by Phil Butler

Talk to almost anyone in my country, and they will agree, America is great, just great. Well, I believe my country was and is a unique experiment with great potential. Unfortunately, the rare combination of arrogance, ignorance, and apathy will eventually cause a great fall. It’s sad how people hear religious leaders preach from the Book of Revelations every Sunday and how no one recognizes where the real Babylon is.

“The kings of the earth who committed terrible sins with her will weep. They will mourn because they used to share her riches…” Revelation 18 v 9

Now turn the page and find CNBC’s Holly Ellyatt saying that America is “rewarding Putin with a summit!” She says there is no hope from such a meeting between President Joe Biden and the Russian president. And this may be true. But the way American journalists frame their stories is just nasty, insulting; it’s as if we’ve become a nation of sarcastic assholes. And as I type this, I envision what Babylon in the Bible feels like. Like Russia or China? Will God send down his angels to crush the Palestinians or the Yemenis? Or, does this sound more like my countrymen professing their exceptionalism as human beings?

Meanwhile, as Facebook and Twitter CEOs ramp up their PR campaigns proclaiming they’re on the heels of broad networks of Russian influencers, foreign hackers compromised Russian federal agencies in a digital espionage campaign that Russian officials described as unprecedented in scope and sophistication.  NEO too fell victim to this latest blitzkrieg cyber attack from the west. But wait, Germany could be a contender for the Queen of Babylon title given the fact Russia’s Prosecutor General had to move to curtail the activities of the Forum of Russian-Speaking Europeans, the Center for Liberal Modernity and the German-Russian Exchange. All these NGOs, the prosecutor says, which receive foreign funding and engage in “political activity” should register as “foreign agents.”

No, wait. Revelation says that “All who had ships on the sea became rich because of her wealth!” And anyone knows nobody ever became rich off the Germans except Germans. Besides, it would not take God an hour to destroy Germany, as it says in the scriptures. Nope, the almighty will probably have to smash Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley to put Babylon under. He’s so big and bad he’s ready to take on both Russia and China at once. Here’s what he had to say to cadets about to graduate from the US Air Force Academy:

“We live in an age of technological development. Artificial intelligence, robotics, human engineering, hypersonics, long-range precision fire – we can now see and strike targets at ranges that have never existed before in human history. The country that masters new technologies, combines them with doctrine, and develops leaders to take advantage of them. The side that does that best will have a decisive advantage at the start of the next war.”

I don’t know about you, but even as a patriotic American, I have to go with God Almighty versus Babylon, I mean America. As for China and Russia together? I guess nobody will win an all-out nuclear conflagration.

Then there’s Russia ramping up India’s production of the Sputnik V vaccine. And in case you have not read, Vladimir Putin shipped a generic version of the remdesivir antiviral drug called Remdeform to India as part of its humanitarian aid contributions for India’s life and death struggle over a surge in COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, the United States is accused of hoarding vaccines instead of sharing them to help the most. The Biden administration’s mouthpieces seem to think all foreign aid should be used as a political lever. It sure sounds like some evil Babylonian babble to me.

In his book, “The Fall of Babylon the Great America,” author Michael Fortner says America is a political, cultural, and economic Babylon. And while many of his theories are off the edge, these assertions are more or less common knowledge. R. A. Coombes and many other authors hold similar views. One writer even says that former President Trump was the stubborn leader prophesied by Daniel. And so no one reading this thinks I’ve decided to become a preacher; I’ll remind you all of a previous fall and a leader who could easily have been American.

“You know what my needs are. Let us see to it that no one possesses anything.” Emperor Nero

Does this sound familiar?

Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”

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The United States is not the hyper-power it dreamed of being. It has endured a terrible military defeat in Syria with a hundred allied states. Even if they continue to delude themselves, the time of reckoning has come. To survive, Washington has no choice but to ally itself with one of its adversaries. Russia or China? That is the question.

We cannot live in a society without rules. If they are unjust, we revolt and change them. This is inevitable, because what seems right at one time is not necessarily right at another. In any case, we need an order, otherwise each one becomes the enemy of all. What is true for men is also true for peoples.

In 1945, the Yalta Conference laid the foundations for the division of the world into the zones of influence of the three great victors of the Second World War: the USA, the United Kingdom and above all the Soviet Union. Throughout the Cold War, each side publicly insulted the other, but they always got along under the table. Historical research has shown that, although at any moment the agreement could have turned into a confrontation, the invective was rather intended to weld each side together than to hurt the opponent/partner.

This system was never contested. It lasted until the disappearance of the USSR in 1991. Since then, the United States has claimed to be the only hyper-power capable of organizing the world. They have not succeeded. On many occasions, China and Russia -heir to the USSR- have tried to reshuffle the deck. They have not succeeded either, but they have not stopped making progress. The United Kingdom, which had joined the European Union during the Cold War, left it to compete again ("Global Britain"). Thus, there are no longer three, but four powers that aspire to share the world.

After the confusion of 1991-2021, from "Desert Storm" to the "reshaping of the broader Middle East," the United States’ ambition broke down in Syria. It took several years for it to admit defeat. The Russian armies now have much more advanced weapons and the Chinese army has much more qualified personnel. Washington urgently needs to take note of reality and accept an agreement otherwise it will lose everything. It is no longer a matter of calculating what is best for it, but of undertaking everything to survive.

The allies of the United States have not perceived the importance of the military disaster in Syria. They persist in lying to themselves and treating this major conflict, involving even more states than the Second World War, as a "civil" war in a small, distant country. It will therefore be particularly difficult for them to comply with Washington’s cascading retreat.

A Yalta II is the last chance for the United Kingdom. The former "Empire on which the sun never sets" no longer has the military means of its ambitions. But it still has an exceptional know-how and an unfailing cynicism (the "Perfidious Albion"). It will take part in any deal as long as it guarantees a payoff. It follows in the footsteps of the US Administration, taking advantage of their common culture and solid networks of influence. The Pilgrim’s Society, which was very present during the first Obama administration, is back in the White House.

Russia is not the USSR, where few leaders were Russian. It does not seek the triumph of an ideology. Its foreign policy is not based on a vague "geopolitical" theory either, but on the projection of its strong personality. It is ready to neglect its interests rather than to deny itself.

China has come a long way without owing anything to anyone, and especially not to those who destroyed it at the beginning of the 20th century. It intends above all to recover its regional influence and trade with the rest of the world. It knows how to wait, but is not ready to make any concessions. Today it is an ally of Russia, but it remembers its role during its colonization and has not given up its territorial claims on Eastern Siberia.

In short, none of the four major powers is acting according to the same logic and pursuing the same objectives. This makes it easier to reach an agreement, but more difficult to keep it.

The Pentagon has appointed a task force to consider possible options for dealing with China (DoD China Task Force), which it fears more than Russia. Indeed, whatever Beijing recovers from its regional zone of influence, it will do so at the expense of Washington’s positions in Asia. For its part, the White House has organized a top-secret working group to consider possible new orders. The first group has issued its report, which has been classified. No one knows whether the second group has completed its work or not.

It is this group that oversees the destiny of the United States. Its composition itself is secret. Its members are obviously more powerful than a senile president. It plays a central decision-making role comparable to that of the National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPD) during the Bush-Cheney Administration.

It is unclear at this point whether this group represents political objectives and/or financial interests. In any case, it is clear that Global Finance influences both NATO and the White House. It does not seek to change alliances, but rather to have the information necessary to adapt behind the scenes to these changes and preserve its social position.

The movements of Washington’s various special envoys suggest that the Biden Administration has already chosen to restore the Cold War duopoly. This is the only way for Washington to avoid a war against a Russian-Chinese alliance that it would probably not survive.

This option implies that Washington commits itself to defend the integrity of Russian Siberia against China and that Moscow reciprocally defends the US bases and possessions located in the Chinese zone of influence.

This option assumes that Washington recognizes Chinese economic pre-eminence in the world. But it leaves it the possibility of politically containing the "Middle Kingdom" so that it never becomes a world power in the full sense.

The only real loser would be China, still deprived of a part of its zone of influence and politically contained. However, it would be appeased, for the time being, by letting it recover Taiwan, which the Pentagon Think Tank has considered for a week as "non-essential" for the USA.

It is important to understand that the main obstacle for the US is mental. Since 2001, Washington has been convinced that instability plays in its favour. This is why it is unabashedly instrumentalizing jihadists around the world, thus implementing the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski strategy. However, the concept of a Yalta-type agreement is, on the contrary, a bet on stability, which is what Moscow has been preaching for two decades.

President Biden has planned to meet with his British partners to strengthen their alliance on the model of the Atlantic Charter; then to bring together his main allies for the G7: and finally to meet with his military and civilian allies in NATO and the European Union. It is only after having assured himself of the loyalty of all that he will meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Geneva on June 16.

All this is paradoxical; because it amounts to making the Biden Administration do exactly what the Trump Administration was prevented from doing. Four years have been wasted for nothing.

(To be continued...)

Thierry Meyssan

Translation 
Roger Lagassé

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