The procession of multinodality continues apace

“Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during a dinner reception for foreign leaders attending celebrations of the Victory Day in Moscow on May 8, 2025.” Photo by Mikhail METZEL / POOL / AFP

In spite of the ongoing war hysteria from NATO and America’s lapdogs in Europe, there is absolutely zero chance Russia will advance any further than the Dnieper river, Odessa (a Russian city) and Transnistria (a Russian breakaway province of Moldova). When America's vassals in Europe aren’t having cocaine-fueled party trains back from Ukraine (thanks for the eight ball, Zelensky!)

That’s cocaine bonhomie right there. Macron palmed the baggie and Merz hid the spoon.

they are committing hari kiri as quickly as possible in a completely futile attempt of BDSM subs to please their master. It will soon become an impoverished backwater of a strong, prosperous and united Eurasia, with nothing to offer the world except nostalgia tourism and retail luxury. 500 years of Occidentalism are over.

Foreign leaders attending the 80th Victory Day in Moscow included Putin’s parter in leading multinodality Xi Jinping, European renegades Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, and a plethora of BRICS and OPEC members and anti-imeprialist icons such as Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel, Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traore, Armenia’s Nikol Pashinyan, Kazakhstan’s Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko, and the leaders of Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Egypt, Myanmar, Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Equatorial Guinea.

The new multinodal world led by China-Russia-BRICS-G77 is here and it has won.

According to the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, the United States recognizes Taiwan as a part of China. This is settled American law. Taiwan and China are deeply vested in one another through massive trade and direct foreign investment and, obviously, kin relations and language. Taiwan has 60 peaks over 6,000 feet and the Austrolasian indigenous people certainly knew their way around the mountains. Roughly the eastern half is a plain so topography, previous residents and distance meant that it was a loosely held Chinese province for centuries but a Chinese province all the same. Most of the Han in Taiwan are from Fujian province. China and Taiwan will eventually reunify. This, for China, will be the final healing of what they call the "century of humiliation," when the western powers and Japan fed it opium and feasted on its prostrate corpse, the Han master narrative that replaced Mao Zedong thought.

China, as they never tire of telling anyone who will listen, is a 5,000 year old culture. They are in no hurry to reunify with Taiwan. Their stated timeframe for reunification, if anyone actually cares to pay attention, is by 2049, the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. Any Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy the very investments and infrastructure and obviously the chip manufacturing capability they want to preserve - to say nothing of the bodies of their fellow Han. It will never happen. At most, China could conceivably institute a blockade and it produces 200 times more ships per year than the United States. If the United States were to pick an unnecessary fight with China within the first island chain it would meet their peerless anti-access/area denial capabilities. If Team America wanted to get cocky with one of its vaunted (and completely obsolete) carrier groups, 5,000 sailors might quickly find themselves at the bottom of the ocean after a completely unstoppable hypersonic missile strike. America would be so humiliated it might go nuclear out of sheer embarrassment, which would kill us all. A larger, more plausible risk than anything Russia or China present. A war DC seems hell bent on bringing about.

There is a reason five of the ten richest counties in the United States are located in suburban DC. That is because DC is a company town, DC’s business is war and business is good - in spite of the fact that the United States hasn’t won a war since it smote that mightiest of foes, Grenada. The threat isn't an aggressively expansionist Russia or China. The threat is that America is in free-fall collapse in every respect, a mortally wounded apex predator at its most dangerous. The military industrial complex enforcer of American-led, late-stage transnational finance capitalism might be tasked to destroy the entire world in a vain attempt to preserve lost primacy. From Smedley Butler's 1935 War is a Racket to Peter Phillips’ 2024 Titans of Capital nothing has changed, except for the capacity to destroy planet Earth in one go. Which would affect tee times in the aforementioned counties.

Putin has been more careful to avoid Russian casualties in Ukraine than any other leader in Russian history. The commonplace western figure in the neighborhood of 950,000 is completely absurd. The real figure is far closer to the 165,000 reported by independent Russian media.

Anti-Russia/China hysteria isn't deep strategic thinking by the western military punditocracy. It is the mindless regurgitation of stale talking points from the Atlantic Council and the rest of their running jackals by careerist pack animals who are either stupid, intellectually lazy, moral cowards or all three.

One consolation is that when NATO finally wanders away from the proxy war it provoked by means of the 2014 CIA-led Maidan coup using Banderite Nazi Azov as street muscle, hoping to use Ukraine to break apart Russia so finance capitalism could resume the feast of the 1990s, NATO will collapse.

As Henry James said: sacred cows are never slain, they simply vanish.