A few excerpts from this excellent and comprehensive analysis, emphasis in original:

At the Munich Security Conference a few days ago, US Secretary of State Blinken had a Freudian slip when he said, “If you are not at the table with us, you will be on the menu.”

This is the imperialist and barbaric mentality that literally threatens to kill anyone who seeks an independent path. This is the fake freedom according to the so-called “rules-based international order,” which translates to “we make the rules, we change the rules any time we want, the rules always favor us, and you must meekly obey our order.”

For many Americans, it would be surprising to discover that the US was quite agricultural and under-developed until the turn of the 20th century. Even in the 1930s, 90% of rural Americans did not have access to electricity. It was WW2 that saved the US from the Great Depression, made the dollar into a global reserve currency, and transformed the US into an empire.

What many people do not realize is that the US peaked in 1950, when it represented half of global GDP and was the king of manufacturing. It has been downhill since then. Fast forward to now, US’ share of global GDP has been cut in half. The power shift from the West to the East since the end of the Cold War has been stunning.

In terms of purchasing power (PPP GDP), Russia is larger than Germany, China is larger than the US, Asia is larger than the US and Europe combined, BRICS is larger than the G7, and developing nations are larger [than] developed countries.

While the US empire is facing a silent revolt all over the world, the most profound challenges come from three countries: Russia, China and Iran.

Shockingly, the triumvirate is not a surprising concept. In the 1990s, American geopolitical sage Zbigniew Brzezinski spelled it out in his book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. He wrote, “Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an antihegemonic coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.” Can someone give a more explicit warning than this?

However, Americans did follow other disruptive advice from Brzezinski – expanding NATO, trying to expel Russia from Crimea and Black Sea, keeping vassals – the likes of Europe and Japan – weak and submissive, and trying to sabotage the rise of Eurasia.

While these Machiavellian tactics have worked well to some extent, they have also turned the US into an empire of lies, tyranny and cruelty.

Unfortunately, no geopolitical expert in the US talked about how America could lead the world by focusing on industrialization, science, technology, infrastructure, Middle Class, physical health, mental health, and wholesome societal values. Instead, the US was taken over by Wall Street, Big Pharma, military-industrial-spy complex and other parasitic corporate groups. America deindustrialized itself, offshored critical manufacturing, and created asset/debt bubbles to hide the declining standard of living.

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