TMPress SPECIAL INFObase Report ... Can China and Russia Squeeze Washington Out of Eurasia? ... The Future of a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin Alliance via TMPress International Newswire and Nico Varkevisser ... (New York) ... A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is being seriously discussed at the highest levels in Beijing and Moscow, and viewed with interest in Berlin, New Delhi, and Tehran. But don’t mention it inside Washington’s Beltway or at NATO headquarters in Brussels. There, the star of the show today and tomorrow is the new Osama bin Laden: Caliph Ibrahim, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive, self-appointed beheading prophet of a new mini-state and movement that has provided an acronym feast -- ISIS/ISIL/IS -- for hysterics in Washington and elsewhere. No matter how often Washington remixes its Global War on Terror, however, the tectonic plates of Eurasian geopolitics continue to shift, and they’re not going to stop just because American elites refuse to accept that their historically brief “unipolar moment” is on the wane. (Contd) commondreams.org/views/2014/10/06/can-china-and-russia-squeeze-washington-out-eurasia
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:32:44 +0000