STEVE PIECZENIK TALKS

Chinese Chopsticks, Russian Borscht, and American Hot Dogs Trump the Failed SaudiArabian Military Assault in Yemen!
In a remarkable confluence of economic and political interests, America, Russia, China have quietly tempered the young Saudi Prince’s attempt to assert his desert prerogatives as royalty and decimate his tribal rivals in Yemen.

He failed!
In contrast, in a moment of glorious media silence,  American military/intelligence officers in concert with Chinese, Russia and Iranian national security advisors had conspired [that means ‘behind the scenes’] to blunt any misbegotten Saudi military initiatives in Yemen. This was accomplished through the old principles of Real Politik.

In essence, Sunni states like Egypt, Pakistan, and Jordan asked themselves what was more important: working in peace to establish a viable economic/political future in the East/Middle East or continue to harbor ancient hatreds that lead to nothing more than continued devastations?

Thanks to the quiet, mature interventions of President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia and the US military, Saudi Arabia was told in no uncertain terms that it would fail in its war against Iranian proxies in Yemen. The Chinese/Russia narrative of a newly expanded “Silk Road” through the northern tier of Eurasia has most of the leading developed Sunni Muslim countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt deciding to place their fortunes with the promise of a Chinese-led future, guaranteed by Russian geopolitical imperatives.

This means that China has promised all countries surrounding it that they all can participate in one large entrepreneurial endeavor to build large infrastructures through their countries leading in and out of China and Europe. I accept this proposition that China can and will build what it determines to be the best fit for it’s national economic/military/political future built on economic hegemony, and kinetic invasions. This has been a long time coming. Thanks to America which provided China with the technological advances needed to grow its formidable economy of 1.4 billion citizens, China is now in a more stable position to expand effectively through the development of major infrastructure projects like building new ports, highways, and civil societies.

Through its newly created Asian Infrastructure Initiative Bank[AIIB] China can compete with America’s economically flaccid World Bank and its’ subsidiary. More importantly, this complete change in the method of conflict resolution from kinetic destruction to a future laden with economic opportunities reaffirms the basic tenets that China has strongly embraced and America has lost: the benefits of capitalism over wars.

Once it was inconceivable that former communist countries like Russia and China could desire to excel economically beyond the restrictive bonds of ideology and want to enter a world that Adam Swift had defined primarily for the Anglo-Saxons. Now, the East [China, Russia, Turkey] will once again enter the pantheons of historical grandeur to assume their heritage of successful hegemony at different times in the course of history.

As for America, without a course-correction we will continue to lose our ability to successfully compete in the new economics of the global information age.We are now pre-occupied with a military that spans the globe as had the Roman Empire before its inevitable demise. We have no present or future promise of leadership which encourages me to anoint the next leader of our decaying Republic with the promise of true hope and proven past accomplishments. What we have now are stick figures like the young, immature princes of both Saudi Arabia and the undeservedly rich U.A.E who bluster and bluff into a vapor of inadequacy and incompetency.

For the most part, the most successful leaders of China [as well as Russia] have been those who have literally fought their way to the top, stopping at nothing, except to eliminate one contender after another, sending them to prison or exile. Instead we have potential criminals who have committed more crimes than Putin and President Xi combined-- both the Bush and Clinton families—who are the pathetic representation of spoiled, entitled sycophants. Neither one of these future candidates could ever achieve a moment’s success or accomplishment without a family member vouchsafing for their non-deeds.

Americans have a Patrician Class that has not served us well and will eventually ruin the Republic and make it into a province for their own corruptions. 

  Who will rid me of these “noisome pests”? I ask in the spirit of Sir Thomas More in the brilliant play,  “A Man For All Seasons” [By Robert Bolt].