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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the remarks  before his visit to China , saying that " the United States is on the wrong side of history."

He added that the West " promotes its ideological agenda with the aim of remaining in power by hindering the development of other countries."

The Russian Foreign Minister not only accuses the US of trying to dominate ideologically but also that through sanctions and the "tools" offered by the dollar as a reserve currency (the US dollar is 65% of all currencies in circulation on the planet) they are ruining the economic development of their main rivals as he states in an interview with Chinese media.

"US and West can no longer stand on their own two feet diplomatically and impose sanctions to hinder the development of their rivals"

According to Lavrov, the United States and other Western countries "are no longer capable of using classical diplomacy and are resorting to the only means they have left: sanctions . "

"The United States relies on its status as the most powerful power on the planet and has used sanctions as a common means to oppress others.

"Some European countries, consciously or unconsciously, have taken the steps of the Americans."

" These countries have tarnished China as a means of enforcing 'coercive diplomacy.' "But they resort to sanctions when they encounter disputes under the banner of the so-called rules of justice. Such behavior is a practice of bullying and coercion."

"They have also adopted measures worse than sanctions against others, such as starting wars and colorful revolutions.

In these ways they intervene in the interior of other countries in order to gain benefits.

"As for the small countries represented by the United States, such moves have a long history, based on the hegemony they have gained over the last century."

On the same day that Lavrov began his visit to China, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his four-day trip to Europe to strengthen the "lobby" of European countries.

US policy focuses on the alliances that were built after FP2, and the Biden administration believes that they were affected by the previous Trump administration and is intensifying its contacts to strengthen them again.

As for China and Russia, Washington hopes that its European allies will remain on the same ground as it.

At the same time, the Chinese media are making clear reference to "the enormous US pressure on Germany over the Nord Stream 2 pipeline."

It is noted that Russia, after the relations with the USA, Britain, NATO, is terminating its relations with the EU, according to what the country's Foreign Minister , Sergey Lavrov, said two days ago.

As soon as relations with the EU end, then what sanctions should Moscow fear? It seems that the way is open for a full-frontal attack in Eastern Ukraine!

Moscow has just "burned" the American sanctions paper!

Let's pay attention to something else. The statements were made on the side of his Chinese counterpart and this has great symbolism.

Russia is looking for ways to neutralize the dollar in order to avoid US sanctions, as  WarNews247 first revealed in Greece yesterday.

The risks of US sanctions should be reduced by switching to settlements in national or alternative currencies against the dollar, avoiding its use in Western-controlled payment systems, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

In particular, the Russian Foreign Minister stated in a relevant interview he gave to Chinese media:

"We need to reduce the risk of sanctions by strengthening our technological independence by moving to settlements in national and world currencies, alternative to the dollar.

"We must move away from the use of Western-controlled international payment systems."

He also noted that Russia and China need to strengthen their independence.

Typically, Sergei Lavrov argued:

"You see the United States declaring its duty to limit the technological development potential of both the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China."

The Russian Foreign Minister explained that life forces both countries, Russia and China, to build a line in economic and social development in such a way that they do not depend on the "whims of the Western partners".

Decisive months are coming for the planet as there will be a serious redeployment of forces.

Even today's statements of the President of the Turkish National Assembly on the abolition of the Montreux Treaty and then of Lausanne were by no means accidental.

"We will stay united and fight together"

This phrase sealed the Russia-Turkey alliance immediately after the meeting of Russians and Turks in Moscow that took place a few days ago.

More specifically, rapid developments are taking place in the Russia-Turkey-US triangle as Erdogan sent a high-level delegation to prepare the ground for the Russia-Turkey Strategic Alliance.

Russian sources appear completely satisfied with what they heard and with what the Turks promised them, so in the next few days the official announcements are expected.

We must take it for granted that there will be dramatic announcements and upheavals as Russia and Turkey have found them in everything.

Erdogan's public support for Putin was not just coincidental. There is a climate of euphoria among all Russian officials and, of course, the Kremlin.

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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Superpower in Decline

The U.S. leadership must have set some kind of new record in managing to personally insult the leadership of the two other great powers of the world within 48 hours of each other in these early days of Biden administration foreign policy. Almost as if they were graduates of “The Donald Trump Charm School.”

It is simply astonishing that in approaching a new course of relations with Russia, President Biden should have called Vladimir Putin “a killer” and lacking “a soul.”

It is similarly astonishing to have chosen an important opening moment in our delicate relationship with China to employ derogatory language. Did Blinken believe that flashing testosterone at the first high-level meeting of Beijing’s foreign policy leadership would help achieve the diplomatic goals Washington seeks? One wonders who the secretary of state was trying to impress — Beijing or a U.S. domestic audience?

The United States undoubtedly has its own grievances towards China, and China likewise possesses many grievances towards the United States. But surely this name-calling and accusatory language are immature and counterproductive in terms of future U.S.-China or, for that matter, China-Russian relations.

And what message do these events send to other world leaders? It raises serious questions about the professionalism and vision of the new administration’s leadership as to whether Washington is any longer responsible or capable of the “global leadership” about which it talks so incessantly.

When both the U.S. president and his secretary of state seem to have chosen such ill-considered approaches to Russia and China, it certainly will make many other countries quite hesitant to sign on to an American vision and style of global leadership.

The degree of hypocrisy about “killing” or “foreign interference” is likewise disturbing if not myopic. U.S. policies over the past 20 years or more have shown a great willingness to kill in great quantity in a failing effort to achieve political goals that have stunningly failed in nearly every case. Consider the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi, Syrian, Somali, Libyan, Iranian, Afghan, and Pakistani civilians who are perceived as little more than “collateral damage” in endless U.S. military interventions. Not to mention American assassinations of high-level foreign officials such as Iranian General Qassem Soleimani who also happened to be perhaps the most revered public official in Iran.

Antony Blinken, seemingly without embarrassment, speaks of the United States as upholding “the rule of law globally” in the self-deception or the belief that such is the case. In fact, Washington has always expected other countries to support the international rule of law — although exempting good friends like Israel and Saudi Arabia. The United States invariably defends its own “exceptionalism” in pointedly not signing onto International law when it suits its interests. That includes foreign assassinations and the launching of several wars without authorization at the international level, provoking “Color Revolutions,” and refusing to ratify UN Conventions on the Law of the Sea or the Rights of the Child, or honor adverse judgments by the International Court of Justice. And It is difficult to understand how Blinken feels comfortable at lecturing China on its domestic failings at a time when U.S. democracy and social policy have never presented a more damaging face to the world.

Surely such self-righteousness on the administration’s part shows a lack of seriousness and honesty about U.S. history and positions. Or, more disturbingly, it suggests that Washington lacks all capacity for self-reflection and self-awareness.

In the end, this initial high-level diplomatic encounter is perhaps most distressing given the high hopes that many Americans held that so many of our problems would vanish with the departure of Donald Trump – rather than undertaking a necessarily painful examination of the inherent deep-seated flaws within the American system.

Perhaps I am wrong in making these harsh observations. Maybe, coming on strong with all guns blazing — Hollywood cowboy style — at these first public confrontations will cause Moscow and Beijing to reflect and even retreat a bit. But I doubt it. I fear these two linked events simply hammer a few more nails into the coffin of cherished American aspirations to global leadership and dominance. In that case, we may be our own most dangerous enemy if we continue to look with nostalgia at former American hegemony. That global dominance, for better or for worse, is increasingly a thing of the past. It represents a failure to recognize the unique circumstances by which America happened to play a major positive global role immediately after the collapse of Europe, Japan, and China after the brutal ordeal of World War II. Arguably, those conditions will not return, which means that the United States will be facing a very uncomfortable future reality for which it seems psychologically ill-prepared.

This country indeed has some grounds for pride in its own – imperfect — democratic order. No such democratic orders are perfect. Still, how much reflection does it take to acknowledge what “the Chinese Communist Party” has accomplished in the past thirty years?

Is it more worthy to bring half a billion people out of poverty and into middle-class life in a mere generation? Or more worthy to maintain intact an American electoral system in which mediocre or bad leaders emerge as readily as good ones?

Trying to define what constitutes good governance either in China or America is not readily answerable and depends on one’s values. But at the least the question should evoke some measure of humility before Washington engages in a dubious public contest with a major foreign power over alternative forms of governance.

Ultimately, improvements in Chinese forms of governance are less likely to evolve — as they have over thirty years — when insulting comparisons and demands are made of a competitor’s performance — especially when we are talking about Chinese domestic policies in so many cases — while giving a free ride to our harshly autocratic friends.

The United States is a country possessing extraordinary gifts of creativity and energy. At this point, however, its political, socio-economic, and psychological order seems to be languishing on the cross of a questionable and expensive search for total global military dominance.

Hopefully, some lessons learned will be drawn from this early, singularly amateur and emotional first foray of the Biden administration into high-level Russia and China diplomacy.

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