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Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China's Giant Infrastructure Project

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  Washington Deploys Proxies to Xinjiang to Scuttle China's Giant Infrastructure Project Mike Whitney A Uyghur separatist group that helped to topple the government of Bashar al Assad has  declared its intention to return to Xinjiang  in order  to conduct military operations  against the  Peopleā€™s Republic of China .  The announcement suggests that Washington and its allies are preparing to open another front in a war that has already plunged large parts of eastern Europe and the Middle East into chaos.  The announcement was mostly ignored by the western media, but analysts believe we may have entered a new phase in Americaā€™s struggle to preserve its waning hegemony, a phase in which the probability of a direct clash between the United States and China has increased dramatically. Also, if we assume that Washingtonā€™s sabotage of the Nordstream pipeline was designed to prevent the economic integration of Russia with the European Union, then we must ...

How the USSR's Fall Unleashed a Neocon Goldrush to the Heartland

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How the USSR's Fall Unleashed a Neocon Goldrush to the Heartland The dissolution of the USSR kicked off immediate plans to seize the most vaunted corridor in history, one that would rupture the prized World Island. Simplicius The Thinker Many people are aware of the various disparate geopolitical events of the 1990s and their respective importsā€”from the dissolution of the USSR, to the rise of the American Neocon movement to center stage, which precipitated the imperialist military actions of the end of the 20th to the 21st centuries. But few recognize the essential teleological link binding these events with a direct causality. When the USSR was brought to a controlled demolition in 1991, it set off a chain reaction that would change world history, and the global geopolitical landscape forever. But to understand these changes we must first start with an understanding of what the USSR represented specifically in terms of the global security framework. The most important thing is tha...