By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog
It can certainly be said that the risk for nuclear war is far greater today than it was less a year ago. Ever since the conflict in Ukraine began, the collective West and its vassals, also known as the "international community" have been engaged in a hybrid war against Russia, stopping just short of direct confrontation. Although some EU leaders like Borrell seem to think that the West is an active combatant in the conflict. "We must explain to our citizens that this is not someone else's war," Borrell said in an interview published by newspaper El Pais on Thursday. "The public must be willing to pay the price of supporting Ukraine and for preserving the unity of the EU."
"We are at war. These things are not free," he added.
The same Borrell offered his thoughts on Western hypocrisy and double standards in international affairs, with regards to the Zionist slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza this past week. "We are often criticized for double standards. But international politics is to a large degree about applying double standards. We do not use the same criteria for all problems," he told El Pais newspaper, as cited on Thursday. A rare piece of honesty for a man who makes his living by lying and deceiving others. Yet he failed to mention why those double standards exist. International politics is only about applying double standards when you're an imperialist and colonizer. Of course he wouldn't mention that they don't "use the same criteria for all problems" when it is his masters in Tel Aviv that are the ones waging war on defenceless people.
So this proves that the West throwing tantrums to the left and right over Ukraine really has nothing to do with concern for civilian lives lost. Because when the Zionists massacre children with impunity, the "international community" is pretty silent.
Illegal sanctions, rabid Russophobia, and supplying Kiev with heavy weaponry despite the known dangers of doing so, all show the West's deeply rooted hatred of Russia. If anyone was still delusional to think that this hatred had anything to do with President Putin only, then these past months should've proven that it is Russia and the Russians that the "international community" hates with a passion. Why else would they ban Russian athletes, journalists and even ordinary citizens? Of course, the case would've been much different had Russia given up on its sovereignty and offered its territory to Washington. Only a non-sovereign and non-independent Russia can be considered "democratic" in the eyes of this "international community."
The same hatred can be seen towards any country that has chosen independence over subservience to the West. The self-worshipping and racist West has always hated those who resist Western attempts to colonize and ravage their countries. This is why they also hate China and Iran with a passion. Yes, yes, I am also aware that they even hate their own non-Western allies because of the racist nature of the West.
Over the years since the fall of the Eastern Bloc, China and Russia, adopted a policy of cooperation with the United States and tried to make the Americans understand that it is possible to interact instead of confronting each other. It can be said that the peak of this policy was when Putin even proposed Russia's membership in NATO. Putin's purpose in bringing up Russia's membership in NATO was to determine whether NATO is still seeking to destroy Russia or not. Well, it quickly became completely clear to Russia that the Americans are looking for Russia's destruction through the expansion of NATO right up to Russia's borders.
The Americans are doing the same thing in East Asia, and despite the fact that China has tried to engage with them through interaction and not confrontation, they are officially and unofficially seeking to destroy China. Nancy Pelosi's childish attempt to create tensions between China and Taiwan and setting the stage for war in this region is an example of the same type of animosity that Washington has engaged in with Russia. Maybe if there was no war in Europe, the Americans would have done something to start a war in East Asia, but it seems that they saw that currently, they cannot fight on two fronts and they preferred to delay the process of starting a war in East Asia.
This American policy is no different from the policies that caused the start of World War I and II, and the continuation of these policies can lead the world to a third world war, which due to the existence of weapons that can destroy the world many times over, it is possible to imagine that the start of such a war may be the end of humanity.
Today, it is no longer a secret or a "crazy delusion" that the West is in a state of decline. It has been for some time but the average person wouldn't have noticed this years ago. There's no hiding it today, and the only ones left to deny this reality are die-hard liberals - or rather die-hard Empire supporters. These people, often journalists in the West, have gone on full denial mode and make up stories and fantasy scenarios of "Russia's imminent collapse". Try watching German or British coverage of Ukraine and you'll see what I'm talking about.
In their desperation, they've reached such pathetic lows that they are now speculating over Putin's health, presenting sad lies made up by "anonymous former MI6 agents" with "deep insight" into what's going on the Kremlin, as absolute truth. The same desperation can be seen among Western politicians. They don't live under any illusions and are fully aware of the imminent collapse that the West is facing. We observers shouldn't be under any illusions either: the West won't just accept defeat, especially not to those it considers to he inferior.
As the West declines, concurrently new powers are rising in the world. A multi-polar world is emerging with Russia, China and Iran leading it. But with the emergence of a multi-polar world, the dangers of nuclear war also grows.
Whenever the US is desperate to prove its "superiority", it always resorts to Hollywood style showboating in an attempt to remind the world of its "awesome powers." Take Nancy Pelosi's provocative and dangerous stunt in Taiwan recently, or the concurrent "assassination" of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda leader who according to the Taliban had been dead for months before the US, in true Hollywood fashion claimed to have killed him while he was on a balcony. Washington was quick to emphasize that no other person was killed and that the building wasn't even destroyed, despite being allegedly hit by a missile. Biden took to the press and basically threatened the entire world: "No matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you're a threat to our people, the US will find you and take you out."
The problem with these stunts is that sooner or later nobody is going to take them seriously anymore. Thus begins a dangerous and vicious spiral where the US constantly must take more risks to project its supposed power, leading it directly into confrontation with China, Russia or Iran as Washington keeps crossing more and more red lines.
Washington's bruised ego, together with rabid racism and self-worship is a dangerous combo for an empire that is desperate to preserve its hegemony. Remember that it is the same regime that did not hesitate to use nuclear weapons against Japan, and still takes pride in doing so.
As the West is declining and possibly collapsing, one has to wonder if their hatred for the rest of the world is greater than their sense of self-preservation. If their "world order" isn't going to prevail, will they allow humanity to even exist?