Days and Decades

A long time has passed since Libia’s president, Moamar Q’daffi, attempted to create a North African trade union based on a gold backed Dinar in the 2000’s-his efforts earning him a bayonet colonoscopy, and today’s meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

This past July in Rio de Janeiro, a declaration was issued by the BRICS nations of their governing principals. Immediately thereafter, an increasingly distraught Donald Trump began making derogatory statements about BRICS and chucking around sanctions like Nelson Muntz giving out underwear burns at the playground of Springfield Elementary School.

Me thinks the president doth pontificate too much.

The BRICS organization now boasts 10 members with 20 others waiting in line, completed membership applications in hand, waiting for them to be stamped so they can be inducted into the new organization, and the SCO, whose ranks stand at 25 members, some of which are comfortably in both organizations.

Together they represent over half of the world’s population, half the global GDP, half its reserves of resources, and more than half its determination. And a few of them have more than half the world’s military capability.

That’s one hell of a lota half ‘n half’s.

If you watched any of the pomp and circumstance photo ops in Tianjin, China at the recent SCO summit, you might have noticed leaders like Xi Jinping (China,) Vladimir Putin (Russia,) Masoud Pezeshkian (Iran,) and Narendra Modi (India) smiling, shaking (and even holding) hands, and chatting together in each other’s languages.

The latest round of Merry Sanctions issued by the Sherif of Nothingham from the Sherwood Office has only served to do the same thing all his other Terrible Tariffs have done: Drive Nations Together.

From the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s willingness to fight with a velveted hand, call for negotiations, stop hostilities, even withdraw from taken territories as a good will gesture, dispatch crews of negotiators to Astana or Minsk, and agree to conditions favorable to both Ukraine and Russia, even when lustrous personalities like Angela Merkel admitted that Minsk II was a ruse to buy time and allow Europe and the US to rearm and rebuild Ukraine-they had absolutely and irrevocably no intention of upholding its requirements. Even during all of these atrocities Russia was willing to negotiate but also able to defend herself from western proxy wars.

The Global South watched. They waited.

Many pundits in the west used these apparent ‘weaknesses’ to portray Russia and her president, Vladimir Putin, as weak, indecisive, near defeat, running on vodka fumes, and all-in-all a Bumbling, Bolshevik, Bureaucracy.

“Victory is at hand,” they thought. “If we just try a little longer, lie a little stronger, and let more Ukrainian soldiers die a little younger.”

That’s the story of…, that’s the glory of…, proxy wars fought in other lands using other country’s soldiers as cannon fodder.

But Russia’s refusal to simply wipe Ukraine off the map paid off. Many countries, from South Africa to Sudan, Venezuela to Vietnam, and Burkina Faso to Bangladesh, saw that here was a new leader, one who respects weaker nations and honors treaties. One who speaks truly and does not violate treaties while they are fresh from the printer.

With President Putin, and by extension the rest of BRICS, it would not be a game of, ‘Meet the new Hegemon, same as the old Hegemon.’

Over the past twenty years the racistly labeled, ‘Third World,’ has been climbing the mountain of reorganizing itself into a block. Thanks to Donald Trump’s ham-fisted electroshock treatments, they have sprinted to its peak.

As a blogger online recently said, “Maybe Trump does, indeed, deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Now, wouldn’t THAT be ironic?

The BRICS and the SCO don’t want to destroy the dollar or see the US in ruins. They want to make the world a more equitable place for everybody.

We could join them, you know. They would not stop us. They would welcome us! Though we would have to change our mindset that we are better than the rest of the world and we have the right to dictate to it. This will not hurt any one of us. Not if we don’t let it.

The only people who will be against this and hurt by it are the ones who have been exploiting the rest of the world for centuries and keeping their own citizens in bondage as well.

Maybe being a part of the world instead of its master would work out better for us. What do you think?

 

The SCO issued a declaration during their summit. Here are a few quotes from the document:

“The world's political and economic landscape, as well as other areas of international relations, are undergoing profound historic changes. The international system is evolving toward a more just, equitable, and representative multipolar world, opening up new prospects for national development and mutually beneficial cooperation.”

“Member States reaffirmed their commitment to upholding the UN Charter and other universally recognized principles of international law, respecting the diversity of civilizations, and pursuing equal and mutually beneficial cooperation, giving full play to the central coordinating role of the United Nations to build a more representative, democratic and just multipolar world.”

“Member States believe that it is necessary to carry out corresponding reforms to the United Nations to ensure the representation of developing countries in its governance bodies and to adapt the United Nations to the needs of today's political and economic realities.”

“Member states advocate respecting the right of people of all countries to independently choose their own path of political, economic and social development, and emphasize that the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, equality and mutual benefit, non-interference in internal affairs and non-use or threat of use of force are the basis for the stable development of international relations.”

“Member states reiterated their commitment to protecting the rights of women and children in education, health, social and legal protection, maintaining and consolidating family stability, opposing discrimination, and advocated strengthening ties between women's organizations as an important direction of SCO activities. They believed that women's forums and congresses should be held regularly and a cooperation mechanism between the women's departments of the SCO member states should be established.”

Signed by the leaders of:

Republic of Belarus
Republic of India
Islamic Republic of Iran
Republic of Kazakhstan
People’s Republic of China
Kyrgyz Republic
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Russian Federation
Republic of Tajikistan
Republic of Uzbekistan

Full document available here.

The world needs a new governance order, that is clear. One which is multi-polar and not enslaved to a single hegemon, one where monetary indentureship is not allowed, and there should be participation of all of its member states.

Mackinder must be turning in his grave.

President Nelson must be having conniption fits.