Blinken in Helsinki: The Ugly Face of the Unipolar Order

June 9—With an arrogance befitting a conquering emperor, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken demonstrated, in a press conference in Helsinki on June 2, the extreme state of delusion which characterizes the leaders of governments in the TransAtlantic world.  The occasion was to welcome Finland as a member of the NATO alliance, ending its decades-long policy of neutrality.  His comments combined outright falsification of the history of Russian-Finnish relations, with a triumphalism regarding the Ukraine war, in an unconvincing attempt to convince his hosts that they made the right choice by joining the western military alliance.  While purporting to provide an update on the coming glorious success of the much-hyped—and long-delayed—Ukrainian counter-offensive, he was rehashing old talking points, which have nothing to do with the present dire situation on the ground facing NATO-backed Ukrainian forces.

The central theme in his Helsinki performance was that Putin and Russia are failing.  In reality, what he conveyed to all those who live outside the NATO hybrid warfare zone and the western mainstream media bubble, is that he and his TransAtlantic allies are committed to turn NATO's war against Russia into a permanent war, while pushing NATO's "eastward expansion" to the Pacific, to create a second front against China.

Blinken spoke glowingly of the "strategic failure" of Putin's "aggression" against Ukraine.  "When you look at President Putin's long-term strategic aims and objectives, there is no question: Russia is significantly worse off today than it was before its full-scale invasion of Ukraine—militarily, economically, geopolitically", he asserted.   "Where Putin aimed to project strength, he's revealed weakness.  Where he sought to divide, he unified.  What he tried to prevent, he precipitated.  That outcome is no accident.  It's the direct result of the courage and solidarity of the Ukrainian people and the deliberate, decisive, swift action that we and our partners have taken to support Ukraine."

One wonders where are the "fact checkers" when they are needed?  A simple review would discover Blinken presenting this same scenario one year earlier in an interview with Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, which regurgitates the line dictated by London-U.S. power elites ("A Conversation with Antony Blinken", June 1, 2022).  In that interview, given four months into Russia's special military operation, Blinken said, 

"we already see that President Putin has failed to achieve his broader strategic objectives.  Instead of erasing Ukraine's independence, he strengthened it.  Instead of asserting Russia's strength, he undermined it.  Instead of dividing and weakening the international order, he's actually brought countries closer together to defend it."

Was he plagiarizing himself?  Are Blinken's speeches prepared by the Artificial Intelligence tool Chat GPT?

Blind to Reality?

Serious military and intelligence officials have to wonder if he truly believes such nonsense.  The general consensus of Pentagon officials, as demonstrated by the recent trove of leaked classified documents, is that there is no way Ukraine and NATO can "win" the war against Russia, and the best case scenario they can project is tying down Russia in an endless conflict.  This was the stated aim of the U.S. Defense Secretary from Raytheon, Lloyd Austin, delivered at the first meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Germany's Ramstein Air Base on April 26, 2022, when he stated that the goal is to "weaken Russia."

Recent economic reports show that what they hoped would be a war of attrition that would wear down the Russian economy has actually had the opposite effect, of making Russia stronger, while backfiring against the submissive governments of Europe.

As for Blinken and his NATO allies isolating Russia, again, the opposite has occurred.  With the exception of the NATO alliance and its partners in Global NATO from the Five Eyes and Japan, most of the world has rejected supporting sanctions against Russia, and instead is moving away from the collapsing financial system based on the dollar, run by Wall Street and City of London Malthusians  This is an immense political/economic earthquake underway, shaking the foundations of Blinken's "Unipolar Order".  He has experienced this first hand in repeated encounters with leaders from the Global South, such as the response given to him by South Africa's Foreign Minister, Naledi Pandor, who answered his lecture about submitting to the demands of the "Sole Superpower" by reminding him that South Africa "is a sovereign nation", and he should not come there and think he can force them to drink his "democracy" snake oil!

“I certainly will not be bullied that way, nor will I expect any other African country worth its salt to be treated that way," she told him.

In fact, in the last months, there has been a near-stampede among nations of the Global South applying for membership in the BRICS, knowing full well of Blinken's open hostility against the two leading partners of the BRICS, Russia and China.  The support for the BRICS has turned what some call the "Global South" into what Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is calling the "Global Majority."  Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov just concluded another successful series of meetings with African leaders, where he was welcomed, and numerous economic deals were signed.

Blinken continued spinning his fantasy tale in Helsinki, praising the bloody, U.S.-directed Maidan regime change coup as a battle for Ukrainian "independence", asserting that Ukraine has become a "free and open society, with respect for human rights and the rule of law...and where the government responds to the needs of its people, not those of vested interests and elites."  Again, his comments are at odds with reality.  The "democratic" regime of Zelensky has banned opposition parties and media, jailed and killed opponents, and produced a hit list targeting those who challenge Blinken's fantasy world by calling them "information terrorists" and "Putin puppets," inciting Ukraine's secret service operatives to "liquidate" those on the list.  As for acting for the "needs of its people", Zelensky's obedience to his Washington and London puppet masters has forced millions to flee the country, while hundreds of thousands are dying on behalf of NATO's needless war to "weaken Russia."

The malady infecting Blinken and his equally deluded allies was clinically detailed by investigative journalist Patrick Lawrence, in an article published by {Consortium News}, "Deaf, But Not Blind to U.S. Decline" (May 30, 2023).  He asks, "Can I be the only one to wonder whether those shaping and conducting American foreign policy are blind to this immense global shift, or deaf to what the non-West lately has to say to the West, or too stupid to understand events, or in denial, or maybe some of all four?....But it has been awfully hard to settle with certainty on the cause of our policy people's apparent inability or refusal to acknowledge that world history has entered a period of epochal change."

The End of the “Unipolar Order”

Whatever the specific clinical cause, the dangerous arrogance in U.S. foreign policy has been dominant since the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.  Kennedy, who was outspoken against colonial exploitation before his election as President in 1960, recognized the need for an "epochal" shift away from the Cold War egoism of the "Military-Industrial Complex", following his handling of the Cuban Missile crisis in October 1962.  The Vietnam war was another example of imperial arrogance, when U.S. military, defense and intel officials believed they could win a conventional war in Asia.  At the time of his assassination, JFK was drafting plans for a full withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam by the end of 1964.

A more extreme form of this was the pronouncement of "victory" in the Cold War, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.  By 1992, the neocons had consolidated control of both parties.  The Bush Republicans organized the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), which propagandized in favor of the endless wars beginning in August 1990 with the Gulf War against Iraq, with full support from War Hawks in the Democratic Party, who ran President Bill Clinton's foreign policy.  This is the origin of the idea that America is the "Sole Superpower."  They were heavily influenced by the deranged Russophobic outlook of Zbigniew Brzezinsky, a devotee of British imperial geopolitics.  He applied Mackinder's "Heartland" theory to get the U.S. engaged in Afghanistan beginning in the late 1970s, and offered U.S. support to Islamic fundamentalists along the southern border of the Soviet Union, which he called the "Arc of Crisis."

Blinken is the latest in this line of geopoliticians from the Brzezinski school, which includes Madeleine Albright, who defended the genocidal sanctions which killed 500,000 Iraqi children during the 1990s, as "worth the price" for ultimately removing Saddam Hussein; Presidents Obama and Joe Biden, who organized the Maidan coup of 2014 and approved the endless wars and expanded them; Hillary Clinton, who oversaw the disastrous regime change in Libya and attempted to extend it to Syria; and Victoria Nuland, who handed out cookies to violent demonstrators in Kiev, along with $5 billion, which she said was the U.S. contribution to the Maidan coup, and continues to demand that there be no negotiations to end the Ukraine war, and backing the insistence of the Brits that attacking Crimea is fair game.
 
As with the others on this list, Blinken seems to believe that those he is addressing have no idea of history, nor of the hypocrisy he displays with virtually every utterance.  He seems to be a true believer in a product no one wants, a "Rules-Based Order" (RBO), the rules for which have no universal basis, and serve to benefit only Mr. Blinken and those in the U.S.-U.K. "Military-Industrial Complex" who send him out to peddle it.

As for Blinken's claim that the U.S. military actions in defense of the RBO demonstrate America's commitment to "democracy" and peace, one can read an op ed that he co authored with neocon war hawk, Robert Kagan—the husband of the neocon witch of Maidan, Victoria Nuland, and an occasional dinner partner of Obama at the White House—which exposes his inner War Hawk.  In the op ed, "'America First' is only making the world worse.  Here's a better approach" ({Washington Post, January 1, 2019) they defend Blinken's support, as an adviser to the failed Hillary Clinton campaign, for robust action for regime change in Syria, arguing that "force can be a necessary adjunct to effective diplomacy."  

In an example of his malicious sophistry (blind or otherwise), he continues: "In Syria, we rightly sought to avoid another Iraq by not doing too much, but we made the opposite error of doing too little."  With this cover story, he ignores the role of the Obama administration's support for arming and training the jihadists trying to topple the Assad government, which the State Department referred to as "moderate rebels."

Leaders of nations making up the Global Majority, who live outside the censorship/media bubble of the West, know that what Blinken and Kagan were defending was not "effective diplomacy", but brutal regime change to remove Syria's democratically-elected President  Assad—a perfect example of the RBO in practice.