Recently, the former deputy assistant to the U.S. president, Fiona Hill, declared in a congressional hearing that the United States “must” pay attention to the BRICS group of countries and other alliances in which Russia is involved.
“We should pay attention to the so-called BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa),” Hill, who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, told the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.
Moreover, Hill singled out the recent joint military drills involving South Africa, Russia, and China, stating that South Africa’s involvement in such drills is “not acceptable,” and that “other countries should not be doing that too.”
Besides, Hill pointed out that Russia is attempting to set up its own alliances and is one of the few close partners of China. “Russia has emphasized a great deal in terms of partnership building in the Middle East, parts of East Asia, Latin and South America, trying to revitalize old Soviet ties,” Hill said. The deepening of Russia’s ties with Iran is also a problem, Hill added.
In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed American actions, stating that unpredictable American foreign policy has led different countries to discuss increasing mutual trade in national currencies.
“Not by chance there have been discussions about the transition to national currencies. Who knows which US president and on which side of the bed will get up and who will appear unattractive to him in the morning,” Lavrov said.
The Russian top diplomat said that Brazil had already broached discussions on trade in national currencies within the BRICS group, which could set up a “global approach” to financing in times when the United States violates “all laws of decency.”
Lavrov’s statements were not entirely unfounded. Indeed, the exclusion of Russia from the SWIFT banking system as well as Western-imposed sanctions on Russia have led to soaring inflation, economic stagnation, deindustrialization, and the detonation of German pipelines in the West. These effects can be juxtaposed with a Russian economy that appears to be adapting to the sanctions by setting up economic alliances outside the Western system. For instance, the Russians have inched closer economically to communist China as well as the trade bloc BRICS to rival the United States. Meanwhile on the battlefield in Ukraine, the Russians seem to be gradually increasing their encirclement of the town of Bakhmut in the Donbass.
Since the Russians launched their assault on Bakhmut last August, the mainstream media has maintained that the location is of no strategic importance. Based on the left-leaning mainstream media, the conflict in Ukraine is only one year old and is waged in the name of democracy, despite the fact that Ukraine is not a democracy.
The reality behind the Ukraine conflict is the planned isolation and destabilization of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring about a regime change in Russia. Materials such as a RAND Corporation document demonstrate this point. This blueprint is one that promotes a “New World Order” under the aegis of a U.S.-led total surveillance state, dictated by technocratic globalists such as Klaus Schwab and George Soros. Hence, the mainstream media has to continue its adulation of Western efforts in the Ukraine conflict to achieve globalists’ aims. Any reports that the West is losing Bahkmut would discourage governments to continue funding the conflict against the Russians.
Nonetheless, the German foreign intelligence service (BND) stated in a briefing to the German Parliament in late January that the rate of Ukrainian losses around Bakhmut was worrying. The BND testified, “On the front near Bakhmut, Ukrainians are currently suffering huge losses … about three-digit numbers of casualties per day. According to the analysis, the fall of Bakhmut would have consequences for the entire line of Ukrainian defense. They say that Russia is now dropping soldiers like cannonballs.”
Arguably, Ukraine seems like a suitable arena for the power-hungry globalists to undermine Russia. After all, prior to the onset of the conflict in February 2022, Ukraine was a prime destination for the sale of embryos and babies, apart from the regime’s shutting down of Christian churches. Despite claiming to fight for freedom and democracy, Ukrainian President Zelensky’s authoritarian suppression of Ukrainian Orthodox churches via the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on the pretext that these churches could be linked to Russia contradicted his rhetoric.
According to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, the dictatorial tendencies of the former actor-turned-president Zelensky were evident since the conflict erupted last year. Some of the key excerpts from Carlson’s comments include:
Whatever you think of the war in Ukraine, it is pretty clear that Zelensky has no interest in freedom and democracy. In fact, Zelensky is far closer to Lenin than to George Washington. He is a dictator. He is a dangerous authoritarian who has used $100 billion in US tax dollars to erect a one party police state in Ukraine, and that’s not an overstatement….
Over the past year, Zelensky has banned opposition parties. He’s shut down critical media by force. He’s arrested his political opponents. He has sent soldiers into churches and arrested dozens of priests for no justifiable reason whatsoever, and in clear violation of the Ukrainian constitution, which no longer matters. And in the face of this, the Biden administration has said nothing, not one word….
A free country does not ban a major religion just because it’s not fully onboard with the political program of the people running the country, but Zelensky is doing that, and his cabinet is now devising ways to punish Christians for practicing their banned ancient religion in Ukraine. “Personal, economic and restrictive sanctions will be applied to any Christian caught worshiping in unapproved ways.”
Fortunately, not every European country and NATO member is in cahoots with the Western globalists to further provoke Russia. For instance, Hungarian under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán objected to a further escalation of conflict against Russia, slamming the European Union (EU) for extending the conflict.
In a recent meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and the other Bucharest Nine leaders in Warsaw, Orbán lampooned Biden and maintained that former U.S. President Donald Trump was the only person who could negotiate peace with Putin.
“This is going to sound brutal, but hope for peace goes by the name of Donald Trump,” Orbán declared at the time, arguing Biden wasn’t the man for the job because he has “gone too far” in calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal.”
Hungary has been a thorn in the flesh for the socialist Biden/Obama administration ever since Orbán declined to go along with the globalists in NATO’s attempt to use Ukraine as a proxy fighter against Russia.
With Orbán’s landslide reelection in April 2022 despite the widespread campaign against him by the EU and multinational globalists, Brussels decried the Hungarian people for their choice of leader, saying, “Orbán — a fierce critic of immigration, LGBTQ rights and ‘EU bureaucrats’ — has garnered the admiration of right-wing nationalists across Europe and North America.”
To boot, Orbán in his 2022 victory speech cautioned citizens of NATO and Western allied countries about the Ukraine issue. He denounced Zelensky as part of the “overwhelming force” that he said his party had grappled with in the election, saying that he had to tackle “the left at home, the international left, the Brussels bureaucrats, the Soros empire with all its money, the international mainstream media, and in the end, even the Ukrainian president.” As expected, Orbán’s remarks did not go well with the EU and U.S. bureaucrats who use their intelligence tools and power to meddle in the affairs of foreign nations. Little wonder that Samantha Power, administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which some say is a CIA cover with a track record of promoting leftist activism, is conducting an operation within Hungary on the alleged grounds of “promoting democracy” and “freedom of the press.”
