades of unsuccessful occupations in the Middle East, and struggling to show Russia who's boss.
As with the last cold war, none of these pissing contests between great powers benefit their citizens. Maybe we the people, regards of which state is our government, need to be the adults in the room? I still remember when millions of ordinary people all around the world protested against the US-led invasion of Iraq.
bs2@strypey Vijay Prashad tells of a "near-peer" view from the #USA
> In 2018, the #Trump administration announced that the war on terror was over and that the full force of the United States government was now going to be to prevent #Russia and #China — .. what then-Defense Secretary #JimMattis called near-peer competitors — these near-peer competitors had to be prevented from rising. That was the #USdoctrine, has not pulled back by the #Biden administration.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/15/vijay_prashad_russia_ukraine_global_south
#NearPeer
> In 2018, the #Trump administration announced that the war on terror was over and that the full force of the United States government was now going to be to prevent #Russia and #China — .. what then-Defense Secretary #JimMattis called near-peer competitors — these near-peer competitors had to be prevented from rising. That was the #USdoctrine, has not pulled back by the #Biden administration.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/15/vijay_prashad_russia_ukraine_global_south
#NearPeer
Vijay Prashad Criticizes the West’s “Open, Rank Hypocrisy” on Ukraine
As the Russian invasion in Ukraine enters its 50th day, we look at the war’s impact around the world with Vijay Prashad, author and director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. “When food prices go up, the political crisis is almost immediate,” says Prashad, who calls the U.S. pressure on Global South countries to cut off essential imports from Russia after a 30-year globalization campaign a double standard. He says if the U.S. encourages greater global division in order to isolate Russia and China, they will implicitly plunge developing countries “into even greater catastrophe.” He also says the West — led by the Biden administration — is pursuing a “casual weaponization of human rights and the word genocide.”