January-February 2023 Issue: Director’s
Letter:
The So-Called 'International Community'
Versus BRICS:
The
Current Battle to Maintain the Unipolar World or to Move On to A Fair,
Balanced and Equitable Multi-Polar World
Will We, the 8-billion Peons of the Planet,
be Permitted to Survive This Clash of Titans?
John Pellam, President & Director
The Bibliotheque: World Wide Society and the Institute for
Positive Global Solutions
VOL. XXIII, NO.
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ISSN#: 1544-5399
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023
Link for Citation Purposes:
https://bwwsociety.org/journal/current.htm
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New
Year's Day 2023
Looking
through The Archives Section
of this Journal I am struck by the naiveté of the editor during the early
years of this Journal's publication. Each of the titles of the various
articles, papers, opinion pieces and proposals exude an optimism and a
fundamental belief that those who rule us, democratically elected of
course, do so from an altruistic stand, sincerely wanting to create
environments of equity, fairness, opportunity and creativity for all.
As
we begin 2023 it is obvious that those who rule us are split into two
camps, the first being the so-called International Community, which
consists of the EU countries and the 5 Eyes nations, essentially but not
exactly, the NATO power alliance. These nations comprise the US
Dollar-based power structure that has dominated the world since the end of
World War II. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the IC stood unchallenged
for some 30 years.
Over
these 30 or so years, gradually and then rapidly, the BRICS (et al) nations
have gained strength and power (both military and economic). Together,
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and now Iran and others are
rapidly moving away from the US Dollar and are trading in their own
currencies. BRICS stands as a boldface challenge to the IC and the IC began
taking subtle moves against BRICS starting with the 2004 Orange Revolution
in Kiev Square protesting the election of Viktor Yanukovich against former
Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko; allegations of voter intimidation and
fraud (possibly instigated by foreign NGO organizations operating in the
Ukraine) led the Ukrainian Supreme Court to order a run-off election of
which Yushchenko was declared the winner. Yankovich was later elected
President in 2010; however in 2013 he rejected a pending EU
"association agreement" and chose to make closer ties with Russia.
This brought on the Euromaidan Protests of 2014 which led to Yankovich's
announcement that he had reached "an agreement" with the
opposition forces. He then left Kiev for Kharkov, but after reporting that
his car had been shot at as he left Kiev he changed his destination to the
Crimea where he stayed until his eventual exile in Russia. The next day he
was removed as president by the Parliament and a new election was scheduled
which was won in June 2014 by Petro Poroshenko. Poroshenko oversaw the
War of the Donbass against pro-Russia separatist forces and began the
process of integrating the Ukraine into the EU; he served as president from
2014 until the 2019 election of the strongly pro-EU, pro-NATO, pro-IC and
anti-Russia Vladimir Zelensky.
It
should be noted here that peace proposals (known in final form as the Minsk
Agreements) were brokered by Germany and France, and in 2015 Germany,
France, Russia and the Ukraine signed the Minsk Agreements suspending
hostilities between Russia and the Ukraine. In late 2022 several western
officials, including Angela Merkle, have alluded to the fact that the Minsk
Agreements were nothing more than a stall to provide time for the IC powers
to arm and train Ukrainian forces in preparation of a full-blown conventional
war with Russia.
Through
back channels, the US has long had strong influence over the Ukraine going
back to the Obama Administration, with now-US President Joe Biden handling
the Ukraine for the Obama Administration during his stint as US Vice President.
Presently, with the Ukraine acting as a US proxy state, it has acted as a
battering ram against its neighboring state and has, of course, since
February of 2022 been engaged in a hot war with Russia.
Backed
by the IC nations, the Ukraine is given just enough weaponry to keep it
active in the war, but not so much help that it is ever able to win against
the Russians and end the war. The war is meant to go on and on in order to
weaken Russia while at the same time weakening the Ukraine so that the Ukraine
will be permanently dependent on the IC nations and a weakened Russia
becomes ripe for "regime change" and Balkanization into smaller,
more controllable states with pro-IC ties, leaving Russia proper as a
much-weakened rump state.
The
game is dangerous, to say the least, and could lead to nuclear war.
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This
issue begins with our Page One Feature Paper which discusses the
showdown between Russia and the Ukraine and asks the rather obvious
question: "Is This All a NATO Plot to Destabilize Russia and Balkanize
the nation into small, easy to dominate rump states?" in Mr. Michael
Mifsud's paper "Global Cultural Menace and the Road to World War
III".
Meanwhile,
China, like much of the rest of the world, desires peace, stability and the
continued opportunity to improve and develop its nation. China has formed
strong, positive trade agreements with Russia and wants peace to prevail as
Russia continues to develop. Can a strong relationship between China and
Russia give the IC nations pause and help the world take an important step
away from World War III? In his paper titled "Can a Strong
China-Russia Partnership Deter NATO From Pursuing a Collision-Course to
World War III?" Professor Fu Wei of China's Ji Nan University
offers some extremely positive aspects for peace by standing by China's
side.
One
might next ask: "How did we arrive at this needless and nonsensical
danger of blowing ourselves to ashes?" Again, Mr. Michael Mifsud steps
in to offer his paper: "How Our Collective Subconscious Was
Distracted as Our Rulers Led Us Down the Path to War: Did
Self-Consciousness and Religious Convictions and Perhaps Even Simple
Intellectual Laziness Lead us to Abandon our 'Survival Needs'
to Intermediaries?"
The
January-February 2023 issue concludes with more thought into our own
consciousness so that we might think more and react less, as Institute
Governor Tetsuo Kaneko discusses Science and Human Creativity in his paper
titled "Freedom of Cerebral Activities from What the Brain
Has."
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