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possibly other countries as well (Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador--OPEC countries, two with Bolivarian democracies--also Nicaragua, and maybe many more) to curtail the lawless U.S. bullies in the White House, and prevent an attack on Iran.
I read about a meeting of China, Russia, and (I think it was) Indian leaders, in a small blip in the news that quickly disappeared into the corporate river of forgetfulness (our news media), for just this purpose. India would be interested, as an historically non-aligned or neutral nation, with understandable concern about Pakistan's nukes (re: U.S. support for Pakistan's dictatorship). The Bushites have been greatly perturbing Russia lately, with threats of missiles right on their border in eastern Europe. And China holds much of our debt paper, and has never liked us, and also gets much of its oil from Iran. I didn't save this newsbit. I wish I had. I believe it was sometime around our 2006 elections, when the UK sailor hostage crisis was happening (with Iran).
These countries, whatever we think of their governments, have done nothing as lawless and disturbing of world peace as invading another country, half way round the world, and slaughtering a million people to get their oil--and furthermore making a bloody awful political, diplomatic and civil mess of it. At least the Russians, when they invaded Afghanistan (way back) created a decent civil government--one of the best Afghanistan has ever had. And they had a more legitimate geopolitical interest in Afghanistan, also in Chechnya, than we do in Iraq or Afghanistan. In truth, if we had invaded anybody, on account of 9/11, it should have been Saudi Arabia!
Anyway, there are rules--balance of power things--that governments generally abide by, in a world configured such as ours is. The Bush Junta broke the rules, and has openly threatened to break them even more, by attacking Iran.
I think that's what this is about. It is a warning--and may well be part of a concerted strategy to curtail Bush/Cheney, that involves economic punishment, among other things. China has to be careful about that, since they want to keep our consumer market. Their part may be to curtail U.S. military movement.
Recently, Nicaragua--another Bolivarian democracy (which just elected Daniel Ortega, past leader of the Nicaraguan revolution--1980s), as president--proposed creating an OAS without the U.S. as a member--at a meeting of Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal--the meeting where the flap between President Chavez of Venezuela and King Juan Carlos of Spain occurred. That got all the headlines, and there was hardly a whisper about this Nicaraguan proposal. There was a closed-door four hour meeting about it. The political landscape in South American has greatly changed over the last decade. It is very anti-Bush and anti-U.S. Corporate, and aiming at self-determination and social justice. There are also discussions of a South American "Common Market" and common currency (to get off the U.S. dollar), and several practical developments toward that end (creation of the Bank of the South, creation of Mercosur and other South American trade groups).
Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, also a Bolivarian, is going to kick the U.S. military base out of Ecuador, and Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador are all stopping cooperation with the phony, neverending U.S. "war on drugs" (excuse for U.S. military presence in these countries).
And you may have heard about statements of Chavez (Venezuela) and Ahmadinejad (Iran) about OPEC trading in euros, and going off the dollar.
These and other developments--viewed together in a list, like this--sure look like something's up, as to a strategy by the rest of the world toward the U.S. (Bush/Cheney and corporate cabal).
If true--and I think it is--WE, the People, are going to pay for Bush/Cheney's crimes, probably with very serious economic punishment, that is possibly already in motion, and yet worse to come if they attack Iran. I don't think these countries want war. I think they've done a lot already to avoid it. (I think Russia was sorely provoked by the invasion of Iraq, and, if they had not been preoccupied with Chechnya, and still reeling from the breakup of the Soviet Union, we might have seen WW III right there.) They want to isolate and disempower the U.S. as Superpower Bully of the World.
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