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From: <javediqbalkaleem@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:17 AM
Subject: { Struggle For Change } Goodbye US Hegemony
To: javediqbalkaleem@yahoogroups.com
Brothers & Sisters,
This article is not written from Islamic point of view. But it does provide a glimpse of things to expect in the coming days, when grip of Jewish bankers solidifies on world economy.
Muhammad Javed Kaleem
By Israel Shamir, an Israeli writer
Shamir, reporting from Moscow on the US/Russian confrontation over
Syria, was well positioned to have good information. Shamir reports
that according to diplomatic leaks, missiles launched against Syria,
apparently by the US but perhaps by Israel, were, according to the Asia
Times and Middle Eastern newspapers, either shot down by Russian
ship-based sea-to-air defenses or rendered helpless by powerful Russian
GPS jammers. This decisive response from a major nuclear power,
together with the British ParliamentтАЩs loud NO and the same coming from
the UN, the US public and Congress together with NATOтАЩs lack of
enthusiasm resulted in the Obama regime having second and better
thoughts.
Americans are long accustomed to thinking that no one can stand up to America. This crazy idea has perverted the judgment of the government
in Washington. If the fools in Washington donтАЩt find a way to recover
from their hubris and arrogance, the fools will bring us the end of the
world.
CounterPunch
http://www.counterp unch.org/ 2013/10/08/ russia-syria- and-the-decline- of-american- hegemony/ print
OCTOBER 08, 2013
The Cape of Good Hope
Russia, Syria and the Decline of American Hegemony
by ISRAEL SHAMIR
First, the good news. American hegemony is over. The bully has been
subdued. We cleared the Cape of Good Hope, symbolically speaking, in
September 2013. With the Syrian crisis, the world has passed a key
forking of modern history. It was touch and go, just as risky as the
Cuban missile crisis of 1962. The chances for total war were high, as
the steely wills of America and Eurasia had crossed in the Eastern
Mediterranean. It will take some time until the realization of what
weтАЩve gone through seeps in: it is normal for events of such magnitude.
The turmoil in the US, from the mad car chase in the DC to the shutdown
of federal government and possible debt default, are the direct
consequences of this event.
Remember the Berlin Wall? When it went down, I was in Moscow, writing for Haaretz. I went to a press-conference with Politburo members in the President Hotel, and asked them whether they concurred that the end of
the USSR and world socialist system was nigh. I was laughed at; it was
an embarrassing occasion. Oh no, they said. Socialism will blossom, as
the result of the WallтАЩs fall. The USSR went down two years later. Now
our memory has compacted those years into a brief sequence, but in
reality, it took some time.
The most dramatic event of September 2013 was the high-noon stand-off near the Levantine shore, with five US destroyers pointing their
Tomahawks towards Damascus and facing them тАУ the Russian flotilla of
eleven ships led by the carrier-killer Missile Cruiser Moskva and
supported by Chinese warships. Apparently, two missiles were launched
towards the Syrian coast, and both failed to reach their destination.
It was claimed by a Lebanese newspaper quoting diplomatic sources
that the missiles were launched from a NATO air base in Spain and they
were shot down by the Russian ship-based sea-to-air defense system.
Another explanation proposed by the Asia Times says the Russians
employed their cheap and powerful GPS jammers to render the expensive
Tomahawks helpless, by disorienting them and causing them to fail. Yet
another version attributed the launch to the Israelis, whether they were trying to jump-start the shoot-out or just observed the clouds, as they claim.
Whatever the reason, after this strange incident, the pending
shoot-out did not commence, as President Obama stood down and holstered
his guns. This was preceded by an unexpected vote in the British
Parliament. This venerable body declined the honor of joining the attack proposed by the US. This was the first time in two hundred years that
the British parliament voted down a sensible proposition to start a war; usually the Brits canтАЩt resist the temptation.
After that, President Obama decided to pass the hot potato to the
Congress. He was unwilling to unleash Armageddon on his own. Thus the
name of action was lost. Congress did not want to go to war with
unpredictable consequences. Obama tried to browbeat Putin at the 20G
meeting in St Petersburg, and failed. The Russian proposal to remove
Syrian chemical weaponry allowed President Obama to save face. This
misadventure put paid to American hegemony , supremacy and
exceptionalism. Manifest Destiny was over. We all learned that from
Hollywood flics: the hero never stands down; he draws and shoots! If he
holsters his guns, he is not a hero: heтАЩs chickened out.
Afterwards, things began to unravel fast. The US President had a chat with the new president of Iran, to the chagrin of Tel Aviv. The Free
Syrian Army rebels decided to talk to Assad after two years of fighting
him, and their delegation arrived in Damascus, leaving the Islamic
extremists high and dry. Their supporter Qatar is collapsing
overextended. The shutdown of their government and possible debt default gave the Americans something real to worry about. With the end of US
hegemony, the days of the dollar as the world reserve currency are
numbered.
World War III almost occurred as the banksters wished it. They have
too many debts, including the unsustainable foreign debt of the US. If
those Tomahawks had flown, the banksters could have claimed Force
Majeure and disavow the debt. Millions of people would die, but billions of dollars would be safe in the vaults of JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
In September, the world crossed this bifurcation point safely, as
President Obama refused to take the fall for the banksters. Perhaps he
deserved his Nobel peace prize, after all.
The near future is full of troubles but none are fatal. The US will
lose its emission rights as a source of income. The US dollar will cease to serve as the world reserve currency though it will remain the North
American currency. Other parts of the world will resort to their euro,
yuan, rouble, bolivar, or dinar. The US military expenditure will have
to be slashed to normal, and this elimination of overseas bases and
weaponry will allow the US population to make the transition rather
painlessly. Nobody wants to go after America; the world just got tired
of them riding shotgun all over the place. The US will have to find new
employment for so many bankers, jailers, soldiers, even politicians.
As I stayed in Moscow during the crisis, I observed these
developments as they were seen by Russians. Putin and Russia have been
relentlessly hard-pressed for quite a while.
┬а* The US supported and subsidised RussiaтАЩs liberal and nationalist
opposition; the national elections in Russia were presented as one big
fraud. The Russian government was delegitimised to some extent.
* The Magnitsky Act of the US Congress authorised the US authorities to
arrest and seize the assets of any Russian they deem is up to no good,
without a recourse to a court.
* Some Russian state assets were seized in Cyprus where the banks were in trouble.
* The US encouraged Pussy Riot, gay parades etc. in Moscow, in order to
promote an image of Putin the dictator, enemy of freedom and gay-hater
in the Western and Russian oligarch-owned media.
* Russian support for Syria was criticised, ridiculed and presented as a
brutal act devoid of humanity. At the same time, Western media pundits
expressed certainty that Russia would give up on Syria.
As I wrote previously, Russia had no intention to surrender Syria,
for a number of good reasons: it was an ally; the Syrian Orthodox
Christians trusted Russia; geopolitically the war was getting too close
to Russian borders. But the main reason was RussiaтАЩs annoyance with
American high-handedness. The Russians felt that such important
decisions should be taken by the international community, meaning the UN Security Council. They did not appreciate the US assuming the role of
world arbiter.
In the 1990s, Russia was very weak, and could not effectively object, but┬а they felt bitter when Yugoslavia was bombed and NATO troops moved
eastwards breaking the US promise to Gorbachev. The Libyan tragedy was
another crucial point. That unhappy country was bombed by NATO, and
eventually disintegrated. From the most prosperous African state it was
converted into most miserable country.
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