3 Crises: The Paths Of Diplomacy And Bomb Throwing

Israel’s pause; Zaporizhzhia, Burisma and Crocus; BRICS and CBDC for the masses

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UN urges restraint over Europe’s biggest nuclear plant Zaporizhzhia

Apr 10, 2024

Israel withdraws from Gaza but not before a missile strike on Iran’s embassy in Syria. Ukraine launches another bomb at a nuclear power plant the day after UN inspectors report on previous attacks on Zaporizhzhia.

Russia’s foreign minister is received by China’s president Xi Jinping, as they discuss the West’s attempt to isolate them.

Diplomats or bombs: it is a straightforward choice and each camp has its enthusiastic adherents.

A Russian investigative committee into the Crocus expo centre massacre in Moscow on Mar 22 is probing the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which it accuses of financing terrorism and assassinations in recent years.

Burisma is ground zero for the Ukraine regime, being a revenue stream for the country’s oligarchs and a source of money laundering for U.S. oligarchs and politicians such as the Biden family (see below).

At the root is competition for resources and against the construction of rival financial alliances.

In this sense the conflict in Israel cannot be separated from East Africa and the jockeying for Red Sea ports and shipping lanes; for minerals in Africa to build SMART cities and electric everything; to France’s embarrassing split with its former colonies in Africa; and the attempt to stop Russia as an energy supplier, first to Europe, then the world.

See Africa’s Rebellion, Hawaii’s Destruction And Smart Cities - Former colonies say ‘non,’ and France wants to join BRICS (Aug 31, 2023)

Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, said it had long been Washington’s plan to block its exports of energy resources including natural gas.

He said this was a “blatant thirst for profit, multiplied by neocolonial aspirations” but it is also stock British policy going back centuries to suppress Russian influence in Eurasia and in particular the linkage of German manufacturing prowess with Russian energy.

Division and misdirection

While the Anglo-American Establishment, in prof Carroll Quigley’s framing, promotes religious schism as a way to provoke war, redraw borders and install compliant dynastic rulers, the media is given the task of hiding and obfuscating this policy.