🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 Oh, the power of Contrast! Sergei Lavrov Arrived in Pyongyang To Quite the Reception

At the beginning of the week, the top Russian diplomat accompanied Vladimir Putin during his visit to Beijing and held meetings with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Remember that time US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, was made to wait all through the night for an audience with the Saudi Crown Prince?

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🧐🤔🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu said that he presented Biden (before his flight to Israel), with evidence that the Israeli side was not involved in the incident with the hospital in Gaza.

Netanyahu oozes credibility (Iran Nuclear bomb threat)

Eagerly awaiting this evidence….

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Looks like we're on the path of escalation.. towards the abyss of a larger global conflict?

⚡️🇪🇬 The Egyptian President states that evicting the Gazans out of Gaza into Sinai amounts to a declaration of war against Egypt.

@themediterraneanman

🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺10th Anniversary of Belt and Road Initiative: Unveiling the Symbiotic Epoch of Russia-China Trade Confluence

The stage was set with a grandiose vision a decade ago, as the curtains lifted on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), embarking on a journey destined to redraw the global economic landscape. With representatives from 130 countries and 30 international organizations coming together, the BRI has evolved into a monumental infrastructure development drive, transcending geographic and political boundaries​. As of the 10th anniversary, 154 countries had inked official documents on BRI cooperation with China, marking a significant stride towards a new paradigm of international collaboration​​.

Amidst this backdrop, the trade liaison between Russia and China has burgeoned, carving a story of robust economic partnership. By the close of 2022, the trade tally between these two nations hit a record $190 billion, heralding a new era of economic synergy​3. The saga continued into 2023, with trade figures soaring to an all-time high of $115 billion in the first half of the year, underscoring a thriving economic camaraderie amidst a global milieu often marred by economic vendettas​ and hybrid warfare.

The West, entangled in a web of economic sanctions, seems to overlook the essence of mutual growth and enduring partnerships, a notion that’s being championed by the Russia-China trade nexus. As the geopolitical tectonic plates shift, the cynicism enshrined in the (dying) hegemonic Western model stands juxtaposed against the ethos of collaborative growth fostered by the Russia-China economic alliance. Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's anticipation of the bilateral trade surpassing a whopping $200 billion in 2023, echoes a sentiment of unyielding cooperation, standing in stark contrast to the Western penchant for economic isolationism​.

The unfolding narrative of Russia-China economic confluence, intertwined with the expansive outreach of the BRI and the Russian led EAEU, beckons a moment of reflection on the global stage. Is it time to transition from the era of economic vendettas to an epoch of collaborative economic growth? The resonance of the Russia-China trade saga amidst the 10th-anniversary celebration of the BRI not only challenges the tired West-centric economic model but unfolds a vista of possibilities along the ‘road’ to a multipolar world order.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚠️The West’s Fading Influence: A Glance at Unwavering Support for Israel

Amid the shifting sands of geopolitics, the West's steadfast allegiance to Israel emerges as a stark reflection of its waning global influence. The recent Gaza bombings have magnified the fissures in the West's oft-claimed moral high ground, igniting global outcries that seem to fall on deaf ears among Western politicians, with the US leading the charge. The unfolding humanitarian catastrophe underscores a profound disconnection with the global majority, highlighting a narrative steeped in hypocrisy and a misplaced sense of superiority.

The veneer of democracy and human rights, long paraded by the West, shatters under the scrutiny of its duplicitous stance toward Israel's aggressions. The haunting aftermath of the Israeli shelling at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza lays bare the West’s double standards for all to witness. Despite attempts by the US to deflect blame onto Hamas, the global community pierced through the veils, discerning a dire lack of accountability toward Israel's actions.

Furthermore, the Financial Times unravels how the West's hastened support for Israel has markedly eroded the backing of developing nations, especially concerning the Ukrainian impasse. This blatant favouritism is a spectacle of irony on the global stage, unveiling a stark misalignment with the evolving multipolar world dynamics. The juxtaposition of the West's stance—condemning Russia over Ukraine while failing to rebuke Israel's brutalities—exposes a narrative of hypocrisy that's becoming increasingly thick.

The burgeoning discord between the proclaimed 'rules-based order' and the emerging multipolar reality unveils an inherent hypocrisy; a self-ordained mandate to enforce a set of 'rules,' which, upon closer scrutiny, splits into two disparate standards. One for the West and its allies, and another for the rest of the world. This enforced dichotomy not only questions the moral fabric of the West’s foreign policies but calls for an urgent re-evaluation. As the geopolitical tableau evolves, the West's tenacity in holding onto outdated alliances only quickens the inevitable crumbling of its 'rules-based order,' acting as a self-inflicted hammer driving the final nail into the coffin of its arrogant unipolar world order.

The burgeoning multipolar reality beckons a new era, urging the West to abandon its self-righteous stance and embrace a more pragmatic, less hypocritical approach to international relations, lest it finds itself relegated to the annals of historical oblivion.

#Oped

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Biden, who we know provides Israel with Bombs, a country that drops Bombs on hospitals, then says the country he provided the Bombs to, which has just murdered hundreds of children, didn't drop them on a hospital in the middle of them dropping thousands of Bombs on civilians. @irishmaninrussia

🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱Yesterday’s man: Why Ukraine’s Zelensky is in danger of being left behind by the US

Earlier this month, the world was shocked at terrorist attacks on Israel by hundreds of Hamas fighters. Not only did it signify the beginning of a new escalation in the age-old struggle between Jews and Palestinians, it also potentially marked a pivot point in political and military support for Vladimir Zelensky’s Ukraine.

Before the savage Hamas attacks and the biblically brutal Israeli response, the US and its NATO allies were almost exclusively focused on Ukraine while occasionally glancing nervously toward China. Now, as the Western media spins into overdrive with its gaze firmly locked onto the Middle East, Kiev’s woes are set only to increase as attention shifts away from Kiev and towards Israel, Palestine, and Iran.

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Russia will pay the price?