Fresh tensions in Korean peninsula: 2 Chinese & 4 Russian planes enter South Korean's defence zone

This was not the first time! What is going on? Are we entering World War III (as if the Russo-Ukraine War was not already a WW III)?

Is a new axis of power forming in an attempt to dominate the world?

The Axis of Disorder: How Russia, Iran, and China Want to Remake the World

Recommendable (however, I did not have the time to read the whole article)!

Since about 1900 there have been several attempts by a group of countries to form an axis of power to dominate the a region of the world or the whole world. E.g. the Axis Power (Germany, Italy,  and Japan) between 1936-1945.

"Is the world entering a new age of global disorder? Signs point to yes: we see simultaneously the biggest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, a war in the Levant, and a short, sharp war in the Caucasian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. These seemingly separate conflicts are in fact connected not just by a coincidental moment in time, but by the actors involved. From Russia to Iran to a veritable smorgasbord of terrorist groups, bad actors have unleashed turmoil in a swath of territory stretching from Ukraine to Azerbaijan to Yemen.

Behind them all stands the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Beijing has sought to give the appearance of being an independent peacemaker. But the veil it has erected is transparent in nature. It is less interested in peace, stability, and justice for the victims of aggression than it is in fostering a global state of affairs in which China can more easily pursue its own ends. For now, disorder suits Xi Jinping ... just fine. ...

The Westphalian order, and especially its modern structures, is now under threat. Moscow’s and Beijing’s imperial pretensions, though distinct, both harken to earlier eras in which their Russian and Chinese forebears had yet to buy into the Westphalian approach to international organization. The Russian cyberattack on Estonia in 2007, the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the full-scale assault on Ukraine in 2022 all made manifest what Putinistic rhetoric had long espoused: a worldview in which Russian neighbors are not sovereign states, properly understood. Russia now stands at the precipice of a return to the tsarist approach of nonstop expansion; whether Russia topples over the edge depends in large part on what happens in Ukraine. ..."

The Axis of Disorder: How Russia, Iran, and China Want to Remake the World | Global Taiwan Institute

Vor unseren Augen entsteht eine neue Weltordnung

Empfehlenswert! Der Artikel übertreibt in einigen Punkten (z.B. die Bedeutung von der SPFS als Konkurrent von SWIFT oder was Indiens Rolle angeht oder die Leidensfähigkeit des russischen Volkes usw.).

Am Ende des Artikels finden sich auch einige vernünftige Vorschläge die Lage zu verbessern.

"... Der Niedergang der westlichen Welt, allen voran Europas, der seinen Grund in der Wirklichkeitsblindheit und Utopieseligkeit oder im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Weltfremdheit der sogenannten Eliten findet, wird seit mindestens einem Jahrzehnt nur allzu deutlich. ...
Putins Krieg hat die Welt nicht plötzlich verändert, er hat aber die ohnehin stattfindende Veränderung beschleunigt und so allen sichtbar gemacht. Vor unseren Augen zerreißen die Netze der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit und zerplatzen die Illusionen über unseren Wohlstand, den die Rotgrüngelben durch eine erneute Masseneinwanderung unter dem Vorwand der Hilfe für ukrainische Flüchtlinge mit suizidalen Folgen sowie einer absurden Energiepolitik systematisch zerstören. ...
Wer hätte sich vor zehn Jahren träumen lassen, dass grüne und rote Ideologen realistischer in der Situation des Krieges agieren als Politiker der CDU/CSU, die die Ampel noch links zu überholen versuchen. ...
Wer leichtfüßig die Ausweitung von SWIFT-Sanktionen verlangt, weiß nicht, dass er damit die Abschaffung des SWIFT-Systems, den Sturz des Dollars als Leitwährung und den Aufstieg des chinesischen Yuan zur Leitwährung, letztlich den Anbruch des chinesischen Jahr[hunderts] fordert. ...

Doch inzwischen bildet sich ein Anti-Dollar-Kartell heraus. Als Reaktion der durch die Obama-Regierung verhängten Sanktionen 2014 schufen die Russen als Alternative zu Visa, Mastercard, American Express etc. ein eigenes nationales Zahlungssystem und, was noch wichtiger ist, ein Gegenstück zum Finanznachrichtensystem SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) nämlich das russische SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages).

Man mag darüber lächeln, doch inzwischen nutzen – laut einem Bericht der Foreign Affairs vom 7. März – 399 Institute dieses System, unter ihnen 20 belarussische Banken, die Kyrgyz Bank of Asia und die armenische Arshidbank, außerdem haben die Tochtergesellschaften großer russischer Banken in Deutschland und der Schweiz Zugang zum SPFS. Es existiert also ein alternatives und schließlich konkurrierendes Finanznachrichtensystem, das im Aufwind ist. ... Derzeit verhandeln die Russen mit dem Chinesen über Chinas Beitritt zum SPFS, ...
Parallel dazu arbeiten die Russen als auch die Chinesen eifrig und verstärkt an der Einführung der Kryptowährung. Kryptowährung bedeutet jedoch für den Staat größere Kontroll- und Einflussmöglichkeiten. Es erstaunt deshalb nicht, dass autoritäre Staaten die Kryptowährung lieben. Mithilfe eines Systems der Kryptowährung würde man das Dollar-basierte System vollständig umgehen können. ..."

Vor unseren Augen entsteht eine neue Weltordnung Putins Krieg beschleunigt, was schon vorher stattfand: den Niedergang der westlichen Welt, allen voran Europas. Vor unseren Augen zerreißen die Netze der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit und zerplatzen die Illusionen über unseren Wohlstand.

Biden is doing NOTHING about the new world order with Tom Basile

Very recommendable! The new axis powers: Russia & China. Much more powerful than the fomer Soviet Block or the fascist Axis Powers 

Will the United States be militarily challenged abroad in the coming years?

Revised on 1/12/2021

I spoke recently with two ordinary, common Israeli citizens (one of them served in the Israeli Defense Forces), they were both firmly convinced that some country (e.g. China) may well do that in the next 10 years. They cited e.g. overconfidence in their military prowess and complacency on part of the American society. Since I believe the Jewish people with a difficult history of at least 5781 years are like canaries in the coal mine ...

History is replete with examples where once powerful and seemingly unassailable powers were successfully challenged.

With the incoming U.S. president Joseph Biden, who is senile and in mental decline and who might not even last one term, and with internal divisions in the U.S. at a very high level, would this not suggest a good opportunity to test the resolve of the U.S. from the viewpoint of an adversary?

U.S., India Expected to Sign Military Pact as China Prompts Closer Ties

This is big and good news! India, once a staunch supporter of the communist leaning non aligned movement, is now rather aligning with Western countries! This is probably only the beginning of intensifying relationships between Western countries and India! I bet usurper and dictator of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, is gnashing his teeth!

"Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was established in 1961 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia through an initiative of the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesian President Sukarno, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito."

"The satellite-intelligence pact will be completed during a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper to New Delhi, Indian officials said, part of an annual gathering with their Indian counterparts Tuesday.

A senior U.S. defense official didn’t confirm the planned signing, but cited significant progress. He also said the pact, known as the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement, or Beca, would “allow for expanded geospatial-information sharing between our armed forces.”"

U.S., India Expected to Sign Military Pact as China Prompts Closer Ties - WSJ Pompeo, Esper to ink agreement with Indian officials, part of Beijing-focused diplomatic push in Asia

Is the world ready for a new world order?

There is probably little doubt that the world order as it was established in the aftermath of World War II with all its international organisations was probably naive and optimistic in hindsight.

As long as there exist too many countries with terrible dictatorships, some of them dominant in global affairs like Russia and China, this world order is not working as intended! There are currently about 49 such countries in the world (source).

It is about time that the Western countries and like minded other countries form their own organisations!

Trump administration submits formal notice of withdrawal from WHO

Bravo President Trump! Excellent and overdue move! 



Given the sad fact that there are still a dozen or more dictatorships in this world, it does not make sense to allow these rogue countries to exploit international organisations for their purposes!



It is high time for a fundamental reassessment of the world order as established in the wake of post World War II by Western countries as well as other accomplished democratic countries. 



Trump administration submits formal notice of withdrawal from WHO - STAT

A 'WHO' For Democracies by John Yoo

Very recommendable! I agree with John Yoo that it is high time for Western democracies to seriously evaluate to abandon global organisations like the WHO to form a new organisation based on such essential Western values such as constitutional democracy, transparency, and accountability. 



A 'WHO' For Democracies | Hoover Institution The pandemic has thrown the defects of the existing world order into sharp relief.  Most obviously, it has exposed the deficiencies of the World Health Organization (WHO) due to excessive Chinese influence over its leadership.

The Three Blows to the New World Order

Recommendable! 



As far as radical/fundamentalist Islam is concerned Bruce Thornton appears to have a blind spot or is not able to distinguish various movements within Islam. 



"Over the last three decades, however, three disruptions have challenged the assumptions of a Kantian “perpetual peace” based a “rules-based international order” that reflects a new “harmony of interests” among the world’s peoples. Each crisis has exposed the flawed assumptions behind the naïve optimism and arrogant over-confidence of those in the West who have promoted, built, and managed this paradigm. ... The election of Donald Trump for now has led to a retreat from policies that reflect this unwarranted and arrogant belief in transforming Muslim nations into Western liberal democracies. But the foreign policy establishment, evidenced in its hostility to Trump, still defends this bankrupt paradigm. ... In Europe, the sovereign debt crisis and bank failures revealed fault lines in the EU project. Its economic regulations and the single currency, managed by Brussels and its elite transnational technocrats, were exposed as incoherent: A single currency with various economic policies determined by distinct sovereign nations was always a recipe for disaster. Particularly in the Mediterranean South, interventions by the EU, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund were accompanied by demands for fiscal austerity that the Southern tier felt to be high-handed and arrogant.



Suddenly the “one Europe” version of the New World Order, in which national differences were subordinated to a transnational governing elite, was fissuring. National differences in cultures and mores were still important and acted as centrifugal forces, straining the bonds of the Union."



The Three Blows to the New World Order | Frontpagemag