A New System of International Relations

Some of the world remains buried in Western propaganda, such as this post from Hans Jonnson: Ghost Drones and Ghost Accusations: Russia's Newest Weapon Isn't a Drone. It's a Lie. - HANS JONSSON - MAY 25, 2026 - "The Baltic states are allowing Ukraine to use their airspace to attack Russia. That's the accusation. It is false."

Rather it is "The Silicon Ubuntu" (Claude AI) which is the lie. Thus my comment:

"I can't imagine why I'm paying for NATO propaganda. Ukrainian troops are in Latvia training them on new drone technology and getting ready for their big attack on the upcoming conference in St. Petersburg. ALL nations along Russia's borders MUST BE actually neutral. Instead, we have the all-out final Western assault on all of Eurasia at once: on Russia, Iran and China (the world's three remaining normative powers)"

So what does "normative powers" mean? They are the few remaining adults in the room, the ones that ARE agreement-capable and that capability comes from NOT lying! If you are finding sources that claim Russia (or Iran, or China) to be lying, you must recheck those sources.

In follow up to Jeffrey Sachs' letter to Germany, he has further comments on that topic on Judge Napolitano's Judging Freedom podcast.

Returning to the recent Xi/Putin summit and their strategic agreement:
The strategy document of the Russia/China partnership was discussed by Pete Escobar on Glenn Diesen's Greater Eurasia podcast, May 26:</>

(from 2:22-) In the Tea Ceremony which lasted over two hours, only three members of the Chinese delegation and three of the Russian, plus Putin, Xi and translators, discussed Ukraine, Iran and the United States. They built the foundational act of the Russia-China strategic partnership. They are telling Eurasia as a whole, especially the Global South and whoever capable of listening in the Global North, that they are in the driver's seat of building a new system of international relations. It follows from Russia's goal of a Greater Eurasia partnership and China's goal which is a community for a shared future for mankind with the geopolitical, geoeconomic arc of the New Silk Road and the Belt and Road initiatives.
All these mechanisms are leading toward more equanimity and more egalitarian mechanisms - respect for international law and no exceptionalisms of any kind. This is the building block for all of us to build a new system of international relations.
So it's no accident that virtually nobody from western mainstream media paid attention to the joint statement or even made the effort to try to understand what the joint statement is saying.

Yet what can amount to enforcement of non-exceptionalism? It has not been possible to contain isra3li exceptionalism. According to Jacques Baud, on Nima's podcast (Col. Jacques Baud: How Iran, Israel & Ukraine Are Dragging the World Into War), that zionist settler colony on occupied Palestine going by the name "israel" was founded in 1948 and in 1949 was admitted into the UN, but was the only "nation" ever having to promise to obey international law before attaining membership, since already in their first year they were demonstrating poor behaviour. Yet ever since, they ignore and override international law every day, with no consequences. Apparently, their admission to the UN was a necessary step in their mastery of many other nations who are now their vassals. They should be kicked out of the UN.

A big part of conquering Exceptionalism is eliminating those covert government agencies which sit around dreaming up the "next threat." And yet here in Canada, in today's "news," they are agreeing to purchase six airborne radar surveillance systems from Saab to help protect the Arctic from "threats." If they were not continuously posturing for war against Russia and could normalize relations, what "threat" would there be? "Give Peace a Chance!"

Such invention of "threats" is an attempt of The West to defy the coming multi-nodal world. This is the topic of Glenn Diesen's Greater Eurasia podcast: Lawrence Wilkerson: Failing to Adjust to a Multipolar World - GLENN DIESEN - MAY 26, 2026

I think there's a very, very delicate balance between deterrence on the one hand and provocation on the other, as you put it. And I think if you go at the world with the idea that your arms buildup, your arms race, whatever, is what really provides deterrence, you're coming at it from the wrong end. What provides deterrence, if you will, if that's the right phrase for it, is diplomacy working out the differences to the point where you trust each other enough to where you don't have to spend yourself to death building deterrence. And, you know, you can say we simply don't learn that lesson, but part of it's the dynamics of the way the world's shifting right now and people's uncertainty and insecurity in that change. And lack of trust because of that. I don't know what you do about that other than you have to talk. You have to talk. You have to deal with one another.
The last thing you want to do in an environment like this is cut off talk. Not talk to the Russians. We're not talking to the Russians. We don't talk to the Russians. Joe Biden. Joe Biden was a curmudgeon in that regard. No one in my administration will talk to the Russians. Understood? Okay.
No one's going to talk to the Russians. That's dangerous. That's absolutely the wrong approach to take. The more dangerous the situation, the more you need trust and the more you need talk to build that trust. I mean, that's the heart of diplomacy. That's the heart of international relations.
Well, one month before the April 2008 NATO summit where NATO offered NATO future membership to Georgia and Ukraine, Tony Blair, of all people, according to WikiLeaks Cable, he told the Americans that the strategy...
Again, it's hard to understand how this is intended to fuel security. But we see the same now with the rhetoric around Kaliningrad. The European leaders are saying, we have to deter the Russians, so we're going to put more pressure on Kaliningrad.
Glenn Diesen: I used to teach deterrence at the university. This was not in the textbook.
Deterrence is supposed to prevent the adversary from changing the status quo, but this is I agree with you I don't know what lexicon, what...
Lawrence: I don't understand how Europeans in particular confronted with the power of geography and the power of the past can talk that way about the giant that is Russia. You have to come to some modus vivendi and your modus vivendi can't be based on...
I'm gonna pull up to your border and make you really uneasy 24-7 in order to establish this living method with you. That just, you know, that's bull. That's Victoria Newland. That's Fred Kaplan. That's all these people who think that way all the time.
I don't know how you get out of that except to get rid of those kind of people. But, you know, they're all over the place, so that's hard to do. But then you come to us, and you come to us, and you find a person you can't even figure out. You have no idea what's motivating Trump.
I mean, you can make some good guesses. They're scary guesses, frightening guesses. But I don't know how you judge us right now. I have no idea how to evaluate us. What are we doing? Are we trying to establish deterrence by supporting Ukraine? I don't think so.
I think we're trying to make money for some defense contractors and we're trying to do some things that want to be done by MI-6, Mossad, CIA and others. And they think that they're important and we don't have a president who's willing to step in and...
Well, it doesn't matter how the situation changes. We kept expanding for 30 years through all these forever wars. Now you have new centers of power emerging, balancing us, yet there's no sense about any need to change strategy and just continue to live as if it's the 1990s.
Well, we are all supposedly liberal democracies, so maybe we're just late with the elections. Maybe we're going to have a sea change when we have new leadership, and maybe it'll be in time. I can't even say that about my own country, though. Supposedly the leader of the free world, as it were. We probably won't even have elections.
That's my guess right now. I put it 60-40, we don't have elections.

My previous post The Guns of May was saying that Russian strikes on Ukraine are imminent. The MSM are not covering this topic at all, since they are so used to the constant barrage of lies from their own governments. But Russian announcements are serious policy statements, so attacks are coming, but the State Duma has restricted "regime change" style attacks, such as directly targeting Zelenskyy.

From Don Hank's Substack, part of an article from TsargradTV:

8:30 PM - The main events of the evening of May 26: The State Duma rejected strikes on Zelenskyy's office. Ukraine has identified 500 targets in Belarus. General Kartapolov ruled out Russian military strikes on the Verkhovna Rada and Zelenskyy's office. These and other key events of the evening of May 26 are in our traditional overview.
Briefly about the main points:
- Ukraine threatens to hit 500 targets in Belarus
- General Kartapolov stated that the Russian army's systemic strikes will not affect the office buildings on Bankova Street and the Verkhovna Rada
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the restoration of international internet access in the country
- Russian President Vladimir Putin is leaving for a two-day visit to Kazakhstan

And now in more detail:
After the attack on Kyiv, Ukraine has sharply intensified its diplomacy. Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov unexpectedly arrived in Berlin for consultations with Germany, France, and the UK—in the E3 format, which Kyiv insists on. The main objective is to restart the diplomatic process against the backdrop of the US retreating from its role as mediator.
Earlier, Zelenskyy, at a closed meeting with lawmakers, stated that the "hot phase" of the conflict could end by November, but his words were met with skepticism. Nevertheless, Kyiv's negotiating activity is increasing. Umerov also discussed military cooperation with European Commission representatives in Brussels.
The visit coincided with Russia's warning of new strikes against the Ukrainian military-industrial complex—foreign missions began evacuating personnel, adding particular urgency to the negotiations.
At the same time, at least 50 missiles were launched at Kyiv. Nearly all major administrative buildings, including the government building, were damaged. Particular attention was drawn to the luxury building in Mariinsky Park, home to the country's top leadership and to Timur Mindich, a defendant in the corruption case. Notably, this is the only building in central Kyiv taller than the cross of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra—a fact that, according to popular belief, bodes ill for the city.

The West maintains its imaginary that this military action in Ukraine is "an unprovoked" and an "all-out war" on Ukraine. If it were an all-out war, Ukraine would have looked like Gaza years ago. The imaginary of "unprovoked" is worse than a misreading of history - it is a total not-reading of history. This is a "special military operation" (SVO in Russian) to dissuade Ukraine from joining NATO and the EU and the elimination of Nazi elements, which actually do exist, witness the recent awards to and promotion of persons of direct lineage of the German Reich. Russia has tried to not destroy roads, bridges, etc. and main buildings and monuments such as the big cross mentioned above. Ukraine is part of Russia's heritage, too. Khrushchev, for example, was from Ukraine. Russia would prefer to see the reunification of the Three Slavic Sisters.

In another look at restraint in Russian military activities, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, speaks at a press conference following the UN Security Council meeting on the attack on the college and dormitory in Starobelsk, broadcast by Freelensia as Russia on Why They Still Refrained From Major Strikes on Kiev. In his response, Nebenzia addressed the escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Moscow's position on negotiations, strikes on Kiev, NATO expansion, and the collapse of the 2022 peace talks. In this press conference, he stated, referring to Ukraine: "These people are not foreign to us, we have mercy on them."

Further to new international relationships, I had a comment on Einar Tangen's post "Perspectives to Ponder":

"The U.S. has not only weakened its position by incoherent strategy, but as demonstrated by the long term, its inability to be agreement-capable. China's availability results from strategic non-alignment and a simple desire "to do business" without moral complications. China's supposed "lack [of] concrete implementation mechanisms" relates to their desire to lead by example and cooperation rather than trying to replace the World's Bully via military force. The recent Xi/Putin agreement represents China as the Indispensable Nation and the Russia/China alignment as the Indispensable Relationship. The unsaid part is that the U.S. is the dispensable nation. While many assume that the long Special Military Operation in Ukraine is a demonstration of Russian weakness, a more correct interpretation would be that Pres. Putin has been demonstrating extraordinary patience in holding back on retaliatory attacks to counter the aggressive NATO proxy war, in order to not alienate the European population. But that patience has now officially been put aside, see https://kathleenmccroskey.substack.com/p/latvia-has-been-warned
China's visit to North Korea could help offset the rising threat to China of Japanese militarism, which is part of U.S. encirclement and "containment" of China."

Sean Foo had an interesting piece about Chinese chip development: China's Plan To POP U.S. AI Bubble Goes Global — Cheap Chips FLOOD & Talent Freeze Begins - Sean Foo - May 27, talking about the shortage of DRAM and NAND memory chips, as well as the new Huawei AI chips: They can create 1.4 nanometer chips without needing ASML's extreme UV lithography machines or the EUV machines, the very machines the U.S. spent years blocking China from getting. That entire export control has been rendered obsolete.
Instead of shrinking transistors geometrically, Huawei is using time as a dimension for scaling chip performance. They have changed the chip wall permanently, using the tau scaling law.

Rebuttals to this post by Hans Jonnson, in Sweden:
https://hejon07.substack.com/p/dear-kathleen-a-love-letter-to-the
and
https://hejon07.substack.com/p/dear-kathleen-part-two-the-silence

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