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Without A Shot
On a daily basis, we are being subjected to rapidly heating rhetoric intended to prepare us, even motivate us toward direct warfare with Russia and/or China.
This is nothing short of foolish. If the west starts a war with either Russia or China, the power balance would be very much in the favor of the east.
One must take into account the treatment of the west toward the global east and south, which has resulted in animosity by the east and south. This has continued for not decades but centuries. The west has engaged in colonization, neocolonization, military occupation, exploitation, economic sanctions, embargoes, apathy and propaganda which is in no way forgotten by the victimized countries.
We are right now watching rapidly growing alliances such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) that cannot be ignored.
The fact is, the global east and south, aside from responding to instigation of military hostilities by the west, the east and south would be able to crush the west without firing a single shot.
Remember the west relies on an economic and political system which they created and have manipulated for the purpose of their own domination through exploitation of weaker nations and populations. That…