Thread by @caitoz

The US empire has had a standing policy of preventing the rise of any rival superpowers since the USSR collapsed. Both Moscow and Beijing have refused to kiss the imperial ring and crippling Russia is an essential part of hamstringing China's rise. This was all planned years ago.

Gilbert Doctorow described back in 2017 how Moscow and Beijing have formed a mutually beneficial "tandem" based on their respective strengths; Russia as a major military force willing to confront the US empire, and China as a rising economic superpower.
consortiumnews.com/2017/10/23/rus…

Empire architects had previously expected that Moscow would be forced to pivot to Washington and become a member state of the empire. The fact that it chose Beijing instead to retain its sovereignty is what set all this in motion.

https://twitter.com/ArtyomLukin/status/1462066956127936512

When I say the US empire has had a standing policy of preventing the rise of any rival superpowers since the fall of the USSR, I mean that policy was explicitly laid out in writing within months of the Soviet Union's dissolution.
archive.ph/wlBz5

This was all planned years in advance. It's no coincidence that we were hammered with narratives originating from US intelligence agencies which inflamed hysteria about Russia in the years leading up to this, most of which had nothing to do with Ukraine.
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/ukraine-is-a…

I mean for Christ's sake, even the one narrative that DID involve Ukraine occurred because a CIA officer (ridiculously labeled a "whistleblower" by the MSM) just so happened to be in the right place at the right time to get it rolling.
cnbc.com/2019/09/27/tru…

So we're all going to suffer financially and live under the risk of total obliteration via nuclear war in a long-planned confrontation geared toward obtaining total planetary domination, just because a few manipulators in the US government decided that would be a good thing.

It doesn't need to be this way. Never did. There's no good reason why nations can't just get along and work together for the common good of all. Only reason that's not happening is because of this insane desire to dominate and control instead of collaborate and thrive.

You do not actually believe that the EU is a "rival" of the US in any meaningful way. The EU is just part of the empire, as is Australia, as are many other member states of the power structure in question. This is why I often say "US-*centralized* empire".

https://twitter.com/propornot/status/1501310922807123968