NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity, by Pepe Escobar

Multipolarity appears to be firing on all cylinders. U.S. unipolarity is sputtering. From Pepe Escobar at unz.com:

We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa.

Yet time waits for no one. The Empire will (italics mine) strike back in full force; in fact its multi-hydra Hybrid War tentacles are already on display.

Here and here I have attempted two rough drafts of History on the birth of BRICS 11. Essentially, what the Russia-China strategic partnership is accomplishing, one (giant) step at a time, is also multi-vectorial:

• expanding BRICS into an alliance to fight against U.S. non-diplomacy.
• counter-acting the sanctions dementia.
• promoting alternatives to SWIFT.
• promoting autonomy, self-reliance and instances of sovereignty.
• and in the near future, integrating BRICS 11 (and counting) with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to counter imperial military threats, something already alluded to by President Lukashenko, the inventor of the precious neologism “Global Globe”.

In contrast, the indispensable Michael Hudson has constantly shown how the U.S. and EU’s “strategic error of self-isolation from the rest of the world is so massive, so total, that its effects are the equivalent of a world war.”

Thus Prof. Hudson’s contention that the proxy war in Ukraine – not only against Russia but also against Europe – “may be thought of as World War III.”

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