China, Iran, KSA diplomatic win. Elensky upset with media. Minerva tanker did it. Muscovy. U/1 (Alex Christoforou)

The problem with Western leaders, when it comes to conflict and making sensible economic deals, is they have all been blackmailed or bribed by neocons and big business (MIC) networks. The war in Ukraine is a neocon project. The wars in the Middle East are also neocon projects. The rest of the world that is not blackmailed or overly influenced by these people, and their corporate networks, can only go along with their projects for so long, especially in the face of determined resistance and impending failure.

The problem for the rest of the world, for world leaders who are still capable of thinking for themselves, is they can see a world build on corrupt financial interests that is throwing the real economy under the bus, where the system has been turned into a self serving money generating machine. The real economy is being killed off while the rich elite have been lining their pockets. They can also see that the wars threaten economic stability. For much of the world Russia is not seen as an enemy but as a global partner. Enough is enough. And money talks. And so China and Russia are offering a better deal for the world while Europe, the USA and the 'collective West' are being driven around by megalomaniacal mad dogs.

The big thing for the Russians and Chinese, in engaging the world, is to not do what the West has traditionally done, which is to rip off smaller countries by placing them in debt traps and then extract their wealth - something that ends up serving the interests of a small group of elites at the expense of ordinary people. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, March 13, 2023.]