President Trump is the Most Successful Practitioner of Washington’s Hegemony
“Greenland is part of the war against Russia at sea.” — John Helmer
John Helmer makes the point to Nima that in addition to, and perhaps more important than, the military confrontation with Russia and the West in Ukraine, Washington is conducting two other wars against Russia. One is a war to control Russian capital. The other is to control Greenland in order to control the passage in the Arctic. Helmer says that Russian oligarchs still control Russian capital and that it is mainly outside of Russia. He points out also that Washington’s control of Greenland can be used to block Russia from the Arctic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uV3p9nD8D8
Helmer reports that the Kremlin seems uninterested in, or unaware of, these two wars, thereby giving Washington better odds of success than in the military conflict in Ukraine. These are interesting insights that we don’t learn about in the media and that the American foreign policy community does not talk about openly.
If I understood Helmer, he says that the job of Putin’s negotiator Kirill Dmitriev is to negotiate the terms of Russia’s surrender to American capital. As there is no prospect of Dmitriev negotiating an end of the military conflict on terms acceptable to Russia, we now have an explanation of what Dmitriev is actually up to.
Helmer notes that Putin true to form has not responded to Washington’s seizure of Russian tankers. Neither has Putin taken any proactive action to counter Washington’s plan to freeze Russia out of the arctic by seizing Greenland. A nation that cannot recognize threats and respond effectively to them proactively has little chance in the competition for power.
Today Putin meets with Trump’s “negotiator,” Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Witkoff assured Bloomberg News that the talks were “proceeding constructively” and making more progress than ever before. Dmitriev repeated the claim. It was music to Putin’s ears. Unreality prevails in the Kremlin and Dmitriev and Witkoff propagate the unreality.
Long a point made made by myself and more recently by Gilbert Doctorow, Helmer says that Russian nonresponse to provocations directly results in an increase in the number and recklessness of provocations. When the first Russian tanker was seized, the Russian foreign ministry thanked President Trump for releasing the two Russians on board. Apparently, no one in the Kremlin is sufficiently intelligent to understand that to thank the pirate encourages more piracy. And this has been the result with even military weak countries such as Italy seizing Russian flagged ships.
Helmer agrees with me that until and unless there is a strong Russian military response to provocations, Russia will continue to be humiliated by them and Washington will become even more convinced that Putin is a paper tiger. I have said for some time that sooner or later Putin will have to fight or to surrender. It appears the surrender will take place piecemeal. First will go Russia’s financial sovereignty surrendered by Dmitriev. Next will go Russia’s freedom of the seas. Lastly will go Russia’s political sovereignty as the country is surrounded with American nuclear missile bases. Each time another one is established Putin will say it is terrorism not an act of war.
Iran, and China await the same fate. Both governments have proved themselves incapable of proactive action. Iran has pissed away it’s strategic advantage and is now more surrounded than ever by adversaries better protected from incoming missiles. The Chinese government has sat on its butt while two American presidential administrations dismantle the One China policy established by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. Just as Washington claims Greenland as its own and Venezuela’s oil and mineral wealth as its own, Washington is moving closer to declaring Taiwan as it’s own.
Throughout history, the countries incapable of recognizing threats have ceased to exist. The more provocative Washington gets the more Putin stresses negotiations. On January 20, the turncoat Dmitriev described his talks with US officials at the Devos meeting of the World Economic Forum as “constructive.” Of course, he did not say what was constructive about them, but by saying they were constructive, he justifies their continuation while he sells out the Russian position. Dmitriev is a spokesman for the Russian oligarchs who have stashed Russia’s capital abroad.
The Iranian government has just experienced Washington’s effort to pull off a color revolution in order to replace the government with an American puppet as Washington did in Ukraine with the so-called Maidan Revolution. The Iranian government does nothing. It just sits there awaiting attack.
Washington’s abandonment of the One China policy has been apparent for years, and the Chinese government sits on its butt, taking no proactive action.
There is no doubt that Russia’s military capability is superior to that of the Western world. There is no doubt that Chinese military capability is equal to that of the western world. There is no doubt that the Chinese economy is as large and powerful as that of the United States. Indeed, much of America’s capital is invested in China where it could be nationalized at the drop of a hat.
Yet despite these strengths, there is no will to use them. Thus I conclude, first Iran, second Russia, and then isolated China. The result will be a globalist world ruled from Washington.