BRICS nations come out in defence of Putin

[SpArK]

BRICS nations come out in defence of Putin

NEW DELHI: The BRICS countries on Monday came out strongly in support of Russian PresidentVladimir Putin as it expressed concern over a statement by Australia that Putin could be prevented from participating in the G-20 Summit Down Under this year in the wake of Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine.

Meeting on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague, ministers from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) expressed concern over Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop's comment that Putin could be barred from attending the G-20 summit in November.

"The ministers noted with concern the recent media statement on the forthcoming G-20 summit to be held in Brisbane in November 2014. The custodianship of the G-20 belongs to all member-states equally and no one member-state can unilaterally determine its nature and character," the BRICS said in a statement.


External affairs minister Salman Khurshid represented India. Foreign ministers of China Wang Yi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov were also present.

After Russia took over Crimea from Ukraine, Bishop had said Putin could be banned from travelling to Australia for the G-20 Summit while supporting the stand of the European Union (EU) and the US in attacking Russia on the issue.

India has already made it clear that it will not support any "unilateral measures" against Russian government. It believes that Russia's role in international issues relating to Afghanistan, Syria and Iran is very important. The ministers of BRICS countries reflected on the challenges to peace and security, notably the "significant infringements" of privacy and related rights in the wake of cyber threats.


BRICS nations come out in defence of Putin - The Times of India



Good development.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Nice.

These are the limits of the power of American global hegemony.

The West tried to screw around in Russia's backyard, they lost badly, and now they expect the whole world to dance to their "anti-Russia" tune.

But it seems like they ran into a BRIC wall.

@vostok Brother what do you think?

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Well that means Russia isn't alone.

Apart from the BRICS, both of Syria and Venezuela voiced their support for Russia.

 

[blackface]

The evil West boogeyman is overplayed. Russia and China are more evil.

 

[Janmejay]

The evil West boogeyman is overplayed. Russia and China are more evil.

Whatever but see we are cooperating with each other.

 

[vostok]

Nice.

These are the limits of the power of American global hegemony.

The West tried to screw around in Russia's backyard, they lost badly, and now they expect the whole world to dance to their "anti-Russia" tune.

But it seems like they ran into a BRIC wall.

@vostok Brother what do you think?

I think the Americans are frantically looking for support outside the Western world. They suddenly realized that their sanctions against Russia weakly effective because Russia simply reoriented to BRICS , the SCO , Southeast Asia, Latin America and so on.
Now the entire non-Western world needs to unite around Russia . Do not even need any active hostile actions - enough to express solidarity with Russia and does not support the U.S. sanctions .
The world is changing and America can not do anything about it. We are now seeing the same process that occurred with Britain after the WW2.

 

[nangyale]

Asia will not 'isolate' Russia
By Pepe Escobar

Any (bureaucratic) doubts the New Cold War is on have been dispelled by the Group of Seven issuing a pompous, self-described Hague Declaration. Abandon all hope those who expected The Hague to become the seat of a tribunal judging the war crimes of the Cheney regime.

The G-7 also cancelled its upcoming summer summit in Sochi as a means of "punishing" Moscow over Crimea. As if this carried any practical value. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov responded with class; if you don't want us, we have better things to do. [1] Everyone knows the G-7 is an innocuous, self-important talk shop. It's in the G-20 - much more representative of the real world - where crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic issues gain traction.

The Hague Declaration comes complete with the kiss of death, as in, "The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine's economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system." That's code for "wait till structural adjustment starts biting".

And then there will be "measures to enhance trade and strengthen energy security" - code for "we will destroy your industry" but "are not very keen on paying your humongous Gazprom bill".

All this in the sidelines of a supposed summit on nuclear security in the Netherlands, where US President Barack Obama, at the Rijksmuseum, in front of Rembrandt's The Night Watch, extolled Washington's "support of the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian people". Rembrandt's watchers have never seen anything like it in their glorious lifespan. It pays to be a Nazi after all; you just need to be in the right government, against the right enemy, and fully approved by the hyper-power.

King Willem-Alexander hosted a lavish dinner for the members of the nuclear security summit at the Royal Palace Huis ten Bosch in The Hague - after Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a (failed) bid to "isolate" Russia. The White House would later add that, as long as Russia continues "flagrantly" to violate international law, "there is no need for it to engage with the G7". Unless, of course, it starts conducting a drone war in Ukrainian badlands - with kill-list attached.

All about NATO
The US Senate - always enjoying superb popularity ratings - laboriously laid the groundwork for debating a bill backing a US$1 billion loan guarantee for the regime changers in Kiev, plus $150 million in aid also including "neighboring countries". These figures are enough to pay Ukraine's bills for maybe two weeks.

Meanwhile, in the facts on the ground department, Crimea will be booming soon - tourism included - and may even become a "special economic zone". [2] Subjects of the upcoming IMF/agrobusiness-plundered Khaganate of Nulands will see the results for themselves.

Hysteria within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that Russia is about to invade everyone and his neighbor literally tomorrow - remember The Russians Are Coming! - persists unabated. Independent observers, The Roving Eye included, always insisted this is all about NATO, and not the European Union. [3]

Since the go-go days of the Bill Clinton era, NATO has been expanding to the doorstep of Russia. The process graphically represents US hegemony over Europe; NATO "annexed" Eastern Europe even before the EU. And even those certified US Cold Warriors such as Paul Nitze always thought this was a needless, dangerous provocation of Russia.

Very few remember how "Bubba" Clinton, to make sure terminal alcoholic Boris Yeltsin was re-elected in 1996, postponed NATO's expansion for a year. Afterwards, the expansion turbocharged into NATO as global Robocop - from the Balkans to the intersection of Central and South Asia, and to Northern Africa.

NATO's humanitarian bombing of Yugoslavia - 36,000 combat missions, 23,000 bombs and missiles - whose 15th anniversary is "celebrated" this week, codified the new realities. NATO had nothing to do with defense; it was a multi-lethal (transformer) attack dog. It was the epitome of clean war; aerial blitzkrieg, and no casualties. And it was totally legitimized by "human rights" over national sovereignty; that was humanitarian imperialism in the making, opening the way to "responsibility to protect" and the destruction of Libya.

Moscow knows very well the lineaments of the neo-barbarian behemoth at its gates, in the form of NATO bases in Ukraine, assuming the regime changers in Kiev remain in power. And their response has absolutely nothing to do with "Putin's aggression". Or the so-called "Medvedev Doctrine" of Russia theoretically extending military protection to Russians everywhere. As if Russia was about to "threaten" its business interests in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan or Mongolia.

What the White House calls "the international community" - roughly the "Hague Declaration" G-7 plus a few European minions - could not possibly admit that. Asia, on the other hand, clearly identifies it. China, Japan and South Korea, for starters, identify Russia with a steady supply of oil and gas and further business deals. Even considering that Japan and South Korea are essentially US protectorates, nothing could be more anachronistic in their calculations than a Western-provoked New Cold War.

Asia will not "isolate" Russia - and Asians and Russians know it, as much as The White House is in denial. Beijing's abstention in "condemning" Moscow - talk about the American angry-schoolmaster brand of politics - is classic Deng Xiaoping-style "keep a low profile", as China is Russia's strategic partner and both are busy working for the emergence of a multipolar world. Not to mention Beijing's utmost rejection of US-style color-coded "revolutions" and regime change ops - as well as that "pivoting to Asia" encirclement ops.

Oh, to have been an EU-regulated fly on the wall in that Hague room where Obama and Xi were talking; cool Xi meets Obama pivoting around himself.

Notes:
1. Russia not clinging to G8 if West does not want it - Russian FM, Russia Today, March 24, 2014.
2. Crimea to become Russian special economic zone-Medvedev, Russia Today, March 24, 2014.
3. Why the EU won't annex Ukraine, Russia Today, March 24, 2014.


Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007), Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge (Nimble Books, 2007), and Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).

 

[Beidou2020]

China should not go to the G-20 if Russia is banned.

The evil West boogeyman is overplayed. Russia and China are more evil.

@Aeronaut

Please ban this troll.

 

[TheTruth]

The evil West boogeyman is overplayed. Russia and China are more evil.

Nope. China is the most generous, humane, moral government the world has ever seen. The West is pure fucking evil. You are proof of that.

 

[Skull and Bones]

Nice.

These are the limits of the power of American global hegemony.

The West tried to screw around in Russia's backyard, they lost badly, and now they expect the whole world to dance to their "anti-Russia" tune.

But it seems like they ran into a BRIC wall.

@vostok Brother what do you think?

New meaning to term, "hitting your face with a BRIC".

 

[senheiser]

Well that means Russia isn't alone.

Apart from the BRICS, both of Syria and Venezuela voiced their support for Russia.

and your nation should too, american nutcases like George Soros openly advice america to sell their strategic oil reserves to global markets just to crash the oil price and therefor the russian economy

 

[terranMarine]

Russian economy won't crash, cause Russia has BRICS and other countries support. Obama tried to pursuade our president in The Netherlands to sanction Russia LOL guess what Xi told the black motha fucka

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Russia's annexation of the Crimea is to for its own security. In other words, Russia is fighting for its survival, even Putin openly stated it that he doesn't wish to see NATO stationing troops in that little island.

As a Saudi Arabian, I don't think that the situation over there is a matter of concern to us. We don't want to create more enemies.

As a US national as well, I think we should back off.

No, the US won't sell its strategic oil reserves, things won't go to this level, crashing the oil market is like a sword of two edges.

and your nation should too, american nutcases like George Soros openly advice america to sell their strategic oil reserves to global markets just to crash the oil price and therefor the russian economy

 

[senheiser]

Russia's annexation of the Crimea is to for its own security. In other words, Russia is fighting for its survival, even Putin openly stated it that he doesn't wish to see NATO stationing troops in that little island.

As a Saudi Arabian, I don't think that the situation over there is a matter of concern to us. We don't want to create more enemies.

As a US national as well, I think we should back off.

No, the US won't sell its strategic oil reserves, things won't go to this level, crashing the oil market is like a sword of two edges.

well listen what georg soros says, america is wicked and unpredicable

 

[Raphael]

If Abbott really has the nerve to ban Russia, I hope BRICS boycotts the summit. Other there would be no point to the conference; no agreements or progress can made if the relevant players are unable to participate.