Daily Sabah
March 28, 2022

Chapter two of the ‘new world order’ is about to open
Kakki Ocal

Excerpts

When the entire U.S. national security and diplomatic cadres were wailing that Russia was going to invade Ukraine, was this just a prediction based on international intelligence or was it a move designed to egg on Russian President Vladimir Putin?…

Overall, the U.S. plans to deliver the “final solution” to the Russian problem, which former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton garrulously divulged in a New York Times obituary she penned about the individual who implemented the NATO expansion plan after the demise of the Soviet Union. In her farewell article for Madeline Albright, who served as the 64th U.S. secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001, Clinton wrote that Albright’s plan would erase “Russia’s centuries-long efforts to dominate its neighbors” and ease former Soviet bloc countries’ worries about “Russian revanchism.”

Albright was with President Clinton during his presidential campaign and helped in assembling his National Security Council. Clinton appointed her to the position of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993 and she held that position until 1997 when she became secretary of state. Albright served in that capacity until Clinton left office in 2001. During that time, as Hillary brags, Albright not only devised NATO’s expansion plan but also prompted a change that would shape Putin’s psyche: NATO crossed the line between being a defensive alliance and becoming an offensive war machine for the first time. (NATO flexed its offensive muscles in Libya in March 2011 when a multistate NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in response to events during the first Libyan civil war.) Clinton and Albright are, in a sense, the reasons for Putin’s “siege syndrome.”

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If ordinary denizens on social media can see that the Ukraine campaign is only chapter one of “the new world order” that U.S. President Joe Biden has proudly declared and claimed leadership of, why can’t Putin recognize the move and understand that he is a pawn?

Last week, at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, Biden said: “And now is a time when things are shifting. We’re going to – there’s going to be a new world order out there, and we’ve got to lead it. And we’ve got to unite the rest of the free world in doing it.”

Biden caused an uproar by using the phrase because it clearly reveals what is in the offing. Biden has not gathered all old and new neocons from the left and right at the White House insensibly; these figures make up the coherent action group needed to get rid of two rival superpower candidates, the Russian Federation and China. Hillary was not quoting Ms. Neocon herself (journalist Anne Applebaum) in her Albright article without reason. Ms. Applebaum heaps praise on Albright as the architect of NATO expansion: “The expansion of NATO was the most successful, if not the only truly successful, piece of American foreign policy of the last 30 years. We would be having this fight in East Germany right now if we hadn’t done it.”

Jacob Heilbrunn…writes that a number of neocons, including David Frum, Max Boot, Anne Applebaum, Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol, have liberated themselves from the confines of the movement and been able to reinvent themselves as domestic regime-change advocates….

[W]e could witness very colorful revolutions in and around Russia. The “policies that once seemed outré” will shape the contours of chapter two of “the new world order,” starting with the NATO summit in Brussels last week where leaders issued a dire warning to Beijing about its discreet support to Russia. China should know that its lamb’s defense will have no effect on the wolf down the line.