Russia and China Outflank British Empire War Drive

The meeting of the BRICS nations this week will most certainly mark a transformation in world history, with the founding of the seed crystal for a new world financial system based on infrastructure and development, rather than speculation and imperial "conditionalities" under the IMF, World Bank and dollar hegemony. The following article from the current EIR presents the potential, which, if joined by the US restoring Glass Steagall (which will require the increasingly likely impeachment of Barack Obama), will spell the death knell of the British Empire, once and for all.

    Svetlana P. Glinkina, deputy director of the Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, wrote the following today, July 14, in the China Daily: "The BRICS countries have set an ambitious goal: to prevent the International Monetary Fund from imposing political and other conditions on developing countries for granting them loans to build infrastructure and/or run businesses. "  All nations - the U.S. included - must join behind this effort. 

     Mike Billington

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Russia and China Outflank

British Empire War Drive

by Jeffrey Steinberg

 

 

July 7—Russia and China have launched a deadly

flanking assault against the British Empire, without

firing a single shot. While London continues to press

for strategic confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia

through its control over the Obama Presidency, and its

own direct long-running operations in Ukraine,

Moscow and Beijing are moving rapidly to create a new

economic and monetary order free from the shackles of

the British system of free-trade looting and radical

Malthusian genocide.

    Both China and Russia have made clear their desire

to have the United States and Europe join in the new

arrangements, but they are declaring their independence

from the system of usury, speculation, and war that has

dominated the planet for centuries.

    The coordination between Russia and China will be

on display next week, when both President Putin and

Chinese President Xi Jinping travel to South America

to participate in the 6th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India,

China, and South Africa) summit July 15-17, in

Fortaleza, Brazil, and a series of bilateral meetings. At the

BRICS meeting, two new financial institutions are

expected to be established: a BRICS development bank

and a collective fund to beat back currency assaults on

the member states. The recent efforts by vulture funds,

in collusion with U.S. Federal courts, to loot Argentina,

and break up the bond restructuring arrangement

negotiated between Argentina and 93% of its bondholders,

have backfired and created accelerated momentum to

break the stranglehold of the so-called Washington

Consensus of the IMF, the World Bank, the Bank of

England, the U.S. Federal Reserve, and the U.S.

Treasury over global financial affairs.

    At the same time, China is spearheading the

creation of an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

(AIIB) before the end of the year. Beijing is seeking as

many as 30 initial members in the bank, which Wall

Street and London clearly see as an undesirable

alternative to the Asian Development Bank which has been

dominated by the Washington Consensus, through

slavish cooperation by Japan. The stated purpose of the

AIIB is to promote rapid construction of the Eurasian

Land-Bridge of transportation and development

corridors stretching from the Pacific Far East to the

western most shores of Europe. In announcing the AIIB,

Chinese officials also announced that they planned to

finance a high-speed rail link between China and Iraq.

 

 

The Eurasian Approach vs. London/Wall

Street

    The idea of the rail line to Iraq underscores the qualitative

difference between the Asian approach being

aggressively promoted now by Beijing, and the bankrupt

policies of permanent war being peddled by London

and its Wall Street and Obama White House allies. Iraq

remains under siege by the barbarian forces of the

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which last week

proclaimed a Caliphate on the territory of the two coun

tries. Backed by Persian Gulf states and wealthy

individuals, ISIS has been conducting a lightning drive

toward Baghdad, defeating the Iraqi Army in a series of

engagements. ISIS is operating with Sunni tribes and

remnants of the Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi Army who

were purged during the U.S. occupation of the Bush-

Cheney era. The factions have maintained cohesion

through the Sunni tribes and the Army of the Men of

Naqshbandi, a Sufi network of Ba’athist military officers

and soldiers who have been shut out of power by

the U.S.-backed al-Maliki government in Baghdad.

 

Threat of Regional War

    The threat posed by ISIS to neighboring countries,

including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia,

has created the conditions for a new regional war. One

thousand American troops are now in Iraq as advisors,

trainers, and intelligence liaisons, as well as security for

the U.S. Embassy and an estimated 25,000 Americans

working in various parts of the country. Last week,

Russia sent SU-25 fighter planes and Russian trainers

to Iraq on short notice at the behest of the al-Maliki

government. Iran has an estimated 100 Al Quds Brigade

(IRGC) military advisors in the country as well,

mostly working with Shi’ite militias called upon to

fight against the Sunni insurgents.    

    Last week, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and

Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Martin

Dempsey gave a frank assessment of the situation on

the ground in Iraq. Dempsey told reporters at a special

Pentagon briefing that he believed the Iraqi Army could

hold back an ISIS assault on the capital, but that they

possessed no capacity to launch any counterattacks to

take back territory already lost to the rebels.

    At the request of President Obama, the JCS

delivered military options last week, suggesting that it would

take as many as 6,000 American troops—one entire

combat brigade and relevant air and communications

support personnel—to simply secure the U.S. Embassy,

the Baghdad International Airport, and the 15-km road

connecting them. Obama authorized the deployment of

an additional 300 U.S. troops, far less than the Pentagon’s

assessed requirements.

    Obama has already violated the Constitution by

dispatching American forces without Congressional

approval. There is a bipartisan revolt brewing against the

President’s latest Constitutional infringements. Rep.

Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) sent the President a letter signed

by 80 members of the House on July 3, warning him

against any military action without Congressional

authorization (see  Feature, in this issue).

    Moreover, Washington and London appear to be

doing everything possible to escalate the provocations

against Russia, using the Poroshenko government in

Ukraine as its instrument. After a series of meetings and

conference calls among Presidents Putin and

Poroshenko with German Chancellor Merkel and French

President Hollande, the seeds of a negotiating process to

end the violence in Ukraine were beginninbg to sprout,

until Poroshenko abruptly ended the ceasefire between

the Ukraine government and pro-Russian federalist

forces in the southeast of the country, and resumed

military operations.

    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blamed the

sudden shift on pressure from an unnamed outside

force—an implicit reference to London and Washington.

Putin has made clear his willingness to negotiate an

equitable agreement, and has taken concrete steps,

including asking the Federation Council, the upper house

of parliament, to rescind the law giving him authority to

intervene militarily in Ukraine, and pushing for OSCE

(Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe)

observers to be deployed to the Ukraine-Russia border.

    Nevertheless, the crisis continues to grow.

It is in this context that the Russian and Chinese actions

to forge a new just economic system in Eurasia and

beyond represent a crucial flank against the power of the

British Empire. Were Congress to remove President

Obama from office, not only would the immediate war

danger be vastly reduced (the British, without the U.S.

on a leash, have no capability to fight a general war). The

prospects for the United States directly participating in

the new economic order would be vastly improved.

Lyndon LaRouche has repeatedly stated in recent

years that the advent of advanced thermonuclear

weapons has made modern warfare impossible. Any

general war would be a war of extinction. Since the

dwindling power of the British Empire system is the

only driving source of the war danger, defeating that

Empire system by forming a new economic and financial

system on traditional Hamiltonian American

System principles—with U.S. full participation—

would be the single-most deadly blow to the last vestiges

of the British Empire. Either the British will succeed

in provoking a general war, in which case

mankind is doomed, or the power of the British Empire

will be defeated, starting with the removal of British

pawn Barack Obama from the Presidency.