Alaska Puts the Intermarium at Risk

Alaska Puts the Intermarium at Risk

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

The vision of the Intermarium, the age-old idea of a federation of countries between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas, has been proposed as one of the historic solutions to Eastern Europe's vulnerability; however, this region has historically been the epicenter of conflicts dating back centuries. The fundamental problem with the Intermarium is that it has never achieved true cohesion. Historically, each country in the region has prioritized its own interests in the face of a common threat, be it Russian, Ottoman, or German imperialism. The scars of ethnic, religious, and territorial divisions run deep.

Only with the end of the Cold War has Eastern Europe achieved an autonomous and consensual existence in the face of the hegemonies that threaten it. Atlanticism and Zbigniew Brzezinski's model, with its concept of a "lock on the Heartland," became the United States' strategy to contain Russia. This lock was built on NATO and the US military presence in Europe. The results of the US-Russia summit in Alaska suggest that Donald Trump, playing the role of Russian Doll, has called into question Russia's isolation. Trump's questioning of NATO funding and his ambiguity regarding Western collective defense were shattering the lock that keeps Eastern Europe secure; now, after the meeting with Vladimir Putin, the failure of Atlanticism can be taken for granted. The Russian bear is on the loose and can advance wherever it wants.

This has direct consequences. The Intermarium countries, which depend on North American support to resist Russian pressure, feel vulnerable. Trump's empathy toward Russia could encourage Vladimir Putin to act more boldly, knowing that the guarantor of regional security might not intervene. The risk is not only an invasion of other Eastern European countries, but also an intensification of Russia's "hybrid warfare" (cyberattacks, disinformation) to destabilize its neighbors. The lack of internal cohesion in the Intermarium, combined with a less engaged United States, creates the perfect breeding ground for a new round of conflicts.

In this context, the old wounds of Eastern Europe could reopen. The theses of thinkers like Vivianne Forrester, although controversial, demonstrate how geopolitical ideas, even the most speculative, can ignite the space into an inferno, as happened with the fires of antisemitism and other forms of exclusionary nationalism.

Intermarium and Ukraine against the emerging right

 Intermarium and Ukraine against the emerging right

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero 

The way in which the peace negotiations are creating a scenario favourable to Russia and detrimental to Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, marks a change of era and aggravates the crisis of liberal democracy in the world. It is not necessary to specifically point out who says what in relation to Ukraine and NATO, but the truth is that the United States government headed by Republican Donald Trump is including Russia in the Western sphere to the detriment of Europe. How much difference is there compared to the nineties of the last century? The song “God Old Boys” seems to replace the “Winds of change” of that time. Russia can be a hope for the West if Europe embraces the alternative radical right.

Trump, Vance or Rubio seem to justify Vladimir Putin's competitive authoritarianism against the liberal excesses of Western democracy, the fear of the Americans regarding China seems more than real and, therefore, the need for geopolitical regrouping with Russia becomes indispensable, even if it is with the minimum common denominators.

Ukraine is being excluded from the peace process and, apparently, will be fragmented to contain Russian nationalism. The geopolitical advances against Russia led by the American Democratic Party and the Zbigniew Brzezinski model have been contrasted by the Chinese reality; they were not a mistake but something worse.

The right wing is expanding and has, increasingly, greater resources and positions, NATO and the European capitalist countries are vulnerable to the nationalist state capitalism promoted by Russia and the United States. The discourse of liberal democratic globalization has been cancelled and now other globalizations are being seen, perhaps more regional where conservative personalist leaders are receiving the main electoral support.

The countries that intended to marginalize Russia under the geopolitical scheme of the Intermarium or the Three Seas Initiative, have found themselves in adverse scenarios where globalist neoliberalism seems to be the true Chinese conspiracy.

The West will have to subordinate itself to Russia and adopt competitive conservatism in order to find the means to resist the economic and geopolitical onslaught of the Asian giant. In the end, it is the civilisational war that has been the hidden element of any geopolitical essence.

Trump and the reconstruction of the multipolar balance

 Trump and the reconstruction of the multipolar balance

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero

The appearance of the Russian weapon Oreshnik represents the recognition of the importance of weapons of mass destruction for geopolitical control. The balance that developed during the Cold War can be reestablished by Donald Trump if the coexistence of multiple civilizations is implemented in a mandatory manner. The failure of liberal capitalist democracy and modernity implies that, outside the United States, the values ​​of Western culture do not find fertile ground. There are different and multiple modernities, even evidence that modernity will fail in certain societies. Therefore, globalization must be slowed down, adjusted to the historical speeds of each society.

Oreshnik resurrects the fear of nuclear cataclysm, that is, the extermination of large proportions of humanity. Not only does fear correspond to the type of weapons that Russia can produce but also to the response of its adversaries. In its way, the world of the Cold War represented an unstable balance; With the fall of the Soviet Union, modernity went out of control and neoliberal elites lost their sense of humanity. They are as responsible as Oreshnik for the destruction of human beings.

Liberalism is a path to civilization, but it is frequently lost. Russia has the right to exist and the Western world must recognize its defeat by Vladimir Putin. The future depends on personalities like Donald Trump and a plutocratic environment that rescinds the globalization of the market, technology and democracy.

Apparently, the division of Ukraine and the subjection of other Eastern European countries to Russia represent the step to gain coexistence. It is paradoxical that the French government maintains the perspective of confrontation and suppression of Russia; the change of government in North America can contribute to containing the suicidal attempts of neoliberal aristocracies.

Vladimir Putin represents a conservative government that has autocratically gained political legitimacy in Russia. It is difficult to point out that he sought to recover Russian greatness and generate expansionism when he takes power after Boris Yeltsin. It was the responsibility of the West to create the situation of confronting Russia and the response came: the Oreshnik Monster is there to remind us of human fragility.

Should the US invade Mexico?

 Should the US invade Mexico?

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero 

The conflict in Ukraine has led to a rethinking of the relationship and the social fractures between Mexicans as well as between Mexico and the United States. The debate regarding the reasons for the Ukrainian groups that have developed a previous civil war can be raised in almost the same way in our country: there is a social fracture -perhaps several more- between individuals, which refers to preferences regarding the tradition and modernity. In Ukraine, the region close to Russia has pro-Russian sentiment and cultural reasons for choosing tsarist Orthodox Christianity, conservative authoritarianism, and Eurasianism; the western zone identifies with the values ​​of capitalist liberal democracy as well as the postmodern values ​​of consumerist cultural metastasis. The European East/West has been translated as the Mexican North/South due to the opposition to Morena and the 4T. Just as the pro-American Ukrainians call for NATO intervention to confront Russia, even at the expense of bursting the nuclear cataclysm that would end humanity; In the same way, a large part of pro-American neoliberal Mexicans ask for North American intervention against the national government as if all the evils of the republic had begun in 2018.

Vladimir Putin has pointed out that the military intervention in Ukraine is due to the genocide that Nazi paramilitary groups and drug addicts committed against the population with cultural and racial ancestry identified as pro-Russian. This argument is important to understand the geopolitics of the United States towards Mexico and the reasons of the right that supports interventionism. In Mexico, the gangs of Nazis, drug traffickers and genocide; they have acted - at least during the 20th century - as allies of North America. The monstrosities that Russia is committing against Ukrainian democracy have been done by the United States against Mexico for most of its history.

The United States, not the democrat but the insane imperial Caesar, has used pentagonism to sponsor conservative and neoliberal dictatorships that not only exterminated actors resistant to modernity and capitalism, but also discarded nationalist armies and military defenses, as is now happening in Mexico. Anomie and anarchy developed uncontrollably during the neoliberal era to subsidize the informal and military economy of the United States. Arms trafficking from the United States to Mexico shows the indolence and hypocrisy of Democratic-Republican companies and governments. The paramilitary groups and political coalitions that the United States has financed for a long time are also part of the war crimes committed by Yankee imperialism. Mexico and Ukraine have similar stories, you just have to see who is financing the mafias of Nazis and drug addicts that cause genocide.

North America has waged a secret war against Mexico since the very moment of its independence, conferring on itself the invisible power that has governed our country since colonial times. Mexican neocolonialism is pro-Yankee, pro-Hispanist and neoliberal. America's secret war against Mexico began in 1821 and is about to take control of the country. The Ukrainian scenario is no different from various events in the history of the country. Ukraine cannot join NATO and Mexico cannot be free, democratic, egalitarian, independent, legal, sovereign.

The invisible power fueled by the United States against Mexico has colonized all spheres of human life in our society. The American Union speaks of invading the Mexican Republic now that a government intends to change the structural violence that sustains the Creole and administrative oligarchies of the empire. The pentagonist press and intelligentsia have always pointed to Mexico as a criminal nation, a failed state; but it is not stated that the mafias and sultanates are allies of the CIA and the DEA.

The north of the country was intervened to detonate unprecedented violence that has become the real wall with the US, also as a justification to militarize the country and weaken the Armed Forces and, in this way, finally develop a military contingent completely North American service.

The Mexican State and the Armed Forces are already in a war against the paramilitary and Nazi advance of the United States. The War of the year 2080 envisioned by George Friedmann is a cruel reality, with one important difference: the financial power of drug trafficking is in the United States and neoliberalism has only served for extermination and neo-extractivism.

Vladimir Putin is not wrong when he points out that the Western world has avoided denazification, it is the great slope of the capitalist world. The United States is the Fourth Reich and financier of genocidal fascism. Democracies die because Nazism lives.

WEST VERSUS RUSIA

West versus Russia

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero

The situation in Ukraine appears important in recent weeks as it shows the decline of the United States and NATO in Eastern Europe. The confrontation between the American and Russian intelligence apparatuses has generated the possibility of an armed conflict that delimits the borders of the Western world. The United States and the values ​​it represents have to accept a setback in the post-covid world.

Even when it is intended to make Russia, China and the Middle East look like barbarian civilizations; The truth is that Yankee Imperialism cannot sustain the fallacies with which it has achieved economic hegemony since the end of World War II. Liberalism, democracy and human rights are not the elements that distinguish Western culture; On the contrary, they are the reasons for the anti-American obsession that, justifiably, the peoples have the right to reject at this fundamental moment in the history of humanity. The departure of the United States from Afghanistan indicates that the alleged universalization of modernity and Western values ​​is not true, the United States maintains geographical pivots and fragile geopolitical balances to remain firm in the voracious capitalism that passes over the peoples.

Ukraine and Eastern Europe have not constituted modernizing democratic transitions but the consolidation of a military wall that aims to destroy Russia, this society has the right to defend itself and protect its vital space. The United States has failed to include Russia in the Western world in a peaceful and pluralistic way, it has sought the humiliating subordination of the region to subsidize the hidden economy of Western imperialism. It is not human beings but the power of the dollar that interests the North American democratic simulation.

Historically, an infinite anti-Russian civilization predominates in Europe as a civilizing project that has sought the disappearance of Russia from the Catholic and Protestant Christian vision, this element has lasted for more than a century and is an example of the political use that is given to religion for the imperialist geopolitical ends. The West has failed and Russia will extend its regional influence because it is the right thing to do against a Europe and the United States that have been unfair to the Baltic Slavic civilization and to the rest of humanity.

The way in which Russia has been transformed in recent decades is an indication of the actions that political leaders will take against states in the future to get ahead. If the triumph of Russia is generated in Eastern Europe, a liberalization of the regions is proposed where Latin America, and Mexico in particular, can draw lessons to reduce a historical colonialism that has become a pathological symbiosis that is resulting in the promotion of Failed state.