Yves Smith and Rob Urie: Biden Visits Hitler’s Bunker, Sends for a Decorator: Israel and Ukraine Edition

Yves Smith reposts Rob Urie: Biden Visits Hitler’s Bunker, Sends for a Decorator: Israel and Ukraine Edition.

In almost two years of attrition warfare, the Russians managed to keep the number of civilian deaths in Ukraine to 10,000. With upwards of 400,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, the Russians are conspicuously engaged in a targeted state-vs-state battle. In the month since the Hamas attacks of October 7^th, the Israelis have killed 10,569 civilians, and possibly a few hundred Hamas soldiers. What the Israelis are doing in Gaza isn’t warfare, it is the extermination of a civilian population. This fits the exterminationist impulse of the Zionist-Right in Israel. If the Biden administration believes that what Israel is doing in Gaza is in any way constructive, the world has a problem.

The US is now reportedly telling (substantially destroyed) Ukraine that it is time to negotiate with Russia. This is 10,000 Ukrainian civilian deaths, 400,000 Ukrainian military deaths, and at least two negotiated settlements between Ukraine and Russia that were put on ice by the Americans, too late. The same adult infants who ‘managed’ this fiasco from the American side are now in charge of US-Israel policy. The only possible worse scenario would have been to have Hillary Clinton— the butcher of Libya, in the White House.

The idea that this is all going to work out because ‘fortress America’ misses that the US is rapidly, and deservedly, becoming a pariah state. Adult infant Blinken is now passing warm gas about a ‘two-state solution’ while Israel exterminates one of the two states he claims to be endorsing. And why would Israel care what Blinken has to say? Joe Biden just assured the Israelis that they can exterminate the entire Middle East and he ‘has their back.’ What a farce. And don’t forget those nuclear weapons.

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Urie has some bias here as he believes the West lured Russia into invading Urkraine. The number of Ukrainian deaths is speculative at this stage as the Ukranian government has kept these figures very secretive.

USA is not any danger of being irrelevant in the modern world with other 900 military bases worldwide and navies in every ocean. What is in danger is the absolute hegemony that teh USA has exercised since 1991. The USD is still the world reserve currency and there is no immediate possibility of it being replaced this decade.

The USA hegemony is being diluted by BRICS+. China continues to grow its economy, naval forces, presence in space, and diplomacy. Russia has survived twelve (12) sets of sanctions so far. India continues to go its own way. Brazil is back to developing its independence from US influence. The actions of the US government seems to be driving the growth of BRICS+.

The diplomatic isolation of the US and Israel does not faze them as they know that the US military force and economic power are unmatched currently. China is not a direct threat to the USA. China is creating enough military forces to deter the US from attacking.