I would like to emphasise that the expansion of the BRICS group is causing a turmoil in the countries of the West and above all in the USA…
At the dawn of 2024, from January 1, five more countries became full members of the BRICS, a transnational association, which until then consisted of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and thus became BRICS+ (BRICS Plus), totalling ten countries.
Egypt which is located in northeast Africa and partly on the Sinai Peninsula, which is an isthmus to southwest Asia, thus making it a transcontinental country, it is considered a major power in North Africa, the Mediterranean Sea, the Islamic world and the Red Sea. A populous – with 104.5 million inhabitants – historical Arab country with a long and very rich cultural heritage and at the same time the most powerful military country in Africa that controls the strategic Suez Canal. Egypt also has huge reserves of natural gas, estimated at 2,180 cubic kilometres and Egyptian liquefied natural gas is exported to many countries.
Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa, at the eastern end of the continental African. With a population of 107.5 million inhabitants, according to an official estimate for 2023, it is the most populous Mediterranean state-i.e. that has no sea- in the world. A poor but rapidly developing country with great geo strategic weight in Africa, which apart from its agricultural production which contributes 41% of GDP, also has the largest water resources in the entire continent. Ethiopia is the largest producer of coffee in Africa and the second largest producer of corn.
Iran is a Middle Eastern country in Southwest Asia. It has a population of 88.5 million according to the United Nations average estimate for 2022. Iran is considered a major regional power and occupies a prominent position in matters of global energy policy and economics, mainly as a result of its large oil and natural gas reserves. Iran was the eighth largest oil producing country in the world in the year 2022 with 3,822,000 barrels per day. At the same time. it has strong armed forces and a large scientific staff, which are stationed in key parts of the planet such as the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula, occupying most of it, about 80%, and which is washed by the Persian Gulf to the northeast and the Red Sea to the west. According to an official estimate for 2022 its population is 32.2 million inhabitants, 30% of whom are non-Saudi citizens (2013 estimate). Saudi Arabia’s economy is based on oil, from which approximately 75% of budget revenues and 90% of exports come. Saudi Arabia in the year 2022 came second in the world after the USA with a production of 12,136,000 barrels per day and holds 17% of the total proven oil reserves on a global scale.
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated UAE, is a federal state consisting of seven emirates, at the southeastern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The UAE is washed by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and borders Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman. They have a population of 9.3 million according to an official estimate for 2020. The country is rich in oil and natural gas deposits and its people enjoy an income comparable to that of developed western countries. The UAE was the seventh largest oil producing country in the world in the year 2022 with 4,020,000 barrels per day.
As for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which are among the wealthiest countries by GDP per capita, they have continued to post economic growth despite global uncertainties, including high interest rates, inflation and geopolitical tensions, as they focus on diversifying their economies.
Saudi Arabia’s economy grew according to the IMF by 8.7% in 2022 – the highest annual growth rate among the world’s 20 largest economies – and by just 0.8% for all of 2023. On the other hand, the economy of United Arab Emirates grew by 3.4% in 2023, with oil GDP growing at 0.7% and non-oil GDP at 4.5%, supported by strong performances in tourism, real estate, construction, transport, manufacturing and increasing capital expenditure.
With this entrance, therefore, the group, which appears as the rival force in the G7, now expands in the Middle East and includes within its bosom the countries, traditional allies of the West, which now manifest tendencies towards autonomy and of course control a large part of the world’s production of hydrocarbons, further increasing the group’s financial strength.
Thus, the BRICS+ countries collectively now represent 45% of the world’s population with approximately 3.5 billion people, a third of the Earth’s solid surface, 44% of total global oil production as well as almost 1/3 of global GDP, amounting to approximately 29 trillion dollars, having surpassed in purchasing power parity terms the G7, the group of the seven most powerful economies of the developed world.
At the same time there are at least thirty other developing world nations that have already expressed a keen interest in joining the group. Among these countries are Algeria, Congo, Bolivia, Venezuela, Indonesia and Kazakhstan, which are not rich countries, but possess enormous mineral wealth, and would very much like to break free from the noose of Western multinational corporations and dollar.
So, in this direction, the countries of the BRICS group have created the New Development Bank (NDB) since 2014, while a large part of the trade between them is done in national currencies and not in dollars. They are also moving forward with discussions and elaborations on the creation of a common currency (slowed down, however, by Indian objections). And they are still looking for solutions alternatives of international transaction to SWIFT. As a result, all these unfolding movements gradually lead to a de-dollarisation of the global economic system.
At the next BRICS+ summit to be held in October 2024 in Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, a Russian city located at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka rivers in central European Russia, other countries – energy giants – may join the group and this will have as the effect of increasing the control of the global energy market from the 40% that it is today to a higher percentage.
In closing, I would like to emphasise that the expansion of the BRICS group is causing a turmoil in the countries of the West and above all in the USA, which are proceeding with knee-jerk reactions, with the mere idea only of the definitive loss of their global leadership, and is a real milestone towards inevitable historical course of formation of a new intercontinental world order, a polycentric world.
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There are several good thinkers on matters BRICS and this here writer is not one.
All he does is to regurgitate standard information which is easily available.
More interesting are the unpopular intrigues. Matters this Isidora cannot and did not make essential contact with.
For example, Argentina was just invited and seems to have withdrawn since the election of a Trump on steroids, Milie, over the last few weeks.
The back story!
Under the last regime, as it entered an election period, Brazilian president Lula da Silva insisted, at the last meeting in South África, on Argentinan’s inclusión.
However, under this new far rightist asshole Milie in Argentina the country is now considering neoliberal policies which would have made the Chicago Boys, who started this in the early 1970s with Chile as their laboratory, blush.
These include, but are not limited to, dollarization of Argentina a country which has no dollar reserves and China, it’s main economic partner, and supplier of the non IMF money needed to keep the country afloat. And on and on.
These are anathema to everything BRICS or BRICS+ is about.
Milie professes that he’s a Zionist, even at a time of this century’s first genocide. That he’s an uncompromising capitalist, as capitalism flounders. A man who sees no roll whatsoever of any, we mean any, government programa or services at all. He doesn’t even recognize the right of Argentinians to strife, protest.
Should we say these again!
So whether health, poverty alleviation, old age pensions, road repair etc Milie believes that everything is to be privatized. And this is the platfrom he ran on.
Well, the Europeans gave this hemisphere the conquistadors, the fascists implanted from the Third Reich, and more.
Milie is the embodiment of the most vile instincts of the human. He even looks like the devil himself! That the Argentinian people could have elected such a rabid asshole tells the discerning reader of the geopolitical that prople everywhere are their worst enemies. The Americans shall be following this feckless pattern soon. Like Barbados has two times over!
Of course, there are many, many, other hurdles to be cleared by our friends in the BRICS PLUS! Matters which would require forests to explain. Isidora has brought nothing interesting to the table.
BRICS TO RELEASE BONDS
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/21/brics-bank-to-release-bonds-in-local-currencies/
This report tends to suggest, along with a current negotiated deal, that the BRICS+ have finally corrected a mistake, made on inception 10 years ago, within their articles, making the USD the sole currency for doing business.
Since then the world has markedly changed, since this original misguidance.
Solving the nettlesome problem of the entrenched system of the use of the dollar for cross border transactions.
https://carnegieendowment.org/2023/12/05/difficult-realities-of-brics-dedollarization-efforts-and-renminbi-s-role-pub-91173
In related news.
Source: Nation
David,
Rickets, scurvy and Victorian levels of malnutrition have returned to the UK says a recent official report.
A good thing I ESCAPED from there as a child.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The UK backing back under John Knox’s wonderful capitalist system!
And after all that free labour we “gave” them too!
Calling Charles Dickens! Calling Charles Dickens! Come in, Charles Dickens!
Not only BRICS PLUS!
The Western countries are self inflicting harms.
Now war is being prepared, again, for the peoples of Yemen. 80 percent of whom are governed by Ansurallah with the remainder of their territory still occupied in the wake of the most recent war, waged by Western proxies in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both new BRICS PLUS members. Even as both countries try to rebalance their interests.
Indeed, the peoples of Yemen, emerging from over 100 years of Western imposed wars, recently followed by proxy leaders serving Saudi and Western interests until the last one was ejected circa 2015. Thus the most recent war in which the Saudis alone spent over 200 billion and were defeated by the people of Yemen. One of the poorest countries on earth.
Recall, this most recent Western enabled, Saudi led, war which blockaded the country, imposed starvation on the Yemenis, murdered tens of thousands of people, had far less interest in the West than the current genocidal war in Palestine.
For the Yemenis, it represents a moral, even sacred, internationally legal requirement to stop a similar genocide in Palestine. The White people in the West however, insist exceptionalism does not apply.
In their defence, the Saudis are now refusing to engage in Biden’s new war as the Yemenis continue the block the Bab-el-Mandeb Straight of all ships going to Zionist ports as in support of the Palestinians. Added are vessels, military or civilian, owned by Israelis, Americans, the British, the Germans and whoever will challenge their responsibility to end the genocide and the 15-year long blockade of Gaza.
There’s a northern asshole here who continues to minimize the gravamen of blockade warfarism.
America, as the proverbial dog being wagged by the Zionist tail, Biden, a captive of the Zionist lobby, dutifully and in an election year must stop at nothing in showing the Zionist occupation, money men, in Washington that he is all in, even for genocide.
So on the one side BRICS PLUS is creating waves, tidal waves if you will. But on the other, the Western countries are moving heaven and earth in efforts to maintain hegemony, however all their efforts are ending in more and more catastrophes for us all.
Enter! The big mushroom-headed deckie!
Do BRICS members use the US dollar?
Acid test!!
The answer is yes!!
Obviously BRICS use US currency, isn’t that why the association was forced to attempt to decouple or at minimum reduce dependence?
Another opinion.
https://mises.org/wire/will-new-brics-currency-change-anything-maybe?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqoX8hr7zgwMV7IZaBR1JKwOJEAAYASAAEgLaCPD_BwE
Only the resident racist will see this matter in such simplistic terms.
For its not only about paper. It’s about payment mechanisms to replace SWIFT, for example
It’s not even about the USD alone. It’s about the Euro, the Yen, the Pound.
And while the hideous legacy of the Greenback is receding, national currencies are included in new deals, being stored by actors, even as the new financial structures are being constructed.
Indeed, the lack of demand for the USD and dollar denominated paper have been deleterious affects on the US economy. Within the last 60 day, in Mexico alone, the exchange rate has moved from over 1800 to under 1600 pesos viz a viz the dollar. Go figure!
Donna on January 23, 2024 at 6:12 AM said:
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A good thing I ESCAPED from there as a child.
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What was Daddy doing in the UK back then?
The only REAL value of the US dollar resides in the artificially created demand for it, as a result of the international trading arrangements IMPOSED ‘vi et armes’ over the past 80 years.
In order to buy oil, for example, a country NEEDED to have access to $US. Even to buy food and medicines, or to trade, without $US a country was essentially blockaded.
With the BRICS initiative, arrangements are rapidly being built, where trade can be undertaken in ALTERNATIVE currencies.
This will reduce the demand for $US, and since it will be no longer VITAL for trade, its VALUE will be forced DOWNWARDS.
Anyone whose ‘assets’ are valued in $US, …or in currencies tied to $US, will find their donkeys in deep grass…
The TRADITIONAL response from the albino-centric demons to such threats has been to destroy the source of such threats (Gadaffi, Saddam, etc)
However, Putin and Xi are ‘a bridge too far’…
Their only resort now will be to create total chaos… HENCE the exploits in Ukraine and Gaza to create the platform fo such chaos.
When one worships money – and it gets taken away, ..scorched earth policies seem to be the natural ac response….
brics vs G7
Go forth and multiply
Economic Growth is like Penis Growth and World Population Growth
it’s like whoever wins the Football World Cup is the Master Race
Honkies are old and tired but will change the rules when they lose
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
There is a very popular word for sexual intercourse consisting of four letters, beginning with F and ending with K. By following that word with the word OFF, you have a very rude, but popular way of telling someone to go away. Go forth and mutliply basically means “f..k off”
BOOMSHANKA – which, as everyone knows, means ‘May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman’.
Here come the light lifter…
The post by ISIDOROS KARDERINIS is frightening. The existing BRICS together with the new additions forms a formidable counterweight to US and its allies.
Part of the problem is that the US always places it interests above what is right. They will sleep with a dictator, assassinate any leader seeking real progress for their country if it is not in line withy the US best interest, or provide cover for the devils that they support.
It is inevitable, that countries realizing the hypocrisy of the US and it allies will seek to set up arrangement that are more beneficial to them. The US must become aware that the Post World War 2 power structure is continually changing. Do it our way or the highway can no longer be the rule.
A relatively light lift, with reality and without heavy economics.
Bush Tea on January 23, 2024 at 8:26 AM said:
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With the BRICS initiative, arrangements are rapidly being built, where trade can be undertaken in ALTERNATIVE currencies.
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How is trade actually going to take place without the naval power of the US and UK?
Who deals with the pirates?
How much world trade takes place on the high seas?
Trade does not happen in the ether!!
It is kind of physical in products such as food and all other essentials of life.
A slightly heavier lift for those up to it!!
Some neat Jewish thinking on the Sea
White boy propaganda against Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates will be a motherfucker.
But, the ones blessed with colour are 4 to 1 in world pop growing markets.
why worry about them when you can pray them away
while the west looks for their profit
the east looks for their prophet
reincarnated son of God incarnate
bringing salvation for humanity
like buddha jesus mohammed shiva krishna
Random bible babble for the partakers*
why worry about them when you can pray them away
“Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God”
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
(*) Bu’s religious nutjobs prove bible is a lot of poo poo lah lah
How many containers can fit on a container ship?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1kwIOrtzk
Who is dealing with the Houthis of Yemen and bombing the shit out of them so members of BRICS can benefit from trade on the high seas!!?
Ethiopia, a net importer of agricultural and food commodities, imported $3.6 billion in agricultural and food products in 2022, an increase of five percent from the previous year. The top commodities imported were: Palm oil ($888 million) Wheat ($511 million)
With high population growth, Egypt continues to rely on imports for more than 50 percent of its food and agricultural product needs. With limited agricultural resources, low agricultural productivity, and a rapidly growing population, Egypt is the world’s largest wheat importer.
Where does the wheat originate?
Though Egypt’s wheat imports from Russia fell by 6.7% in 2022, Russia’s share, including purchases by Egypt’s state grains authority and the private sector, rose to 57% from 50% in 2021. That partly made up for a fall in shipments from Ukraine, which accounted for 8.9% of Egypt’s wheat imports, down from 28% in 2021.
In 2020 Ethiopia imported 61.2 % of wheat from USA, 16.6 % from Argentine, 12.4 % from Ukraine, 4.05 % from Russia, 2.62 from Bulgaria and 2.31 % from Romania [36]. The imported wheat is supplied to flourmills and other processors at a subsidized rate to produce bread for urban population.
A lot of sea between Egypt and Ethiopia and its major suppliers?
What if the US insists in being paid for its wheat in US $$?
… and what about Argentina?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What currency do you think it will expect to paid for its agricultural outputs?
This one does not require any heavy lifting.
A bit more on Ethiopia’s prospects ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cos10EUBMJA
… more recently
What about Ethiopia’s vast water resources?
Looks like war between Egypt and Ethiopia soon.
John,
Who wants them to deal with the Houthis?
We want them to deal with the Israelis!
You are so biased that you can’t see that the world is moving away from the West.
MUMMY was taking back some of what the slavemasters stole. She was at nursing school.
Actually more than you think.
Argentina was using the renminbi more than even BRICS members. It was a CIPS user (China’s SWIFT) and testing ground. China owned banks had operations in Argentina.
Why do you think Milei was so focused upon?
Bravo.
Wondering what WE might like done with the Russians, or is it the Ukrainians.
#askingforafriend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7GWMy2sE1M
The world will be dealing with the Israelis and the west more and more because of trade!!
Israel needs to clear out Gaza, obliterate HAMAS and build the Ben Gurion Canal as a substitute for the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea connecting Europe to Asia.
For the moment the need to bomb the shit out of the Houthis is the primary focus of the world because the trade route through the Suez Canal needs to be protected.
None of the BRICS members can do that.
The thinking of White supremacists again.
Neither the American nor the British has a totality of naval vessels to frighten anyone.
Indeed, the biggest pirates on the high seas are the Americans and British. Currently still!
Both of whom have, in recent years, stolen Iranian and Venezuelan oil on the high seas.
Historically, the British in particular were the pirates.
In any event, the British has no military to speak of, with less than 60K men/women.
Less than needed to fill Wembley Stadium. Russia has more than two million, as recently expanded, China has tens of million PLA soldiers. Iran, five million all told.
The British are even unable to keep their two nuclear subs seaworthy for long enough to present a serious threat to pirates or peer adversaries.
While the Americans are a little better. Of their less than 15 aircraft carriers only 2 or 3 are active now. All the rest are in dry dock mainly along the East cost awaiting spare parts.
This story is not dissimilar to the absence of the industrial capacity America and the West lack and as we have seen in the Ukraine war were they are unable to supply a fraction of a wide variety of materiel for their Nazi proxy.
The West is dead. Get use to it. The only question remaining is whether weeeee can get the gigantic, mushroom-headed, deckie in dey pokertz.
Even Hamas is giving them a licking in Gaza. Lay down ……….. Whitey is dead!
In fact if these aircraft carriers show up anywhere around Yemen, Iran, Syria or Lebanon they shall be sunk during the first exchanges.
We have seen them quickly withdrawn from the Med recently. Ask yourself why!
Everybody, except the racists, now know that the projection of sea power through aircraft carriers only represent an easily sinkable target for the Axis of Resistance.
Today, the exchange rate is 17.40 Mexican pesos (MXN) to $1US (USD) [and it moves intra day] Possibly you intended to say viz a viz $100US vs ‘the dollar’? [Hence 1740 pesos to 100USD]
Yet the exchange rate was almost identical on Nov 23, 2023. So while it did fluctuate in between, upward and downward, to suggest a singularly directional move in the past 60 days is clearly untrue. In fact, the MXN to USD rate in January 2016 was almost identical to today. But as a floating currency, is has moved both up and down over the 8 year interim, albeit within a range of 16-24MXN per USD.
Correct about the US and basically Europe which is a resource poor continent minus Russia and Ukraine ( tsk ,tsk).
People don’t need fiat money, what they need is materials, both raw and finished.
If I wrote a million dollars on a page from an exercise book and tell you to give me your house in exchange, you will call me mad.
If I put a gun to your child’s head ….what about now?
Gun boat diplomacy. But you and I already know.
@ Quaker John,
You appear to be raising your head above the parapet – once more! We know that you are a lover of all things Israel and Jewish.
There’s a very interesting link below. One would be hard pressed to find such an in-depth article on the history of Barbados slave population whose story, to this day, remains largely anonymous and unpublished.
“Brewster makes one additional point: The synagogue is important because it is a reminder of what the Jews did for Barbados.
“Without their contributions,” he adds, “who knows what Barbados would be like today?” (source: JLP)
What a statement to make. The writer has seen fit not to invoke the misery of slavery that was a burden and a curse on an entire race of African slaves.
I do wander if Paul Altman the son of European Jewish ancestry has ever researched the roles of those early Jews who settled in Barbados; left an indelible footprint in the advancement of slavery on the island. Through their knowledge of sugar production they contributed to the misery of generations of forced labourers who were tethered to the land and forced into slavery. That was the principal legacy of Jews in Barbados. They facilitated the slave trade by oiling its wheel through their money and knowledge of sugar exploitation.
The same land which was worked by slaves is now been sold off by Altman, the real estate mogul, to foreign concerns. This land is equally as valid as the Nidhe Israel Synagogue and its cemetery which were returned to Barbados Jewish minority under the leadership of Tom Adams.
When will black Barbadians arouse themselves from their slumber and assert themselves. Triple D said she was happy to have left the UK. Who can blame her. However, how can we as a people remain timid and silent when we all know the true status of our people on the rock. It underwhelms me how lightly and casually we accept that our history does not merit a seat at the table.
We don’t seem interested. Take a page out of Altman’s books you fools before it’s too late. Last week an Indian broad (a new American) running to become the president of the USA – Nikki Haley – declined to say slavery was the cause of the US civil war when asked a simple question.
I would not be surprised if a number of Altman’s kith-and-kin were to purchase a piece of the rock should Israel become too hot for them. The Hamas boys are giving them a wretched time. How many of these individuals would be aware of the history of Barbados, if we as a people continue to show a disinterest and a neglect with our own history.
https://www.jpost.com/premium/jewish-resilience-in-barbados-the-nidhe-israel-synagogue
Hamas and the Palestinians may not get the happy ending that they were looking for on that that fateful day – October 7th. However, there is at least one good thing that will come out of it.
Those crazy crackers: the white boys – USA, western Europe, Australia, Canada, I will throw in Israel, Argentina and Japan as they consider themselves white will become an even more exclusive club. It is evident and transparent what these nations think of the rest of the world. Why play ball with a group of people who despise you. Brics is a logical progression.
Pacha, I see that the useless America Jewish foreign secretary is in Africa trying to drum up support and bring the natives under the fold of the USA umbrella. Why bother, the world is moving on. The world would be a better place without those crazy crackers on board.
So long as there are countries with soft currencies with no available alternatives earning the same confidence as the greenback to facilitate trade, it will continue to earn the confidence as the world’s reserve currency. The BRICS project is important in this context.
@David
I didn’t address that.
Choice is always good. And so the efforts of BRICS+ are welcomed. They need A currency. Accepting the renminbi is as foolhardy as the greenback. An SDR type? Digital a la XRP has potential, but the corrupt and those who rely on it, will shun this. [Xi maybe the only taker lol]
BRICS+ may also need to dump members whose leaders face electorates, or they’ll end up with Argentina and Brazil etc where direction can change drastically in a day, election day. Still they need mass. SheikMo & Sons, MBS & the Sauds, the al Thani clan etc are solid, their rule is guaranteed. They are quite content playing both sides, and will not be a financial drain.
Apartheid is the lesson for Palestine
in South Africa they called black people terrorists
in the struggle against European colonisation
wars broke out in South African and Rhodesian borders
in Namibia Angola Mozambique
while USA and UK tacitly supported Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia
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Last week an Indian broad (a new American) running to become the president of the USA – Nikki Haley – declined to say slavery was the cause of the US civil war when asked a simple question.
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She was right, it wasn’t!!
You need some education!!
In 2019 I made a remark to Jerry Handler (he was 86 at the time) that the civil war was caused by slavery.
He laughed and immediately told me I was wrong.
For those who don’t know who Jerry Handler is:
https://anthropology.as.virginia.edu/people/jerome-handler
That’s what I had always been told and since the Military aspect of the Civil War interested me more than the politics, I left it.
I realised I had never done any reading on the causes.
Slavery was but one aspect of the war, but it was not the cause of Secession.
“Many maintain that the primary cause of the war was the Southern states’ desire to preserve the institution of slavery. Others minimize slavery and point to other factors, such as taxation or the principle of States’ Rights.”
Hear Victor Davis Hanson, another heavyweight historian on Nikki Haley’s comments.
“Victor Davis Hanson: Nobody knows anything about the Civil War”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6343984878112
TLSN on January 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM said:
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Hamas and the Palestinians may not get the happy ending that they were looking for on that that fateful day – October 7th.
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While we are on the subject of the Civil War a quote from General Tecumseh Sherman, famous for his march through Georgia to the sea. The campaign was waged against the civilian population to frighten them into abandoning the Confederate cause.
… all authorised by President Lincoln.
Some people refer to him as a butcher.
Here is one of his quotes.
“There is a class of people, men, women, and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order.”
He is talking about bushwackers in Kentucky, a state that had not seceded. It does not refer to the entire South or to all southerners. The whole text can be found in the OR, Series I, Vol. 39, Part 2, p. 132 [the letter to Stanton begins on p. 131], and the letter to Gen. Burbridge that this is about is on p. 135 of the same.
… applicable to HAMAS.
Here are a couple of his other quotes that are applicable to the war in the Gaza Strip.
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them
all they want.”
“You might as well appeal against a thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about.
War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it …
Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors.
You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.”
Tecumseh Sherman, named after a great Native American chief expressed the identical sentiments Israel is expressing against an enemy who wants war and to exterminate all Jews.
Sherman lived more than a century before modern day Israel was founded.
TLSN on January 23, 2024 at 5:00 PM said:
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Those crazy crackers: the white boys – USA, western Europe, Australia, Canada, I will throw in Israel, Argentina and Japan as they consider themselves white will become an even more exclusive club. It is evident and transparent what these nations think of the rest of the world. Why play ball with a group of people who despise you. Brics is a logical progression.
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America lost more men in the Civil War than any other war.
The vast majority of those who died were white, crackers as you put it.
So, what you are saying is that white people had to lay down their lives in the civil war to end slavery in America.
Your thinking is sick, twisted and demented.
John 15:13
King James Version
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
“America lost more men in the Civil War than any other war.
The vast majority of those who died were white, crackers as you put it.”
America is still racist hence #BLACKLIVESMATTER movement
Racists in white nations are against progressive changes
but are too chicken to display or express their racism
so will use memes like the War against Woke
and other Right Wing Media cues
We get it, must every comment be the same? Do you have something to say about BRICS?
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Fighting here in Jamaica, it’s a shame, my brother
Destroying our culture by killing one another
Away from the gates of Africa, giving way to the intruder
I said
We should be in Angola, oh yes, my brothers now
We should be in Angola, oh yes, my sisters
To drive away the intruders, I say hey-ay-ay
From the land of our forefathers, I pray-ay-ay-ay
Instead of fighting ourselves here
For the Arawak Indian’s piece of square
So get wise now, my brothers of black
It’s not our brothers we should attack, no
Love and unity’s our only keys
To help destroy our enemies, so
Fighting here in Jamaica, it’s a shame, my brother, yeh
Destroying our culture by killing one another, yeh
Away from the gates of Africa, giving way to the intruder
I said
We should be in Angola, oh yes, my brothers now
We should be in Angola, oh yes, my sisters