{"id":57229,"date":"2021-03-24T07:17:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57229"},"modified":"2021-03-24T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:32:02","slug":"escobar-welcome-to-shocked-awed-21st-century-geopolitics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57229","title":{"rendered":"Escobar: Welcome To ‘Shocked & Awed’ 21st Century Geopolitics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Escobar: Welcome To ‘Shocked & Awed’ 21st Century Geopolitics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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With\u00a0a Russia-China-Iran triple bitch slap<\/strong>\u00a0on the hegemon<\/strong>, we now have a brand new geopolitical chessboard…<\/em><\/p>\n

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It took 18 years after\u00a0Shock and Awe unleashed on Iraq\u00a0<\/a>for the\u00a0Hegemon to be mercilessly shocked and awed by a virtually simultaneous, diplomatic Russia-China one-two.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) in Beijing, China on March 23, 2021. Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry\/Handout\/Anadolu Agency<\/em><\/p>\n

How this is a real game-changing moment cannot be emphasized enough; 21st\u00a0century geopolitics will never be the same again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet it was the Hegemon who first crossed the diplomatic Rubicon. The handlers behind hologram Joe \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever you want me to do, Nance\u201d Biden had whispered in his earpiece to brand Russian President Vladimir Putin as a soulless \u201ckiller\u201d in the middle of a softball interview.<\/p>\n

Not even at the height of the Cold War the superpowers resorted to ad hominem attacks. The result of such an astonishing blunder was to regiment virtually the whole Russian population behind Putin \u2013 because that was perceived as an attack against the Russian state.<\/p>\n

Then came Putin\u2019s cool, calm, collected \u2013 and quite diplomatic \u2013 response, which needs to be carefully pondered. These sharp as a dagger words are arguably\u00a0the most devastatingly powerful<\/a>\u00a0five minutes in the history of post-truth international relations.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0For Leviathan, it\u2019s so cold in Alaska<\/a>, we forecasted what could take place in the US-China 2+2 summit at a shabby hotel in Anchorage, with cheap bowls of instant noodles thrown in as extra bonus.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s millennial diplomatic protocol establishes that discussions start around common ground \u2013 which are then extolled as being more important than disagreements between negotiating parties. That\u2019s at the heart of the concept of \u201cno loss of face\u201d. Only afterwards the parties discuss their differences.<\/p>\n

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Escobar: Welcome To ‘Shocked & Awed’ 21st Century Geopolitics With\u00a0a Russia-China-Iran triple bitch slap\u00a0on the hegemon, we now have a brand new geopolitical chessboard… It took 18 years after\u00a0Shock and Awe unleashed on Iraq\u00a0for the\u00a0Hegemon to be mercilessly shocked and awed by a virtually simultaneous, diplomatic Russia-China one-two. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) meets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15907,130,1467,4076,694,827,4318],"class_list":["post-57229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-asia-times","tag-china","tag-hegemony","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57230,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57229\/revisions\/57230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}