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US "Isolated" As Key Ally Japan Considers Joining China-Led Bank
Well, that escalated quickly.
Just a week ago it appeared Washington had managed (for the time being at least) to convince the US’ closest allies to refrain from joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a sinocentric institution aimed at promoting development across Asia that is meant to rival the US/Japanese-led ADB and begin a seismic shift away from the world’s traditionally US-dominated institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. Then, much to the chagrin of Washington, the UK joined as a founding member calling it an “unrivaled opportunity.”
As we and many other observers correctly noted at the time, the move by Britain could well embolden other countries who had expressed an interest initially but been deterred by pressure from Washington to reconsider their bids for membership. In (very) short order, everyone from Germany to Australia to Luxembourg was suddenly ready to cast their lot with the Chinese despite US warnings that the bank won’t adopt the proper operational standards. As we said yesterday, the world is now wise to the fact that US criticism of the new venture is very likely nothing more than an attempt by The White House to undermine Chinese regional ambition:
...and that means in short order Australia and South Korea will likely be on board and at that point, the stigma the US has created around membership will have completely disappeared (if it hasn’t already), opening the door for other US “allies” to join despite the bank’s alleged “low” standards.
Now, it appears the last valuable friend the US has in the bid to keep China from undercutting the ADB is beginning to consider a bid to join up. Here’s more from Reuters:
Japan's foreign minister signaled cautious approval of the institution that the United States has warned against…
The opposition to the AIIB began crumbling after Britain said earlier this month that it would join the institution, saying it was in its national interest. France, Germany and Italy swiftly followed suit.
Australia now appears close to joining, although no formal decision has been made, and Beijing said Japan and South Korea were also considering the possibility. Asked about the three countries joining the bank, China's Foreign Ministry said it was "open" to it.
"They have all already expressed that they are contemplating the issue at hand," ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily briefing. "We are open to them making the relevant decision."
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said Tokyo could consider joining the China-led bank if it could guarantee a credible mechanism for providing loans.
Make no mistake, they’ll still be plenty of officials in Japan who will stick to the script and fight the proposal, but the fact that the country is openly considering it when relations with China are rocky at best and when Japan is so influential in what is pretty clearly a competing institution speaks volumes about the extent to which US hegemony is waning. For his part, PM Abe is still hanging onto the same tired rhetoric:
- ABE: AIIB IS DIFFERENT TO IMF, WORLD BANK AND ADB
- ABE: NEED TO CONSIDER AIIB QUESTION CAREFULLY
As for BoJ Gov. Kuroda, he was apparently too busy buying stocks to comment.
Via Bloomberg:
Asian Development Bank and World Bank have accumulated experience in helping Asia improve infrastructure, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said Friday, declining to comment on whether Japan should participate in a new China-led lender.
Kuroda said he couldn’t respond directly when asked whether Japan should join Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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Or is this the global reset in motion .. take us down . leave us isolated.. humble us and then offer up a plan . you can join wiht us if you give up X Y and Z .. OR .. this is the run up to World War III .. the Pentagon has decided to send more trainer and advisers to Ukraine . our only 'allies' seem to be the UK . the Poles.. and the Baltic orphans .. it is difficult to think in a few short years.. one stupid mofo and his bitch brigade at US State dept. and the faction in the Pentagon has brought us to his point .. just . creepy or part of a bigger agenda to force us into the NWO.
"just . creepy or part of a bigger agenda to force us into the NWO."
The latter, I strongly believe.
I agree- something is up. Maurice Strong is a big time U.N. guy and he has been living and operating in China for years. Perhaps he could be there helping guide the process and it is simply a stepping stone to the one world currency the power hungry all want to see. I don't subscribe to any one group being at the helm. Too many egos to get in the way but when perceptions, desires, and motivations line up with the like minded who is to say a hive mentality could not emerge and seemingly coordinated acts emerge entirely on their own. Once this is achieved we will be in trouble.
I think it is important to focus on the system and not the players. Identifying who is pulling strings will fracture our ability to challenge the system. I identify Strong simply to note that China too has individuals in the country who believe in a "one world order." I think this moniker is more accurate than a "new world order."
A "one world order" is more appropiate because once it is achieved that will be the end of freedom worldwide. There will be no going back. A "new world order" simply implies a change and is not as ominous. I think this was used by design. Words matter and they should call it like it is. I believe people will resist a "one world order" and will sit up and take notice. No one would want that but who doesn't like something "new?" What comes to mind when you hear "new?" Ad agencies have been bombarding us for years with "new and improved."
So here is my thought experiment- use my "one world order" moniker and let's see how long it takes to change perceptions and the level of resistance to TPTB.
I don't see why China would want Japan in their club.
"I don't see why China would want Japan in their club."
There is still a lot of productive labor/value to stripmine.
Japan has no choice but to join. China could take them out in a day. The US is no longer able to provide credible cover. South Korea is in the same situation.
It's about destroying America and the Dollar. They'll take anyone and everyone.
Japans application to the club represents subservience. Small dog exposes belly to big dog.
If you cannot beat them, infiltrate and destroy from within.
If you cannot beat them, infiltrate and destroy from within.
One wonders Chuck why that one never made the final list to replace "In God We Trust" in the USD's motto?!!!
It did @ Nemo...
It's just printed with invisible ink!
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Just ask a Native American! They read "invisible" better than anyone in their Country!
That's cointelpro bitch!
That sounds antisemenetic
It is anti-ceramic
sinocentric -
Switzerland has joined AIIB; South Korea and even Japan(!!!) is now considerint joining.
Obama still has two (2) more years.
How did Americans allow this clown to destroy the country?
Worst. President. Ever.
He makes Shrub look like Jefferson
Barry & Shrub: Nothing more than two cheeks of the same diseased asshole.
“adhere to the high standards that the international financial institutions have developed,” protect the rights of workers and the environment and “deal with corruption issues appropriately.”
I had to login to 2nd the LOL and add HAHAHAHAAA!!!!!
History teaches that the result of U.S. isolation is world war. It's coming.
It will have to be "nucular". Because our best and brightest can't defeat goat herders living in caves and fighting in flip flops
When your 99 weeks of unemployment bennies are up, if you want to eat you will be press ganged into the military
Useless eaters = cannon fodder
Love this map of isolated Russia!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-01/everyone-saying-russia-isolated...
By insufficient operational standards. Code for a banking system not beholden to da Jooz
The US is not isolated. It still has its best buddy, The Only Democracy In The Middle East (TM) on board - at least whilst there is something lootable left on the carcass.
BTW if you just do this one little thing - bomb Iran back into to the Stone Age - Israel will be your BFF forever and ever and ever, honest.
Come to think of it, didn't nuttyahoo say in 2002 that America has to bomb Iraq because they are making nuclear bombs with centrifuges the size of washing machines (see http://www.juancole.com/2012/09/netanyahu-2002-iraq-has-centrifuges-the-... ).
Now he's sings the same song about Iran. Of course he never mentions that Israel has hundreds of nuclear bombs made at their Dimona nuclear weapons plant with plutonium stolen from the U.S.
Yes, Americans can trust the Zionists to tell the truth because they would never lie or steal from us would they?
According to FOX News, criticism of Israel = antisemitism.
Not only are they telling their flock we can trust them because they are so gosh-darn honest, but to even think of criticizing their country as you would any other amounts to jew-hating. Skumbags got all the bases covered.
Fuck Fox News and their audiance type. I said to a buddy watch what you say around these fake morons. These types will rat your ass out fast. POS morons.
Agreed 100%
No, it will say thank you US for doing our dirty work. Now we can get back to our business of hollowing out your country.
Ha, ya couldn't see this a mile away two years ago?
Too funny.
You can call me Anu-damus
I predicted this day would come as soon as Slick Willy gave China Most Favored Nation status
They crashed Japan in the 80's only to creat something worse
Consequence of two decades of greed. Outsourcing factory jobs to reimport cheap shit without tariff protection
(Gen. Tso's) chickens coming home to roost
Shhh, but I heard the rumor that Treasury was putting out unofficial feelers on joining, seeing as how China might take a controlling interest in the Fed...don't tell them but this.leaves Harper's Canada as the only champions of the IMF/WB/WTO and singular opponent of the BRICS. Harper has vowed to take on the world and win with one hand tied behind Canada's back...
But that would mean that he would be forced to remove his tongue from obamas asshole. Not going to happen.
The President visiting to put pressure on them isn't going to work.It didn't work on his visit to India either.You just can't bomb India or Japan like they did with Iraq and Libya.And no you can't take their gold reserves either.
"Just US" can via a false flag operation.
The douchebags have no honor, no morals, no ethics and until the dollar is done as the world reserve currency, have way too much money.
The elitist bumper sticker: "It is good for all of you as long as it does not apply to U.S..hehehehe"
Speaking of Japan - Well another HAARP induced earthquake and Tsunami and further radiation treatments may very well put them between dead and dead.
The world will get along just fine without US.
I can't think of a bigger F-U to the U.S. than Japan joining the financial system of their worst enemy. We reconciled some folks.
RIP. There is nothing gained without a loss. You just simply can't Carry out your fucking perpetual QE forever to fuck the world over and over day in and day out without expecting a revolt. Now the world has spoken and acted. Will USD go down quietly in history without a major fight? I don't think so. Expect WW3 to follow in the next 24 months.
Many blamed Obama for numerous failures. But I believe he's just a puppet. The true force behind him is what George Carlin calls the owners of this place. The true owners will have to suffer the biggest financial defeat in their plundering of the world. Expect they roll back draft and start wars with China.
Of course Obama is a puppet. They - the real owners - would not have allowed him to stand for election were he otherwise.
We may very well see WWIII, but look at history; the asset wealthy come out richer on both sides and the everyday people on both sides fight the battles based on false pretenses from both sides that the rich invented. (good-cop/bad-cop mingled with fear & hatred)
- Notice there is the good, the bad and the neutral, then the neutral moves in to "sway the day". In this war, China will be the neutral, while Russia and US playing (good-cop/bad-cop) and China (neutral) sides with Russia and all the people get propagandized to hate each other. Only this time, I see a much more sinister situation as the US middle-class must be destroyed as it is the major threat to the One World Economic System (OWES), which includes major population reduction..explains why all the underground entities have been put in place and no infrastructure improvements have been made.
Can I please be the first to piss in the fucking orange legardes gaping mouth as she starts screaming.
Please please please I want a chance to grin at her
No. I'll be there before you.
After Australia, S. Korea, and Japan join and the March deadline looms, then April 1st comes and the US knocks on the back-door asking to join. The Chinese answer? What is the significance of April 1 in the U.S..? Did the US even get an invitation?
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Makes no difference; this East verses West is good-cop/bad-cop on display in the global arena in order to further divide people; one of Satan's most effective devices against mankind.."divide them on trivial matters in order to conquer their very souls". Just study the major wars and see how the elite come out from all sides and see who actually looses; it is always the asset wealthy who benefit and the average person who does their dirty work ending in massive carnage and it is coming in a "big way".
And Yet again Another friend just Slapped Obama like he was a 2 dollar crack whore
Yeah this is all happening simply because the global financial markets are hell bent insulting a lame duck mouthpiece puppet.
Dumb.
There is a lack of respect for the U.S. coming out of the upper tier pecking order of Asian nations - i.e., the Japs, Chinese and Koreans. If anyone has been to these nations, you don't need to be told what their opinions are of Black people. No disrespect to Black people in general, but when it comes to the 'leadership' qualities the U.S. has shown under its current executive? Well, it is interpreted by these nations as being nothing short of the type of 'leadership' coming out of a garden variety African nation, and is to be given a level of respect-in-kind...
This is very true. When Obama was first elected a Chinese researcher I knew (Dr. Wu, as in Steely Dan tune) nearly freaked out. Could not understand how a leading - the leading - White country would put a black man minding the bananas (if you'll pardon the metaphor). He assured me that behind the diplomatic blandishments all Asiatic countries, people anbd rulers, would look down on the new leader.
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Maybe, just maybe, we're seeing a crack in the foundations of the BIS/Rotschild/central bank Evil Empire.
And "another takes their place" and it gets worse. Clinton looks like a moral and descent man compared to what we have now; so it always gets worse till it gets better. Got Christ; everyone needs a true savior?
One day very soon the Choomander-in-Chief is going to have a total meltdown when he finds out that executive fascist orders don't work on allies.
They will bring John Kerry out to sell a war between China & Japan.
If so, the intent will be to propagandize the populations against each other in order to divide and to conquer (good-cop/bad-cop).
A "one world order" is more appropiate because once it is achieved that will be the end of freedom worldwide. There will be no going back. A "new world order" simply implies a change and is not as ominous. I think this was used by design. Words matter and they should call it like it is. I believe people will resist a "one world order" and will sit up and take notice. No one would want that but who doesn't like something "new?" What comes to mind when you hear "new?" Ad agencies have been bombarding us for years with "new and improved."
So here is my thought experiment- use my "one world order" moniker and let's see how long it takes to change perceptions and the level of resistance to TPTB.
CORRECT!! New Word Orders come and go, this will be total enslavement and decimation of the masses because the true acronym is OWES "One World Economic System"...and we the nations will be OWNED, "One World Now Enslaved Definitively"
Bow Down. You're going to eat Chinese and have your own military do drills to kill you in your states this year bitchez. The NWO has taken over.
"Proper operational standards". Sounds "half-percenty" to me.
"Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N3gyhgHhe8
The US elite are not only isolated from the rest of the world, but 99% of their own citizens.
Quick, get back in the ivory tower.
if japan joins china the usa is done in the pacific. this is the open door to hatoyama's manifesto. this is japan's chance to escape the usa.
GROZNY, Russia — Ramzan A. Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Chechnya, has been at the center of intrigue surrounding the murder of Boris Y. Nemtsov, a prominent critic of the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. So before a busy weekend that included a night out with the boys to watch cage fighting, Mr. Kadyrov wanted to clear something up. “I am utterly devoted to Vladimir Putin and ready until the end of my life to resist the enemies of Russia,” he wrote on Instagram.
The question these days is not so much Mr. Kadyrov’s fealty to Mr. Putin, his political patron, but whether Mr. Putin’s Faustian bargain to gain stability in Chechnya, where Russia fought two grisly wars to suppress Muslim separatists, has backfired, unleashing a violent and unpredictable despot.
Critics of Mr. Putin have warned that he has allowed Mr. Kadyrov, 38, to effectively create the Islamic republic that Chechen separatists had dreamed of — albeit one entirely reliant on Moscow for financial support and where Shariah law is selective, not absolute. And, they say, Mr. Kadyrov may now be seeking power and relevance far beyond his base in the jagged hills of the North Caucasus.
Unlike in other regions, where local security forces are subordinate to federal authorities, Mr. Kadyrov controls his own internal security troops, known as Kadyrovtsy. He is known for ruthlessly eliminating critics at home and abroad. And in Moscow, he is widely resented by the security services for being allowed to operate with impunity.
“The F.S.B. hate Ramzan because they are unable to control him,” Alexey Malashenko, an expert on the Caucasus at the Carnegie Moscow Center, said of the successor intelligence agency to the K.G.B. “He does whatever he wants, including in Moscow. Nobody can arrest members of his team if there is no agreement with Putin.”
Mr. Nemtsov had recently called attention to the dangers inherent in such a security arrangement. “I cannot understand what Putin expects when arming 20,000 Kadyrovtsy gathered today in the stadium in Grozny,” Mr. Nemtsov wrote in a Facebook post in December, after Mr. Kadyrov led his troops in chants of “God is great!” at a rally in the Chechen capital’s new soccer arena.
“What will happen next?” Mr. Nemtsov wrote. “The country is entering a crisis. There is not enough money for anything, including the support of regions. And the unspoken contract between Putin and Kadyrov — money in exchange for loyalty — ends. And where will 20,000 Kadyrovtsy go? What will they demand? How will they behave? When will they come to Moscow?”
While the authorities have produced no evidence that Mr. Kadyrov or anyone close to him ordered the Nemtsov killing, investigators have arrested five Chechen suspects, including a former deputy commander of one of Mr. Kadyrov’s security battalions.
Even allies of Mr. Nemtsov who believe the Kremlin is behind his death say the investigation so far has exposed a dangerous rift between the chiefs of the security services in Moscow and the brash Chechen leader.
Continue reading the main storyThe rift is of Mr. Putin’s making. For eight years, he has sanctioned Mr. Kadyrov’s iron-fisted rule while seemingly turning a blind eye to assassinations, torture and other human rights abuses. At the same time, the Kremlin bankrolled an expensive rebuilding effort that has transformed Grozny into a glittering Caucasian oasis, and allowed Mr. Kadyrov to amass his heavily armed personal militia.
The result, admirers and detractors agree, is an over-the-top political persona the likes of which Russia has never seen: Islamist warlord, Russian nationalist and fierce Putin loyalist — at least for now.
Long tied to the killings of his personal rivals and critics, Mr. Kadyrov has emerged in recent months as one of the strongest backers of Mr. Putin’s policies in Ukraine, allowing fighters and weapons to flow from Chechnya to support the pro-Russian separatists.
He was a leader of a huge “anti-Maidan” rally in Moscow to protest Ukraine’s shift toward Europe, and in January he led a mass demonstration in Grozny after the shootings at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French newspaper, denouncing the publication as anti-Muslim.
Posters proclaiming “We Love the Prophet Muhammad” now hang on buildings throughout the city.
On Saturday evening, Mr. Kadyrov was in his element, lounging on a plush high-backed sofa in the V.I.P. section of Grozny’s main sports arena, watching mixed martial arts fighters bloody one another in a metal cage.
Wearing a red baseball cap and a jersey from the local Akhmat Fight Club, Mr. Kadyrov sat next to Aleksandr S. Zaldostanov, nicknamed the Surgeon, who is the leader of the Night Wolves, a pro-Putin biker gang in Russia. At times flashing thumbs up, and at other times thrusting his arm in the air triumphantly, Mr. Kadyrov yelled encouragement to the young local athletes battling international challengers.
“Hold him!” Mr. Kadyrov screamed in Chechen. “Be more confident!” “Go forward!” “Attack!”
Mr. Kadyrov does not go in much for mercy. He has been linked to some of Russia’s most jarring, politically charged killings, including that of a prominent investigative journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, in 2006 and of a human rights advocate, Natalya Estemirova, whose colleagues said Mr. Kadyrov personally threatened her months before she was abducted outside her Grozny apartment in 2009.
Two of Mr. Kadyrov’s bitter rivals in Chechnya’s notorious tribal politics were eliminated in public killings. Ruslan B. Yamadayev was shot to death while sitting in a car in central Moscow in 2008, while his brother, Sulim B. Yamadayev, was killed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2009. The Dubai authorities issued an arrest warrant for Adam Delimkhanov, a close adviser to Mr. Kadyrov.
A former bodyguard of Mr. Kadyrov, Umar Israilov, who had documented gruesome torture and other human rights abuses by Mr. Kadyrov and his associates, was killed in 2009 in Vienna, where he had fled with his family.
Mr. Kadyrov has generally waved off past accusations, and he was similarly dismissive when asked about Mr. Nemtsov, a pro-democracy crusader and dogged critic of Mr. Putin, who was assassinated just outside the Kremlin walls.
Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story Continue reading the main story“What? Am I an investigator?” Mr. Kadyrov snapped to a reporter as he strode out of the Grozny Coliseum at 1:30 a.m. into a brisk night, surrounded by his phalanx of heavily armed guards.
“Heh!” he said, exaggerating a laugh. “This is a question for the Investigative Committee, for the prosecutor’s office, for the F.S.B. I don’t know. I am head of the Chechen Republic. I am not a Muscovite.”
The uncomfortable questions are not likely to go away anytime soon.
Speculation about Mr. Kadyrov’s role began immediately after the authorities announced that they had arrested the five Chechen suspects, including Zaur Dadayev, who served in one of Mr. Kadyrov’s security battalions. In a curious posting on Instagram, Mr. Kadyrov said he knew Mr. Dadayev personally as a “true Russian patriot.”
Questions mounted when just a few days later Mr. Putin gave a state award to Mr. Kadyrov (and to Andrei K. Lugovoi, who was charged by Britain with killing the fugitive Russian intelligence officer, Aleksandr V. Litvinenko, by poisoning his tea with polonium).
In Chechnya, Mr. Nemtsov was perhaps best known for leading a petition drive in 1996 that gathered one million signatures to protest the first Chechen war. And given the republic’s history and reputation for violence, skeptics of the government’s investigation say that charging Chechens with his murder is simply too convenient.
Supporters of Mr. Kadyrov say that his enemies in Moscow are trying to undermine his relationship with Mr. Putin. Mr. Kadyrov, in his post on Instagram, accused the United States of trying “to cause chaos and instability in Russia.”
Relatives of the suspects insist that they are innocent.
“I know they are not guilty; I know my sons,” Zulai A. Gubasheva, the mother of two of the suspects, Anzor and Shagid Gubashev, said in an interview at her home in the town of Malgobek, in Ingushetia, a region bordering Chechnya. Ms. Gubasheva is also an aunt of Mr. Dadayev, the suspect whom Mr. Kadyrov called a patriot.
Human rights monitors in Moscow who visited the suspects in prison say there are signs they may have been tortured, and despite early reports of confessions all now seem to be denying the charges.
Though there are sporadic flare-ups in violence, Chechnya, with a population of more than 1.3 million, has enjoyed relative calm in recent years, a result of Mr. Kadyrov’s authoritarian rule and a sustained crackdown on jihadists that has driven many to neighboring Dagestan and Ingushetia, to Syria, or to support the Islamic state.
Portraits of Mr. Putin hang on buildings throughout the rebuilt Chechen capital, often alongside similar portraits of Mr. Kadyrov’s father, Akhmad, who became president in 2003 and was assassinated in 2004.
Islam Saidayev, who works in the Chechen government counseling youths against extremism, rejected the idea that Chechens had killed Mr. Nemtsov. The opposition leader had invited his own death, Mr. Saidayev said, by taking on a system that could not be defeated.
“The Russian Federation is a big train,” he said. “Maybe it’s going in the wrong direction, but no one can stop it. Nemtsov stood on the tracks and tried to stop it. Of course, it ran over him.”
The arrested men, he said, were being framed: “It’s just settled opinion that anything bad is done by Chechens.”
Alexandra Odynova contributed reporting from Grozny, and Neil MacFarquhar from Moscow.
TL;DR
Neil MacFarquhar Neil Graham MacFarquhar has been the United Nations bureau chief of The New York Times since June 2008. From November 2006 to May 2008, he was a national correspondent, based in San Francisco, for the Times. He was the Middle East correspondent for the paper, based in Cairo, from 2001 until 2006.Alexandra Odynova | Authors | Search | The Moscow Times Alexandra Odynova is news editor and a reporter at The Moscow Times. Joining the newspaper in 2007 as a student, she started out writing TV news summaries.
Thanks, anti-Russian newsbot. I already knew how good Amerika was at feigning outrage over brutality, assassinations, torture, targeted killings, etc. when it suits them. Even on threads that have nothing to do with Russia, nothing deters you from your Russophobia.
CIA is so hard up to create a rift between Putin and Kadyrov...after all, the Chechens are our Caucasian terrorists we need to help us destabilize Moscow. Nemtsov is 1000 times more useful dead than when he was alive.
Oh and fuck the NY Times.
i like guys who beat dead horses. it takes a special kind of commitment to tilt at windmills.(who says mixed metaphors are grammatically incorrect?!)
you are losing to your imagination. history will not be denied. reality wins. the usa is done. the king is dead. long live the king. real knights will arise from somewhere. the vacuum is huge.
The Cookie Monster pays him by the word
One potato two potato three potato four
We may very well see WWIII, but look at history; the asset wealthy come out richer on both sides and the everyday people on both sides fight the battles based on false pretenses from both sides that the rich invented. (good-cop/bad-cop mingled with fear & hatred)
- Notice there is the good, the bad and the neutral, then the neutral moves in to "sway the day". In this war, China will be the neutral, while Russia and US playing (good-cop/bad-cop) and China (neutral) sides with Russia and all the people get propagandized to hate each other. Only this time, I see a much more sinister situation as the US middle-class must be destroyed as it is the major threat to the One World Economic System (OWES), which includes major population reduction..explains why all the underground entities have been put in place and no infrastructure improvements have been made.
I don't think the BRIC's and Europe want kill the US and it's dollar, just cut off a limb or two and make it behave globally. It's time to stop bombing for profit.
"I don't think the BRIC's and Europe want kill the US and it's dollar "
...just keep thinking that. lalala
'High operational standards'?? You mean such as those that the IMF applies for Ukraine in lending it billions of dollars against its own rules and that stipulate that it cannot lend to a war torn country?
American leaders are not just hypocrites, they are complete imbeciles, more so for imagining anyone rational buys their sour grapes reasons for opposing the AIIB. They need to come to terms with the reality of America's decline as a global power and that only its military might remains, and even that is being destroyed on the inside by the mega corruption going on within its military/industrial complex.
For instance, over us$1 trillion has been gobbled up developing that flying hippo, the F-35. Add up how many more trillions disappear into the pockets of lobbyists, military contractors and politicians for all the other defense 'research' projects...
#Banks: which will be bankrupt next?
Credit Default Swaps:
http://cds-info.com/
This stage is now giving us a clear indication of just how quickly the race to dump U.S. cash-for-yuans will unfold.
http://new.euro-med.dk/20150320-veterans-today-rewrites-us-history-much-...
A wounded dog is the most dangerous
I also have to lol at all the "folks" here who think China can control shit. If anything, China has more pervasive debt problems than any other country, as well as a billion plus rapidly aging population who have no problem executing their leadership.
This entire shit show across the world is going to sink, with no country immune from collapse. Complexity cannot be sustained in a debt-encrusted world. Too many skimmers, not enough tax donkeys, across the world.
Any wars will be regional conflicts- is China going to sustain a supply line all the way across Europe or the Pacific to America ? Please, make me laugh. Likewise, America is not capable of it either. China against Japan ? Russia invading Europe ? The US taking over Canada and/or Mexico and Central America ? Very possible. Missiles, destruction from hit and run sub attacks, EMF, cyber takedowns of power plants, etc, sure. Count on it. Invasion ? Never happen.
All that you see going on is the last gasp death throes of a worn out paradigm, all of which will fail.
How's that NeoCON Full Spectrum Dominance working out?
No Barry.... "S-p-e-c-t-r-u-m" - not "Sphincter"
The ultimate goal is 'ROC' :: Taiwain/ Formosa
China has waited patiently for 65 years?
The prize is within grasp!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China 'PROC'
Ps. think 'GUAM?'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam
jmo
propper operational standards.
say, are those people in Washington DC total imbecils?
How do they name then FED, SEC and whole Wall Stree with corrupt judges?
The dumb black muslim will be preaching more TBTF shit
THIS IS EXPECTED.
The JPN-CHN Trade is done w/o the USD, no longer needs TWN/HKG/SGP as "Middlemen", and has surpassed the Volume of the "Fuel of the 'Murican-led-and-fashioned "Free Democracies" in the Far East" JPN-USA Trade years ago; and the former should have DOUBLED the latter by now if it weren't for the 2007 Banking Crisis and the TWNese-induced-Senkaku/Diawoyu Racket.
One can also see this as a means for the BOJ and Associate Banks and Conglomerates to "grow themselves" out of their ZIRP-ZONE.
Will this...
Only Time will tell...
And when it fails we will A. take the heat B. bail out everyone. C. bare the brunt of the fall out.