To the Editor:
Ukraine’s drone strike on St Petersburg last week was aimed at goading Russia into massively retaliating, thereby creating a pretext for direct NATO involvement in the conflict. It’s the stuff of which global nuclear conflagration is made.
But it’s also definitively (albeit unintentionally) symbolic of what’s really behind all of the regime-change and proxy wars undertaken by U.S. and European leaders since 9-11: Because at the very time of the attack, the St Petersburg International Economic Forum had gathered some 24,000 representatives from 143 nations to organize alternatives to the collapsing Trans-Atlantic financial order. Speakers from Central Asia to Africa to Eastern Europe declared their intentions to build infrastructure and develop despite the globalist financial regime of sanctions, IMF conditionalities, and even military threats designed to stifle those prospects. The consensus was that we’re experiencing, not just a cyclical change, but a fundamental shift away from 500 years of Western colonial domination.
Nine billion-plus dollars in deals were signed then and there, for East-South and South-South joint projects of rail, water, and power development. Significantly, even the U.S. sent a warmly-received delegation, and there was serious discussion of the exciting potential to finally establish a land link between Earth’s two hemispheres via a tunnel across the Bering Straits.
All this provokes white-hot rage among the proprietors of the old order. Instead of acknowledging and changing the policies that caused the crisis, they answer with endless warfare intended to destroy any prospective challenge to their bankrupt system. Their longstanding plan has been to use Ukraine as a hand grenade against Russia, even if the grenade itself is annihilated in the process.
